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Unijos admision out, in God we trust so so happi, f....... Tins

Unilory is facein d same problem as we, men dat thrend is so lifely

Am just inlov wit dis thrend so lifely, wel am also an aspirant bt in unijos lik we ar havin d same problem

Na wa o everybody on dis thrend ar realy sleepin, no 1 is sain a tin na wa o

OneNigeria44: Guy hw u take check am

dont mind him he is just jokin

Bussyy1: Na u.j oooo

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Bussyy1: Am sooooooo api.v been offerred p.admission. Pharmacy.

which schul is dat?

Nigeria: ASUU Strike - Blame
Finance Minister
This is a government that signed an agreement
with us on January 24, 2012, to the effect that they
would inject N100 bn as funding into the
universities in the first month; and that before the
end of 2012, they would inject another N300 bn."
Dr Olusegun Ajiboye, ASUU University of Ibadan
branch chairman, August 14, 2013.
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala increasingly is cutting a
sorry figure as Finance Minister. And nothing has
demonstrated this fact more than her utterances on
the strike by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU.
To start with, she announced, as if it was true, that
government cannot pay the N92 billion causing the
present palaver. She turned out to be wrong on
three counts at least - none of which does her
reputation as a global financial expert any good. It
was poor defence and exposed her as someone
who did not do her homework very well before
commenting on a vital national issue.
First, as Dr Ajiboye pointed out, N92 billion
represented a figment of the imagination of the
former World Bank Managing Director. Ajiboye, a
valid representative of all the ASUU creditors, told
us that the amount due to them was N87 billion; not
N92 billion. Even for a wasteful administration,
overpaying by N5 billion would have been
reprehensible. There is a lot of good work which
government can do with N5 billion instead of
throwing it away carelessly. Throwing public money
away carelessly was what led to the fuel subsidy
scam which tarnished her reputation in 2011/2012
when she jumped into the fray without checking her
facts properly.
Second, her statement about government's inability
to pay lacked credibility and was soon discredited
by the President. There is a distinct difference
between "can't pay" and "won't pay". The former
admits of financial weakness or destitution; the
latter connotes willful refusal to honour an
agreement into which government voluntarily
entered.
For the Minister of a government which allowed the
country to be defrauded of over N1 trillion to claim
that government cannot pay N92 billion or less than
one per cent, is an insult to the intelligence of
Nigerians and discredit to government itself. As if
to prove that the Minister spoke, not for
government but herself, the President a few days
after ordered that more than N92 billion be released
to the universities. That order by Jonathan had
elevated Okonjo-Iweala's claim from the realm of
the incredible to a colossal lie. Where will
government find N100 billion to carry out the
President's instructions if it cannot afford N92
billion?
But, all those pale by comparison with Dr Okonjo-
Iweala's real contribution to this awful national
calamity. Read Dr Ajiboye's assertions again and
the astute reader can readily see the genesis of this
whole mess. In January last year, long after the
2013 budget had been presented to the National
Assembly, obviously with no provisions for paying
the N87 billion owed to ASUU, the President, who at
that time was facing a national revolt on account of
fuel price increase from N65 per litre to N141 did
not want another ASUU strike to add to the uprising.
So, government, perhaps ill-advisedly and hastily
promised ASUU N400 billion additional money; that
brought the total debt payable in 2013 to N487
billion.
Call it incompetence or lack of courage and/or
integrity, but given a 2012 budget, from which any
provisions for ASUU had been excluded, promising
eleven per cent of last year's budget to the
academic staff of universities was fraudulent. When
Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, wrote that, "Promises,
like pie-crusts, are made to be broken",
(VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p203), he must
have had a government like the present one in
mind. It is one government on whose promises
nobody should rely. So 2012 ended without
government honouring its agreements. That was
bad enough.
Any financial officer, involved in budgeting, knows
that when planning the budget for any year, you
must take into account all the bills past due as well
as those likely to fall due during the year - if the
decision is to pay. They can only be ignored if there
is a willful and conscious decision not to pay and to
damn the consequences.
The fiasco this time around has occurred because
the Finance Minister either forgot to make
provisions for paying the N487 billion, not even N92
billion as she claimed, or because she deliberately
excluded those outstanding bills. Forgetting such a
huge liability demonstrates incompetence and
gross negligence - for which the nation is now
paying dearly. Remembering that the debts are
long overdue and deliberately ignoring them is
proof beyond reasonable doubt of lack of budgetary
integrity. It does not require the towering
intelligence of a Harvard graduate to predict the
outcome of that benign neglect of government's
obligations.
Unfortunately for the government, for the Minister
and all the other stakeholders, "All things do help
the unhappy man to fall", according to
Shakespeare, 1564-1616, this years budget is in
shreds. The same Finance Minister has been leading
the government officials telling us about the
shortfall in revenue on account of alleged crude oil
theft. As much as 400,000 barrels a day is stolen -
apparently with government helpless to check the
pillage.
A recent report estimated that oil revenue in July of
this year dropped by 42% compared to the same
period last year. By a cruel twist of fate, the country
had moved from won't pay closer to can't pay.
There is no money in the budget to pay ASUU N487
billion; that is certain. Just as sure is the fact that,
even if Okonjo-Iweala had not been careless, there
probably would have been no money to pay the
entire bill.
Realising the government's partly self-imposed
predicament, Jonathan had approved part payment
of the outstanding debts. Ordinarily, that should
have induced Nigerians to rise up and urge ASUU to
accept the half-loaf and wait till next year for the
balance. However, given government's reputation
as a dead-beat, on whose words nobody can rely,
there has been no outcry against ASUU for refusing
the offer. This is the closest thing to an economic
Mexican stand-off that anyone can imagine and
only divine intervention can resolve the mess -
thanks to the Finance Minister; who should know
better. Nobody, with the minutest experience in
drawing up budgets should have made that
mistake.
The most important question now is: will the 2014
budget reflect the payment due to ASUU - even if
the lecturers accept the offered half-loaf? If it does
not, ASUU's return to the campuses will be short-
lived. They will be out again in 2014.
Finally, the Finance Minister has probably
antagonized the one group every public office
holder should avoid at all costs. University dons are
not only articulate, they are the most vocal group in
the country and the most influential opinion
molders. Henceforth, they will cease every
opportunity to cut her down to size. This episode,
however it ends, has once again raised the
possibility that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala might not be
around much longer. She was recruited to build
confidence in the government's economic policy
team.
Starting with her staunch defence of the subsidy
removal, based on falsified data, she had stumbled
from one controversy to another. Instead of offering
solutions, she is increasingly perceived as part of
the problem. She probably has not come across that
famous statement by Arthur Dewing in the Harvard
Business Review, October 1923. "Behind the facts
of economics are the facts of psychology..the
emotions of fear and confidence... ". A lot of people
are losing, or have lost confidence in the Minister.
That's bad for her and bad for Nigeria.

