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rudedough: Don't run away my bible study friend, just read the chapter and summarise which is not even necessary.

You don't have to break down anything, I just want to show you who your merciful God truly is. I'll show you things they'll never read out in Church but they re right there in your "Holy Book".

Just read and understand and if you have anything to say, feel free to share with me.

Guy i have been reading you comment you sound like someone who is under heavy demonic spell, All this rubish you are saying we hav done more than that before until God almighty delivered us. The earlier you receive Jesus christ as your lord and saviour the better for you.

Am so happi those noise makers unilorin no dey. Abeg ABUsite make us proud

Domain Master: On judgement day infront of God, i will just hold the Nigerian flag to show i have been thru hell already

odizeey: channels still talk dat Saturday own.
Until I hear he(fagee isaa) said 'We have agreed to call off d strike',anything else is false

Channels tv only said ASUU "May" hold it NEC Meeting on saturday and not "Will" the difference here is "may and will" One is uncertain and the other is certain, it was a conditional statement. well jst my opinion sha oo

november and december salary on point, january self tu follow and may be february . To hell with ASUU

cumpaddre: Ode! Go back n read ur first reply to me.

Guy wetin dey worry you way you dey para....that guy yarn the truth, Everybodi dey form ASUU spokesman mean while boiz just dey waste for house. Abeg make una stop all this rubbish and behave mature!

Keneking: Why did he not fly?

Still wondering......a whole professor very stingy not to fly, just 25k fa. Big shame

TOO BAD......

LogoDWhiz: Tuesday, November 12, 2013
ASUU STRIKE : 20 Of 28 Chapters Vote For Suspension Of Strike


More units of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, including the University of Ibadan and Ahmadu Bello University chapters, have voted for the suspension of the strike by the union during chapter congresses held nationwide.


The union met with a Federal Government team led by President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday in Abuja.

Government has promised to inject N220bn yearly into the public universities for the next five years.

The ASUU leadership, after briefing the zonal coordinators on the offer, had directed the local branches to organise congress meetings between Friday last week and Tuesday (today).

This is to enable all the lecturers to make input into the action the union would take after its NEC meeting on Thursday.

As at press time on Monday, 20 of the 28 chapters that had concluded their meetings supported the suspension of the strike, while the remaining eight preferred that the varsity teachers pressed on with the strike.

The teachers in the University of Abuja, for instance, supported the suspension of the strike but listed conditions that must be met by the Federal Government.

A source at the meeting on Monday said the congress demanded that the withheld three months salaries of the lecturers must be paid.

“Members also demanded for commitment on funding. We also want assurance from government that no lecturer will be victimised on the account of participating in the strike. We also asked that the template for sharing the earned allowance should be prepared within the next two weeks,” the source added.

The conditions were the same for Nasarawa State University, which voted for continuation of the strike.

Chairman of ASUU in the school, Dr. Theophilus Lagi, told our correspondent after the congress that as far as his members were concerned the strike should continue.

He said, “There are certain grey areas that must be cleared. The ‘no work no pay’ policy must be sorted out. Government must pay lecturers the arrears.

“We also need evidence that the N200bn that government promised to release this year is in the central bank. We are not going to suspend the strike until the money is there and available for sourcing. That is the position of the congress.

“Nobody trusts government. They have been making promises since 2009 and nothing has been implemented except the N30bn earned allowances.

“Secondly, the 2009 agreement is due for review; nothing has been said about that. Lecturers have been denied salary for three months, those monies must be paid.”

Among the universities that supported that the strike be called off are Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Federal University of Technology, Minna; University of Lagos; University of Ibadan; University of Calabar; University of Port-Harcourt; Federal University of Technology, Akure; Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto; and Ekiti State University.

The list also include the Federal University of Technology, Owerri; Delta State University; Bayero University Kano; Imo State University; Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta; and Olabisi Onabanjo University, among others.

On the other hand, majority of lecturers at the University of Benin; and University of Jos wanted the strike to continue.

However, in the Bauchi zone of the union, five universities voted for continuation of the state strike, while the remaining three threw their weight against the continuation of the strike.

