15/03/2022
MY UNIVERSITY!!
MY PRIDE!!!
..A DAY WITH DSA UNIABUJA...
Dr Abubakar Umar Kari is an associate Professor of Sociology, Dean Students Affairs of the Prestigious University of Abuja.
He hailed from Bauchi State.
He had his Primary and Secondary school education in Bauchi State. He had his first degree at University of Abuja, Master and PhD at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria (ABU).
He was one of the pioneer students of University of Abuja. While he was in University of Abuja as a student, he was involved immensely in Leadership positions as he was the first Editor In Chief of the first News Journal of the prestigious University of Abuja. He happens to be the first democratic elected Students' Union Government President (SUG PRESIDENT) of University of Abuja and many more.
As the SUG President he faced alot of challenges such as suspension and more, as he was the first SUG President of University of Abuja and also it was during military regime in the country, when activism was not taking kindly in the country.
"All the challenges that came during my term as a student leader has taught me to be tolerant, accommodating and also made me believe that success is incremental", he said.
During the interview he discussed with us the change that has happened to Nigeria's educational system. Talking about the merit side of it, he talked about how advancement in technology has made studies easier in ways like the availability of e-learning compare to their own time as a student when everything was been carried out in an analog way. Also talking about the demerit side of it, the technological advancement has led to the laziness and irresponsibility among the students. More so, talking about the effect of increment in population in our educational system nowadays in relation to the availability of educational resources is obviously imbalance, compare to their own time when there was sparse population on campus and resources where available to cater for their needs, saying the Old Female Hostel in mini campus was the major and only Hostel for all the students as at that time and could easily accommodate all due to the sparse population.
Also during the interview, he got to discuss with us about the ongoing ASUU strike, as he was the former Chairman of Political Committee of National ASUU. He got to explained the cause of the strike, which he said that the Federal Government and ASUU came to an agreement during the regime of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on how to revive the Nigeria educational system that seems to be collapsing day by day, of which they both concluded that the Federal Government will be remitting N200bn every year to support Nigeria education system which was named "Revitalization Fund", but unfortunately, the Federal Government has not for once complied with the agreement throughout the President Jonathan's regime and our current President PMB, revitalization fund has never been paid for once, which has accumulated to a total of N1.3trn. According to him ASUU believes strongly that Federal Government has enough money to fund Nigeria education system.
In a way of trying to better our educational system, ASUU came up with a plan which is the blueprint of Tetfund. ASUU wrote and design TETfund document for Federal Government.
What is Tetfund?
Tetfund is a two percent of profit before tax for every company operating in Nigeria.
ASUU advised the Federal Government to channel the Tetfund into education system, which its impact is really obvious to everyone. Which this shows that ASUU has never been against the Nigeria Students but rather fighting for their right to good education.
Finally, he advised we the younger ones to always believe in whatever we are doing as long as it is the right thing to do, stand firm, face the challenges and never give up. Winners never quit and quitters never win, he says.
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