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ASUU, SSANU, NASU strikes causing irreparable damage to education, says JAMB chief
Incessant strikes by unions in tertiary institutions are causing irreparable damage to the nation’s educational system, Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq has said.
Oloyede described the ongoing industrial strike action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) as unnecessary.
Prof Oloyede spoke in Ilorin, Kwara state capital when JAMB in collaboration with a United States based agency, Project Cure, presented a multi-billion naira medical equipment to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) for improved health care delivery in the country.
proprietors-the Government, may I seize this opportunity to call on the employers, university-based labour unions to appreciate the irreparable damage of incessant strikes on not just the students but also the nation”.
He said that the hospital equipment were for 12 beneficiary health facilities in all the six geopolitical zones in the country,.
The equipment include angle poise lamp, Ventilator, consumables, Mattress, OG couch, gynecology chair, treatment table, treadmill machine, crutches, ICU beds, urinary catheters, defibrillator machines, laparoscopy machines, needle and syringes, wheel chairs, Oxygen concentrator, suction machines, endoscopy machines, among others.
The JAMB registrar, who urged individuals and corporate bodies to imbibe the spirit of volunteerism and sacrifice and rededicate themselves to promotion of the best interest of humanity through facilitation of physical infrastructure and enhanced capacity-building projects in our inadequately funded public education and health institutions, chastised Nigerian politicians who paid N100 million for expression of interest and nomination forms for the 2023 presidential race.
In his earlier remark, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of UITH, Prof Yussuf Abudullah, said that the provision would go a long way to assuage and relieve the management of the hospital financially.
The CMD also said that the the intervention would help to provide necessary services to our numerous clientele.
“This is a novel and noble idea capable of helping the Nigerian masses. This is a happy event for me and the hospital. We are very happy to have it as the very first hospital to receive the equipment and to be commisioned among the 12 beneficiary institutions,” he said.