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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday alleged threat to the lives of its leaders nationwide.

The four-month old strike embarked upon by members of the union took a new dimension when ASUU alleged that members had been under the siege of security agencies nationwide.

It was learnt on Sunday that security agencies were beaming searchlights on the sources of finance of members of the union nationwide despite the stoppage of their salaries by the federal government.

Investigations at the University of Ibadan showed that ASUU executives at the institution went underground
shortly after last Thursday Congress held at the institution while phones were switched off. Similarly the secretariat of the union has been deserted with
new security arrangement being put in place.

In a statement issued on the latest development, the chairman of the University of Ibadan chapter of the union, Dr Olusegun Ajiboye, said “ASUU strike: Union leaders go underground.” The ASUU leader alleged that he had received some calls warning him about his role in the ongoing strike.

Ajiboye who called on the Inspector General of Police to save the lives of ASUU leaders nationwide said no amount of threat or clampdown on the union will make them back down from the strike until public education is saved from collapse.
According to him, this recent security threat has forced many ASUU leaders to go underground alleging that many of their phone numbers
have been bugged. “Apart from the issue of finance, ASUU leaders are now being trailed all over the place. A majority of the our union leaders have now gone underground while many have their telephone lines bugged. Some are now living in fear of their lives”

Ajiboye who noted that ASUU members are not security threat to the nation added that as a democratic nation, citizens are guaranteed freedom of association. Ajiboye urged the federal government to leave its leaders alone and implement the agreements it reached with the union for normalcy to return to university campuses nationwide. “The position of ASUU is that Nigeria is a democratic country and citizens are guaranteed freedom of association. Members of the union are apprehensive for the lives of their leaders. “We urge the government to leave our leaders alone. Our leaders are our servants, we are their principals, they report to us on all matters”.

Representatives of the union have repeatedly stated that the strike action would only be called off when the FGN/ ASUU 2009 agreement is implemented by the government.

The strike, which started 105 days ago, has seen many meetings between the federal government and representatives of ASUU end in deadlocks with ASUU rejecting an offer of N30bn to begin payment of the earned allowance owed to university lecturers.


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I think elect engnr is the toughest. I heard people rate engineering courses in order of their 'toughness' this way

1. Elect/elect
2. Mechanical
3. Chemical
4. Civil
5. Others

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I may share writing materials with a friend but i can never tell him or her any answer. My friends know me for that,so they don't feel disappointed.

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Guess what came to my mind first when I saw this.....





How will one translate this...Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.


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Guess what came to my mind first when I saw this.....





How will one translate this...Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

I hope this won't result to a political crinkum-crankum or if you like,a political highy-hagha.

hope say her 'use of english' don improve sha.

Congrats to the first lady anyway.


en en

how are your fellow widows?

Jamey Maxwell: Dem suppose flog yhur empty head with cane.

dz got me lafin hard

chai! Omo,skul days bn swit gan o

In PRY 5 class,na die hard tinz o,if person make noise na N5. If name get x2 ,x3 etc,na N5 x2 nd x3 be dat o. Bt dn,i no day 2 enter list.i be gently guy. 4 2nd term,i becum captain,cum c,u go fear! Noise making enter N10 o. Na me day colect am dn,if term cn end ,we go use d 1 wey remain buy refreshments b4 we colect report card. 4 PRY 6 2 na d same tin.

when i enter Jss1 ,omo na same tin o,go reach jss3.

So,all doz time na enjoyment i day cos na me day in charge.

wn we enter ss1,tinz cum change,guys dn mature,we no day mak noise ,every body stil day form 'i want to be an engineer,a doctor etc'

wn we reach ss3,we cum start day whyn teacherz,chai! Na dat 1 day swit pass. Teacherz cum lyk to day cum our class cos we go mak dm laf no be small. Na our chemistry teacher enter whynin pass. Our agric teacher cum becum our padi,na me day whyn am pas cos dat tym i no day do agric.....we go use half of d whole period day whyn ourself .mehn.
Na long story o. My secondary skul pals day miss me lyk crase nw.

all is well jare. Make dem sha do quick make man pikin go school.

On behalf of me and my family,i say......Happy birthday to my 'Oga at the up' phil. Finestboy. I wish you long life and prosperity in good health.

[quote author=BushyA55.Banger]have u considered renting an apartment in Yabaleft or Aro Hospital?[/quote]oga,take am easy nw


Life becomes hard when you don't take it simple. Thank you

[quote author=prof.femi]Sorry I somehow missed your post. I have responded. Sorry for cross-posting but here is my response:



Thanks. I see two separate arguments here. Last point first, yes, there could be better implementation. Yes, I support your suggestion that projects be well monitored and audited. However, they already are. You may not be aware, but many cases from universities have been referred to ICPC (RIP) and EFCC. This leads me back to your original argument:

You did not say funding education is cheap. However, by holding up the post you started with, and by arguing that poor universities are more corruption-prone, you implicitly underestimated the cost of running a university.

