The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede has urged the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the ongoing industrial action by the university lecturers in the country.
Oloyede, who made the call in Ilorin, Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, described the ongoing industrial strike action by ASUU members as unnecessary.
He said that incessant strike action by unions in the nation’s tertiary institutions was capable of causing irreparable damage on not just the students but also the nation. He, therefore, urged both the government and the unions to find ways of putting an end to the “unnecessary strike action”.
He acknowledged the fact that the primary responsibility of reasonable and adequate funding for public health and education institutions lies solely on the Government.
Oloyede, called on the employers as well as university-based labour unions to value the irreparable damage of incessant strikes on not just the students but also the nation at large.
Olusola Akintonde
