by Cletus Ukpong

President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, Friday, received a damning verdict from the Academic Staff Union of Universities.




ASUU, at its 19th National Delegates Conference held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, said Nigerians were yet to experience the much talked-about change Mr. Buhari promised the nation.

The administration has failed the people, ASUU said.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, was represented at the event by his Special Adviser, A.B. Baffa.

The president of ASUU, Nasir Isa, while addressing the conference, said, Mr. Buhari was waging a “half-hearted” fight against corruption, and that the poor was getting poorer, while “a tiny club of nouvea riche, treasury looters, phantom contractors, subsidy scammers and rent collectors are flowing in scandalous opulence and manipulating the legal structures of the state to escape.

“One year after, there has been no positive change in the major indices of growth and development, be it poverty reduction, safety and security, disease control or access to basic amenities and public good,” he said.

Mr. Isa said the government appeared to have no direction in its policies, thereby causing Nigerians to be disillusioned with it.

“The disappointment of Nigerians stems from the fact that we have a government whose leadership promised change but which is not practising transformation (deep, fundamental change).

“Democracy in Nigeria is still seen superficially as what leaders do for the people rather than government by the people,” ASUU said.

Mr. Isa, whose tenure as ASUU president comes to an end at the two-day conference, said the Nigerian government has abandoned a socialist welfare state prescribed by the provisions of Chapter Two of the 1999 Constitution, and embraced unfavourable policies handed down by IMF and World Bank.

“As intellectuals, we know the Nigerian condition is a reflection of the conspiracy between African rulers and agents of Bretton Wood Institutions particularly the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB),” Mr. Isa said.

“The conspiracy was consummated in the 1980s when these institutions for the protection and advancement of capitalism, came up with their ‘standard reform package’ now known as the ‘Washington consensus.’

“This package was designed for the African and other underdeveloped economies in order to perpetuate their enslavement to the capitalist world. Many of us would recall General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s debate on this ‘consensus’ in 1985/86.

“Even though the Nigerian people overwhelmingly rejected the IMF/WB loan, the Babangida Government still went ahead to implement the key neoliberal prescriptions of devaluation of the Naira and trade liberalisation.

“President Olusegun Obasanjo and his successors from 1999 have unabashedly intensified the implementation of this package through criminal privatisation and commercialisation of public assets, in faithful surrender to the Washington ‘consensus.’

“In all of these, the Nigerian ruling class is unmindful of stiff resistance by the labour movement, civil society groups, the media and other progressive forces in the country. This is much unlike what obtains in other climes such as the Asian Tigers (Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea) who got industrialised without surrendering their economies to the prowling reach of local and foreign marketers of the ‘Washington consensus’,” the union said.

Mr. Isa said ASUU must not relent in working with other progressives to fight for the common good of Nigerians.

He announced that ASUU has donated an initial sum of N20 million to help ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians displaced from their homes and communities in the North East, due to the insurgency in the region.

He said the amount was in addition to the N5million earlier donated by the union to the National Hospital, Abuja, for medical assistance to the victims of the Nyanya Motor Park bomb blast.

The ASUU president paid glowing tributes to late Eskor Toyo, a revered professor of economics, whom he said was “a great institution on his own right”.




Mr. Isa said of late Toyo: “He was a grand meteor, an economist who attained an unparalleled height in the discipline, a historian’s historian, an unusually endowed political iconoclast who offered himself to the vagaries of life and yet remained a credible spokesperson for the voiceless members of our world, an Africanist, a rare intellectual warrior, a writer who wrote to right the wrongs of his time, an educator who spoke to conscience.”

The Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu, in his goodwill message to the conference, said the Buhari administration was “peerlessly committed to the resuscitation or restoration of the Nigerian Project by confronting the evils of corruption, unemployment, insecurity and indiscipline”.


Mr. Adamu called on ASUU to support his Ministerial Action Plan, which he said was designed to reposition Nigeria’s ailing education sector.


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This ASUU people are IPOD youths according to the zombies.

When it get to the fp, wake me up to comments

Meanwhile the herdsman is on vacation in Daura, for merely signing a budget.

