ASUU Strike: Madonna Alumni Appeals To NANS Not To Shut Private Varsities,...student should go for employabilty enabling skills...F.G is now a tooth less bull dog

Following threat by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to shut private universities if the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), persists, the Alumni Association of Madonna University, Okija, has appealed to the students association to shelve the idea of clamping down on private universities in the country in order to force the federal government to respond to the demands of the striking university lecturers.
Making this appeal at a press briefing, weekend, in Abuja, National President of the association, Mr. Chima Achu said, the move would not only complicate the ASUU-FG crisis but also degenerate to a state of anarchy and lawlessness.
“In a state of anarchy, little can be achieved, that is why it is imperative that they rescind their decision.I strongly believe dialogue is a better option,” he said.
Achu, who is also a member of the university’s governing council, appealed to the federal government to allow private universities benefit from the Education Trust Fund (ETF), saying several private universities applied for fund from ETF but were denied.
“I also call on the federal government to include private universities as beneficiaries of ETF. The current restriction is an unfair treatment that is inimical to the growth of education in Nigeria. The ETF established in 1993 provides that all private companies remit two per cent tax on declared profits to give extra-budgetary support to public higher education,” he said.