₦airaland Forum

komakan: Yes. Any of your branches in Abuja?

takeprofit: what can i use this inverter to power and for hw long on a full charge? laptop, fan, tv?

ITbomb: I do not see how any of your 7p agenda could save money in the system.

Billions of naira are paid annually as salaries to train half baked graduates and you don't see that as a colossal waste?

I may have to educate you that ASUU is a body of lecturers AND NOT the management of the universities. On my record , SSANU , the senior staff - VCs n co, are not on strike and are even reported to be using consultants to conduct post UTME exams to the dismay of ASUU.

Are SSANU members also not lecturers? I am actually talking about improved service delivery by our lecturers given the limitations which they were aware of before taken up the job. I agree with you that there is the need to improve on infrastructure but the issue is, how best are they making use of the little they have right now.


So the question of accountability is more of SSANU and Min of Education concern than ASUU .

Why the Bulk passing. ASUU should also then indict SSANU and MOE if they really want a long lasting change in the system.
If they succeed in winning more funding that will still be manged by SSANU or MOE, what will be the net gain. What has been the net gain after every strike in this country?

I may add a little politics here that GEJ administration has been the most truthful .whereas before , when government signed the UNESCO charter to allocate at least 10% of the budget to education , didn't they remember that other ministries existed.
What ASUU is even demanding is an implemention of a previously agreed solutions. If government could not execute the agreement , why sign it and deceive Nigerians in the first place.

Deceive Nigerians? or ASUU you mean. Well, I can sympathize with ASUU and that's why they have to take active interest in politics.

If these lecturers are doing the 7 point agenda, their student will then definitely love them. They will trust them to transform this country should they form a political party and contest to wrestle power from the present crop of rulers. Just imagine the magnitude of the combined votes of all their students , parents of their students , friends of their students, tertiary institution workers e.t.c. Even if they don't then win the Presidency, they can try to capture the Assembly and then influence things from there.

We need leadership in this country. Who better than our beloved academics (with international exposures) should be the ones to constitute the critical mass that will galvanize the citizenry to deliver us from the enemies of this potentially great a nation.




What ASUU is demanding is just a conducive learning environment for both students and lecturers so that they can give in their best.

Do you know that with the use of IT tools like Facebook and Youtube, lecturers can improve their service delivery? and it is free to use this tool. They just have to be creative.

With Facebook, a lecturer can open an account for his/her subject and add all his/her students as learning friends. With this tool, they can easily collaborate. Facebook is not just for gossip, let's be creative please.

With Youtube, a lecturer can comfortably sit in his/her office and make use of a class rep to use his/her camera phone to record his/her lecture presentations which will then be uploaded to his/her account with Youtube for easy download and view by his/her students in equally, the comfort of their rooms on campus.

Even this can be used for practicals too so that haven watched the experiments on video, it will then be easy for students to come in batches to the lab to put to practice what they had already watched on video and master it with lesser effort from the lecturer.

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The backbone of any industrial society are the 3 powers - Electric Power , Military Power and Mind Power. Allocating 40% of budget to these 3 is the sure path to greatness. Level playing and its children eg Federal Character has been the bane of development of Nigeria. We need to identify the areas to take us forward and invest massively in it then other sectors will automatically move up.
Eg in electricity , giving power to key industrial cities will progress the country than trying to supply equal power to all the states .

We know this. What in practical terms do we then do about it to change things. Let the change we desire start from us.


Finally as I said , ur 7 point agenda is not workable in Nigeria as u said worked in SA given the present environment.
Nowhere can a lecturer develop personal relationship with 400 students in a one year class.
Nowhere can a lecturer finish compilation of results of 400 students and publish them 2 weeks after exams.
In my opinion no students in Nigerian universities should be given a first class cos they are not even learning in a first class environment.

Obiagelli: The only sensible post on this thread so far. Let the government fund the university adequately first and pay lecturers what the national assembly and executives earn, then we would see if they will sell handouts

chaircover: Well done!!

I have some other questions that I need to ask you, do you have an email addy?

olatade: I need just 1 batt3(100ah)how much will it cost me