ASUU TO FG- WE WILL CALL OFF STRIKE WHEN...

The protracted ASUU strike gets thougher as the president Dr. Goodluck Jonathan pleads with ASUU heirachy to call off the almost 150 days industrial action embarked upon by the lecturers.

        Speaking to an ASUU stallwart in the Ekiti State University (EKSU) yesterday (23/10/2013), he stated that the strike was not embarked upon due to the selfish interest of lecturers but they were fighting for the good of all. He appealed to all students to bear with them and support them in this plight for a better funded university education. He stated some reasons for their refusal to accept the negotiations of the federal government.

1. They claim there is no money but a minister can purchase two cars which should originally cost 75million each at a cost of 255million Nairas, that shows how insensitive they are.

2. I believe the federal Government have this money but they are hoarding it so as to save enough for their irrelevant spending for their political campaign. Elections are near, they want to have enough to spend around.

3. Some secondary schools Laboratory are far better than Laboratories in Higher institutions. The money we are asking for is to improve these facilities, its for the benefit of students, not a single dime of that is going to our pocket.

4. Most of the private universities were built by selfish government officials with National Money so they make it difficult for the masses to afford education, we want to put an end to that by installing parity between the 'so called' privately funded institutions and Public Institutions.

     i also spoke to some students who believed that the ASUU are doing what is best for the public schools, by requesting for proper funding.

Another ASUU stallwart who pleaded anonimity said 'even if Government stop our pay, the strike will continue untill they respond fully to our requests'

     Lecturers of The Ekiti State Universitiy (EKSU) will embark on a peaceful protest on Monday and also visit all the settlements within Ado-Ekiti to explain why they are on strike to every one in the state capital.

I will be uploading structures in various universities that are in need of upgrade or new ones. hostels, lecture theatres, laboratories, and offices.
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ASUU STRIKE IS POLITICALLY INFLUENCED! -

I thought the worst have come to an end after the six month strike embaked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities in 2004. until it happened again and again in the following years.
2013 gave hope to so many final year students as this was supposed to be their graduation year, only to see their hopes dashed by the face off between the federal Government led by Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the Academic Staff Union of Universities yet again.

This industrial action is what? eleven weeks old and nothing is being done to re-ignite the hopes of the graduating students whose years in the university has been increased by a year due to no fault of theirs but the ASUU and FG, but seriously, i dont even know who to blame? Should i blame the FG, they will say they are working for the best interest of the Nation at large... Should i blame ASUU they'l claim to be fighting for the rights of Nigerian students and the deteriorating standard of education in Nigeria. My question is this, are the ASUU just identifying the fact that education standard in Nigeria has fallen? If yes, this fall in standard didnt happen overnight, so why try to build it overnight? I'm not being insensitive to the fallen standard, i only made a statement of fact.

This strike UNFORTUNATELY co-incides with the time some political parties were clamouring for a change, now, should i call that a coincidence? This brings me to the main reason of writing this little piece.

IS ASUU STRIKE POLITICALLY INCLINED?
I am unsure about this  but I think it is a possibility and i hope its not. I have my reasons for saying this, my thesis statements are as follows:
1. If the tenure of this present government is termed as a failure in academic fronts, its a plus for the opposition parties that will be used as campaign to win over Nigerian students.

2. The house of assembly or Senate may be forced to place a vote of NO CONFIDNCE in the president which if not well handles can lead to impeachment.

3. The ruling party is in crisis, this is a good distraction for the President

4. The FG claimed at a point during the negotiation process that the ASUU has been infiltrated by the opposition party, could this be true?

These amongst others are my reasons for propounding this STATEMENT, it may be true, it may be false, this is yet to be seen.

this is my own point of view and i just exercized my freedom of speech rights.

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ASUU UPDATE: Federal Government Orders ASUU Back To Lecture Rooms

Despite the resolve on Thursday by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to continue the on-going strike until all agreements signed in 2009are reached, the federal government, on Friday, ordered that lecturers should go back to classrooms after it had disbursed the sum of N30 billion for earned academic allowances.

The directive which was given by the secretary to the government of the federation, Sen Anyim Pius Anyim, during a meeting between the federal government and the vice-chancellors of the 61 public universities, stated that "Government, hereby, urges every staff of the nation's universities to return to work as all issues are being resolved."

He said with particular reference to the contentious issue of earnedallowances, every staff of the universities that is so entitled should verify his claim with the university council and accordingly get paid as "from the foregoing, it is obvious that government has demonstrated sufficient commitment to the implementation of the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement.

"After series of discussions,government has now provided N30 billion to support the university councils in settling the earned allowances. The amount will be disbursed to the various university councils which are in the position to know who is entitled to how much afterverification."

He revealed that"Traditionally, universities pay this to deserving staff but because of the amount which ASUU now claims as arrears, government has decided to assist the university councils to pay" as government did not receive any computation of amount involved until February, 2013.

"By this computation, ASUUis claiming N92 billion as arrears for three year's payment based on percentage rage of between 15 and 20 per cent of personnel cost."

While there was consensus that revitalising the tertiary institutions is of critical importance to the nation, Anyim noted that"when put together, the amount of funds from the budgetary and non-budgetary sources that goes into the sector is quite huge but without corresponding impact.

While acknowledging the contributions of the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, Senior Association ofNigerian Universities, SSANU, National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, and other stakeholders, Anyim reiterated the government's resolve 'to bringing the students back to school and appreciated the patience of parents andstudents as government is making every effort to revitalise the university system."

It would be recalled that on July 2, 2013, ASUU declared what it called"total and indefinite strike" over issues it says has remained unresolved pertaining to an agreement it reached with government in 2009.

SOURCE: The Punch, 23 August, 2013.

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You Can Port To Private School Now

You can now port to private school if you are a student of any public institution with the same matric number, CGPA and level.

       This is the joke in the mouths of Nigerian students in public institutions. This is because of the ongoing ASUU strike which has been on for forty two days (42) now. Students are pleading with federal government and ASUU to reach a conclusion and call off the strike.
        Some students who were interviewed even joked about having forgetting his Matriculation Number. Although they are laughing about the issue, they claim its not as funny as it seems to be.
          Some interviewed students said the federal government is wasting their time, some claimed they should have been moving close to their final papers or even to have graduated.

         Funny enough, someone released a joke in form of the popular MTN and SAKA's "i don port" advert to mark 40 days of he strike. Some of the words in the joke song include:
"i don port o, i don port go private school..." and ended the joke with "Federal Government... Making education impossible for the masses"
  When i listened to this i burst out in uncontrolable laughter, but, its a serious matter that the federal government should take a closer look at so as to resolve the fracas amicably.
we will give you the download link for the song in two days time

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