Yureyes:
Yea. No work No pay. I like the part where the minister said “it’s only a thief that goes to eat where he didn’t work”. You don’t expect to be paid when you have been at home for 6 months. Nevertheless, thunder will still fire this APC government.

Middleborn:


My question to the FG and whoever supports the FG in this persecution of Lecturers is, who is going to complete the backlog of work that has stockpiled since February 14?

The nature of work done by academic lecturers puts them in a position where there is a lot of work to be done in every semester from the class room to the lab to the office dealing
with scripts and documents etc. In most cases, Universities are under staffed, hence the workload. If the lecturers don't do their work for 6 months, that job will be there waiting for them because unlike other kinds of jobs where you can just resume and start from current activities, the lecturers have to start from where they stopped. The students cannot for example move to the next level if they have not been taught, if they don't take their exam and have their scripts marked.

So if the FG can contract the backlog of work stockpiled since February 14 till date to someone else, then their no work no pay policy will be upheld. In fact the FG should be helping the lecturers to resolve this backlog of work that have resulted due to the striking process, this would show their commitment to education. But you see, the FG doesn't give a fvck whether the work is done or not. not paying the lecturers the six months salary would mean that they can resume and abandon the work on the table. The fact that the FG know this and has decided not to do anything about it is what should disturb the students and Nigeria as a whole.

ThinkSmarter:
ASUU is selfishly inclined.
They are disguising to be fighting for the welfare of the students but in truth they are much after their own interests.
TetFund is doing wonders in our varsities.
Their building Projects are classy.
I am neither a govt official nor an APC member.
I a concerned Nigerian citizen

acetylcholine:

I shake my head in pity for uninformed individuals like you. The TETfund you all are mentioning today was a product of ASUU's struggle!

Let me educate you a bit. The purpose of TETfund is to provide supplementary source of funding to all tertiary (federal and state) institutions.

TETfund,which is a brainchild of ASUU generates fund through the 2% education tax paid from accessible profits of all companies registered in Nigeria.

Go to most state universities, virtually all buildings were erected through TETfund, except for Admin building, in some cases. So tell me exactly what government is suppose to be doing if not funding education.

You all keep praising the same people striping you and your unborn generation of their Commonwealth, while bad-mouthing the same union that brought about TETfund you are talking of.

If the masses cannot hold the government at the jugular to better the society by investing in education, then there is absolutely no hope for this country, because a country can NEVER rise beyond the level of her education!

Honestly, when I read posts like this, it convinces me that the sacrifices ASUU is going through is not worth it. We should fight for our welfare alone and allow government to hike tuition fees to whatever amount it deems fit. Then parents and students can take up the fight from there. Tertiary education is not meant for all afterall!

NoIgboSoundTueh:
Someone said ASUU is asking for ransome using students academic life as hostage

Nezee:
ASUU is an association of Selfish and greedy individuals who thinks they can always use the Nigerian students education to fight for their selfish interests. Both ASUU and FG have no students interests. FG should stick to the golden rule ' no work, no pay' so that when next ASUU wants to embark on a strike to fight for their selfish interests, they would have to think twice! Nonsensicals!!

Middleborn:


My question to the FG and whoever supports the FG in this persecution of Lecturers is, who is going to complete the backlog of work that has stockpiled since February 14?

The nature of work done by academic lecturers puts them in a position where there is a lot of work to be done in every semester from the class room to the lab to the office dealing with scripts and documents etc. In most cases, Universities are under staffed, hence the workload. If the lecturers don't do their work for 6 months, that job will be there waiting for them because unlike other kinds of jobs where you can just resume and start from current activities, the lecturers have to start from where they stopped. The students cannot for example move to the next level if they have not been taught, if they don't take their exam and have their scripts marked.

So if the FG can contract the backlog of work stockpiled since February 14 till date to someone else, then their no work no pay policy will be upheld. In fact the FG should be helping the lecturers to resolve this backlog of work that have resulted due to the striking process, this would show their commitment to education. But you see, the FG doesn't give a fvck whether the work is done or not. not paying the lecturers the six months salary would mean that they can resume and abandon the work on the table. The fact that the FG know this and has decided not to do anything about it is what should disturb the students and Nigeria as a whole.

babyfaceafrica:


Who will compensate the students for 7 months loss in their life? Some can't go to NYSC due to age factor.? Yet banks and other top companies will be asking of 26 years with 2 years experience!!!. ASUU always get paid whenever strikes ends, who pays the students for time lost!

