2006年VOA标准英语-University Staff to Strike in Nigeria
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（四月）
By Franz Wild
Abidjan
20 April 2006
The Nigerian university staff union says its members' working conditions have dropped below acceptable levels, and the government is interfering 1 in academic affairs unnecessarily. The union is planning a three day strike.
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Student in Nigerian classroom
Academic staff at universities around Nigeria say they will go on a warning strike next week.
The Academic Staff of Universities Union, the ACSU, says the educational sector 2 in Nigeria has seen far too little money during recent years. And that applies most directly to universities.
The union also says the government has been interfering in academics.
Union President Suleikano Abdulayi says Nigerian universities are in a terrible state of decline.
"From 1999 to today, the government has not given anything above 6.7 percent of the national budget to education," he said. "Because of that, the universities are worst hit under the circumstances. On the other hand, they are telling us, they are trying to build state of the art universities in Nigeria, when actually the universities in Nigeria are sinking."
The union says it had an agreement with the government, under which, the government guaranteed to allocate 3 sufficient funds to universities. The union calls this a right-to-work agreement.
Abdulayi says the government has broken this agreement by not making the necessary funds available.
"Our right to work means we should have good conditions to work in," he added. "Everybody knows that Nigerian universities are in shambles 4. The government is not allocating 5 adequate resources to them. In fact, because of that, you have no personal equipment, you have overcrowded lecture halls, you have student hostels 6 in which 12 people stay in a room meant for two people, and these conditions are not suitable for learning."
The union says the strike will also serve as a protest on a second issue, that of political autonomy. The union says universities, and their staff, are protected by law, which the government should respect. They say, the government has previously 7 arrested several professors who were striking, and this sort of interference cannot continue.
Abdulayi says the strike is intended to show the government that union members will stand their ground.
"There is interference from the government here," he said. "We want the universities to be autonomous 8 on the basis of their laws and statutes 9. We do not want anybody in the bureaucracy or the state interfering directly in illegal ways. And, of course, our colleagues who suffered after a previous strike need to be given justice, too."
Nobody representing the government was available for comment.
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- The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
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- They will allocate fund for housing.他们将拨出经费建房。
- My room is a shambles.我房间里乱七八糟。
- The fighting reduced the city to a shambles.这场战斗使这座城市成了一片废墟。
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- Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。
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