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Zaria here I come!!!

Lateef9961: no,wax dat?

check dia website nah

http://forms.abu.edu.ng/putme

There's error in d days n dates of d pume. Hav anybdy observed dat?

Ok

All things work 2geda 4 gud unto dem dat biliv

alkonami: Medicine

can we chat on 2go? Infinity111 also here is my BB pin: 21DA5E57

Tnx to u all for ur wishes.....more ar coming!! Future abusites!!!

alkonami: Abusites I greet una.. I dey rep fac of medicine.. I dey hail

Ur department? Pls I wanna knw! Tnx

Lateef9961: eeyah congrat bros,it x nt easy to be a university student o.
Hmmm,ikem don get admissn,bucky don get,resxul wil soon go bak 2 skul,lirushen x nw in skul,OH ALLAH,WHEN WILL MY OWN ADMISSION CUM?
Once again congrat.
*amist sobbing*

it's simple. God is involved. All things work together for good unto dem that biliv! We biliv

Lanreak: Congrat @Ikem many more gud newz.....

urs wil soon folo

Am happy now!!


Congratulations Ugoh Michael Ikemsinachi!!!
You Have Been Offered Admission for a 4-Year
FIRST DEGREE Programme into
EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY, ABAKALIKI.
Course ANATOMY in the Faculty of MEDICINE.

Shimasparkle: ow,,,just opened it now nd yeah,read abt dat on fbk.it didn't border me though,i knw they'll surely cary us along wen all dis mess 's over

its well

There's a problem oo. Jux clik on d link below


http://m.naij.com/news/53612.html

ASUU vs FG: Hide-And-Seek At Ahmadu Bello University
04.12.2013, 17:29 Education
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The management of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the institution are currently playing hide-and-seek with the directive by the Minister of Education for the striking lecturers to resume teaching or be sacked.

Also, the local chapter of the union is however distributing relief materials to its members to cushion the effect of the lack of payment of salary for the past five months, while there are pressures on some of the lecturers from their family members to respond positively to the government ultimatum.

When The Nation visited the institution on Wednesday, the school was still empty as the lecturers were yet to comply with the directive, while the university was yet to issue a circular directing the resumption of lectures by the students.

It was gathered that the University Governing Council has been meeting since Monday to find a common ground and an amicable resolution of the impasse.

A highly placed source close to the Council revealed that the council is trying to ensure that the issue is resolved amicably so that we will not have another strike locally when the national strike is called off.

The source said "you see, majority of those in the Governing Council are elected members from the Senate and the Congregation. Ordinarily, those people are not supposed to attend the meeting as long as the strike is on. But ASUU looked the other way so that they will attend the meeting.

"They met on Monday and could not reach any resolution and had to adjourn. The meeting has since resume. But I want to say that they are being careful in carrying out the directive because they are aware of the impact it will have.

"In any case, the school was never closed. Students are enjoying all the privileges they are supposed to enjoy except the absence of lectures. But the question is, who will bring the lecturers to come and teach?

"Even if the school was closed, the only body that is empowered by law to reopen the school is the Senate of the University. In view of the period that has been wasted, a new calendar has to be drawn up and it is the Senate that will do that and members of the Senate are members of ASUU. So, who will draw up that calendar?

"But we are looking forward to a peaceful resolution of the crisis. But the right thing should be done and done fast. I also want to blame ASUU for keeping quiet and not properly explaining the current issue concerning their meeting with the President to the Nigerian people".

However, the local branch of the union has asked their members to remain resolute and committed to the strike to its logical conclusion and not to resume any academic activity or sign any register that may be opened by the university management.

In their resolution signed by its Chairman, Dr. Kabiru Aliyu at the end of its congress, the branch condemn the threat and intimidation by the government through the Supervising Minister of Education, Nelsom Wike to sack all academic staff and advertise their positions if they failed to return to work by December 4, 2013.

Dr. Aliyu however confirmed that the branch was distributing relief material such as rice, semovita, vegetable oil and cash ranging from between N20,000 to N50,000 to its members.

He noted that the union was not unaware of the pressure from family members on the striking lecturers to resume work in accordance with the government directive, "we are aware of that. But I can assure you that the number is negligible and not enough to have any impact on us.

"However, I am not sure that any register will be opened here. But even if they did, we are also aware that some people will go and sign. But that will not help the situation".


Source:[link]http://m.naij.com/news/53612.html[/link]

It's not lectural, it's lecturer mumu!

Lord Babs: The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday advised parents not to endanger the lives of their children and wards by sending them to their university campuses.

ASUU which also told its members not to sign attendance registers in their institutions, lashed out at the Federal Government for lack of consistency in its statements on the ongoing strike.

