Opinion: 2 Things President Muhammadu Buhari Should Do To Help Student As ASUU Strike Lingers On.


Its no longer news in Nigeria that students of higher institutions have been at home since march 2020, owning to the failure of the Academic staff union of universities (ASUU) and the federal government to come to an agreement to bring the 8 month old strike to an end.


The Academic staff union of universities embarked on the strike to demand the attention of the federal government to several issues such as salary payment platform, lack of visitation panels, issue of promotion, revitalisation funds for universities, poor learning conditions in federal government owned universities and stagnation of salaries.


Series of attempt by the federal government to come to an agreement with ASUU have been meet with a stiff resistance by the association, leaving the students at there own fate.


The quest to survive the hard times have made students embark on various illicit and illegal activities.


As we all know that a lazy man could be used as the devils workshop.

Let's go straight to the point of this article, we all know that desperate times calls for desperate actions.

We would use two world leaders as case instance for this article.

Having assumed office as the president of the United states of America, Donald trump immediately started the process of building a wall around the Mexican borders to curtail the inflow of immigrants and hard drugs to the united states, not minding the cost of the wall.


In 1979 the Chinese government led by Mao Zedong introduced a one child policy per couple to limit the blooming population, 

The one-child policy was part of a birth planning program designed to control the size of the rapidly growing population of China.

These two examples are desperate actions during tough times.


1. The first thing the president of Nigeria should do at this moment is the set up an emergency centre for employment and entrepreneurship, and also a skill acquisition center in all federal universities, the center would be spread across all the faculties in the universities, experts should be drafted to teach the students on skills that would be beneficial to them even after graduating from school, skills like solar panel building for engineering students, videography for theatre art student and so on.


The president should order all vice chancellors to order students to return back to there campuses and participate fully in this federal government program.


2. Bursary's should be paid to the students on monthly basis, money ranging from 10 to 20 thousand should be paid to the account of every student in Federal universities to enable them carter for themselves while embarking on this program.


The money meant for the salaries of the striking academicians should be channeled to this program till the strike is finally called off.

This bursary program should be structured just like other social intervention program of this administration like the Trader money (money meant for traders), farmer money, N-power and so, this would help to cushion the effect of the strike on young and promising students.

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