OneNigeria44: Unijos site is opening but notin is appearing

b4 d end of next week i beliv somtin positv shal emerg

Unijos web sit is now accesable but d portal is stil nt opeanin

God leads: I checked mine also on jamb website. No admsn yet.

al most al d uni hav relis dere list, just wonder wht jos is waitin 4

NLC, PENGASSAN, others move to end
ASUU strike
2013-08-29 23:00:52
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday said that
it would intervene in the face-off between the
striking Academic Staff Unions of Universities and
the Federal Government.
The NLC's move was coming amidst appeals and
condemnation by other similar bodies, including
the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff
Association of Nigeria and religious leaders, to the
Federal Government and ASUU. While some Lagos
clerics urged the government to end the strike,
PENGASSAN condemned the Federal Government
for not honouring an agreement it had earlier
signed with ASUU.
But the President of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahed
Omar, who spoke shortly after a meeting of the
National Executive Committee of the NLC in Abuja
on Thursday, said the congress would persuade the
striking university lecturers to resume talks with
the government, with a view to resolving the
lingering issue.
Omar said the NLC had to take the decision to
prevail on ASUU, an affiliate union of the congress,
to resume negotiation with the government
because of its concern about the suspension of
academic activities in the nation's universities for
close to two months.
The NLC president said the congress would also
ensure that deliberations between ASUU and the
government were fruitful.
He said, "It is a very serious issue we are having
on our hands to allow lecturers to be out of the
classrooms for close to two months. We are
currently embarking on consultation with a view to
convincing members of the union to resume
negotiation with the federal government."
However, PENGASSAN, on its part, said it viewed
"with deep concern and discontent the ongoing and
indeed a recurring strike in our nation's ivory
towers by the Academic Staff Unions of
Universities."
The body said it was condemnable that the
ongoing strike had entered its ninth week, without
any sign of its being resolved soon "as parties in
the crisis continue to trade blame and spoil for
more actions on the matter."
A statement by the Public Relations Officer,
PENGASSAN, Seyi Gambo, on Thursday, said, "We
have watched with keen interest as the Dr. Nasir
Issa Faggie-led ASUU declared a three-day warning
strike before it finally embarked on an indefinite
strike action on July 1, 2013, towards ensuring that
the Federal Government honoured the cardinal
agreements reached with the universities lecturers
since 2009."
Similarly, some clerics in Lagos have urged the
Federal Government and ASUU to go back to the
drawing table and arrive at a final agreement so
that universities can reopen.
Vice President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria,
Lagos State Chapter, Pastor Femi Asiwaju, urged
the Federal Government to address the demands
of ASUU so that students could go back to school.
Also, Imam Luckmon Abdulraheem, Senior
Lecturer, Centre for Entrepreneurship
Development, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos,
urged the Federal Government to meet the
demands of the union so that the country's higher
institutions could be more equipped and conducive
for learning.

