Goddon32: hmm wel i dont realy no, bt i hear 4rom a realiable source dat d merit list is been uploaded on net, n i tink i hav a gud reson 2 beliv him becus 4 d past weeks unijos sit wa down

The site is down because fire gutted the server room.

ferdimako:

The site is down because fire gutted the server room.

u most b jokin, infact u ar neva serious

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

Goddon32: hmm wel i dont realy no, bt i hear 4rom a realiable source dat d merit list is been uploaded on net, n i tink i hav a gud reson 2 beliv him becus 4 d past weeks unijos sit wa down

Alrite! Lets hope so. Tnx

God leads: Alrite! Lets hope so. Tnx

u ar welcom

No Renegotiation On ASUU’s Paltry N87bn, National Assembly Spent N1tn In 8 Years – APC





The Federal Government should honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in order to end the ongoing strike that has paralyzed academic activities in government-owned universities, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said.

The party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday that no government can afford to play with education, because it is the path to national
development.

According to the party, ASUU was not making any fresh demands beyond the agreement it reached with the government in 2009, adding: “Agreements are meant to be honoured, and breaching them comes with some consequences.”

APC said the industrial action by the university lecturers which has kept students in public universities at home for many weeks is a further blow to the country’s education system which has deteriorated so much that no Nigerian university is currently listed in the top 100 universities in the world and only a few Nigerian universities have made the top 100 in Africa.

“The 87 billion naira that ASUU is demanding represents earned allowances hence cannot be renegotiated. In any case, this amount pales into insignificance when placed side by side with the 1 trillion naira that has been spent on federal legislators in the past 8 years; or the frivolity involved in a government minister travelling to China to negotiate a $1 billion loan in a chartered jet (with its attendant costs) and with a retinue of staffers who earned generous estacode in hard currency.

“It is an indication of the kind of priority that this Federal Government attaches to education that while it has refused to meet its own side of an agreement it reached with ASUU since 2009, it could pay out 3 trillion naira in non-existent fuel subsidies to fat cats, spend 10 billion naira annually to maintain the jets in the presidential fleet and do little or nothing to prevent the stealing of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day, which translates to $120 million in a month, money that surely ends up in some people’s pockets!

“What we are saying is that if the Federal Government would reduce its profligacy and cut waste, there will be enough money to pay teachers in public universities, as well as fund research and upgrade infrastructure in such institutions. Hungry teachers can neither teach well nor carry out research. And poorly-taught students can neither excel nor propel their nation to great
heights,” the statement said.

The party also registered its disgust at the demonstrated nonchalance of those who should be working round the clock to resolve the crisis, especially the Minister of State for Education Nyeson Wike, who the party said has enough time on his hands “to be launching vigilance groups and dancing ‘palongo’ around town when the nation’s public universities are shut and students are languishing. This is shameful and totally unacceptable.”

“We are not surprised because most government officials have sent their children and wards to foreign universities, hence do not give a damn if the children of others are in school or not.

“Education is the key to national development. This is why UNESCO has recommended an allocation of at least 26% of national budgets to that critical sector. Therefore, talking about national growth and development without adequately funding education is a pipe dream!” APC said.

ASUU: FG Full Of Deceit, Not Ready To End Strike – Fagge



on August 23, 2013



The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday came to the conclusion that the government was not ready to end the 8-week-old strike, after both parties failed to reach an agreement in ten meetings, lamenting that government displayed dishonesty and lack of integrity during negotiations.

ASUU’s President, Dr. Isa Faggae, who spoke at a briefing in Lagos claimed that government had declared it would not implement the agreed injection of funds to revitalise the public universities, but was only making a dubious statement of supporting some universities with N100 billion.

“Government had also declared that it will not pay university academics their earned allowances which accumulated from 2009 to 2013. Rather, it is talking about providing N30 billion to assist various Governing Councils of Federal Universities to defray the arrears of N92 billion owed to all categories of staff in the university system.”

Speaking on how the last meeting with the Government held on Monday went, Faggae said ASUU was “shocked by the level of deceit, dishonesty, and lack of integrity displayed by the Government. Never in the history of ASUU-Government relations have we, as a union, ever experienced the kind of volte-face exhibited by Government. At one stage in the interaction, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation ridiculed the agreement, the MoU and the Needs Assessment Report, mocking the Minister of Education to “go and give them N400 billion,” at which members of the government scornfully laughed.”

