ASUU Strike Latest (READ DETAILS)

“The present ASUU strike is beyond salaries and allowances for
lecturers. Since the 2009 agreement, government has set up fact-
finding missions to ascertain the state of Nigerian universities.
Panels of inquiries for need assessment for universities have been
set up and reports have been submitted, yet the authorities in the
education sector seen to have shunned implementation of the
recommendations. “The Needs Assessment Committee went round
the universities in the country and what it found was shocking,” Mr.
Uche Omeje, the Acting chairperson of ASUU in ESUT told a news
conference.
“First, it found that the teachers-students ratio was 1-400 on the
average instead of being 1-40. It found that the classrooms were
grossly inadequate and could accommodate only about 30 percent of
the number of students that needed to enter those classrooms, and
while most students were standing in their lecture theatres other
students write on their backs as lectures were held under trees in
some of the universities.”
Omeje then went on to cite cases, where some university
laboratories used kerosene stoves instead of Bunsen burners for
experiments and other sub-standard procedures.
He said: “The committee found chemistry labs without water; they
found people doing examinations called theory of practical and not
the practical. They found students living in the hostels without
functional toilets and conveniences. They found heaps of human
feaces in the classrooms where our future leaders are produced.
“With overcrowded classrooms, dilapidated infrastructure, ill-
motivated staff and students and, in some cases, unqualified staff,
Nigeria universities have fallen to the level of routine producers of
uncultured or uneducated school leavers. Some of those who can
afford it, especially government officials, have since resorted to
taking their children to our neighbouring countries Ghana, Togo, Ivory
Coast, Liberia etc for their university education. This is a clear loss
of faith in Nigerian university system. This is why we are on strike.”
He also stressed that the FG must honour the pact it had with ASUU
four years ago, saying that “it is demeaning, despicable and an
expression of lack of integrity on government’s part to renege on its
promise.”
The branch of ASUU also insisted that they won’t call off the strike,
until the FG acts accordingly

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