Sincere 9gerian: The lazy and unproductive lecturers should step aside for new lecturers who are ready to work. Atleast the new lecturers will learn from the sacked ones never to sacrifice their job on the alter of trade unionism.

If we'r not careful trade unionism will grow and become an untameble monster.

Yes workers can make demands but when they become unreasonable, they should be shown the way out. Only God knows what would have become of America if Ronald Reagan, then American president, did not sack 11, 345 air traffic controllers after a two-day strike. He did the right thing to avoid DANGEROUS precedent. Nobody is indispensable. Not even the president of Nigeria

gedtalks:
1. Nigerian Universities need Change. Yes, but change MUST start from within....what stops the non-corrupt lecturers from striking to get rid of the bad eggs Dont they know that amongst them are very many rotten eggs ?

2. If infrastructure is the basic thing...why did a place like Tinapa fail after all the money spent ?

3. Have you interracted with a graduate from a Ghanian University to hear and see THE PRODUCT for yourself or are you applying that your empty common sense here again?

TechWalker007:
It is obvious you have decided to believe only what the opposition is saying.
Exactly why it has become political.

take dat: The university only resumed on the 25th of November, and can only sack the striking lecturers if they failed to resume on that particular 25th of November.
http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/11/21/ASUU-strike-aaua-pulls-out-of-union-orders-students-to-resume-on-monday/

If the university held its 'Opening Ceremony of a two-day orientation programme organized by the Institution for the new academics' last week monday(25th of November), that is the same day the school resumed. It is impossible that the school recruited the new lecturers to replace the striking ones, because as at 25th of November(resumption date), the school wasn't sure of how many lecturers would turn up for work in order to decide on recruiting new lecturers to replace them and for the institution to hold its opening day for the new academics on the 25th November, it means the school must have concluded the recruitment process long before the 25th of November, so they were not recruited to replace striking lecturers. The story from Daily Post doesn't add up. Its more likely the institution only recruited 'more' lecturers.

The VC also 'commended them for being found worthy of employment after rigorous interviews'. It shows that the recruitment exercise started long ago(anyone familiar with recruitment process would know it takes a long time), making it doubtful that the were recruited to replace the striking lecturers.

gedtalks:
If ASUU is actually concerned about the state of Naija universities, they would have started cleaning the mess from within by removing the bad eggs amongst themselves first. Open ur eyes Great Nigerian students.

Sincere 9gerian: The lazy and unproductive lecturers should step aside for new lecturers who are ready to work. Atleast the new lecturers will learn from the sacked ones never to sacrifice their job on the alter of trade unionism.

If we'r not careful trade unionism will grow and become an untameble monster.

Yes workers can make demands but when they become unreasonable, they should be shown the way out. Only God knows what would have become of America if Ronald Reagan, then American president, did not sack 11, 345 air traffic controllers after a two-day strike. He did the right thing to avoid DANGEROUS precedent. Nobody is indispensable. Not even the president of Nigeria

gedtalks: Yeah... Its just the beginning. They've not seen anything yet. The number of strikes done by ASUU in the past 15 years is unbelivable. And all of them boil down to one thing SALARY INCREASE.

I actually do not blame students that support ASUU 's comouflage of ''improve the status of Nigerian Universities''. Did Nigerian Universities just start getting bad. And by the way which is more important '' infrastructure or the quality of education? - I mean quality education without sorting and fvcking to pass. Can 50% of our so called naija lecturers compete academically/ intellectually with Ghanian lecturers. Do our lecturers read before coming to class ? Do they update their handouts or pass the same expired information in old papers from generation to generation ? If ASUU is actually concerned about the state of Naija universities, they would have started cleaning the mess from within by removing the bad eggs amongst themselves first. Open ur eyes Great Nigerian students.

Nuzo':
The biggest lie the trade union called ASUU had ever told to anyone who cared to listen was that they were fighting for the quality of education for students.

The same students they've turned to slaves in their respective schools. Sex slaves, labor slaves, financial slaves. Comply or fail!

Over 70% of the lecturers are openly involved in this business of forcing students to either sleep with them/sort their courses or fail....only to turn around and claim they are fighting for the students.

Government has also not helped matters cos if they had not neglected their responsibilities of properly funding the universities over the years, ASUU wouldn't have used the welfare of students as their defense for their real motive.

The first step to attaining quality education in our schools again is not infrastructure or whatever. It's by prosecuting all lecturers who are involved in sex or money for marks.

