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jaryeh: Sir,@ prof femi ,are you trying to defend ASUU because you are a member?

Well,that's none of my business.

The big question here is what are funds generated from the various fees used for? And do you think ASUU demands can really be implemented considering the present state of the economy?

Has the strike strategy as means of fighting for their rights worked over the years? If no,then why has ASUU decided to deliberately suffer the students?

thanks in anticipation

It has not worked you said. When it is on record that for the first time ever universities received 100 billion from government for infrastructure. Ask the FG, how much it has invested in his new 9 federal universities on infrastructure. Do you create without having a means of funding? Yet NUC will stick its neck out to see that private schools gets some level of infrastructure to begin.

Ask Covenant, Babcock, Bowen, Landmark, Redeemer's on how much they spend on infrastructure. @ poster, you tried in you calculations. But I must tell you that the FG is not fully responsible for salaries and pension in universities. They pay a percentage and leave the rest to be paid by the schools from their IGR. Just like its done with most ministries or department that generates income. E.g a certain % of what customs, FIRS, NNPC and even the PHCN generate are not returned to the govt in other to keep them functioning. Also be informed that the auditor generals office conducts audit on federal establishment regularly.

The least I can see their is 44,000 dollars. In naira by 160 is 7million plus. If it is called useless and our professors take less than 6million per annum then we don't have a question to ask concerning brain drain.

Tolexander: Where is unilorin?

Abi o. With all their propaganda.

the truth is that funding is key to the ranking of this universities. The most competitive universities in the world, uses history ( Nigeria1948 havard 16th century), funding opportunities in grants and lesser teaching schedules to greater research centered schedules to attract the best brains in the world.

Here in Nigeria, the opposite is the case, no funding, no infrastructure, no power supply. Poor remuneration and the turning of our schools into teaching universities instead of a researching university. Even when asked to pay excess workload the FG is not interested. So is that how to excel.

Back to Unilorin, even if ASUU remains on strike for 5 years and it is the only institution working in Nigeria, she will never be in the first 400 universities in the world or even be the best in Nigeria.

Xoxyl: all I want to hear is ASUU STRIKE CALLED OFF

OK. By the powers conferred on me by the Heavens, I declare that government pays off ASUU and ASUU calls off strike after the Sallah break.

kennybelle: Here they come again! Prophesies dt dnt come to fulfillment, foresee this foresee that. Craps

did they nt foresee the world coming to an end sometime last yr or thereabout? Abeg save us d...

You have been caught by comedian Gordon's Re-tweet. What do you expect from a comedian.

The drop in the monthly revenue allocations by the Federal Government to the 36 states of the federation has affected the finances and smooth-running of various governments.

Investigations by Saturday Punch showed that the shortfall in revenue allocation to states by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee which started three months ago, had disrupted payment of salaries, pensions and financing of government projects in many states.

A cross-section of states that spoke with Saturday PUNCH on Thursday, lamented that the shortfall in the allocations and non-disbursement of full allocations as at when due, had reduced the financial capacity of their governments, thus making it impossible for them to execute some vital projects.

While blaming the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for not remitting enough revenue to the coffers of the Federal Government, the states urged government to ensure adequate, transparent and accountable revenue remittance by the NNPC.

But as the states lament the toll of the shortage on their administrative efforts, President Goodluck Jonathan has intervened with a view to finding a quick solution to the problem.

Saturday Punch learnt on Thursday that the President had approved a sum of N75bn to be immediately made available to the FAAC to augment revenue shortfall for July.

http://www.punchng.com/news/revenue-crisis-cripples-states/

The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has expressed confidence in the ability of the Federal Government to tackle the impasse in the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee concerning the sharing of revenue among the three tiers of government in the last four months.
Ahmed told journalists in Ilorin on Thursday that President Goodluck Jonathan was mindful of the impact of the deadlock on all tiers of government and would ensure an early resolution.
“We have been made to understand that FAAC will not be able to meet up with its augmentation of the federally allocated funds to all the tiers of government. Augmentation is designed to be part of the budget and the situation means that there will be shortfalls in allocations to the states,” he said.
While noting that the impact of the shortfall in revenue was already being felt, the governor called for an early resolution of the crisis in the interest of good governance.
“We can manage our expectations, we can build plans on the amount accruable to the state to articulate and execute budget to the letter, but the lack of control on the in-flows naturally denies you the opportunity of saying in clear terms that full implementation of the budget will be recorded,” Ahmed stated.
The governor, who lauded the early release of information about the challenges of FAAC, also assured the people of the state of the government’s commitment to ensure all ongoing projects are completed as scheduled.

