Nigeria: do not normalize that your universities have been on strike for weeks now. I mean, knowledge creation, assimilation and application, are things we ought NOT to play with. How can a nation function when its universities are always striking?
In my alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, they have some experiments in the medical school which have been running for more than 46 years. Through those experiments, they engineer miracles, in operating rooms and doctor’s offices.
But if Nigeria cannot even open its universities, what is the FUTURE? It is very unfortunate since there is no end we can count according to the Labour minister.
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He said, “It depends on ASUU. The ball is in their court. They should go and meet the Benimi Briggs Committee and look at what the committee is doing and make further inputs so that the work can be accelerated.
“ASUU has to come down from their high horse. You cannot go and start intimidating people in NITDA and threatening the Minister of Digital Economy and Communication with revocation of his professorship that he is a fake professor. You go to ABU and say you are going to withdraw the certificate of the director of NITDA. That’s bullying. It is not allowed in the labour negotiations.’’
He said he is worried by the incessant strikes in public universities in Nigeria, stressing that “he has not slept” in a bid to see that the schools are reopened.
While recalling on the lecturers’ union incessant industrial actions in the last 2 decades, the former federal lawmaker said, ‘’The ASUU issue is a recurring decimal. It is a very sad situation. I am a product of the public school.’’
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I totally agree. Most of the lectures are already engaged in other business and lecturing in private universities.
In addition, ASUU needs a PR organization to drive their messaging and communication. Nigerians now believe the lectures are at fault.