okunboy: So, more Babalawos will be produced in Osun! 1daful!

ckkris: Renegade, outgoing, yesterday men, that have nothing else to offer. Just like ex-governor Orji Uzor Kalu.

Ngwakwe: You be Christian jaree.

If Christians are marked for summary execution in your hood, definitely, you're a gooner.

jmaine:

Look at this muslim brother scolding others about religious intolerance.

@ Thread . . . .There is no real issues with this news . . .

la Capri: Now I know dis ASUU strike is political.
What has NUPENG got 2 do wit ASUU?
Smh 4 9ja

ariseandshine: Solidarity with ASUU?

Hey!! NUPENG I know you guys don't bark except some fat buffons at the top will have some loot to share.

There was no Solidarity Strike when innocent Students were massacred in Yobe.

An innocent lady has just been gruesomely beheaded and no Solidarity strike.

Graduates are being inhumanely exploited before they can get work yet NUPENG won't go on solidarity strike.

Nigeria is the worst place for a child to be born and yet no Solidarity strike.


GREEDY BUNCH!!!

fr3do: How do I comment now?
As a christian or one who supports the revival of our culture?

Anyway,the study should be entirely centred on its history.
There should be no spirituality in it.
Because there is somewhere in the constitution that talks about not making people to adopt religion in an educational setting.

ASUU strike: NUPENG threatens solidarity action

on October 07, 2013 at 1:36 am in News

BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG

LAGOS — Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, weekend, threatened stop distribution of petroleum products across the country if the Federal Government failed to implement the agreement reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

Though no specific date was fixed for the commencement of the soliarity strike, the union said the strike became necessary in view of the lingering ASUU crisis which the government had failed to resolve in the last three months.

NUPENG President, Igwe Achese, who spoke at the union’s National Administrative Council, NAC, meeting, weekend in Lagos, said NUPENG was not happy at the crisis facing public university system in the country.
He blamed the crisis on government’s failure to honour agreements, lamenting that this had led to the proliferation of strikes in nearly all sectors of the economy since the beginning of the year.

According to him: “We appeal to government to implement agreement reached with ASUU so that students can go back to school. If the crisis in the sector is not resolved, we will soon direct our members to embark on solidarity strike.”
Achese blamed the Ministry of Labour for failing in its responsibility to check the break-down and abuse of laws governing industrial relations practice in the country by employers including government.

“The Ministry of Labour needs to be proactive if we must get these issues nipped in the bud. The ministry also needs to make sure that agreements reached or communiqué signed are implemented.

“The ministry has a big role to play to avert strikes in the country. When unions begin to lose faith in the ministry that is when we have this kind of crisis. The labour minister should be firm in making sure that the right decisions are taken.

“As it is now, every activity in the Ministry of Labour is in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, which ought not to be so. The role of the SGF should be to intervene only when the need arises.”

It would be recalled that the NUT last week gave the Federal Government two weeks ultimatum to honour the agreement it reached with ASUU or face total shut-down of the education sector in the country.

Amosun blames delay in salary payment on FG

on October 07, 2013 at 2:01 am in News

BY DAUD OLATUNJI
ABEOKUTA — GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun  of Ogun State,  said partial release of state allocation by the Presidency is responsible for  the delay of the payment of September salary to workers in the state.

Amosun who spoke through the Secretary to the State Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa , during the world teachers day held in the state, said  civil servants in the State would start receiving their salary from next week promising not to owe the civil servants any salary despite the challenges.

Speaking, State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Dare Ilekoya urged the  government to address some of the challenges confronting teachers in the State.

Ilekoya lamented what  he described as  irregular and delayed payment of school teachers salaries, non-remittance of co-operative deductions and union dues.

Ilekoya said, “some people  were  engaged by the Federal Govt as a way of creating employment. These teachers have served in the state in the last 24 months and their service expired last month. We believe that the state government should absorb them into the teaching service to address the shortage of teachers.”

He however commended the Amosun administration for timely intervention on regular payment of salaries, implementation of 15 Percent part payment of 27.5 Teachers’ Peculiar Allowance.

President of NUT, Michael Alogba, in the address on his behalf by Grace Faleye, charged the Federal Government not to commit the management of primary education into the hands of local governments.

The FG Should Stop ASUU Strike Now! By Femi Falana

Posted: October 6, 2013 - 19:45



By Femi Falana

As the President of Nigeria and the Visitor to all the federal universities in Nigeria Dr Goodluck Jonathan should be worried over the prolonged industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. However, in his  media chat last Sunday the President stunned Nigerians when he did state that "President John Rawlings of Ghana shut tertiary institutions for one year and nothing happened". Does that mean the public universities may be closed for one year?

While blaming the ASUU for engaging in politics in prosecuting the strike the President  claimed that the Federal Government could not afford the money being demanded by ASUU. As Counsel to the ASUU I do recall that Dr, Jonathan as Vice President contributed to the resolution of the strike embarked upon by the ASUU in 2009 which culminated in the signing of the  2009  FG/ASUU Agreement. At that time the ASUU was not accused of playing politics! Regrettably, the Federal Government has, for some inexplicable reasons, refused to implement the terms of the Agreement with reference to the improvement of the working conditions of academic staff and the provision of intervention fund to revamp university education in all the federal universities.

