I reserve no appologise to say that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala must be stupid for her utterance in respect to the ASUU demands. I don't even care to know how much she pay for her children at Harvard University. What about the Trillions that come from the Nigerian Stock exchange market on daily basis? Or is she trying to say that Nigeria is bankrupt?! When the presidential jet developed a minor fault some times in 2011, it was it was immediately replaced with two jets worth N12trillion, a thing the was never planned for. The finance minister should tell Nigerian the truth rather than making a mockery of Nigeria including herself. Tsehemba Christian- Benue state.

Madam Okonjo Iweala is the economic problem Nigeria has presently!

If every other Nigerian were blind, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala would hold their hands and touch it to any wall of a building just for to tell them that the world has terminated their. How i wish this cartoon specialist would follow up.

Soso990240: hello...62billion and 62million no be d same.moreover,i dont blame Jonathan ,obasanjo made d agreement with ASUU and abandoned it.

e no mean,had it been there children are in this country they wuld have call off the strike before it reach up2 dis time

Dbeliever: I reserve no appologise to say that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala must be stupid for her utterance in respect to the ASUU demands. I don't even care to know how much she pay for her children at Harvard University. What about the Trillions that come from the Nigerian Stock exchange market on daily basis? Or is she trying to say that Nigeria is bankrupt?! When the presidential jet developed a minor fault some times in 2011, it was it was immediately replaced with two jets worth N12trillion, a thing the was never planned for. The finance minister should tell Nigerian the truth rather than making a mockery of Nigeria including herself. Tsehemba Christian- Benue state.

My brother, God will bless you. This is the only country where a Senate President legitimately earns as much as N88 million a month (Sunday Punch, August 4, 2013, page 16), whereas the government cannot afford N92 billion, representing lecturers' cumulative earned allowances in ALL the federal universities in the country FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS. And yet we want to become a developed nation. What a shame!

:Dkip it up.....OGUN dey watch.....#team OAU

ayodeji752: I remember dat okonjo iweala's children attended Harvard university in US so how do u want her to find solution to dis problem? However, ASUU must come back to its senses. I tot they said they were fighting to save university ni? I didn't knw they were also fightin for their pockets, thieves

Have you asked yourself why the FG has refused to implement the agreement it willingly entered into for 4 years now? The lecturers are merely asking for its implementation after being patient for all these years. The fight is mainly for the Nigerian students and the university system. It is time for our universities to begin to attract international scholars while also keeping the best brains we have in the country instead of looking for greener pastures elsewhere which has been the norm. For sure you are not prepared to go back to your university laboratories where you have little or no equipment to learn with. You would like to be taught with the latest equipment so as to be able to compete with your contemporaries in other countries. The party to blame is the FG. If their wards study in the country they would care more. Ghana's vote for education is 32% while Nigeria's 8.1%. We cannot continue like this.

^^^^ You are right bruv

Dis country is just give every citizens reasons nt to be proud of her,its a shame

chaiiii!!!! n i dey hia dey hope i don go marry joor

michealade: kids dis days r so dumb...aw u take join nairaland!dumbazz

i bet u r dumber dan d dumbest. Who's a kid or was i interupting ur self-service?

don't know why Nigerians like to get petty in
issues where common sense should rule. I was
going through the dailies this morning; madam
minister tells Nigeria that FG can not meet ASUU's
92billion naira extra allowance pay package,
reading through the comments that came after this
announcement only showed how petty and
unnecessarily emotional an average Nigerian is.
Whether we all like to admit it or not, ASUU and its
members are killing are killing tertiary education in
this country with their resort to strikes every time
there is a disagreement with the FG.
One of the rules of negotiation is compromise; no
serious negotiator (who is the one demanding)
goes to the table with a conclusive mindset of his
demands. It is no more news that the FG is going
broke and recurrent expenditure makes up over 70%
of our national budget, it will be folly for any
financial manager to not raise eye brows at
demands that only seek to worsen the situation.
Comparing the salaries and emoluments of people
in academics to political office holders still does
not justify the fact that government needs to
reduce its recurrent expenditure: no society or
economy develops with a sizable chunk of her
budget dedicated to paying salaries, bonuses,
allowances and sundry payments.
The issue here is not about whether the people in
academia are being paid well, the struggle should
go beyond that, the concept of going on strike just
so salaries can be increased or for bonuses and
allowances to be paid is antithetical to the
advancement of our education system in this
country. I don't see how jumbo salaries can
translate to quality education that is obviously
lacking in our schools. There is no where in the
world where academics are millionaires, the best
anyone in academia can get is a comfortable life
enough for anyone to be fulfilled.
If the intention of any person in academia is to be
a millionaire then may be they need a career
switch, instead of jeopardizing the future of the
students who suffer from these strikes. Enough is
enough ASUU