Isjaymoh: I have mist up with my age, the age is different from the one i used to fill my jamb, someone else register the neco exam for me, and he use a wrong age. That means i will have different age in my neco certificate and my jamb result. What should i do, advice pls

hmm dat is quit serious, bt sha dont realy no 4 neco, d 1 i hav presently is my waec i hav nt gone 4 my neco yet, am just wonderin if it is possible 4 me 2 go 2 neco office here in abuja were i liv 2 collect my original neco result, i wrote d exam in my state which is benue

Isjaymoh: Is there anyone that has his/her waec/neco original certficate of result. I just want to know if the certificate of result from waec/neco shows someones age on it.

yes it shows ur age

OneNigeria44: I checked also but they said no admission has been given yet. dat ochuko is lucky o. unimaid tins na

wel I tink unijos is among d 30 somtin uni dat did nt sumit dere list

Pls we need more aspirant 2 check, so far 3 hav check we al saw no admission yet

Phinity318: Is d d.e admision list also uploaded to jamb website?

pls can second choice candidate be admited also?

ayodeji752: Check dis on jamb web 37052280BJ. admitted to study medicine in unimaid even wen u can't find anytin on d school's website and they didn't writ postutme

bt dat 1 is nt unijos na, pls i advise every aspirant of unijos 2 check jamb sit so we culd knw wht up

Andrewakor: he may be right. i checked but was not admitted.try check urs let see if unijos is part of those institution that are yet to submit theirs because only 76 institution submitted theirs out of 109 institutions to jamb

i check bt dere were sain no admision yet

ayodeji752: Why can't u guys go and check ur admission status on Jamb website to knw weda u hav bin admitted or not?

wht do u mean by dat? Dont u knw d schul wik aprove of d list b4 it is relise?

charleymed: It is well. Just take it easy because they are fighting for the interest of the common Nigerian. When you eventually start school, you will understand the reason for the strike.cheers

yes u ar right about dat but dere ar 2 rigid wit dere demand, dere shuld hav acepted d FG offer n cal off d strick, n find other ways of engagin d FG, JUST AS D HEALTH WORKERS JUST DID

Isjaymoh: I wrote an external exam which is neco in 2008, and when the result is out, i went to the school to collect my statement of result, although i paid some amount of money to collect it. I have a question to ask, i know my original certificate will be available by now at neco office, but which of the school testimonial am i gonna use? The school i finished my ssce or the school i wrote my external exam?

d schul u wrote ur external exam, becus u ar usin dere result, in d future if ur history is stated d schul u went wil b silent it is dat schul u went 4 d exam as external dat wil cum up, just bear dat in mind

Andrewakor: am tired of this ASUU and their wahala.nw it is not earned allowance of 87billion but 500billion for infrastructure between 2012 and 2013 instead of the 100billion offered to them by fg.ASUU pls nigerians urge u to end the ongoing strike.

