British Envoy, LASU VC lament unending strike by varsity teachers

• Say action not good for Nigeria’s future
Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Ben Llewellyn-Jone and Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, have decried the unending strike by members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), saying it is not good for the future of Nigeria.

Llewellyn-Jone, while delivering a special lecture titled: “The significance of education to the growth of a nation at the first year anniversary of the administration of Prof. Olatunji-Bello, as VC said the over seven months strike by ASUU portends a gave nation for the nation’s growth and development.”

He said the strike has painted the nation’s industrial future bleak as a result of a slip-shod academic package occasioned by incessant abridgement of academic calendar in the public education sector.

On his part, Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Ben Llewellyn-Jones, expressed serious concern over disruption of university academic calendar and inherent danger for the nation’s growth.

According to him, it is the prayer of the British government that the problem rocking the country’s university system should be resolved in the interest of teeming Nigerian youths.
For Llewellyn-Jones, a sound and uninterrupted school calendar in the nation’s educational system will enhance intellectual advancement of students and the girl child in particular.

The British envoy said there is a need to encourage more girls to go to school, especially in the face of banditry and kidnapping, which has remained a serious threat to schooling in the country in recent times.

He added that under no circumstance should school children become a target of war.

He reassured of British government’s continued support to the country in its struggle to provide quality education for the people.

The vice chancellor lamented that a prolonged ASUU strike is not good for the system.