DonColz1: The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday advised parents not to endanger the lives of their children and wards by sending them to their university campuses.
ASUU which also told its members not to sign attendance registers in their institutions, lashed out at the Federal Government for lack of consistency in its statements on the ongoing strike.
The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, had at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday, warned that any ASUU member that failed to resume on or before Wednesday would be sacked.
Wike also directed vice-chancellors to advertise vacancies (internal and external) in their institutions.
He told the vice-chancellors to open attendance registers for lecturers that resumed in their universities.
The Federal Government then directed the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, to deploy policemen in all the federal universities.
On Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan, who described the strike by the university teachers as a “subversive action,” added that ASUU had ceased to be a trade union.
But the Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Dr. Segun Ajiboye, said parents should keep their children and wards at home as no academic activity would resume until the five-month-old strike was called off.
Ajiboye added, “Don’t risk the lives of your children and wards. Keep them at home because ASUU will not teach. Soldiers and the police deployed by the Federal Government will not teach. Wike can come and teach in the universities. It is a huge joke to sack lecturers. Our strike must not be in vain. Our students must see the results.
“It is funny. We thought we are in a democracy. I assure Nigerians that we know what the law says about the strike. Our job is statue backed. We are not threatened. “We do not trust the government. The record of the government is clear. This government is dishonouring agreements. Our members are resolved to pursue this to a logical conclusion.”
Ajiboye also said that the Federal Government’s stance was from a script that was played out by the military administration of Ibrahim Babangida in the 1990s.
He stated, “Dear members, stay calm and remain resolute. There is nothing wrong in asking government to do what it says it will do immediately. ASUU is not making any new demands as the supervising minister is propagating. Government is only repeating a ‘one act play’ scripted by the IBB dictatorship in early 90s. It didn’t work then, and, it won’t work now. All branches are intact. We cannot be intimidated.
“If ASUU could withstand Babangida, this government cannot threaten us. We have worked this road before, the only thing that will work is peaceful resolution. It is sad that government wants to sack us because we are asking for the resolutions. We are ready to be sacked but government should learn from the University of Ilorin experience. We are going to stay the course.”
ASUU President, Dr. Nassir Fagge, urged university teachers on Sunday not to sign any attendance register.
Fagge, in a message to the UI chapter , urged the lecturers to be resolute in their demands despite the threat of insecurity to their jobs.
He said, “Comrades, can you see the unfolding drama? Now Jonathan says they didn’t give ultimatum. That the vice -chancellors did and Wike became their trumpet. But NUC’s (National Universities Commission) ultimatum is by the Federal Government to us to resume or get sacked.
“Wike’s press address says ‘FG has directed’ not ‘VCs have directed.’ Be calm, stay resolute. By God’s grace, we are on course.”
The Chairman, University of Lagos chapter of the union, Dr. Karol Ogbinaka, said Jonathan’s description of the strike as a “subversive action,” was unfortunate.
“How can our action be subversive when we do not have arms and ammunition? We take exception to that. We are academics not coup plotters. I have a feeling he was misquoted. I wish to deny this on his behalf because it is an extreme statement,” Ogbinaka said.
He also faulted the buck passing on the directive to reopen universities, saying it pointed to the fact that the government was “somersaulting.”
According to him, the Federal Government is now shifting the blame among the pro-chancellors, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Wike.
But the Presidency on Sunday insisted that those behind the strike were enemies of the state.
It said this could be the reason why the ASUU leadership refused to call off the strike even when 42 out of its 61 chapters voted against its continuation.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, stated these at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday.
He wondered why the leadership of the union also refused to call off the strike even after its 13-hour meeting with the President.

Idi Amin: I can now authoritatively confirm that ASUU leader is high on marijuana. How on earth does he think that an ordinary selfish body like ASUU can stop a presidential directive. GEJ should sack that 1diot from his job, let me see how he will continue as ASUU chairman when he joins ladipo market traders association. Non sense

luvinhubby: ASUU is claiming democracy when it's national executive is grossly undemocratic.
42 out of 61 chapters voted against the strike, why continue?

ASUU will not teach. Soldiers and the police
deployed by the Federal Government will not
teach. Wike can come and teach in the
universities. It is a huge joke to sack lecturers.

Obere4u: 42 out of 61 voted for the strike to b called off, but in that 42 some members voted with a clause that the government should let AGN, CBN govo, and NLC to signed d agreement. Is it too much to ask?....

