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  • Benue killings: ASUU wants Buhari to arrest culprits

    Benue killings: ASUU wants Buhari to arrest culprits

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU ) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to go beyond condemning the killings by Fulani herdsmen in the country but arrest and prosecute perpetrators.

    It also called for victims’ compensation for those who lost their properties and relations in Rivers, Benue and Kwara states.

    The union said the rising insecurity profile under the present administration shows a faulty security architecture and policy.

    ASUU in a release signed by its University of Ibadan Chairman, Dr Deji Omole described as a sign of irresponsibility on the part of the Buhari Led federal government not to have tamed the ravaging killer-herdsmen.

    Omole who said that the Buhari government who claimed to have special interest in agriculture has failed security competency test to protect vulnerable farmers in indigenous areas of Nigeria added that the president through his inactions to Fulani carnages is compounding humanitarian and food crises in Nigeria.

    The ASUU boss who said that Nigeria will suffer when farmers are killed at-will lamented that the consequences of killing farmers is food insecurity.

    According to Omole, the president is building a dangerous trend where citizens will rise to defend themselves by taking up arms since they are not protected by the state.

    “The new year killings in some part of the country while the President was telling Nigerians that it has beaten Bokoharam should be rejected by all Nigerians. Time has come for all to rise and call on the government to fulfil her duties of protection of lives and properties or quit if it cannot do this. The government that wants people to go into agriculture but fold its arms when farmers are killed is not only irresponsive but also irresponsible. We have now added to the internally displaced profile of people in Nigeria. The problem is that the survivors are embittered that their government cannot protect them but prefers to set up campaign team for 2019 general elections. All victims must be compensated and all governors must visit the victims the way they all stormed Abuja to greet the son of the president who is hospitalised. If the son of the president is fortified with security meant for over 1,000 people even in hospital, it shows that the ruling class does not value the lives of ordinary Nigerians. ”

  • 2018 will be tougher, ASUU predicts

    2018 will be tougher, ASUU predicts

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU ), Ambrose Alli University chapter has urged Nigerians to be prepared for tough time in 2018.

    It said it was disappointing to see the manner the federal government handled issues affecting masses of the country including the fuel scarcity.

    Chairman of AAU-ASUU, Dr. Monday Igbafen, spoke to reporters at the end of the union’s Congress in Ekpoma, headquarters of Esan West local government.

    Dr. Igbafen urged President Mohammadu Buhari to do self appraisal with a view to making amends to salvage the deteriorating conditions of the citizens.

    He cautioned Nigerians not to be too expectant in 2018 and predicted that 2018 would be tougher.

    His words, “The issue of fuel is affecting everybody. We are extremely very worried because the vocal voices before now have become silent.

    “Why is it that same Nigerians have become silent when we are fueling our vehicles with N300, N400 per litter.

    “For us as a union, we feel that government should be indicted because we do not believe that government is not aware of what is going on. We felt Buhari represented change, but what we see today is abysmal failure.

    “We foresee a tougher 2018 because the oppressors will get more hardened at all levels. The issue of our liberation should not be tied to any existing political party. It should be tied to our ideological belief”, he warned

  • Don’t distort information on sacked lecturers, LASU tells ASUU

    Don’t distort information on sacked lecturers, LASU tells ASUU

    Authorities of Lagos State University (LASU) have urged the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) not to plunge the institution into a fresh crisis by feeding the public with false information on 16 of their colleagues who the university sacked last September.

    LASU said the current peace on its campus was the result of the reform and an all-inclusive governance style it administered for the acceptance of all parties.

    A statement by its Public Relations Officer (PRO), Ademola Adekoya, said: “The call for crisis by the few discredited ones among them is mischievous and self-serving and should be completely disregarded and ignored.”

    The university management was reacting to a report by ASUU’s Lagos Zone which urged the Lagos State government to set up an independent panel of enquiry to review the case of the sacked lecturers, who included the chairman and vice chairman of ASUU at LASU, Isaac Akinloye Oyewunmi and Adeyemi Suenu.

    ASUU’s Lagos Zonal Coordinator, Prof Olusiji Sowande, accused the university of conniving with certain elements in government to victimise their colleagues.

