ASUU Insists FG Has Shown No Commitment
to Ending Strike
• Says no motivation to celebrate
independence
By Damilola Oyedele
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
has reiterated its stance that the federal
government has not shown any commitment or
seriousness towards the implementation of the
2009 agreement as a way of resolving the ongoing
strike which commenced on June 30.
The union also said the government has not given
Nigerians much reasons to celebrate the 53rd
anniversary of the country as an independent
nation, especially when considering the high rate of
insecurity in the country.
The Chairman of ASUU (UniAbuja chapter), Dr.
Clement Chup, while speaking with THISDAY in a
telephone interview yesterday, lamented that
President Goodluck Jonathan, in his presidential
chat aired on Sunday night, chose to describe the
ongoing strike as one that had taken on a political
dimension.
"Unfortunately, when he was asked the nature of
politics, he did not respond, he did not tell us how
the strike is political. So, I do not know what
exactly he means by saying the strike has turned
political.
“Government clearly has not shown any
commitment and from what the president was
saying yesterday, you could see that there is no
commitment: the way he was talking about the
strike, as if it is one small issue that does not
matter. If he so feels so, we are saying that we are
ones at the receiving end and we are committed to
this strike," Chup said.
He disclosed that the strike would persist as all
state congresses of the union had rejected the
pleas of Vice-President Namadi Sambo, who
engaged the leadership of the union in talks about
two weeks ago.
The vice-president, he said, did not offer anything
'concrete', adding that the strike, which was
declared total, indefinite and comprehensive from
the onset, would not be reneged on by the union.
"There was some discussion with the vice-president
two weeks ago and we took it to the congresses,
that the vice-president simply made appeals to
ASUU, there was nothing concrete. And so the
congresses resolved that there was nothing
substantial and they are continuing with the strike.
This is to tell you that we have not heard anything
concrete or serious from government. From the
commencement of the strike we declared clearly
that it was a total, comprehensive and indefinite
strike, and that unless government shows
commitment to the implementation of the 2009
agreement, we are not reneging on this strike, it
remains so," he added.
Chup, who mourned the students who were
murdered by gunmen at the College of Agriculture,
Gujba, Yobe State on Sunday described the attack
as highly unfortunate, inhuman and insensitive.
He called on the government to rise up to the
occasion and provide security of lives and property
for all Nigerians.
"For a matter like this, are we saying this people
who are perpetrating this lawlessness and this
criminality are above government? What is the
business of government if it cannot provide
security? This criminals have to be checkmated,"
he stated.
Commenting on Nigeria's 53rd independence
anniversary, Chup said: "At 53, maybe we can just
celebrate that we are still a nation, but our
government has not given us enough reasons to be
hopeful, there is no motivation. Even yesterday
during the media chat, one was disappointed
because there is nothing he took serious, there is
no concrete measure to solve any problem. One
begins to wonder what kind of people we have in
government: no commitment or seriousness, or
responsibility. As a country, if we have the right
people in position, we would make progress."

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ASUU strike: More
problems as Federal
Government invokes
‘no work no pay’ rule
As the nationwide ASUU strike continues
unabated, it appears the ‘end of the tunnel’ is
still at a distance, as the Federal Government
has invoked the ‘no work, no pay’ labour
policy against the protesting lecturers.
DailyPost has learnt that some members of
ASUU from federal universities are yet to be
paid both their August and September
salaries, a situation majority of them said
was not unconnected to the ongoing strike
and the directive issued lately by the federal
government to Vice Chancellors to apply the
labour rule of ‘’ no work, no pay.’’
Some branch chairmen of
the Union had earlier told
Daily Sun that Vice Chancellors of various
universities have been asked via text
messages to suspend the payment of salaries
to academic staff that are currently on strike,
asserting that the decision was beginning to
affect non-academic staff as well.
An exco member who spoke on the
development said he confronted the
university management alongside his other
exco members over salary delays, and were
shown some text messages, directing that
protesting lecturers must not be paid their
salaries.
The member had stressed that the
application of ‘no work no pay’ rule would be
ineffective as the striking lecturers were not
on strike because of salaries.
Relatively, the ASUU chairman, Federal
University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Dr.
Biodun Badmus, had disclosed that the vice
chancellor received some text messages not
to pay ASUU members their Salaries, even
though he defended that August salaries were
yet to be released to the school.
He told Daily Sun thus, “Any vice chancellor
that has paid August salary did so using the
university’s Internally Generated Revenue
(IGR). We are not bothered about the salary
issue, because at the end of the day, they will
still pay us.”

