Yawa o... They will suspend d strike dis month

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[color=#006600][/color] can't wait for January

Too bad.
They are not bothered because their children are studying outside Nigeria.

make both of them go die.

And some will argue buhari administration is not the worst ever

When more nonsense to avail is still upcoming

Omo!!!

I have always hated the way ASUU and FG handles this issue right from 1999 till date. The strike action don't seems to solve the issue and I think ASUU should look for a better alternative to solve this matter once and for all. Students are tired of this.

Sad.

https://iflytocanada.com/transferofcredit.php

My Advise to students at home is to look for something to do, a skill, or something they wanted to learn, with the internet, a lot is quite possible, and the limitations are becoming lesser, time is gold.

To God be the glory.

Alute continua, no retreat no surrender... Another nation wide protest is looming

ASUU Strike: Universities Revitalization and a Shortsighted Government.

I woke up a few days ago to meet a piece of trending news on social media that Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has earned 11 international research grants worth RM 600,000 (61.3 Million Naira) from the Nigerian government through the Nigerian Institute for Transport Technology (NITT). This possibly angered Nigerians as it came at a time Nigerian university Lecturers are on strike for proper funding of Nigerian public universities. I personally did not find the news surprising. Nigerians patronize Malaysian universities in recent years because the Malaysian government has successfully developed world-class universities with foresight and proper investment in education.

In January 2011 during my PhD at Leicester University, I attended the UK Universities High Voltage Network (UHVNet) colloquium at Winchester, UK. I met and interacted with some Malaysian PhD students from the University of Southampton. I got to realize that they were under Malaysian government scholarship and also the staff of a university in Malaysia. These intelligent and energetic, and very young men and women returned to their respective Malaysian university after the PhD as Senior Lecturers with an already prepared conducive environment for research and training. Malaysia did not just invest in scholarships but also in infrastructures to create an environment similar to what they left in the UK. These are the people training our Nigerian scholars in Malaysian universities today. And unfortunately, when these scholars return to Nigeria, there is no standard laboratory to train others.

I still find it amazing that we use our resources to train scholars abroad and no proper arrangement on how to effectively utilize the knowledge acquired on their return. If Malaysian leaders had behaved like Nigeria, Malaysia would not have being able to create a system good enough for the 11 NITT staff for their postgraduate training at the cost of over 61 million naira.
Malaysian leaders with foresight realize that higher education and international students can be sources of foreign exchange, aside from the human capital development for the country, and they invested heavily in education. Their leaders went to the west to learn how to develop their country and not how to steal from their country.
For example, International students are a key source of funding for UK universities and a source of revenue for the country. The government estimates an income of over £5 billion excluding tuition fees from international students every year. There is currently the fear of a financial crisis in UK universities due to low international students as the result of COVID-19, pushing the universities to request a bailout from the government.

International students contributed $45 billion to the U.S. economy in 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Malaysian leaders not beclouded with greed were able to see that education is not just the key to national development but also a source of foreign exchange and they key into it. Education was allocated RM50.4 billion (over NGN4.6 trillion) in Malaysia’s 2021 budget proposal. International students were reported to contribute an average of RM7.2bn (£1.4bn) to Malaysia per year via tuition fees and other living expenses. the expectation in 2020 was to hit a target of 200,000 international students in Malaysia to generate RM15.6 billion.

Aside from our numerous TETFund scholars doing their Ph.D. in Malaysia and contributing foreign exchange to the country, 11 staff from NITT Zaria will be going to Malaysia in January to contribute RM 600,000 to the Malaysian economy. The celebration of the grant by UTM’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ismail Ahmad Fauzi, on the university’s Facebook shows the importance of the grant to the university and the country.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian government under President Buhari has been shouting diversification of the economy since 2015 but so shortsighted to realize that education is a potential source of foreign exchange. They are paying a lot of money for their kids to study abroad but not willing to create Nigerian universities that will attract international students. Nigerian universities use to be attractive to international students but that was lost when education left the priority list of successive governments with the worse neglect under this government. The current government stops funding education by refusing to fulfill the agreements it willingly signed with ASUU. The officials rather prefer to send their kids abroad for university education.

The slogan has being that Nigeria doesn't have that kind of money ASUU is requesting for education. But Nigerian governors approved $1 billion from Excess Crude Account to fight Boko Haram in 2017. If we are serious about education, we can also get funds from ECA for the university revitalization fund. FG wants to take a 750 million USD loan from the World Bank for COVID-19 recovery, but they can't take a loan for the revitalization of the education sector.

While ASUU members are under the hammer for a fight for the revitalization of public universities, the government has a lot to benefit if they invest in higher education. Nigeria is an attractive country for international students if we set our priorities right and inject the needed funds into the universities to make them good enough to compete with the rest of the world.