The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, had at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday, warned that any ASUU member that failed to resume on or before Wednesday would be sacked.

Wike also directed vice-chancellors to advertise vacancies (internal and external) in their institutions.

He told the vice-chancellors to open attendance registers for lecturers that resumed in their universities.

The Federal Government then directed the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, to deploy policemen in all the federal universities.

On Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan, who described the strike by the university teachers as a “subversive action,” added that ASUU had ceased to be a trade union.

But the Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Dr. Segun Ajiboye, said parents should keep their children and wards at home as no academic activity would resume until the five-month-old strike was called off.

Ajiboye added, “Don’t risk the lives of your children and wards. Keep them at home because ASUU will not teach. Soldiers and the police deployed by the Federal Government will not teach. Wike can come and teach in the universities. It is a huge joke to sack lecturers. Our strike must not be in vain. Our students must see the results.

“It is funny. We thought we are in a democracy. I assure Nigerians that we know what the law says about the strike. Our job is statue backed. We are not threatened. “We do not trust the government. The record of the government is clear. This government is dishonouring agreements. Our members are resolved to pursue this to a logical conclusion.”

Ajiboye also said that the Federal Government’s stance was from a script that was played out by the military administration of Ibrahim Babangida in the 1990s.

He stated, “Dear members, stay calm and remain resolute. There is nothing wrong in asking government to do what it says it will do immediately. ASUU is not making any new demands as the supervising minister is propagating. Government is only repeating a ‘one act play’ scripted by the IBB dictatorship in early 90s. It didn’t work then, and, it won’t work now. All branches are intact. We cannot be intimidated.

“If ASUU could withstand Babangida, this government cannot threaten us. We have worked this road before, the only thing that will work is peaceful resolution. It is sad that government wants to sack us because we are asking for the resolutions. We are ready to be sacked but government should learn from the University of Ilorin experience. We are going to stay the course.”

ASUU President, Dr. Nassir Fagge, urged university teachers on Sunday not to sign any attendance register.

Fagge, in a message to the UI chapter , urged the lecturers to be resolute in their demands despite the threat of insecurity to their jobs.

He said, “Comrades, can you see the unfolding drama? Now Jonathan says they didn’t give ultimatum. That the vice -chancellors did and Wike became their trumpet. But NUC’s (National Universities Commission) ultimatum is by the Federal Government to us to resume or get sacked.

“Wike’s press address says ‘FG has directed’ not ‘VCs have directed.’ Be calm, stay resolute. By God’s grace, we are on course.”

The Chairman, University of Lagos chapter of the union, Dr. Karol Ogbinaka, said Jonathan’s description of the strike as a “subversive action,” was unfortunate.

“How can our action be subversive when we do not have arms and ammunition? We take exception to that. We are academics not coup plotters. I have a feeling he was misquoted. I wish to deny this on his behalf because it is an extreme statement,” Ogbinaka said.

He also faulted the buck passing on the directive to reopen universities, saying it pointed to the fact that the government was “somersaulting.”

According to him, the Federal Government is now shifting the blame among the pro-chancellors, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Wike.

But the Presidency on Sunday insisted that those behind the strike were enemies of the state.

It said this could be the reason why the ASUU leadership refused to call off the strike even when 42 out of its 61 chapters voted against its continuation.

The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, stated these at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday.

He wondered why the leadership of the union also refused to call off the strike even after its 13-hour meeting with the President.

Okupe described the strike as an evil programme motivated by selfish political interest.

He said, “The ASUU leadership refused to accede to the wishes of 42 of its 61 chapters nationwide, who voted in favour of the agreement with the President and the calling off of the strike; but in a surprise volte face presented government again with a new set of demands and considerations outside the terms agreed at the presidential intervention.

“From all indications therefore and other information available to government, it has become obvious that this is no longer an altruistic strike borne out of good intentions and aimed at improving the welfare of students and staff of the universities and the standard of our educational institutions.

“Rather it is an evil programme motivated by selfish political interests and motivations within the polity. These are, quoting late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, ‘the enemies of state operating from within’”.

While Okupe was talking tough in Abuja, the All Progressives Congress slammed the government for issuing the sack threat against the university teachers.

In a statement in Lagos, the APC said the resort to military tactics reflected government’s poverty of ideas in resolving the prolonged strike.

The statement by the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also criticised Wike for the way he talked down on the striking teachers, while issuing the threat.

APC stated, ‘’Wike’s language was crude, his presentation was rude and his threat was demeaning and counter-productive. We believe his lack of finesse and the inability to think out of the box in handling the whole strike issue will not bode well for a quick resolution of the crisis.”

