The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has stated why the federal government cannot back out from funding universities.
While speaking on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily on Thursday, he argued that it is the constitutional duty of the federal government to fund Nigerian universities.
He stated this while reacting to a report where the Minister of Education Prof. Tahir Mamman, was quoted to have said that the Federal Government will initiate new ways of funding tertiary education by granting full autonomy to universities to explore new sources of financing their activities.
The ASUU boss said, “There is no way the Federal Government of Nigeria would say they would not fund public universities because it is there in the law. It is there in the Constitution, look at section 18 of the Constitution, it says ‘university, primary and secondary are free,” Osodeke said.
