Due to its privileged pedestal, ASUU sees the problem of the Nigerian university system clearer and, expectedly, differently. In a stance that is apparently inspired by the messianic complex, ASUU considers its prescriptions the only panacea to the problem of public university education, and its means, the strike, irreproachable. Welfare, which ASUU considers secondary to its messianic mission, is now central to the many concerns of the muted ASUU members, those whose views do not find expression in local congress resolutions. However, it now appears that lecturers have become weary of the hopelessness that results from every episode of ASUU strike. As long as its ideology appears favourable to keeping university lecturers in poverty, ASUU itself will remain an ineffectual union.

Source: The Guardian May 09, 2022 09:13 UTC