By CHIOMA OBINNA

…begs ASUU, FG to return to negotiation table

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has expressed worry over the failure of the government to resolve the logjam in the universities occasioned by the lingering dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the Federal Government.

President of the Association, Dr Osahon Enabulele in a statement also expressed concern about the impact of the crisis on quality of graduates the country would produce in the future.

“We are deeply concerned with the impact of the crisis on the quality of university graduates, including medical graduates, as well as the negative impact on the already deteriorating educational system with lots of capital flight on account of the increasing enrolment of Nigerian   students in stable foreign universities.”

Enabulele further called on both the federal government and the leadership of ASUU to urgently go back to the roundtable, resume negotiations, and find a common ground in the implementation of the agreement jointly entered into, in the greater interest of Nigerian studentsand the Nigerian state.