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Then what stops ASUU from refuting such claims whenever they are made?
I think ASUU has a very poor communication culture.

We read from reports of the last meeting between ASUU and FG representatives that a whooping #163billion was released to ASUU from TETFUND's account, yet the strike is still on. Does it mean no money was actually released or ASUU just doesn't want to call off the strike

If Ngige lied about the money, why couldn't ASUU debunk such lies?

Hahjascho:
Hmn, many depressing comments above....at least a reasonable mind should at least know it is worthy of note to be neutral and encouraging in giving any related comments as to not to derail or discourage those already studying or plan on studying the courses...never use your incapability to make a judgmental comment on a particular view.

Do you know many students in this country who already studied and are still studying these courses?? it is better to keep mute that voice out mind breaking suggestions or what do you want those already in 200l and above to do??

This may be beneficial, follow your passion and any course circumstances bring along your way take it, study it, and give your total best...aim for FIRSTCLASS IF POSSIBLE.

The problem comes from people taking any course circumstances bring their way! That's a very wrong advice!

People should study courses that can prepare them well for a clearly defined career path. Fewer people should study some courses, especially those in the pure sciences and some arts. Those pure sciences should be reserved for those who are really passionate about them and who applied for them as first choice. The fewer they are the better they'll be trained for research and academics.

Universities should stop offering admission to students into courses they never applied for. Many students would jump at such offers due to desperation.

I support this strike!! Let them make it total and indefinite. In fact, I want all the healthcare workers to kuku quit the government hospitals for NMA and medical doctors. Let's see howfar they can go working alone.

larryking540:
Dude quote me again and again...if an interviewee has something tangible to offer an organization it doesn't take time to fish such out, ,weather she is well dressed or not,
I have been opportune to see many face time interview with some of my father friends and I can tell u within 1mins they already know if u are going to be employed or not, ,,,,,or u think it's like nigeria politics dat do try ur luck in president? bro u are talking about business/money here ,who wants to dish out a monthly salary When d person isn't offering d company any idea or bring improvement to a company,just come to work and sit down when it's 4pm, she carries her bag and goes home, when they start sacking workers I bet u, she wil b NO 1 day will remove ,,she for employ her first, ,i laugh at u, when u become a core business man, ,u will definitely re edit ur statement here again

There is no sentiment in business

From the write up, isn't it obvious that the interviewer was simply jealous of the lady? It is not every organization that is as smart as you think! Some allow bigots occupy critical posts in their businesses and that robs off negatively on the business.
This is one reason why many businesses fail where others succeed.

It's just unfortunate that we have bigots like you as HR personnel in many organizations! People who can't make decisions without allowing their biases get hold of them.

Just imagine! You didn't even care what the lady has upstairs to bring on board. That girl's connection might even impart the organization positively. Oh! I forgot, many companies in Nigeria are slave drivers! So, they look out to employ people they can easily turn to slaves. Dummies whom they can easily control. It is for the same reason that some companies in Nigeria come up with obnoxious age requirements in their recruitments. They believe that they can readily enslave those below certain age bracket. They tend to forget that businesses thrive on rules and regulations that are fair enough to both the employer and the employee. Not on some kind of master-slave approach. This is another reason why many businesses fail in this country. Because people who can't reason properly are put in critical decision-making departments like HR.

I must marry a virgin!

modestbrowser:
Nice article.
But this copy pasting deserves some accolades as the worst copy paste on Nairaland and the internet at large.

