Brandonx:
The sad truth! Why can't ASUU look for an alternative way of making demands the striking strategy is stale and obsolete as it has not done much good to the students who are always at the receiving ends.

as far Nigeria is concern, there is no alternative. Your government only understands violence (physical or mental). You suppose to know this fact.

Rilwayne001:
If only government will not pay them for all the months they didn't work, I'm sure they would have resumed tey tey!!

This whole thing is frustrating and really painful. Our time and career path is being derailed for the selfish interest of those old fools, both in FG and ASUU. Unfortunately no one to help the poor common man kids.

There's nothing in that head of hour's except two little white stones like that of ice fish.



They should not pay them yet some of you dummies celebrates the jumbo salaries of senators and house of rep members for doing nothing.

CzarChris:
This is an outrage, a government sponsored propaganda machine and brash blackmail, but no matter. So ASUU is now the villain for fighting for proper and dignified educational environment don't forget ASUU is asking for 110billion naira for revitalization of the universities, this money is not for ASUU members, it's still this FG that will issue contracts to build proper infrastructure in the public universities or are we comfortable seeing pictures and videos of students sitting on the floor in over crowded lecture rooms? Don't get me started on the lack of basic laboratory equipment and reagents for the students to instruct students with. Nigerian lecturers are among the lowest paid in Africa, so to be paid what is at par with there colleagues in other places in Africa is now a crime? Look, I won't speak on this again on this platform, but if the Nigerian citizenry don't stand behind ASUU to win this battle, then our public education in Nigeria is totally finished. The present academics won't loose out, considering that Nigerian academics are highly sort after outside the shores of this country(what with the introduction of professional visa by the UAE). At the end of the day, the children of the poor will suffer it.
And what's very amazing is the speed at which this article will spread all over the country today, because it's government sponsored. Our nairaland Mods, I greet o!!!

Forget about the Revitalization of the university as ASUU state it to be.

Why did ASUU allow government to pay 30 billion for EAA and only 20 billion for Revitalization of University they use as blackmail.
Not all of us reason along with ASUU line of reasoning.
They are selfish, egocentric and callous.

Tell me how many unions gets attention like ASUU in this country.

By the time government is pushed to the wall and implement privatisation of University of force them to take pay cut or no salary for the months of absence, they will know that they also need to compromise some of their demands.

Ghostmode2two:
Both ASUU and FG are selfish in their pursuit. This country is full of lies.

everyone is selfish. Government, ASUU and the students. Students are only concerned about themselves (their academics) not minding if their lecturers are short-change, paid (eat) or not; now, tell me if that is not selfishness.
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Some of the students are lecturers' children, now imagine such students crying for their father to resume when his father is yet to be paid the money that will be used for the child's school fees and feeding. We are all selfish.
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The government is a cheat and a criminal, history has taught me never to trust them.

Gabbriell:



Government PPP (pay per post) agent.

Only if government do the right thing rather than paying urchins like you to spew nonsense online...then the strike will come to an end.

Few persons hiding under new profiles to post trash. If u cannot use your usual account (profile) it means people already know u are a sell out.

Skynet45's profile

Do government do everything students, teachers, artisans, masses etc want. why must ASUU always bent on getting everything they solicit for.

People only talk about the way FG do not yield to their demands but not how ASUU too spoil university system with their attitudes that FG wish to use IPPIS to correct.

Umemploment
Half baked graduates
These are few of what it will correct.

oyatainer:



Forget about the Revitalization of the university as ASUU state it to be.

Why did ASUU allow government to pay 30 billion for EAA and only 20 billion for Revitalization of University they use as blackmail.
Not all of us reason along with ASUU line of reasoning.
They are selfish, egocentric and callous.

Tell me how many unions gets attention like ASUU in this country.

By the time government is pushed to the wall and implement privatisation of University of force them to take pay cut or no salary for the months of absence, they will know that they also need to compromise some of their demands.

I hope you have have been reading the news, ASUU rejected the ₦30b EAA and asked for the revitalization fund to be increased from ₦20b to ₦110b. If ASUU was selfish, they would have accepted the EAA and we will go back to business as usual. But ASUU is fighting for everybody, but the public seems not to see it that way. I believe ASUU should just accept the EAA and forget about the university revitalization. The public will suffer it more not ASUU.

DropsMic:
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Na government sponsored journalist write this one..

