{"id":70949,"date":"2018-12-18T19:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70949"},"modified":"2018-12-18T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:46:09","slug":"buhari-finally-speaks-on-asuu-strike-reveals-what-he-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70949","title":{"rendered":"Buhari finally speaks on ASUU strike, reveals what he will do"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend its on-going industrial action in the interest of the country.
\nBuhari gave the charge on Tuesday during the 3rd Convocation Ceremony of the Alex Ekwueme-Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (AE-FUNAI) Ebonyi.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST had reported that the ongoing strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) continues as the leaders of the union and the Federal government failed to reach an agreement again.<\/p>\n

According to NAN, Buhari, who was represented by Mr Victor Onuoha, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) said government was aware of the challenges confronting the sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not unmindful of the funding challenge faced by the education sector, occasioned by dwindling resources and other competing national needs.
\n\u201cWe will, however, continue doing the needful to improve the nation\u2019s educational sector within available, limited resources,\u201d he said.
\nThe President said that his administration realised the importance of education in nation building and pledged its continued support and provision to the sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue providing specific infrastructure through annual appropriation and other interventions such as the Tertiary Education Trust (TET) Fund, NEEDS assessment, among others.
\n\u201cUniversities have critical roles to play in nation building as they must justify their establishment through excellent, production-based research activities, innovative ideas, empowerment of youths among others,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend its on-going industrial action in the interest of the country. Buhari gave the charge on Tuesday during the 3rd Convocation Ceremony of the Alex Ekwueme-Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (AE-FUNAI) Ebonyi. DAILY POST had reported that the ongoing strike declared by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[5279,41],"class_list":["post-70949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-asuu","tag-buhari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}