Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) and frontline legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has thrown his weight behind the demand for proper funding of education by the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and called for urgent action to end the strike. Chief Babalola, who made the remarks on Friday at the celebration of the 9th year of the establishment of ABUAD, noted that he had always been against strikes by ASUU, but said this time, the lecturers were justified in their demands. Babalola said “I have been Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, University of Lagos (UNILAG) and I knew that the universities lack facilities and equipment to be of high standard. “In our universities, students are not resident in schools. UNESCO recommended 26 per cent, but the FG still allots as low as seven per cent to education.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 04, 2019 18:45 UTC