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This OP is fooling himself!
Instead of going to history of education decadents,he was so miopic that he proved himself as a mole,an agent of government with brown envelope!
•Was it not U I,UNILAG and others that some African Countries came to receive tutorial,even in setting up their own Universities ? Why can't they be better now?
•This OP was blinded as he could not prove to the Naira FORUM readers that the money ASUU was asking for couldn't be compared to Billions and Trillions of Political Campaign Funds being used illegally or stolen in most Parastatals of government of both the APC and PDP then!
• For once,an objective writer should have shown the great infrastructural deficit in major Nigerian Public Universities as compared to those in other Universities in West Africa or even Africa( South Africa,Egypt-) as a whole!
Do you know as at today,Ghana is charging American Dollars($) as School Fees to any African/ West African Students-no more Cedi- which is the original Currency! Funny enough,we still talk about West Africa Currency- rubbish and nonsense talk!
•Why are Private Universities climbing to ascendancy if not that most of the government Officials are major patronizers having stolen so much of public funds.Anyway,the Ministers have no stake or any Children in our Public Universities!
•The OP is a disaster and pretended that all is well with our Public Universities,in terms of Funding,Research and Development,Space Exploration,Engineering Medicine,Law Reforms System-For example,a case of over -10 years is still pending in an Appeal Court in Nigeria- just because a National Industrial Judge looked the other way in deciding a glaring injustice of dismissal of a Staff in a Company- the Staff Disciplinary Committee (-SDC) that a company established did not sat on the staff matter and because the MD of the Company and the inspector decided who should stay,yet other Staff still went through the SDC! while should you a Company allow some Staff to appear before -SDC and others not to appear,yet a High Court Judge jurisdiction couldn't summon enough courage to tell an Organization that'you are wrong in your method of punishment of Staff!
A University is an academic institutions-to train,teach, research,mould the generation of youth, to become responsible but in Nigeria,we have constant political interference that are undermining the very existence of these institutions.
When last have the Professor's gone on Sabbatical leave for them to be updated in their fields? Ah,the government wants to know how much the Varsity Teachers are earnings! Was it not the reasons why they are called the Ivory Towers-special in the first instance?
The truth is that we are ALL in it!
If Nigeria is good,the better for us and our children,we are all in it.In fact a time will come when America,UK,Europe and even Canada will chase the black home,like Covid-19,if care is not taken.
God save Nigeria.

Fuckyoumod:
this is lost I'm the world.
Small boy, grow up! ASUU cares about nothing but themselves!

everyone cares about themselves, not just ASUU. If you are a students or a parent you only care about your academic or your ward not minding the welfare of the people teaching your ward. Is that not selfishness?

Na Nation write am, I nor surprise.

obami007:
Aside the pay ASUU is pushing for, they also want the public schools to be better than what it currently is

This is never one of their core objectives. ASUU is using the public as a shield to whip up public sentiment. If you want to argue, ask yourself, how do they manage the little internally generated revenue within the campus; it's just to further their ostentatious lifestyles.

obami007:
Aside the pay ASUU is pushing for, they also want the public schools to be better than what it currently is

Lol... How old are you??

ASUU don't care about any university or the students. They are fighting for themselves.

Most Profs in the governing council of our Universities are even worse than Buhari in economy, embezzlement and tyranny.

oyatainer:



Do government do everything students, teachers, artisans, masses etc want. why must ASUU always bent on getting everything they solicit for.

People only talk about the way FG do not yield to their demands but not how ASUU too spoil university system with their attitudes that FG wish to use IPPIS to correct.

Umemploment
Half baked graduates
These are few of what it will correct.

Promise and fail is never a good thing. The goverment signed an agreement with ASUU..they should simply honour that agreement.

About IPPIS..it's a good move to tackle corruption. But IPPIS alone cannot tackle corruption. Some staffs are being paid inconsistent salaries for no good reason..FG have to fixed that.

My only problem with ASUU is why they decide to go on a strike at a time like this (COVID-19 palava) when the country is struggling. Its a really bad decision because times like this, it will be hard for the FG to caugh out money anyhow.

I really hope both parties can come together as one...think as one and move this country forward. This Tom and Jerry attitude is never a good thong. It is disgraceful

Alexis11:


Lol... How old are you??

ASUU don't care about any university or the students. They are fighting for themselves.

Most Profs in the governing council of our Universities are even worse than Buhari in economy, embezzlement and tyranny.

