tpacalipse: ASUU can never be owed by anyone. Govt shall pay and its hands will be washed by water in case there are remnants sticking there. When ASUU calls off the strike, no pay no work policy would start again. For more than one year now, at every congress of ASUU, it has always been discoursed that this strike may go on for two years and the lecturers knew what they were in for before the strike commenced. No one will back down in this struggle to reposition the universities in this country. No work no pay will eventually become no pay no work. Govt will beg to pay and even ASUU will refuse to collect. They shall pay in multiple folds. Some of you think ASUU is like other toothless union in Naija. Or you think is like that agbero union some of ya papa belong to.

wesley80: So why were they in a hurry to share FG's money then? Keep kidding yourself I know a number of 'senior' lecturers that were already in a hole before this disbursement.

Cajetan speaks: Should a striking worker be paid in the first instance? Our labour laws need a serious and urgent review..

3ace: While your politicians continue to massively feed on our resources from the comfort of their homes and offices? I feel like crying at the moment because with this mindset, I doubt we will be able to deliver ourselves from these devils. In case you don't know, how problem is not epileptic power supply, poverty, bad roads, dilapidated health facilities, abysmal economy e.t.c, our problem is bad leadership. They are our problem, let's join hands and fight them.

neio: The sorting no reach them....bunch of academic kidnappers!! They should not tell us that they are fighting for the Universities....paid agents of private universities!

leofab:
and you think the only way to fight them is by joining them in the loot? There are still other sector7 that need to be restrategized. Think of Polytechnics, colleges, monotechnics, and othes tertiary institutions, not undermining the secondary and primary schools though. If ASUU Succeeds expect the likes from others too. Polytecnics, monotechnics, colleges, universities suffer thesame plight.

Midax & Phoenix:
These are excerpts of the agreement between ASUU and federal government for a better understanding of the impasse.

Establishment of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)/Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Re-Negotiation Committee
On Thursday, 14th December, 2006, the then Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. (Mrs.) Obiageli Ezekwesili, on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), inaugurated the FGN/ASUU Re-negotiation Committee comprising the FGN Re-negotiation Team led by the then

Pro-Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Deacon Gamaliel O. Onosode, OFR,

and the ASUU Re-negotiation Team led by the then President of ASUU, Dr. Abdullahi Sule-Kano.


TERMS OF REFERENCE
The single Term of Reference of the Committee was to re-negotiate the 2001 FGN/ASUU Agreement and enter into a workable Agreement. In the course of discussion, the Committee agreed that the essence of the Re-negotiation was:

(i) To reverse the decay in the University System, in order to reposition it for greater responsibilities in national development;
(ii) To reverse the brain drain, not only by enhancing the remuneration of academic staff, but also by disengaging them from the encumbrances of a unified civil service wage structure;
(iii) To restore Nigerian Universities, through immediate, massive and sustained financial intervention; and,
(iv) To ensure genuine university autonomy and academic freedom.

1.3 COMPOSITION OF THE FGN/ASUU RE-NEGOTIATION COMMITTEE
The FGN/ASUU Re-negotiation Committee comprised the following Members, Advisers, Observers and the Joint Secretariat:

1.3.1 GOVERNMENT RE-NEGOTIATION TEAM
(a) Deacon Gamaliel O. Onosode, OFR Immediate PastTeam Leader & Pro-Chancellor, Chairman, Re-NegoUniversity of Ibadan. tiation Committee
(
b) Prof. Musa Abdullahi Secretary General Member (Deceased CVC & Immediate 30th October, 2008)
Past Pro-Chancellor, University of Jos

(c ) Prof. Greg Iwu, OONImmediate Past ProChancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Member
(
d) Rev. Father T. E. UwaifoImmediate Past Pro-Chancellor, Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma. Member

(e) Barrister Emeka Nwankpa Former Pro-Chancellor, Abia State University, Uturu. Member

(f) Amb. Muh. Adamu Jumba Immediate Past Pro-Chancellor, Bayero University, Kano. Member
(g) Prof. Mahmood. Yakubu Executive Secretary, ETF Member Abuja
(h) Senator Abdalla Wali Former Pro-Chancellor, University of Technology,
Yola Member (until 23rd February, 2008)