Anyway I pray his cows are complete, if not, Agatu boyz will be held responsible!

This means they are about to embark on strike.

Meanwhile Buhari is Nigeria's 10th consecutive failed head of state.

1. Shagari, 2.Gen Buhari, 3. IBB, 4. Shonekan, 5. Abacha, 6. Abdulsalam, 7. Obasanjo, 8. Yar'Adua, 9. Goodluck and now 10. Buhari...

Congratulations to Mr Buhari.

I'm tired of this country.. not because of the country itself but because of we the people.. but yet again, the ppl make the country.. Nigerians lack reasoning faculty! ''you have failed Nigerians- ASUU." really?? why are we always quick to make the wrong conclusions? how can we be quick to judge failure.. this govt is barely a year for crying out loud.. were we living heaven on earth b4 this administration? so why all these uncalled for conclusions.. really??
what has ASUU done for us as a country, really? smh. negative talks everytime..how can something work when everything u say about it is negative.. really? ah tire

ASUU doesn't rep the interest of students but themselves like politicians. ASUU has also failed

Well, na small small wind go blow fowl yansh. Na like so Kemi carry her wig go channels go dey cast the person wey free us from foreign debt.

U dey mind dem!no more free money,perhaps it's clear2 even d blind dat dis Assun is a doctored one..

Oluwapresley:
I'm tired of this country.. not because of the country itself but because of we the people.. but yet again, the ppl make the country.. Nigerians lack reasoning faculty! ''you have failed Nigerians- ASUU." really?? why are we always quick to make the wrong conclusions? how can we be quick to judge failure.. this govt is barely a year for crying out loud.. were we living heaven on earth b4 this administration? so why all these uncalled for conclusions.. really??
what has ASUU done for us as a country, really? smh. negative talks everytime..how can something work when everything u say about it is negative.. really? ah tire

space addict!

ASUU una good morning o!

Zombies with ingested active pain inhabitting drug will attack ASUU for saying the obvious truth. The drug has made them not to feel any pain even at the point of death.

Mr Isa of ASUU,i wonder how you teach your students,with all this western conspiracy theories?do you set exams for your students 3rd week after resumption of the session?

Look who's talking!


Those who have failed Nigeria more than any government can come close.

The only thing ASUU know how to is demanding salaries increment. Every other attache is a tool meant to deceive.

The government knows this...only meet their salaries demands and watch them run to classes like nothing happened.

hmmm i would be bck.

I guess you did not read what was credited to ASUU but rather was perhaps bent on defending your Dullard Daura President.

UmuEri:
by Cletus Ukpong

“One year after, there has been no positive change in the major indices of growth and development, be it poverty reduction, safety and security, disease control or access to basic amenities and public good,” he said.

In school, did your teacher set exam for you termly or yearly? It was termly, why did you think your teacher did that? He did that to know you are still able to continue. The bet is that if you cant remember what you were thought about 3 months ago, how would you remember what you were thought in nine months time?

Your Dullard Buhari is being judged or examined by what he did in 1 year so in essence this is his termly exam result. Got it?

masseratti:
Mr Isa of ASUU,i wonder how you teach your students,with all this western conspiracy theories?do you set exams for your students 3rd week after resumption of the session?

I hope this budget signing will alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians if not, then I will conclude that buhari is a monumental failure

Na everybody don dey wail now

i can never forget hw dis ppl wasted 6 months of my tym... im yet to forgive dem so i didnt read d article and i hv concluded dat dey are wrong

Oluwapresley:
I'm tired of this country.. not because of the country itself but because of we the people.. but yet again, the ppl make the country.. Nigerians lack reasoning faculty! ''you have failed Nigerians- ASUU." really?? why are we always quick to make the wrong conclusions? how can we be quick to judge failure.. this govt is barely a year for crying out loud.. were we living heaven on earth b4 this administration? so why all these uncalled for conclusions.. really??
what has ASUU done for us as a country, really? smh. negative talks everytime..how can something work when everything u say about it is negative.. really? ah tire

sharrrrrp

The demented gworo chumping anorexic looking half wit haven't got a clue what he's doing. He thinks running a country is like eating tuwon shinkafa dai miyan kuka. But then again what do i expect from a man who's brain is as shrunk as his balls..sigh

Irrelevant good for nothing people. Would they have said this to the past clueless government apart from fighting for increase in pay we would have been in this mess!!!