rhymz: don't know why Nigerians like to get petty in
issues where common sense should rule. I was
going through the dailies this morning; madam
minister tells Nigeria that FG can not meet ASUU's
92billion naira extra allowance pay package,
reading through the comments that came after this
announcement only showed how petty and
unnecessarily emotional an average Nigerian is.
Whether we all like to admit it or not, ASUU and its
members are killing are killing tertiary education in
this country with their resort to strikes every time
there is a disagreement with the FG.
One of the rules of negotiation is compromise; no
serious negotiator (who is the one demanding)
goes to the table with a conclusive mindset of his
demands. It is no more news that the FG is going
broke and recurrent expenditure makes up over 70%
of our national budget, it will be folly for any
financial manager to not raise eye brows at
demands that only seek to worsen the situation.
Comparing the salaries and emoluments of people
in academics to political office holders still does
not justify the fact that government needs to
reduce its recurrent expenditure: no society or
economy develops with a sizable chunk of her
budget dedicated to paying salaries, bonuses,
allowances and sundry payments.
The issue here is not about whether the people in
academia are being paid well, the struggle should
go beyond that, the concept of going on strike just
so salaries can be increased or for bonuses and
allowances to be paid is antithetical to the
advancement of our education system in this
country. I don't see how jumbo salaries can
translate to quality education that is obviously
lacking in our schools. There is no where in the
world where academics are millionaires, the best
anyone in academia can get is a comfortable life
enough for anyone to be fulfilled.
If the intention of any person in academia is to be
a millionaire then may be they need a career
switch, instead of jeopardizing the future of the
students who suffer from these strikes. Enough is
enough ASUU

Do you know that since the agreement was signed in 2009, ASUU has shifted ground on numerous occasions? Do you also know that this issue has persisted simply because the FG has been trying to dribble ASUU after all these? One of these reductions in demand came in January last year but the FG has been paying lip service to the implementation. ASUU has shifted ground enough and the FG should simply honour the agreement. It's a pity that the strike option had to be taken but, you and I know that's the only language the FG understands.

The most annoying part of It is that my school went for strike for 2month cos of increasement of student school fees by 80%the student protested and vandalize school property wch lead to the closure of my my school for 2month.now coming bck with just one month academic session ASUU started their own strike!!!!!!!! Nawa I don dey use to house I no dey complain again

favouryemmy:



Do you know that since the agreement was signed in 2009, ASUU has shifted ground on numerous occasions? Do you also know that this issue has persisted simply because the FG has been trying to dribble ASUU after all these? One of these reductions in demand came in January last year but the FG has been paying lip service to the implementation. ASUU has shifted ground enough and the FG should simply honour the agreement. It's a pity that the strike option had to be taken but, you and I know that's the only language the FG understands.

Let's be clear on certain issues here, ASUU and the FG have both shifted grounds when it was necessary to do so, let's not all throw the blame alone at the FG as if ASUU is a union of saints.
In 2009, the major reasons for the strike was 1. The unilorin 49 lecturers sacked by the university's management, an unfortunate disagreement that had happened like several years back only for them to use it and salary increment as an excuse to disrupt academic activities for close to 3months. Their other demands were obviously demands that needed serious national debates before any decision could be taken..... Issues like giving Fed schools full autonomy to generate their own funds and run the schools as a profit oriented concern need serious input from every Nigerian, it is not an issue to be left solely in the hands of ASUU and its member to decide, it has to be understood that FG too is looking out for the common man here that wants to go to the university without having to worry about paying preposterous amount of money for almost thesame quality of education as seen in our private schools. The only difference between so-called private universities and those of the public is uninterrupted academic calendar yet parents whose kids are in these schools pay exploitative amounts as school fees and sundry.
The only time ASUU is known to have shifted ground is on these issues which obviously can't be resolved by threat of forcertain and strikes.
Again, ASUU needs to change the way they negotiate with an FG that has,nit been straightforward to them instead of making ordinary students suffer the consequences of the fallout between them and FG.

