BUHARI SAYS GOVT ALONE CANNOT FUND TERTIARY EDUCATION

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a “more sustainable model of funding tertiary education” and maintained that government alone cannot do it.

He said this today at the National Assembly while presenting a record N20.51 trillion 2023 budget proposal, pinning his argument on the fact that the cost of tertiary education is “jointly shared” in most countries.

His comment comes on the backdrop of the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which is pushing for more funding of tertiary institutions among other demands.