benjaminlawson:
Some of you in this forum are just commenting without deep taught, saying that lecturers should go and find another job is a useless talk. We already have brain drain in university system, if this government provoke them to leave. The problem we will be severed than what we experienced in medical sector. Though, we know it will not affect them because their children are studying abroad, so what ever happen to local education sector is of no concern to them. It has been advanced by many right thinking people that the government that want to apply no work no pay to ASUU turned blind eyes to NNPC refinery workers who have not been working for the past ten years, and are been paid with promotion as at when due. What kind of double standing is that in the same country. I seriously doubt it if hands the judges in this matter are not tide in this matter.

FG has been paying nnpc refinery workers for ten years without working.
Instead of you to admonish them to stop paying them, you rather want fg to extend such illegal payment to ASUU.
You must be a top ASUU advocate

IamDietiesGod:
"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn" Burt Bacharach

"A wise man is he who knows when and how to stop" Victor Hugo

This should have been ASSU some month ago, most especially after NIC verdict,


But ASSU and their gragra, even with their suppose intellects and wisdom fail to acknowledged;

"A wise man don't need advice. Fool won't take it" Benjamin Franklin.

Moreover, Ngige does not need this charade. After all, both him (FG) and ASSU are bird of a feather. Mad people.

You make sense but it's ASUU

Everlastingson:


Most of these people you engaged here are not using their brain at all. Instead of seeing that Buhari is destroying the University just like he has destroyed the economy they're instead blaming ASUU. Ignore them. Can you force lectures to teach after forcing them through fraudulent court injunction ( Buhari himself never obeys court order) to resume? Every other country in this world seeks to make their teachers at all levels happy. In Nigeria the govt is destroying education.

So ASUU embarking on strike is the solution to keep up with the quality of education right? You selfish niggaz went on strike for 9 months in 2020. Went on strike again for 8 months and counting this year and you still got nerves that FG wants to destroy our universities. The students waiting to graduate since last year are still hooked up in school in 2022 due to ASUUs agitations, Isn't that wickedness? Pray tell, what have ASUU done with the monies FG have given you guys in the past? Nothing worthy! Yet you come up with a sob story that FG wants to destroy our universities. If there's any union we can point to as the devil that wants to destroy our universities, it is ASUU. For making life so difficult for students and further making these students spend extra years, extra monies in school. Nonsense!

MEGA4BILLION:
Who said he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.

ASUU will call off the strike only to embark on another one after few weeks



And you think CONUA is anything different from ASUU? Just give them time.
If FG proscribe ASUU, the same lecturers that were in ASUU will move to CONUA and continue their agitation. Ngige isn't smart, to proscribe and register CONUA is tantamount to emptying kaikai into a bottle of Fanta.

You will be surprised at how many unions will be registered. And membership will be distributed. This will break their backbone if you know history a little.

From then, it will be a free fall in the university. This is checkmate.

On Tuesday, ASSU will be in black cloth. It is dead end for them.

Nobody is above the law.

System202:


Don't let emotions override u, u want lecturers to be carry out research without providing enabling environment for them, common light some time u have to buy fuel for generator from that little salary that u are getting. If wishes are horses, beggars too will ride. Nigerian lecturers are one of the poorest paid in the world. Despite the way that academics in Nigerian public universities are handled, their research outputs are visible in the global research database. Like Prof Amoka said: If political office holders should make one-tenth of the efforts and sacrifices made by academics in our public universities, they will be celebrated as heroes in office.


Talking of funds

Despite the horrible condition of service of academics in the country, Nigerian academics are winning research grants. An Associate professor at Bayero University Kano recently received a research grant of £969,680 from Wellcome. A senior lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria recently won a research grant of about 48,000 USD from Geophysics Without Borders. Other researchers from the Federal University Dutse won a grant of $59,930 from The World Academy of Science (TWAS) and €220,801 from the African Academy of Science on renewable energy. These are just a few of the grants won by academics within the strike period.

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I beg stop deceiving yourself Mr lecturer by hiding under conducive environment. How many of you even need stable light for research in the first place? The little semi-stable light available in most institutions, what do you do with it than to watch videos in your offices and switch ON AC and fans while sleeping with students to award marks? Which company wants to waste money funding your researches when majority of lecturers can't even conduct convincing researches that can attract funds and grants ?