He argued that the Governor Gabriel Suswam-led Implementation Committee was being used as smokescreen to “deceive ASUU, Nigerian students and their parents, as well as other unsuspecting members of the public on the purportedly released N100 billion for the implementation of the Needs Assessment Report.

First, he said, “government plans to divert the regular yearly allocations to universities by Tertiary Education Trust, TETFund, to make at least 70% of the N100 billion. This is unacceptable to ASUU. It is like robbing Peter to pay Paul, since the idea of revitalization took full cognizance of the intervention role TETFund ab-initio.

“Again, contrary to subsisting operational procedures, about 75% of the money meant for revitalizing universities would not be released to them as the Suswam Committee plans to hand over construction of the hostel projects to the Federal Ministry of Education and/or the National Universities Commission, for implementation. This is illegal; neither the ministry nor NUC is backed by laws of Nigerian Public Universities to divert monies meant for the development of these institutions into centrally executed projects.”

Faggae also questioned the committee’s motives for proposing to commit N1.6 million to a bed space, instead of N200, 000 to N400, 000, saying, “We see a continuation of outrageous contract regimes in the plan to centrally coordinate the construction of student hostels as done in the case of the 12 newly established Federal Universities with TETFund resources. The NUC has transmuted itself into a “Tenders’ board” which awarded contracts for the construction of 560 bed spaces hostel for each university at a whooping sum of 1.2 bn. This contract sum translates into N2.143 million per bed space.

Then if they will not allow us to write.it is not write

1martinez: Then if they will not allow us to write.it is not write

we are recording progress as some top universities are releasing their admission list.for now,unilag, uniport,tasued and even landmark university have released their list.by the grace of God, ours is on the way and our names shall be in the list.amen

God will surely see us through. our names are on that list already. But guys what is the post ume cut off for medicine and surgery

I think they are trying to upload the list already. the site has been down for almost 2 weeks now. But what about the remedial students that have not written their final exams, what will happen to them

Goddon32: u [b]most [/b]b jokin, infact u ar neva serious

With the bold, you're the 'unserious' one.

ferdimako:

With the bold, you're the 'unserious' one.

whtever, bt y culd u sa such a tin?

NASS, FG urge ASUU to call off
strike
on august 24, 2013 at 1:26 am in news
By LAIDE AKINBOADE
As the industrial action embarked upon by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, enters
it second month, the leadership of the
National Assembly, NASS, and Federal Government,
yesterday, appealed to the lectures to end the
strike.
The NASS and FG made the plea after a meeting
with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of public
universities in Abuja.
They pleaded that the FG has made offers and
commitment to necessitate the resumption of
academic activities in the nation’s public
universities.
According to Senate Chairman on Education,
Senator Uche Chukwumerije, “The Senate
Committee has always sought the required fund for
our nation’s universities.
We plead with ASUU for immediate end of the
strike. We want to plead with lecturers to be more
sensitive to their scale of priorities especially in the
area of education and timely implementations of
agreements. The present ASUU strike must end. It is
time for the nation to take the bull by the horn”.
Chairman House Committee on Education,
Honourable Aminu Suleiman said, “I want to
commend all those who have fought for the proper
funding of our universities in the country. The
Federal Government have also taken position to
identify the needs of all our Federal Polytechnics
and Colleges of Education to stop this problem once
and for all.
“It is gratifying to know that government has
shifted grounds and it is also in our position to
passionately appeal to the aggrieved members of
ASUU in the interest of the system to also make
concession so that students can resume school”.
He noted, “We always agree to disagree we can
always disagree without disrupting the system. We
must appreciate that by prolonging this strike we
are doing more harm to the system and causing
more problems for the country in general.
What government has done is quite in line with the
legislative agenda which we set out for ourselves as
members of House of Representatives. No sacrifice
is too much in ensuring the development of the
sector”.
The SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said the FG has
already demonstrated sufficient commitment to the
implementation of 2009 FG/ASUU agreement.
He said President Goodluck Jonathan has set N100
billion to develop infrastructure in 61 universities
and N30 billion to support the university councils in
settling the earned allowances.
The SGF therefore appealed to the university
teachers to call of the two months old strike. Na God hand we da o, pls y d silent?

Goddon32: whtever, bt y culd u sa such a tin?

I just did.

ferdimako:

I just did.

ok hw much did u gain 4rom dat lie?

