Japa: Nigeria Losing Top Professors to Foreign Varsities — ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed concerns over the increasing number of resignations among prominent professors in public universities who are leaving the country in pursuit of better opportunities overseas.
During a radio discussion on Situation Room in Ibadan, Oyo State, ASUU Chairman from the University of Ibadan, Dr. Adefemi Afolabi, highlighted that in addition to the resignations of professors, newly recruited young lecturers are also quitting due to inadequate salaries and unfavorable working conditions.
“We don’t operate in an ideal environment. How can you expect your intellectuals to remain content and continue working when they are compensated so poorly?” he questioned.
Afolabi pointed out that the current strike was prompted by the union’s diminishing faith in the government’s dedication to collective bargaining and its perceived lack of commitment to improving the welfare of academic staff in public universities.
He added, “Striking is not our desire, but governmental policies are adversely affecting the livelihoods and survival of lecturers amidst rampant inflation.”
“How can you lose trust in your own committees and then initiate another committee to reassess what the previous committee did, only to establish yet another expanded committee to negotiate with the union again?”
He stated that the circumstances are dire. “Lecturers are struggling to travel to the office due to skyrocketing transportation costs. Those who do make it are unable to concentrate because of numerous unaddressed needs,” Afolabi mentioned.
He expressed disappointment that the Federal Government has taken ASUU for granted for an extended period, noting that the union was compelled to initiate a warning strike due to the government’s “delay tactics” and lack of respect for collective bargaining principles.
On Monday, ASUU began a two-week warning strike to protest the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands. They asserted that the government has shown little regard for tertiary education by the way it handles the welfare and working conditions of its intellectuals in public universities.
Nevertheless, the union emphasized that it would not relinquish the struggle for fair welfare and conditions of service for its members and would ensure that the government allocates sufficient funding for the revitalization of public universities in the best interest of the children of the masses.
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