abes: Okugbe only proved an account was opened, he didn't prove there is money in the account.

Sincere 9gerian: Tinubu dogs are ready to give up their life to see this strike continue because of POLITICS, nothing more. I just admire the patience of this president in tolerating all these nonsense.

After the 13 hours meeting with the president, the president proposed to ASUU that they should have an MOU on all the areas agreed by both parties and that the MOU should be signed by both parties. But ASUU leadership refused this proposal but rather said they preferred a letter of comfort from the govt on what govt has offered so they can take the letter to their state branches.

Part of the agreement reached after the 13 hours meeting with president was that ASUU will call off the strike within one week. But over 3 weeks after, the strike has still not been called off and now the same ASUU that rejected an MOU in front of the president has now made MOU one of the reasons it has not called off the strike.

ASUU has failed to call off it strike within one week as they agreed with the president, but ASUU is asking the FG to pay N200 billion which the govt promised to pay this December. Notwithstanding that ASUU failed to keep its side of the agreement, FG has kept its side of paying N200 billion into an account.

See all the first in the ongoing ASUU versus FG face off:

1. GEJ is the first president to sit with ASUU in a negotiation

2. GEJ is the first president who on his own set up a committee to go round and assess the infrastructural decay in our universities. This was called the NEEDS assessment.

3. GEJ is the first political leader to sit with labour unions in a 13-hour meeting.

4. GEJ is the first president who has to release funds before a strike is called off. In the past, once an agreement is reached, labour unions call of their strike.

5. GEJ is the only president that had to make 3 different offers to ASUU and yet the strike has not been called off. The FG committee headed by governor Suswan made the first offer, that was followed by the offer by the vice president of Nigeria and then the last offer was made by the president himself.

Despite all of these efforts, the strike is still on.

So what are the "sins" this president that he has to be treated differently from past presidents? His only "sin" is where he comes from, nothing more. This is very unfortunate for our country.

olabukola: what does it benefit you and your student brothers and sisters if the strike continues. The fed is not losing, ASUU are not losing rather the future generation of Nigeria.

Some unis has started already and those that refused to start are not doing their students any better.

Whether GEJ loss or win the next election it doesn't change anything in his life and their is no way anybody will read the history of Nigeria without mentioning his name.

We can't because GEJ is wrong and we keep on harming ourselves. At the end it doesn't make his wrong write and whatever harm we did to ourselves can never be reversed.

Orlando Owoh:
This is where most of you get it wrong. Yes, FG and ASUU don't lose anything, but the students. Has it occurred to you that it is the students that will benefit more in the long run? Facilities will be upgraded.

awodman: The presidential aide addressed the media on Wednesday.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public
Affairs, Doyin Okupe, has provided evidence that the
Federal Government has opened an account for public
universities at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

The opening of the account and disbursement of N200
billion to the universities within two weeks was one of the
demands made by ASUU before they would call off the five months old strike.

ASUU president, Nasir Fagge, had stated in an interview
with Channels TV that the opening of the account and the
disbursement of the money to the Universities would make the lecturers call off the strike.

“Once that is done, and the committee that is supposed to disburse the funds starts working, our members will have no reason not to suspend the strike action,” he said.

Mr. Fagge had also addressed a press conference on
Monday in which he stated that a central monitoring
committee should be established to monitor the usage of
the revitalisation fund and should submit quarterly reports to the Minister of Education.

Speaking to journalists in his office on Wednesday, Mr.
Okupe showed reporters evidence of correspondences
between the office of the Accountant General of the
Federation, AGF, and the Central Bank.

The documents showed that on November 13, the AGF
authorized the banking and payment system department
of the Central Bank of Nigeria via a letter with reference
number FD/OAGF/220/ADC/1/4DF to open a “revitalization
of Universities Infrastructural Account” with the CBN.

Also, on November 29, the Central Bank confirmed in a
letter reference BPSD/BSD/CON VOL 17/088 to the
Accountant General of the Federation that the said account had been opened and an account number was given.

Mr. Okupe said prior to these, the Director of Funds in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, M.K. DIKWA, through a letter reference FD/LP2008/37/C/I/DF,and dated November 8, communicated with the ExecutiveSecretary of the Nigeria Universities Commission, NUC,Julius Okojie, requesting for the list of federal universities in Nigeria for the purpose of opening a Special Account for them.

[B]Mr. Okupe said that on November 12, Mr. Okojie’s office, in a letter referenced NUC/ES/444/VOL15/280, responded to the request and gave the list of the universities with their various account numbers domiciled with the Central Bank.[/b]

“Following this, the Accountant General has communicated with the Executive Secretary requesting for the details of amount payable to each of the listed Universities which is currently being processed by the NUC,” Mr. Okupe said.

