After many months of their job boycott, ASUU has now decided to officially end their strike after signing a new agreement with the federal government of Nigeria that never kept her words nor respected all her legal obligations to ASUU. As a core democrat, I believe in the existing of professional bodies and the organized labor unions in our democracy to protect and to fight for the employees' legal or labor rights and for better job conditions. This is exactly what ASSUU has done in Nigeria by fighting for a better university education in Nigeria for all Nigerians in which our universities can truly be said to be the true citadel of global academic excellence as well as the real engine for research and development one day in the nearest future.
No country in the world in this 21st century human universe can truly be developed in all areas of human endeavors without having the university system that is up-to-date with the dynamic world and never the one that is completely outdated or backward. Once again, I congratulate ASUU for their strong determination to stand openly for what is right, to stand boldly on the right side of history and to stand publicly for the establishment of the needed world class university system in Nigeria. One of the biggest political lessons that the millions of the ordinary Nigerians can learn today from the history of ASUU is their determined steadfastness to always stand firmly and unshaken against what is bad and for what is right without cracking, chicken out or to break ranks. If ordinary Nigerians will follow this exemplary position by standing against their own parasites, blood-suckers, myopic, inept and corrupt public officials, then Nigeria will definitely change for better in our lifetime.
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