NASU Wants End To Fuel Crisis

The leadership of Non-
Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has flayed the continued fuel crisis in the country.
According to a communiqué issued  by the union at the end of its 6th quadrennial delegates conference held in Abuja recently, Nigeria as a leading crude oil producing country in the world should not continue to experience fuel crisis as being experienced  by the country for over four months.
The union’s communiqué stated: “Whereas the prices of petroleum products have risen from 9 kobo to N87 per litre in the last 35 years and subsidy not only remained but has continued to be elastic”.
The union stressed that the country has continued to rely on the importation of petroleum products thereby leading to continuous crisis with the supply of petroleum products to Nigerians and businesses against the background of what obtains in other oil producing countries.
The union also called for the extension of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) intervention funds to research institutions.
According to the union’s communiqué such intervention will help push meeting the UNESCO recommended 26 percent of annual budgetary allocation to the education sector.
The statement added “NASU calls on TETFUND to extend its intervention funds to research institutes which hitherto enjoyed the services of the defunct Education Trust Fund (ETF) by virtue of the fact that they are also tertiary institutions”.