Lawyer Sues FG, ASUU Over
Strike
Published on October 2, 2013 by · 2
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A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Daniel Onwe, has
dragged the Federal Government and the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, before a Federal
High Court in Lagos, southern Nigeria, over the
lingering crisis between the two bodies which has
led to the closure of public universities in the
country since 1 July.
In a motion dated 30 September, 2013, Barrister
Onwe is seeking an order of court to compel ASUU
to call off the strike it embarked upon in protest
over the unwillingness of government to implement
certain aspects of the agreement they reached over
the parlous state of Nigerian universities and other
issues.
In a 15-paragraph affidavit filed along with the
motion, Onwe is asking the court to declare that the
indefinite strike embarked upon by ASUU, leading
to the closure of government owned universities for
three months, violates the fundamental rights of the
students affected.
He argued that the continued strike action by ASUU
has traumatized many students who now engage in
all sorts of vices.
Onwe posited that the plight of the affected
students has worsened as their contemporaries in
private universities continue to attend lectures
while they remain idle at home.
He urged the court to compel ASUU to open the
universities for lectures to resume while their
negotiation with the Federal Government continues.
No date has been fixed for hearing of the suit.
—Henry Ojelu

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ASUU strike: VCs to meet in Akure on
Monday
Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities will meet
in Akure, Ondo State, on Monday to deliberate on
the strike embarked upon by members of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities.
This came as students of the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife on Wednesday, urged the Federal
Government to implement immediately the various
agreements it reached with labour unions in the
nation’s tertiary institutions.
Also, OAU lecturers have insisted that the ongoing
nationwide strike is not politically motivated.
Lecturers in the public universities embarked on
strike last July to protest against the non-
implementation of the agreement they reached
with the FG in 2009.
Other associations like the Senior Staff Association
of Nigerian Universities, Academic Staff Union of
Polytechnics and the Colleges of Education
Academic Staff Union have also threatened to
embark on industrial action to protest the non-
implementation of agreements they reached with
the FG.
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Federal
University of Technology, Akure, Prof. Adedayo
Fasakin, while addressing journalists in Akure on
Wednesday, said the vice-chancellors would also
discuss other problems facing the nation’s
universities.

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Owk which set 2012/20213 or 2013/2014?

olojo oluwatobi: Owk which set 2012/20213 or 2013/2014?

2013/2014

ASUU strike end unknown – Fagge
The President of Academic
Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU), Dr. Nasir Isa
Fagge has said that
although the Union has
begun consultations
among its members
following discussions with
Vice President, Namadi
Sambo, it cannot confirm
when it will call off the
ongoing strike.
Fagge spoke with journalists in Makurdi shortly
after the Union’s congress meeting at the Benue
State University.
According to him, the body’s position would be
made known to the public after consultations are
concluded.
President Jonathan had two weeks ago delegated
his Deputy, Sambo, to take over negotiation with
ASUU after several efforts by Benue state Governor,
Gabriel Suswam-led Needs Assessment
Implementation Committee failed.
The Union leader maintained that the struggle
would continue until the 2009 agreement was met.
He added that all ASUU wants is “implementation
of the recommendation of the National Coordinating
Committee, which would enable our universities to
be fully engaged in research to produce graduates
that would meet the test of time.”
Fagge denied insinuation that it was playing politics
with the strike, insisting that the federal
government is the party doing so.
Reacting on the threat by Governor Gabriel Suswam
to enforce the labour law of’ ‘ no work no pay’ on
the striking BSU lecturers as from this month, if
they fail to resume work, the ASUU president urged
him to go ahead with his plan if he feels it is the
best option.
“Let Suswam go ahead and do whatever he likes.
Lecturers have said they cannot continue working if
the academic environment is not conducive. If
Governor Suswam is not happy with ASUU’s stance,
then so be it.”

