Why ASUU strike is for benefit of the poor, needy

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For many years, the ideological nature of political struggle in Nigeria has been systematically suppressed by the press. When Nigeria politics is written about, it is in misleadingly crude terms of power struggles between political parties—usually the All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party and (very recently) the Labour Party. Or sometimes, the reportage is about individual personalities—Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi—or the economic problems (hunger, poverty, disease, joblessness, soaring energy prices and lack of access to quality education, among others) supposedly caused by poor leadership.

This strike has demonstrated abundantly that the government has deliberately refused to live up to its primary responsibility of providing education for its citizens. Also, the strike has revealed that ASUU is the messiah and deliverer by insisting that education should be a right and not a privilege. In this regard, ASUU has assumed the unassailable position of the champion of the poor, or better still, the voice of the voiceless.

Leo Tolstoy, that famed Russian writer, once wrote that ‘the only thing necessary in life as in art is to tell the truth’. But here is the real difficulty: truth itself is a very expensive gift which you can hardly find among cheap people. Those who stand for the truth are not cheap people, they are brave and courageous people who also serve as the conscience of society. Some people cannot hold onto the truth because they are afraid of the iron hand of the ruling class.

And from all indications, the strike has brought out those aspects in Nigerians: resistance, solidarity, courage, defiance and outright rejection of misrule. This is as much as to say that the strike has the capacity to determine who becomes Nigeria’s helmsman in 2023.

 

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LET FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COPY FROM U.S BY GIVING STUDENTS STUDY LOAN AFTER WHICH THEY WILL PAY FROM THEIR SALARIES WHEN THEY SECURED JOB

If Naija University runs as its obtainable in US and UK, really the poor will suffer it but it's the best because even the poor are cursing ASUU in their struggle. Best option, let's have UK model. Check their tuition fees against their living standards perhaps we'll know a thing

Elite send their children to private uni or abroad, children of the poor are suffering the deficiency in leadership

Permit me to say that the assumed citadel of learning academia are bereft of ideas. They keep using the same method (STRIKE) that kept failing like in their academic curriculum. We can help you at Today's Nigeria Agenda. Consult us for free.

Last last school na scam.

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