ASUU that has continued to fail in raising resourceful and highly intellectual students is blubbering crap?

Nigeria needs a good leader not a bigoted ruler like Buhary.

Oluwapresley:
I'm tired of this country.. not because of the country itself but because of we the people.. but yet again, the ppl make the country.. Nigerians lack reasoning faculty! ''you have failed Nigerians- ASUU." really?? why are we always quick to make the wrong conclusions? how can we be quick to judge failure.. this govt is barely a year for crying out loud.. were we living heaven on earth b4 this administration? so why all these uncalled for conclusions.. really??
what has ASUU done for us as a country, really? smh. negative talks everytime..how can something work when everything u say about it is negative.. really? ah tire

Wow you should have been a zombie in a resident evil movie. You deserve an oscar.

We should wait 4 years when afyer one year Buhari has failed to jail even one corrupt politician or secure a conviction? Is Nigeria producing one megawatt? Fuel scarce. Subsidy back. Poverty biting, hunger real. People climbimg bridge and power lines to take their own lives.

Be reasonable. ASUU is very correct.

...And ASUU had been failing and is tired of failing Nigerians.

Oluwapresley:
I'm tired of this country.. not because of the country itself but because of we the people.. but yet again, the ppl make the country.. Nigerians lack reasoning faculty! ''you have failed Nigerians- ASUU." really?? why are we always quick to make the wrong conclusions? how can we be quick to judge failure.. this govt is barely a year for crying out loud.. were we living heaven on earth b4 this administration? so why all these uncalled for conclusions.. really??
what has ASUU done for us as a country, really? smh. negative talks everytime..how can something work when everything u say about it is negative.. really? ah tire

Buhari/apc apologist sighted!

Oluwapresley:
I'm tired of this country.. not because of the country itself but because of we the people.. but yet again, the ppl make the country.. Nigerians lack reasoning faculty! ''you have failed Nigerians- ASUU." really?? why are we always quick to make the wrong conclusions? how can we be quick to judge failure.. this govt is barely a year for crying out loud.. were we living heaven on earth b4 this administration? so why all these uncalled for conclusions.. really??
what has ASUU done for us as a country, really? smh. negative talks everytime..how can something work when everything u say about it is negative.. really? ah tire

If you are tired of the country, pls pack up and go elsewhre...preferably Sambisa Forest part of Chad. I trust Nigeria and Nigerians won't miss you one bit. Yes, we are over 170million, so you tell me how we'll notice that one person just relocated to Sambisa Forest? Sir, this is a short term solution of being tired of Nigeria

Oluwapresley:
I'm tired of this country.. not because of the country itself but because of we the people.. but yet again, the ppl make the country.. Nigerians lack reasoning faculty! ''you have failed Nigerians- ASUU." really?? why are we always quick to make the wrong conclusions? how can we be quick to judge failure.. this govt is barely a year for crying out loud.. were we living heaven on earth b4 this administration? so why all these uncalled for conclusions.. really??
what has ASUU done for us as a country, really? smh. negative talks everytime..how can something work when everything u say about it is negative.. really? ah tire

you sound like one of Baba's cow

sammyj:
Irrelevant good for nothing people. Would they have said this to the past clueless government apart from fighting for increase in pay we would have been in this mess!!!

past government ?,abeg shut up zombie

linuxuser:
I guess you did not read what was credited to ASUU but rather was perhaps bent on defending your Dullard Daura President.



In school, did your teacher set exam for you termly or yearly? It was termly, why did you think your teacher did that? He did that to know you are still able to continue. The bet is that if you cant remember what you were thought about 3 months ago, how would you remember what you were thought in nine months time?

Your Dullard Buhari is being judged or examined by what he did in 1 year so in essence this is his termly exam result. Got it?

with all the mess he met there?so far he is not doing so bad for 1st quater exam,thats not failure.

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