ANALYSIS ON ASUU STRIKE
PHILOMATH Saturday, February 02, 2019 Spotlight,
SPOTLIGHT


Welcome to spotlight, the section of The Brainy Fox's blog where we discuss topical issues that has been in the spotlight in recent weeks.

In this edition, we take a look at the ASUU strike and the issues facing the education sector in the Nation.



In the past 20 years, Nigerian Universities have been on strike for a cumulative period of 40 months. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government have always been at loggerheads over funding of universities in the nation, with ASUU demanding for a decent pay, better working conditions and an increase in financing of universities on the part of the government.

Hence, it was no surprise, when the body at its National Executive Council meeting held at Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), annouced the start of another "total and comprehensive" strike some ninety days ago.

Pronto, the Federal Government, through the minister of Labour swung into action almost immediately, arranging numerous meetings intended to come to terms with the warring body, all to no avail. And as negotiations continue, it is rather inevitable that, eventually an agreement will be reached and lecturers will resume back to work. But, will the statusquo change? Will the ills militating against the development of tetiary institutions in the nation be cured? Would there be yet another strike action in some six, seven or eight months down the line ?


It is no longer news, that tertiary education in Nigeria, due to a noxious combination of neglect and mismanagement, has over the years, fallen into a squalid state of dilapidation. And in a time where the development of a nation depends on viable advancement in technology, arts and science, the curriculums in the Nigerian education system are ill-equipped to drive the nation towards any form of development.



The problems facing the education sector in Nigeria are putative; pitiable funding coupled with an obnoxious level of mismanagement and a couple of other issue make a long list of issues facing the sector. But yet, we keep papering over cracks as though all is well.


Of the major reasons ASUU is on strike, perhaps the most pertinent is the issue of wages of lecturers. Lecturers are pitiably underpaid, that's if they get paid when due.

Any system designed to pay Senator Isiaka Ademola who doesn't have a WAEC certificate in excess of 13 Million Naira every month for doing virtually nothing, while academic stalwarts like Professor Alex Ike Mowete, Professor Wale Babalakin, who have trained multiple prospects who now shape the nation's economy today, 5 million Naira in twelve months is not only mindless but brainless .



In saner climes, the teaching profession is considered a prodigious one. However, in Nigeria, teachers are about the most indigent, lot mostly derided in poverty. A sad reality, which leaves the future of education in the nation in great danger .



Unfortunately, the on-going strike won't alter the statusquo or should we call it the norm. Eventually, dodgy politicians who have no sample or iota of moral compunctions would once again revert to their Machiavellian tactics to deceive the supposed "cerebral lords" who head ASUU.



That apart, another issue that agitates the mind is the level of infastructure in Nigerian tetiary institutions, I was once a student of the best polytechnic in Nigeria according to the NUC ranking ; Yaba College of Technology. Deplorable toilets, dilapidated hostel rooms, absence of light bulbs in lecture rooms etc . All describe the state of infastructure in the school.

The story is not different in many state owned Universities and Polytechnics in Nigeria, students barely have a place to sit, lecture room sitting spaces are always inadequate, and the environment mean no well for the academic development of any student no matter how smart.




The quality of teachers in the Universities is another cause for great concern. Most lecturers are not cut out for their jobs, and in most cases have very little understanding of the courses they take.

A check on the 168 institutions in the nation will reveal a legion of half-baked lecturers who probably took up teaching due to lack of alternatives and should not be anywhere near lecture rooms

Students in the faculty of education are expected to be good educationist cum lecturers, but it is a well known fact that students students who end up reading education are mainly those whose cut-off marks do not secure them a place in the course of their first or second choice. It is an established fact that......

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I thought u wanted telling me the strike is called off.
Instead what u brought to the table was pile of nonsense bullshit dogshit catshit goatshit write up.


How wicked can u be Mr rattshit

modestbrowser:
I thought u wanted telling me the strike is called off.
Instead what u brought to the table was pile of nonsense bullshit dogshit catshit goatshit write up.


How wicked can u be Mr rattshit

It's all right, I won't react, I understand your pains.