THE Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has declared once more that public universities in Nigeria are grossly underfunded by the federal government.
The Nationwide President of SSANU, Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, dropped this trace at a current stakeholders’ digital discussion board organised by the Schooling Writers’ Affiliation of Nigeria (EWAN).
EWAN is a physique of newsmen throughout print, broadcast and on-line media organisations in Nigeria who cowl the nation’s schooling sector.
Talking on a subject, ‘Withheld Salaries Vs Labour Crises: The Means Ahead,’ the SSANU boss stated the poor funding going through public universities within the nation is the key reason behind the incessant labour disaster being skilled within the system.
He stated governments at each the federal and state ranges might want to give a deserved precedence to schooling by allocating a considerable a part of their annual budgets to the sector.
In line with him, there are many challenges starting from poor infrastructure, laboratories, lecture rooms, workers quarters, remuneration, working situations, to lack of autonomy public universities are confronted with within the nation.
Whereas noting that the state universities are worse on this regard, Mohammed opined that if the federal government ought to make investments adequately within the sector, Nigeria would simply overcome its myraid of social challenges akin to insecurity, Japa Syndrome, youth restfulness, amongst others.
Talking in regards to the withheld four-month salaries of the members, upon which they went on a one-week warning strike alongside the Non-Tutorial Workers Union (NASU) and the Nationwide Affiliation of Tutorial Technologists (NAAT) final week, he stated the Federal Authorities ought to with out additional delay pay the cash.
He stated although that they had known as off the strike and directed all members to return to work, they might down instruments once more and even make it indefinite if the Federal Authorities continues to delay the cost.
He identified that the non- cost of the withheld salaries had actually taken an enormous toll on them and their households to the extent that SSANU alone had misplaced no fewer than 100 members within the final one and a half years to avoidable dying resulting from lack of cash to entry good healthcare.
In his temporary remarks, the chairman of EWAN, Mr Mojeed Alabi, stated the essence of the stakeholders’ discussion board is to supply workable options that might carry everlasting peace to the nation’s tertiary schooling sector.
In line with him, “schooling is a key to improvement in any society and Nigeria can not proceed to toy with the sector if it actually needs real prosperity.”
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