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Breaking News: Non Academic Students of Nigerian Universities [NASNU] has served the FG a notice of indefinite protest for not allowing them patrol around the campuses to look for fine fine girls,smoke,fight with other students who are serious abt their studies.A statement from their president Mr Macdonald, says we are tired of staying at home and missing all the fine fine girls please ASUU end this strike, thanks.

Please don't report me o.I sent a very long message to President Jonathan telling him to solve this ASUU problem so that it will make him the best president and also help him to win 2015 election.I told him that the committee in charge is not serious abt the strike so he should do something if he want to remain the best president.I was suprised when i just heard that he has scheduled a meeting with ASUU 2moro and he don't even knw who sent him that text, with this i confidentially tell you that ASUU strike ends 2moro,thanks.

Nelson Mandela 4rm prison 2 president. Obasanjo frm prison to president.. Theodore Orji frm prison to Gov.... Omisore Iyiola frm prison to senator... Al mustapha frm prison to Brigadier General...This prison is better dan University oooo......Pls 4get ASUU strike, try go prison who knows weda you can b Local Govt Chairman...=)) =)) pls tink it wisely.

Before you people start talking nonsense let me tell you this.Assuming all the students in the country refuses to go and vote on election day there will be big trouble in the country, so don't think that students votes don't count even Inec will know that there is a problem on that election day.If Janothan like make him sidon d drink coffee.

In my school when our results are been pasted,students always say they can't fail that is the lecturer that failed them.The common words used is that, this man get mind failed me the man wicked o.Am a student too but I think sometimes we need to blame ourselves so that we can situp in our studies.

Is like Boko Haram holding a bomb.

This ASUU/FG conundrum is an enigma to me.

Which result again? D match has ended no university eduction in Nigeria again.

This Agbami people don't have money again or what na, exams we wrote since April no text nothing nothing abi dem d on ASUU strike too.I need that money o.

I have been rapped by ASUU, i go born Asuufomi, Asuunasir, Asuufaggae,Asuumumu,Asuukemi, Asuususwam,Asuurufia, Asuuwagu, AsuuJona.Oh make una help i want born 100plets now ooooooooo hmmmmmmm chai Asuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

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My research about ASUU strike shows that the government is always the winner in the past Strikes by ASUU.ASUU are just wasting their time,they must shift ground becaues even if they negotiate till 20100 the government can never implement their agreement 100%.The reason why their meeting is always deadlocked is that ASUU sleeps and dream seeing the government increasing their earned allowance while the government sleeps and dream seeing ASUU reducing their demands, you know when you have a happy dream and wakeup to findout that is not real is very painful.ASUU must shift ground because i don't really see the government shifting groud for it employees.

Yes they are to meet tomorrow again.The must have been going there to drink beer and alomo den forget the main issue that brought them there.

Bad News...... ASUU Strike continues..... In 2day's negotiation, d Union insists on implementation. D FG stalls (or stalks?), promises disbursement of #30 billion 2 cater 4 d Earned Allowee. Hweva ASUU stl insists on total implementation. ASUU chairman's last statement: "Let's see how 2morow goes." So guyz, another TOMORROW! ASUU need raw pussy i guess.

ASUU big boss was on AIT after their meeting,he said strike continues.Sometimes i wonder if they go there to talk or just to drink beer.

This ASUU/Fg conundrum remains an enigma to me.This country is already grounding. The manifestations are on the streets and faces of all Nigerians. The day of reckoning is coming that's all what i can say.

A Nigerian Senator has admitted that the earnings of the Senators in Nigeria is outrageous, even as criticism of the huge salaries and allowances of Nigeria’s lawmakers increase.
The senator, who made this disclosure to THISDAY in Abuja, said he was of the utmost belief that his salary, along with those of his colleagues, is not justifiable.
Noting that the perceived outrageous salaries by senators were unnecessary plundering of the nation’s resources, the senator said rejecting the jumbo pay would be viewed as madness having found himself within the system.
Furthermore, the senator said the jumbo pay was part of the reason the National Assembly’s intervention in the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) did not yield any fruitful result.
According to him, even though the demands of ASUU are highly provocative, unmerited and self-centred, members of the National Assembly Education Joint Committee lacked the effrontery to confront members of the union during recent meetings with them because of the consciousness of their seeming unmerited wages.
“I believe what we earn is not justifiable. That is why ASUU is making unnecessary demands. I wonder why the federal government should reach an agreement with them on such demands. These are demands that are not made by lecturers anywhere in the world. If they are asking for well equipped libraries, laboratories or more conducive learning environment, it would have been understandable. But everything is about themselves.
“How can they be asking for extra pay because they have large classes? Is it not their responsibilities to teach whether a class is large or not? And in any case, who admitted the large class? But they are making these demands just because they know what we earn,” he disclosed.