    ASUU also accused LASU management of high-handedness, disregard for due process as well as undue victimisation of their members, now led by ASUU-LASU Treasurer, Dr Oluwakemi Aboderin-Sonibare.

    Adekoya regretted that ASUU was more concerned about the two union leaders than the others.

    The university said ASUU was playing the ostrich, adding that the management’s decision was in line with LASU’s Condition of Service.

    The statement said: “What they (ASUU) failed to tell the public was that the sack of the two, alongside others, was in line with the Conditions of Service of the university. They refused to state that the allegations against the sacked workers were, ab initio, brought forward by the victims of their indiscretion in some cases, and or staff members from their own local union (ASUU-LASU).

    “In fact, the information that led to the dismissal of a number of the academic workers, who were dismissed, was given by officials of ASUU-LASU executive before further checks revealed that a member of the executive was himself culpable.”

    It added: “All cases went through impartial statutory committees, which established their culpability on the various acts of misconduct before the university’s Governing Council, its highest decision-making body, ratified the dismissals.”

    LASU said the union’s call for the state government to set up an independent panel of enquiry was like chasing shadows.

    It added that by the Edict that established LASU, a statutory panel of enquiry to appraise the activities of the union only comes up every 10 years, and the institution is not yet due for that.

    “Supporting impunity and illegality of individuals and shielding them from due sanctions, because they are union executives casts a shadow of doubt on the integrity of ASUU leadership as a body,” the statement stated.

    “For ASUU to continue in this path of dishonour portends grave danger for the future of our universities and every concerned stakeholder must rise up to save our ivory towers from further onslaught.”

  • ASUU criticises Kogi, Lagos over ‘illegal sack of varsities’ teachers, others

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nsukka Zone, has flayed what it described as the consistent degradation of standards by the Visitors to the Kogi State University (KSU) and the Lagos State University (LASU), Governors Yahaya Bello and Akinwunmi Ambode.

    ASUU Nsukka Zone comprises Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM), Kogi State University, Anyigba (KSU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu (ESUT) and Federal University Lokoja (FUL).

    Addressing reporters in Ayingba, Kogi State, the ASUU chairmen in the zones called on Nigerians to prevail on the governors to call the management of the state-owned institutions to order; reverse the “illegal sack” of their colleagues and payment of their outstanding entitlements.

    The union’s zonal coordinator, Prof. Ukooh David Ikoni, was supported by the Acting Chairman, ASUU-KSU, Dr. Daniel Aina; chairmen of ASUU-UNN Dr. I. M. Abada, ASUU-FUAM Dr. Veronica Jummai Ojogbane, ASUU-ESUT Dr. Chinedu Aguba and ASUU-FUL Dr. Anselm Oyem.

    They said they decided to address the news conference in line with the NEC’s resolution at its meeting at the University of Abuja, from Saturday 11 to Sunday November 12, “to draw the attention of the public to the continuous breach and infringement of the fundamental human rights and threat to life and properties of our members in Kogi State University (KSU), Anyigba and Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo by the university administrations and visitors to these institutions”.

    Prof. Koni said: “The continuous sack, throw out, humiliation, termination of appointments, the use of students to threaten the life and destruction of properties of our members in KSU, persistent use of security agencies to arrest and intimidate our members in LASU, have indicated the deplorable state and total mismanagement of these state universities…

    “If at all our colleagues in KSU and LASU have committed any sin, it is the sin of insisting that there must be quality education for the citizens of this country and that quality education can be achieved without increase in school fees.”

