JaffyJoe:
ASUU and Health worker have this insatiable urge for more and more all the time. The notion that they are making all these noise in the interest of the students is bullshit.

henryhemon:
ASUU has been demanding since I was born and they always claim it's for the good of our education,agreed our education is very poor but what have they been doing with all the demands that government has fulfilled. I'm not justifying why gov't should improve te education sector but I know ASUU is just fighting for their pockets.

brainpulse:
Ma, you made a valid point.

proffemi:


ASUU members are definitely fighting for "their pockets", and they are well within their rights to do so.
In addition though, "they" are fighting for the Nigerian tertiary education system. Whether you believe it or not may be immaterial because they probably know more about this subject than you do.

henryhemon:
I went through all I wrote and didn't see where I said they do not have the right to fight for their pocket or are just pained about what I said that's true??

ogawisdom:
2009 agreement shld be re-negotiated in the light of the economic realities of the day

proffemi:


So you're saying students will not benefit from improved facilities?
psst: before you reply, consider the evidence accumulated over the last two decades or so.

AtkinsPlanet:
Just remember you are toying with some kids future, here.

Check out my signature.

JaffyJoe:
Of course, they would. Just as patients would if hospitals are well equipped, commuters if our transport sector is modernized, farmers if given appropriate support. It is within every citizen's right to have access to quality life and resource. However, would it make sense for farmers to put a halt to food production nationwide just to make a case for themselves? Who suffers?

Many civil servants don't even make a quarter of what these people take home on monthly basis.

bigtt76:
How can government fund and grant autonomy at the same time? ASUU de crase shaaaaa. They want government money to spend as they like ko? Why don't they ASUU come up with a scheme to make money for their respective institutions? Useless people like our National Assembly

kings09:
U know school fees will be one of those schemes n guess who protest most

Splashme:
She stated she does not know details of the agreement reached yet she's claiming demands are unrealistic


Confused woman

proffemi:


I'm sure you're familiar with the notion of a pyramid as it applies to ecosystems, no? Not all layers of such pyramids are of equal importance.

The stubborn demands of the custodians of a crucial sector for its improvement go beyond self-service. You cannot equate university lecturers and researchers to other civil servants. They play different roles in the pyramid of socio-economic development. Everybody should know this. Don't you?

kings09:
U know school fees will be one of those schemes n guess who protest most

JaffyJoe:
Yeah I know that. My allusion was aimed at strategically placed professions of equal or nearly equal importance to state's social-economic growth. Transport, Agriculture etc.
Btw, I think the point of agitation isn't lack of fulfillment of the said agreements at all but that it has only been partly fulfilled right?

vincent10:
ASSU's demand is realistic but not attainable. The current government government does not care about quality education nor do they care about the masses.

More so, if demands of ASSU is met it will be mismanaged. I believe sincere gradual measures should be taken to resolve the decaying educational sector.

The children of politicians are schooling abroad hence u can cry a river none of them will be moved.

Iamzik:
Students are paying through their nose already. Almost all these universities have consultancy services running part time programmes that pay double or triple the normal school fee.

What do they do with all that money if government is responsible for payment of salaries and maintenance of the school. This is beside education grants by international organizations, PTF and others.

Universities should account for the money they currently make before asking for over 800 billion

kings09:
U know school fees will be one of those schemes n guess who protest most

bigtt76:
Sure but then there are a thousand and one scheme the ASUU people can use to raise funds other than school fees. They know it but are just too lazy to do anything.

proffemi:


Lol.

Statements like yours point to the real problem: most students and parents have absolutely zero idea how much proper tertiary education actually costs. How can a man value something if he doesn't even know what it costs? People like you make so many references to the (usually) meager IGR of universities as if they are magic bullets, because you have no idea the enormity of the problem.

What if I told you that an engineering BSc for which the average federal university student pays around N40k pa actually costs something in the ballpark of N 2,000,000 pa? How many consultancy services will universities run to manage such a deficit if government does not step up its game And that begs the question: are universities commercial entities that are duty-bound to generate the deficits from IGR, or should students pay appropriately-hiked fees?