From Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti

The Chancellor, Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has appealed to the Federal government to honour all the agreements reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to avert another round of nationwide strike in the country.
Olanipekun, who is also the Pro- Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, said the country can’t afford to witness another strike barely few months the universities that were closed for half a year were reopened for academic works.
ASUU, through its national body, had last week threatened to declare another nationwide strike over pending issues yet to be fulfilled by the federal government.
But at a truce parley held last week in Abuja, it was resolved that the N30 billion revitalisation fund be released to the universities within the next one week, while the N22.1 billion Earned Academic Allowances are to be paid and the University Transparency Accountability Solution designed for payment of salaries was to be tested by relevant agencies to ascertain its viability.
Speaking generally, Abiodun, a lecturer at the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, added that the menace has also brought global economic recession, triggered by increased joblessness, low investments ,and erosion of human capital basis of some countries.
Olatunji expressed regret that the six months shut-down of schools, also exposed some students, particularly those of higher learning to criminalities, thereby reducing their performances in schools.
“Though, the pandemic also brought a lot of inventions and aroused interest in virtual learning techniques, particularly in private schools while many schools invented sanitisers and drugs to help contain it, which nobody would have ever thought could happen in Nigeria”