Bossforeva: Girls are very wicked creatures,Infact not only girls,It is every female creature.For example,-Femaledogs becomes wicked when they give birth-Female chickens chases people when they give birth too-Male lions don't eat humans no matter how hungry they are, but female lions do.-Female human beings spend average 30yrs of their lives asking for recharge cards.The most annoying one is..-It is the female mosquitoes that transmit Malaria.Gosh! Federal Gov't need to do something about this females starting from Nairaland Girls before they kill us all o0.. Abeg make una look into my Siggy and vote it works on Computers and phones on desktop views. U need to like the Facebook page b4 u can vote 4 Timothy Chukwunwogor. Tnx AS 4 ASUU STRIKE, I SENSE COUP D' ETAT WHERE ARMY GENERALS, BECOMEs D NEXT VC.

ubongutioh: ASUU de madt o. Advice of the century. Maybe they think parent and students are still in support of them.

Bossforeva: Girls are very wicked creatures,Infact not only girls,It is every female creature.For example,-Femaledogs becomes wicked when they give birth-Female chickens chases people when they give birth too-Male lions don't eat humans no matter how hungry they are, but female lions do.-Female human beings spend average 30yrs of their lives asking for recharge cards.The most annoying one is..-It is the female mosquitoes that transmit Malaria.Gosh! Federal Gov't need to do something about this females starting from Nairaland Girls before they kill us all o0.. Abeg make una look into my Siggy and vote it works on Computers and phones on desktop views. U need to like the Facebook page b4 u can vote 4 Timothy Chukwunwogor. Tnx AS 4 ASUU STRIKE, I SENSE COUP D' ETAT WHERE ARMY GENERALS, BECOMEs D NEXT VC.

Bossforeva: Girls are very wicked creatures,Infact not only girls,It is every female creature.For example,-Femaledogs becomes wicked when they give birth-Female chickens chases people when they give birth too-Male lions don't eat humans no matter how hungry they are, but female lions do.-Female human beings spend average 30yrs of their lives asking for recharge cards.The most annoying one is..-It is the female mosquitoes that transmit Malaria.Gosh! Federal Gov't need to do something about this females starting from Nairaland Girls before they kill us all o0.. Abeg make una look into my Siggy and vote it works on Computers and phones on desktop views. U need to like the Facebook page b4 u can vote 4 Timothy Chukwunwogor. Tnx AS 4 ASUU STRIKE, I SENSE COUP D' ETAT WHERE ARMY GENERALS, BECOMEs D NEXT VC.

Obere4u: 42 out of 61 voted for the strike to b called off, but in that 42 some members voted with a clause that the government should let AGN, CBN govo, and NLC to signed d agreement. Is it too much to ask?....

Bossforeva: Girls are very wicked creatures,Infact not only girls,It is every female creature.For example,-Femaledogs becomes wicked when they give birth-Female chickens chases people when they give birth too-Male lions don't eat humans no matter how hungry they are, but female lions do.-Female human beings spend average 30yrs of their lives asking for recharge cards.The most annoying one is..-It is the female mosquitoes that transmit Malaria.Gosh! Federal Gov't need to do something about this females starting from Nairaland Girls before they kill us all o0.. Abeg make una look into my Siggy and vote it works on Computers and phones on desktop views. U need to like the Facebook page b4 u can vote 4 Timothy Chukwunwogor. Tnx AS 4 ASUU STRIKE, I SENSE COUP D' ETAT WHERE ARMY GENERALS, BECOMEs D NEXT VC.

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Chidera Favour: I don't understand the stand of federal government again, what is too hard in what ASUU have said? Fg promised to be giving ASUU 220b yearly for five years and ASUU accepted it just that it must be in written form and sign by different corporation(central Bank and co.), secondly, their four months salary must be paid to them. Then if government is really serious about Nigerian student why can't they pay ASUU their four months salary and let the suposed corporation to sign the agreement? And everybody is busy pouring blame and insult on ASUU, please lets call a spade a spade. Okay even if they succeed in sacking all the lecturers and employ new ones won't they be paying them? won't they be spending in renovating schools if the need arise? Yes I am 200L student been affecting by this strike but am not siding government in this things, I don't see anything too hard in those ASUU's conditions

uzeba: Iheabunike Duke Obinna
Have u seen what the nation is sliding into? All
the schools in SW have not responded yet, but
almost all the schools in SE and SS have
responded. The ones in NW and NE are yet to
open but some in NC have opened. Are u
reading meaning in what ASUU has turned into?
Political group. That is ASUU now

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