Nigeria: ASUU/ FGN Agreements and the Fate of Nigerian Universities

18 September 2013
opinion

To an outsider not living in Nigeria, from about 1992, a major determinant of national university policy appears to be the agreement negotiated between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN).

These agreements officially referred to as the ASUU/FGN Agreements have also come to be the major determinant of academic peace, stability and quality on most university campuses. Once again, as has been the case on an average of ten years since 1992, the academic peace, stability and standard has come under severe strain due to disagreements between the signatories to another agreement -- the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement on state of implementation. The normal academic calendar for the 2012/2013 academic session has been truncated by about eight weeks as at this date on the basis of this disagreement. This is ludicrous.

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