Daily Trust (Abuja)
1 July 2009
On Tuesday June 24, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) began an indefinite strike to protest government's refusal to endorse a 2006 agreement which among other things would devote 26% of annual budgets to the education sector.
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ASUU has a code of conduct for her members. Briefly, the code rejects and repudiates corruption and academic laziness in all ramifications. ASUU does not condone bad conducts by anyone whether in the town or in the gown. So one is surprised that Vanguard does not know the opions of ASUU about corruption and other vices. There may be in Vanguard journalists and management staff involved in the brown envelop phenomenon and all shades of sharp practices. That does not mean that everyone in that organization is involved. ASUU has been most vocal about the socioeconomic decay and academic decapitation of our leaders of tomorrow. Vanguard should join ASUU in getting government to do what is right rather than offering an academically sinking government a straw to hold.