ASUU strike: FG begs
NUT not to join protest
The Federal Government had on Wednesday,
appealed to the Nigeria Union of Teachers,
NUT, to withdraw its proposed solidarity
strike with the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU.
The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr.
Nyesom Wike, made the appeal in Abuja, at a
meeting with the members of NUT over the
proposed industrial action.
Recall that the NUT last week gave the
Federal Government two weeks ultimatum to
honour the agreement they had with ASUU or
face total shutdown of the education sector in
the country.
The Minister of Labour, Chief Emeka Wogu,
who was present at the meeting, said the
Federal Government had already
implemented 80 per cent of the 2009
agreement they had with ASUU.
According to Wike, “The 2009 agreements
with ASUU have a number of issues and I
want to tell you that the Federal Government,
has already met 80% of the critical needs. It
is remaining only two major components
which are earned allowances, and they are
expecting the Federal Government to release
N400billion annually for infrastructural
development.
“ASUU now asked the
Federal Government to
develop the universities annually, and it
shouldn’t be part of Federal budget and not
part of Tertiary Education Trust Fund,
TETFund, and that the Federal Government
should allocate N400 billion for capital
projects in the universities. This is not
realistic, because we have Polytechnics and
colleges of education”.
“Most universities haven’t accessed their
2012 intervention funds, so there are still
funds for them.”
On earned allowances he said, “The
N30billion was for a start and then if it is not
enough, we would find a way to pay ASUU.”
In his contribution, the Minister of Labour, Mr.
Wogu said, discussion with ASUU was still
ongoing, and that dialogue has not broken
down yet.
“One thing that is clear is that the Federal
Government has started implementing the
2009 agreement, so if there are grey areas,
the appropriate thing to do is to settle it. The
thing is that those grey areas cannot be
settled when ASUU is on strike, the grey
areas can still be settled if they go back to
the classrooms. I think the issue is going
back to the classrooms, intimidation would
not resolve it, but for all hands to be on deck
to resolve it.
“We have got to a stage where even ASUU
has realised that government has done
enough towards the implementation of the
2009 agreement.”
About the proposed sympathy strike of NUT,
he said, “I want to appeal to you to call off
the proposed threat of strike. We just want to
reassure that Federal Government would
soon resolve the ASUU strike. Do not
compound what is on ground, but rather
suggest solution to the government on how to
end the strike.”
In his response, the President of Nigerian
Union of Teachers, NUT, Comrade Alogba
Olukoya, said the union was not happy at the
state of education in the country.”

ASUU STRIKE: Dead hope as NASUU,
SSANU others join strike
As if the current imbroglio between the Academic
Staff Union of Universities and the Federal
government is not enough; the Senior Staff
Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU),
National Association of Academic Technologists
(NAAT) and Non-Academic Staff Union Of
Universities (NASUU) have declared an indefinite
strike action over two months’ of unpaid salaries.
In an interview according to Channels Television,
the SSANU Public Relations officer in Bayero
University Kano (BUK), Nura Garba says the federal
government has not paid their August and
September salaries, the situation which the union
says has caused progressive hardship among its
members.
The union through its Public Relations Officer SSNU,
BUK chapter, Nura Garba demanded that its
members’ two month salaries be paid and that the
federal government should stop punishing them
with ASUU.
For over three months, the university lecturers have
shunned lectures. With the joining of the strike by
other affiliate arms, our universities are as good as
dead; as there have been total collapse of system in
all varsities across the nation.