ASUU Strike 2013 Latest
News Update: Nigerian Student Appeals To
University Lecturers To Agree With FG
The threat to academic stability in the nation’s ivory
towers because of the current strike by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has
attracted headlines in the dailies. The media has
also been awashed by many criticisms, most of
which have been directed at the Federal
Government in which President Jonathan is the
representational character. However, it appears
many of the critics have failed to consider the other
side of the coin, which is one of the essentials in a
debate on such a controversial issue.
Therefore, the focus of this piece is to examine the
purpose of the present ASUU’s strike and their
sympathizers’ rage against the FG. Firstly, ASUU
came up with the issue of autonomy for
universities. The FG approved the idea of autonomy
so long as the universities would generate internal
revenue to offset their expenditure, including
salaries and allowances. This government’s position
provoked ASUU members.
They poured venom on the government for merely
supporting the idea of autonomy – existence as an
independent body! Having realized the illusion
surrounding university autonomy, members of the
academic union played down their demand. This
raises a question on the sincerity of ASUU’S
demands.
On the issue of Federal Government’s assistance to
state universities, this writer supports the idea of
assisting the state universities. But must the
Federal Government be compelled to render support
to universities established and owned by state
governments? Methink helping state universities
should be as necessary as the state governments
are required to support the federal institution
located in their domain. Needless to say that state
governments collect tenement tax from federal
institutions sited in their states.
The idea of compelling the federal government to
offer help to state-owned universities is borne out
of the fact that academic staff from state
universities are also part of ASUU. The truth must,
however, be told. The Visitors to state universities
are the state governors. Academic and non-
academic staff of state-owned universities are
employees of the state governments. Compelling
the FG to assist state universities no doubt negates
the principle of federalism. It only brings to fore the
over dependence of constituents on the government
at the centre.
The progressive increase of education budget to
26% between 2009 and 2020 is another contentious
issue in the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement. The agitation
for increase to 26% in budgetary allocation, as
recommended by UNESCO for developing nations, is
a legitimate one. So there is need to improve the
current 8% total budget to education by the FG.
However, while the FG should be chastised for its
current 8% budget to education, one needs to
remind discerning readers that in nations where
huge budgetary allocations are committed to
education, members of the academia engage in
scholarly research that help to solve societal needs.
Only a few of our academics engage in fruitful
research capable of solving the needs of our
society. Most of the university teachers set their
target in journal publication that would help them
gain promotion in their academic career even when
such is far from rendering solution to our societal
needs.
Akin to increase in budgetary allocation is the issue
of earned academic allowances for university
teachers. Allowances are stimulants that reinforce
positive inclination towards work. While
government is working out modalities to pay earned
academic allowances to deserving university
teachers, the Dr. Fagie led ASUU is kicking against
such, insisting that allowances should be paid
across board, even when not all lecturers merit such
allowances.
My experience as an undergraduate and post-
graduate student in one of the first generation
universities showed that not all university lecturers
deserve mention in the earned allowance,
particularly the absentees. It is an open secret that
some of the lecturers who are fulltime employees in
the federal universities abandon their duty posts to
shuttle between federal and private universities.
They stagger their responsibilities in multiple roles
as lecturers–in-charge in both public and private
universities sacrificing quality of delivery in the
process, at the expense of unsuspecting students in
public universities.
These ‘abroad’ lecturers hardly attend classes to
teach in the public universities. When they return,
mostly towards the end of the semester, they
engage the students in lengthy, patchy lecture
hours in a bid to cover a course work that ought to
have been concluded before the time of exams. Any
student who dare challenges lecturer’s absenteeism
in public universities are often victimized with a
threat of carry-over of the course handled by the
lecturer or delay in graduation.
At the post-graduate level, the situation is even
more unpalatable. Many post-graduate students fail
to complete their programmes in line with the
academic calendar due to lecturers’ negligence.
They hardly spend quality time to guide and mentor
their students in their long essays. With this
domineering posture, a percentage of the students
either incur extra year(s) or abandon their
programmes out of frustration. If you would not
grow grey hair while undertaking a Ph.D degree as a
student, you have to not only be hard working in
your research pursuit, but also be willing to worship
the deified characters in lecturer’s garb! Let me add
here that a considerable number of the lecturers
have passion for their calling. Those ones always
act right by performing their duties without
compromising standard; they deserve their earned
allowances and should be rightly rewarded.
The influx of private universities became more
pronounced during the regime of ex-president
Olusegun Obasanjo. Yet, thousands of university
applicants seeking admission could not either gain
admission into the universities or afford the luxury
of high fee demands of the private universities. In
fulfilling his campaign promises in 2011, President
Jonathan established nine federal universities and
further established three to make it twelve. The
establishment of federal universities provided
succour to admission seeking candidates. Besides
providing admission to deserving applicants, it also
signaled a massive employment into the education
sector. Jonathan will go into the history books as
one whose regime established most federal
universities in a single tenure.
The prolonged quagmire and the sit tight approach
of ASUU members are having devastating effects
on Nigerian students, undergraduates and post-
graduates. The rot in the education sector as
claimed by ASUU should not be further fertilized by
ASUU’s hard-line posture. The standstill caused by
ASUU/FG impasse could have been resolved if only
ASUU and FG would shift ground and make
concession, at least for the sake of the students
who bear the brunt of the face-off.
Already, the Federal Government has made a
spirited effort to get the striking lecturers back to
work. The government recently released a
whopping 130billion naira in response to ASUU’s
demand for infrastructural development in public
universities.
According to the Secretary to the Federal
Government, Anyim Pius Anyim, 100billion naira is
for infrastructural development, while the remaining
30billion naira has also been disbursed as part of
FG’s attempt to defray the backlog of the earned
allowances.
That means the federal government has shifted
ground in this regard, so what is ASUU waiting for?

