A disagreement has erupted between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and vice-chancellors of public universities over the reopening of the tertiary institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

While ASUU is cautioning against the reopening of Nigerian universities due to the pandemic, the vice-chancellors have dismissed the concerns raised by the union.

Vanguard reported that some vice-chancellors of several universities who did not want to be named insisted that the institutions were ready for academic activities.

The vice-chancellors of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Felix Salako, openly disagreed with ASUU’s position.

He disclosed that universities, including his, had made adequate preparations for resumption.

Salako said:

“It is also glaring even to the blinds that FUNAAB management kick-started the second round of fumigation of every nook and cranny of the university, including unions secretariat, two weeks ago.”