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Hearme: What effectiveness are you talking about. Was it the embarrassment he caused Mr President by announcing the sack of university lecturers in which the President tactically dissociated himself from. Since he said that did you ever see him come to the public to make any statement? He messed up totally and should be forever grateful to the likes of the public campaigner and chief orators like Doyin Okupe who laid down some part of his integrity to bail him out.

Wike embarrassed the president and all Nigerians by making such statement. I remain of the opinion that Rivers people should not vote a man who is hasty in spirit as governor.

Hearme: What effectiveness are you talking about. Was it the embarrassment he caused Mr President by announcing the sack of university lecturers in which the President tactically dissociated himself from. Since he said that did you ever see him come to the public to make any statement? He messed up totally and should be forever grateful to the likes of the public campaigner and chief orators like Doyin Okupe who laid down some part of his integrity to bail him out. You don't know anything,do u think is Jonathan that will announce the sack of lecturers? Wike cannot say that without an order from the president.The president did not dissociate himself rather he told us how information in government is been passed across, try and be reading critically.

Wike embarrassed the president and all Nigerians by making such statement. I remain of the opinion that Rivers people should not vote a man who is hasty in spirit as governor.

bennygreat1: At last, the Academic Staff Union of
Universities has agreed to call off its six-
month-old strike.
The followed the signing of a
Memorandum of Understanding with the
Federal Government on Wednesday.
The agreement, signed at the Presidential
Villa, Abuja on Wednesday evening, is a
new pact between the varsity lecturers and
the Federal Government.
The Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom
Wike, and the Chairman of ASUU, Dr.
Nasir Fagge, confirmed the development
to newsmen at the Presidential Villa.
Fagge, however, said the leadership of the
union still needs to confer with the National
Executive Committee before announcing a
resumption date.

theoctopus: The problem with NL is that it is filled with too many dunces. What did the president say differently? So you cant understand simple English. He is talking procedure. That is a man who knows due process and rule of law and makes his statement accordingly. Where you expecting him to talk like an illiterate Buhari.

He just told you procedure. That is how the information flows. Even when it is the president's directive, it doesnt have to be issued by the president. He didnt tell you that the report was wrong or that he was not in support. He told you due process and how it works. Most of you are not used to having an educated president so you always expect to hear "go and die"!

complete1: Please today is not a time to watch film for students,ASUU topic is a hot food on d table,lets all tune in to news stations for correct information(preferably channels tv) so dat we dont come hear to pour rubbish.a senior advocate of nigeria just finished a talk on d topic and he said well intellectuals lk ASUU should have talk about d earned allowance during der meeting wit d president,he said der was no way dey forgot abt bringing up dat topic,der is somthing they are not telling us.another guest is coming in.today am not on ground but we b sure to pass any info dat comes in from my counterparts.tanks

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Again, ASUU leaders meet, set to suspend strike

NOVEMBER 23, 2013 BY KAMARUDEEN OGUNDELE
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National President, ASUU, Nasir Issa-Faggae
There is strong indication that academic activities may resume in the nation’s public universities early next week, Saturday Punch has gathered.

Our correspondent gathered on Friday that members of the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of the Universities again converged on Kano to deliberate on whether to call off their over four months old industrial action or not.

The NEC members, who gathered at the Bayero University, Kano, penultimate week to review the reports of the various university congresses over the strike, suspended the meeting following the death of Dr. Festus Iyayi. Iyayi, a University of Benin lecturer and former ASUU president, who died in an auto accident involving the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, on his way to Kano to attend the NEC meeting.

There has been no date yet for the interment of his remains.

However, feelers from Kano on Friday indicated that the ASUU members went into hiding for the meeting.

One of our correspondents gathered that the NEC members, who reconvened in BUK, on Thursday, retired to a secret location for the meeting.

Reporters made frantic efforts to trace the venue of the meeting without success.

But many vehicles belonging to the members of the union were seen on campus.

But a member of ASUU NEC, who craved anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the development, confirmed to our correspondent that the union leaders were converging on Kano for the meeting.

According to him, though the union has lost a leading member and an academic, they were mindful of the feelings of the students and the public over the protracted industrial action.

He noted that all the union’s national officers as well as other branch chairmen had arrived at the ancient city for the assembly.

However, attempts by our correspondent on Friday evening to reach out to the University of Lagos chapter ASUU Chairman, Dr. Karo Ogbinaka, to confirm the meeting failed, as he did not pick his calls.

He also did not respond to the text message sent to his telephone.

Ogbinaka had earlier said the academic community was mourning Iyayi and so was not in a hurry to fix a new date for the NEC meeting.

The telephone line of the union’s National President, Dr.Nassir Fagge, also did not go through.

President Goodluck Jonathan had led a Federal Government team that met with the leadership of the union penultimate week.

Following the discussion, the FG reportedly promised to inject N220bn yearly into the public universities for the next five years. The new offer is to begin from 2014.

A majority of the chapters of the union had agreed on the suspension of the strike following the fresh commitment the leadership of ASUU obtained from the FG.

Teachers in the nation’s three but 78 public universities embarked on strike on July 1, 2013 to protest the failure of the FG to implement the agreement they signed with the authorities in 2009.

The pact largely centered on greater funding of the universities, a declaration of a state of emergency in tertiary education, better wages as well as payment of earned allowances to lecturers.

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