President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has said there is no way the Federal Government could stop funding universities in the country. Osodeke insisted that it was a constitutional obligation for the federal government tpo fund federal universities.
The ASUU president made this statement while reacting to the statement credited to the Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, who was quoted recently saying that the federal government is planning to give a full autonomy to all public universities across the federation.
Osodeke said, “There is no way the Federal Government of Nigeria would say they would not fund public universities because it is there in the law. It is there in the Constitution. Look at Section 18 of the Constitution; it says university, primary, and secondary are free.
