Days after President Jonathan approved
N400 Billion injection into the Nigerian
Universities, the offer has been lowered
to 130 Billion, a move that caused
ASUU officials to reject the proposal
again for the second time.
According to Benue State Governor
Gabriel Suswam who is the Chairman of
the Universities Needs Implementation
Committee, ASUU should call off its
strike based on the N30 billion earned
allowances offer and another N100
billion promised injection into the
infrastructures in the 61 public
universities.- He said this to State
House correspondents on Tuesday
August 20, 2013.
Nigeria’s Federal Government on
Tuesday asked the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU to
reconsider its rejection of the N130
billion deal it offered it yesterday to call
off the national strike that has
grounded activities in public in
universities across the country for over
a month now.
Negotiation between the Federal
Government team, led by Governor
Gabriel Suswam of Benue State and the
University lecturers broke down
yesterday after government insisted on
the offer of N30 billion for the earned
allowances.
The Government had insisted that it
was the responsibility of the Governing
Council of the Universities to pay the
earned allowances.
The offer however was a far cry from
the N87 billion the teachers are asking
as the cumulated earned allowances of
staff based on the agreements reached
with the Federal Government in 2009
and ASUU wasted no time in rejecting
the offer.
The Governor added that the federal
government will meet the universities’
councils and vice chancellors later in
the week to brief them on government
decisions and to also certify those that
are really entitled to be paid from the
N30 billion to be released for the
earned allowances.
When Will ASUU Call Off Strike In
Nigeria
This negotiation seems to be going no
where.
So when willl ASUU call off strike?
Most Nigerian university students are
tired of staying at home.http://naijagists.com/ASUU-must-call-off-strike-over-n130-billion-fg-proposal-this-strikell-be-suspended-benue-governor/

Dafuq is wrong with that ASUU chairman? Does he want the FG to include cows in the negotiations?

To hell with them! If dey can't appreciate the little made dem go nack dia head for wall jorh. Allow the president concentrate on oda tinx, afterall rome wasn't built in a day. See boko haram, see 2015, see health workers, see polytechnic, and the good man from the south south means well for dis country. How dem want make him satisfy all of dem and deliver his campaign promises
Greedy bagaz

Nigeria and bullshit all the time. May God have mercy on us!!

My country's state is a sorry case..
Our hope for the future is dwindling. How long are we going to hope for? since my childhood, they've been saying Nigeria would get better, no! We are regressing!
Education that's meant to be our ray of hope is now a joke..
ASUU , FG pathetic !!!

We want implementation, not palliatives – ASUU

on August 22, 2013 at 12:12 am in News

By JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU

ABUJA — Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, said that the only thing that would make its striking members go back to the classrooms is the full implementation of the 2009 agreement and not any new offer or palliatives from the Federal Government.

President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, who stated this in a telephone interview with Vanguard in Abuja, said it was better to get it right once and for all instead of palliative measures that would not help the system compete with other universities in the world.

Fagge said that government had established the attitude of making promises without fulfilling them and that until the 2009 agreement was implemented, universities will remain closed.

Beyond offers

He said: “The problem is that we have gone beyond the point of making offers now. We have a comprehensive agreement, which was arrived at after three years of negotiation from 2006.

“We had demands from both sides— ASUU and government— and like I said earlier, we reduced those two demands into an agreement within three years of negotiations.

“And at this point, we are talking of the implementation of the agreement. So, at this point, government should not be talking or making offers. If government wasn’t ready to implement the agreement, government shouldn’t have signed the agreement.



‘Gov’s antics’

“What is becoming clear to us is that government is still going back to its usual antics. We signed an agreement.

“Government will just single out what affects the staff directly to implement and then expect them to go back and continue the deception in the system.

“Without good research, teaching and effective delivery of production of knowledge, universities cannot move and this is why the nation has been blaming us for the kind of students we are graduating in our universities.

“So what we are saying is that we are also tired of this. What we want is let the agreement be implemented and then we look at the impact of the implementation.

“Then if there is the need for us to review the situation, we will do it through another round of negotiations. But at this point, we are not talking about making offers. Government made offers on negotiation table between 2006 and 2009.”

Gov Aliyu denies report

Meanwhile, Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, yesterday, denied a media report that quoted him as saying that the team of negotiators on the side of the Federal Government in the ongoing talks with ASUU was incompetent.

A national daily (not Vanguard) had in a report, yesterday, quoted Aliyu as “doubting the abilities of the negotiators on the side of the Federal Government to achieve any breakthrough in the ongoing dialogue with the lecturers”

Governor Aliyu’s spokesman, Danladi Ndayebo, described the story as untrue, urging the reading public to disregard the report.

He said the report was misleading and did not reflect Governor Aliyu’s comments at the National Universities Commission, NUC, in Abuja, where the governor addressed a continental workshop on the 3rd Regional Centre of Expertise, RCE.

‘What he said’

Ndayebo said: “What Governor Aliyu said is that Federal Government can afford to offer free basic and senior secondary education, while heavily subsidising tertiary education if government officials cut down on spending public funds unnecessarily.

“Governor Aliyu then encouraged constant dialogue between labour unions and government, stressing that strikes were unheard of in other West African countries because there was constant dialogue between the unions and government.”

Confusion everywhere

It is very difficult for federal govt to invest money into education even wit committee but it is very easy to embezzle it even without committee. Why is it difficult for federal govt to give ASUU all it wants? Because d federal govt won't benefit directly frm it ryt? Must they even wait for ASUU to commence strike before they knw they shld avert it?