http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/faac-crisis-kwara-governor-optimistic-about-solution/

The Chairman, Forum of South West Local Government Chairmen in Nigeria, Chief Kunle Ayantoye, has berated the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for her “lack of understanding of the dynamics of the nation’s economy.”
Ayantoye said at a press briefing in Osogbo on Thursday that the minister was intellectually sound, but she did not know how to run the economy of a nation like Nigeria.
He stated that states and local government councils had yet to receive the federal allocation for the month of July in October.
This, according to him, has crippled activities at health centres across the nation because, health centres are being run by the third tier of government.
He advocated fiscal federalism saying this would bring an end to the deliberate starving of other tiers of government who were at the mercy of the Federal Government.
He said, “That is why we are advocating fiscal federalism. We hope that Mr. President will be excited one day to do this as he had on Tuesday when he initiated the process for a national dialogue.
“We condemn the concentration of fiscal powers at Abuja. The concentration of fiscal power at the centre makes states and local government councils go cap in hand for their statutory allocations every month.

http://www.punchng.com/news/swest-algon-berates-okonjo-iweala-over-economy/

No federal University has been paid since August. Those paid in august were paid from the schools internal generated revenue. That is why all the unions in Nigerian universities are now on strike.

solomon111: OBJ tried?
Over $16billion spent during OBJ tenure and all he could achieve was a phantom "foundation"?
Remember that OBJ had 8 years to turn the electricity sector around.
Let's stop deceiving ourselves,OBJ was a monumental failure.

People live ke you need to google things or travel around before posting things. I'm sure you know that all those gas stations in Olorunsogo 1 and 2, Papalanto, Geregu and others were built in OBJ's regime including the most difficult of laying gas pipelines to these stations for generation of electricity.

These stations and others would have been functioning if not for YarAdua who set them aside. Govt is a continuum, tell me any power generating station that was built since 1983, before OBJ started this ones. This is why no body should vote for any Aboki in this nation again. They are not pro active. If you say am wrong, why could they not tackle the Almajiri system over the years, do they not forsee that some day, they will pay for it as is now witnessed by the presence of BH.

We need to keep building more. South Africa has about 38,000 mega watts. If we must be near them we must keep building and not talking of 5k mw with our population. Just today Unilorin told us they pay 11million montly on electricity, they made a mistake by not telling us how much they spend on diesel and maintenance of generator. I bet you it is more than that amount.

bloggernaija: Mr man,read that post properly .
Less than 12 months was enough for them to loot the equivalent of more than 25 geregus.
He started with the advantages of OBJ's ending
He started with a bank balance with significant reserves.
He drained the excess crude account with nothing to show for it.
Massive foreign exchange reserve.
A declining recurrent to capital ratio.
With all this advantages and bearing in mind how the excess crude account was depleted from $22 billion to almost 0 ,fuel subsidy fraud etc,
The nation should be talking about 20000MW today.
Like I said earlier ,I dare him to build only 5 geregus right now without borrowing .just like obj.continue living in darkness
I'm out.

You did not inform them of debt cancellation pushed for by OBJ. Nigeria no longer service her 34billion dollars debt and does not have to pay it. Yet this new government is accumulating new debts all over the world and depleting our reserves with little to show for it. it is even getting hard for government to pay salaries (SSANU, NASU, PHCN and others). Soldiers and police received their Aug salaries 2nd week in Sept.

Last friday, Wike said it was an error in that SSANU salaries has now been paid. Except they will pay it this night that is when I will be wrong. The same lie they told us they have settled all PHCN staff, now they are saying they are yet to pay 38,000 people out of 45,000. Who is deceiving who in this IT age. I think they should come out and tell Nigerians what is wrong. The last time the Minster of finance said Nigeria was broke and might find it difficult to pay salaries, na so so summon National Assembly they give am.

I think my guess and yours might just right, because Labaran Maku also said of recent that government will short down if they are to meet ASUU request. They should say the truth ooooooooooooooooo. Or is it 2015 election money chop chop things.

Bossforeva: Is their no goodnews today?