Meanwhile, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress will on Monday(today) meet with the ASUU leadership as part of its efforts to resolve the crisis between the union and the Federal Government.
http://www.punchng.com/news/ASUU-to-parents-keep-your-children-at-home/

Tell me where ur children are and I will tell u why parents must send back theirs to school.

oyelude f: The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has said the sack threat
issued against striking
university teachers by the
Federal Government lays
credence to the fact that the
present administration is out
of ideas in resolving the
prolonged strike by the
Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU.
The party’s Interim National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, Sunday, in a
statement released by the
party in Lagos criticized the
Supervising Minister of
Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike,
for the way he talked down on
the striking teachers, while
issuing the ill-advised, go-back-
to-work-or-be-sacked threat.
“Wike’s language was crude,
his presentation was rude and
his threat was demeaning and
counter-productive. We believe
his lack of finesse and the
inability to think out of the box
in handling the whole strike
issue will not bode well for a
quick resolution of the crisis.
“We also disagree with the
Minister’s inference that the
lecturers should automatically
call off the strike because the
President intervened and sat
for long hours with them. It is
this unnecessary deification of
a democratically-elected
President that has almost
turned this President into an
Emperor. What is the big deal
in President Jonathan sitting
with ASUU members, his
former colleagues for that
matter? What is a President
elected to do if not to solve
problems?” it queried.
APC said it is unfortunate that
Wike can be threatening to
sack university teachers at a
time there is a shortfall of
60,000 lecturers in Nigerian
universities, adding that the
threat itself has shown that
the FG does not understand
the enormity of the problems
facing public universities in
particular and the education
sector in general.
“The poor remuneration of
university teachers and the
inadequate facilities for
teaching and learning in our
public universities have
combined to trigger a brain
drain in the institutions. The
pauperization and frustration
of the teachers through the
non-implementation of the
pacts aimed at ameliorating
the situation have discouraged
those who may want to
become university teachers.
Yet, the few who have defied
the odds to take to this noble
path of helping to mold our
future leaders are being
threatened with dismissal.
This betrays a painful lack of
understanding of the long and
tortuous path it takes to
produce a university teacher.
“It also shows that the so-
called Supervising Minister of
Education is not better than
the misguided market women
who, having being hired and
paid to protest against ASUU,
threatened to invade the
universities to chase out the
lecturers if they won’t call off
the strike.
“This is what a country gets
when it puts round pegs in
square holes. It is not everyone
who can mobilize campaign
funds for the President or
organize thugs during an
election who should be
rewarded with a ministerial
post, not to talk of being given
such a sensitive ministry as
that of education, which is
directly responsible for the
future of our youth and of
course our country. No one
who knows the value of
education will toe the path
taken by Wike in issuing his
empty threat,” the party said.
It said ASUU was right in
demanding certain
benchmarks, including the
non-victimization clause and
the need for a senior
government official, like the
Attorney-General, to sign the
agreement, before calling off
its strike, in view of the fact
that the FG has a history of
reneging on its agreements.
“Yes, our party is eager for this
prolonged strike to end so that
our youths who have been
marooned at home for five
months can resume their
academic pursuit. Yes, we
believe this strike has gone on
for way too long, and that it
will impact negatively on our
country’s development in the
long run. But we believe the
issues at stake must be
resolved once and for all, so
that we won’t have a repeat of
these recurring strikes.
“The onus rests on the FG to
work with ASUU to resolve this
lingering crisis. President
Jonathan should get off his
high horse, roll up his sleeves
as Presidents elsewhere do
and tackle squarely what has
now become one of the
biggest challenges facing his
administration.
“However, if the Jonathan
administration has run out of
ideas, as we now fear it has,
going by the infantile threats
being issued by it, then let it
hands off the negotiations and
allow other stakeholders to
find a way out. We are all
stakeholders in the education
of our youths,” APC said.http://
www.informationng.com/2013/
12/ASUU-strike-apc-slams-fg-
over-sack-threat-says-wike-lacks-
ability-to-think-outside-the-
box.html

Wonders shall never end. So pple play politics wit pple's destiny?? May God hav mercy on u pple. I now biliv d fact dat dis strike is politicized!

Where are their own children? Foolish pple.

figopure: ASSU is trying to make our Education system to stable, some prople here are running their mouth, let d strike continue until government meet their demands. Politician are busy wasting money, why cant they use d money to revive the d dilapidated education sector, china phones, laptop, mini DVD etc, we all are buying here in Nigeria came from students, go to singapore, Ukraine, even South africa here or Ghana they are all doing well in Education. senators are receiving bulks of money sending their children abroad to school, because our Education sector here is not reliable for future use. pls let this strike yield good result ones and for all, take d bull by d horn, so that we all can smile. Our waec result is been questioned now if u want to school outside this country, my follow brothers, do u want our Bsc degree to be compare to secondary school cert. out side this country Nigeria? because of the problem in d universities, we are graduating thousands of students every year, that cannot invent or discovered something good to human race? Answer me? for me ASSU carry on, until your demands are met. UP ASSU

LWKMD here ooo

It's well. I rest my case.

