analyst, in a television interview has said
that the Minister of Education, Ruqayat
Rufai, is not helping the on-going industrial
strike by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) and accused of treating
the situation in an off-handed manner.
"The Minister of Education has not being helping
matters" by "talking glibly." This, he said, is a very
cheap way of looking at a very serious problem:
she ought to sit with her team to take a very
incisive analysis of the issues moving forward."
The strike action embarked upon by the union is
currently in 6th week, however, students may have
to wait some more before an agreement is reached
between the body and the Federal Government.
Mr. Nnaji said "it appears it's still a long wait" but
added that the strike may be called off "anything
from next week Tuesday, if it is possible."
Mr. Nnaji blamed President Goodluck Jonathan and
government officials for paying unsufficient or no
attention to the problems of the education sector
and focusing attention on 2015. It is very
unfortunate thing because "education is the most
primary thing government should provide."
"The ministers, governors, president, all the people
in government are geared towards 2015."
First, government must accept responsibility
because "an agreement is an agreement" and must
be respected.
The ASUU strike is happening at a time where there
is proliferation of federal universities but "if you do
not prepare the child of today for tomorrow, there
is no future for this country."
He addressed the issue of unqualified lecturers and
called them to examine themselves. "How many of
them are good enough to teach. What is the
content of their teaching?"
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