BrutusOj:
And a few other greedy people will loot the money budgeted for the salary of university lecturers abi? You can talk about them forfeiting allowances but not their salary. Do you realise that some of them have been living on credit since the strike began? Have they been feeding on grass since the strike began? If not for the irresponsible government, there wouldn't have been strike in the first place. Lett be objective when responding to issues such as this please.

DevilSignature:
most I admonish you guys before you make comments here, borrow some sense even if you have none. Now put yourself in ASUU shoes, if you were an ASUU staff and your protested for irregularities in your working environment and the government turned a deaf ear, you used strike option now the government come out to say they are not gonna pay you your salaries, how are gonna feel?

Note it's legal for members of staffs under Nigerian Labour Congress or any labour union in the world to protest or use strike option called government attention in cases of non proper working environment or other irregularities, also note that throughout the six months of ASUU strike federal government has never issue a suspension letter to any of ASUU staffs branches or ASUU in general, so why won't pay them their salaries?

Bigfish121:
Imagine within the space of 3 years, they went on strike 2 times just imagine.

Ebubu:


If you’re never tired of collecting loans, keep on with the strike till new year.

You fit no even see money buy bag of rice for Christmas for your kids.

Ebubu:


I don’t care. We kukuma no get classrooms before. I’m supposed to have graduated last year then your 2020 strike happened, now I’m supposed to graduate last April now you’re striking into December and next year.




You waste 2 years of my life, but want me to support you getting paid for wasting my life ?

I will rather waste 2 more years than support FG paying you for those months of strike.


You were paid during 2020 strike merely because FG had sympathy owing to covid 19 lockdown.


FG can change their mind later to pay you, I won’t know. But if it were left for me as a student, I don’t support you getting paid.

My house rent is wasting and I’ll pay new one from nothing, my years are wasting but you want me to support you. Please go on with the strike, who has lost 2 years can easily lose few more months.

My joy is you will never get paid for what you had done.

Peacefulmindz:

If you or any of your family people are lecturers you will not yan this rubbish here.
Na only them go for strike? No be ASUU force everybody go house?

NezzyMike:




Hahaha, no work no pay while students are languishing. Is the salary Buhari's? Let me educate you small, before a strike is embarked, government is informed thrice but Buhari who doesn't priotise education always shun them. There's money in this country, he should pay them, it is not his!!!

9jatriot:
I am trying to understand you.
Let us run throw 1 scenarios.

Scenario 1
You employ the services of an architect with the following job description and timeline.
Month 1: Design floor plan: Workdone: Paid
Month 2: Build the foundation: Workdone: Paid
Month 3: Do the block work: Work not done (Strike): Not Paid
Month 4: Roof the house: Work not done (Strike): Not Paid

Now let us test how logical you are. Assuming this architect now resumes in Month 5 to start work of Month 3, and tells you that you have to pay him for Month 3 and 4 but he will start the work of Month 3 in Month 5, will you as a business owner or an individual pay him?

You guys always forget that the FG is your employer and they are the ones to tell you what to do as employees.

I really wish FG can follow through with this no work no pay. ASUU is trying to use this election & students[b] to hold FG to ransom and I wish FG has the balls to call their bluff

[b]Can you tell your landlord that since you travelled for 3 months that you will not pay rent for those 3 months

Pymetrics:

But when he resumes in Month 5 to start the work of Month 3, won't you give him new additional project to combine with the work of month 3? The new project is the new student to be admitted through the last concluded jamb and adverts for pg schools. Except you will say don't take new project, only start from the existing one. And I know that parents will come in here when they see that new project which is the new student won't be admitted. They have to wait for another year again. The lecturing job is even more complex than the analogy of architect.

udeh3:


Are you aware that the lost topics will be taught, project students will be attended to, etc. If you don't pay them, it's simple, when the FG meets their requirements, they'll resume and when they do, they'll proceed to a new session, meaning, no results, no one graduates since they weren't paid for.

Senseless govt

Oblivion34:


In reply to the bolded, the govt wouldn't take the union seriously because they are accustomed to seeing them go on yearly strikes.

If ASUU had used this same energy to pressure the government while school activities were ongoing, things may have been better.

But ASUU beleives strike will yield rapid action (How far after 6 months and counting?)

ASUU must not get a dime for all the months not worked for!

Oblivion34:


Lies from the pits of hell!!!

The best a lecturer can do is to rush the students and make up for everything with two weeks of revision. Then exam!

Then they'll be high record of mass failure!

Lecturers will come to class and stamp their foot in the ground boasting of how they'll get paid whether they come to class or not.

That has always been the tradition!

Ebubu:


If you’re never tired of collecting loans, keep on with the strike till new year.

You fit no even see money buy bag of rice for Christmas for your kids.

