wka—THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, said yesterday that no government–owned university had received funding from the N200 billion earmarked for revitalizing the university education in 2014, one year after it reached an agreement with the federal government on the matter.


File Photo: Cross section of stakeholders at a meeting to review the ongoing strike by ASUU held at the Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan. Photo by Dare Fasube

Chairman of Nnamdi Azikiwe University branch of ASUU, Dennis Aribidor, who spoke in Awka, as part of activities marking the one anniversary of the killing of former ASUU president, Professor Festus Iyayi, by the convoy of Kogi State governor, Captain Idris Wada, said the conditions that led to the strike were still there in the universities.

Aribodor expressed worry that tension was again mounting among the unions in the institutions, regretting also that no university had received money to pay arrears of earned allowances owed staff from 2009 to 2013, as agreed with government, apart from the 30 per cent released during the ASUU strike.

Noting that it would appear that what Iyayi was fighting for before his life was cut short was in vain, the ASUU chairman observed that the most fundamental problem bedeviling the educational system in Nigeria was that emphasis was placed on self enrichment and individual aggrandizement, instead of emphasizing knowledge acquisition geared towards public good and national development.

He said: “Nigerian educational system is characterized by chronic underfunding, bad leadership, infrastructural decay, poor conditions of learning and service, promotion of mediocrity, shortage of personnel and entrenchment of orthodoxy, parochialism and chauvinism.”

He insisted that ASUU would continue to reject what he called ‘the ongoing systematic privatization of education and selling off of public educational institutions.’”

Na wa oooo. New movie: Fed govt VS ASUU. season 3 (coming soon)

K

Make dem let me graduate first abeg.....i don too stay for school.... dem turn 6years course to 8years

there is no end in sight to this drama yet. Btw op, what is the source?

JonTAN bring back our Professor Festus Iyayi

egift:

Lol...

On behalf of FG: Fund will be release after after election , so no cause for alarm

Odikwa very risky.

dridowu:
On behalf of FG: Fund will be release after after election , so no cause for alarm

Buhaha.


I have been asking students if they have seen something tangible that was built with the money FG gave ASUU and the response I'd get is nothing is happening.

stale news....the photo news tells the whole story.

I hope another 6 months strike I'm smelling isn't real.

is anyone surprised? A government of lies and deceit. they shall all be swept to jail or their villages come 2015

the government is full of lies

Really?
So ASUU's matter is yet unsettled?

egift:

I laughTED in Swahili

OP where is d source

abeg I take God beg una. ....make una no strike o....

FG is synonymous with lies