By Jimoh Ahmed, Owo
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Concerned stakeholders in the education sector have expressed concern over the hopelessness of admission seekers’ fate due to protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The stakeholders, who spoke with The Hope in separate chats yesterday said the continued closure of public universities in Nigeria have put the fate of those to be admitted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in hopeless situation.
According to them, the six months old strike have stalked admission of two sets of students in jeopardy.
The West African Examination Council, WAEC released results for the June diet of Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination last week, weeks after JAMB released the 2022 results.
This means that secondary school graduates from 2021-2022 set can be admitted into the universities.
However, those from 2022-2021 set still have their admission pending due to the strike.
Speaking with The Hope, an educationist and a retired principal from Isua Akoko, Mr Jide Afolabi, attributed poor and insignificant budgetary allocations to education by previous administration, as one of the major factors responsible for the unfortunate situation in the education sector.
Afolabi pointed out that poor renumeration is another problem that leads to the mass exodus of lecturers and academics to other countries, where lecturers are treated justly.
A parent, Mr Ade Omola said that parents are now jostling to get admissions for their children in neighboring West African countries because of the insensitivity and carefree attitude on the part of government in Nigeria, which have resulted in our own system being truncated.
Omola blamed government and ASUU for not shifting grounds for the sake of poor parents who cannot pay for private or foreign universities.
An admission seeker, Teniola Olanrewaju said she had been devastated since the strike lingered.
According to her, she had been given admission for over three months before her sister completed her secondary school education but they are both now at home.
The stakeholders appealed passionately to the national assembly, religious and traditional leaders, federal government and ASUU to revisit the crisis and settle it for the country to regain its lost glories in term of education.
