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The Federal Government has accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions within the university system of not justifying her investment in education.
Minister of education, Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this on Thursday at the 2021 annual press briefing in Abuja stated that in the last one year, Tertiary Education Trust Fund has committed about N400 billion to the development of infrastructure in the tertiary institutions across the country.
According to him, the N400 billion is different from the N1.3 trillion the Buhari administration has spent on capital expenditure in the nation tertiary institutions. x
“During my briefing in May last year, I told you that the Administration of President Muhammed Buhari has committed a total of N1.3 trillion of capital expenditure in our tertiary institutions,” Adamu said.
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By Joseph Erunke
THE number of out-of-school children in the country which stood at 10.1 million in 2019,reduced drastically to 6.946 million in 2020,the federal government has said.
Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this,Thursday,in Abuja,at the annual Ministerial press briefing on the ministry’s activities in 2020, attributed the development to the number of measures undertaken by government to ensure enrollment of children.
According to him,the sum of $611 million secured through the World Bank credit facility to support Universal Basic Education (UBE), recorded a massive enrollment of out-of-school children in 17 states.
Adamu,who also disclosed that efforts of the National Association of Proprietors and School Owners of Nigeria,NAPSON, alone saw to the enrollment of one million children, also noted that 900,000 Nigerians were “taken off the shelve” of adult illiterates in 2020.
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THE year 2020 will go down in history as recording one of the longest of all strike actions embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria. ASUU had commenced the strike on March 9, 2020 which was suspended on December 23, 2020.
Accordingly, the strike is likely to be resumed in 2021 going by the trust issues between the Federal Government mediation team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige and the representatives of ASUU led by its president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, on some contending issues.
Several meetings were held by both parties coupled with the interventions of President Muhammadu Buhari at a point and the National Assembly, yet it appears there is no permanent end in sight in what Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s legendary president, would describe as “pernicious British-style trade union practices”.