Ad-hoc policies killing education in Nigeria

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has approached the Federal Government to be guided by the constitution in running the instruction part.

Its National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, decided in Lagos on Tuesday amid a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Ogunyemi said the constitution required the Federal government to make training open to all Nigerians by making it free at all levels.

"To have an improvement plan for training in Nigeria, we need to backtrack to what the constitution says.

"Area 18 has made it clear. Government must store state funded instruction in the nation free at all levels.

"Much the same as we likewise have the UBEC Law of 2004.

"We have surviving laws that ought to guide us in instruction in the nation,'' Ogunyemi told NAN.

He said that administration must have the capacity to give viable structures to the administration of the training area.

The ASUU president said that absence of political will, arrangement irregularity and disregard by progressive organizations were a portion of the issues tormenting training.

"The strategy for actualising the improvement motivation for instruction has been hampered.

"What we have been seeing throughout the years are specially appointed game plans.

"As clergymen change, strategies likewise change and in this way for us to propel the segment, we should backpedal to the first objectives and reasoning,'' he said.