The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has asked the federal government to separate the budget of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), from the annual education budget.

It explained that the measure would enable effective budget implementation.

ASUU President, Professor EMMANUEL OSODOKE, said this at the TETFund Alliance for Innovative Research, Showcase and Closing Event, held in Abuja.

Prof. OSODEKE, who was speaking against the backdrop of suspicion that the national budget may not enjoy 100 per cent implementation, observed that strangely, for the first time, the government decided to add TETFund’s budget to the national budget.

The ASUU president added that once TETTund’s budget is included in the national budget, “it is finished.”

He also called on Nigerians to deal with the inferiority complex, which allows them to depend on services abroad, stating that every country in the world that wants to develop must use its ideas and use its people and those ideas are in the universities.

He decried continuous patronage of foreign goods and services by Nigerians even when they can be sourced locally.