ASUU Strongly against inclusion of TETFund in National education budget

ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said this at the TETFund Alliance for Innovative Research, TETFAIR, Showcase and Closing Event in Abuja, that once TETTund’s budget was included in the national budget, “It is finished.”

Osodeke, spoke against the backdrop of suspicion that the national education budget may not enjoy 100 percent implementation, and also observed that strangely, for the first time, government decided to add TETFund’s budget to the education budget.

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The ASUU President also called on Nigerians to deal with inferiority complex, which allows them to depend on services abroad, stating that every country in the world that wants to develop must use its ideas and use its people and those ideas are in the universities.

Osodeke decried continuous patronage of foreign goods and services by Nigerians even when they can be sourced locally.

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He said: “In 2020, we were challenged to produce something better than IPPIS, it took us two months to produce it, UTA, which we have presented to National Assembly, to the House, then we said let’s test the twin and IPPIS came last, but Nigeria insisted on using IPPIS."