May be this one;
ASUU calls off strike

gratiaeo: Forgive me immediately i saw that name vex nearly kill me.
Why person go carry plane give aboki with all this news of suicide bombing and boko haram. Smh to Nigeria

Only fools talk like you guys. Is it only abokis that bear the name Yakubu ( Jacob). How many Muslims bear that name? Even if he's an aboki what grants you guys the audacity to question is hard earn professional qualification even at death. Respect your self and speak positive. RIP to the dead and quick recovery for the survivors. I pray God grant grace to the families of those dead and injured to bear the loss and see through the injured.

guonno: If the mods like, let them ban me for life I will create another account. The only person I have explanation for is phantom. I posted this statement: "there will be crash in the west until enugu inter air port is left alone" and now am adding the north too, not just the west. Do u know how many people has lost their life to the fulani armed thieves just bc they had to transport through lagos ibadan expressway from the east just to take flight to foreign country for biz? Now tel me why the enugu inter air port has not been functional? Its simple, bc some set of people in the west and north clamped down on the developement of the eastern nigeria, later fashola will ask Peter Obi to develop the east, not putting into consideration the fact that past ministers of west and north extraction did all they could to clamp down development in the east, as a result of these development a lot of easterners had lost their lives, health care has not been given attention, education, look at the erosion in the east that carries away peoples farmland and leave communities to starve to death. God bless GEJ its during his time that most fed project is sited in the six geo zones unlike before where ull find fed project all over the sw and north. If u like call me bigot, I will gladly answer, all I know is that nigeria will not know peace until the injustice on the predominantly christian east be lifted. Tell me why the east should have the lowest LGA in nigeria? Do u know that it translates to getting crumbs from the pocket of the FED? @ phantom- ewu na maro onwe ya. Onye na maro ebe mmili si bido mabaya amaro ebe okwusiri mabaya.

stop protesting on nairaland. Ibos were the senate president all through 1999-2007. What input did they have in developing your land. Just let the country agree that ibos are to produce the next president, then you will start hearing core Ibo or non core Ibo. What is happening in anambra today. Is it not a show of selfishness and disunity. Address your problems first and stop ranting here. Next time open your thread and stop derailing and tribalizing on such a sensitive topic. RIP to the dead.

Who will come and work in a place where a professors take home is less than 400K montly (just about 1600 pound) that is not enough to rent some 2-3bed apartment in London montly. Sack them all and bring professors and PhD holders from UK if you can pay. On the cheap, they can hire from Chinese or India.

FG just keep doing silly things. I learnt they are building a centenary city in Abuja. Is that what the country needs now.

Irewumi O.:
that is wat is bothering me most.Dia are 2 Universities in Nigeria dat are out of ASUU dey are Unilorin & Osun State Uni! And dey are both considerd wen 100b naira gatherd by Gabriel Suswan and his Fg set up Comittee were distributed: Unilorin was given 3b naira & Uniosun 350m naira!!! Am tired y dis uni expecial state owned inxtitutions joined dis strike action. Y Dis Oou again??

Suswan did not gather any money, neither did he raise any money from anywhere. The 100billion came from TETFUND

BEDMON1900: you work in the hospital where casualties were brought,yet you have fingers to type and paste comments on nairaland....heartless indeed....if they were your relatives,would have post anything this moment??

May be he wants his head smashed with bottle like that Journalist on channels advert.

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ennon92: C these useless ppl o, so they want to collect salary they haven't worked for...God punish u all. They should better call it off if they re hungry.

if you don't pay them, they will also not work or they will begin work on assumption of having done the work you didn't pay them for. E.g if a school was a month to exams before the strike/ no work, no pay policy. Whenever they resume, they will begin work on assumption that they have taught, done exams and are ready for a new session. How about that? Academics are not those in whom such policies work, the government will only keep compounding the problem.

Those who owe should pay and not threaten people. We all can see the mago mago way PHCN was handed over without settling its workers and pensioners, is that how to solve problems.

bakynes: You just shot ur self on the foot,Ilorin my bro is Northwest and nt south west.Go back and read ur state and capital and shut up next time.

See you, na you ignorant pass Ilorin in Kwara is North Central. Don't leave school at JS2 to start business next time.

Decryptor: You googled hotels in the UK and hurriedly typed in the bolded to claim you spent a night there. And yet, you MISPELT the name of the Hotel as Grovesnor instead of Grosvenor! It is either you are a learner that cannot remember the name of the hotel you claim you spent the night in or you are a liar like most of my yoruba brothers who are usually known for chest-beating and loud-mouthed boasting!

Rele, Jealousy dey worry you. No be everybody poor like you. Do you think all nairalanders are job seekers, traders or undergraduates like you. Why mist you question his words even without knowing him. If the guy go lodge for intercontinental suite with in family, post and for nairaland na the same spirit of jealousy you go still exhibit. Is people like you that snap with a nollywood star and post picture of a nairalander with Jim Iyke. LOL

ennon92: I've vowed not to comment on any ASUU's issues again but with wut u've said, it seems am gonna shift ground on this. I think u re right when u said 'he won't add a dime'. For crying out loud, ASUU is not d only professional body in Nigeria, so y re they doing this to we students by embarking on a long illegal strike... It seems these ppl re not thinking @ all cos if they do, they'll know it only affects d students and not FG..