  • ASUU to battle Kogi, Lagos over lingering crisis

    ASUU to battle Kogi, Lagos over lingering crisis

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nsukka Zone, over the weekend called the attention of Nigerians to what they described as the consistent degradation of standards by the Visitors to the Kogi State University (KSU) and the Lagos State University (LASU), governors Yahaya Bello and Akinwunmi Ambode, respectively.
    ASUU Nsukka zone comprises; Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM), Kogi State University, Anyigba (KSU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu (ESUT) and Federal University Lokoja (FUL).
    Addressing journalists in Ayingba, Kogi State, ASUU called on Nigerians to prevail on the governors and the administration of the state-owned institutions to order; reverse the ‘illegal sack’ of their colleagues and payment of their outstanding entitlements.
    The zonal coordinator, Prof. Ukooh David Ikoni, who was supported by the Acting Chairman, ASUU-KSU, Dr Daniel Aina, ASUU-UNN, Dr I. M. Abada, ASUU-FUAM, Dr Veronica Jummai Ojogbane, ASUU-ESUT, Dr Chinedu Aguba, ASUU-FUL, Dr Anselm Oyem, chairperson,  respectively,
    “They said: “In line with the NEC’s resolution in its meeting at the University of Abuja, from Saturday 11th through Sunday 12th November, 2017 to address the press conference to draw the attention of the general public to the continuous breach and infringement of the fundamental human rights and threat to life and properties of our members in Kogi State University (KSU), Anyigba and Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo by the University Administrations and Visitors to these institutions.
    “The continuous sack, throw out, humiliation, termination of appointments, the use of students to threaten the life and destruction of properties of our members in KSU, persistent use of security agencies to arrest and intimidate our members in LASU, have indicated the deplorable state and total mismanagement of these State 7niversities by their university administrations and visitors namely, Messrs Yahaya Adoza Bello and Ambode Akinwumi.
    “It is noteworthy that the Vice-Chancellors and Pro-Chancellors of KSU and LASU have consistently exhibited the power of a one-eyed monster, where they speak from both sides of their mouths. If at all our colleagues in KSU and LASU have committed any sin it is the sin of insisting that there must be quality education for the citizens of this country and that quality education can be achieved without increase in school fees.
    “Today, the quality of education is being watered down by the government of Yahaya Bello in Kogi State University where after illegal sack of over 150 academic staff in KSU, he has resorted to engaging members of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Masters Students, laboratory attendants and even 300 and 400 levels students for teaching and examination purposes. In the same vein, the Vice-Chancellors of KSU and LASU who are supposed to be Professors in their own right have chosen to connive with their Visitors to perpetrate these illegal activities on their campuses.
    “It has become necessary once again to invite you to assist the union, especially our colleagues in KSU and LASU, to educate the members of the public on how the University Administrations and Visitors to KSU and LASU are consistently eroding the legacies and tenets of the bedrock of our educational system and the citadels of learning which stands at the gate of the Nation’s hope for technological development.
    “It is on record that members of our Union have been on the receiving end in these Universities of the onslaughts of various degrees of persecution solely because of insisting that the right things are done to place our Universities at par with their counterparts in other parts of the world.
    “We shudder at the thought that Nigerians almost tag ASUU as synonymous with strike action because we have governments and University Administrations that are averred to timely, positive and progressive ideas or succumb to superior arguments in relation to our educational system at the tertiary level. ASUU makes bold to say that the academics are better placed to determine the speed and pace of the University education.
    “ASUU wishes to state categorically and in unequivocal terms that it will continue to struggle to ensure a sound educational system for the overall development of this Nation irrespective of whatever opinion anybody holds.
    “The situation in Kogi and Lagos State Universities demand further elucidation. Though from most quarters there has been wide condemnation of the proscription of ASUU in Kogi State University and the sack of over 150 academics of high repute”.

  • ASUU strike: Not again!

    SIR: The tertiary education sector is sitting on a ticking time bomb. The federal government as of yesterday, Thursday October 26 is yet to honour its Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    I do not believe that the federal government wants ASUU to go on another strike. But if the situation extends beyond the October 31 deadline, then ASUU will very likely go on strike again. The President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, had, while announcing the conditional suspension of the strike, gave the Federal Government until the end of October to fulfil its promises.

    We don’t want another strike, however short it may be. The universities and the students are yet to recover from the last one.  Exams that should have long been concluded are only being rounded up now. Subsequent holidays that are supposed to follow have been shortened. The academic calendar has been disrupted. We can’t afford to have further disruption of our academic calendar. It’s already one disruption, too many.

    Lord knows how many Nigerian students had accidents and others that died on our bad roads when traveling to and from school at the commencement and cancellation of the last ASUU strike. We can’t afford to risk the lives of these students again.

