The Zonal coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Ibadan Zone, Dr. Ade Adejumo, on Tuesday raised alarm over
plans by the Federal Government to increase federal universities’
tuition fees.
Adejumo said this while addressing members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ in Ibadan.
Adejumo disclosed that the leader of the government team was bent on introduction of the increased N350,000 fees.
He called on ASUU to let Nigerian know that there could be labour crisis in federal universities, if the plans is executed.
He said, “The union is again constrained to draw the attention of
Nigerian public to an impending labour crisis in the Nigerian
universities as a result of the insensitivity of the Nigerian government
to issues critical to the survival of the educational system in
Nigeria.
“It is no longer news that the renegotiation, which Minister of
Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, promised was going to last for only six
weeks, has broken down.
“The union was confronted with a situation where government is bent
on imposing tuition fees, beginning from N350,000, on students in the
Nigerian public owned tertiary institutions.
“As to how the students will raise such money, we were told that the
government will establish Education Bank, where students will access
credit facilities and pay back on completion of their studies.
“The union, speaking from the background that education is the right
and not privilege of every Nigerian child, made frantic efforts to make
pragmatic explanations on the negative implications and the
non-feasibility of this scheme to representatives of government to no
avail.“
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