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NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, THE ASUU AND THE FG: MY CANDID OPINION

  Introduction: The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is in her 5 th week of industrial action, after rolling over an earlier warning strike declared on 14 th February, 2022. The ASUU asserted that the strike is due to the failure of the Federal Govt. to honour agreement it entered with the union. Some of the major issues tabled by the union for a very long time include but are not limited to: ·          Renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FG agreement: the Renegotiation of the 2009 agreement talks about the upward review of lecturers’ conditions of service which includes salaries, allowances, retirement etc. ·          Revitalisation of Nigerian Universities: Revitalisation of Nigerian universities is a financial commitment between the FG and the ASUU which demands that the FG inject money (amounting to one trillion naira) into Nigerian universities over a period of 5 years (from 2010). Th...