    The federal government has to find a way to institutionalize swift response mechanism to prevent ASUU from going on strike in future. I beseech the federal government to do the needful and avert this impending calamity.

     

    • Adeyemi Ahmed Abiodun,

    Ilorin, Kwara State.

  • LAUTECH: ASUU Suspends Strike

    LAUTECH: ASUU Suspends Strike

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the  Ladoke Akintola University of Technology has suspended its four-months-long strike after a meeting with its members at the university’s main campus in Ogbomoso on Tuesday.

    This will be the second time the academic staff union will be suspending its strike which has spanned, at least, two years.

    The Secretary of ASUU LAUTECH Dr. Abegunrin, and the union’s Zonal Coordinator Dr. Ade Adejumo, confirmed that the strike had been suspended  immediate effect but academic activities will kick off on Monday, October 23.

    “The zone will have to be briefed, national will have to be briefed, but the Congress have suspended the strike in principle as from today but full lectures will resume on Monday,” Dr. Adejumo said. “Skeletal things will continue, preparatory to the commencement of full academic activities on Monday.”

    Read : Lecturers, others begin warning strike in Otuoke varsity

     The suspension is coming following news that the lecturers started receiving their three-months’ salary arrears — one of their demands for resumption — during the weekend.

    Over the months, there had been numerous resumption dates which the lecturers ignored. First, the university management widely publicised September 15 and October 3 for reopening the university and resuming academic activities, respectively.

    Although the gates of the institution were reopened as scheduled, lectures did not commence as the academic staff union refuted the announcement saying none of their issues had been addressed and that “strike is still in full force.”

    With mounting pressure from the agitated students, LAUTECH’s Vice-Chancellor Prof. A.S. Gbadegesin, once again, promised Monday, October 16, as an alternative resumption date. That date also passed, to no avail.

    However, the students are confident that this new date by ASUU will stand. Oleghe Enike, a 300 level of the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, reacting to the news said: “I believe we will definitely resume on Monday because, unlike the other dates announced by the school management, this one is coming directly from the body [ASUU] that actually embarked on the strike.”

    Read Also: LAUTECH to end strike in days, VC assures 

  • ASUU, PDP blame Obaseki’s policy for crime rate

    ASUU, PDP blame Obaseki’s policy for crime rate

    … No negotiation with criminals –  Governor

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Benin chapter and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State have blamed Governor Godwin Obaseki policies for the rising crime rate in the state.

    Three policemen were killed last month during the abduction of the Managing Director of Ogba Zoo and Nature Park, Dr. Andy Ehanire while ace Edo musician, Osayomore Joseph, was abducted on Tuesday.

    Both men are yet to be released.

    Several other persons including Catholic Priests have been abducted in different parts of the state.

    A Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prof. Paul Otasowie, was shot dead on Wednesday.

    Reacting to the killing of Prof. Otasowie, the Chairman of ASUU, UNIBEN chapter, Prof. Julius Iyasele, condemned the killing and blamed it on high level of insecurity in the state

    Prof. Iyasele said terror was unleashed on the people following the disbandment of Community Development Associations (CDAs) without an alternative for the members.

    He said: “The state government stopped CDAs and there is no alternative to them. These boys (CDA members) are people who are used to spending big-time money. You blocked area boys and there is no alternative; you have simply unleashed terror on the people.

    “The action (outlawing of CDAs) is good but what we are saying is that you should have provided an alternative that is so simple to get.

    “As it were, citizens of Edo State and Nigeria at large are under siege because within the space of one or two months, a number of our colleagues have been kidnapped or murdered in cold blood. A few days, a colleague from Ekiti State University, who is a council chairman in one of the polytechnics in Bayelsa, was shot at the Benin bypass.

    “The bullet pierced through the stomach of the driver and came out from the other side. The boy was just lucky. And they said that they had just left a police checkpoint on the bypass when it happened. I don’t know whether we have security agents in the state.