You are not even ashame of yourself citing once in a while researches out more than 200 federal and state universities in the country. Can you imagine population of professors, doctors and research fellow lecturers in the country compare to the ratio of low accidental researches one or two lecturers stumble upon once in 5years? Justify little you are being paid first, many accidental researches some of you stumble upon don't normally lead to anywhere after company waste funds.

This is one of the reasons companies are reluctant to fund researches because many of the so called researches some of you stumble upon accidentally from student project are usually bait to waste funds. COVID-versine research that was funded from Nigeria university in 2020, how far about it? It has died down, it lead to no where, money wasted. How many Nigeria covid vacines promised are available now in local pharmacist stores?

Many equipment government purchased to teach students how many lecturers can even used those modern equipment to teach students when majority of lecturers never have industrial experiences in the first place? They only use equipment and chemical purchased by government to teach students only for accreditation. After departmental accreditation, they will pack those equipment and chemicals and keep again into store for another future accreditation. Many lecturers can not even supervise undergraduate project effectively because they don't even know it; many of you only use idea to criticise what you don't know.

Universities and polytechnics lecturers are the one recruiting unemployable students on yearly basis; many of them are only waiting for monthly salaries, they are never productive. 90% of lecturers should be lay off so we can use another technique to recruit competent lecturers. We should stop emphasizing only on academic qualification and number of journals written alone. Is not really making our schools to be functional. Let us combine industrial experience with it and let students also get involved in analyzing lecturers that can transfer knowledge to them.

Retaining first class students who never even attended SIWES or have industrial experience should never be allowed to teach. If you are brilliant but can not teach the dullest students to understand, they shouldn't hire such individual; he/she should be tried if he/she will fit into research, otherwise, never employed such person into our academic system. Many things I can't write here, all those professors that can't transfer their knowledge to younger generations via simple teaching and without even tangible active research should be lay off.

Anigreat:




ASUU have no choice than to resume immediately. They foolishly fight a battle that they can never never win . I pity the students sha

u funny Sha..so u want to force people to work abi...let's stop acting like lunatics in this country.....

dex4sure:
Is high time fg scrap this shitty union that finds joy in wasting students' time just for there own selfish interest.....ASUU are not fighting for the betterment of any university or its students...it's just for there own selfish interest. We all know that. Fg should just deregister them

University in Nigeria was supposed to be world class, do you know how much tetfund is siphoning?

Students wants to resume, OK ASUU left you guys and faced theirs and you are calling them selfish!

All of you supporting this "GOVERNMENT" ARE DAFT!

I hope you guys heard what he said about university autonomy, and ASUU opposing school fees increase. Combine it with the president's comment on friday while presenting the budget.

If this goes through and governing councils are allowed to decide schools fees then say buy buy to paying less than 100k as school fees in federal universities

Big problem coming!

Wilson500:


Only a foolish student will join ASUU to protest against FG
An evil and greedy union that have wasted 8 months of their life
Next week will be a decisive week
Its either they comply or go home with their sack letters
Its high time students and their parents stop sympathizing with the wicked union called ASUU
The useless people supporting ASUU here to continue their evil strike don't have loved ones in school that is why they talk like people with empty skull
Mad People Everywhere

I understand you but your view of formal issues and understand of life are shallow.
You like Nigeria being corrupt...? Answer me
Mind you if Nigeria doesn't have such money to pay Academic Union the government wouldn't ve promised that in the first place. The agreement was part of Yaradua's agenda, he knew fully well that Nigeria has money that can improve the learning environment but unfortunately he died.
I'm not a lecturer neither a civil servant but a student. Truth be told, our government after Yaradua's is very corrupt especially this present administration.
Guy chill u kw no wetin d happen, na beta Nigeria we d fight for.....

JJuanMiguel:

Most of these sadist lecturers with their oversizedokrika clothes, worn out shoes and dilapidated old model Toyota don't give quality education in the first place.

You have just confirmed that the teachers are poorly paid for the job they are required to do!

itsRhamzy:
2009 agreement has been renegotiated and no longer valid as "2009 agreement". Say something else. NONSENSE!

Or deh
So what's the renegotiation and has government fulfilled it?
You're probably a kid or at most, an undergraduate studying one of these unpopular courses.
You don't know anything.
FG CAN NEVER WIN THIS BATTLE. QUOTE ANYWHERE.

