Reports are emerging that members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), are protesting in Abuja, to demand increased funding for education.
Speahearding the protest themed “Save Education Rally,” the NANS president, Danielson Akpan, decried the manner of education financing by the goverment saying "The funding keeps dropping every year,” Mr Akpan said.
Also, head of International Relations Department at the NLC maintained that poor funding of the sector mainly accounts for the ongoing nationwide ASUU strike.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities embarked on a nationwide strike on November 4 over issues including unpaid allowances, poor funding for the sector and non-implementation of the 2009 agreement with the federal government among others.
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