The Military Government Is More Sympathetic To University Teachers Than Civilians, Says ASUU  The President of the National Union of U...

 The Military Government Is More Sympathetic To University Teachers Than Civilians, Says ASUU

 The President of the National Union of University Teachers (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has said that the previous military regimes in Nigeria were more sympathetic to them than the current civilian administration.

 He said this on Thursday in Abuja, during the launch of some 50 books for higher education published by some authors.

 The Nigerian Tertiary Education Fund (TETFund) has sponsored the publication of the books.

 According to the President, "In 1992, when we went on strike, we asked to be challenged, to come up with a solution on how to get the money to implement the agreed agreements.

 "This was done and they challenged ASUU, where it was not even three days before we brought up the issue of establishing TETFund, which was approved by the military government at that time.  I think the military government is even more sympathetic to us than the civilian government.

 "That's how the TETFund board was found.  The resolution was signed into law in 1993. ASUU had to go on strike for the third time before money was released to the TETFund," said the President of ASUU.

 In response to the "no work no pay" policy of the Federal Government which led to the teachers going on strike for eight months last year, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke appealed to Nigerians to pressure the government to save the country's tertiary institutions from collapsing.  .

 Speaking at the launch of the 50 books, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said the new books will reduce the cost of foreign students in the country's higher education institutions.

 Adamu, who was represented by the Minister in the Ministry of Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah, said that there was a time when almost all Nigerian schools depended on foreign ones, despite the huge amount of money spent in exchanging money before buying the books.