goodmercy: Boomboom

LATEST ON STRIKE: Indeed ASUU sets to suspend strike week – Union leaders
PUNCH NIGERIA
Indications have emerged that the Academic Staff Union of Universities may call off the over four-month-old strike on Thursday.
Barring a last-minute change, the National Executive Committee of ASUU will meet on Wednesday night to consider the position of the congresses of the over 50 public universities on the offer made by the Federal government to revamp the institutions.
The union met with a Federal Government team led by President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday in Abuja.
The ASUU leadership, after briefing the zonal coordinators on the offer, had directed the local branches to organise congress meetings between Friday last week and Tuesday (tomorrow).
This is to enable all the lecturers to make input into the action the union would take after its NEC meeting on Thursday.
However, feelers from most universities that had organised their congresses revealed that ASUU would suspend the strike after the Thursday NEC meeting.
In some universities, including the Obafemi Awolowo University and the Lagos State University that have scheduled their congress meetings for Monday (today), union leaders and lecturers expressed hope that the strike would end this week.
Also, some top officials of the union in some of the nine zones of ASUU said even though they were not happy with the plan by the government to inject N220bn yearly into the public universities for the next five years, they were pleased that a commitment had been obtained by the union.
Though the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Adesola, confirmed that the NEC meeting would hold on Wednesday, he did not say whether the strike would be called off or not.
“Yes, the NEC will hold on Wednesday evening but ASUU has a process which we are going to follow. NEC reserves the right to call off the strike after due consultation with members and this is why congresses are being called in all the chapters of the union. Please, wait till after the congress,” he told one of our correspondents on the telephone.
But another source said, “Our NEC meeting will hold between Wednesday night and Thursday. Our chapters have started holding meetings to discuss the Federal Government’s offer. This is to allow input from all the lecturers. We have to carry them along to avoid disunity since there are moves by some elements to infiltrate us.”
Another source told one of our correspondents that some members had expressed mixed feelings about the Federal Government’s new offer based on its refusal to honour past agreements.
“The radicals among us are sceptical about this latest offer. They do not believe that government will respect the agreement. Their view is that government only wants to deceive the union to call off the strike before it will jettison it.”
A top official of the union, who confirmed the fears, told one of our correspondents that although members’ opinions at the zonal congresses were divided over the government’s offer, the majority still decided to give the government the benefit of the doubt.
He also said that the majority opinion was that the review of the agreement which was supposed to hold this year should be postponed till next year in the interest of peace.
The official added, “Members were persuaded because President Goodluck Jonathan personally met with the union. They felt since the President was involved in the negotiation this time around, the government would not say that it was arm-twisted to make the offer.
“This is the problem we are having with the 2009 agreement. By now we should be talking about a review but we are still having troubles with implementation.
“Although feelers across the zones are that we should call off the strike, we are going to put down the government offer in black and white and make it public so that nobody accuses us tomorrow of asking for too much.”
Some universities are expected to hold their congresses on Monday (today) to discuss the outcome of the zonal congresses held at nine centres across the country last week.
A source at the meeting between the government and ASUU told one of our correspondents that the government after a long debate agreed to inject N220bn yearly for the next five years beginning from 2014.
He had said, “The meeting should be the longest that we have ever had on this crisis but I can tell you that both parties were frank all through the discussions. The parties also showed commitment towards ending the crisis. The President in particular showed that he was serious about ending the strike and that was why he offered to release over N1tn to the universities in the next five years.
“The money will be released on a yearly basis at N220bn per annum beginning from 2014. For the outgoing year, the Federal Government will only release N100bn and this has been processed.
“In order to show commitment to this deal, the money will be kept at the Central Bank of Nigeria and will be released on a quarterly basis to the universities. So, there won’t be any problem about funding the deal.”
The source added that the National Universities Commission and the Trade Union Congress would be joint guarantors of the new agreement while the Minister of Education would be the implementation officer.
He said that the government also agreed, among other things, to revamp the public universities by ensuring that all the issues that always lead to strike were dealt with once and for all.