2 me Assu dont no hw 2 engage d Fg dere ar 2 rigid, luk at health worker dat just start deres hav been cal off bt ASUU ar been decive by d oposition party

ASUU Strike 2013 Latest
News Update: Nigerian Student Appeals To
University Lecturers To Agree With FG
The threat to academic stability in the nation’s ivory
towers because of the current strike by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has
attracted headlines in the dailies. The media has
also been awashed by many criticisms, most of
which have been directed at the Federal
Government in which President Jonathan is the
representational character. However, it appears
many of the critics have failed to consider the other
side of the coin, which is one of the essentials in a
debate on such a controversial issue.
Therefore, the focus of this piece is to examine the
purpose of the present ASUU’s strike and their
sympathizers’ rage against the FG. Firstly, ASUU
came up with the issue of autonomy for
universities. The FG approved the idea of autonomy
so long as the universities would generate internal
revenue to offset their expenditure, including
salaries and allowances. This government’s position
provoked ASUU members.
They poured venom on the government for merely
supporting the idea of autonomy – existence as an
independent body! Having realized the illusion
surrounding university autonomy, members of the
academic union played down their demand. This
raises a question on the sincerity of ASUU’S
demands.
On the issue of Federal Government’s assistance to
state universities, this writer supports the idea of
assisting the state universities. But must the
Federal Government be compelled to render support
to universities established and owned by state
governments? Methink helping state universities
should be as necessary as the state governments
are required to support the federal institution
located in their domain. Needless to say that state
governments collect tenement tax from federal
institutions sited in their states.
The idea of compelling the federal government to
offer help to state-owned universities is borne out
of the fact that academic staff from state
universities are also part of ASUU. The truth must,
however, be told. The Visitors to state universities
are the state governors. Academic and non-
academic staff of state-owned universities are
employees of the state governments. Compelling
the FG to assist state universities no doubt negates
the principle of federalism. It only brings to fore the
over dependence of constituents on the government
at the centre.
The progressive increase of education budget to
26% between 2009 and 2020 is another contentious
issue in the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement. The agitation
for increase to 26% in budgetary allocation, as
recommended by UNESCO for developing nations, is
a legitimate one. So there is need to improve the
current 8% total budget to education by the FG.
However, while the FG should be chastised for its
current 8% budget to education, one needs to
remind discerning readers that in nations where
huge budgetary allocations are committed to
education, members of the academia engage in
scholarly research that help to solve societal needs.
Only a few of our academics engage in fruitful
research capable of solving the needs of our
society. Most of the university teachers set their
target in journal publication that would help them
gain promotion in their academic career even when
such is far from rendering solution to our societal
needs.
Akin to increase in budgetary allocation is the issue
of earned academic allowances for university
teachers. Allowances are stimulants that reinforce
positive inclination towards work. While
government is working out modalities to pay earned
academic allowances to deserving university
teachers, the Dr. Fagie led ASUU is kicking against
such, insisting that allowances should be paid
across board, even when not all lecturers merit such
allowances.
My experience as an undergraduate and post-
graduate student in one of the first generation
universities showed that not all university lecturers
deserve mention in the earned allowance,
particularly the absentees. It is an open secret that
some of the lecturers who are fulltime employees in
the federal universities abandon their duty posts to
shuttle between federal and private universities.
They stagger their responsibilities in multiple roles
as lecturers–in-charge in both public and private
universities sacrificing quality of delivery in the
process, at the expense of unsuspecting students in
public universities.
These ‘abroad’ lecturers hardly attend classes to
teach in the public universities. When they return,
mostly towards the end of the semester, they
engage the students in lengthy, patchy lecture
hours in a bid to cover a course work that ought to
have been concluded before the time of exams. Any
student who dare challenges lecturer’s absenteeism
in public universities are often victimized with a
threat of carry-over of the course handled by the
lecturer or delay in graduation.
At the post-graduate level, the situation is even
more unpalatable. Many post-graduate students fail
to complete their programmes in line with the
academic calendar due to lecturers’ negligence.
They hardly spend quality time to guide and mentor
their students in their long essays. With this
domineering posture, a percentage of the students
either incur extra year(s) or abandon their
programmes out of frustration. If you would not
grow grey hair while undertaking a Ph.D degree as a
student, you have to not only be hard working in
your research pursuit, but also be willing to worship
the deified characters in lecturer’s garb! Let me add
here that a considerable number of the lecturers
have passion for their calling. Those ones always
act right by performing their duties without
compromising standard; they deserve their earned
allowances and should be rightly rewarded.
The influx of private universities became more
pronounced during the regime of ex-president
Olusegun Obasanjo. Yet, thousands of university
applicants seeking admission could not either gain
admission into the universities or afford the luxury
of high fee demands of the private universities. In
fulfilling his campaign promises in 2011, President
Jonathan established nine federal universities and
further established three to make it twelve. The
establishment of federal universities provided
succour to admission seeking candidates. Besides
providing admission to deserving applicants, it also
signaled a massive employment into the education
sector. Jonathan will go into the history books as
one whose regime established most federal
universities in a single tenure.
The prolonged quagmire and the sit tight approach
of ASUU members are having devastating effects
on Nigerian students, undergraduates and post-
graduates. The rot in the education sector as
claimed by ASUU should not be further fertilized by
ASUU’s hard-line posture. The standstill caused by
ASUU/FG impasse could have been resolved if only
ASUU and FG would shift ground and make
concession, at least for the sake of the students
who bear the brunt of the face-off.
Already, the Federal Government has made a
spirited effort to get the striking lecturers back to
work. The government recently released a
whopping 130billion naira in response to ASUU’s
demand for infrastructural development in public
universities.
According to the Secretary to the Federal
Government, Anyim Pius Anyim, 100billion naira is
for infrastructural development, while the remaining
30billion naira has also been disbursed as part of
FG’s attempt to defray the backlog of the earned
allowances.
That means the federal government has shifted
ground in this regard, so what is ASUU waiting for?

