A University Don at the Federal University Lokoja, Professor Mohammed Audu has called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to start rethinking the issue of allowing Nigerian students pay tuition fees since the funding model of university education is no longer sustainable by the Nigerian government.
Professor Audu who said this at a public lecture and presentation of books in honour of the Rector of Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja, Salisu Ogbo said the relationship between ASUU and the federal government is like that of the slave and the slave master.
As an academic, the most enterprising way Doctor Salisu Ogbo could mark his 50th birthday anniversary was to gather intellectuals like him from across Nigeria to proffer solutions to the monster called ASUU strike as it affects the Nigerian university system.
After x-raying the issues at stake, Professor Audu likened the relationship between the federal Government and ASUU to the relationship of the slave and the master during the colonial days.
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To put an end to incessant strikes occasioned by poor funding; Professor M.S Audu thinks that students should begin to pay tuition fees as against the free education that currently operates
Two books were publicly presented to mark Salisu Ogbo’s birthday, with Governor Yahaya Bello paying tribute to the man he said is changing the face of the state polytechnic as Rector
The two books authored and publicly presented are some of the contributions of the celebrant to the body of knowledge as he turned fifty, a larger part of his age teaching in the tertiary institution.
( Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
