Resolve ASUU issue or resign, Onitiri tells education minister By Gbenga Akinfenwa24 April 2022 | 3:00 amASUU strike[FILES] Federal Government’s team and the National Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The social critic recalled that last year alone, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) went on strike for over eight months, while millions of Nigerian students stayed at home doing nothing. This year again, the ASUU had started another round of indefinite strikes, thus ruining and jeopardising the future education of our youths. The ASUU has said if the government could release N200b to the universities, its members would go back to the classrooms immediately to begin lectures. Onitiri asked: “How much is N200b to the government that could earmark N4tr for oil subsidy? In a saner clime, the Minister of Education would have resigned or been sacked by the government for non-performance. He pointed out that if Adamu’s children were attending Nigerian universities, he would be concerned about their education. Onitiri regretted that because of ASUU’s strike, many university students have taken to crime because idle hands are the ...