Ade Adejumo, zonal coordinator of
the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ibadan zone, says the federal
government intends to increase the tuition of varsities to N350,000.
The ASUU executive made the claim
on Tuesday while addressing members of the Correspondents Chapel, Ibadan.
Adejumo described the alleged
plan as an “impending labour crisis” in Nigeria’s higher institutions.
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 the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, promised
was going to last for only six weeks, has broken down.
“The reason for this very
unfortunate development will appeal most Nigerians. First, the leader of the
government team, who was supposed to be an arbiter between the parties, assumed
an arrogant attitude that sought to foist a predetermined mindset of government
on the union.
“The union was confronted with a
situation where the government is bent on imposing tuition fees, beginning from
N350,000, on students in the Nigerian public-owned tertiary institutions.
“On the question as to how the
students will raise such money, the answer that government has is that it will
establish an Education Bank, where students will access credit facilities and
payback on completion of their studies.”
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