STRIKE ALERT !!!

Dear Friends,

I've got one question for you, my friend. How secure is our educational pursuit in Nigeria?

The thought that my mind woke into this morning was the issue of Nigeria &Her Leaders, but that isn't what I briefly want to share with us. With over half of the year gone, we all can recount a number of what we have experienced in the year so far. But I suspect that you will agree with me that the most trending issues in these present times centre around trust & security. 

Leaders who were elected into positions have shown us how much they can be trusted. I can remember vividly how different sermons of encouragement were rung into our ears to encourage us to vote confidently. We prayed that the best leaders for the people and the country emerge as winners, and so voting becomes a way to stamp that request with a lock and key. 

What have we now? 

Didn't we pray enough, or have we done wrong to have voted for them? 

Did God not hear our prayers? 

These are a few of the lengthy questions our leaders have served us with. Putting aside the case of our dear Chibok sisters and mothers, not as though not important, to discuss something just as crucial as the issue of security–– Academic security. 

Perhaps you don't know, like I came to realise years back, one of the abundant raw materials in our country is STRIKE, which unfortunately happens in every sector of the nation's economy. It's not wrong to see it as one of the attachments of Democracy.

Western Education, which started off as a very affordable dividend of civilisation, is gradually becoming a Greek gift. Gradually, because we don't know what will happen in another 20 years. I need not remind u all of the just-concluded 6-month-old strike. I'm not talking about that per se, as hundreds of stories have been published about it already rather I want to speak on the days afterwards.

Many reasons for embarking on such a frustrating move were listed and offered to us to swallow. Meetings upon meetings, signings upon signings and yet academic activities remain grounded in LASU due to tuition increase, OAU is suffering a tuition hike like we have just recovered from all these after 6 months "future of Nigeria's education determining strike". LAUTECH is also bordered by strike threats and speculations. Glad to tell you all that HERE COMES THE FUTURE we stayed at home for. Take it or not, it has started.

The things we fought for now are fighting us. Thought there wouldn't be a hike in tuition or delay in workers' payment any longer, at least not this soon. University authorities are claiming they have yet to get anything from the money earlier discussed with the government as so they turn to us, the students. We are the richest people who will save our universities from crumbling due to financial issues. They should have done that before July 31 2013, so that we wouldn't have our time wasted for no good reason. We better start ringing the bell now before we students finally start holding peace talks with university authorities.

I pray that another warning or extra time strike will not be launched soon.

It's on already in LASU, and also OAU. I ask: WHICH SCHOOL IS NEXT?

#Signed#SaveOurFuture

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Written by: Ajiboro Mobolaji