Also affirming this position, Senator Sola Akinyede, in a recent interview with THISDAY, said the executive should not only be blamed for high cost of governance, noting that the legislature also contributed largely to the problem. He added that the judiciary also has its own share of the blame.
Akinyede, who represented Ekiti South senatorial district in the Senate between 2007 and 2011, said he felt guilty having benefitted from such unjustifiable pay as a senator.
“High cost of governance does not only affect the executive, it also affects the legislature and the judiciary. I think what we should do is that heads of the three organs of government at every level along with leaderships of political parties should sit down and agree on how to reduce the cost of governance.
“Honestly, l think it’s unfair. I’m also guilty of it because l benefitted from it as a senator. It’s unfair for us elite to arrogate so much of the country’s resources to ourselves and still expect economic development,” Akinyede said.
Nigerian senators’ salaries have been a subject of controversy since the inception of this democratic era. With alleged N2,484,245.50 as basic salary, a senator is alleged to be cruising home with a whopping N11 million as regular salaries and allowances and N27 million as quarterly allowances besides irregular allowances such as estacodes and duty tour allowances.
It was also alleged that the entire Senate leadership comprising 10 principal officers draw N1, 024,000,000 as quarterly allowance.
It was repeatedly published in local and foreign media that a Nigerian senator earns far higher than United States president, whose total salary per annum was $400,000. The situation is also the same in House of Representatives. THISDAY

N92bn allowance: Nigerians rubbish Okonjo Iweala, back ASUU to continue strike

Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is currently under fire over a recent statement attributed to her, when he said that the federal government cannot afford the N92bn demanded by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

Angry Nigerians, while describing her statement as deeply rooted on sentiment against the striking university lecturers declared that the Minister was doing more harm to the nation’s economy than good.

Okonjo-Iweala, at the opening of a two-day meeting of Commissioners of Finance and Accountants-General of states, said the N92bn being demanded by the university lecturers was not within the reach of the Federal Government.

She said, “At present, ASUU wants the Federal Government to pay N92bn in extra allowances, when the resources are not there, and when we are working to integrate past increases in pensions. We need to make choices in this country as we are getting to the stage where recurrent expenditures take the bulk of our resources and people get paid, but can do no work.”

Reacting to her assertion, angry Nigerians described her as an agent of the nation’s enemy.

Venting his anger on the Minister, one Mr. Nigeria said, “Does anyone get confused about Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s postulations about Nigeria economy sometimes? Yes, I do!

Madam Iweala bandied indices of growth at will but her defense of what actually is on ground is abysmal. Now, Mrs. Iweala is trying to play sentiment against Nigerian University lecturers for demanding that which government have promised them in the past. This is the same Madam who wants her salaries paid in Dollars in her first sojourn as a minister. Ngozi is playing smart and feeding fat on the ignorance of ever-gullible Nigerian masses who sees everything on the microscopic eye of tribe and religion.

Mrs. Okonjo is doing more harm to the Nigeria economy than good, she lies blatantly at every opportunity to defend government instead of telling Nigerians the true state of the economy. Today the economy is strong, tomorrow the economy is sick. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, I put it to you that you have run out of ideas on how to get this voodoo economy going. It is time for you to resign and apologize to Nigerians for helping the power that be to mismanage the country’s economy.

For Bosso Nwoke, the purported N92b demanded by the lectures is noting compared to what politicians earn at the National Assembly.

According to him, “Just 100 PDP members can boast of 92b naira. Both in open and stolen assets. The whole ASUU is asking for N92b and it became such a big deal. Iweala is as corrupt as the rest of them. ASUU will make more than thrice if they leave Nigeria to work abroad even in economies that are not as rich as Nigeria’s. A single house of representative member or a senator earns so much that ASUU cannot be faulted for asking for this amount. Iweala never faulted these morons in the NASS earning this undeserved loot from the treasury. Please shut up madam if you can’t tell the truth for once. Working with GEJ is enough blemish on your career. Show me your friends they say and I will tell you who you are.



Does the Minister have any good intention for Nigeria? “No” another Israel declares, “the lady is an agent of the enemies of Nigeria and the masses, grammar is the only thing she can offer but no practicality of the big economic postulations, all manner of lies on daily basis. GEJ can finance subsidy that does not exist but arranged by the financier of PDP candidates to loot the nation and inflict pains on the masses FGN can finance all those abokis at the National Assembly, earning N35m a month without any certificate other than OND in Islamic and Sharia Studies, while professors and lecturers cannot be paid N1m a month. FGN can finance useless special advisers like Doyin Okupe and others that add no value to Nigeria in any form: all GEJ appointees are as clueless as GEJ himself,” he asserted.

