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Recently, the Academic Staff Union of Universities threatened to embark on another industrial action citing the Federal Government’s refusal to honour the agreement reached with the union. Specifically, the union accused the government of refusing to pay 13 months’ salaries of over 1,000 of its members across the country. It also frowned on the government’s insistence on the IPPIS.
But everything has appeared to be about the money at the expense of the students. Members of the union, in some universities, do not behave as learned people. Students cannot ask questions and cannot complain. I remember a case of a lecturer I asked a question when I was an undergraduate. I asked, “Sir, I am sorry but I am a bit confused here. What I read in…” He retorted, “Maybe, you know more than I do”. Oh my goodness! I felt embarrassed.
How do we explain a situation where a lecturer tells students in the exam hall that, “You would pass this examination only if you could count the strands of hair in my beard”? How do we explain a situation where a lecturer would deliberately decide not to mark some students’ scripts until the results had been released just for the students to come to his office, pick their respective scripts one by one, hand over to him and he would mark the scripts in their presence? How were the results even...
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