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MT:


This is never one of their core objectives. ASUU is using the public as a shield to whip up public sentiment. If you want to argue, ask yourself, how do they manage the little internally generated revenue within the campus; it's just to further their ostentatious lifestyles.

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enirock:
If truly you believe the above, then you would believe when a politician tells you that a borehole would be dug in the middle of river Niger. Assu is just using the betterment as a ploy to get the wages government had failed to pay. Its always been self interest. Follow the discussions and see.

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Grupo:

Lol. This is not true. Don't be naive.

ASUU only fights for more and more pay.

k

Fuckyoumod:
this is lost I'm the world.
Small boy, grow up! ASUU cares about nothing but themselves!

k

Enough is enough!! Two wrong does not make a right!!
ASUU should go back to class.
This is not ASUU fight alone, it is the fight of everybody because no system (not just the university) is working!!
The university, polytechnic, college of education, security, agriculture, transportation, water, electricity and so on.

None is working?

It is beyond ASUU fight!!

Birchi33:

This is a lie.is that the reason why ASUU chairman take his child to study abroad?

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9jatriot:
FG should have a second tier of University lecturers outsourced to an agency on contract basis to work side by side present ASUU, that way anytime ASUU go on their stupid strike, those contract lecturers can continue and ensure that academic calendar is never disrupted.
Nonsense.

Number of months in a year: 12 months
Number of months ASUU goes on strike: 10 months
Number of months paid salary: 12 months (without working)
Number of years students get to spend in school: 4 years + x, where x is unknown.

Students loss over number of extra unsolicited years spent in school, FG loses money paid to lazy lecturers who receive salaries without working only ASUU gains because they get to receive their salary whether or non they go on strike throughout their career.

you sound as if ASUU just go on strike for no just cause. Is it not crazy that on organisation just decide to strike for no reason? If this is true, then the government have no reason meeting inconclusively with them weekly.
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Outsource standby lecturers, and the government will not owe them, maybe they will be doing humanitarian services. Thesame government you guys continually lambasted has finally become saint because of ASUU? If you guys trust the government that much why continue the endsars protest even while it have been disbanded? Hypocrisy and acute selfishness is a general attitude of every Nigeria students.

shadeyinka:

But what would have happened if government took actions well before ASUU called on the strike?

Would they still have gone on strike?

Good question

Many Nigerians are a lost cause

Look at the kind of thing they are talking here

The real culprits are the federal government here
If the FG got its act together
All these wont be happening

NOwazobia:
you sound as if ASUU just go on strike for no just cause. Is it not crazy that on organisation just decide to strike for no reason? If this is true, then the government have no reason meeting inconclusively with them weekly.
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Outsource standby lecturers, and the government will not owe them, maybe they will be doing humanitarian services. Thesame government you guys continually lambasted has finally become saint because of ASUU? If you guys trust the government that much why continue the endsars protest even while it have been disbanded? Hypocrisy and acute selfishness is a general attitude of every Nigeria students.

Well said

CzarChris:
I hope you have have been reading the news, ASUU rejected the ₦30b EAA and asked for the revitalization fund to be increased from ₦20b to ₦110b. If ASUU was selfish, they would have accepted the EAA and we will go back to business as usual. But ASUU is fighting for everybody, but the public seems not to see it that way. I believe ASUU should just accept the EAA and forget about the university revitalization. The public will suffer it more not ASUU.

ASUU is not fighting for everybody but themselves. ASUU wants the #30 billion naira FG offered them alone not minding others in the university system.

let's wait and see who wins. If I happens to be the president, they will cry tire. I will sponsor no work no pay in the legislature and allow them to go on strike.

Had it been it is that feasible to release the Revitalization funds, Jonathan would have done it since considering his generosity, his familiarity with academic and buoyancy of economy back then. Yet we know how many time ASUU resorted to strike during his regime.

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:

They want a better pay, that I know. But about public schools being better, forget it. Those guys are fuccking disgusting. They rogues just as much as the Government. ASUU in in part responsible for the rot in infrastructure in universities.

if ASUU was to strike for the betterment of universities, won't the students abuse them for going on strike when they have already been paid their personal salaries and the available ones should be manage? What is hypocrisy again?

Are you on strike because you have not been paid salary?
Is that the new lie? Is FG owing you salary, are you guys not going to be paid for the months you are on strike.
Banks, private and many oil and gas companies uses these contract model and they will not be owed.

