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Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by saraki2019(m): 12:46pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
For those who do not understand "Why ASUU is on strike" - Please read this and share widely..... 1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility. 2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards 3.More than 50% don’t use Public Address System in their lecture OVERCROWDED rooms/theatres. 4. Internet Services are non-existent,or epileptic and slow IN 99% of Nigerian Universities 5. Nigerian Universities Library resources are outdated and manually operated. Book shelves are homes to rats/cockroaches 6.No university library in Nigeria is fully automated. Less than 35% are partially automated. 7. 701 Development projects in Nigerian universities 163 (23.3%) are abandoned 538 (76.7%) are PERPETUALLY on-going projects 8. Some of the abandoned projects in Nigerian universities are over 15 years old, some are over 40 years old. 9. 76% of Nigerian universities use well as source of water, 45% use pit latrine, 67% of students use bush as toilet 10. UNN and UDUS have the highest number of abandoned projects (22 and 16 respectively). 11. All NDDC projects across universities in Niger Delta States are abandoned. About 84.6% of them are students’ hostels 12. 77% of Nigerian universities can be classified as "Glorified Primary Schools" Laboratories are non existing 13. There are 8 on-going projects at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi. None of them is funded by the State Government 14. 80% of Nigerian Universities are grossly under-staffed 15. 78% of Nigerian Universities rely heavily on part-time and visiting lecturers. 16. 88% of Nigerian Universities have under-qualified Academics 17. 90% of Nigerian Universities are bottom-heavy (with junior lecturers forming large chunk of the workforce) 18. Only 2% of Nigerian Universities attract expatriate lecturers, over 80% of Ghanian Universities attract same 19. 89% of Nigerian Universities have ‘closed’ (homogeneous staff – in terms of ethno-cultural background) 20. Based on the available data, there are 37,504 Academics in Nigerian Public Universities |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by saraki2019(m): 12:47pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
21. 83% of the lecturers in Nigerian universities are male while 17% are female. 22. 23,030 (61.0%) of the lecturers are employed in Federal universities while 14,474 (39.0%) teach in State Universities. 23. The teaching staff-students ratio is EMBARRASSINGLY very high in many universities: 24. LECTURER STUDENT RATIO: National Open University of Nigeria 1:363 University of Abuja 1:122 Lagos State University 1:111 25. (Compare the above with Harvard 1:4; MIT 1:9; Yale 1:4, Cambridge 1:3; NUS 1:12; KFUPM 1:9; Technion 1:15). 26. Nigerian Universities Instead of having 100% Academics having PhDs, only about 43% do so. The remaining 57% have no PhDs 27. Nigerian University medical students trained in the most dangerous environment, some only see medical tools in books 28. Only 7 Nigerian Universities have up to 60% of their teaching staff with PhD qualifications 29. While majority of the universities in the country are grossly understaffed, a few cases present a pathetic picture 30. There are universities in Nigeria which the total number of Professors is not more than Five (5) 31. Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, established in 2001 (11 years old) only 1 Professor and 25 PhD holders. 32. Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, established in 2006 has only 2 Professors and 5 PhDs 33. Ondo State University of Sci & Tech Okitipupa, established in 2008, has a total of 29 lecturers. 34. MAKE-SHIFT LECTURING SYSTEM: Out of a total of 37,504 lecturers, only 28,128 (75%) are engaged on full-time basis. 35. 9,376 (25%) Nigerian Lecturers are recycled as Visiting, Adjunct, Sabbatical and Contract lecturers. 36. In Gombe State University, only 4 out of 47 Profs are full-time and all 25 Readers are visiting 37. In Plateau State University, Bokkos, 74% of the lecturers are visiting. 38. In Kaduna State University, only 24 out of 174 PhD holders are full-time staff. 39. 700 EX-MILLITANTS in Nigeria are receiving more funds anualy than 20 Nigerian universities under 'Amnesty Scam' 40. 80% of published journals by Nigerian University lectures have no visibility in the international knowledge community. |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by saraki2019(m): 12:47pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
41. No Nigerian academic is in the league of Nobel Laureates or a nominee of Nobel Prize. 42. There are only 2 registered patents owned by Nigerian Academics in the last 3 years. 43. Numerically more support staff in the services of Nigerian universities than the teaching staff they are meant to support 44. More expenditure is incurred in administration & routine functions than in core academic matters in Nigerian Universities 45. There are 77,511 full-time non-teaching staff in Nigeria’s public universities 2 Times number of academic staff 46. University of Benin, there are more senior staff in the Registrar cadre (Dep. Registrars, PARs, SARs) than Professors 47. Almost all the universities are over-staffed with non- teaching staff 48. There are 1,252,913 students in Nigerian Public Universities. 43% Female 57%Male 49. There is no relationship between enrolment and the tangible manpower needs of Nigeria. 50. Nigerian Uni Horrible hostel facilities, overcrowded, overstretched lavatory and laundry facilities, poor sanitation,etc 51. Except Nigerian Defence Acadamy Kaduna, no university in Nigeria is able to accommodate more than 35% of its students. 52. Some universities (e.g. MOUAU),female students take their bath in d open because d bathrooms are in very poor condition. 53. Laundries and common rooms in many universities have been converted into rooms where students live, in open prison style. 