The president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has stated that the federal government cannot entirely withdraw from funding universities.
He said this on Channels TV ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Thursday, September 14, adding: “There is no way the federal government of Nigeria would say they would not fund public universities because it is there in the law. It is there in the Constitution, look at section 18 of the Constitution, it says ‘university, primary and secondary are free.”
This comes after the minister of education Prof. Tahir Mamman on Monday, September 11, said that the federal government would initiate new ways of funding tertiary education by granting full autonomy to universities to explore new sources of financing their activities.