Okeke_Onyi:
nice one from ASUU.
wait a minute...Mr.Goodmercy aka Boomboom aren't u scared of the repercussion of PLAGIARISM?

goodmercy:
Point of correction I indicated the source which is punch, I never said it is my own idea or pretend to be own findings.
Mr okeke reading is my cultuere and always seek information. I am a historian/ an int'l studies student and I must what is going on around me. Aint u happy I always update this forum on ASUU/FG issue? And I never for once give false infomation on this forum At least apppreciate that

goodmercy:
Point of correction I indicated the source which is punch, I never said it is my own idea or pretend to be own findings.
Mr okeke reading is my cultuere and always seek information. I am a historian/ an int'l studies student and I must what is going on around me. Aint u happy I always update this forum on ASUU/FG issue? And I never for once give false infomation on this forum At least apppreciate that

Okeke_Onyi:
nice one from ASUU.
wait a minute...Mr.Goodmercy aka Boomboom aren't u scared of the repercussion of PLAGIARISM?

sapientia1: why quoting the whole post?

hemmyswag: . N also dis short man dat teaches eco in etf b, wit dat gramma english lecture wey do as if say e no ear yoruba . N also dis short man dat teaches eco in etf b, wit dat gramma english lecture wey do as if say e no ear yoruba

goodmercy:
Point of correction I indicated the source which is punch, I never said it is my own idea or pretend to be own findings.
Mr okeke reading is my cultuere and always seek information. I am a historian/ an int'l studies student and I must what is going on around me. Aint u happy I always update this forum on ASUU/FG issue? And I never for once give false infomation on this forum At least apppreciate that

OluwaKidda: itz my birthday today jur....i rep History and International studies...JAMBITE...Ikire campus

OluwaKidda: itz my birthday today jur....i rep History and International studies...JAMBITE...Ikire campus

