The President, Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has advised the Nigerian government to deduct N200billion from the N4trillion set aside for fuel subsidy.

Osodeke, in an interview on Channels TV on Tuesday morning, said the government had addressed the issue of fuel subsidy with a budget of N4trillion while it ignored the addressing issues of its university education.

The ASUU President advised that if the government took only N200billion from the N4trillion budget to address the challenges of its members; it would still have a whopping N3.8trillion.

He further called on the Nigerian government to prioritise education to fuel subsidy, adding that the Nigerian academic could provide all the solutions needed to boost the country.

He argued that it took Nigerian universities only three months to locally produce University Transparent and Accountability Solution (UTAS) which performed at 97.3 percent to replace the foreign Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

He said while huge resources were paid for IPPIS, such funds would have served the Nigerian universities and challenged the government to always task the Nigerian universities for solutions to identified challenges.

Osodeke said, “It is always very funny, that the government who cannot raise N200billion to revamp all Nigeria universities annually, to world standards. The same government can raise N4trillion for fuel subsidies. Fuel subsidy and Nigerian education; which is more important to any country that wants to move forward?

“You can raise a budget to make N4trillion for subsidies a year, but you cannot raise N200billion to fund your education where you don’t have the infrastructure. You can spend N228billion to feed children in primary or secondary schools. But you cannot raise this fund for your university; it is an issue of priority. That is the problem.

“If you remove N200billion from N4trillion, to fund your universities, you still have N3.8trillion for fuel subsidy.”

http://saharareporters.com/2022/04/20/give-us-n200billion-n4trillion-fuel-subsidy-end-ongoing-strike-%E2%80%93-university-lecturers

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Even though them be thief too,but them talk true for this one.
Fg abeg give them money from the money wey una wan thief,make them self see their own thief for inside na

Buhari will rather give it to bandits

ASUU should approve Pantami professorship, their money will come out.

There's money for them to share around for themselves but no money to invest in education. Goes to show the kind of people in power.

The amount of sums I hear online tho.

For clarification, that 200billion is strictly for infrastructure. As part of the agreement with FG, it was meant to be released every five years. Unfortunately, it was released once and that was under President Goodluck.

What an irony. This is the same ASUU that supported the nationwide protest, when Jonathan removed fuel subsidy then. I wonder what has changed now.

ASSU should let the government to be dealt with by parents at polling units.
Just increase the fees.

At least ASUU yaff spoken it's left to the FG