The Federal Government has said it cannot meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities now.

According to an appeal to the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities it says to they should exercise restraint in their demands from the government.
Adamu Adamu the minister of education Who said this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday night stated that ASUU ’s problems with the government began during the Umaru Yar ’ Adua administration in 2009.

According to him he said the Federal Government would have fulfilled its obligations to ASUU if international oil prices had not crashed after 2009.
Adamu said previous administrations made promises to the union when the economy was buoyant.
He said the Federal Government provided an agreement in 2009 for funding of universities to the tune of N 1. 3tn over a period of six years.
Adamu said , “The issues necessitating this strike date back to 2009 when the then government of the late President Umaru Yar ’ Adua signed an agreement with ASUU on the funding of federal universities . The agreement provided for funding of universities to the tune of N1 .3 tn over a period of six years . It is instructive to know that Nigeria was experiencing oil boom at that time . It was therefore expected that government would meet the terms of agreement.
“However, international oil prices crashed in subsequent years , thereby throwing the country into an economic hardship . At the inception of this administration, the country ’s economic fortunes worsened , nose-diving into a recession , with dire consequences on all sectors of the economy , including education .
“We exited recession not too long ago , and we are just beginning to recover from the consequences of low oil prices , which are happily beginning to pick up. If this trend continues, definitely , the education sector will also improve .
“Against this background , I want to appeal to all parents , students and in particular ASUU women and men to continue to exercise restraint in terms of their response to the plight of the education sector . We must also be mindful that there are other sectors with similar competing needs .”
Lecturers in some of the universities downed tools on Monday , a situation which paralysed activities in the institutions .
ASUU said the government failed to implement at least three areas in their Memorandum of Action signed on September 14 , 2017 .
President of the union , Prof . Biodun Ogunyemi , told our correspondent that the grey areas included failure to carry out the Forensic Audit of the earned academic allowances of the lecturers since 2017 and the payment of only N 20 bn out of an agreed N 220 bn annually.
Source: https://topic.ng/ASUU-we-cant-meet-up-now-wait-for-oil-prices-to-increases-fg/

ASUU should find a better way of dealing with the Federal government without going on strike. This is the type of society we have created for ourselves. Keeping a fake School cert holder as a president of a nation is the worst mistake we are making as a country.
It sounds horrible seeing educated folks drumming support for Buhari at this age and time. I think Osibanjo should be able to speak to his boss on the need to fund the universities in Nigeria.
Atiku is not a better option, he is another greedy bastard who went to start a private University with Obasanjo while both were serving this country and Nigeria students were on strike. Students were at home sitting down for 6 months.
It will never be well with those planning to vote for all these old crooked fools in this country...

#NigeriaDeservesBetter

There children are not affected.

That will take forever na..


Liars

Mchew

D kind of excuses dis ppl make most times is embarassing and an insult to most Nigerians.. So Becos anoda govt reached an agreement with dem it doesn't concern U? What happens to U reaching ur own agreement with dem? D last time ASUU threatened to go on strike and even embarked on a warning strike what agreement was reached with dem to call it off ?

Na wah o.....so after all the shout about diversifying the economy the only way to solve financial problems in Nigeria is still oil....it's either this govt lack the skills of problem solving or education of it's citizens is not among it's priorities(If they even have any)