Kingviny has made clear nd irrefutable points ahead.. Here, the ASUU might ve unconsciously triggered the urgency for a spontaneous diversion in d way our economy is run. Note.. Students should not cry for apt call-off if the nucleus of d strike is nt well tended to. Its true our bigboys swipe 75% of the potential budget fund(as claimed by Sanusi Lamido), if we dont all leave our comfort zone and stand up to stop ds nonsense, we may yet witness a rapture of catastrophic economy.. Come 2015, we shd all sit at home, refuse to vote and then they will be tenterhooked to hear us out.. It ll be a bargain. They want office, we want our right.. 150million Nigerians can do much beta agains a fraction fat-asses.. Lets do ds together.

rhymz: Let's be clear on certain issues here, ASUU and the FG have both shifted grounds when it was necessary to do so, let's not all throw the blame alone at the FG as if ASUU is a union of saints.
In 2009, the major reasons for the strike was 1. The unilorin 49 lecturers sacked by the university's management, an unfortunate disagreement that had happened like several years back only for them to use it and salary increment as an excuse to disrupt academic activities for close to 3months. Their other demands were obviously demands that needed serious national debates before any decision could be taken..... Issues like giving Fed schools full autonomy to generate their own funds and run the schools as a profit oriented concern need serious input from every Nigerian, it is not an issue to be left solely in the hands of ASUU and its member to decide, it has to be understood that FG too is looking out for the common man here that wants to go to the university without having to worry about paying preposterous amount of money for almost thesame quality of education as seen in our private schools. The only difference between so-called private universities and those of the public is uninterrupted academic calendar yet parents whose kids are in these schools pay exploitative amounts as school fees and sundry.
The only time ASUU is known to have shifted ground is on these issues which obviously can't be resolved by threat of forcertain and strikes.
Again, ASUU needs to change the way they negotiate with an FG that has,nit been straightforward to them instead of making ordinary students suffer the consequences of the fallout between them and FG.

I tell you, the only party to blame is the FG concerning this strike! This is simply because for 4 long years they have refused to honour the agreement they signed. And agreement that was due for renegotiation last year. One of the problems we have in this country is that we are not ready to confront the government when they go wrong. Nigerians are suffering more than those in Brazil and Egypt and yet we cant stand up to the government. The excesses of this government is too much. Someone has to stand up to them. And yet when a body like ASUU confronts them some people do not support them. ASUU is fighting a just cause and all these would have been avoided had the agreement been implemented.Let us support ASUU not just because of today but because of tomorrow. The state of our education is nothing to write home about. Despite the stipulated UN standard of at least 26% of national budget for education (of which Nigeria is a signatory), it still has a paltry 8.1%. And yet they keep wasting the money meant to develop the country. No country can ever rise above its level of education. Do you know that our government see their basic responsibilities to their citizens as charity work? We must not continue like this else there might be no Nigeria we can call our own tomorrow.
And beware, some of the things we read in the dailies can be misleading. Several of them do not tell the whole truth.

Laalamed: FG should not listen to ASUU oh. if govt. meets ASUU demands other unions like ssanu,nasu,johesu,nma ,nlc would also table their demands. govt workers are unproductive. i am one of them no more to pay rise. govt should restructure economy first.

No offence intended, Na where you go school?

Laalamed: FG should not listen to ASUU oh. if govt. meets ASUU demands other unions like ssanu,nasu,johesu,nma ,nlc would also table their demands. govt workers are unproductive. i am one of them no more to pay rise. govt should restructure economy first.

No offence intended, Na where you go school?

Am disappointed in Okojo-Iweala! Its bin exposed dat nigeria has spent over N1trillion maintainin d Senate n Reps in last 8yrs n over N9billion on Jonathan's cars n yet dere is no money for our Education Sector? No money to build our future? Wat a shame!

kekakuz: all they do is just come to sell handout and see u on exam day.go to university of abuja and see for yourself how class reps collect money for lecturers togive them credit pass .
they sell handout eno reach
them sell passmark eno reach the
them sell certificate eno reach them
them sell textbook eno recach them
them sell post jamb form eno reach them
them sell diploma form no reach them
them sell pre-degree form eno reach them
them sell masters form eno reach them
them sell pgd form eno reach them
them sell phd form eo reach them
them sell direct etry form eno reach them
them collect sch fee damage
computefee nternet fee
e acceptance fee
diploma fee
government grant
ptf fund
internatonal support fund
hostel fee
regulrization fee
exam fee
course registration
library fee
haba asuuuuuu oleeee

U forgot to add that ASUU also collect funds from respective individual almanac In various universities