The foolishness of those who continued their protest after FG agreed to their demands are now glaring for all to see. Heightened insecurity and businesses of ordinary citizens ruined are not far from us.

You guys should go and work in a bank and try going on strike for even one day and see if you will still have a job.

NOwazobia:
you sound as if ASUU just go on strike for no just cause. Is it not crazy that on organisation just decide to strike for no reason? If this is true, then the government have no reason meeting inconclusively with them weekly.
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Outsource standby lecturers, and the government will not owe them, maybe they will be doing humanitarian services. Thesame government you guys continually lambasted has finally become saint because of ASUU? If you guys trust the government that much why continue the endsars protest even while it have been disbanded? Hypocrisy and acute selfishness is a general attitude of every Nigeria students.

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CzarChris:
I hope you have have been reading the news, ASUU rejected the ₦30b EAA and asked for the revitalization fund to be increased from ₦20b to ₦110b. If ASUU was selfish, they would have accepted the EAA and we will go back to business as usual. But ASUU is fighting for everybody, but the public seems not to see it that way. I believe ASUU should just accept the EAA and forget about the university revitalization. The public will suffer it more not ASUU.

Lies!!!

ASUU accepted and even appreciated the FG but refused further negotiation when government told them to enroll on IPPIS first.

TopeQs:




You may be right. As for they hundreds of millions pumped into institutions, how sure are you that that money isn't just their salaries, the budget for education get smaller each year.

I'm not backing ASUU totally, I'm supposed to be ready for service right now, I'm as frustrated as you are probably. I'm just saying, if government pay ASUU their money, would there be need for strike? And please, don't say IPPIS, I hate ASUU for that reason. I believe if FG pays ASUU well and on time, they'll be no need to counter IPPIS by ASUU, but I don't know the full story on that.

The meeting between them is just like an abusive relationship, you would always think they're going to change you'll agree to stop fighting, yet another promise is broken. You get mad again, fight for months and reconcile, and the cycle continues.

My point is, they are both at fault, we just seem to target ASUU more, forgetting that it's the government's fault..

No one is targeting ASUU more. They're trying to play the victim card which is a big lie.

Skynet45:

https://thenationonlineng.net/hurray-ASUU-wants-prompt-pay-for-endless-strikes/

This writer Is Obviously Govt sponsored. You think ASUU enjoys going on strike? ASUU embarks on strike as a last resort. You can't beat a child and tell the child not cry. Infact it is very selfish and unfair for anyone ( Parent or student) to be accusing and calling out ASUU for being selfish and embarking on strike while you are doing the same thing- just looking out for your own interest without minding how the teachers feel. You can't tell me that if you were earning 100k and you were expecting an increase in your salary and all of sudden your employer starts playing you 80k because he is now using a new platform for payment. I am sure you will be very happy and will clap for that employer. Before you condemn anyone put yourself in their shoes. I just gave an illustration above of one of the reason why ASUU is on strike.

Decimus:
No matter what, you don't have the right to abscond from your work for 9 months in the name of strike and still expect to get fully paid for those 9 months before going back to work.

You think ASUU enjoys going on strike? ASUU. For your information they have not been paid for about 5 months. ASUU only embarks on strike as a last resort. You can't beat a child and tell the child not cry. Infact it is very selfish and unfair for anyone ( Parent or student) to be accusing and calling out ASUU for being selfish and embarking on strike while you are doing the same thing- just looking out for your own interest without minding how the teachers feel. You can't tell me that if you were earning 100k and you were expecting an increase in your salary and all of sudden your employer starts paying you 80k because he is now using a new platform for payment. I am sure you will be very happy and will clap for that employer. Please before condemning anyone, put yourself in their shoes. I just gave an illustration above of one of the reason why ASUU is on strike.

Alexis11:


Lies!!!

ASUU accepted and even appreciated the FG but refused further negotiation when government told them to enroll on IPPIS first.

Please Google that statement I made. Thank you.

Rilwayne001:
If only government will not pay them for all the months they didn't work, I'm sure they would have resumed tey tey!!

This whole thing is frustrating and really painful. Our time and career path is being derailed for the selfish interest of those old fools, both in FG and ASUU. Unfortunately no one to help the poor common man kids.

The constitution needs to be reviewed.

Any Strike action lasting more than 3 months should not get full payment afterwards.

Alternatively, salary breakdown should be initiated, and the part for teaching will not be paid during strike actions unless some teaching is done