The Federal government on Tuesday, accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), of not “showing good cause” in the pursuit of its suit before the National Industrial Court. Mr J.U.K Igwe SAN, counsel to the Minister of Labour and Employment and Minister of Education who are the claimants in the suit made the accusation when ASUU’s counsel Mr Marshall Abubakar informed the court that he had filed processes at the court’s registry. The processes according to Abubakar would be ready before the next adjourned date of Wednesday. The p
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Continued #ASUUStrike Underscores the Need to Revisit Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Financing
The inability of the Federal Government and ASUU to come to a compromise, even after President Muhammadu Buhari gave members of his team a clear implementation timeline underscores the point that has been long emphasized. Which is that Nigeria's tertiary education funding model has to be revisited. I agree with ASUU that their working conditions be improved and that more funding should be ploughed into tertiary education generally. I'm however advocating for Nigeria's public universities to generate a substantial part of their own funding.
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