The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Dr Nasir Isa Fagge Monday said the Union will pursue vigorously in 2014, the implementation of UNESCO’s 26 percent recommendation on budgetary allocation to education.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, Fagge said the union will also consolidate on the gains recorded during the 2013 struggle to salvage Nigerian education system from the “jugular grip of Bretton-Woods Institutions”.
He also stated that ASUU is determined to pursue the full implementation of the agreement it signed with the Federal Government that put an end to its over five months strike.
It will be recalled that ASUU late last year called off its over five months strike after signing a MoU with the Federal Government bothering on welfare for lecturers, infrastructural development among others.
The ASUU President also disclosed that a National Summit on Education aimed at X-raying the problems of the sector and proffer solutions is underway.
“There will be a general improvement in the quality and access to education at all levels for the Nigerian citizens.
“2014 is the year in which, if we all do our bit as required, a foundation to genuine national development will be laid through the production of quality manpower at all levels for our dear country,” the statement reads in part.