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ASUU Forced To Call Off Strike
A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Daniel Onwe, has
dragged the Federal Government and the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, before a Federal
High Court in Lagos, southern Nigeria, over the
lingering crisis between the two bodies which has
led to the closure of public universities in the
country since 1 July.
In a motion dated 30 September, 2013, Barrister
Onwe is seeking an order of court to compel ASUU
to call off the strike it embarked upon in protest
over the unwillingness of government to implement
certain aspects of the agreement they reached over
the parlous state of Nigerian universities and other
issues.
In a 15-paragraph affidavit filed along with the
motion, Onwe is asking the court to declare that the
indefinite strike embarked upon by ASUU, leading
to the closure of government owned universities for
three months, violates the fundamental rights of the
students affected.
He argued that the continued strike action by ASUU
has traumatized many students who now engage in
all sorts of vices.
Onwe posited that the plight of the affected
students has worsened as their contemporaries in
private universities continue to attend lectures
while they remain idle at home.
He urged the court to compel ASUU to open the
universities for lectures to resume while their
negotiation with the Federal Government continues.
No date has been fixed for hearing of the suit

Here is a poem
i wrote when i was 13 -
HEAVEN WHAT A PLACE TO
BE....
I SING GLEEFULLY FOR MY
TREASURES I WILL SEE.........
......Recently i lost a friend
named Lekan, we grew up
together, wrote unaab's
postutme last year, we didn't
gain admission, but he got
admitted into an ogun state
polytechnic, he had such an
uplifting smile, he was
sponsoring himself in school,
very independent, taught me
to not put my trust in man,
there where wealthy ppl in his
family, but they just wouldn't
help, despite all this Lekan
strived on, he didnt get
discouraged, he did catering
stuffs, decoration, cakes,
consultation, he was really
talented in using his hands to
create beautiful things that
amazed people greatly.. There
was a day we spoke about
our dreams, and he told me
he really wanted his business
to expand so he could reach
out to more people... Most
importantly, he feared God,
we sang together in
Ressurection band (a group of
talented musicians that
minister to ppl), and i was
always happy anytime i had a
chance to be with ore mi
Lekan...Unfortunately, he died
a few days back, i was
shocked when i heard the
news and immediately rushed
to his house, i thought i was
dreaming cause we spoke on
phone not quite long...he was
very ill and couldn't make it,
but i was told that he made
some prayers in pain before
he left.....Tears rolled down my
eyes when i saw my friend's
coffin, i thought about his
dreams...but..hmmmm.....what
can we do? What are we
pursuing in this world that
makes us forget the one who
created this WORLD? Where
does our heart lies? What is
the gain in trying to please
our peers and others? My
Lekan has gone, but his trust
in God till the end has taught
me too to trust God....R.I.P
brotherly

Cutesthunk: Here is a poem
i wrote when i was 13 -
HEAVEN WHAT A PLACE TO
BE....
I SING GLEEFULLY FOR MY
TREASURES I WILL SEE.........
......Recently i lost a friend
named Lekan, we grew up
together, wrote unaab's
postutme last year, we didn't
gain admission, but he got
admitted into an ogun state
polytechnic, he had such an
uplifting smile, he was
sponsoring himself in school,
very independent, taught me
to not put my trust in man,
there where wealthy ppl in his
family, but they just wouldn't
help, despite all this Lekan
strived on, he didnt get
discouraged, he did catering
stuffs, decoration, cakes,
consultation, he was really
talented in using his hands to
create beautiful things that
amazed people greatly.. There
was a day we spoke about
our dreams, and he told me
he really wanted his business
to expand so he could reach
out to more people... Most
importantly, he feared God,
we sang together in
Ressurection band (a group of
talented musicians that
minister to ppl), and i was
always happy anytime i had a
chance to be with ore mi
Lekan...Unfortunately, he died
a few days back, i was
shocked when i heard the
news and immediately rushed
to his house, i thought i was
dreaming cause we spoke on
phone not quite long...he was
very ill and couldn't make it,
but i was told that he made
some prayers in pain before
he left.....Tears rolled down my
eyes when i saw my friend's
coffin, i thought about his
dreams...but..hmmmm.....what
can we do? What are we
pursuing in this world that
makes us forget the one who
created this WORLD? Where
does our heart lies? What is
the gain in trying to please
our peers and others? My
Lekan has gone, but his trust
in God till the end has taught
me too to trust God....R.I.P
brotherly

sorry, may his soul rest in peace.

