Ado Ekiti — UNIVERSITY students
under the umbrella of National
Association of Nigerian Students,
NANS, yesterday, took to the
streets in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State
capital, calling on the Federal
Government to accede to the
demands of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU.
They equally threatened to shut
down activities in the private
universities in the country should
the crisis linger on.
The students who displayed
several placards with various
inscriptions, lambasted the
Federal Government for its failure
to honour the agreement it
entered into with ASUU since
2009.
Speaking on behalf of his
colleagues, Asafon Sunday,
Director of Action and
Mobilisation NANS, South–West,
claimed between 2000 and 2011
the Nigerian government earned
about N48.48 trillion from the
sale of oil alone, against N3.10
trillion earned between 1979
and 1999
He said the Federal Inland
Revenue Service, FIRS, in 2012
financial year alone generated
N5.12 trillion from tax paid by
the masses.
According to him: “With this
tremendous upswing in the
revenue at the disposal of the
Nigerian government, one would
have expected such to translate
to commensurate improvement
in the quality of Nigeria’s public
education as well as other social
services.”
He condemned the refusal of
Federal Government to budget a
reasonable amount of money to
education sector as
recommended by UNESCO which
is 26 per cent of the country’s
total budget.
Sunday noted that some
countries with smaller Gross
Domestic Product, GDP, like
Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya,
Morocco and Botswana had
budgetary allocations to
education sector as follow, 31
per cent,20 per cent,23 per
cent ,17.7 per cent and 19 per
cent respectively to 8.5 per cent
that Nigeria government had
budgeted for education in 2013.
Also speaking, Steven Adara ,a
student leader from Ekiti State
University, EKSU , lamented that
government officials and
prominent Nigerians were not
bothered about the crisis in the
public universities because their
children were in private schools
overseas.
According to him: “We will
mobilise and disrupt academic
activities in the private
universities because it is the sons
and daughters of the rich that
are in these schools.”
Source
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/students-threaten-to-shut-private-varsities-over-ASUU-strike/

What concerns private varsities over ASUU matter?

Joke of the whole year.

We will even go overseas nd drag every 9ja student back..make we all dy hauz..

Instead of them to take the action to the Unionists and the Government..Hian..

How many private varsity the wan shut down? People dey play with jail

Some people are just foolish about ways they go fighting for their legitimate right... i won't be surprised if this guy and his unthinking followers find themselve in court later answering a now legitimate charges that could land them in jail. I no sabi wetin concern private school with ASUU #MisplacedPriority

Bunch of jokers,don't know there right from left, real reason why ASUU & FG will continue to mortgage their future

Davo93: Some people are just foolish about ways they go fighting for their legitimate right... i won't be surprised if this guy and his unthinking followers find themselve in court later answering a now legitimate charges that could land them in jail. I no sabi wetin concern private school with ASUU #MisplacedPriority

Most ASUU members also work with private schools and earn salary