Genuinely, Igwe backs ASUU to be resolute this time around. Saying, “No implementation, the strike continues. Nigerians are behind you.

He added, “This is ridiculous! Only N92bn and madam Finance is crying. It is a pity that many of those working for Mr. President do not wish him well.

The money Nigerian students spend in the UK alone at the undergraduate level for school fees alone (accomodation and feeding excluded) is ten times what ASUU is asking for in allowances for a period of 4 years, (4 good years)- 2009 to date. Mr. president should open his eyes. This is another blackmail, this time from the Finance minister against ASUU; Dora did hers in 2009, saying FG had met 3 out of the 4 things demanded by ASUU and that is 75%, the Federal government had a pass mark, 75% in an examination had an ‘A’ grade. I don’t know who told Dora then that all questions in an examination attract the same score; coming from an ex-lecturer; that was nothing but a blackmail.

I think the worst that has happened to our universities in recent times is the NUC secretary, Prof. Julius Okonji. That man is supposed to be working for the betterment of the universities, but he seems to be working against the institutions he’s supposed to protect with his many lies to the presidency. May God help Nigeria.

Another Dr Pat Kolawole Awosan said, “With president Jonathan maintenance of ten presidential jets in the presidency and his Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison Madueke who spent about ten million dollars on rental of private jets to travel around for official and personal trips, the demands may never be met; if Nigeria could put its fiscal house in order and be prudent, FGN should be able to meet the demands of the striking ASUU-N92 billion naira demand through reasonable and convincing negotiations.
But FGN and minister of education are both careless and not much concerned about the welfare of workers and generality of Nigerian people anyway”

Before the start of ASUU meeting with the federal government, ASUU president said because der want to discuss d issue of earned allowance doesn't mean its more important than the funding of d universities.Now that ASUU has agreed with d government on 100bn for funding and the issue of earned allowance is left,please ASUU since u said earned allowance is not important can u please end the lingering strike.

Contrary to the earlier claim by Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, demanded for N92bn from the federal government, the union has debunked the statement, claiming that they demanded N87bn and not N92bn as disclosed by Iweala.

ASUU in a statement issued on Wednesday stated that it did not demand for such amount as earned allowances in the 2009 agreement it reached with the Federal Government.

It would be recalled that the Minister had earlier in the week in Minna, Niger State said that the Federal Government was unable to cough out the N92bn allowances demanded by striking lecturers.

The university lecturers, in a communiqué by the University of Ibadan branch chairman, Olusegun Ajiboye, described the Minister’s claim as a mere imagination.

He explained that the earned allowances, the union and the government calculated in the 2009 agreement amounted to N87b, which covered allowances for three and half years for the lecturers in the nation’s universities.



He said, the N87bn was a compromise made by the union to scale down from the initial N127bn.

Speaking further, Ajiboye said the N87bn was totalled based on 15 per cent of the annual recurrent expenditures of some Nigeria’s universities.

The statement reads, “I want Nigerians to ask the Minister where she got her figure of N92bn from. There was never a time that ASUU made a demand that is up to N92bn. I think the N92bn is just the imagination of the. Minister. “But that is not to say that this government did not enter into an agreement with us. This is a government that signed an agreement with us on January 24, 2012 to the effect that they would inject N100bn as funding into the universities in the first one month and that before the end of 2012, they would inject another N300bn.’’

Meanwhile, University undergraduates have been at the receiving end since the Union commenced its strike action. Several appeals have been made to the Union to call of the strike, yet it remains adamant, affirming that until its demands are met, students will remain at home.

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ASUU/Fg meeting today ended in deadlocked! Nawa oh hmmm.

This ASUU strike that am seeing so hmmmmmm let me stop because i still believe in God's miracles.

Even Jonathan this country don tire am, see Jonathan na.

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Nigerian leaders are running a confused Government.Two things shows that.1 they established new universities while the old ones are not functioning,lecturers are on strike.2 Our leaders instead of tackling the current problems of the country, they are busy campaigning for 2015 elections in 2013.God please help us.

Nigerian leaders doesn't deserve students votes, because they have been taking us as fools and people who doesn't need any better education.Let me see who will come and tell me to go and vote.

Nigerian leaders doesn't deserve students votes, because they have been taking us as fools and people who doesn't need any better education.Let me see who will come and tell me to go and vote.