1.3.2 ASUU RE-NEGOTIATION TEAM
(a) Dr. Abdullahi Sule-Kano President Team Leader (until May 2008)
(b) Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie President Team Leader
(from June, 2008) ( c) Dr. Oladipo FashinaMember
(d) Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson Member
(e) Dr. Ogban Ogban-Iyam Member
(f) Prof. Eskor Toyo Member
(g) Prof. Chukuka Okonjo Member
(h) Prof. Omotoye Olorode Member
(i) Dr. (Mrs) Nnenna N. OtiMember
(j) Prof. Olatunde Oduleye Member
(k) Dr. Biodun Onilude Member
(l) Prof. Idowu Awopetu Member
(m) Dr. Olugbenga Ogunbote Member
(n) Dr. Ralph Ofukwu Member
(o) Prof. Emmanuel Egia Okoegwale Member
(p) Prof. C. O. OrubuMember
(q) Dr. Nasir F. IsaMember ( r) Dr. Suleiman D. AbdulMember
(s) Dr. Festus Iyayi Member
And many others! There was a faculty of senior citizens as advisers and witness too!!



THE RESOLUTIONS AND AGREEMENTS..

Salary Structure for Academic Staff in Nigerian Universities
It was agreed that there shall be a separate Salary Structure for University Academic staff to be known as Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure II (CONUASS II), which is shown in Table 1. CONUASS II is made up of the following three components:
(a) The Consolidated Salary Structure for Academic Staff (CONUASS) approved by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) effective 1st January 2007 (FGN Circular SWC/S/04/S.309/1, dated 18th January, 2007).
(b) Consolidated Peculiar University Academic Allowances (CONPUAA), exclusively for university teaching staff and derived from allowances not adequately reflected or not consolidated in CONUASS.
(c) Rent as approved by the FGN effective 1st January 2007 (FGN Circular SWC/S/04/S.309/1, dated 18th January, 2007).


Earned Academic Allowances
It was agreed that entitled academic staff shall be paid the following earned allowances at the rates indicated for undertaking the listed assignments.

Postgraduate Supervision Allowance
(i) Lecturer I N15,000 per student, per annum
(ii) Senior Lecturer N20,000 per student, per annum
(iii) Reader & Professor N25,000 per student, per annum
This allowance shall be paid to the entitled academic staff for a maximum of 5 students per annum.
b. Teaching Practice/Industrial Supervision/Field Trip Allowances
(i) Assistant Lecturer – Lecturer I N60,000 per annum
(ii) Senior Lecturer N80,000 per annum
(iii) Reader & Professor N100,000 per annum
Where the work involves travelling out of town, the usual mileage and night allowances shall be paid in line with the existing Government regulations. Also, where a staff is involved in more than one of the above activities in a given year, he or she shallbe remunerated separately for each activity.
c. Honoraria for External/Internal Examiner (Postgraduate Thesis)
External
(i) Master’s degree N80,000 per thesis
(ii) Doctorate degree N105,000 per thesis
Internal
(i) Master’s degree N45,000 per thesis
(ii) Doctorate degree N65,000 per thesis

COTD

chemashie: FG will still pay the money no matter what. I don't see reason why they should do that when we know fully well that the money will still be paid.

dridowu: They are just keeping it for them for future use. They will pay it back when the strike is call off and if not another round of strike looms

Conceptz: Its nice like that, FG should stop paying them, keep the money in bank, let d money yield interests and then pay them all their salaries only when they resumed work

eluquenson: ASUU fighting for a just cause - Rehabilitation of Nigerian Universities & yet some people kept on barking here that the decision is wise not to be paid.
How will Nigeria develop with this way of doing things, here they support the govt, tomorrow they criticize the govt. Naija with bunch of hypocrites & clueless humans.
Nigerian Universities are ill-equiped, dilapidated..finish

BADNEAT: he's ryt...they've started sharing d 30 billA...everything is not about partisanship u knw