President Bola Tinubu has asked all unions in the nation’s tertiary institutions to partner with the government to arrive at a funding blueprint for the university system that will take cognisance of local peculiarities and modern realities based on global best practices.
Tinubu made this known on Monday, at the 76th Foundation Day of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Represented by the Minister of State for Education, Suwaiba Ahmed, the President stated that the unions must recognise that all sectors of the country needed more financing and that the government is working assiduously to perform its obligations with available resources.
The president cautioned that a collapsed economy would not be in the interest of anyone and therefore called on academic unions, particularly ASUU and others, to partner with the government in building the economy.
At this juncture, let me persuade university unions, especially ASUU, to recognise that all sectors in the country need more financing and that the government is working assiduously to perform its obligations with the resources available to it.
“A collapsed economy will not be in anybody’s interests. I submit that unions should partner with the government to arrive at a funding blueprint for the university system in the country that will take cognisance of local peculiarities and modern realities based on global best practices,” Tinubu said.
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