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Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, who plans to statesman a two-week informing onslaught today, person lamented the exodus of implicit 309 professors from Nigeria’s nationalist universities successful the past 9 months.
ASUU’s zonal president for Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara and Katsina States, Prof. Abubakar Sabo, disclosed the wide exodus of the professors astatine a municipality hallway gathering organised by the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) subdivision of the national astatine the institution’s City Campus.
Sabo said the continuous departure of elder academics successful hunt of amended moving conditions overseas represents a increasing “intellectual haemorrhage” that threatens the endurance of nationalist universities. He revealed that galore of the scholars relocated to the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon and different countries.
“From the past enactment we had until now, we mislaid astir 309 professors, immoderate to backstage universities successful Nigeria, others to the UK, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon and beyond. Our intelligence superior is being drained due to the fact that the conditions of work nary longer marque it imaginable for galore to enactment and teach,” helium said.
Sabo declared that the national volition embark connected a two-week informing onslaught contiguous if the national authorities continues to disregard its demands connected funding, earned allowances and improved moving conditions.
“We person been diligent agelong enough. Our work is to salvage nationalist universities. If the authorities continues to disregard us, we volition not fold our arms portion the strategy collapses.
“When we gave a two-week ultimatum, the authorities lone began making calls, past invited different tertiary unions similar those of polytechnics and colleges of acquisition to complicate the process. That’s a ploy to overstretch the acquisition fund and frustrate our struggle,” helium alleged.
Earlier, the president of ASUU-UDUS, Prof. Muhammad Almustapha, said the gathering was convened to alert Nigerians to the deepening decay successful the assemblage strategy and the government’s nonaccomplishment to fulfil its promises.
“Over the years, ASUU has, unfortunately, go synonymous with strikes due to the fact that the authorities hardly honours its commitments. It has go a rhythm of breached promises and dashed hopes,” helium added.
The national called for urgent authorities involution to halt the encephalon drain and forestall the full illness of Nigeria’s nationalist assemblage system.
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