As the Clock ticks for President Muhammadu Buhari's administration to hand over to the next administration, a cross-section of Academia and students wants the next administration to prioritize funding of the Education Sector to meet up with the 25% budgetary allocation Benchmark of UNESCO
This is coming days after the Nigerian government through the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), disclosed the disbursement of 320.3B for 2023 intervention in tertiary institutions
It's less than 45 days to the handover Ceremony of the Next Democratically elected leaders and the top expectation from some scholars is the need to properly address the infrastructure menace and funding of the Education Sector by the incoming administration
Here at the Alex Ekwueme University, Ndufo, Alike Ikwo in Ebonyi State South East Nigeria, Students' expectations are high for the incoming administration to address some of the challenges confronting them and to place the Education sector at its Pride place.
Victor Ekemezie and Esther Kalu both students of the federal government-owned university spoke on the importance of funding more for public universities also spoke with nostalgia about the 8 months ASUU strike and how it affected their programs and want an end to incessant strikes in public universities
Monday Ikpor, a senior lecturer in the University while commending the Federal Government for the approval of disbursement of 2023 Intervention funds to tertiary institutions opines that the incoming administration should focus on infrastructure, research and the welfare of university staff
ASUU last year embarked upon 8 months strike to press home some demands in higher institutions raising concern for the incoming administration to do more for the Education sector, meanwhile, Efforts made to speak to the ASUU Branch Chairperson of FUNAI proved abortive as he said to be out of town.