Oblivion34:


In reply to the bolded, if I was to be in ASUU shoes, I'll be sane enough to understand that 3 months strike is enough to show my greivances.

Wanting pay after 6 months strike means I am a theif, and I should be prosecuted, or forced to resign.

Onucs:
I am with the FG on this one. NO WORK, NO PAY Jhoor!

ThinkSmarter:
ASUU is selfishly inclined.
They are disguising to be fighting for the welfare of the students but in truth they are much after their own interests.
TetFund is doing wonders in our varsities.
Their building Projects are classy.
I am neither a govt official nor an APC member.
I a concerned Nigerian citizen

Oblivion34:


We all know the govt is corrupt!


Let the government spend ASUU salary anyhow they seem fit.

But ASUU must be taught a lesson. Even if it's just this once. Are they the only one


Yearly strike since over 2 decades

ejimatic:
. The industrial law alkows only 3 months strike with payment.If it goes beyond three months the principle of no work and no pay applies

dogmart:


You have said the simple fact.

The truth remains that the government is paying far more than any employer of labour in this country(except maybe multinationals) and in truth they are paying for next to zero returns.
Go to all government parastatal across the country both state and federal and you will see what is at play.

Yes we deserve better governance, but please understand that the government is not father Christmas.

You cant continue to share national cake and claim it is your right. Just because u hear some people are stealing in government. Have u not also been stealing at your own level?

Take a realistic look at things as a business owner and you will understand the government attimes.

Before u compare urselves with the pay in other developed countries, know for certain things are not same there. Your expense are not same so also your pay cannot be same. We just have to be realistic.

backbone503:


I totally support FG on this. Let them resume first and can thereafter appeal/beg/renegotiate with FG on their pay while on strike.

ASUU is a very selfish body that loves going on strikes because they always get paid for staying at home. 90% of their reason for embarking on this strike in selfish.

9jatriot:
I am trying to understand you.
Let us run throw 1 scenarios.

Scenario 1
You employ the services of an architect with the following job description and timeline.
Month 1: Design floor plan: Workdone: Paid
Month 2: Build the foundation: Workdone: Paid
Month 3: Do the block work: Work not done (Strike): Not Paid
Month 4: Roof the house: Work not done (Strike): Not Paid

Now let us test how logical you are. Assuming this architect now resumes in Month 5 to start work of Month 3, and tells you that you have to pay him for Month 3 and 4 but he will start the work of Month 3 in Month 5, will you as a business owner or an individual pay him?

You guys always forget that the FG is your employer and they are the ones to tell you what to do as employees.

I really wish FG can follow through with this no work no pay. ASUU is trying to use this election to hold FG to ransom and I wish FG has the balls to call their bluff

Can you tell your landlord that since you travelled for 3 months that you will not pay rent for those 3 months

iyke484real:
Hello sir, with all due respect what backlog are you talking about? If I may ask were schools running while on strike to have accumulated backlogs?

Firstly, the government was not owing them salaries before they went on strike...it is work before pay and not work after pay. They where being paid right uptill when they embarked on strike it is only rational for payment to resume when they start from where they suspended duties.

Secondly sir, why should a student forfeit a CGPA he earnestly worked for and also paid school fees for?...are you declaring the previous one null and void with a proposition of conducting a fresh semester or session at your own perils and expenses?...I don't understand...how does that even make sense to you?

Thirdly, the time lost by students can never be regain sir... Some students were supposed to have graduated ...some were supposed to have gone to serve...some have already forfeited a six months rent as a result of this strike not to talk of the emotional trauma...are u saying that assu will have to turn back the hand of time and correct all the damages above? If they are paid, who is going to pay the students for their own losses?...it is a collateral damage... it should be evenly shared sir.

My dear let's call a spade a spade... In as much as this government is terrible, ASUU is also greedy, with little or no sense of patriotism they keep talking about revitalization, how that almost all university's infrastructures have decayed but when ever NUC comes for accreditation they are still the one who goes about lobbying them(NUC) into accreditating departments with the so called dilapidated infrastructures.

Note that NUC is actually a committee organized by the government to appraise tertiary institutions within the country and ensure there are up to standard.... members of ASUU end up frustrating this beautiful idea of the government just to achieve their greedy motives....then make a U-turn and attack the government accusing them of negligence...

Pls don't fall for the senseless and illogical rants by the president of ASUU.

Oblivion34:


Lies from the pits of hell!!!

The best a lecturer can do is to rush the students and make up for everything with two weeks of revision. Then exam!

Then they'll be high record of mass failure!

Lecturers will come to class and stamp their foot in the ground boasting of how they'll get paid whether they come to class or not.

That has always been the tradition!