NIGERIA AFRICA – There has been accusations being thrown around wildly by most countries that their respective governments don’t do enough where education is concerned but clearly that is also the case for Nigeria. The Staff Union of the notably Ibadan Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) stated that that the government need to get it together and do what has to be done to make sure education gets the place it deserves.
The Union stated that the Federal Government “undertakers of privatization” was ready to take over public universities from the reach of the children of the masses.
Professor Oyebamiji Oyegoke stated that “What is unveiling before us is deceit and readiness to bring university education to its knees after which the undertakers of privatization will take over; no wonder the increasing number of private universities and polytechnics against the depreciating and fastly decaying number of same in public institutions.”
He further stated that that unless Nigerians join the union in the struggle to deliver public-funded universities to the children of the masses, agents of privatization of public institutions have concluded plans to deny the common man access to qualitative education and make them serve their children learning in foreign universities.
The Ibadan ASUU zonal coordinator maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari is leaving a legacy of tragic epigram on education in Nigeria, saying: “It is a sad commentary that a government, which was brought into power by a popular mandate of the Nigerian masses, has turned full cycle against a key agent of development like the education sector. We are pained as a union to observe this government, which is on its way out, keeps a date with history as it struggles to scribble a tragic epigram on the education sector. What a legacy to leave!”
