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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, in this interview with FRIDAY OLOKOR, says the union’s age-long battle with the Federal Government, which has seen students being shut out of campuses for long months, is far from over
Our reality is that while Nigerian lecturers go outside the country to teach, no foreigner can come to teach in Nigeria. Any country you go to, you will see a Nigerian lecturing because of the fluidity of the university system in those places, but nobody from outside this country, not even from the Republic of Benin, will want to come and teach in Nigeria because our payment and welfare have been degraded. The situation is that universality is leaving the Nigerian university system.
We have been very patient in the interest of the Nigerian students and the Nigerian populace but government has to work hard to address the issues they agreed to in December 2009.
If we can have a law that says that once you are in government or you take a government appointment, your children must school in Nigeria, the system will change. How will you respond to critics who believe that ASUU has contributed to the existing problems in the public universities by embarking on so many strikes actions, thereby disrupting academic calendar and making students spend additional years in school and graduate at an age that limits their economic opportunities?
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