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<\/p>\nAdejumo said this while addressing members of the Correspondents\u2019 Chapel of the NUJ in Ibadan.<\/p>\n
Adejumo disclosed that the leader of the government team was bent on introduction of the increased N350,000 fees.<\/p>\n
He called on ASUU to let Nigerian know that there could be labour crisis in federal universities, if the plans is executed.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThe union is again constrained to draw the attention of Nigerian public to an impending labour crisis in the Nigerian universities as a result of the insensitivity of the Nigerian government to issues critical to the survival of the educational system in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is no longer news that the renegotiation, which Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, promised was going to last for only six weeks, has broken down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe union was confronted with a situation where government is bent on imposing tuition fees, beginning from N350,000, on students in the Nigerian public owned tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs to how the students will raise such money, we were told that the government will establish Education Bank, where students will access credit facilities and pay back on completion of their studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe union, speaking from the background that education is the right and not privilege of every Nigerian child, made frantic efforts to make pragmatic explanations on the negative implications and the non-feasibility of this scheme to representatives of government to no avail.\u201c\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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