54. In most improvised cage called hostels in Nigerian Universities, there is no limit to the number of occupants. 55. Most State universities charge commercial rates for unfit and unsuitable hostel accommodation 56. In off-campus hostels, students are susceptible to extraneous influences and violence prostitution, rape, gang violence 57. Nigerian University Students sitting on bare floor or peeping through windows to attend lectures 58. Over 1000 students being packed in lecture halls meant for less than 150 students 59. Over 400 Nigerian University students being packed in laboratory meant for 75 students 60. University administrators Spend millions to erect super-gates when their Libraries are still at foundation level; Expend millions to purchase exotic vehicles for university officers even though they lack basic classroom furnishings; Spend hundreds of millions in wall-fencing and in-fencing when students accommodation is inadequate and in tatters; 61. Govt interested in spending money on creation of new uni instead of consolidating and expanding access to existing ones; Keen to award new contracts rather than completing the abandoned projects or standardizing existing facilities; Expend hundreds of millions paying visiting and part-time lecturers rather than recruiting full-time staff 62. Govt spending hundreds of millions in mundane administration cost instead of providing boreholes and power supplements; Govt hiring personal staff, including Personal Assistants, Special Advisers, Bodyguards, Personal Consultants, etc. #WHYASUUSTRIKE ? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153310339445128&id=393816480127 |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by Xixtie(f): 12:49pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
Absolute trash. Let's start by listing what they have achieved with the chunks of trillions they have been paid hitherto. You can't because they have achieved nada. 3 Likes |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by MycroftHolmes: 1:15pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
Why does nothing under government control work? Private sector is the way to go tbh. Neither the government nor ASSU is totally right on this one. And if you think ASSU is wrong, then you've not toured a typical public university and compare with another outside the country. Why are we even surprised about unemployment rates when standard of education is this 'good'? Private University education is something every one owes their children...or even schooling them abroad. 3 Likes |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by osamz007: 3:00pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
and we have a DULLARD as president |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by saraki2019(m): 3:53pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
MycroftHolmes:public versities cannot work in this country, who has the money and intellect to start and run private varsities in this country? If university are to private few Nigerians can afford it or worst still the quality of the education will be worse. |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by Godi25(m): 4:47pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
U r correct on some points but frankly, ASUU is also fighting for its selfish aims. Allocation is given to universities even if it is not much n fees r being paid. So I think ASUU should please stop the blame game. The present govt is hopeless wen it comes to educational matters but this rot has long been here and ASUU has sometimes close their eyes to it. |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by Chibueze90: 5:33pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
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Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by Chibueze90: 6:21pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
Godi25: base on my careful analysis on the case at hand btw fg and ASUU, I deduce that fg were not sincere in this matter because hw will you sign an agreement with a union and subsequently fail to honor the agreement...it's called breach of contract. secondly, you brought up an idea of ipps 11yrs ago (2009) to be implemented to all MDAs, which is good but then some MDAs complained about some discrepancies in ipps that might suit their payment platform, because ipps platform is just like a Excel data sheet format in which EVERY ALLOWANCE paid to every workers is present there but it was seen that some organization allowance peculiarities were not included in the platform..Now I believe that fg Should have confirmed ,amend, add and correct the necessary abnormalities in the platform but they failed to do necessary adjustment SIMPLY because the software was built by word bank with billions of naira and for them to adjust anything on the platform, they need to contact world bank and pay another huge billions for the correction, the reason is that the BACKEND OR IPPIS DATA BASE IS NOT IN NIGERIA (lol).. very pathetic thirdly.. from my careful investigation..I came to understand that lecturers salaries were consolidated.. ie their salary comprises of basic salary and peculiar allowance.. now this is where there is confusion, lecturers re claiming that TAX should be deducted from there basic salary but ippis is deducting tax on both there basic and allowance. Also lecturers claim that there promotion is not stationary..ie lecturers promotion are not base on hw many yrs u re in the institution but it depends solemly on the more certificate u aquire ( msc ,PhD, ) and also quality journal published..now after you ve gotten the necessary documents and qualifications due for promotion, you will be appraised by you Dept, faculty n finally school Senate before u will be promoted.this can happen at any month of the year, but ippis mode of promotion is stationary, Ie, promotion is sessional , maybe two times or once every yr, if u miss that particular month or period, you wait till next year.. Another stuff I also discovered is that ippis office is only situated at Abuja, any complaint by lecturer from unilag base on mistake or error in payment will require you to travel from Lagos to Abuja, lodge in a hotel for days until you're attended to Compared to there formal method of operandi in which lecturers can simply go there burser for any complaint and it will be attended to at no expense to the lecturers... Now on ASUU part, this consistent strike should stop...you people should find another way of getting fg attention and not only strike because we the students re seriously SUFFERING and are always at the loosing end in this fight.. pls and pls consider the plight of our youth In this country wasting away cos of the brutal and yeye fight btw yourselves and fg thanks 1 Like |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by sreamsense: 7:00pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
