excell12go:

If JONATHAN is really serious with these promises of his, why is he finding it difficult to put it in writing with his signature and official stamp
So you want ASUU to call off now and go on strike again next year if He(Jonathan) fails to honour his 'air promises' abi?

Youngzedd:

Can you stop using that Jonathan, for crying out loud He is number one citizen of this country and He deserve some respect.

Tadon200: if any student should support FG that person is daft. After jona met with ASUU and thrashed the whole issue out ,they went back did their meeting and presented their demand ,why can't he sign it and put it in paper.
You don't expect ASUU to take his word for it and still go back to this same problem next year.
FG CAN NOT BE TRUSTED.

Law-confessor:

No offence pls, but i still put it to u dat ur so called holding accountable speech is hatred beclouded sweetie.

nuclearboy: Sign a document that you will give them 220B annually for 5 years - finish!

Its what you have promised! So why don't you want to sign it?

seunmsg: I support the decision of the federal government. It is high time someone calls off ASUU's bluff. How can they seat at home for 5 months and expect government to pay them all the salary arrears as a condition for resuming? ASUU can't eat their cake and still have it. If they refuse to resume, their positions should be declared vacant and young graduates who are unemployed should be recruited to take over as lecturers. Enough of mortgaging the future of Nigerian students on the altar of greedy and selfish allowances.

Demdem:

Complete Crap. The only politics I see is the 13 hrs Jonathan told us he spent with ASUU.
His desires doesn't translate to sincerity.
Jonathan is the one playing politics depending in public sympathy and playing with ur intelligence.
Is there any wisdom in meeting but eventually not fullfilling what u agreed?

battnis: GEJ is now exercising his presidential power.I pity all those lecturers spearheading the indefinate strike.
starting from FAGgie

taharqa: Who told you it has not been 'signed'?? The Agreement reached with d President has already been sent, and signd by d Permanent Secretary, Min of Education. ASUU is howeva just insisting that it shld be signd by d Attorney-General of d Federation. I read this in one of d Papers this morning. OR wait, you are want/expected d President himself to sign an agreement?.... I am not even sure they are signing another MOU altogether; the problem is that ASUU is astonishingly hoarding Info on d process, such that most people don't even know what they want again. Their NEC meeting in Kano for instance, was held under an ultra-secret place and environment, such that NO single Newspaper still know what reali went on in that meeting, except from crumbs of Info from 'Anonymous Sources'!! Want is ASUU reali up to? Want do they reali want, now ie what are their current demands? Why all d Secrecy and Shenanigans??

Demdem: Foolish Govt.

Its obvious they arent interested in fulfilling any agreement. Either the one signed in 2009 or the MOU signed in 2012 or even the promises of

Jonathan after several hours of meeting with them of recent. If Jonathan is serious, why cant he sign and make his commitments on paper for all

to see and monitor. All hail ASUU, they have mastered the way of holding the govt by its balls. It will be extremely foolish for them to go back to

classes knowing fully well that Jonathan wont do as promised. Their strike and death of Iyayi would have been in vain. I expect the strike to

continue. ASUU never shut down any school, Those that shut down the schools are opening it back, so no qualms.

eagle,eye:

Guy, you really amaze/amuse me ohh!
So, what if ASUU is demanding that the President (himself), Attorne General, Senate president, Speaker of the House of rep... everybody and anybody sign it?
They simply don't want someone being the president tomorrow, and claiming he was not part of the agreement.
This present govt has shown that she is adept at dodging promises made.

hillsate: Any student here that is applauding the FG for ordering ASUU back to class is either a teenager who is still in 100level and does not really understand whats happening in the education sector or is simply da.ft.

What are you praising the FG for? for not honouring a five year old agreement or for simply displaying stupidity.
If the FG was truly sincere there wouldnt have been need to threaten ASUU with sack over resumption. The FG spent 500 million naira just for a birthday for Patience Jonathan a venture that only lasts about 5 hours yet says there is no money to invest in the future of her country via education. Where did the money lavishly used on African first ladies come from when they visited Nigeria?
Stella was able to siphon over 255 million naira without the FG knowing until a whistle blower came forth. Where did the money come from?
Tompolo and rest militants are multi billionaires now courtesy of GEJ's FG yet FG says no money for education.Do you know Tompolo has a private jet?
Do you how much GEJ spends when on international trips with his retinue of aides for albeit useless meetings and conferences? yet no money for education.
We just heard that over 500 billion of SURE-P funds is missing. Do you know what 500 billion can do to the education sector? How can 500 billion miss?
They only say there is no money as long as it is a venture that does not allow siphoning of public funds and education is a classical example.