Since ASUU has repeatedly embarked on strike for over two decades to draw public attention to the refusal of successive governments to fund university education in the country the the university teachers cannot be accused of plotting with disgruntled politicians to embarrass the Federal Government.  In fact, it is the Federal Government which has recently politicised  university education by establishing 12 new universities in one fell swoop. Up till now there is no law in place to back the establishment of any of those institutions. As there is no fund to run the new universities the President Jonathan recently coordinated the extortion of over N5 billion from government contractors for the take off of the federal university at Otuoke, the President,s hometown.. The President's mother was also reported to have donated a hostel to the Otuoke undergraduates. It is hoped that such gestures would soon be extended to  the remaining 11 universities by the President. Otherwise he stands the charge of being accused of discrimination!

Having regard to the increasing wave of official corruption in the country the official claim that the federal government is not in a position  to fund the federal universities cannot be taken seriously by Nigerians. In fact, it is public knowledge that the federal government funded corruption in the fuel importation sector to the tune of over I trillion in 2011. The huge fund did not include the $7 billion worth of crude stolen yearly by oil thieves operating on the high seas. Yet, President Jonathan has continued to insist that the allegation of official corruption in Nigeria is over exaggerated!

In the last three years the Jonathan Administration has drawn down the savings of more than $20 billion to less than $4 billion while it is piling up huge foreign loans. Through the AMCON the  sum of N5 trillion ($30 billion) was released by the CBN to bail out the banks that were run down by the agbero bourgeoisie. Two weeks ago the Central Bank of Nigeria disclosed that $7 billion loan had been made available to the same set of banks. Apart from engaging in the illegal business of changing dollars in the Federation Account to naira the CBN could not have earned $7bn from any other business. The CBN  has also set aside intervention funds for agriculture, aviation, industry, etc running into several trillions  of naira at the disposal of the pampered members of the ruling class. From time to time, the CBN governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi donates billions of naira to institutions and victims of terrorist attacks. The sum of N10 billion was donated to the Othmanfodio University on August 19, 2013 by the CBN Governor. Since there is equality before the law the CBN should donated N10 billion to each of the other federal universities within the next SEVEN DAYs or face a legal action.

in view of the foregoing it is submitted that given the political will the federal government cannot complain of inadequate funds for revamping the universities. The Minister of Finance and the coordinator of the country's economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has made President Jonathan to believe that the economy would collapse if the federal government implements the 2009 FG/ASUU Agreement. Did Mrs Okonjo-Iweala and Mr. Sanusi not say that the economy would collapse if the illegal price of N141 per litre of petrol was not sustained? When the Nigerian people forced the federal government to reduce the price to N97 did both voodoo economists resign like their counterparts would have done in the Brettonwood institutions?

Since those who are destroying the Nigerian economy have not deemed it honourable to call it quits President Jonathan should pluck up the courage to sack them without any further delay.  The impression should not be created that the ASUU strike has been allowed to drag on because top government officials have their children and wards in private schools at home and abroad.
The plan to invite former President  Olusegun Obasanjo to intervene in the crisis should be discarded. There was a time the universities were shut down for 6 months under President Obasanjo. Instead of providing funds to run the universities President Obasanjo and his Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar illegally awarded licences to themselves to  establish "private" universities and proceeded to fund them with public money looted from the Petroleum Trust Development Fund.

The federal government should urgently reorder its priority and provide adequate funds to restore the lost glory of our universities  to enable ASUU to call off the strike.

whirlwind7: Hehehehehe! If a morally bankrupt PDP can come out to criticize Fani Kayode, then i think it's time this man relocates to another planet. He has effortlessly made himself the most despised man among his peers.

oge101: Ngige is a snake, he never keeps to his words, he is a promise breaking man and an election rigger, he would do anything to get in power.

Tolexander: He was given a guitar, he couldn't strum the strings but watching with the teeth opened.
Exactly the way he has been acting when he was given the mantle of leadership.

I can sense a committee around the guitar!

ilugunboy:

Bros....na Baba I call ooooo....na you dey add ngida....

Learn how to work around Afam over sensitivity oooo.

Sloan:

I see you are the NEW ibo HATER on NL, abusing everyone including Yorubas and anyone that tickles your tribalistic mindset. Your mates are busy making progress, inventing new things, authoring research papers, having their names written into world history so that they are forever remembered but you are here hating. No one in your generation will ever be LG councillor but your are hating on Ngige who has already been a governor and senator in one lifetime, Tinubu, Fashola, Aregbesola, etc that if your father sees them he will prostrate flat on the ground like a fish and will never even be able to sit with them at the same table or look them in the eye. A small girl like you (if indeed you are not using somebody else's identity) should be working on how your life will be better and not a total loss. I, a Yoruba man, a bit older than you already accomplished more than 10X what you will ever do before your current age! I will buy you for any price and sell you to the lowest bidder and I will still be in profit. Go and worry about your life before you youth completely flies away from you and you are an old shrivelled woman who self-immolates because of the frustration and life losses you are laying its foundation now.

ilugunboy: Some people want to blame the victim, while underplaying the criminality behind the occurrence.

ACM10: I expect this thread to be moved to FP with the speed of light.