goodmercy: Boomboom

LATEST ON STRIKE: Indeed ASUU sets to suspend strike week – Union leaders
PUNCH NIGERIA
Indications have emerged that the Academic Staff Union of Universities may call off the over four-month-old strike on Thursday.
Barring a last-minute change, the National Executive Committee of ASUU will meet on Wednesday night to consider the position of the congresses of the over 50 public universities on the offer made by the Federal government to revamp the institutions.
The union met with a Federal Government team led by President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday in Abuja.
The ASUU leadership, after briefing the zonal coordinators on the offer, had directed the local branches to organise congress meetings between Friday last week and Tuesday (tomorrow).
This is to enable all the lecturers to make input into the action the union would take after its NEC meeting on Thursday.
However, feelers from most universities that had organised their congresses revealed that ASUU would suspend the strike after the Thursday NEC meeting.
In some universities, including the Obafemi Awolowo University and the Lagos State University that have scheduled their congress meetings for Monday (today), union leaders and lecturers expressed hope that the strike would end this week.
Also, some top officials of the union in some of the nine zones of ASUU said even though they were not happy with the plan by the government to inject N220bn yearly into the public universities for the next five years, they were pleased that a commitment had been obtained by the union.
Though the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Adesola, confirmed that the NEC meeting would hold on Wednesday, he did not say whether the strike would be called off or not.
“Yes, the NEC will hold on Wednesday evening but ASUU has a process which we are going to follow. NEC reserves the right to call off the strike after due consultation with members and this is why congresses are being called in all the chapters of the union. Please, wait till after the congress,” he told one of our correspondents on the telephone.
But another source said, “Our NEC meeting will hold between Wednesday night and Thursday. Our chapters have started holding meetings to discuss the Federal Government’s offer. This is to allow input from all the lecturers. We have to carry them along to avoid disunity since there are moves by some elements to infiltrate us.”
Another source told one of our correspondents that some members had expressed mixed feelings about the Federal Government’s new offer based on its refusal to honour past agreements.
“The radicals among us are sceptical about this latest offer. They do not believe that government will respect the agreement. Their view is that government only wants to deceive the union to call off the strike before it will jettison it.”
A top official of the union, who confirmed the fears, told one of our correspondents that although members’ opinions at the zonal congresses were divided over the government’s offer, the majority still decided to give the government the benefit of the doubt.
He also said that the majority opinion was that the review of the agreement which was supposed to hold this year should be postponed till next year in the interest of peace.
The official added, “Members were persuaded because President Goodluck Jonathan personally met with the union. They felt since the President was involved in the negotiation this time around, the government would not say that it was arm-twisted to make the offer.
“This is the problem we are having with the 2009 agreement. By now we should be talking about a review but we are still having troubles with implementation.
“Although feelers across the zones are that we should call off the strike, we are going to put down the government offer in black and white and make it public so that nobody accuses us tomorrow of asking for too much.”
Some universities are expected to hold their congresses on Monday (today) to discuss the outcome of the zonal congresses held at nine centres across the country last week.
A source at the meeting between the government and ASUU told one of our correspondents that the government after a long debate agreed to inject N220bn yearly for the next five years beginning from 2014.
He had said, “The meeting should be the longest that we have ever had on this crisis but I can tell you that both parties were frank all through the discussions. The parties also showed commitment towards ending the crisis. The President in particular showed that he was serious about ending the strike and that was why he offered to release over N1tn to the universities in the next five years.
“The money will be released on a yearly basis at N220bn per annum beginning from 2014. For the outgoing year, the Federal Government will only release N100bn and this has been processed.
“In order to show commitment to this deal, the money will be kept at the Central Bank of Nigeria and will be released on a quarterly basis to the universities. So, there won’t be any problem about funding the deal.”
The source added that the National Universities Commission and the Trade Union Congress would be joint guarantors of the new agreement while the Minister of Education would be the implementation officer.
He said that the government also agreed, among other things, to revamp the public universities by ensuring that all the issues that always lead to strike were dealt with once and for all.

Okeke_Onyi:
Is so unfortunate that u misunderstood me once more on this issue...
Believe me nobody on this trend will say he/she doesn't have a reading culture or appreciate ur efforts or that of another person on this trend.
I still stand on my point which is Your method of passing across information contradicts CREATIVITY. take it or leave it!!
we are all students here nobody is above correction, so don't take it personal.

mayorall: Hope you guys are getting ready to resume school on Monday?. My own books are very much ready. Just washed my school bag.

Olril18:
so funny,mr okeke always seem to criticize mr boomboom update on anything!! it is either mr boomboom post like the latest is devoid of creativity,or the content is too long and mr .? boomboom should have summarize,or mr boomboom is a plagliarist....lol....

Okeke_Onyi:
Coz Mr.Goodmercy aka boomboom is my very good friend....unlike u I don't know u..and for ur info and d interest of everyone on this trend I and Goodmercy with 2 others are representing our great school Uniosun in d upcoming Nairaland school debates...so both us knows what we are doing...(is a form of rehearsal 4 us)
Please we are not fighting or nether am I criticizing him...just let us be.
please people like u should stop raising dust where there is no sand. Peace™

sapientia1: i heard they(management) said we shld always wear white ankle 'stokings' on resumption, i just bought my own, tho' its 'okrika' 2nd leg socks! Lol

hemmyswag: yesso am an ipetuite.

hemmyswag: yesso am an ipetuite.

chiboc1: hey!!! Am getting so so confuse here! 1)now that sku iz resuming soon,uniosun has nt yet uploaded it 2nd list,saying the deadline for the acceptance fee iz on the 15th!!! whats all this thrash nah Some shud pls say sometin cos am loosing it

bufness: uniosun day madt o which kyn fulis deadline b dz ,I Neva even buy card sha