It is stupi.d of any Nigerian student being on the FG's side as long as education is concerned. Keep praising FG when all their kids are abroad schooling.

Boss13: if I were the president, I would sack all lecturers on strike and open up vacancies to interested lecturers. This time their contract will be renegotiated with bumper package.

This will separate those who have passion for teaching and those who are just there for the money. I will also increase education budget to adequately fund universities.

I believe the sub-set of lecturers who don't love teaching will capture the bad eggs who molest female students, collect money for handouts and those who punish students at all will

Promhize:

STFU, read my post above, ASUU is demanding the 5 months salary in which they did not work.

Demdem:

Spill out what we may have missed. Waiting.

Promhize:

You are so daft, haven't agreed with ASUU? Didn't hear of the new demands by ASUU? Why would FG pay them for 5months in which they not work?

How will we students who paid close to 100k to rent house outside school be refunded? Those of us that left foodstuffs in school? What do we get?

You are such an idi.ot

onyxo76: . You think its so easy to replace senior lecturers and profs abi? Most of them teach 2 to 3. Universities as well because of their wealth of experience. You can't just get a masters degree holder to fill in the gaps.

Mandelaguy:

Here comes the resident retard on Nairaland with his i.mbecilic comments as usual.
President Jonathan is the first president to enter into direct negotiations with ASUU. He didn't do it out of weakness but a genuine desire to end the strike and get Nigerian students back to school.

It took the President 13 hours to reach a feasible agreement with ASUU (while you were asleep) and they had an understanding which includes a variation of the unimplementable 2009 agreement that ASUU reached under Yaradua.

President Jonathan told ASUU (and the facts are verifiable) that he is the president who has invested more in Education than any other.
He told them that he increased Education funding in the Budget from below 300B to 450 B. he also specialized tertiary funding through TETFUNDS.

He has undertaken the establishment of 12 new Federal universities to ensure that no state in the federation is deprived.
Since the strike started, FG has committee 100B for infrastructure and 30 B for earned allowances (no other administration has done this much)
In the same meeting, President said that despite the increased budgetary funding to Education by 450B, he will also mobilise 200 B in fulfillment of the agreement for the next 4 years.

So what is ASUU's problem? Since you were born, have you heard of any President that offered this much to ASUU just to call off a strike?
It's so unfortunate that politics has beclouded our sense of reasoning in this country.
President GEJ has tried, let FG go ahead to reopen the schools and it will be a popular move as you can see from comments on this thread

ugopeter: And the award for the Most Stupid Nairalander goes to....wait for it, wait for it, wait for it... DemDem for his stupid comments so far on this topic

Foolish boy, what have u contributed so far

Mandelaguy:

Here comes the resident retard on Nairaland with his i.mbecilic comments as usual.
President Jonathan is the first president to enter into direct negotiations with ASUU. He didn't do it out of weakness but a genuine desire to end the strike and get Nigerian students back to school.

It took the President 13 hours to reach a feasible agreement with ASUU (while you were asleep) and they had an understanding which includes a variation of the unimplementable 2009 agreement that ASUU reached under Yaradua.

President Jonathan told ASUU (and the facts are verifiable) that he is the president who has invested more in Education than any other.
He told them that he increased Education funding in the Budget from below 300B to 450 B. he also specialized tertiary funding through TETFUNDS.

He has undertaken the establishment of 12 new Federal universities to ensure that no state in the federation is deprived.
Since the strike started, FG has committee 100B for infrastructure and 30 B for earned allowances (no other administration has done this much)
In the same meeting, President said that despite the increased budgetary funding to Education by 450B, he will also mobilise 200 B in fulfillment of the agreement for the next 4 years.

So what is ASUU's problem? Since you were born, have you heard of any President that offered this much to ASUU just to call off a strike?
It's so unfortunate that politics has beclouded our sense of reasoning in this country.
President GEJ has tried, let FG go ahead to reopen the schools and it will be a popular move as you can see from comments on this thread

Demdem:

Foolish boy, what have u contributed so far

stevedure:
And here comes the slowpoke of Nairaland and captain of the blinds, leader of the backwards, true Hater 2 d core and a goon! All hail d APC hippopotamus, DEMDEM! it's obvious u're loosing 4rm both ends! I can understand ur wailings, please go on hating while we jump into the moving train of success! Vagaboon!