The Nigeria Labour Congress has called on President
GoodluckEbele Jonathan to decisively tackle the crises in the education sector
in order to prevent a total shut-down of the sector. We urge Mr President to
muster all the necessary will and skill to confront the issues that threaten
this vital sector. As President of the country, he has the onerous task of
rising to the challenge of restoring normalcy to the sector whether the
issues are political as he has made the nation to believe or whether they are
purely industrial.
The threat of a total shut-down is present and immediate and deserves all the
urgency and mobilisationMr President could muster. The developments in the
Education Sector are symptomatic of greater ills in the polity.
The strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), for instance is
in its fourth month and has almost certainly disrupted an entire academic
session with collateral consequences.
The three other leading unions in the Education Sector, viz, the Non-Academic
Staff Union of Academic Institutions (NASU); the Senior Staff Association of
Nigerian Universities (SSANU); National Association of Academic Technologies
(NAAT); and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) have
all threatened to go on strike within the next few days except their demands
are met.
Also the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has
signalled its readiness to embark on a solidarity strike if government fails to
resolve within two weeks the issues of contestation with ASUU.
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