Firstly, the OP's calculations showing that N10,000 per student per space would accrue a net income to the university is nonsensical, as I briefly tried to show. I could have gone on in the same vein to shoot down his other calculations apparently showing that universities make so much and spend so little (I did mention the power bill of my university in this vein).

Secondly, you did not seem to get my argument with good schools versus poor ones. I was merely trying to say that providing education is equally expensive for both, but because good ones have more interventions, they can afford to provide education at a lower cost (since it is essentially subsidized). The poor schools that have no such interventions end up charging closer to the real cost. In effect, nope, I also do not agree that corruption is the reason why they cannot make ends meet.

Hope my points are clearer now?[/quote]yea,i got that. I really wish to know you more than this.

[quote author=prof.femi]Thanks. I see two separate arguments here. Last point first, yes, there could be better implementation. Yes, I support your suggestion that projects be well monitored and audited. However, they already are. You may not be aware, but many cases from universities have been referred to ICPC (RIP) and EFCC. This leads me back to your original argument:

You did not say funding education is cheap. However, by holding up the post you started with, and by arguing that poor universities are more corruption-prone, you implicitly underestimated the cost of running a university.

Firstly, the OP's calculations showing that N10,000 per student per space would accrue a net income to the university is nonsensical, as I briefly tried to show. I could have gone on in the same vein to shoot down his other calculations apparently showing that universities make so much and spend so little (I did mentioned the power bill of my university in this vein).

Secondly, you did not seem to get my argument with good schools versus poor ones. I was merely trying to say that providing education is equally expensive for both, but because good ones have more interventions, they can afford to provide education at a lower cost (since it is essentially subsidized). The poor schools that have no such interventions end up charging closer to the real cost. In effect, nope, I also do not agree that corruption is the reason why they cannot make ends meet.

Hope my points are clearer now?[/quote]Ok sir,thanks for enlightening me on that.

[quote author=prof.femi]No it does not. If you have the time, check my responses (and others') to that particular post here https://www.nairaland.com/1467065/nairalanders-view-nigerian-varsities-infrastructures to see how the OP seriously underestimated the cost of running a university. This thing is more complex than that.[/quote]I never did that. I still await your response to my last pos there.

[quote author=prof.femi]Thank you for your observation. It gave me cause to pause and think. I believe the explanation lies in the somewhat unfair-sounding principle that we often encounter in life : "to him who has, more will be given, and for he who does not, even that which he has shall be taken".

I'll explain further. I work in one of the top universities in the country. Anytime there is a grant or intervention for my region, you can be sure we will be one of the first targets. My university got a reputation as a leading ICT light, and believe me, most of it was a result of donations and grants from foreign bodies.

I suppose what I'm saying is: the good universities get a lot of IGR from goodwill and clout, thereby helping them remain good, and allowing them take excellent but poor students. The "poor" universities...they're pretty much on their own. Stuck with students who can afford to pay their high fees (but not guaranteed to be excellent students).

Conclusion: your observation is not necessarily due to corruption; its all about a self-fulfilling prophesy thing: good schools get helped to be better, poor schools charge high to remain poor.[/quote]yea,you got there!

And that is the corruption we are talking about.

Why should a poor school that charges high remain poor? At least there should be remarkable difference after some time.

[quote author=prof.femi]Thank you for your observation. It gave me cause to pause and think. I believe the explanation lies in the somewhat unfair-sounding principle that we often encounter in life : "to him who has, more will be given, and for he who does not, even that which he has shall be taken".

I'll explain further. I work in one of the top universities in the country. Anytime there is a grant or intervention for my region, you can be sure we will be one of the first targets. My university got a reputation as a leading ICT light, and believe me, most of it was a result of donations and grants from foreign bodies.

I suppose what I'm saying is: the good universities get a lot of IGR from goodwill and clout, thereby helping them remain good, and allowing them take excellent but poor students. The "poor" universities...they're pretty much on their own. Stuck with students who can afford to pay their high fees (but not guaranteed to be excellent students).

Conclusion: your observation is not necessarily due to corruption; its all about a self-fulfilling prophesy thing: good schools get helped to be better, poor schools charge high to remain poor.[/quote]yea,you got there!

And that is the corruption we are talking about.

Why should a poor school that charges high remain poor? At least there should be remarkable difference after some time.

Thank you all for your comments,big thanks to prof. Femi and others.


