Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, yesterday urged the Federal Government to introduce a sustainable model for funding tertiary education in the country, saying the current approach could only draw the education sector backward.
He spoke at the 2022 edition of the Egbe Festival held in Ibeju-Lekki Lagos, he criticized the Federal Government over the prolonged Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike, insisting that the eight months of industrial action embarked upon by the university lecturers had crippled the education sector with the future of the Nigerian youth hanging in the balance.
He said: “It is sad that Nigerian universities have been on strike for the past eight months with no foreseeable end in sight.
“As far as I am concerned, I think it is time for the Federal Government to introduce a more sustainable model of funding tertiary education. This would help save the FG with the rigors of providing the resources required for funding tertiary education.
“The future of a country lies in the hands of the educated youths. It is a fact that any government that fails to educate the youths and address their future yearnings, would be consumed by the same problem it left unaddressed.”
