https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acB813hbBZg
ASUU President Dismisses Varsities Who Defy Strike As Quacks

Professor Osodeke said this on Thursday during an interview on Arise News.

“Kwara State University is not a member of ASUU, they’ve not joined, you can check. Osun State University was suspended from ASUU for misbehaviour, you can check. In LASU that you mentioned, we are in court with LASU because they sacked all our executives more than five years ago, so they were not part of this struggle.

“Ekiti State University… ASUU don’t run a University, the government have a right to say we have reopened, our members have the right to say that’s good for you, we are not teaching, we are on strike as it happened in Gombe State University, as it happened in Yobe State University, you can go and check as it happened in Kaduna State University so don’t cite those examples, they are irrelevant.”

“Talk about the issue, is Ibadan on strike, is UNN on strike, is ABU on strike, is BUK on strike, is Maiduguri on strike, is Lagos on strike, Let us talk about the important ones not those quacks.”

ASUU has been on strike since February 14, 2022.[/quote]


EKSU, UNIOSUN, KASU react:

PRESS RELEASE

EKSU NOT A QUACK UNIVERSITY: ASUU PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT, RECKLESS

26th August, 2022

The attention of the Management of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSU) has been drawn to the interview granted the Arise Television by the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke where he mentioned some state-owned universities in Nigeria as quacks and irrelevant. In the same press interview with Dr. Reuben Abati, he listed some first generation universities as the ones that matter most in the ongoing struggle by ASUU.

The Management of EKSU views this denigrating remark about some universities, coming from the National President of ASUU as unfortunate, reckless and unwarranted.
Ekiti State University, Ado- Ekiti is currently the 14th best university in Nigeria out of about 200 universities (Federal, State & Private) and the 2nd best State University according to the recent Webometric ranking of universities.
Apart from the above, the university (EKSU) has nearly all its academic programmes accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and relevant professional regulatory bodies. The university is proud to have many top rated globally recognised academics, and its alumni are making waves both Nationally and Internationally. By the grace of God, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji , the Governor-elect of Ekiti State is an alumnus and a former lecturer in the University. Even in ASUU, a number of staff of our university had served and still serving in various capacities at zonal and national levels including but not limited to Professor Afolabi Popoola, Dr. Sikiru Eniola, Profs. Eddy Olanipekun, Ayan Adeleke and Olu-Olu Olufayo.

Therefore, categorizing EKSU as among the quack and irrelevant universities is a testimony to the fact that the ASUU President is probably uninformed and/or is bereft of ideas. This arrant nonsense coming from Comrade Osodeke is totally unacceptable and condemnable.

The Management calls on Professor Osodeke to toe the path of honour by retracting the provocative remark and tender an unreserved apology without further delay.

Bode Olofinmuagun,
Head, Directorate of Information & Corporate Affairs.

EKITI STATE UNIVERSITY,
ADO - EKITI.
Directorate of Information & Corporate Affairs.

ASUU President a careless talker, should get educated – UNIOSUN VC replies Osodeke’s comment calling universities quack

The Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Professor Odunayo Clement Adebooye reacting:

“ASUU President should go and check my profile, I cannot preside on quack university. He has expressed his opinion and that is his, the University he teaches does not have our achievements.

“He was here this year and commended the quality of what he saw here, the infrastructure, only a few universities. Osun state university takes very serious exceptions for having mentioned the institution as a quack university.

“He shouldn’t talk about what he doesn’t know if he wants to continue being a true professor. A true professor finds facts and bases of whatever they say, he should get educated, I challenge him to get educated.

“Referring UNIOSUN as a quack university is a careless statement and not expected from ASUU President who is a professor; who must not make a statement without facts.” the VC said.

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RE: A STATEMENT BY ASUU NATIONAL PRESIDENT DESCRIBING KASU AND OTHER STATE-OWNED UNIVERSITIES AS QUACKS

The whole world was taken aback by the unguided, misleading and derogatory statement by the ASUU National President, Prof. Victor Emmanuel Osodeke during an interview with Arise TV on Friday, 26th August, 2022 in which he irresponsibly referred to some State-Owned Universities in Nigeria including Kaduna State University as quacks.

