JAMB Registrar pleads with ASUU to end strike

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to consider the plight of Nigerian students and suspend the ongoing strike.

JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, spoke on Wednesday during an event at the University of Ilorin, saying the industrial action is “unnecessary”.

Oloyede said the incessant strike by the university lecturers was capable of causing irreparable damages on the affected students and even the nation’s economy.

He said, “While acknowledging the fact that the primary responsibility of reasonable funding of public health and education institutions lies on the proprietors-the Government, may I seize this opportunity to call on the employers, university-based labour unions to appreciate the irreparable damage of incessant strikes on not just the students but also the nation.”

ASUU had embarked on strike on February 14 over the Federal Government’s failure to implement previous agreements both parties had entered into, forcing public university students to remain at home till date.