Academic Staff Union of Universities president Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke said proposals by each parent to pay N10,000 per session to assist in funding Nigerian universities is not acceptable to the lecturers.
The National Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria had tabled the idea of the levy to help the federal government end the prolonged strike by ASUU. But Prof. Osodeke who was speaking on Arise TV on Thursday said: “I think what this association should be doing is to tell the government to perform its function. They should put pressure on the government to use Nigerians’ money to fund education as it is done in other countries.
“We can’t be calling ourselves the giant of Africa and we are the worst in education. You see students from Nigeria going to Ghana, Benin Republic, Togo, and other small countries to study but nobody from these countries is coming to Nigeria to study.
“So they should add to the pressure coming from ASUU to ensure that the government prioritises education. That is more important than the N10,000”.
