Fresh tension of university strike 

• As ASUU demands more budgetary allocation for education

There is merging tension of fresh industrial unrest in tertiary institutions over poor funding of the education by the various levels of government in Nigeria. The budgetary allocations to education by the federal government, including the states, is being questioned by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which had gone on strikes on different occasions making diverse demands, National Daily reports. There were concerns that the failure to implement the various agreements ASUU signed with the federal government has been because of the inadequate budgetary allocations to education.

National Daily learned that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), accordingly, called on the Federal Government to increase the budgetary allocation for the education sector to revert Nigerians seeking admission overseas.

ASUU in its resolutions at a convention at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra, expressed the belief that Nigeria’s education sector is poorly funded and needs urgent government intervention.

The Union further demanded that governments to implement previous agreements to ensure industrial harmony in the universities.