System202:


The government are elected to improve standards of living, education and so on for citizens, and this Buhari government failed in all that, if it were in sane countries he would have resigned or impeached but bcs its in nigeria uchins are even supporting him

You have time telling d students that government have failed in their duty. they're just being emotional without being logical, they don't know what is coming for them if ASUU should allow fg to go ahead with deregulation of university education.
Fg is saying they can't fix d infrastructure and taking care of ASUU without increment of school to 750k.ASUU is saying no cuz d children of d poor wouldn't have access to education but they are here supporting d fg.
They are shouting fg should not pay their outstanding salaries cuz of no work no pay and I laugh lol.are u guys saying that ASUU should omit what that supposed to have taught u in last two semesters as well cuz fg is not going to pay them? Are u guys not aware that ASUU must cover d syllabus whenever they resume and they should teach u for free since u are saying fg should not pay them, forgetting they must start from where they stopped?.
I think Assu should jump those semesters u guys have missed without impacting d needed knowledge since they don't deserve salary to cover d missed classes.

Lol, ASUU did not lock the universities, they do not hold the keys. Tell the chancellors who are mostly politicians to go and open the universities.

sultan003:
I hope you guys heard what he said about university autonomy, and ASUU opposing school fees increase. Combine it with the president's comment on friday while presenting the budget.

If this goes through and governing councils are allowed to decide schools fees then say buy buy to paying less than 100k as school fees in federal universities

Big problem coming!

Thank God say na final semester the last person for my family dey.

collins07:

You have time telling d students that government have failed in their duty. they're just being emotional without being logical, they don't know what is coming for them if ASUU should allow fg to go ahead with deregulation of university education.
Fg is saying they can't fix d infrastructure and taking care of ASUU without increment of school to 750k.ASUU is saying no cuz d children of d poor wouldn't have access to education but they are here supporting d fg.
They are shouting fg should not pay their outstanding salaries cuz of no work no pay and I laugh lol.are u guys saying that ASUU should omit what that supposed to have taught u in last two semesters as well cuz fg is not going to pay them? Are u guys not aware that ASUU must cover d syllabus whenever they resume and they should teach u for free since u are saying fg should not pay them, forgetting they must start from where they stopped?.
I think Assu should jump those semesters u guys have missed without impacting d needed knowledge since they don't deserve salary to cover d missed classes.

Tell your ASUU to take FG to court whenever they renege on their signed agreement and stop victimizing innocent students with their incessant strike
Thats why we have Industrial court
They are punishing the people they claim to be fighting for...what an irony
I want Buhari to give them a taste of their medicine.....NO WORK NO PAY
Their annual paid vacation must stop
If the university system want to collapse....let it collapse
Las las everybody go learn work
Nonsense

Nobleou:

I understand you but your view of formal issues and understand of life are shallow.
You like Nigeria being corrupt...? Answer me
Mind you if Nigeria doesn't have such money to pay Academic Union the government wouldn't ve promised that in the first place. The agreement was part of Yaradua's agenda, he knew fully well that Nigeria has money that can improve the learning environment but unfortunately he died.
I'm not a lecturer neither a civil servant but a student. Truth be told, our government after Yaradua's is very corrupt especially this present administration.
Guy chill u kw no wetin d happen, na beta Nigeria we d fight for.....

My question is why didn't Jonathan fulfill the 2009 agreement before he left office even when the economy was far better
Mind you he was an academician and an ASUU member before he joined politics
Even if prof Osodeke becomes GCFR today, he won't be able to meet all of ASUU demand...he will just promise them like the others before him

I am supporting neither FG nor ASUU
I only support the interest of the students
They have lost 2 academic sessions in 3years
They deserve better

A wise man who died at the backyard of a foolish man is not wise.

Now the hunter is being hunted.

dex4sure:
Is high time fg scrap this shitty union that finds joy in wasting students' time just for there own selfish interest.....ASUU are not fighting for the betterment of any university or its students...it's just for there own selfish interest. We all know that. Fg should just deregister them

Are you even a student? Guess you don't really know what you're supposed to know about this fight

Smile4me01:
This administration has succeeded in killing education sector in other to promote their private university i pity those who supporting this evil government no lecturer can lecture students rightly without good state of mind the psychological capital must be there in other for the lecturer to impact quality knowledge to students.