Perhaps, their so called earned allowances should be generated via school internal revenue..To be candid student re paying more than enough. I've been saying this b4, state varsities av no rights whatsoever in joining hands with the federal varsities to strike since they re founded and funded by d states. Well, am urging them to call off d strike soon with an immediate effect.

Which universities are you even talking about? The least university in South Africa is better than our best. Don't even mention Egypt or Kenya? Same applies to our hospitals, what has the FG done to improve the hospitals? Why are they all traveling out for check up? Why is the petroleum industry bill pending? Why is Farouk case and other high profile cases pending? Why is there serious attention to the divide in PDP rather than attention to National issues. Why is it easier to do bad things and very difficult to do good things? Why is it easier to grant amnesty to militants and bail out banks, and we cannot bail out education and health? Why is it that Nigeria is the only OPEC country that imports refined Oil. Why can't I have power supply for 72hours stretch and my fixed charge has been increased by 200% in 3 years (250- 750)?

Why do we have several individuals who are billionaires without companies or who don't have a minimum of 100 people on their payroll? Which kind of business are they doing, that does not create jobs, yet they are billionaires? Finally, why can the EFCC prosecute again as of the old days and why has the judiciary joined alliance with corruption? One day someone will answer this questions, or a people will fight for their freedom, or a total revolution will occur. Please remember that a goat has teeth, so continue pushing it, one day it will bite you and you will wonder if it was a dog.

ketoprofen: injury to one is injury to all.
Enugu state docs have gone on strike too for issues with oda state govts

Thanks. I hope that fake student asking why state universities should be on strike can read this.

onyxo76: i really pity your ignorance, in yankee don't residents get paid while in training?? A resident may be a post graduate medical doctor but how do you expect him to survive and feed his/her family while training to become a specialist?? You cannot be an MO in an FG hospital at the same time a resident in another teaching hospital ,the system will find you out... Which parent after training his ward for close to 7 years in medical school will now continue to pay school fees for another 4-7 years for the chap to become a consultant?? I almost have a feeling that your family has never produced a medical doctor let alone a consultant...

Nice talk spoilt with the parent issue. What do you say about parent who train up to PhD level right here n Nigeria?

Kitpaul :
"WHY SHOULD A STATE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS GO ON STRIKE FOR A FEDERAL PROBLEM, says JONATHAN


PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday night described the strike embark by the University lecturers as unfortunate, declaring that the action has serious political undertone.

Answering questions during the Presidential Media Chat last night as part of the programmes, marking the 53rd Independence Anniversary of Nigeria, Jonathan said “Why should a state university lecturer go on strike for a federal problem?, the president queried.

See more @ http://www.liveschoolnews.com/why-should-a-state-university-lecturers-go-on-strike-for-a-federal-problem-says-jonathan/

Ask him why should resident doctors go on strike over issues with Enugu state government?

Babaek: which doctors? U shouldn't comment on topics above ur intelligence.

Must you abuse everyone. You google non payment of doctors in Nigeria for yourself and read the response. As a matter of fact some are yet to receive payment of up to 7months now. ( House Officers)

Actionleap: From what I learnt, the FG is trying to weed out ghost workers. The people handling the electronics/biometric registration waited in these hospitals like LUTH for a whole month and none of the doctors showed up for the registration. Hence, the FG said if you don't sort out the ghost workers among you, the FG won't be able to pay. Most Nigerians workers (public and private) are very corrupt, yet they scream loudest calling the govt corrupt.

you are wrong. The registration was done last year and you don't expect a house doctor who started work in January to fill the form April last year when he or she was still a student

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Ask how much is being paid for Montessori education per term in Lagos? Compared to your new per fee. Same story I will keep saying, if government cannot subsidize education, they should stop deceiving us.

the school is free from ASUU Strike, SUG protest and so on because they are able to raise funds. My last visit in 2007 after 3 years made me wonder on the kind of infrastructure the school has in place. Not even UNILAG can boast of that. Lecturers attend sponsored conferences, researches are sponsored e.t.c. This all buoys down to availability of funds,

it is either government sponsors education fully as requested by ASUU or they allow the schools to generate sufficient fund to keep it running. God bless Unilorin

Topic and content not in agreement. May be you are part of the half baked,graduate being produced by the system. LOL

The minister of Education Nyesom Wike has just announced that the propose strike by SSANU was not necessary as the salaries not paid has now been paid. He said the non payment of the Aug and September salaries wad due to an error.

He also hoped that the ongoing ASUU strike will be called off soon.

Please is it a joke or the country has just concluded to ride its staff?

source: AIT 8pm News