Strike lecturers at theTaraba State Universitywill continue their three-month long action until the state government fulfils its promises to them. The chapter Chairman of theAcademic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU), Dr Reuben Jonathan, who spoke toDaily Trust, said the need for proper funding of the university by the state government led to the industrial action. "University is capital intensive and now that the state has delved into, she has to fund it," he said. Jonathan noted that the state government had refused to pay lecturers five months strike during the infamous national ASUU strike in 2013. The union leader said after two change in government in the state, the union had only received N100 million of the nearly N500 million owed it. "Apart from the N100 million given by the state government so far, nothing has come to the university from the state, which is too bad." He added that the university would not have existed but for the projects executed under theTertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund)

PresidentMuhammadu Buhari's government must take the task of revitalizing public education as important as the much talked about anti-corruption war if the promised change is to be achieved.
The Vice-Chancellor ofKwara State University(KWASU), Malete, ProfessorAbdulrasheed Na’Allah, said this recently in aDaily Trustinterview.
Na’Allah said the new government needs to take public education as seriously as corruption.
"Public education must be revitalized," he said.
"I know it is important this government look into corruption but I have not heard a lot said about public education and that is extremely important and it has to be a policy focus, the government should declare war or emergency and mobilize from local governments to states to revitalize public education in Nigeria."
The Vice Chancellor noted that the terrible state of many schools has led to many parents opting for private schools because "people have no more confidence in public schools and I think this government must take this as one area of major change for Nigeria.
"If public education is revitalized and parents begin to have confidence again in public education, a lot of changes will come to this nation."
He concluded that bringing back the glory days of education would go a long way in actualizing the government’s change drive