₦airaland Forum

tammie24:
Ibos are all over the internet saying she's Ibo, her mom from Anambra.

Self esteem really low for that part of the country o

Even gave her mom Ibo name ' nkechi' 🤣🤣🤣
And Layal 'chinwe' 😀😀😀

The lady has said nothing about her being from Ibo land but they will not stop

Na wa o😂😂😂

AngelSlay:
It’s good that President Tinubu has shown some willingness to address ASUU’s grievances, but we also need to look at the broader picture. Clearing arrears and increasing salaries sounds fair, yet the bigger question is sustainability.

Nigeria is already struggling with a stretched budget, heavy borrowing, and competing demands from healthcare, infrastructure, security, and social welfare. If we keep increasing salaries without restructuring the system, we’ll only be postponing the problem.

The real tragedy is not just that a professor can’t afford a Toyota Corolla — it’s that universities are still producing graduates who lack the skills to compete globally. That’s not purely about salary; it’s about accountability, modernization of curriculum, research funding, and efficiency in how universities are run.

If government simply clears debts and raises salaries without demanding reforms from ASUU and the universities themselves, the cycle of strikes, arrears, and poor-quality education will continue. Nigeria needs to fix the foundation — not just patch the cracks.

meobizy:
Na their way. Every time preek scratch them, they demand remuneration from the government. It’s the students I pity the most. Those ones sef don’t pity themselves until final year.

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to embark on strike over the Federal Government’s failure to implement agreements and resolve ongoing issues in Nigeria’s university system.

Speaking at a press conference yesterday at the University of Jos, the ASUU President, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, said the union had been “pushed to the wall” after over two years of patience without results. 
Piwuna rejected the government’s loan scheme for university workers, describing it as a ‘poison chalice’. 

He accused the present administration of deliberate delay tactics in renegotiating the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement, addressing outstanding salary arrears, and implementing measures to revitalise universities.

“Trust has been destroyed by the government. It is, therefore, up to them to regain it to avert any strike,” Piwuna said.

On the 2009 Agreement and Collective Bargaining, the Union lamented that despite the submission of the Alhaji Yayale Ahmed Report in February 2025, the government has failed to act on its recommendations.
ASUU expressed concern that it undermined the principle of collective bargaining, to which Nigeria is committed as a signatory to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention.

While acknowledging a planned government meeting on August 28, ASUU warned that time was running out. The draft agreement, it noted, covers crucial issues such as conditions of service, university autonomy, academic freedom, funding, and the review of laws governing JAMB and NUC.

It strongly rejected the government’s proposed Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund (TISSF), which seeks to provide loans to lecturers. 

The union insisted that what its members needed was improved wages through the renegotiated agreement, not more debts.

The union also criticised the unchecked establishment of universities, accusing successive governments of turning them into tools for political patronage rather than genuine centers of learning.

According to the union, Nigeria has 339 universities, 72 federal, 108 state, and 159 private, yet many lack basic facilities and staff

He said the National Executive Council (NEC), after its recent meeting at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, resolved to wait for the outcome of the government’s August 28 meeting before taking further action.
However, the Union announced plans to hold rallies across university campuses next week as a warning signal to the government.

otokx:
Some bad lecturers show up once or twice a semester, in the same vein some non teaching work extra hours to ensure tight deadlines are met, there is nothing that can justify the 80/20 formula, even ASUU is shocked that FG did such a thing.

JagabanBorgu:
Analysis like this always come from people who has never been to an institution when Non Academic Staffs are striking.
If non academic staffs are not functioning, students can't effectively carry out research projects even when guided by lecturers, I remember pausing my research for days because the non academic staffs were not on seat.
You can't complete administrative tasks if they are not there, they all make the system work, trying to exalt one when they obviously can't function without each other effectively is faIIacy.

Nwaikpe:
Nigerians are good at inventing rubbish

First, what is the meaning of "Medical Laboratory Scientist?"
Even the name is absurd.

But because one minister's pikin studied it, they made it a professional course. The very course that is only a branch of the well-known course called "Microbiology." But they even went ahead to push it for a "Doctor of Medical Laboratory Science." In some climes, even dentists and radiologists are not referred to as doctors but directly as their profession, even though their training is the same and even more than medical doctors. Very soon, they will push for technologists to be called engineers and engineers to be called technologists. That is what happens when illiterates take over power.