am tired of this ASUU and their wahala.nw it is not earned allowance of 87billion but 500billion for infrastructure between 2012 and 2013 instead of the 100billion offered to them by fg.ASUU pls nigerians urge u to end the ongoing strike.

Andrewakor: am tired of this ASUU and their wahala.nw it is not earned allowance of 87billion but 500billion for infrastructure between 2012 and 2013 instead of the 100billion offered to them by fg.ASUU pls nigerians urge u to end the ongoing strike.

2 me Assu dont no hw 2 engage d Fg dere ar 2 rigid, luk at health worker dat just start deres hav been cal off bt ASUU ar been decive by d oposition party

Goddon32: ok hw much did u gain 4rom dat lie?

U are improving.Did anyone say it is a lie? No calling credits?

I wrote an external exam which is neco in 2008, and when the result is out, i went to the school to collect my statement of result, although i paid some amount of money to collect it. I have a question to ask, i know my original certificate will be available by now at neco office, but which of the school testimonial am i gonna use? The school i finished my ssce or the school i wrote my external exam?

Isjaymoh: I wrote an external exam which is neco in 2008, and when the result is out, i went to the school to collect my statement of result, although i paid some amount of money to collect it. I have a question to ask, i know my original certificate will be available by now at neco office, but which of the school testimonial am i gonna use? The school i finished my ssce or the school i wrote my external exam?

d schul u wrote ur external exam, becus u ar usin dere result, in d future if ur history is stated d schul u went wil b silent it is dat schul u went 4 d exam as external dat wil cum up, just bear dat in mind

Andrewakor: am tired of this ASUU and their wahala.nw it is not earned allowance of 87billion but 500billion for infrastructure between 2012 and 2013 instead of the 100billion offered to them by fg.ASUU pls nigerians urge u to end the ongoing strike.

It is well. Just take it easy because they are fighting for the interest of the common Nigerian. When you eventually start school, you will understand the reason for the strike.cheers

Goddon32: d schul u wrote ur external exam, becus u ar usin dere result, in d future if ur history is stated d schul u went wil b silent it is dat schul u went 4 d exam as external dat wil cum up, just bear dat in mind

Thnks

charleymed: It is well. Just take it easy because they are fighting for the interest of the common Nigerian. When you eventually start school, you will understand the reason for the strike.cheers

yes u ar right about dat but dere ar 2 rigid wit dere demand, dere shuld hav acepted d FG offer n cal off d strick, n find other ways of engagin d FG, JUST AS D HEALTH WORKERS JUST DID

Why can't u guys go and check ur admission status on Jamb website to knw weda u hav bin admitted or not?

ayodeji752: Why can't u guys go and check ur admission status on Jamb website to knw weda u hav bin admitted or not?

wht do u mean by dat? Dont u knw d schul wik aprove of d list b4 it is relise?

Goddon32: wht do u mean by dat? Dont u knw d schul wik aprove of d list b4 it is relise?

and u think they are gonna call and tell u dat they hav approved it, ryt? Don't be deceived by d fact dat they hav nt released it on their website. Unimaid candidates dat hav not written any postutme are now seeing their names on jamb web

he may be right. i checked but was not admitted.try check urs let see if unijos is part of those institution that are yet to submit theirs because only 76 institution submitted theirs out of 109 institutions to jamb