Nancydearie: These are not the best times for most
students of government-owned
universities in the country. They have
been reacting to the latest happenings.
While some support the directive of the
federal government, others are against
such directive.
“Giving ASUU an ultimatum might just
serve to heighten the scepticism of ASUU
towards FG’s promises,” Although I am
vexed the students are not considered.
Mary Scott, 400level student, University of
Lagos said.
“Are we back to the military era? Where
threat and command language are
used?” Maurice David asks on a social
media platform.
He said: “I pity this govt that lack sane
people in position as ministers. How can
government move ten steps backward
only at the point of signing agreement?
Just at the point the agreement is to be
signed government begins to issue fiat
and threats to scatter the table. This is
shame!”
For Joel Otuyelu, a student of UNILAG
“This is a serious sensational movie. I
can’t wait for the next episode. How
Jona wan turn democracy to autocracy?”
“An agreement is supposed to be
honoured if the federal government
cannot sign and seal an agreement it
reached with ASUU on November 4
2013, then the future of Private
universities is bright in this country,
”Akinpelu Tolulope, UNILAG student said.
Tolulope further stated “The goal for
ending the strike should not be to save
parents anxiety or to take pity on
students or to save lecturers’ job or to
graduate students: it is to save the
university system so that it becomes
what it is supposed to be.
“In this, ASUU should not fear an empty
threat by the federal government but
rather see itself as a vanguard-probably
the only active one-dedicated to making
the government begin to tread the path
of responsible good governance in the
administration of tertiary education in
Nigeria .”
For Hassan Aliu, an undergraduate,
“What we have in this administration are
not leaders but bunch of criminals who
think we are in the military era. Who
think their threat will put fear in ASUU to
call of the strike. This shows the
insincerity of this government. The
question here is that is Jonathan worth
to be trusted and called a leader.”
However, Ugwu Henry is of the opinion
that ASUU has bitten more than they can
chew.
“ASUU has provoked the Federal
Government. It is a pity that after so
much capitulation by the FG, ASUU is
playing with the future of Nigerian
students. ASUU has failed to be
considerate. Why should one demand for
salary when one has failed to work? I
honestly hope the FG comes down hard
on ASUU and resists any pressure to pay
wages not earned.”
In the same vein, Justin Ebaretonbofa
has this to say: “Federal govt should do
whatever they want. Nigerians are fed
up with ASUU. When you ask federal
government for anything you don’t
expect them to give u 100 per cent of
your needs.
“It has never happen that way and it
won’t happen now. ASUU is playing
politics with the future of students. The
lecturers who refuse to resume should
be sack and new ones employ. After all
there are millions of more qualified PhD
holders looking for lecturing job. Haba !”
According to Peremobowei Amakama, “I
appreciate the FG directive to ASUU.
ASUU has over-stressed the patience of
FG and also mortgaging the future of
Nigerian youths for their selfish reasons.
Let the ones that believe we must move
forward resume to class and account for
their patriotism to Nigeria.”
thenationonlineng.net/new/fgasuu-
students-react/

I think dis is not autocracy. If u ar willing, go back to class and if u ar not willing, stay at home. I fink Joel Otuyelu and co ar out of dia senses! I rxt my case!!

miss universe: ASUU strike ll be off if GOVT AGREES TO PAY 4 MTHS SALARY.jex heard 4rm 3 o'clock rstv news minutes ago

look at these mad and brain-washed individuals. Una jex pack una self for house dey xpect salary. If that's d bxt way, other sectors make una shine una eyes.

Now the fg has offered N1.1 trillion. Who do we blame now?

Who do we lay the blame on, now ASUU or FG?

Elui2: Hy lander.admitted into mbbs uniben.am i welcmd here

can u add me up on 2go? Infinity111

Oxman: jst try nd jack even if na count u go count d pages...lol

don't worry I go tell u hw many pages my txtbook has. I fit count dat one

Lateef9961: my buk has gathered a lot of dust 2. May God hep us o

hahaha u don't forget dat day u tell me say u wan go jack on 2go?? Hmm lateef

musty001: grab,fat bobby lasli lie

ar u sure?? Hmm, am serious oooo

Lateef9961: how ar u doing dr.ikemsinachi? Hope u ar jacking?

I have stopped jacking sinceee. I no dey read again oo

Lateef...

It's well.