Resolving ASUU strike

Would there have been any or much difference if our public university lecturers had not embarked on any mass action and the doors of the classrooms are left open and schools operation?

I stand to be convinced that the costs of the strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, by any standard, outweigh the benefits if there is little or no visible difference between the period before and during the strike action. If we had no record of excellent achievements that could translate to appreciable socio-economic transformation or technological advancement, it only means our schools are more or less mere platforms for social gatherings where everyone learns what he finds useful to him/her e.g learning to speak English and picking one social vice or the other.

It may be difficult to admit the reality of the fact that we have a grossly dysfunctional educational system where the quality of teachers is incapable of ensuring their products are impactful on the society in most strata of our developmental challenges which is why we have PhD holders being taken to the cleaners by many uneducated persons amongst us.

If you ask what ASUU is fighting for, you will be amazed at how absurd they could be when critically appraised relative to what is needed for functional educational system and if you also ask why the government is not meeting its requests, you will be amazed that the government is paying more attention to frivolity and issues of less priority importance.

What can be deduced from the whole scenario is that the educational system in Nigeria has yet to have exceptionally useful impact on the majority of the country’s population because the teachers are Nigerians and those who form the government are also Nigerians, who will claim to have been educated when asked.