It is obvious that by such a statement, ASUU, represented by the unguarded vituperatons of its chosen President, is not actually struggling for a better educational system in Nigeria but for personal and irrespondible aggrandisement. One may wonder whether the Professor of Soil Science really understands what the word quack represents. Quack means a person who dishonestly claims to have knowledge and skill in some field with little or no foundation, as better exemplified by professionals.

For the benefit of hindsight, KASU is a new generation University and the second most-sought State-Owned University as well as the fastest growing in Nigeria, which was established 18 years ago with eminent scholars like Prof. Idris A. Abdulkadir, OFR and Prof. Abubakar A. Rasheed, MFR as the pioneer Council members. These scholars-administrators made sure that the appointments of qualified Lecturers was never compromised. The foundation and ethical determination to sustain same has remained the basic principle of engaging academic & non-academic staff.

By the foregoing, the general public may wish to note as follows:
1. KASU is recognised by NUC as a standard University.
2. KASU has some of the best brains that is competing favourably with their counterparts around the globe. The world No 4 best polymer chemist is in KASU.
3. Lecturers in KASU have attracted grants both locally and internationally and are highly rated.
4. KASU graduates are rated among the best in the world and enjoying scholarships from different parts of the country and the globe.
5. KASU has members in ASUU, and it is unfortunate if the ASUU President is saying that they are quacks, while enjoying monthly check-off dues from their salaries. Does this not gives good reason for every reasonable academic staff in the University to pull out from the Union for this labeling and stereotyping?

I like to mention here that the highest stage of irresponsibility is insulting fellow colleagues in the academia. I thought leadership in the academia is about mutual respect and mentoring while also living by good example which the ASUU National finds it too tasking? The ASUU President was a bigot for neither mentioning Ambrose Alli University, where he came from which has pulled out from the strike long before KASU Management decided to resume academic activities in spite of the strike, nor did he refer to his own University as quack.

By resuming academic activities as our good conscience in KASU dictates, should never be a reason for us to be insulted and stereotyped. After all, ASUU claimed to be on strike for:
* Rejecting IPPIS for UTAS (KASU has nothing to do with how other employees are paid in a country where education is in the concurrent list)
* Renegotiate the 2009 agreement (KASU Governing Council informed lecturers they shouldn't worry that after negotiation between FG & ASUU led by its loquacious President, it'll look into how to implement the agreement without encumbrances)
* Release funds to revitalize the infrastructure of the Universities (release of funds is being determined by the economy and income of government and not by any strike action)
*: Pay outstanding EAA to date (Kaduna State has paid far more to its lecturers the EEA than any FG University did to its own Universities)
* Release of the White Paper on Visitation Panels (This has nothing to do with State universities & KASU should not stunt its progress in a protracted strike that is becoming unreasonably insensitive)
Lest i forget, when ASUU in KASU joined the strike in 2019 and govt paid the 40% salary for work done for the month, ASUU National did virtually nothing positive beyond ranting so that the outstanding 60% has not been paid till date. If someone thinks the National President of ASUU can go on strike because of this, is only joking!!!
Let me use this medium to call on Academic staff on strike in KASU to reason and be more concerned with their University and people than the irritating attitude of their irrational leader that label's them as Quacks.

Best wishes.

Signed:
Adamu Nuhu Bargo
P.R.O-KASU
For: Management
26th August, 2022

His face is a meme

ASUU and FG fighting, but it's a sad reality that the students are placed at the receiving end of the pubishment...

I just hope this ASUU whatever will just be solved once and for all, although this is Nigeria.

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Drama !




Infighting has started .

State universities still on strike are just wasting their students time.... Even ASUU president no rate them

If you have heard the ASUU president speak, you will agree that he always sounds angry, embittered and not willing to embrace peace.