SOurce - Punch

A.B.U Zaria......The Leader of the northern Universities, as soon as they accept i know it over. Hustle will be officially over friday, time to go start my project in school #teamABUsite

chinedu4: The hope that the four month old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, may be called off this week, following President Goodluck Jonathan’s intervention last week, may be dashed as the 61 chapters of the union are divided over the move to call off the strike.
President Jonathan held a meeting with the leadership of ASUU last week, where he made some offers which ASUU was expected to take to their members for deliberation with the hope that it will pacify them into resuming academic activities this week.
Congresses of the 61 chapters of the union were therefore held, yesterday, while the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting will hold tomorrow in one of the northern universities.
The outcome of the union’s congresses indicated that there was disagreement on the need to call off the strike.
Vanguard gathered that while some ASUU chapters were ready to suspend the strike in the light of the President’s intervention, others insisted that they will continue the strike due to what they described as their distrust for the government.
It was learnt that while the University of Lagos, UNILAG, resolved to suspend the strike, chapters like the University of Ibadan, UI; University of Benin, UNIBEN; University of Calabar, UNICAL; University of Jos, UNIJOS and the Lagos State University, LASU, said the strike must continue, arguing that the Federal Government could not be trusted to fulfil its promise of injecting over N1.1 trillion to universities in the next five years.
Voting at UNIJOS
Members UNIJOS chapter, yesterday, voted overwhelmingly for the strike to continue.
After receiving briefings on what transpired at last week’s meeting of the union’s representatives with President Goodluck Jonathan and after going through copies of the resolution of the meeting, 194 members voted for the strike to continue while 80 voted for a suspension.
Sources told Vanguard that after hours of debate by those for and against the continuation of the strike, it was obvious that majority felt that the meeting with the president did not achieve much.
Those who spoke in favour of the strike to continue wondered why the strike should be called off on the basis of pleas and verbal promises by the president, when the government is allegedly reputed for not to honoring agreements.
They were said to have argued that the suffering by students and members in the last four months would be a waste if something concrete did not come out of the strike to improve the situation in universities.
It was further gathered that those for the suspension of the strike spoke passionately on the need to consider the impact of the strike on students and the gesture from President Jonathan, who met personally with ASUU leaders and pleaded with them to suspend the strike.
A few of them were quoted as saying it was better to suspend the strike and find other ways of pursuing their demands so as not to lose the support of the people.
It was learnt that the Branch ASUU Chairman, Dr. David Jangkham, after announcing the result of the voting, said it would be taken to the national body which would collate the referendum on the issue from various chapters to come up with a position on whether the strike would be suspended or sustained.
A member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, expressed fears that the referenda in other branches might follow the same trend “if the briefing we got here is what they got.”
UNILAG
A source at University of Lagos, UNILAG, chapter, told Vanguard that the debate at its congress was on whether to end or suspend the strike.
He said: “We eventually moved to suspend the strike and end it only when the President pumps in the first N220 billion into the universities in January 2014.
“Although this is not totally in line with the 2009 agreement, we feel that we can suspend the strike out of respect for the President. We just want to give him the benefit of doubt, and hope that he fulfills his promise.”
LASU
At Lagos State University, LASU, one of the executive members of ASUU, who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity, affirmed that though the chapter was not averse to the proposal of President Jonathan, but the consensus at its congress was that ASUU should not just be a monitoring body when the fund is finally injected.
He said: “After our congress, which lasted several hours, it was the resolve of our chapter that the strike should not be called off, because we are uncomfortable with the fact that the Federal Government has said that ASUU will just be a monitoring officer, while the Minister of Education will be the implementation officer.
“We argued that we must be part and parcel of how the funds are managed and what they have earmarked for within the period of five years.
“How can we know if the Ministry of Education and other authorities are prudently spending the funds for the proposed projects if ASUU is not part of the management committee? So, our position is that the strike should not be called off.”
LASU’s internal issues
The source added that LASU chapter of ASUU may embark on its local action, after the national strike is suspended or called off if the university’s Governing Council and the State Government fail to adequately address some of its local issues, which border on members’ welfare and a reduction in the institution’s tuition fees.
He said: “It is our resolve at the congress that if the state government and the university’s Governing Council, which is meeting on Wednesday, fail to address our local issues adequately, we shall embark on local actions.
“The university management has wasted four months without addressing our local issues, which border on the casualisation of our academic staff, the steep increment in tuition fees paid by students and the non-implementation of the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 2012, which allows academic staff on professorial cadre to retire at 70 years against the former 65 years.”
At UI
At the University of Ibadan, Vanguard gathered that members asked their leadership to commit the President to signing the resolution of FG/ASUU meeting held last week and include non-victimisation clause.
The Chairman, ASUU, University of Ibadan, Dr. Segun Ajiboye, said that the union had set up project monitoring committee to ensure that funds released by government was not misappropriated.
Ajiboye maintained that it was not how quick the strike ends but how well it ends, adding that the goal of the strike must be actualised.
According to him, it was regrettable that it took the Federal Government four months to think education was an important sector, adding that no country in the world plays with education the way Nigerian leaders do.
David-West
Also, former Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West said, yesterday, that ASUU would continue to go on strike as long as injustice remained in the system.
He said this at the UI-ASUU congress, where he vowed to always support all the struggles that would lead to the rejuvenation of the education sector.

