ASUU Strike Will Be Over In Few Months

The Federal Government, yesterday,
assured Nigerian students that the
ongoing strike by Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, would
be over in a few months.
The Minister of Education, Mr
Nyesom Wike stated this at the
anniversary lecture of National
Universities Commission, NUC, in
Abuja.
The minister who was represented
by the Permanent Secretary of the
Ministry of Education, Dr. Macjohn
Nwaobiala, reiterated Federal
Government commitment in
resolving the ongoing strike of ASUU.
According to Wike, “The Federal
Government is very concerned about
the state of public tertiary
institutions in the country. The
Federal Government is really worried
about the ongoing strike of ASUU
and the strike would be resolved in
a few months.”
Professor John Daniel in his paper
presentation titled, ‘Turbulent and
Testing Times for Global Higher
Education: Lessons for Nigeria’, said
“online teaching and learning is now
part of the future of most
universities. Nigeria should be very
good at this because without
embarrassing you by pressing the
point, I note that your country,
through 419 scams, is a world leader
in the use of the internet for less
desirable purposes.”
He said higher education all over the
world is facing lot of challenges that
included youth unemployment and
the current changes in the university
system.
“These are indeed turbulent times,
not only for United States of
America but also for much of higher
education globally”, he said.
A former Executive Secretary of NUC,
Professor Jubril Munzali, in his
goodwill message, said the
education sector for 21 years have
been under funded and the
significant increase in the funding of
tertiary institutions were done
through the struggle of ASUU.
He blamed the Federal Government
lingering crisis rocking the nation’s
university system.
He said it is time Federal
Government listened to its agencies
and allow NUC perform its statutory
role and fund universities based on
the advice of its agencies like NUC.
“Successive administrations in the
country never paid adequate
attention to university education”.
He said the Federal Government
process of direct funding of
universities, have over the years
resulted in mismanagement of the
funds allocated to the institutions.
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