NIGERIA- The Academic Staff Union of Universities has advised the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to ensure that university education becomes a priority. The union urged him to treat academics in the country with “utmost respect.”
The Chairman of ASUU, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, who is also a member of the National Executive Council of ASUU, Prof Gbolahan Bolarin, speaking with The Punch, urged the incoming government not to emulate the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said, “The first thing that one would expect from the next President is that university education must be a priority. No one should treat the university education system with disdain that would make our students stay at home for eight months because of governance failure.
“He cannot afford to treat academics like they are not humans the way the President is treating us.”
Tinubu has severally promised that under his watch education would be given priority.
He pledged that there would no longer be strikes in the university, saying “a four-year court will be completed in four years.”
Recall that public universities suffered from disruptions in the academic calendar under the Buhari regime.
In 2020, universities were shut for close to eight months.
