Lukman said this in a statement in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ASUU had been on strike since March 23, paralysing academic activities in public universities before the recent agreement to end the strike. x
“Many who simply want to reduce these issues to opinions and commentary, may hardly recognise that this is not a matter that any government can resolve by fiat.
“It is also not a matter that any group can sustainably achieve, no matter how aggressive and resolute the group may be,” he said.
Lukman said that the frequent ASUU strikes would destruct Nigerian’s education system if not well handled.
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Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, has urged lecturers in public universities to show moderation and patriotism in their demands from the federal government.
The umbrella body of academics in public universities, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), suspended a nine-month-old strike last week.
Amongst other commitments, the federal government has promised the release of N40 billion earned academic allowances and another N30 billion revitalisation fund.
Unresolved issues include the demand for the replacement of the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS) with University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) and implementation of the FG-ASUU agreement of 2009 bordering on university autonomy and funding.
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The Director-General of the Progressives Governors Forum, Dr. Salihu Lukman, has described the seemingly unending power tussle between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, as the greatest disservice to Nigeria’s public education system.
Lukman noted that there was enough blame to go around on both sides if the blame game was to be relied upon.
He, however, said, amidst the accusations, counter-accusations and the destructively long strikes, the nation’s public education system and our teeming youths have been the worst for it.
This was contained in a statement titled, “ASUU and Indeterminate Power Struggle – The Boko Haram Logic,” which he signed and made public in Abuja, on Sunday.
The Director-General of the Progressives Governors Forum, Dr. Salihu Lukman, has described the seemingly unending power tussle between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, as the greatest disservice to Nigeria’s public education system.
Lukman noted that there was enough blame to go around on both sides if the blame game was to be relied upon.
He, however, said, amidst the accusations, counter-accusations and the destructively long strikes, the nation’s public education system and our teeming youths have been the worst for it.
This was contained in a statement titled, “ASUU and Indeterminate Power Struggle – The Boko Haram Logic,” which he signed and made public in Abuja, on Sunday.
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