Are Vice Chancellors to Blame? The ASUU Strike of 2022 is raising important questions and responses we must not dodge. Market reforms now demand Vice Chancellors should raise tens of billions of naira annually to fund their universities. Otherwise they are not fit for purpose. Really? Are Vice Chancellors to…
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Governance
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6 The Final Target “Nigeria needs its public research universities and teaching hospitals despite the plans of the government. It’s a non-negotiable necessity.” How true is it that the private sector can run universities better than the public sector? A classic globalisation policy,…
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5 The Second Target “The neglect of a child is abuse; a nation’s neglect of its youth is wilful filicide.” The other target of the Government of Nigeria that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is striking over is the fate and…
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4 The First Target The continuing romance of the Government of Nigeria (GON) with globalisation is ever demanding of the immiseration of the country. Globalisation has done nothing good for Nigeria and Nigerians, other than in strange abstract terms. One-size-fits-all globalisation policies always…
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 3
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 3 The Unexpected “Often your most visible adversary is the least dangerous.” The Nigerian youth as an unintended consequence, see the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Strike 2022 as the Government of Nigeria (GON) spitting and shitting all over them with contempt….
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 2
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 2 The Provocation The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and their colleagues Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) are not accepting globalisation straitjackets that leave them so worse off they become redundant to academia, to society and to themselves. You cannot do that to…