you are a big fool

L.M Ayedun..:
**Screams a big Amen!!!!**

God is not a God of partiality

Ukuts gp: ASUU should continue the strike until the full amount is released. If not, the four months strike embarked upon is only a waste. This government cannot be trusted. If the strike is eventually called off, it wont take long before a more serious one will emerge. And this one may even take up to one year. Mark my words.

+100

take dat: Employ new lecturers such as, You? A Mere certificate flasher? An inexperience medical doctor turn self-appointed government spokesperson who probably think leeches can cure headache, and chlorofoam is still used as an anasthetic At a time when we are experiencing huge brain drain, we should just discard the few tested hands we've got and employ untested ones? We should discard the few qualified professors that we have and employ those with masters degree or mere certificate flashers as their replacement?

Isn't Jonathan also greedy, selfish, corrupt and wicked? You think just because you are innately dishonest, every other person must always exhibit such trait? Why not wait for their final resolution before polluting everywhere with your drivel?

Gbam!!!

I will yarn tomoro......hustle still in progress

were are the ATBU,UNIJOS,YOLA AND UNIMAID REPRESENTATIVE, ANY LATEST

It confirmed......A.B.U ZARIA HAS AGREED TO SUSPEND THE STRIKE. UDU SOKOTO, FUTMINNA ALL AGREED

Sodiq3: A.B.U ZARIA Voted to End the strike..

Have they finish the meeting? cos they were still on it

Father of all northern univ A.B.U Zaria is ongoing now......will keep tinz on point here once they are through.

BrightCar: [email][/email]WHY EVERYTHING THAT INVOLVE GEJ U WILL CRITICIZE EVEN FOOLISHLY, IF U ARE TIRED OF BEEN A NIGERIAN CROSS THE NEAREST BORDER: NIGER, CAMEROON, COTONOU, CHAD MAY ABSORB U.

IT IS YOU SIR THAT IS SO SILLY, BESIDE I DONT SEE ANYTHING WRONG IN HIS COMMENT EXCEPT YOURS.

Elm@gnifico:
A source said this* Another source said that* Many sources will say another, soteeee rice sauce go dey hungry me. ..just call this ash called ASUU strike asap lemme grad ..

WAT IS DIS ONE SAYING

i will yarn later......hustle still ongoing, mo money must be made

Na lie joor, may be na 4 ur dream you c dat one

i wish he can link up back with the Eja Nla d'BANJ

fckyourman: Why did you type K ?

I heard ASUU Is calling off the strike, get ready to go back to school.

fckyourman: Is it Dpricnce, Dr Sid, Tiwa Savage will save mavin records.

Wande Coal was the reasonable one left, now mavin record should be call FLOP RECORDS.

DBanj is Laughing at Don Jazzy.

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Memyselfu2009: ASUU re greedy corrupt educated people by the way how much earn allowance re they getting now

na you get your mouth

watered: Amugbo! Se eti fagboyo abi?

Memyselfu2009: ASUU re greedy corrupt educated people by the way how much earn allowance re they getting now

na you get your mouth

WAITING PATIENTLY......

YAWN.......WE DEY WAIT