Contrary to calls in some quarters, the Senate has said it would not outlaw overseas education by Nigerians. This comes as the upper legislative chamber has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the indefinite strike action it embarked upon, even as it declared that some of the demands of the lecturers were captured in the 2016 supplementary budget passed by the National Assembly earlier this year. Barau Jubril, Chairman Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, disclosed�this Wednesday�in Abuja while reacting to the declaration of total strike action by the Union. Experts in the education sector have attributed the decay in the nation’s...
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