MrRogers:

here is a link to the Reagan story
www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12292.html

the scenario is different from what ASUU is striking for, the air traffic controllers were fighting for wage increase and reduced hour of work, is that what ASUU is fighting for?? NO......... ASUU fight is for increased funding of education so graduates of nigerian universities will no longer be called half baked and unemployable. I can understand why many students are fed up with ASUU but you need be reminded that this struggle didn't start today , it started long ago, people like me witnessed q six month strike by ASUU about 10th years ago yet ASUU is still fighting for the same things they were demanding then, and some people want us to believe this is a government of fresh air? a government that looked the other way while subsidy thieves steal trillions of naira has no excuse not to meet ASUU demand
many of you supporting federal government today will be grateful to ASUU when ASUU wins this battle
ASUU......ALUTA CONTINUA VICTORIA ASCERTA

take dat: The university only resumed on the 25th of November, and can only sack the striking lecturers if they failed to resume on that particular 25th of November.
http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/11/21/ASUU-strike-aaua-pulls-out-of-union-orders-students-to-resume-on-monday/

If the university held its 'Opening Ceremony of a two-day orientation programme organized by the Institution for the new academics' last week monday(25th of November), that is the same day the school resumed. It is impossible that the school recruited the new lecturers to replace the striking ones, because as at 25th of November(resumption date), the school wasn't sure of how many lecturers would turn up for work in order to decide on recruiting new lecturers to replace them and for the institution to hold its opening day for the new academics on the 25th November, it means the school must have concluded the recruitment process long before the 25th of November, so they were not recruited to replace striking lecturers. The story from Daily Post doesn't add up. Its more likely the institution only recruited 'more' lecturers.

The VC also 'commended them for being found worthy of employment after rigorous interviews'. It shows that the recruitment exercise started long ago(anyone familiar with recruitment process would know it takes a long time), making it doubtful that the were recruited to replace the striking lecturers.

mvem: ..very brainless post with brainless people beileving every shit they see on net....some weeks ago a news came out and says "all FUTO lecturers have being sacked" and people that called themselves students beileved it....Wonder the kind of literates we have...To know book those not mean to read and write but to understand and comprehend......This why they want to change the educational system for we are rearing non-academic students or students wey they pass school roads they no dey go school.....

gedtalks:

bwaa....ha..haa..haa ... YOU PEOPLE PLEASE READ THE POST ABOVE BY mvem then read below as I quote him... Our new teacher said:

arrow 1. '' a news''
arrow 2. ''to know book those not mean'' in place of- to have knowlegde does not mean
arrow 3. ''we are rearing'' - in place of being graduated from the uni
arrow 4. Students wey ''they'' pass - in place of students wey dey pass. Wooooww!!

rezy15:
Genius. And ur point is...?

gedtalks: WE ALL WANT CHANGE IN NIGERIA... But is infrastructure/ASUU's SALARY INCREASE the priority. Do you think that if Nigeria has so much money to transform everything that-requires-change; GEJ would'nt have done so ?

gedtalks: Who told you that the most important is the education sector (which is at least standing with one leg)

gedtalks: How about the health (hospitals) and food .

gedtalks: How about the unemployed graduates population who have no where to work. Without work how can parents earn money to send their children to the very Universities we are talking about ?

gedtalks: By the way this might sound like a shock... But its fact........

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IS NOT THE BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH OF A COUNTRY. Case study: China- the fastest growing economy in the world. Its the textiles, hand skills and crafts that ignited the transformation.

gedtalks: Rather than the FG's priority to be Universities,,, I rather they invest in polytecnics, small and medium scale industries like Aba industries. Mind you I'm a University graduate, but I know what Nigeria needs most

lobell:
Infrastructure is priority in development what do you plan to use to drive developmental progress if not infrastructure? Do you want to take lectures under a tree or enter the bush to relieve yourself? This strike has never been about salary increase. You guys should get it through your numbskulls. Lecturers are quite comfortable (A Graduate Assistant (entry level) earns 120k while a Prof earns half a mill )

Pray tell what in your opinion is the most important sector? Ignorance perhaps?


Without education they'd probably use pure water in place of drip and zobo in place of blood


Without education how can you think outside the box to produce jobs for the teeming unemployed? It is a vicious cycle that can only be broken at one point and that is what the striking lecturers are attempting.


I don't know where you are getting your data from or how you are analyzing this, but education (Knowledge transfer) actually drove and still drives China's economy to where it is today!


Since when did polytechnics stop being educational institutions? You just turned round and shot yourself in the foot!

eyenCalabar: Very good. This should teach them a lesson. Always thinking that they can hold everybody to ransom because they are lecturers. Well, the ASUU president can employ them. E go clear them well for eye now

MrRogers: Nuzo':
The biggest lie the trade union called ASUU had ever told to anyone who cared to listen was that they were fighting for the quality of education for students.

