Sultan Abubakar urges Nigerian university lecturers to consider the future of their students in taking their decisions.
not to go on another strike over the payment of half salaries to them last month.
Speaking with journalists on Wednesday after commissioning a 25-bedroom guest house donated by the family of Babalakin to Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State, the traditional ruler advised the lecturers to resolve the issue through dialogue with the government. “No matter how bad a university is, it will turn out thousands of graduates and if you can bring out so many graduates who are excellent, who are brilliant, why do we have to continue fighting over little issues?”
At the event, Wale Babalakin, who spoke on behalf of the Babalakin family, said the donated guest house will increase the revenue of the university.
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