had also witnessed some sort of lockdown as the Academic Staff University Union, ASUU, had embarked on an indefinite strike owing to a number of unsettled issues which have prevailed and overcome all reason as well as appeals to common sense from 2009 till present date.
For example, the 2009 Memorandum of Understanding led to the conduct of the 2012 NEEDS Assessment in the university system within Nigeria which revealed the poor state of infrastructure and staffing in the system. While I understand that the Buhari administration has radically put some efforts into reviving the university education system, I must state that its failures to at least see the 2019 Memorandum of Action through largely smacks of bad faith. By breaching such, the Buhari administration shirks from the golden opportunity it has to begin a repositioning of the Nigerian University Educational system in order to meet the challenges of the coming days.
First of all ASUU has the salient argument that they are not civil servants: this is indeed true as I recall whilst receiving my History of Education lectures from the late Reverend Father Dr.