While speaking to Channels TV over the weekend, Mr.
Fagge had wondered why the government failed to make
the money available.

“Why won’t government make available this money so that we know the money is there and the universities
commence drawing from this money to address the
problem of decay in infrastructure, teaching and research
facilities? When that is done, our members will suspend the strike,” he said.

Mr. Okupe did not comment on the other major demands
by ASUU that non-victimization of lecturers that partook in the strike be included in the final agreement to be signed by the lecturers’ union and the federal government; and that the agreement be signed on behalf of the federal government by the chief law officer of the country, the Attorney General of the Federation.

He also did not comment on why a renegotiation of the
controversial 2009 agreement between both parties be
done in 2014, as reportedly agreed at a meeting with
President Goodluck Jonathan, was not contained in the
‘resolution’ of the meeting prepared by the government
and sent to ASUU.

The presidential aide did not entertain questions after the
media briefing.

The Federal Government, through the NUC, had given an ultimatum that all university lecturers resume by
December 9 or face sack.

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Orlando Owoh:
This is where most of you get it wrong. Yes, FG and ASUU don't lose anything, but the students. Has it occurred to you that it is the students that will benefit more in the long run? Facilities will be upgraded.

nairaman66: Read the news on AIT.. From my stand point- I believe the FG is peddling another lie through OKUPE, he has proved on different occasions to be a dangerous liar to the public! Do not take the news seriously..

citizenY: 1. GEJ is the first president to sit with ASUU in a negotiation

2. GEJ is the first president who on his own set up a committee to go round and assess the infrastructural decay in our universities. This was called the NEEDS assessment.

3. GEJ is the first political leader to sit with labour unions in a 13-hour meeting.

4. GEJ is the first president who has to release funds before a strike is called off. In the past, once an agreement is reached, labour unions call of their strike.

5. GEJ is the only president that had to make 3 different offers to ASUU and yet the strike has not been called off. The FG committee headed by governor Suswan made the first offer, that was followed by the offer by the vice president of Nigeria and then the last offer was made by the president himself.

This is the reason why

1) Running a government by committee that has no clearly defined status and objective means members are bound commit the government
one way or the other. This is why the initial committee agreed to certain positions that were rejected by the government. The man made himself cheap by default.

2) What is the function of NUC, Federal Ministry of Education and the Vice Chancellors.... this committeee again, that committeee there??

3) If the NUC, FME and were made to do their jobs, no meeting would have been necessary. When footballers give rough tackles in the eighteen yard box, the goalkeeper must be ready to stop hot penalty shots.

4) This is because there is no trust again

5) Same as 4 above.... The government cannot be trusted and that is the bottom line

Orlando Owoh:
This is where most of you get it wrong. Yes, FG and ASUU don't lose anything, but the students. Has it occurred to you that it is the students that will benefit more in the long run? Facilities will be upgraded.

TechWalker007:

So you really think ASUU is fighting for you?

Are you a learner?

Olril18:

so myopic,its only foolish apc sponsored people like u that will be in support of ASUU..
d damage ASUU has done to our universities is probably more worse than d govt its fighting...of course faggae will not admit 2 d public d strike has been hijacked by politicians,but let's face it,there is more to this strike that the eye can see..
is it hardly surprising that none of southwest universities controlled by the Apc has even made any attempt to pull out of the strike??, d only one that pulled out is a labour party controlled state...
ASUU my foot!!

texazzpete:

You 'admire the patience of the President'?
Can someone PLEASE inform this insincere clown that this is a democracy?! The President's patience has nothing to do with anything here.
Nigerians are the ones to be commended for tolerating many of the anti-people agenda of the FG.



Why would ASUU call off the strike in the meeting with the President without consulting with the wider body of ASUU? You seem clueless about this system. This is not a gathering of low lifes you can tempt with a brown envelope. The people who met with the President aren't impressed by the glamour of Aso Rock. These are highly educated people we're talking about. You think a meeting with the President was enough to make them call it off there and then?

They want the MOU signed by the Attorney General of the Federation without delay. This is an easy, no-brainer solution. The last time they signed an agreement, the FG went around claiming it was not signed by a permanent secretary. The Senate President claimed the head of the FG negotiation team was not of sound mind.

In short, by casting doubts about the signatories of the 2009 negotiation, the FG brought this stubborn insistence of ASUU for ratification at the highest levels upon themselves. Even a 10 year old can see this. I know you're intelligent enough to see this, so I will conclude (not for the first time) that you have been paid sums of money to propagate this disgraceful opinions on Nairaland.