OP, you and ASUU should stop playing us pity-me card. ASUU should come and account for how well they have utilized small amount and resources government has dished out to them. They always hide under canopy of they are fighting for Nigerian students while they are only fighting for their pockets. Even if government spends 80% of national budget on ASUU, they will still under perform. A lot of things are wrong with them, higher percentage of them are not even competent and need replacement and total overhaul of Nigerian universities. If you get are not ready to get paid by IPPIS, they should look for another job, it is not by force you must work with government. ASUU is selfish and only see Nigeria as national cake that must be shared. If they think senator collects 1billion per month as they usually claim, they should resign and go and become senator, there are better and competent hands ready to collect even less at high efficiency. ASUU can't dictate to it's employer how she wants to be paid, it is because they lack patriotism and see Nigeria as national cake that must be shared equally to her members. Quality researches and inventions they can't do, teaching students, many of them are not competent, ordinary student projects, they can't supervise well, this is dusqusting! They are only good at strike and negotiating how much to be paid for under performance, can they do that with private employers? Radiance to rubbish! 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by Chibueze90: 7:16pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
sreamsense: let me ask you something because I like judging things base on data and written evidence and not based on general thinking. if you can devote time, pls check from 2009 till date, and tell me how many times lecturers salaries was increased ? secondly on the Money invested into the universities.. I believe you're either a graduate or a student.. either way you're enlightened, whom did you think run the financial funding or spending on school? lecturers or admins ( vc, registrar, burser, pro etc) or better still who is in charge of universities expenditures? I saw from the memo signed by fg and ASUU that fg will set a visitation panel to be visiting each schools to monitor the expenditures... I can testify to you that fg executives never visited any school.. ASUU has been hammering and clamouring to fg to constantly send visitation panel to the whole universities..but fg no gree my brother who is fooling who just forget about this country insincerity has swallowed these country 1 Like |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by Godi25(m): 8:04pm On Oct 09, 2020 |
Chibueze90:U really did ur research. Well done. Our educational system is just messed up 1 Like |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by sreamsense: 4:05am On Oct 10, 2020 |
Chibueze90: Chibueze90: And tell me the unions that government increases their own every year either. If any ASUU member knows the union that gets yearly or monthly salary increment from federal government, he/she should go and join the association or resign. If it is a private organization, will they have the guts to even dictate their increment. The problem is that they lack patriotism and see Nigeria as national cake that must be shared, that is why they hide under canopy of senator collects 1 billion a month, blah, blah..., they are free and academically qualify as well to become senator; they should go and join and collect their own 1 billion and spare us all these logical and emotional fight Chibueze90: The visitation government has been paid to schools in the name of NUC. What has ever come out of it? Is it not the same lecturers that usually frustrate government committe when they go for accreditation. Is it not the same ASUU members who usually lie to government that everything is ok with their departments and schools during accreditation by going out to nearby polytechnics or nearby universities to borrow equipment they want to use for accreditation to deceive goverment. After accreditation, they will return the equipment back to schools where they borrowed them without using them for their students' practicals. Some schools will admit students more than equipment and resources they have and what government stipulate, during accreditation, they will tell students with matric number 1 to 100 to come to school while 101 to 1000 to stay at home to deceive government; and later come back to blame the same government. Some of them will even sell workshop equipment and laboratory chemicals. Every strata of academic system needs to be restructured to become more functional instead of turning-out potential unemployable students every year, of which some of them after frustration due to joblessness turn out to become terrors to the societies Methods of recruiting lecturers into universities and polytechniques should be reviewed. We should stop emphasizing only on academic qualifications and how many journals published; we should include industrial work experience and ability to teach student or transfer knowledge even to the dullests in the class. Government should discourage employing fresh graduates with distinction into our academic system without industrial working experiences. Many of the lecturers never had industrial working experience and they want to train students to go to industries they themselves never worked for one day. How is it going to help our academic system? Check Harvard, MIT lecturers, check their profiles. Many of them are currently working in the industries and they are still lecturing, some of them are inventors and have companies producing their inventions, yet they are still le lecturers in those schools I mentioned above, but is the opposite here in Nigeria. What is the advantage of professor who can not transfer useful and applicable knowledge to younger generation after two hours class lecture? Is it not useless, but they are collecting salaries for nothing?And even reasonable researches, they can't carry out except sex for mark! |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by dublinkmy6: 6:24am On Oct 10, 2020 |
