OPINION BY ADEBAYO ABUBAKAR: When is the next ASUU strike? | TheCable
called off an eight-month-long strike following a series of stalemated negotiations between the union, led by its president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke. The suspension, I learnt, is conditional, after the National Industrial Court and the Appeal Court have ordered the lecturers to unconditionally return to the classroom.
I do not envy students of Nigerian universities of nowadays, especially, the federal government-owned ones. Being a university student has always been, is still, and will continue to be a source of pride to parents and, at least, one’s relatives. But it becomes a source of shame and pain for parents who have to toil day and night to raise school fees and other needs like textbooks, accommodation, feeding, clothing, etc.
Lest we forget, the agreement ASUU hinges its current position on was signed way back in 2009 by the administration of the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua but never honoured.
Meanwhile, most of them attended or visit universities in the Western world where the system is self-sustaining, devoid of government funding, to a very large extent. Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, and other Ivy League universities are run using majorly endowment funds and commercial proceeds from academic research in addition to the tuition fees being charged.
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