jassie: Cheap attention seeker! I would have taken his comments seriously, but I noticed the word 'EX' before 'Minister' and realized he's only playing politricks.

ASUU members themselves are irresponsible. How do you explain a bunch of educationists going on strike all the time, abandoning the poor students?

I would have cried foul if I hadn't passed through the Nigerian university system. The bitter truth is that these ASUU guys are all politicians, Lecturers, HODs, Rectors, VCs. . . all of them are politicians belonging to a political party.

So the fact is that when ASUU strikes, its a case of POLITICIANS vs POLITICIANS, the students are the ones bearing the brunt, shikena!

tayokem: David Mark should keep hhis dirty mouth permanently shut. When he was Minister of Petroleum under IBB, was hhe nott aiding babangida to siphon Nigeria money abroad. Education suffered terribly under IBB than any other govt

jassie: Cheap attention seeker! I would have taken his comments seriously, but I noticed the word 'EX' before 'Minister' and realized he's only playing politricks.

ASUU members themselves are irresponsible. How do you explain a bunch of educationists going on strike all the time, abandoning the poor students?

I would have cried foul if I hadn't passed through the Nigerian university system. The bitter truth is that these ASUU guys are all politicians, Lecturers, HODs, Rectors, VCs. . . all of them are politicians belonging to a political party.

So the fact is that when ASUU strikes, its a case of POLITICIANS vs POLITICIANS, the students are the ones bearing the brunt, shikena!

adconline: True, but David West is an attention seeker. He was in IBB's govt when ASUU went on strike for several months. He's part of VIP=Vagabond in Power

jassie:

You just showed how retar.ded you are because you didn't make any sense. I really couldn't expect much from a nigg.a . . .

Congrats on the 'likes' you got. . . shows you got empty brains like yourself on nairaland




Really? Next time, scan all your credentials and upload them online just to prove a point.

The only thing you have successfully analyzed is your preference for South Africa.

Something tells me you're an ASUU member who doesn't want the truth to come out.

Has ASUU ever really protested against the lack of infrastructure in the Universities? No!
All they're fighting for is their pocket. . . And I don't expect sycophants like you to agree with me.

sheff: And I hope you and the entire government icluding bothe houses of assembly will agree with me that "only vagabond run a country the ways you lots have been running NIGERIANS"

chreld_b:


You are extremely ignorant!! As a matter of fact that is what the strike is about. INFRASTRUCTURES in universities, laboratory facilities E.T.C. Just so you know I am not an ASUU member. But I am sure that you belong to the thieves in Nigerian government who deserve to be named and shamed.

McLuhan: Judging by the 2013 budget, Nigeria spends about 2.7 million naira every day to feed its President. This figure is only for feeding and excludes any other aspect of the President's upkeep. The Senate President, on his part, earns as much as 88 million naira monthly (Sunday Punch, August 4, 2013, page 16). This is the same government that claims it cannot afford 92 billion naira to pay the entitlements of all lecturers in federal universities whose unpaid allowances have accumulated since 2009, when the same government voluntarily signed an agreement to pay the said wages. Imagine the hypocrisy!

adconline: True, but David West is an attention seeker. He was in IBB's govt when ASUU went on strike for several months. He's part of VIP=Vagabond in Power

Next IG: Well, our Educational decay did not start from 2011, it has been there for about three decades now. And subsequent past governments have tried their best to restore its lost glory without a full success. Strikes has been embarked in the past but no body called those governments Vagabonds. GEJ will also try his own best and leave the scene for another government to continue. Calling GEJ government as Vagabond is a sign of irresponsibility from an Elder like T.D West. Though, he has never hide his dislike for GEJ since 2010 but, I thought there should be restrain in an elders' speech when he is angry. I advice the youths never to follow the path of our present elders who resort to public abuse in the name of criticism.

k2039: He has spoken well.

Real education has nothing to do with schooling, as a matter of fact I'm thinking of dropping out of school sef.

Next IG: Well, our Educational decay did not start from 2011, it has been there for about three decades now. And subsequent past governments have tried their best to restore its lost glory without a full success. Strikes has been embarked in the past but no body called those governments Vagabonds. GEJ will also try his own best and leave the scene for another government to continue. Calling GEJ government as Vagabond is a sign of irresponsibility from an Elder like T.D West. Though, he has never hide his dislike for GEJ since 2010 but, I thought there should be restrain in an elders' speech when he is angry. I advice the youths never to follow the path of our present elders who resort to public abuse in the name of criticism.

Donmams: Former Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West, yesterday declared that only a vagabond government would fail to invest in education, adding,“There are more thieves in government than saints in the country.”

David-West said this in Ibadan while speaking at a town hall meeting organised by the University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

He said: “Any government that fails to invest in education is a vagabond government. The problem with Nigeria is that we have more thieves than saints in government. We drill over two million barrels of crude oil per day. Why should we be poor? ASUU is saying put money in education to improve education quality for our children and those yet unborn.”

He maintained that if the federal government was serious, there was nothing stopping it from adequately funding the nation’s education sector, noting that a government that said it spent N8 trillion illegally must be made by all Nigerians to fund public education.

According to him, no serious government would turn its back on proper funding of education, adding thatany government that “fails to invest in education is a vagabond government.”

He said it was unfortunate that the same government that[b] “does not have money for education budgeted N1 billioneach to feed the president and vice-president for a year.”[/b]

David-West asked rhetorically: “Are they eating rock in Aso Rock? If you went to school without shoes, ensure that your children have shoes. Good parents pray that their children must be better than they were.”/