The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday lambasted First Lady, Aisha Buhari, over her proposed plan to establish Muhammadu Buhari University.<\/p>\n
Aisha made the disclosure last Saturday during a townhall meeting in Yola, Adamawa state.<\/p>\n
Aisha, who did not reveal when or where the university would be sited, explained that it would be established in collaboration with partners from Sudan and Qatar.<\/p>\n
Reacting, ASUU lamented that the declaration was a sad reminder of the president\u2019s continued reduction of budgetary allocation to the education sector since 2015.<\/p>\n
Daily Trust quoted ASUU Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter, as calling the proposed university a joke.<\/p>\n
Omole said: \u201cWhen I heard about the proposed private university to be named after Mr President, I just looked at it as a joke taken too far.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we have a president in a country that has simply refused to fund public education and all we get from the first family is to establish a private university in collaboration with some foreigners, it is a disaster for this country and for a sitting president.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe implication is that Nigerians should know that this leadership does not believe in public funded education\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday lambasted First Lady, Aisha Buhari, over her proposed plan to establish Muhammadu Buhari University. Aisha made the disclosure last Saturday during a townhall meeting in Yola, Adamawa state. Aisha, who did not reveal when or where the university would be sited, explained that it would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[394,97,325,329],"class_list":["post-8970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-aisha-buhari","tag-buhari","tag-education","tag-university"],"yoast_head":"\n