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Its President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, said it was suspended after reaching a “Memorandum of Action, MOA, with the Federal Government. ASUU obviously had to press for an MOA instead of the usual Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, which the Federal Government always failed to honour. The Union’s main reasons for the “annual” strikes boil down to low wages and the continued degeneration of the tertiary institutions due to poor funding by governments.
The Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu, has acknowledged that Nigeria’s attitude to education funding is a nonstarter: “None of the E9 or D8 countries other than Nigeria, allocates less than 20 per cent of its annual budget to education. Indeed even among sub-Saharan Africa countries, we are trailing far behind smaller and less endowed nations in terms of our investment in education”.
Besides, when youths are forced to languish at home for prolonged periods and spend more years at school than prescribed by their course schedules they tend to lose faith in the system in addition to losing many useful years of their active lives. There is no way the Nigerian university system can inspire confidence or enjoy reasonable rating internationally unless stability is restored.
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