    “Yesterday, one of our colleague’s in-law who visited at Ekiadolor was also picked by kidnappers. When they (family) went to drop the money to release the person, from the experience of the victim, the people (kidnappers) were with sub-machine guns because they had bullets strapped around them.”

    On its part, the PDP said the rising insecurity in the state was most likely a direct consequence of the new policy thrusts of Governor Obaseki.

    It said Governor Obaseki did not analyse the situation to know when to throw a large number of poorly educated, unskilled but politically exposed, used and then dumped men and women without an alternative source of income into the labour market at a time the country is experiencing recession.

    A press statement signed by its Publicity Secretary in the state, Chris Nehikhare, reads: “The ‘We will partner with you’ government in Edo State should stop chasing shadows and tackle substance. The result is a spike in crime.

    “He should spend more time at home, engage the populace that are local and show more respect to Edo residents and citizens. There is a popular Nigerian saying ‘wetin you dey find for Sokoto dey for shokoto.”

    But Governor Obaseki said his administration would not be forced to the negotiation table by criminal elements and organised crime overlords.

    He said law and order, as well as the liberty of the law-abiding Edo citizens and residents are not for sale.

    Speaking through his Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, the governor urged Edo people to remain calm and vigilant.

  • ASUU urges Buhari to probe UNILORIN VC

    •Alleges victimisation

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe alleged fraud and corruption at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN).

    It said this will show the President is committed to fighting corruption.

    The union condemned the sack of UNILORIN ASUU Secretary Dr. Solomon Oyelekan barely 72 hours after the Chairman, Dr. Kayode Afolayan, was sacked for “blowing whistle on the corrupt activities of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, for subverting due process in the employment and promotion of his wife, among other atrocities.”

    It called on people and authorities to intervene, to restore justice to the university and prevent national crisis.

    ASUU in a statement by the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Ade Adejumo and Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter, Dr. Deji Omole, alleged that as far as industrial relations was concerned, UNILORIN remained a terrorists’ organisation.

    “A few days ago, University of Ilorin terminated the appointment of Dr. K.N. Afolayan, the chairperson of our union in the university. We held a news conference, describing the university as a terrorists’ organisation as far as industrial relations is concerned. Barely 72 hours after, the university forwarded a letter to terminate the appointment of Dr. Solomon Oyelekan, the secretary of our union in the university. We believe even the press must be shocked by this brazen demonstration of terrorism. It is time once again for the nation to focus on the evil machinations of the present and past administrations in University of Ilorin,” the union said.

    Adejumo and Omole challenged the university administration to state the offence the purportedly sacked ASUU leadership committed, saying the action was an open display of victimisation.

    ASUU said just as UNILORIN had lost cases in the past over illegal sack, “these cases will not be an exception.”

    It said it was laughable that the information officer of the university, Mr. Kunle Akogun, defended the institution as following due process, wondering why the same “due process” was blind to “genuine and established acts of misconduct, such as sexual harassment, plagiarism and corruption, but is only trained to terminate the appointment of ASUU officers.”

    The union added: “Our tag of UNILORIN as a terrorist is based on its actions of terrorising progressive workers, students and indeed the community for nearly two decades. It is common knowledge that in 2001, the university sacked 49 academics for no other reason than going on strike with their colleagues nationwide. At least, three of them died in the brutal circumstances of the termination of their appointment. But for the university’s action, the likes of Professors Adegbija, Annor and Dr. Ajayi will be alive today.

    “The university vilified the workers, told lies against them, forged documents against them, sent gun- totting men, cudgel-wielding security guards and sometimes cultists after them, evicted them from their university quarters, deprived them of their means of livelihood and their health access, chased them from alternative job options, and the three died. If all of these are not terrorism within the context of a university, then what else is? UNILORIN is a place where all manners of atrocities take place. Court bailiffs are regularly beaten up in the offices of the vice chancellor and registrar; none of the unions is allowed to participate in national actions, yet the university benefits from such actions. Several workers, including genuine ASUU officers, are forced to pay money monthly into the coffers of a group of impersonators already outlawed by the courts. The university stole millions from students in the name of unsupplied equipment (PC tabs); UNILORIN stole billions from its workers by forcing them to pay pension into a phantom pension fund that did not go into the account of the workers; the university has suppressed the promotion of a group of workers for upward of 15 years due to hatred; UNILORIN is the only university that attempted to institutionally victimise a sexually-harassed female student for blowing the whistle on a ‘favoured’ worker; UNILORIN is the only university that maintains gun-totting policemen at its gate and gun-totting DSS to harass academic workers within; UNILORIN is the only university where the vice chancellor will promote his wife unduly and then sack the people who protest this anomaly, and the Governing Council will support such brazen corruption; UNILORIN is the only university that brings a ‘battalion’ to prevent the union from holding a meeting on its campus, although it is a publicly-funded university. The list is endless. Therefore, if we call UNILORIN a terrorists’ institution, this is more than justified.”

