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However, the key question is, can the incoming President, Mr Bola Tinubu, resolve these age-long issues that have set the education sector backwards and give the people the type of education they need?
About N160.38 billion earmarked for education development has remained unspent in five years despite a huge infrastructural deficit in the sector.
Lecturers have continued strike action in protest against the alleged breach of the 2020 Memorandum of Action (MOA) signed between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Nigerian government.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has extended its strike action by another twelve weeks. This development was confirmed to Dataphyte by the Union’s President, Professor Victor Osodoke, in a phone conversation.
According to the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Profesor Victor Osodoke, the action became necessary because all efforts to reach a consensus failed. The union leader also noted that the action would last for an initial period of four weeks.
Formed in 1978 as a successor to the Nigerian Association of University Teachers, one of ASUU’s earliest and popular union exercises came in 1988. In 1988, the union organised a National Strike to get fair wages and university autonomy. Sadly, 32 years down the line, the struggle for a fair wage of university staff and autonomy of the university still continues.