Lol...it was hastily done. Let me edit

I have experienced two major strikes in my lifetime. The notable one amongst them was 10 years ago, back in 2009. It was my brother who had just gained admission. He spent 9 months at home in his sophomore year and that was the last the family had of public universities. He went on to a private school in the end. Mine was the next major experience; it was in 2013 I had my first six months strike. I was in sophomore year too. And the first three months were hell until I went out to look for something doing before the strike later ended. But that was not the first experience I had of the strike, for the remainder of four years, it was from one strike to another and then to another.
In other countries like Singapore for example, education is the best legacy you can give a child. Niyi, my very progressive friend was opportune to be there for a business idea competition for more than half of a semester in our third year in University. He told me the professors were the ones that implemented policies based on their theses. For the people of Singapore, Niyi noted, they relied so much on undergraduate theses that they consider several tons of research in rebuilding their economy. “It is actually the lecturers that build houses, transform the power sector and run the economy based on their research predictions and the Government, actually support them; giving the student that worked on that particular project the funds needed and a professor to play oversight,” Niyi said. This is a statement I have held on to since 2015 we had this conversation.
But cast your lens to Nigeria and you most probably frown and cross your legs. This is Nigeria where your thesis is sold to the akara woman down the street for say #50 or maybe a hundred naira. And if you are truly diligent enough to read that scrap of paper where your fried potato, or buns is being wrapped, you find a literature review that took someone months to write and re-write. In Nigeria, the imagery of a final year project or thesis is like that popular Facebook picture that showed tons of undergraduate bound project backs containing nothing less than 40 pages of mass intellectual work being thrown to waste by the roadside as thrash. It is the reason why someone would misplace his NYSC discharge certificate or degree certificate like I once saw on Twitter, squeezed and roughened into a ball like a scrap of paper- worthless, depicting the imagery of a failed system and a waste of valuable 4 or 5 years with the variable of an ”x” because you don’t know how many ASUU strikes will be required before your course eventually ends.
ASUU strike can actually end today if the Government so wishes. How much are they demanding really? 1.5 trillion naira as revitalisation for all Federal Universities which should have been paid between 2009- 2011 with #472,031,575,919 for 2009; #497,531,778,701 for 2010; and #548,768,190,681 in 2011, all totalling #1, 518, 331, 545, 304. In addition to that is N3,680,018 per student for all State Owned Universities in the same 2009- 2011 period. Where #1,144,075 will be paid for 2009; #1,205,880 for 2010; and #1,330,063 in 2011. All of these totals to N3,680,018 approximated for State Universities. These amounts include Recurrent and Capital Grants, and are based mainly on the disaggregated returns from the universities. All of these facts are obtained from the detailed Federal Government and ASUU detailed agreement, dated January 2009.
You want to know the truth? Like the absolute heart piercing truth? We can pay this money. In 2018, we recovered 329 million dollars Abacha loot; add that to the 2.1 billion dollars Colonel Sambo Dasuki arms deal recovery. Do you know how enormous 329 million dollars is? Or how big 2.1 billion will be when converted to naira altogether? Wouldn’t that be enough to quell the ASUU back and forth? Not to add the numerous monies this current administration has been recovering from one politician to another. ASUU is demanding for a lot, that I know but if you read the detailed Federal Government and ASUU agreement, and you were a civil servant demanding #30,000 minimum wage, or better still a lecturer, or perhaps you by any means put yourself in their shoes just for a day, you will realise that they are not overdoing it.
Their detailed agreement cannot be surmised in one piece but I will give you a hint. It involves earned academic allowances per student over a session, a national pension scheme, insurance, car allowances, tenure-housing and a long line of well-deserved benefits. Even the bible says: “the soul that waters shall be watered.” Just like the Politicians you are clamouring for are feeding fat off your income taxes, and VATs on every commodity you buy, as well as theagberos, feeding fat on your transport fare, so should ASUU feed fat over the stress of taking several classes in a day and explaining hours after hours. They put in research in a failed system and still try to groom you, the best you can do for them is make living for them better so they can be accountable and not fall to bribery or the cheap advances of sex-for-marks and become a victim of their greed or the circumstance this country and the system has put them.
This is an agreement that dates as far back as 1992. It is not a new agreement. It is a struggle that took late Professor Festus Iyayi’s life, an agreement that has been remodelled since 1992, till 2001, 2009, 2012, 2013 and finally 2017. This is the fun part. In 2017, after signing series of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to no avail, they followed the change mantra of the APC Government and hoped that changing the name of their agreement will probably make the government listen to their pleas of taking ASUU to the Next Level. So they opted for a Memorandum of Action (MoA), which is the same agreement but a semantic change of name to pressure the government. This is ironic and hilarious, noting that APC (All Progressive Congress) was once Action Congress (AC) before now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) which APC replaced as (All Progressive Congress). But like a rock, unwilling to be moved, the Buhari led Government turned a deaf ear to all their pleas, refusing to fulfil their own part and for 27 years, the past Governments have successfully deceived and dribbled the grey haired ASUU men.
Someone would ask why ASUU demands for a revitalisation would gulp many funds. Here is why:
(i) The key to the survival of our country in the 21st Century lies in its ability to produce applied and theoretical knowledge in science, technology and the humanities; and (ii) The task of revitalizing and accelerating the development of the Nigerian University system to become internationally competitive can no longer be delayed, more so if Nigeria is to become a leading economy in the world within the next ten years or so as desired by the Government. (Federal Government and ASUU detailed agreement, 2009.)
We know our education system is bad, worse even and that is why the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) did their due diligence, ran an in-depth research on how much will be needed to serve as a quick fix to the ailing academic system, and dearth of equipment that will enhance education for our teeming under-16 year olds suddenly passing JAMB and making their way to school. Okay, say 1.5 trillion naira is too much for the Federal Universities, Tade Oludayo, a Vanguardcolumnist in his article ASUU strike, issues in contentionpleaded for a modest revitalisation at most. One that will gulp 1.3 trillion naira at the very least! The analogy is that if they can pay 220 billion in five years from 2013, we should have gotten nothing less than 1.3 trillion naira to quell the ASUU strike. But the Government is unperturbed that they lied in 2017 to have released 20 billion naira to ASUU when in actual fact, they released nothing.
