Oyo ASUSS gets new executive, calls for more attention on secondary education

Governments at the federal and state levels have been urged to give more attention to secondary school education, as it has been described as “a very important aspect of education for national development.”

Giving this advice during the inauguration of the executive of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), Oyo State, the new chairman of the union, Mr Isaac Olorunkosebi, maintained that given the importance of secondary education as the link between the formative years and adulthood, it was imperative for government to pay more attention to its funding and standardisation.

Olorunkosebi, who promised to take the union to the next level, called for the support of all members, noting that as stakeholders in the education sector, union members must play their roles in order “for posterity to judge them right.”

At the event, which had in attendance members of the National Administrative Council of ASUSS, led by its national vice-president, Mr Sola Adigun; chairman of the Trade Union Congress, Oyo State chapter, Mr Emmanuel Ogundiran and chairmen of Ogun and Lagos states chapters, among others, the new leadership was encouraged to be truthful to their members.