Thank you

Everlastingson:


Most of these people you engaged here are not using their brain at all. Instead of seeing that Buhari is destroying the University just like he has destroyed the economy they're instead blaming ASUU. Ignore them. Can you force lectures to teach after forcing them through fraudulent court injunction ( Buhari himself never obeys court order) to resume? Every other country in this world seeks to make their teachers at all levels happy. In Nigeria the govt is destroying education.

You and your ASUU should start being humane. There is no where in the world that teachers would embark on strike for 10 months 2 years ago and 8months this year in the named of improved University standard. The main aim of this strike is greed and fight of unwarranted salary rise.

Why is ASUU telling it's employers what platform they want to be paid with? How can I pay someone, and the person chooses how much I pay them, and what platform they want the payment. Only in Nigeria this kind of rascality is permitted.

collins07:

You have time telling d students that government have failed in their duty. they're just being emotional without being logical, they don't know what is coming for them if ASUU should allow fg to go ahead with deregulation of university education.
Fg is saying they can't fix d infrastructure and taking care of ASUU without increment of school to 750k.ASUU is saying no cuz d children of d poor wouldn't have access to education but they are here supporting d fg.
They are shouting fg should not pay their outstanding salaries cuz of no work no pay and I laugh lol.are u guys saying that ASUU should omit what that supposed to have taught u in last two semesters as well cuz fg is not going to pay them? Are u guys not aware that ASUU must cover d syllabus whenever they resume and they should teach u for free since u are saying fg should not pay them, forgetting they must start from where they stopped?.
I think Assu should jump those semesters u guys have missed without impacting d needed knowledge since they don't deserve salary to cover d missed classes.

Payment of salaries start from the time ASUU resumes, so they'll be fully paid for when they cover those backlog of lectures!

If lecturers make students waste 8 months of their lives in this modern age, then they should be ready to forfeit their salaries!

itsRhamzy:
I used to support ASUU but it seems ASUUs selfishness have driven them to their Waterloo this time around.
I support this move by Ngige and the FG should be prepared to replace any mumu lecturer found wanting or not discharging their duties well.

What exactly is their problem? Went in strike for 9 months in 2020 and they still got paid for those months. Went on strike again 2022 for over 8 months and counting and they still want to be paid 8 months salaries as usual but I'm happy FG is calling their bluff to deal with them. No union is allowed to be a pain in the as$ of the people and government anywhere in the world.

The students have lost 8 months of their lives for ASUUs agitations, they also lost 8 months out of the rents they've paid in their respective campuses, that's enough sacrifice anyone could make yet ASUU doesn't want to sacrifice anything not even their salaries and instead, they're here threatening they won't lecture and using students as blackmail cos they won't be receiving the free 8 months salaries they looked forward to. FG should be prepared to fire any lecturer that as much as not carry out his/her duties well. Nonsense.

ASUU was trying to force govt to sign all their demands. They think because of electionaring period the govt would want to act to agree to all their demands as it has been in the past administration.

Wilson500:


My question is why didn't Jonathan fulfill the 2009 agreement before he left office even when the economy was far better
Mind you he was an academician and an ASUU member before he joined politics
Even if prof Osodeke becomes GCFR today, he won't be able to meet all of ASUU demand...he will just promise them like the others before him

I am supporting neither FG nor ASUU
I only support the interest of the students
They have lost 2 academic sessions in 3years
They deserve better

Jonathan administration is corrupt and you know that. He knows it's good to fulfill the agreement but he failed because to him the money is huge. Answer these questions...
Is that money up to the money laundering levied against Alison Madueke who is now a citizen of another country? Why did she seek citizenship in another country and abandoned her motherland?
Is that money up to the $20billion (4trillion naira as of then) Sanusi, the former CBN Governor exposed that was not remitted to CBN by NPPC before he was fired by the same Jonathan?
Our politicians only care about milking our country dry. Forget about fighting for the students, fight the right cause and all this will fall in place....

Last questions for you, pls answer them:
Why is the public holders children schooling abroad? if they are to school in our local schools, will their fathers allow this strike linger?

Be a deep thinker man....

MEGA4BILLION:
Who said he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.

ASUU will call off the strike only to embark on another one after few weeks



And you think CONUA is anything different from ASUU? Just give them time.
If FG proscribe ASUU, the same lecturers that were in ASUU will move to CONUA and continue their agitation. Ngige isn't smart, to proscribe and register CONUA is tantamount to emptying kaikai into a bottle of Fanta.

Where is NLC today? Obasanjo dealt with them with TUC.

