Nigeria's public universities are on a strike yet again. The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities have shut down the public university system because of the Federal Government's refusal to honour agreements reached with them. The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities says it will join on Monday.
On Saturday, ASUU said it might disrupt the post-Universities Matriculation Exam tests in the public universities unless its demands are met.
Nigeria's Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, has denied the existence of any agreement with ASUU. That leaves Nigerian undergraduates in these universities in a quandary. SOme were even preparing for exams before their schools were shut as a result of the strike.
But what many observers say is that government should negotiate with these unions so that students can go back to classes in the next few days.
It leaves a sour taste in the mouths of Nigerians that government can treat the issues raised by ASUU with levity. One of such is the improved funding of the system to bring the country at par with other leading nations of the world.
Any nation that treats its education system with levity risks being relegated to the background of development. It appears as if successive administrations in Nigeria are not really bothered about raising the standard of education in the country.
There is the school of thought that because many of Nigeria's leaders own private universities and do not care if the public university system is destroyed.
Well, Nigerians wait for this situation to be resolved - quickly.
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