Good morning,pls what we be d next plain now for uniabuja after loosing a whole session to internal strike and ASUU.

Bashimi: Good morning,pls what we be d next plain now for uniabuja after loosing a whole session to internal strike and ASUU.

total close down

Goddon32: total close down

NO school bearing uniabuja again or what pls no do so o i done dey for house for d past three years now before i got admission into a cheap school like uniabuja.last year was olabisi onobanjo uni too expensive i ve to forfeit it.i beg no close uniabuja totally .ASUU go call off strike very soon.let all of us start praying

Bashimi: NO school bearing uniabuja again or what pls no do so o i done dey for house for d past three years now before i got admission into a cheap school like uniabuja.last year was olabisi onobanjo uni too expensive i ve to forfeit it.i beg no close uniabuja totally .ASUU go call off strike very soon.let all of us start praying

wel congrat, dat is u realy need prayer n fastin 4 uniabuja

Goddon32: wel congrat, dat is u realy need prayer n fastin 4 uniabuja

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Baraje-led PDP describes Wike a misfit as
Nigeria’s Education Minister
The Baraje-led PDP accused Mr. Wike of
incompetence.
The Abubakar Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, faction has described the Minister of State for
Education, Nyesom Wike, as a ‘traitor and a misfit’
while reacting to a statement it said was credited to
Mr. Wike.
The minister had allegedly accused the Rivers State
governor, Rotimi Amaechi, of being behind the
prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU.
A statement by the spokesperson of the PDP
faction, Chukwuemeka Eze, on Tuesday in Abuja
said the faction would have “ordinarily ignored
Wike’s outburst as the ranting of a confused and
clueless minister” adding however, that it decided
to respond “so as to set the record straight”.
Mr. Wike, who spoke via the Secretary-General of
the Grassroots Development Initiative, GDI, Samuel
Nwanosike, Monday, in Port Harcourt was quoted as
saying Mr. Amaechi and the new PDP were behind
the prolonged strike by university lecturers across
the country.
Mr. Eze however, challenged the Minister to produce
evidence to back up his allegation or ‘bury his head
in shame forever’.
“If we may ask, was it Governor Amaechi or any
other of our members that negotiated on behalf of
the Federal Government in 2009 when it reached
the agreement with ASUU, which it has inexplicably
refused to honour, thus laying the foundation for
this lingering strike that has mortgaged the future
of innocent Nigerian youths? And did any member
of New PDP negotiate on the part of ASUU during
the recently deadlocked talks with the FG over the
strike?” Mr. Eze said.
He also said it was unfortunate that instead of
committing himself to finding a solution to the
crippling strike, Mr. Wike has chosen to ‘trivialize’
the issue and to ridicule himself.
“Unfortunately, it is the actions and utterances of
court jesters like Wike that have made perceptive
Nigerians to describe the Goodluck Jonathan
administration as a kindergarten government,” he
added.
Mr. Eze stated that the faction had earlier ordered
her members to fast and pray for the end to the
unfortunate strike action for over a week and had
even set up a committee under the chairmanship of
Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State to proffer
solutions on how to resolve the strike.
He disparaged the Education Minister saying the
faction was at a loss as to how a “supposedly
serious government should continue to retain such
an incompetent and unserious mind as a Minister of
the very strategic Ministry of Education in a country
teeming with accomplished educationists and
administrators if not for undemocratic motor-park
democracy he specializes on”.
“In any case, we are not overly surprised by Wike’s
tirade because a man who could engineer the
stoning of visiting State Governors from other parts
of the country without caring a hoot about the
consequences is capable of saying or doing
anything, no matter how outrageous
“Let us reiterate that should he ever make another
derogatory statement about the Baraje led PDP, we
will teach him some lessons on how to talk as a
Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and he
should note that New PDP is not Rivers State where
he has because of his greed messed up
governance,” Mr. Eze said.