  • ASUU’s demand for exclusion from TSA

    SIR: The 2017-2018 academic calendar of tertiary institutions in Nigeria last week, kicked off in full swing after surviving an initial heckle at the instance of a strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Nonetheless, it is not yet Uhuru for both the federal government and ASUU. The solution to the problem lies in its resolution by the union to suspend strike on a major condition which will rely on full implementation of the agreement they long ago, signed with the government on improvement of tertiary education in Nigeria. By this, ASUU made it clear that it may go on strike again in October on failure by the government to abide by the agreement.

    In fighting for improvement of the tertiary education in Nigeria, ASUU had demanded a full-scale University autonomy, increased funding for universities, payment of backlog of debt, which the federal government owed the schools and most importantly, exemption from Treasury Single Account (TSA) implementation, among others. The government may have agreed on phased implementation of demands by ASUU, a reason the strike by union was short-lived; it nonetheless, it found the issue of exemption from the TSA most objectionable.

    To ASUU, TSA has constituted a bottleneck that has eclipsed the core mandate of the universities on research and breakthroughs. The lecturers are not happy that grants from international and corporate organizations for research by universities, hitherto paid into the accounts of institutions, are now trapped in the centralized TSA accounts, which they argued are not easily assessed. They are pained equally that the universities, of late, have been losing the grants at the expiration of timelines set for usage.

    Logical as the argument against the TSA by ASUU sounds, the federal government seemed not moved and inclined to back down on implementation. The reasons are quite obvious. TSA remains the major plank of the policy by the government for turning the battered economy of Nigeria around and most importantly for taming the instinct for corruption in the government circles.

    If the government is sticking uncompromisingly to TSA, the reason is not far from the breakthrough it has been recording with its implementation. As at March this year, the Federation Account had increased to N7.2 trillion, as avenues for further increase are still wide open. Prior, more than half of this humongous sum would have dissolved into private pockets of corrupt government officials and their cronies.

    Before TSA, officials of government were stealing uncontrollably from the government. The case was worse when the government had it tough to determine its cash position at every given time. For instance, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) under the immediate past government was operating more than 47 different accounts said to be directly accessed by few officials in government’s name.

    In all, the government of President Buhari with full implementation of TSA had to close down over 20,000 bank accounts illegally operated by MDAs, as the federation account was getting leaner by the day. All along, domestic debt and borrowing, which kept mounting, were never aligned and used for the purposes they were obtained. The incongruities in the manner the national treasury was being managed precipitated the recession that gripped Nigeria from 2015 up till the first quarter of this year.

    It presupposes therefore, that a government that battled fiercely to save the Nigerian economy from total collapse, pulling the country out of a gripping recession all the same, with TSA as a major tool, will not relax grip on the implementation by any means. This is a message that should not be lost on ASUU.

    The Professor Biodun Ogunyemi led ASUU had demonstrated uncommon sense of understanding and empathy for the government of President Buhari and Nigerians in general by calling off the strike early enough. The impression now is that both the government and ASUU are on synergy to save the education sector in Nigeria, in national interest. It is in this spirit that more Nigerians expect ASUU to put on a thinking cap to devise fresh ideas for universities to access international grants for research and development, while refraining from the urge to compel tertiary institutions’ exit from TSA.  ASUU should assist the implementation of TSA rather than be noted with deliberate intent to subvert it.

     

    • Idowu Samuel,

    Abuja.