In this country we have a lot of pots calling kettles black. We love blaming others without trying to see how we have also contributed to the problems. Guymen everywhere thinking they are smart while their so-called smartness only proves to be disastrous to everyone including themselves. Yet, they aren't smart enough to realize it. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach. |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by Chibueze90: 7:17am On Oct 10, 2020 |
sreamsense: I was thinking same way until I took my time to do thorough research on the ASUU n fg issue so as not be brain washed by either ASUU or fg.., but now I think I know little but I still stand to be corrected if am wrong.. Nuc is an accreditation team meant to award Depts in any universities license to operate,they have no business with universities spending and it's different from VISITATION PANEL in which there job is to monitor the money and expenditures made in the universities in collaboration with fg investment.. on lecturers salaries... pls take time to read the 2009 agreement fg signed with ASUU, from what I saw in the document, fg promised to review lecturers salaries every 3 yrs and also pay them Earned academic allowance, but ASUU are saying that no review has been made from 2009 till now and no allowance was paid. now my question is why promise what you can't offer? I don't think they have ever gone on strike base on salary review. pls can you also investigate the reason for the past ASUU strike? we all need to be grounded with information on wat is happening You also need to know that practicals for students is the technologist or lab technician job.. lecturers teach in class while the practicals re done in the lab.. whom did you think regulate the number of admission intake in universities? Nuc tell universities the number of students each department can admit base on wat they saw during accreditation..(I still stand to be corrected).. and finally don't you think FG should have sacked all the whole ASUU lecturers since if they don't have skeleton they are protecting? My own take is that in there subsequent negotiation, a neutral body such as NLC, NANS , NUC should also be present so as to know who to hold responsible for any subsequent default in agreement |
Re: Why ASUU Strike Is Justified by Nobody: 12:53pm On Oct 10, 2020 |
A Professor and Geologist has this to say as a comment about FG-ASUU saga___ Even in ASUU, this is the worst leadership I have seen in 25years in the university. Both government and ASUU are not sincere on university education in Nigeria. I have not seen any intellectualism in the attitude of both government and ASUU. I will touch little things that doesn't make sense; why is ASUU on strike now? It is because of IPPIS and after losing out on that they shifted the goalpost to "revitalization of universities" which is very unrealistic. Why would a sensible person declare strike during coronavirus global confusion? Where is the much acclaimed knowledge? This strike was never voted for at individual branches as usual but truncated by the ASUU NEC. It never happened this way before. The IPPIS unveiled an unbelievable number of ghost workers in the university payroll whole the former gifmis payroll that ASUU preferred accommodated all those ghost workers. So the complain about IPPIS is baseless and unfounded. Why would a professor be allow to visit more than two universities in a month? How would he cover the contact hours and quality delivery to students if he has to visit three, four, five and etc universities? All for money. Who are then killing the university education from within? Why would this malpractice be allow simply because it is ASUU. Respect should be earn through honesty. What is revitalization? Who will source over N1 trillion naira and throw it to universities for unspecified projects and look the other way? This will never happen. How many universities judiciously utilized the money given by President Goodluck Jonathan for Needs Assessment Projects? Infact you will see better projects in State Universities than federal universities. Why is ASUU silent about this? Who actually benefits from major projects? University Management and Union officials as supervisors but not lecturers. TETFUND is doing good in their intervention projects in all universities, so why this revitalization again? Why is ASUU drifting away from sourcing welfare of its members and targeting revitalization? Are they fighting for its members of universities management? As it is now, majority of ASUU member have gone to Abuja and enrolled for the IPPIS because the deception is too much. No government in the history of Nigeria is interested in education, so only sincerity of purpose, honesty and transparency in side of ASUU would defeat them and not stupid pride and propaganda. If Nigerian Universities are winning research grants and do the research, they would have solve their problems and earn more respect. Does it take new laboratory or office to put up an application for a good research? If ASUU had being encouraging good research, things would not have being this bad. You cannot help a politicians to rig elections and expect them to respect you. *Copied* |
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