UI breaches ASUU strike, conducts
examinations
At the University of Ibadan, the strike action by by
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which
began Monday 1 July has generated some bad blood
between ASUU and some sections of the university,
with breaches being committed.
For instance, ASUU was at loggerheads with the
Faculty of Law for organizing examination for their
final year students in order to ensure that they do
not miss going to Law School this year.
The examination which took place at Dominican
Institute, Samonda area of Ibadan, outside the
university campus was said to have been
invigilated by some of the parents of the graduating
students.
It was alleged that the faculty took the step
because some of the candidates were said to be
children of some deans in the university and
prominent Nigerians, including Senator Iyiola
Omisore. Getting wind of what was believed to have
been an illegal examination, the magazine learnt
that ASUU members went to the venue to challenge
the conduct of the examination but were harassed
and assaulted.
To prevent a breakdown of law and order, the ASUU
members left with a promise that appropriate action
would be taken once the strike is over.
A member of ASUU described the examination as
illegal.
P.M.NEWS also learnt authoritatively that some
faculties also held examinations for their post
graduate students while projects supervisions never
stopped.
In another development, the UI authorities also
sidetracked the striking academic staff and
conducted the post UTME examination for incoming
candidates into the university on Saturday
September 28 2013.
The exercise which was considered successful was
lauded by parents of the affected candidates
including Mr. Olaitan Oladepo, and Mrs. Olaoluwa
Mary and the candidates have already seen their
results.
But adversely affected are the students of Distance
Learning Centre, DLC, of the university which has
previously lost a session due to the 2009 strike
action of the academic staff. Failure of the DLC
students to write any examination this year would
result into them losing two academic sessions:
2011/2012 and 2012/2013.
The students who had started writing their
examination for 2011/2012 academic session were
forced to stop. The centre that ought to have
admitted new students for 2013/2014 session could
not do so as a result of the strike.
“There is no facility for us. There are no classrooms
for us. We have to wait for the regular students to
finish their academic programmes before we can be
attended to and that is why our interactive session
and examination always hold when regular students
are on holiday. When the strike is call off, they will
neglect us and concentrate on the regular students
and before you know it, they have regularized for
them and who knows the numbers of years we will
lose before we finish our programmes”, a DLC
student said.
Dr. Segun Ajiboye: promises action against UI Law
Faculty
Reacting to the development, ASUU chairman, UI
chapter, Dr. Segun Ajiboye said the Law Faculty
ought to have waited for the end of the strike before
conducting the examination.
“Why is the faculty in a hurry especially when ASUU
is on strike? Our union has a position for punishing
erring members and this will be appropriately
applied at the end of this struggle. We take it as one
of the skirmishes around during struggle and it will
be dealt with appropriately when this struggle is
over”.
On the post UTME, the union leader saw no sense in
conducting the examination for prospective
candidates when the system is yet to adequately
take care of its current students.
“This is part of the anomalies we are talking about
in Nigeria. JAMB gave directive to the VC, go and
bring the list of admitted students or you forfeit
admission. It is an anomaly and that is why we
want the law that established JAMB to be reviewed
so that it will just serve as clearing house and it will
not be a body giving directives. You can’t take care
of the students you have and you are bringing
another one. What is this madness all about?”
Justifying the union’s position on DLC, he assured,
“But let our students know that at the appropriate
time when this strike is over, they will be taught
their regular courses and they will graduate as at
when due. We can assure them that our union is a
responsible union, and we will make sure that their
interest is adequately taken care of. DLC should not
panic. Very soon the struggle will be over and we
can guarantee our students, regular and DLC, that
their interests will be well protected and they will
graduate as at when due”.

