slap1: Maybe he just heard it the first time in a Nollywood 'movie'.

slap1: Maybe he just heard it the first time in a Nollywood 'movie'.

slap1: Maybe he just heard it the first time in a Nollywood 'movie'.

ojubi: Sad but that is the bitter truth.
The government never sat in One table with ASUU as partners to draft the said agreement.
During the presidency of YARADUA ASSU single handedly drafted that agreement and forced the government with series of strikes to assent it, which they did due to public out cry to stop the strike then.
But come to think of it ASUU wanting the addition of another 90 billion naira to their recurrent expenditure is crazy, once the fed govt agree to do it the state universities will ask for the same amount and trust me state governments will never be able to pay the money.
If they eventually have their way which i doubt then we should be ready for the worse because the price of school fees will sky rocket and an average Nigerian will not be able to acquire university education.
Workers from other sectors will also come out and tell the government; you raise ASSU budget by 90 billion, we need a raise too which is not healthy for the economy at the moment especially with the oil theft.
So ASSU just need to find a way to lower their expectation.

muredo: BUT THEY CAN GIVE NOLLYWOOD 35 BILLION,CRAZY COUNTRY OF OURS

hillsate: Only an irresponsible government will even contemplate a mutually agreed and signed agreement.

What in God's name is minister of labour trying to say about the agreement being inherited? That's foolish. Government cannot talk about inheriting anything. Government is seen as government. Goodluck was vice president when the agreement was reached and signed. Why don't they refuse loans collected or money piled up in the reserves by predecessors?

We have bunch of non sane persons in govt. I even heard one talking about Nigerians now enjoying 16hrs of light. I guess he means sunlight.

A government that can raise 500 million naira to spend on a 3hrs party is talking about inability to meet ASUU demands.

A government that has budgeted some serious money to buy two additional private jets to add to the existing 8 functional jets is talking about inability to meet ASUU demands.

A government that budgeted 4 billion naira to build a complex for Patience Jonathan in the name of NGO is talking about inability to meet ASUU demands.

What a Nigeria!

EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS

WANICEDUDE: U people dnt undstand. B4 i bcme a lecturer it was nt easw.a lot of strikes during my phd.spent a lot of money to run diz programmes. Fg should take cø care of us. I bet it final yr studnts will nt graduate diz year

ojubi: Agreement with ASUU can’t be implemented, says govt

3 hours ago
A DECLARATION that is likely to infuriate the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and further aggravate the on-going industrial action by the union has come from the Federal Government Tuesday in Abuja when it said that the agreement reached with ASUU is impossible to implement by its nature. 

  However, it was quick to express his optimism of finding a way out of the quagmire soon. 

  The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chukwuemeka Wogu, made this known when he appeared before the People Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) Tuesday  to render his achievements as a minister, appointed under the platform of the ruling party. 

  Wogu, who was briefing the Bamanga Tukur-led committee at the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the PDP made the relative industrial peace and harmony being enjoyed over a long time in the country, employment and job creation, social security and improvement in the national minimum wage and its implementation as vital highlights of his performance. 

  He told the PDP national chairman and his members of committee that he met on ground an agreement signed by the previous government with ASUU when he resumed as the Minister of Labour, but stated that the agreement is impossible to implement. 

  But the minister declared that the present administration, led by President Goodluck Jonathan is finding a way out and doing everything possible to resolve the issue to the satisfaction of everybody.

  His words: “I inherited an agreement signed by the Federal Government with ASUU and that agreement is practically impossible for any administration to implement. We are still discussing with them, if I leave here, I am going to the Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) where we are meeting with them. I hope that very soon, we will resolve it.”

  On the job creation efforts of the government, he stated that presently the Community Service Scheme Women and Youth Empowerment Programme of the Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) of the Federal Government has already engaged 120,000 persons out of the 185,000 targeted for the year 2013.

  He pointed out that as social security is an evolving structure, Nigeria is still basically trying to grow the concept to an acceptable international standard.

  “We are at the stage of putting in place a social security policy that would reflect the nation’s needs and level of economic development, taking into consideration the traditional as well as the modern socio-cultural values and norms,” he said.

  Wogu also stressed that the passage of the Employee Compensation Act in 2010 has resuscitated the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund and it is now spearheading the Employees Compensation Scheme for workers that sustain injury in the workplace.

  He also disclosed that the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) is the leading agency in job creation efforts, specialising in skills acquisition and empowerment of the unemployed.