ferdimako: I just did.

ok hw much did u gain 4rom dat lie?

NASS, FG urge ASUU to call off
strike
on august 24, 2013 at 1:26 am in news
By LAIDE AKINBOADE
As the industrial action embarked upon by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, enters
it second month, the leadership of the
National Assembly, NASS, and Federal Government,
yesterday, appealed to the lectures to end the
strike.
The NASS and FG made the plea after a meeting
with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of public
universities in Abuja.
They pleaded that the FG has made offers and
commitment to necessitate the resumption of
academic activities in the nation’s public
universities.
According to Senate Chairman on Education,
Senator Uche Chukwumerije, “The Senate
Committee has always sought the required fund for
our nation’s universities.
We plead with ASUU for immediate end of the
strike. We want to plead with lecturers to be more
sensitive to their scale of priorities especially in the
area of education and timely implementations of
agreements. The present ASUU strike must end. It is
time for the nation to take the bull by the horn”.
Chairman House Committee on Education,
Honourable Aminu Suleiman said, “I want to
commend all those who have fought for the proper
funding of our universities in the country. The
Federal Government have also taken position to
identify the needs of all our Federal Polytechnics
and Colleges of Education to stop this problem once
and for all.
“It is gratifying to know that government has
shifted grounds and it is also in our position to
passionately appeal to the aggrieved members of
ASUU in the interest of the system to also make
concession so that students can resume school”.
He noted, “We always agree to disagree we can
always disagree without disrupting the system. We
must appreciate that by prolonging this strike we
are doing more harm to the system and causing
more problems for the country in general.
What government has done is quite in line with the
legislative agenda which we set out for ourselves as
members of House of Representatives. No sacrifice
is too much in ensuring the development of the
sector”.
The SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said the FG has
already demonstrated sufficient commitment to the
implementation of 2009 FG/ASUU agreement.
He said President Goodluck Jonathan has set N100
billion to develop infrastructure in 61 universities
and N30 billion to support the university councils in
settling the earned allowances.
The SGF therefore appealed to the university
teachers to call of the two months old strike. Na God hand we da o, pls y d silent?

ferdimako: With the bold, you're the 'unserious' one.

whtever, bt y culd u sa such a tin?

ASUU: FG Full Of Deceit, Not Ready To End Strike – Fagge



on August 23, 2013



The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday came to the conclusion that the government was not ready to end the 8-week-old strike, after both parties failed to reach an agreement in ten meetings, lamenting that government displayed dishonesty and lack of integrity during negotiations.

ASUU’s President, Dr. Isa Faggae, who spoke at a briefing in Lagos claimed that government had declared it would not implement the agreed injection of funds to revitalise the public universities, but was only making a dubious statement of supporting some universities with N100 billion.

“Government had also declared that it will not pay university academics their earned allowances which accumulated from 2009 to 2013. Rather, it is talking about providing N30 billion to assist various Governing Councils of Federal Universities to defray the arrears of N92 billion owed to all categories of staff in the university system.”

