The current Minister of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu needs no introduction when it comes to airing his views every Friday on the back page of dailytrust.com.ng and some other newspaper or online media, I used to read his column from word to word to grasp the message he wants to pass across, in 2013 he did a two series write up on how to end strike, he gave a vivid picture of what is going on in the university and also how government will tackle such issue to avoid unnecessary strike, I believe the president must have read those articles and decided to appoint him the minister in other to tackle the issue at hand, well let me not bored you with words, just sit back and enjoy

[/b]The solution to the problem of decay and neglect of the education sector is not to be found in an interminable strike by members of the nation’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU); but neither is it to be found in their engaging in unending dialogue with an insincere government that is to all intents and purposes deaf—and dumb.[b]

Let’s get a few things straight. If ASUU decides today not to embark on any strike again ever, this will not solve any of the problems of the education sector; rather, it will compound them.[/b] But ASUU cannot keep on keeping on going on strike for at least two reasons[b]. First, because many of the issues involved are not very clear to the public, it will lose the public relations war and all the blame will ultimately become an albatross on its neck. Second, if there is any least common denominator at which it should meet government, when the government decides to act in good faith, is at the altar of the sanctity of the academic calendar.
[/b]While meeting a negotiating partner in whom it has totally lost confidence is going to prove difficult for ASUU, it is nonetheless something that must be done[b]. Along the way,[/b] ASUU has to accept that universities must reopen, and it must become realistic enough to accept that a government whose minister can unilaterally buy unauthorised materiel and bullet-proof cars for her use with an amount that is the equivalent of more the annual basic salary of one hundred professors is not the government that can be forced by logic or by university shutdown to see reason[b].


However, as strike after strike began to be long and drawn-out, and[b][/b] graduation date began to recede into the distant future, ASUU started to lose the support of some parents and other otherwise well-meaning sympathisers[b][/b]. At one time, students—and today, student leaders—began turning against their lecturers.

But all this ire is really misplaced because[b][/b][/b] right now all the cards are in the hands of the government, and if it chooses to play the right ones, straightaway, lecturers will be back in class, students, ever so eager to graduate, will be back in school, and the public will applaud[b]. But a stay in the university is not just about eagerness to graduate or receive a certificate; it is more about the content of what one goes through and the receipt of quality, functional education, which is what ASUU wishes to ensure.[/b] But some people have opposed the ASUU position on the premise that there is corruption in its rank[b]. Yes, so there is; but so is there in government—incomparably so!

No doubt, there is corruption in ASUU members: there are incidents of plagiarism on campus among its members; there are professors without peer-reviewed scholarly articles to their credit; there is harassment of female students, in order to get that thing for marks ; there is greater devotion to unregulated part-time lecturing than faithfulness to tenured positions; there is glaring failure to carry out crucial assignments, like the marking examinations scripts, in which case, they do what they call ‘mark allocation;’ there is abuse of the famous democratisation process, with members electing not the best person for the job but someone who will do only what they like, often leading to incompetence, inefficiency or even a breakdown of law and order; there is ASUU’s inability to discipline its members owing to the voluntary nature of its membership; and there is too much unjustified and indefensible globe-trotting as members junket from one unnecessary conference to another using funds that are supposedly and otherwise inadequate even for teaching and research; but the quality of today’s graduate is inescapably as much a failure of the system as it is of neglect by the university lecturer.
[/b]But all this will not absolve the government of its own faults: [b] its notorious, continuing,, insupportable pigheaded failure to adequately fund education even as it misapplies the resources that will have done what is required in the sector; its highhandedness in always taking ASUU for granted; its cynical adoption of deception and serial insincerity to define the modus operandi of its approaches to, and interactions with, members of the staff union; and its adamant refusal to ever honour any of its agreement with ASUU until it is forced into doing so by a determined strike action. [/b]What is there in ASUU’s demand that will take the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Senate President, the Vice President and the President himself to fail to solve[b]? If it is the question of funding that the government is running away from, the report has presented its solution to that.

You can read the rest of the article here
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/columns/friday-columns/9590-why-ASUU-is-always-on-strike-i

This strike might last longer than we thought.

Lacazette strike. Lukaku strike. Rooney strike. Neymar strike. Messi strike. Ronaldo strike. ASUU strike. Wow! what a fantastic week...

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