A non-governmental group, NGO, the Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria, MMWG, has referred to as on President Bola Tinubu to rescue the nation’s schooling sector from complete collapse, reminding him of his assurance of enough consideration to the sector.
The group, which condemned what it termed as “open and shameful neglect” pervading the academic system in Nigeria, was reacting to contemporary threats emanating from members of the Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigerian Universities, SSANU over the non-payment of excellent salaries, which necessitated every week warning strike in all universities lately.
In a press release signed by the MMWG Nationwide Coordinator, Ibrahim Abdullahi and issued on Thursday, the group stated President Tinubu’s administration “should be totally different in addressing industrial issues able to inflicting academic backwardness within the nation.”
It famous with remorse that the federal authorities below former President Muhammadu Buhari “was infamous for non-caring angle on academic and well being issues which resulted in horrible a number of strike actions that induced setbacks for the nation.”
The group, nonetheless, stated that President Tinubu’s assurance on “bye-bye to strikes, lock-outs and industrial instability” should be effected to permit higher schooling to flourish in Nigeria.
It recalled that the Minister of Training, Prof. Tahir Mamman and the Minister of State, Yusuf Sununu, initially claimed ignorance of the SSANU calls for when the warning strike began lately and puzzled whether or not they have taken any steps “to forestall a full-blown strike from taking place quickly in our academic system; because the warning strike ended.”
MMWG, subsequently, referred to as on the ministers to forestall the upcoming SSANU strike once more by addressing all points at stake with out additional delay.
On the non-collection of a number of billions of Naira by 24 states from the Common Primary Training Fee, UBEC to deal with academic improvement in faculties throughout the Federation, the group stated “This has proven how much less the state governors rated the schooling trade in Nigeria.”
“Whereas the governors rhetorically converse on academic improvement, their non-payment of counterpart funding for the previous 5 to 10 years has proven that they work in opposition to the sector, particularly at main, junior and senior secondary ranges that are the foundations of correct schooling, as a result of their very own organic youngsters attend elitist faculties.
“This unhealthy angle of nation’s leaders should cease,” the group acknowledged.