Speaking on how the last meeting with the Government held on Monday went, Faggae said ASUU was “shocked by the level of deceit, dishonesty, and lack of integrity displayed by the Government. Never in the history of ASUU-Government relations have we, as a union, ever experienced the kind of volte-face exhibited by Government. At one stage in the interaction, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation ridiculed the agreement, the MoU and the Needs Assessment Report, mocking the Minister of Education to “go and give them N400 billion,” at which members of the government scornfully laughed.”

He argued that the Governor Gabriel Suswam-led Implementation Committee was being used as smokescreen to “deceive ASUU, Nigerian students and their parents, as well as other unsuspecting members of the public on the purportedly released N100 billion for the implementation of the Needs Assessment Report.

First, he said, “government plans to divert the regular yearly allocations to universities by Tertiary Education Trust, TETFund, to make at least 70% of the N100 billion. This is unacceptable to ASUU. It is like robbing Peter to pay Paul, since the idea of revitalization took full cognizance of the intervention role TETFund ab-initio.

“Again, contrary to subsisting operational procedures, about 75% of the money meant for revitalizing universities would not be released to them as the Suswam Committee plans to hand over construction of the hostel projects to the Federal Ministry of Education and/or the National Universities Commission, for implementation. This is illegal; neither the ministry nor NUC is backed by laws of Nigerian Public Universities to divert monies meant for the development of these institutions into centrally executed projects.”

Faggae also questioned the committee’s motives for proposing to commit N1.6 million to a bed space, instead of N200, 000 to N400, 000, saying, “We see a continuation of outrageous contract regimes in the plan to centrally coordinate the construction of student hostels as done in the case of the 12 newly established Federal Universities with TETFund resources. The NUC has transmuted itself into a “Tenders’ board” which awarded contracts for the construction of 560 bed spaces hostel for each university at a whooping sum of 1.2 bn. This contract sum translates into N2.143 million per bed space.

No Renegotiation On ASUU’s Paltry N87bn, National Assembly Spent N1tn In 8 Years – APC





The Federal Government should honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in order to end the ongoing strike that has paralyzed academic activities in government-owned universities, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said.

The party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday that no government can afford to play with education, because it is the path to national
development.

According to the party, ASUU was not making any fresh demands beyond the agreement it reached with the government in 2009, adding: “Agreements are meant to be honoured, and breaching them comes with some consequences.”

APC said the industrial action by the university lecturers which has kept students in public universities at home for many weeks is a further blow to the country’s education system which has deteriorated so much that no Nigerian university is currently listed in the top 100 universities in the world and only a few Nigerian universities have made the top 100 in Africa.

“The 87 billion naira that ASUU is demanding represents earned allowances hence cannot be renegotiated. In any case, this amount pales into insignificance when placed side by side with the 1 trillion naira that has been spent on federal legislators in the past 8 years; or the frivolity involved in a government minister travelling to China to negotiate a $1 billion loan in a chartered jet (with its attendant costs) and with a retinue of staffers who earned generous estacode in hard currency.

“It is an indication of the kind of priority that this Federal Government attaches to education that while it has refused to meet its own side of an agreement it reached with ASUU since 2009, it could pay out 3 trillion naira in non-existent fuel subsidies to fat cats, spend 10 billion naira annually to maintain the jets in the presidential fleet and do little or nothing to prevent the stealing of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day, which translates to $120 million in a month, money that surely ends up in some people’s pockets!

“What we are saying is that if the Federal Government would reduce its profligacy and cut waste, there will be enough money to pay teachers in public universities, as well as fund research and upgrade infrastructure in such institutions. Hungry teachers can neither teach well nor carry out research. And poorly-taught students can neither excel nor propel their nation to great
heights,” the statement said.

The party also registered its disgust at the demonstrated nonchalance of those who should be working round the clock to resolve the crisis, especially the Minister of State for Education Nyeson Wike, who the party said has enough time on his hands “to be launching vigilance groups and dancing ‘palongo’ around town when the nation’s public universities are shut and students are languishing. This is shameful and totally unacceptable.”

“We are not surprised because most government officials have sent their children and wards to foreign universities, hence do not give a damn if the children of others are in school or not.

“Education is the key to national development. This is why UNESCO has recommended an allocation of at least 26% of national budgets to that critical sector. Therefore, talking about national growth and development without adequately funding education is a pipe dream!” APC said.

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House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”