 

SOURCE: Guardian.

ojubi: Sad but that is the bitter truth.
The government never sat in One table with ASUU as partners to draft the said agreement.
During the presidency of YARADUA ASSU single handedly drafted that agreement and forced the government with series of strikes to assent it, which they did due to public out cry to stop the strike then.
But come to think of it ASUU wanting the addition of another 90 billion naira to their recurrent expenditure is crazy, once the fed govt agree to do it the state universities will ask for the same amount and trust me state governments will never be able to pay the money.
If they eventually have their way which i doubt then we should be ready for the worse because the price of school fees will sky rocket and an average Nigerian will not be able to acquire university education.
Workers from other sectors will also come out and tell the government; you raise ASSU budget by 90 billion, we need a raise too which is not healthy for the economy at the moment especially with the oil theft.
So ASSU just need to find a way to lower their expectation.

ITbomb:
Point 1. It has come to a point that Nigerians should not be asking just for university education BUT QUALITY UNIVERSITY EDUCATION which the present funding cannot provide. When Nigeria signed the UNICEF agreement to provide more allocation for education, didnt they know that other sector existed. They should have said, 'no we dont care about education, we are not going to sign this'.
Point 2. We already have classes in the tertiary education. Trying to play level ground is what is keeping Nigeria from growing as per Federal Character. THere should be no issues in establishing premium Federal Universities for those who can afford it and scholarship for brillant ones who cannot afford it. States can provide only what they can afford and must not be drawn into unfair competition. But healty competition for quality is allowed.
Point 3. This is not a question of ASUU lowering their expectation. It is a crisis call for the tertiary educational dysfunctionality in Nigeria to be corrected. If we must improve on the quality of life and lower corruption, then education should be given high priority.
The strike should continue until we see university labs fitted with adequate bunsen burners, Class ratio lowered from the current average of 400:1 by employing more lecturers and building more lecture halls, Research Centers established in Universities, companies partnering with University to train manpower, and of course the staff being paid enough to concentrate on teaching only and be able to compete with colleagues in other countries.

Asteriva:

Foreign lecturers in Nigeria?! Have you considered their wage, the working environment?...or you really think academics is business? Empty labs? Lol.

Lordave: Calm down. We understand how badly it affects you, and making all these noises on Nairaland won't solve anything.

slap1: Maybe he just heard it the first time in a Nollywood 'movie'.

slap1: Maybe he just heard it the first time in a Nollywood 'movie'.

BimiOne: we are doomed

Asteriva:

Foreign lecturers in Nigeria?! Have you considered their wage, the working environment?...or you really think academics is business? Empty labs? Lol.

datChelseaBoy: This ASUU too dey give trouble sef

amacastel: . Foreign lectures won't sale handout,sortout,miss class give impromptu quiz and assignment without teaching,sexually harass our female students,for payment check google u will see that nigeria lectures are among the best paid in Africa and some part of world yet they teach less and demand more if govt equip labs with less concerned lectures is as gud as the same the problem of our educational system is our lectures 1st b4 govt cos I went to sch of nursing here in nigeria u need to see how th lectures teach ,no hand out or sort out nobody sexually harass u wen u read u pass if u don't u are eliminated bt wen I got admission in unec 4 ma post bsc I am shock on wot I saw even the final year nursing student have not cover their syllabus theoretically so with other department yet they issue certificate to half baked graduates even 1st class to the most dumb student cos of money nigeria lectures are worse than politicians DO our lectures need lab to teach in class room let dem do their hom work 1st.I quietly withdraw soon I wil leave to uk to complete ma studies. ASUU don't Deserve dime from govt cos they won't use it 4 sch rada they will embezzle the fund period

amacastel: Well well this is absurd but the truth is this ASUU are the same with the govt the funds that are been given to them earlier wot have they been doing with it nothing I never know that govt give them dime b4 yet they sale hand out ,sort out,miss lectures,behave any how they want as if they are demi god let's not forget that GEJ is in the system b4 so he know wots up with ASUU and money we just need revolution I urge federal govt to employ foreign lectures then we will see a turn arund in our educational system cos our nigerian lectures are wicked,proud,arrogant even worse than the politicians bt these are people that dis country use their money to train I strongly support the federal govt on dis issue

hillsate:

What a shame. I had my succulent first degree some plenty years ago. I am really concerned for the generation coming on, for posterity, for my children . . .
Am also doing some advocacy on our educational state. We are making the noise everywhere. I can let you in on some government usernames here to make your silly head understand that noise on nairaland is taken seriously.

So stup1d, you that is not affected, what are you doing?

hillsate:

What a shame. I had my succulent first degree some plenty years ago. I am really concerned for the generation coming on, for posterity, for my children . . .
Am also doing some advocacy on our educational state. We are making the noise everywhere. I can let you in on some government usernames here to make your silly head understand that noise on nairaland is taken seriously.

So stup1d, you that is not affected, what are you doing?