Dear Hon. Minister,

As a professor and mother, I have no doubt that you are
aware of the fact that your ministry has a crucial role to
play in how the future of this country will be.
If Nigeria will remain as a going concern and team up with the rest
of humanity to make the world a better place, will depend mainly
on the role of the ministry you head.

A strike by the ASUU is therefore a strike at the future of this
nation and any shot aimed at the future of our great country must
be deflected by you as the minister of education. This is the
enormity of the responsibility which God Almighty has placed on
your shoulders. If democracy will survive in this nation, your
ministry cannot be left out
Honourable minister, every nation that wants to make meaningful
progress in every sphere of life gives quality attention to four
major areas. These are education, security, law and order and
health. A man without education is not only vulnerable, he will kill
others. A man without good health is a walking corpse. A man
without security is as good as dead. Where there is no law and
order, people return to the jungle as resorting to self help
becomes the order of the day. In all these four sectors, education,
whether formal or informal, is the most important hence Jesus
Christ said in the bible: “my people perish for lack of knowledge”.

A nation that does not know is a dead nation.
It is against this background that I urge you to do all that is needful
to ensure that the current ASUU strike is resolved without further
delay. Honourable minister, what is N87 or N97billion to a nation
that is concerned about its tomorrow?

The fight of ASUU, you will agree, is genuine even if it is one strike
too many. As a professor of education, would you say you were
really teaching your students before you went into government?

Would you say that the quality of learning you got before you
became a professor is what you were giving to your students
either at the graduate or undergraduate level?
Is the school environment what a university should be? Obi
Nwakanma, a professor of English in an American university and
a newspaper columnist, once narrated his experience when he
visited the University of Jos from where he graduated 25yrs ago.

His conclusion was that what we call universities in Nigeria today
are nothing but ghettoes. I agree with him totally.
Honourable minister, is it not a shame that our children flood the
universities in the whole of Europe and America just as we have turned India to a Mecca of sort for medical attention?
It is not just shameful. It is ridiculous to say the least. What is in Ukraine, South Africa or any other nation of the world that we
cannot replicate in Nigeria? How brilliant are other nations that we
have to jump into the plane to seek knowledge from them?

The gentleman that taught me Political Sociology in my
penultimate year in the university visited Germany sometime in
the 1990s to see his brother. He visited one of the universities in
that country. When he compared his school back in Nigeria to
what he saw in Germany, he could not manage the shock arising
from the difference. Upon his return to Nigeria, he resigned his
appointment immediately and went into private business. Today
he is in politics. This is the degree of decay our universities have
sunk into.

If the truth must be told ma, what ASUU is asking for is pittance
compared to what has been stolen either directly from the nation’s
coffers, through crude oil theft or the scandalous salaries and
wages members of the National Assembly are paid.

Only recently, a former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili,
revealed to the nation that in a short space of eight years,
members of the National Assembly had got N1trillion from the national purse. What did they use it for, you may ask? As if that
was not enough to anger any sane person, eminent Nigerians
have been expressing shock over the proposed plan to put
members of the National Assembly on life pension even when
they may not have served for more than four years.

There is no way anyone interested in building a strong nation
would not support the stand ASUU has taken. I was shocked to
my bone marrows when an assistant lecturer revealed to me
recently that his monthly salary was not up to N150,000. Let us
face it, in the Nigeria of today this is a ridiculous pay for someone
of that status.

ASUU wil resume 2031. Ladies go nd marry

taiocol: ASUU wil resume 2031. Ladies go nd marry

i reject God forbid, u are telling me dat am not grad. In few years....hahaha ur prayer will not work!

ASUU are greedy man

Lordmiracle: i reject God forbid, u are telling me dat am not grad. In few years....hahaha ur prayer will not work!

laugh ma fuc.king ass off

mikeoh: ASUU are greedy man

Whaaaaaaaaat? And u wana be a graduate with this kind of English

Those students shud jux PORT, learn TRADE or MARRY