Why is this country's tertiary institutions always going on strike? Lecturers cripple universities, begin indefinite strike

BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME
PORT HARCOURT:  UNIVERSITY lecturers across the country begin an indefinite strike from today.
National President of the Academic Staff  Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie who made this known Sunday  in Port Harcourt  said this time the strike would be” total and comprehensive”.

According to him, there would be no grading and marking of scripts during the duration of the strike action.


He explained that their decision stemmed from what he described the refusal of the federal government to implement the core components of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement.

According to him with the failure of federal government to address the issues even when ASUU granted it a two months grace period it had become clear that the government was not willing to honor the agreement.

Describing the decision to embark on the indefinite strike as very painful Prof Awuzie who was flanked by other members of his executive said the union would alien with allied unions in the country to resist the proposed removal of fuel subsidy by the government.

“NEC, having noted that the federal government neglected, ignored, failed and refused to implement the core components of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement after more than two years of its signing, having squandered two months it requested without achieving any progress in the implementation of the agreement, having sacked the Implementation Monitoring Committee that served as the forum for dialogue with ASUU on this dispute, is convinced that the government is terribly insincere and is manifestly unwilling to genuinely implement the agreement it freely entered into with ASSU.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/lecturers-cripple-universities-begin-indefinite-strike/

Great idea.
There are no schools in Nigeria anyway.
Those so-called students need to go back to the 'farms'.
Better time spent as stark illiterates!

Sinachay:

Great idea.
There are no schools in Nigeria anyway.
Those so-called students need to go back to the 'farms'.
Better time spent as stark illiterates!

You have a radical way of driving in the home truth. The educational system is crying for the visitation of the Absolute Spirit. The way it is presently, iam apt to believe that nothing good can ever come out of the system. Have a presentation in one of the federal unis this morning. Hope it holds.