Strike: No negotiation with FG – ASUU

asuuThe Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday said it would not renegotiate with the Federal Government if the previous agreement is not implemented.

Unlike many other African countries that vote significantly for education funding on annual basis, the union members said Nigeria votes the least budget to education, while pumping huge sums to irrelevant projects that do not encourage research and development.

Compared to the academics, local government councilors earn even more than professors, just as Nigerian legislators receive salaries that triple those of the professors who trained them in schools.

The ASUU members made the position known at the Paul Hendrickse Hall of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, venue of a symposium entitled: “Education, Research and Development in Nigeria.”

In attendance were the national treasurer of the union and former Chairman, UI branch, Dr. Ademola Aremu, incumbent Chairman Dr. Segun Ajiboye, Prof. Millicent Obajimi (former Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association), Dr. Abass Abdulsalaam and Dr. Femi Afolabi, among others.

They maintained that demands for full implementation of the agreement with the government were unshaken.




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