In a bid to quell rising tensions and give reassurance ,
the Federal Government has said that the ongoing 4-
month old Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) would be over in a matter of months.
This was disclosed yesterday by the Minister of
Education, Nyesom Wike, at a lecture held to
commemorate the anniversary of the National
Universities Commission (NUC) in Abuja.
Mr. Wike through his representative Dr. Macjohn
Nwaobiala, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of
Education, stated that the resolution of the ongoing
strike was of foremost priority to the Federal
Government.
Vanguard reports :
According to Wike, “The Federal Government is
very concerned about the state of public tertiary
institutions in the country. The Federal Government
is really worried about the ongoing strike of ASUU
and the strike would be resolved in a few months.”
Professor John Daniel in his paper presentation
titled, ‘Turbulent and Testing Times for Global
Higher Education: Lessons for Nigeria’, said “online
teaching and learning is now part of the future of
most universities. Nigeria should be very good at
this because without embarrassing you by pressing
the point, I note that your country, through 419
scams, is a world leader in the use of the internet
for less desirable purposes.”
He said higher education all over the world is facing
lot of challenges that included youth unemployment
and the current changes in the university system.
“These are indeed turbulent times, not only for
United States of America but also for much of
higher education globally”, he said.
A former Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor
Jubril Munzali, in his goodwill message, said the
education sector for 21 years have been under
funded and the significant increase in the funding of
tertiary institutions were done through the struggle
of ASUU.
He blamed the Federal Government lingering crisis
rocking the nation’s university system.
He said it is time Federal Government listened to its
agencies and allow NUC perform its statutory role
and fund universities based on the advice of its
agencies like NUC.
“Successive administrations in the country never
paid adequate attention to university education”.
He said the Federal Government process of direct
funding of universities, have over the years
resulted in mismanagement of the funds allocated
to the institutions.


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Lets pray and make it so.

Can january also be said to be in a FEW month?

Few months might mean december,december means next year

give a specific month, few
months is not definite.
10 months time is also few
months time!

PANDOGARI: Lets pray and make it so.

Are you serious?! *shocked*. After how many months already?