5 Major reasons ASUU is on strike

3.  Decrease in budgetary allocation to education

ASUU has also decried the reduction of the federal government’s allocation to the education sector from 11 per cent in 2015 to 8 per cent in 2016. ASUU Sokoto zonal coordinator, Dr Lawal Argungu, made this known at a press conference in Sokoto, saying:

“The way FGN treats the funding of education in this country makes it difficult for ASUU to believe the sincerity of the government in reforming the education sector in Nigeria.

“It is certainly quite possible for us to reposition our educational sector appropriately if we put our priorities right in this country in spite of the apparent economic hardship.”