It's not about paying 200bn Naira in 2013. ASUU needs the assurance that 200bn will be paid in 2014 too, and 2015, and 2016 as agreed. We need that assurance. Failure of the FG to implement this is highly suspicious.




What the heck is this shyte?! Does this deserve a cookie? Sane minds are wondering why it took him 4 months to personally intervene. He had no reason himself to sit at the meeting. There is an education minister who GEJ should have been supervising to do this work. In any sane climate, the Education minister should have been relieved of his job months ago.
Bottom line is, GEJ found more use out of the Education minister in battling Amaechi than to actually solve the ASUU strike.





The funds in question are OWED allowances. Owing ASUU already is a form of Governmental theft. Does the FG require cookies for the rare occasion when they do the right thing?




It is called a 'negotiation'. When you are 'negotiating', you keep putting forward offers until a compromise is reached. Have the bundles of N1000 notes put in your pockets clouded your command of the English language?

For all intents and purposes, ASUU has accepted the last compromise offer by the FG. All they require is proper and bulletproof ratification and a signed and sealed pledge that the brave lecturers who have now obtained significant funding for our Universities will not be victimized for this. They should be lauded as heroes, but that is a separate discussion entirely.



I know many on Nairaland are young people, but anyone who is 30 and above here will remember that every single President we've had for well over 2 decades has had to content with ASUU strikes. Abacha, babangida, Obasanjo, Yar'Adua...I'm not sure why you're trying to revise history.
Perhaps this is a clear indication that crisp naira notes can cloud the memory?




Can you STOP this nauseating tribal politics here?


PS: Thank God you can never accuse ME of being one of the 'Tinubu dogs' or 'APC sympathizers' as you like to babble on about. I am on record here when I've seriously lambasted the likes of Fashola and Tinubu multiple times. Unlike you, I am a patriot.

Orlando Owoh:
You may "go and die."

Olril18:

while u can "die in ignorance"

Olril18:

you are a fool in denial...d questions still remain,did all the rubbish trash uve written here justify the fact that ASUU are very right to keep us at home for six months
has ASUU ever contributed positively to our university system other than be a striking union??
why has ASUU always been striking over and over the same thing?? they v striked 9 months,6 months,4 months,3 months,can u tell us how this senseless strikes had shaped and improve the university system??
are the gov also the people who teaches with obsolote course outline,demand sex from female and money from males??,used plagarised hand outs??,and being lazy to go to to class and teach...did u recongnised this is also a sort of decay??
is their any assurance since there have been longer strikes,this is going to be the.last??,and in the next year or two,ASUU won't embark on strike again??
can u pintpoint the positives of the previous ASUU strike,other than the fact ASUU soon embarked on another??
have u read the 2009 agreements??,did u see all ASUU selfish demands that outweigh the improvement in infracstructures they claimed they are fighting for??
it surprises me why anybody will be in support of ASUU??d damages they v caused to our university system will take a long time to rectified..
u can blame the fg,but ASUU are not saints either!!

Olril18:
im not surprised at ur lack of sense..anybody with intuity will see u are a typical brainwashed APC thug!

olabukola: what does it benefit you and your student brothers and sisters if the strike continues. The fed is not losing, ASUU are not losing rather the future generation of Nigeria.

Some unis has started already and those that refused to start are not doing their students any better.

Whether GEJ loss or win the next election it doesn't change anything in his life and their is no way anybody will read the history of Nigeria without mentioning his name.

We can't because GEJ is wrong and we keep on harming ourselves. At the end it doesn't make his wrong write and whatever harm we did to ourselves can never be reversed.

Olril18:

you are a fool in denial...d questions still remain,did all the rubbish trash uve written here justify that ASUU are right to keep us at home for six months
has ASUU ever contributed positively to our university system other than be a striking union??
why has ASUU always been striking over and over the same thing?? they v striked 9 months,6 months,4 months,3 months,can u tell us how this senseless strikes had shaped and improve the university system??
are the fg also the people who teaches with obsolete course outline,demand sex from female and money from males??,used plagarised hand outs??,and being lazy to go to to class and teach...did u recongnised this is also a sort of decay??
is their any assurance since there have been longer strikes,this is going to be the.last??,and in the next year or two,ASUU won't embark on strike again??
can u pintpoint the positives of the previous ASUU strike,other than the fact ASUU soon embarked on another??
have u read the 2009 agreements??,did u see all ASUU selfish demands that outweigh the improvement in infracstructures they claimed they are fighting for??
it surprises me why anybody will be in support of ASUU??d damages they v caused to our university system will take a long time to rectified..
u can blame the fg,but ASUU are not saints either!!