I never said funding university education is cheap and i don't think anyone has said that here.

But,what I will continue to reiterate it that If our universities were properly managed with little or no corruption,it would not be in its present shameful state.Hence,generation and allocation of funds into various projects should be strictly monitored by bodies like the EFCC and ICPC.

that's all

[quote author=prof.femi]They are used for running the university. Tertiary education is VERY expensive. Don't listen to me; check what it costs globally to fund education (of course I acknowledge that a portion gets lost to corruption just like everywhere else in Nigeria, but in the universities I know, that portion is negligible)[/quote]Running the system when students who pay laboratory fees as part of school levy use stoves in place of bunsen burners?

sir,i know some universities are doing commendable things with these fees and you will agree with me that these are the top ranking universities in the country. And the surprising fact is that these are the schools that charge the lowest fees.

Then what are the other schools with highest charges doing with it.?

If they have been using a higher percentage of the fees for what they are meant for as clearly stated in the breakdown of the fees,you will agree with me that our tertiary institutions will not be in this sorry state. Then,there won't be much pressure on the government

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

Oluwatola5: Now to be pratical, imagine you went out only to get back home to meet your new-born baby's face already lined up and arranged with vertical and horizontal crossbars tribal marks by a family relation prolly from d village, what will you do?

lol

funny question

a funny answer shd be xpected








I go clean am sharp sharp b4 e dry

who dey here?

ASUU has finally call off its 100 days old strike o











I read it in a post here dated Aug 2012

4bobo: eh eh? Empty threat? It is like u dont know the power of labor or you are a son of a politician.
It is what will affect the poor and the rich directly and will give a serious dirty blow on FG to resolve the crisis faster.
I am in support of anything that will benefit the country's educational system as well as improve the sector.
If GEJ dont have enough money, he should sell one of his presidential jets and make sarcrifice to help the sector because he was once one of them. If the does that, his popularity will be have no boundary.

so,u think giving ASUU their outrageous demands will better the education sector. Take your time to go through their demands and see that it won't better anything but their account balance.

[quote author=T.ice]....naxo we go pray wella 4 d guy(NIGERIA) he no gbadun wella.....
Me 2 gan as a personal nigga a sick small make una all pray 4 T.ICE ohhhhh[/quote]oh! Brother,may the Lord bring an end to all manner of sickness in your life and in Nigeria.


Happy sunday to you all.

Good morning everyone. Remember to pray for Nigeria today...

oga finestboi, abeg i wan c my thread for f.p before i cum bak frm church o. Or else we go impeach you.

www.nairaland.com/1467065/nairalanders-view-nigerian-varsities-infrastructures

I want this on f.p www.nairaland.com/1467065/nairalanders-view-nigerian-varsities-infrastructures

thanks

bobbymore: Yes, we have such deplorable conditions in our universities. The question is what does the Vice-chancellors of Universities do with all the fees paid by students, and rents paid by staff living in university quarters?. A breakdown of the fees show that students pay for maintenance, light, medical, sports, library, lab/audio visuals etc, lets say in a hostel the actual students supposed to stay in a room are 4. this number multiplied by hostel charge of N10,000. equals N40000, an average second generation university has at least 30,000 students. Multiply this number to the fees paid by full time students of N25,000 this equals N7500000000. This money can be used to maintain infrastructure, provide equipment in the Universities, but, this isn't the case. University management mis-management all the funds and expect government to provide money. Vice-chancellors connive with bursars to loot the system, after their tenure, they aren't probed. What happened in south south university after their riot a few years back. Each student was asked to pay N10000, from diploma, long distance, to Ph.D students. The school has a total population of over 40,000 students. Multiply that amount, it sums up to N400 million. They spent less than 10 million fixing the damage caused by students, what happened to the rest? What happened to the money? Part time students pay over N60000 a session. Multiply that by 10000 part time students it equals N600 million. The least fees a postgraduate student pays is N150000 a session. Multiply that by 3000 postgraduate students admitted, it equals N450 million. Some universities charge N15000 for P.G forms, multiply that by 3000 people who may apply it equals N45million. Now, for post ume exams, a students pays N2000 for the forms, multiply that 5000 students who may apply into a university, it equals N10 million, there's also the sale of forms for pre-degree and part time undergraduate programmes, monies run into millions of naira each year. The question is what happens to them? Government established TETFUND, there is ETF. This establishment raises billions for tertiary universities. The truth is until corruption is checked in the system it will be hard for us to move ahead. Now ASUU wants 3trillion naira? hmm, I laugh.

A very nice write-up

I really hope this gets to an EFCC official.

Source:www.nairaland.com/1465352/deplorable-state-infrastructure-nigerian-universities/5