President Goodluck Jonathan promised
yesterday to end the doctors’ and
university teachers’ strike.
The teachers’ is over 90 days. Members of the
National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD)
are also on strike. The professionals are blaming
the government for failing to meet up with the
agreement reached with them.
Jonathan promised to end the strike when he
received the leaders of the Nigerian Medical
Association (NMA), led by its President, Dr.
Osahon Enabulele.
Presidential spokesman Dr. Reuben Abati, in a
statement on the meeting which reporters were
prevented from covering, said the President
promised to do his all to resolve all issues that
caused disputes.
He said the government attached great
importance to the medical and educational
sectors.
He said: “I believe that we must manage both
sectors in such a way that nobody engaged in
them will think of going on strike again.
“We will continue to proactively evolve
measures that will help us to permanently
overcome the problems that lead to strikes by
health and education professionals,” he added.
To facilitate rapid establishment of more
centres of medical excellence in the country,
President Jonathan pledged that the Federal
Government would fully explore the option of
creating a special intervention fund.
According to him, the recommendation of a
special fund that will give low interest loans for
the establishment of state-of-the-art medical
facilities is a creative idea that will receive
appropriate consideration from the government.
He said: “We are committed to working with
professionals and the private sector to establish
better medical facilities in the country and
reduce the number of Nigerians who have to go
abroad annually for medical reasons.”
Jonathan also assured the doctors that his
administration would create the right conditions
to enable doctors to stay at home and avail
Nigerians of their acknowledged skills and
expertise instead of migrating to other
countries.
He said his administration was determined to
correct the anomaly of Nigeria being so strong
in human capacity in medicine, with about
25,000 Nigerian medical consultants currently
practising in the United States , as confirmed to
him by President Barack Obama; and yet being
unable to treat many of its sick people in its
own hospitals.
Jonathan said: “There is clearly a missing link
somewhere and we will do everything possible
to fix it. We will continue to work with
professional bodies and all stakeholders to
come up with more policies and actions that will
help us overcome current challenges in our
medical sector.
“We will work with the National Assembly to
ensure the quick passage of the National Health
Bill. We will take prompt action to reconstitute
the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria. We
will also consider recommendations for the
establishment of the Office of Surgeon-General
of the Federation.”
“I believe that we must always do what is best
for our country. We will review all the other
issues you have raised and act accordingly.
When things are done properly, issues of
welfare and remuneration in the health sector
will disappear,” the President said.
Dr. Enabulele assured President Jonathan of
NMA’s support for his administration’s agenda.
He called for urgent reconstitution of the main
regulatory body in the health sector, the Medical
and Dental Council of Nigeria which was
dissolved in 2011.
The NMA President also called for faster action
on the passage of the National Health Bill and
other issues related to the creation of a more
conducive operating environment for doctors
and other healthcare professionals such as
remuneration, welfare and training.
The President was decorated with the emblem
of the NMA by Prof. Umaru Shehu.
The NMA delegation included the Emir of
Tsonga, Dr. Haliru Yahaya, the NMA Second
Vice-President, Dr. Uche Ojinmah and the NMA
Secretary-General, Dr. Akpufuoma Pemu.

Goddon32: i dont get u

I mean, ar u admttd now

mrpresido3: I mean, ar u admttd now

no my first schul of choice dis yr is unijos n dere list is nt on sit so am stil hopin on God

AhA Uniabj!!!...I applied 4 Uniabj in the year 2011, i scored 259 and my O'level result is okay...I was so confident that i will be admitted into the school but guess what when the list(s) came out, most of those admitted were those that scored 200-220,180-190 suprisingly students that scored 170 were also admitted and they were admitted into PROFESSIONAL COURSES like LAW,MEDICINE etc..while those that truly deserved the admission were left out...Once again i scored 259. Whats my point?? My point is, if you Want a good school that is MODERATELY fair apply to schools with proven credibility I'e Unical,Uyo,Jos,Port,Uniben,OAU,Ilorin etc there are many of them....But DO NOT apply To UNIABJ.. UNIABJ will only waste your time...#i stand to be corrected#.

Bashimi: Any news about registration pls

you need academic staffs to help you out with your course registration. unfortunately, they are the ones on strike. so I guess registration will have to wait until after ASUU strike.
mean while other administrative stuffs such as; submission of diploma forms, pgd forms, NYSC mobilization is still going on...

to be frank, the only set of people who are consistently in school are the Administrative staffs, SSANU, NASU, final year students, diploma students.....
For fresh students, you'll have to wait till after the ASUU strike.