The same students they've turned to slaves in their respective schools. Sex slaves, labor slaves, financial slaves. Comply or fail!

Over 70% of the lecturers are openly involved in this business of forcing students to either sleep with them/sort their courses or fail....only to turn around and claim they are fighting for the students.

Government has also not helped matters cos if they had not neglected their responsibilities of properly funding the universities over the years, ASUU wouldn't have used the welfare of students as their defense for their real motive.

The first step to attaining quality education in our schools again is not infrastructure or whatever. It's by prosecuting all lecturers who are involved in sex or money for marks.


enough of this whinning about the deeds of a few lecturers who exploit students especially females for sex , I disagree the figure could be as high as 70 % the problem is that majority of students nowadays are lazy and willingly explore the option of settling rather that read their book only for them to turn round and claim extortion........ I believe strongly that anybody who reads their books very well will pass their exams without giving any lecturer money or sex

Sincere 9gerian: The lazy and unproductive lecturers should step aside for new lecturers who are ready to work. Atleast the new lecturers will learn from the sacked ones never to sacrifice their job on the alter of trade unionism.

If we'r not careful trade unionism will grow and become an untameble monster.

Yes workers can make demands but when they become unreasonable, they should be shown the way out. Only God knows what would have become of America if Ronald Reagan, then American president, did not sack 11, 345 air traffic controllers after a two-day strike. He did the right thing to avoid DANGEROUS precedent. Nobody is indispensable. Not even the president of Nigeria

theoctopus:

Do you know that the ASUU chairman's children attend universities in Ghana? You guys are always quick to say the government is corrupt and therefore anyone who opposes government is right. That in itself is a greater evil that we must run away from. You cannot use a "government is corrupt" blanket on all government actions and policies. It is very wrong. Every action or policy must be judged on its own merit and in this case, the government is right to demand a review of ASUU's demand. To suggest that ASUU should be given whatever they demand because legislators are "chopping money" is as ridiculous as anything else. ASUU is not the only problem of Nigeria. You talk about government funding but forget that Education had the highest in the 2013 budget. This was a budget that was put in place last year when ASUU hadnt gone on strike. So to suggest the government is not interested in funding education is completely false. The question is how important is funding education in comparison to other sectors. If you ask me, while I agree totally that education is very fundamental in any modern society, I do think that in the immediate term, power, agriculture and healthcare are more important than education in Nigeria. I would even support a move that will give a quarter of our budget to power infrastructure and another quarter to agric and setup of new industries like mining, steel, etc. In the immediate term, we dont need many graduates or "quality graduates". In fact, for our kind of economy, emphasis should be placed on technical education, not university education. That is what is done in Asia.

ASUU are not fighting for Nigerians. They are fighting for their pockets. Nothing in their words, actions and body language suggests they are fighting for students or for Nigeria

lord orochi: I believe that ASUU president is not fair. Christmas is so close and the president of ASUU NAssir faggae is still refusing to call off the strike. How will lecturers who are christains celebrate the christmas? Is it the 1 or 2 bag of rice and other few food stuffs and the merger 50000 they will use to celebrate? People who are used to spending 150000-200000 for the christmas? What can one buy with 50000? If the children and wife cloth money are removed from that what will be left? What about lecturers who have extended family members in the village waiting for money from them to celebrate the christmas? I can still remember during the sallah celebration ASUU was still been paid by the federal government and the strike wasn't this far gone. So the Muslims enjoyed there sallah celebration and now the christain won't because of faggae's stubbornness for no just reason as I see no reason why the strike shouldn't have been called of since yesterday when government has agreed to pay them and even have document showing that the 200billion Naira has been paid to an account in cbn for them. NAssir faggae should call of this strike now so the christain lecturers should enjoy the Christmas celebration as well. ASUU president should be fair to himself and the whole ASUU lecturers in Nigeria and shouldnt be religiously bias. I am a Muslim and I know what to be fair means

caseless: mischief maker, point to the university in ghana where we have ASUU president's children or give us the names of his children. u pple are just blind to the fact simply because ur gej is being drawn to d mud by ASUU. if u are in nigeria schooling, then tell me your school and i'd tell u how a half-baked graduate u are. use ur cephalo.....ASUU is fighting for us. and even if u dont see them like that, or think their kids are in abroad, then they're fighting for those that cannot take their children abroad to get a better education.

texazzpete:

Yet another brainless post from you. I clearly overestimated your intelligence.