It is saddening that in the 21stcentury and in 2019 for that matter, more than 2 decades down the line, we still experience strikes in the education based on the Government’s insincerity. ASUU has proven one thing- they are consistent, consistently revamping a 27 old agreement that means well for the progress of the country where the Government cannot see potential in education and continues to allocate 7% to education- less than 500 billion naira to an ever dynamic population that is youth driven and even powerful enough to decide the polls come February 2019. INEC data shows youths between 18-35 a strong 51.11% and the student population 26.5%, numbering 22.3 million, close to doubling the farmers population which stands at 16. 23% - a staggering 13.6 million. Yet the government has continually fallen low of UNESCO standards who suggest a modest allocation of 26% of the total budget to education as the best legacy any child could have.
Neighbouring African Nations like Ghana give a modest 15.3% of their budget to Education with Botswana exceeding the UNESCO’s quota by offering 28.8% of their budget to Education. The future they say belongs to the youths, who should not be deprived education as a sustainable legacy. How then do we hope to solve our numerous problems if not through research?
Maybe Emir Lamido Sanusi is right. Not many people are like Niyi who was opportune to go to Singapore to see things for himself and appreciate the quality of education. We have elected and have chosen to elect people who do not have education and we will pay dearly for it. You can’t give what you don’t have and you won’t necessarily understand the value of education if your ascension to office as President is an ordinary WAEC certificate that is fraught by allegations, counter-claims, deceit, and maybe fraud. Yet some graduates are still roaming the streets with a Master degree but no job! We may also need to check the grades of the President closely and see how well he did in those subjects while questioning his grin when the Military finally released his certificate. Then, we should juxtapose these things with his cabinet and score card over the past three years to know if truly if, he deserves to be elected for second term or he was just fulfilling a boy hood dream to rule Nigeria in the present, past and future.
In all of these things, the number of people writing JAMB is constantly on the rise. In 2018, 1.6 million Nigerian students registered for JAMB with 94% of that population opting for public schools and a meagre 6% choosing to stake their choices with Private Universities. A quick look through the top ten most wanted schools are Universities of repute ranging from UNILORIN, to University of Ibadan, UNILAG, Ahamadu Bello University, UNIBEN, Obafemi Awolowo University, Bayero University and UNIJOS. It is obvious our poor masses cannot afford the tuition a private school offers however, the choices for choosing a Public University ranges from desire, to high ethical standards, quality education and a smooth academic calendar, no wonder Obafemi Awolowo University has suddenly fallen off that list as a favourite institution in the top three.
To be very candid, the joys of going to a Federal University because of low tuition abounds no more. The last time I spoke to Abiodun, a Final Year Student of Obafemi Awolowo University, I told him my fear was for my brother who was still stuck in the University and my sister would also go through this tumultuous system. The latest now is that the cost of education has taken a huge spike. Though, this claim is still highly probable. Last year, the news we heard was tertiary education will now range between #350,000 to #500,000 (though ASUU blatantly rejected it then). I still remember that Ambode won his Governorship ticket to Lagos State in 2015 by reversing the school fee to the original standard of #25,000 for LASU Students which was still a huge struggle for a couple of parents to afford.
I paid the sum of #20,050 in the last three years I spent at school. Add that to the #40,000 I paid as a freshman. Altogether, I didn’t pay above the sum of #150,000 as a graduate of Great Ife. Yet as small as that amount was, many parents still struggled to pay their children fees and the Government once planned to throw the masses into more penury by insisting on an increment of tertiary university fees when they can’t even pay #30,000 minimum wage. Tell me how the masses will cope if they cannot effectively pay #20,050 how much more #350,000? Liberia now has free education for tertiary institutions. Liberia as a people, a country, a nation or even as regards the revenue they might be producing are not anywhere close Nigeria but they have free tertiary education now and our Government cannot sign a simple agreement and keep to it.
Let me tell you what that makes us. It makes us a country of half-baked graduates. I spent five years in school for a course that would have taken just three and a half years. No four year course finishes exactly four years, some people even spend three years plus, some just three years and no more. But the more you delay a particular course with strike, the students will get tired and the zeal to chase academic relevance will be no more, this is why Nigeria students have gone into vices like prostitution, runs, fraud and most especially Yahoo Plus. Now they use girls undies to enhance their cyber businesses so they can buy Benz. Would you blame them really? No you shouldn’t. Nigeria has shown us that education no longer pays and so, even after bagging a Ph.D., you might not still make headway. That is why depression, anxiety and fear have become the order of the day with the students doing all sorts of ventures because they have seen that the labour market no longer favours them.
If you can’t graduate and serve before 26 in Nigeria, you might never truly get that job of your dreams again but ASUU will continually strike. And it is not like the quality of education of Nigeria is good. Most of the theories are old, antique and anachronistic, so even when you struggle to serve and apply for that job, you may have to be retrained. The Nigerian system does not allow for work study or high level internship and exchanges. If you must become a professional, you have to beg for it.
The school should provide a bridge between school life and real life by working on partnerships with firms and other affiliate bodies but this is Nigeria, the system is a failed system and the grim realities will always linger. ASUU may win this fight and be victorious in the end, or they may not but this numerous strikes are no fault of theirs. Just like you can’t blame Labour for demanding a pay raise; ASUU are fighting for their right which is necessary and important.
That is why there is a NANS- A National Association of Nigerian Students fighting for the students rights. Unlike the vibrant NANS of yesteryears, the current leadership would rather shake hands with president, collect a few thousands and say the issue is still in the works. Customise their cars with NANS plate number and lavish the funds for the generality of Nigerian students wantonly.
Let me tell you what will happen when ASUU strike is over. Girls will throw engagement parties and brandish the lavender sent of wedding invites to lecture halls, some would have done introductions, others pregnant, a few of them already married, the young men would have wasted the break doing nothing tangible with their lives and the next few years, in the future, history will repeat itself. Then, you would turn and ask yourself, “God when will all these be finally over?”
JOSEPH OLAOLUWA