MuslimIgbo:

Or deh
So what's the renegotiation and has government fulfilled it?
You're probably a kid or at most, an undergraduate studying one of these unpopular courses.
You don't know anything.
FG CAN NEVER WIN THIS BATTLE. QUOTE ANYWHERE.

Which battle? The one you already lost? Dey there dey expect salary for work you didn't do.

I look forward to seeing you guys continue with the tomfoolery and strong-headedness and not resume work as ordered by the court so that your selfish Union can be disbanded once and for all and students become happy. I've never seen a devilish union that takes pride in keeping students in school for years longer than necessary. Nonsense and ASUU.

Na today ASUU dey embark on strike? So because the present govt disagree to assent to the demand they can't fulfilled like we have been having in the past administration. Anytime ASUU sees election is around the corner they will embark on strike to press for unrealistic demand. That govt that know how important the election is, would rush to sign and later reneged. This administration is even sincere and deserve a Kudos for telling the union the truth unlike past administration. ASUU would be disgraced this time around because ( Yoruba adage says "ti a ba pe lori imin eesin keesin a ma Bani" meaning, if we stay too long on a poo different kind of flies fly around us) those that are supporting this strike are haters of this present administration and all their wish for the nation is to be seeing things falling apart. God will put all the enemies of this nation into shame because of their wishful thinking to their nation. The union ruined the whole one session of the students and still want govt to pay them for doing nothing!

IamDietiesGod:


https://punchng.com/strike-fg-threatens-ASUU-with-contempt/

Some Youths are Rolling With And In Dollar Arb Biz, you are there Nagging over ASSU STRIKE and useless F. G. N!!!

Wait who tell you that being educated is about getting decorated with any of those tertiary institutions High Sounding academically titles?

If still believe so, you only just wanna continue the Modern Slave Cycle which those Establishments or Powers that be or Private Families or "government" set for the children of Civil Servants and other Commoners!!

ASSU strike or not, Uni or No Uni, Poly or No Poly, being educated is mainly about becoming Logical, Technical and Tactical In your Level of Reasoning and Understanding. This 3 would make you become a Universal Being.

A universal being always sees every situation as an Opportunity as that would make you liberated permanently expecially MONEYWISE!!!

Yes ASSU is on strike, but does it really Matter?

NO.
Why?
Because the cert that would be issued after graduation would still keep you in the Rat Race, Dog-eat-Dog jungle.

Solution.
Learn to lock into the Monetary system of the Nation you live in to START TO CUT YOUR OWN SHARE OF PROCEEDS IN DOLLARS OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES BEING TRADED EVERYDAY.

Nigerias major source of income is via Crude Oil and some other always not disclosed N. Rs.

The proceeds or revenues from these Natural Resources are always in hard Currencies stored at the Banks. And that is where you need to focus on as a Youth.

itsRhamzy:
Which battle? The one you already lost? Dey there dey expect salary for work you didn't do.

I look forward to seeing you guys continue with the tomfoolery and strong-headedness and not resume work as ordered by the court so that your selfish Union can be disbanded once and for all and students become happy. I've never seen a devilish union that takes pride in keeping students in school for years longer than necessary. Nonsense and ASUU.

ASUU members would resume work as ordered by the court, because we're not lawless idiots like fg, then embark on strike again after few days if we don't see alert. This strike is fight-to-finish, even if it'd take two years, we are ready!
Una never know anything

MuslimIgbo:

ASUU members would resume work as ordered by the court, because we're not lawless idiots like fg, then embark on strike again after few days if we don't see alert. This strike is fight-to-finish, even if it'd take two years, we are ready!
Una never know anything

U don ever read constitution?

If u suspend this strike u can't embark on another till dem judge de case finish.mil

I thought u guys are intellectuals but im disappointed at ur comment

Honlucas:


U don ever read constitution?

If u suspend this strike u can't embark on another till dem judge de case finish.mil

I thought u guys are intellectuals but im disappointed at ur comment

and the case will keep on being postponed until the new government is formed and new minister of labour employed most likely next year October


before the final verdict is given ( so as not to give room for strike against an outgoing government)

trust court in judgement postponing

if they call off the strike, it’ll most likely be till next year October before they can “legally” go on another one

and by then the new government may choose to divide them with CONUA

kologba:
u funny Sha..so u want to force people to work abi...let's stop acting like lunatics in this country.....

People work to earn money
Anyone who's not interested to have a source of income should not work.