If we are committed to the revitalization of our universities, even the government officials won't need to send their kids abroad and that will reduce the pressure on forex, subsequently, a large amount of the money being taken out for study abroad will remain in our country. We'll rather be having an inflow of forex from foreign students in Nigerian universities. We'll be able to create a system to give quality training to the rich, poor, and international students.
We have a voice today because we are a product of an elite system that is not elitist. You can join hands with ASUU for the fight for the revitalization of our universities for national development and economic prosperity. The choice is yours.

My name is Amoka and I am just an ordinary Nigerian that believe in the ASUU struggle for the survival of the public university. I believe in the creation of an elite system that is not elitist.

Abdelghaffar Amoka Abdelmalik, PhD
Department of Physics
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Ghostmode2two:
I have always hated the way ASUU and FG handles this issue f on 1999. The strike action don't seems to solve the issue and I think ASUU should look for a better alternative to solve this matter once and for all. Students are tired of this.

Can you suggest the better option?

FG never gives fucccccks shit as long as all their kids are schooling abroad its none of their business.ASUU can go on strike as long as they want,Bring back all their kids to Nigeria to here and see improvement on our education sector,useless set of Government.

So, what's the way forward?

Don't ask for solutions, since you have a brain, the better question will be, how can we solve the issue (which means, you also have some solutions yourself).

The way forward Fellow is to stay focus and continue to build in other areas, don't let ASUU, put you down. I know you have solutions, rather than asking for them.

Harrykn:
So, what's the way forward?

painful thing be say children of FG and ASUU lecturers dey foreign universities, the remainder dey private universities. na masses pikin dey suffer d tin. very soon companies no go dey employ FG and STATE universities graduates....

I suggest you check online Education, if you have the means, stay strong, don't dwell in pains

fleksy:
painful thing be say children of FG and ASUU lecturers dey foreign universities, the remainder dey private universities. na masses pikin dey suffer d tin. very soon companies no go dey employ FG and STATE universities graduates....

rollybest:

Can you suggest the better option?

Let's clean the system and vote in a responsible government that will listen to the yearnings of all

We are simply tired of FG's 'Manage it like that syndrome'

Nigerian people are very nice and patient with corrupt Leaders, I am not sure why, maybe it's the way we are brought up, or lack of exposure.

backnbeta:
We are simply tired of FG's 'Manage it like that syndrome'

Ghostmode2two:
Let's clean the system and vote in a responsible government that will listen to the yearnings of all

That's not the work of ASUU but the masses.
Sometimes i feel Nigerians are comfortable with suffering. If buhari child should be in public school. ASUU won't go on strike even for one day.but here we are blaming people(ASUU) that are fighting for our own good.

SeriouslySense:
Don't ask for solutions, since you have a brain, the better question will be, how can we solve the issue (which means, you also have some solutions yourself).

The way forward Fellow is to stay focus and continue to build in other areas, don't let ASUU, put you down. I know you have solutions, rather than asking for them.

There are many solutions bro but we gotta push it up with something.

SeriouslySense:
Nigerian people are very nice and patient with corrupt Leaders, I am not sure why, maybe it's the way we are brought up, or lack of exposure.

A combination of both, I suppose
We are always told to 'manage it' like that when we are shortchanged and should react.

I agree, very true.

Harrykn:

There are many solutions bro but we gotta push it up with something.

Take it to the bank,
Polish consul: whats your aim for coming to republic of polska?
applicant: To study.
Consul: Okay. Did you have any form of higher education?
Applicant : (honestly)I tried but it was impossible to graduate.

Consul : (shocked to his left testicles) Really? How many years course?

Applicant: actually it was supposed to be four years but ASUU, FG and carryovers coupled with village people was trying to make it look like a seven year tuition.

Consul: I understand. (stamps and legalises documents). I wish you goodluck at your 3 Year course in the REPUBLIC OF POLAND... smiles... Please check back in 15 days for your student visa.

applicant: dzienkudje!
consul: dzien dobery! Powodzienia.

Note: Interviews do not occur at the polish embassy and this is a case study.

Get the f outta Nigeria if you can
Goodluck

Exactly, that how they brainwash us, to accept anything

backnbeta:

A combination of both, I suppose
We are always told to 'manage it' like that when we are shortchanged and should react.

SeriouslySense:
I agree, very true.

Do you stay around Lagos axis? Can I learn something new from you?

Juliusmomoh:
If dem like make dem no resume till enternity...
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We the nigeria student have move on with our life...
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Imagine a 5years program has turn to 8years program for my little sis...
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#Fuck_asuu

Should we say this is evidence that the nation can progress without Education?
People suffer to get educated and the next thing, they run away from the nation with their knowledge.
Educated people don't seem to make any impact in this country.
The president He ain't even educated, yet he's the president, VOTED TWICE by the people (2015, 2019).

No, I don't stay there, you have the internet, a great tool, use it wisely, and there are forums on the net where ideas are exchanged, depending on your vast or potential expertise or future goals, you have to master the internet more to find what you seek.

Harrykn:

Do you stay around Lagos axis? Can I learn something new from you?