SaharaReporters.com

missimelda01:
How do you know that for sure?

At least she wasn't captured being fucckked on camera like Nina. Besides, that lady is too unyielding to stoop that low. Others see her attitude as rude, but I see her as classy! My kind of lady!

If both of them are of sound character their marriage would succeed. Character is the main thing that holds a marriage! Not how long you dated

I love this girl for not allowing herself to be fuccked by some random guys in the name of BBN.


Classy babe!

earthsync:
My mum sometimes wears my dad's shorts at home, is that bad too?

Not bad at all in my opinion. Even men tie their wives' wrappers sometimes

faithfull18:
The fact that he was already seeing someone else yet he was still disturbing her.

It's possible he wasn't seeing someone else at the time he was wooing the lady. It takes just a minute for a guy to make up his mind and move on to another lady.

The female trousers are different from the male. Men don't wear trousers meant for females so you can't claim that trousers belong to men alone.

Only fools repeat the same strategy over and over again expecting a different result.

ASUU is beginning to irritate me as they now appear like a group of touts full of empty skulls. Nonsense!

I wonder how they expect to produce quality graduates under the atmosphere of incessant strikes. Many students resume with divided attention, some ladies with pregnancy while some guys would have used the holidays period to learn how to do drugs. And then you expect them to still care about studies

kratosonofzeus:
bros it depends on the story behind that action, what of if the girl paid the guy school fee or something else, do u know what she has sacrificed for d guy ??

