✕ CLOSE Online Special City News Entrepreneurship Environment Factcheck Everything Woman Home Front Islamic Forum Life Xtra Property Travel & Leisure Viewpoint Vox Pop Women In Business Art and Ideas Bookshelf Labour Law Letters
Click Here To Listen To Trust Radio Live

ASUU strike: Varsity education not for everybody, says Umahi

Ebonyi State governor and chairman of South East Governors’ Forum, David Umahi, has said that university education is not for everybody. 

Advocating a review of the Nigerian educational system, Umahi said it was unreasonable for the federal government to borrow over N1 trillion to meet the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) demands. 

The governor spoke in his office while reacting to the lingering ASUU strike.

SPONSOR AD

Umahi stressed the need for basic and vocational education and noted that higher education was not compulsory in any given nation.

He said, “University education is not for everybody and that is the truth. The basic education every country strives to attain is secondary school and vocational schools.

“These are the basic schools and when you have these qualifications, you will be able to use it either to start up something or to be able to use it to be employed and while you are in employed, you can aspire to university education.

“So there is a need to review our educational system; it mustn’t be for everybody.”

Umahi added that ASUU demands were genuine but could only be met gradually and not as a whole.

Join Daily Trust WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You.

NEWS UPDATE: Nigerians have been finally approved to earn Dollars from home, acquire premium domains for as low as $1500, profit as much as $22,000 (₦37million+).


Click here to start.