In this piece, Vanguard Law and Human Rights, traces the cause of action that prompted the Federal Government to drag the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, before the National Industrial Court , NIC, examines the provisions of the Trade Dispute Act regarding the mandatory procedure to invoke the jurisdiction of the National Industrial Court on resolution of trade dispute; examines the level of compliance by the Federal Government with the mandatory procedure before referring its dispute with ASUU to NIC; surveys stakeholders on the appropriateness of FG resorting to court action and argues that dialogue still remains the best option to break the instant logjam.
On September 26, 2022, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Kayode Adebowale raised the alarm over what he claimed appears to be the bleak future of university education in the country.
The university administrator was at the valedictory lecture organised in honour of a renowned Professor of Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry, Timothy Odiaka, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, when he expressed the fears.
Odiaka retired from active service for clocking the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.
Prof. Adebowale had contended that despite mass retirement of experienced lecturers who clocked mandatory retirement age of 70 years at the university and the exodus of young lecturers from Nigerian universities to seek greener pastures abroad, universities could not employ new hands to replace them because of embargo on employment in the civil service which was extended to the universities.