ASUU and their cohorts should meet FG halfway. This strike is becoming needless. There is no way the FG will address all their grievances.

I have said it before that ASUU and Medical Doctors can never be satisfied with anything.

See as ASUU just rubbished State Universities.

If any State University dares to pay its staff more than the federal ASUU, they will proceed on strike.

They are the very obstacle to the reformation that our tertiary education has long required.

Throwback:
Atiku has forgotten the ASUU 2001 agreement?

Was he not Vice President then?

Any leader who can satisfy ASUU and Medical Doctors, that leader has already mortgaged other sectors of the labour force.

They cannot be satisfied. I stand by my claim.

Even when they are satisfied on their own terms, they will still hold everyone hostage if the Government approves the demands of those they consider beneath them.

I laugh in JOHESU and ASUP, the inferior kin of Medical Doctors and ASUU. They must never be compensated or allowed any power above their superior kin.

Youngwiz71:
State universities still on strike are just wasting their students time.... Even ASUU president no rate them

Exactly!

ASUU is a nuisance within our Education sector.

Osodeke a card carrying member of LP and former member of PDP disguising under ASUU. This their strike is becoming stale and obvious that there is a political undertones behind it. Calling states owned universities 'quack' and 'mushrooms' has glaringly showed the pride and pomposity tendency of ASUU as an arm of LP and PDP.

Nah LAUTECH I pity most one of the most quack university...

Ok

This is the worst ASUU president ever

He doesn't know how to talk and has no standard at all. Its a pity such "quack" statement came from him. Whether he likes it or not, students from these state universities are doing great both locally and internationally. The ones that graduated from schools under ASUU aren't in any way better.

Most of these lecturers in public universities don't step their foot in the classroom more than once in an entire semester even when the schools aren't on strike. Now imagine what these lecturers would do when ASUU calls off strike then decides to rush activities for the session. Students are forced to study on their own and take exams. Students in public universities suffer a lot in the hands of these lecturers

Sorry you guys are not quak, but in the ranking of university in Nigeria.. The big boys still remain the bog boys..

It's coming

Lol So ASUU just want make every schl shut down for Nigeria...


Wetin concern state University with strike before.....

Any state University wey strike na the State Govt dem suppose hold for the irresponsibility cos no be FG get am...

Nigeria I hail thee

This people should allow this kids go back to school for crying out loud
The educational sector is nothing to write home about,you refuse to improve it standards,now you will not allow the kids manage it like that, wheras your own kids are abroad enjoying quality education
Is this not the definition of sheer wickedness.

I am a lecturer. I enjoy this strike die
I am on low key making my cool money through my private business.
The book is Isaac chapter 5: verse 2 says "and the Lord hardened the heart of Buhari and he did not hearken unto the cry of ASUU and Nigerian students, and behold, God strike them for 12 months.

This man talks too much, attention seeker. Always on TV everyday with varying degree of lamentation.

LOL, Shey na lie ni?

FG and the Minister of education right now

There are Nigerians who won't understand this.
They just want the certificate to join the mass ranks of unemployables and incompetents.
How can you get a Honours Certificate for a Life's work for less than $1,500 dollars.
I certainly do not want that kind of lawyer handling my case, that kind of doctor opening up my body or that kind of engineer putting a roof over my head.
We have scant regards for values in this country and it shows.

Osodeke, we know sey na atiku dey bankroll u....na why u dey misbehave

Is it until FG freeze ur aza b4 u go get sense, u diz bloody terrorist..
U hold a sector of the country hostage because of ur own personal interest, u still get mind dey talk thrash for TV all because some of ur members don dey see through ur mischievousness.

Nigerian students don hear am!

This was a serious misfire from ASUU 001. He should immediately retract or clarify that statement.

LASU na advance high school na. LASUMBA is not evaluated more than Post Secondary Diploma. Those shools mentioned are quacks. Their VCs cannot qualify for Dean in the great Nigerian universities.

That KASU man na badt boi him say Professor of Soil Science