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ASUU slams Bayelsa govt over new varsity, lists condition to call off strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has slammed the Bayelsa State government over its proposal to establish a public private partnership based African University in the state.
But the state government has maintained that the criticism against the establishment of the University was misplaced and baseless.
The Bayelsa State House of Assembly had few days ago passed the Bill to establish the University into law. The main campus is to be sited at Toru-Orua, Sagbama Local Government area of Bayelsa.
ASUU, Niger Delta University (NDU) chapter at a press conference held on behalf of the union by its Chairman Dr Stanley Ogoun and Secretary Dr Tonbara Kingdom over the weekend noted that the timing for the establishment of the University was wrong “considering the state government’s failure to pay salaries spanning into several months”
It queried why a state government that has been unable to adequately fund the state owned NDU think of the idea of establishing a University under a partnership arrangement through counterpart funding.
Sun, July 25
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