The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has urged the federal government to increase the education tax from 2.5 per cent to 10 per cent to fix the infrastructure deficit in the country’s tertiary institutions.
ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke spoke in Abuja on Thursday during the unveiling of 50 books published by Nigerian authors and sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).
Osodeke explained that an increase in education tax would empower TETFund more to address the infrastructure deficit in tertiary institutions across the country.
“Everyone knows that what is happening in most tertiary institutions is through the instrumentality of TETFund.
“So, increasing TETFund funding will go a long way in achieving that, whether we can go to 10 per cent currently is a conversation that will be held somewhere else,” the ASUU president said.
The union leader commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for raising the education tax from two per cent to three per cent.
