'ASUU in its characteristic patriotism and selflessness has been on the same issues for the last seven years. We do not consider it pertinent to dwell on these issues here for fear of sounding like broken records.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has urged Nigerians to blame the Federal Government if its members down tools and shut down public universities in the country.
According to him, ‘The issues that were in contention at that time were the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement, poor funding of our universities, the forceful usurpation of the duties of university bursary departments by the Integrated Personnel Payment Information System and the concomitant issues that arose from this breach of university autonomy,captured in the 2023 budget) to our members and non-payment of other emoluments and entitlements.
“ASUU in its characteristic patriotism and selflessness has been on the same issues for the last seven years. We do not consider it pertinent to dwell on these issues here for fear of sounding like broken records.
“If we may ask though, can a one month confab compare to four years of steady academic calendars of quality education in securing the future of our youths and our nation? Can this ‘noble’ confab intended by government accommodate one tenth of the youth population in our public universities, bearing in mind that there are over seventy public universities, with a minimum of four thousand students each with some having as many as 60 to 120,000...
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