Guys also get dumped by ladies even after the guy must have spent so much training her in school. So, going by your submission the guy is justified to take revenge on the lady

kratosonofzeus:
Nice one young lady,
you don't smell what u can't eat

Just listen to yourself! So, should a guy also attack his ex girlfriend when she decides to dump him

toxicbrain:
see how you reason like a child, so you think this is possible? sack professors with years and wealth of experience and flood the university with newbies? your idea is so pathetic!!


well, I believe you are more or less the la cram la pour student who doesn't care about potentials but credentials. it's not ASUU that needs to be scrapped, the quality of students in our higher institutions needs to be checked! your type needs to be purged!!

Only foools like you and most ASUU members repeat the same strategy over and over again even when they are not getting positive results.

It's high time the FG wielded the big stick on ASUU.

Stop paying their salaries first. Then scrap the goddamn body, give a deadline for the lecturers to resume or resign. Sack all those that failed to resume before expiration of deadline and place adverts to replace them. You'll be surprised at the number of PhD holders from home and abroad that will apply.

Stupid lecturers who are bent on destroying the future of Nigerian youths. Nonsense

He/She who proposes, pays for the wedding and also picks the bills at home!

Honestly I'm no longer on the side of ASUU

I think they are not being reasonable this time by not calling off the strike after the latest commitment by government.

At least suspend the strike while you continue negotiation with government! That is the reasonable thing to do. Students are the ones suffering. Many are due for graduation but have not defended their projects due to the strike! Some were caught up in the amidst of exams.

This strike is no doubt a contributing factor to the unemployment many graduates face in the labour market upon graduation.

ASUU should call off this strike abeg! They can't possibly get the FG to release more than they have released. Imagine how long it took to release what was released! Let alone when ASUU starts asking for a figure as high as 200billion.

Abeg, ASUU leadership should use their heads and know the caliber of people in government they are fighting with.

CodeTemplar:
It was a sham to you because spirit are silent and invisible. That's were you got confused.

There's no spirit whatsoever in the thing. Just some coded scam!

LordReed:
I also like to keep an open mind but consider this, what about this world as we currently know it will spirits help us explain?

I believe science is what we need to understand this world and possibly understand the so called spirit if really there's anything as such, not spirits.

LordReed:
I don't know all of the circumstances which you using to judge this but if history has taught us anything its that the mighty fall the lowly rise and the average stay average or rise or fall. That's life, no karma involved.

Maybe.


Much as I doubt the existence of one super power god, I want to still keep an open mind on the concept of spirits. There might even be some kind of scientific explanation to the whole spirit thing. Science hasn't unraveled all the mysteries of this life and that is why as a scientist I need to be open to more findings.

CodeTemplar:
What does this initiation entails? I asked because initially are generally done with or through transference of spirit or the through spirits. so if yours led to a scam was the initiation itself void of spirits or the spiritual.

There's no spirit whatsoever in the whole thing. Just a sham the initiates used to con the uninitiated. But honestly, anyone who hasn't gone in would think there's a spirit behind it.

Although it has some advantage in the sense that it is used to keep the men in check and maintain sanity in the village.

LordReed:
Some of the not great families remained not great right?

Some of them became great or at least better than they were.


I'm just trying to rationalize why all those other families suffered the pitiable fate that befell them. Could it be that Karma actually visited them or what?

Originakalokalo:
God is a spirit.

God said. Draw closer to me and I will draw closer to you. ...When he draws closer to you, you get all the evidence you will need to sustain you till the very end.

.....and a whole lot more.

God is a spirit just like I lived the greater part of my teenage years believing that a certain night masquerade in my village was a spirit until I got initiated into the masquerade cult only to discover that the whole thing was a grand scam! A scam the elderly men used to defraud the uninitiated!

BalogunIdowu:
What do you mean, or because you don't know the full meaning of LASUCOM?
It's Lagos state university college of medicine, now you can rephrase your statement except you have confirm evidence.

It not, expect my lawyer soon!

See you in court then

BalogunIdowu:
What do you mean, or because you don't know the full meaning of LASUCOM?
It's Lagos state university college of medicine, now you can rephrase your statement except you have confirm evidence.

It not, expect my lawyer soon!

See you in court then

I don't believe this story

I shall never refer a patient to be treated by your type! No be only LASUCOM na Alaska


We can distinguish the real colleges of medicine from those used to complete the number!



Please let nobody quote me, It is my opinion! You are free to form your own opinion