₦airaland Forum

If this state can award a contract of 10.6billion them all state governors that have state universities can also come up with some money to pay ASUU earn allowance

The only way Nigerians would be happy if this woman is sack only sacking her would make Nigerian made rest but I really pity Goodluck in 2015

This is bad our society should condemned this in descent act

Is best to celebrate the living then the dead cos I celebrate life not death

Someone that is dead is dead if u like sow gold the person is conscious of nothing at all cos he or she is dead

Mumu

So am.not graduating this year I would take my sch to court if I don't graduate this year for pro longing my year in sch

Rubbish man go marry man woman go marry woman what fun will they have during sex nd hw will they pro create na wa oh

Speaking at today's launch event in San Francisco, Phil Schiller announced the next iteration of the company's tablet. It's thinner, lighter and more powerful -- hence the new name: the iPad Air. (No more of that "new iPad" nonsense.) And Cupertino takes that moniker seriously; this slate weighs just one pound (down from the fourth-gen model's 1.4 pounds). It also boasts a 43-percent thinner bezel and a 20-percent thinner profile; it's just 7.5mm thick this time around.

As expected, the new iPad Air sports a 9.7-inch Retina display. 64-bit architecture is on board with more than 1 billion transistors, and there's an A7 processor under the hood along with an M7 motion chip. Schiller says this guy is eight times faster than the first-gen iPad (we'd hope, to be honest -- that was three years ago!), and graphics are 72 times faster. Thanks to MIMO, you should enjoy faster WiFi, and look for expanded LTE support from international carriers as well.

The 5-megapixel iSight camera is capable of shooting 1080p video, and the FaceTime camera on the front includes "larger pixels" and a backside-illuminated sensor for better image quality. Additionally, the iPad Air sports dual mics. As far as battery life goes, expect about 10 hours. Finally, as many have been quick to point out, the iPad Air does not include the Touch ID fingerprint sensor that debuted on the iPhone 5s. That feature was met with plenty of backlash; it's unclear if this is why Cupertino opted to leave it out.

The Air will ship on November 1st to several countries, including the US, UK, China and Japan. Notably, this is the first time China will get the iPad on launch day. When the tablet is available, you'll have your choice of silver, white, grey and black color options. Of course, the Air isn't the only new iPad shown on-stage today; Apple also introduced the iPad mini with retina display. Stay tuned -- we'll be back with hands-on impressions shortly!

ASUU say them dey fight for our interest now we say we done tired make them no fight for our interest again make them call of d strike

He did steal money from our national treasure if he bring out 1 billion nd contribute to the promised money to make it 41 billion then I would know he has Nigerians interest at heart. For now he is just talking non sense during obasanjo tenure there was a strike like this was he not the vice president what did he do. All this Jonathan haters

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has overstepped the bounds of reason. To say that most discerning Nigerians are angry with the union is an understatement. Whoever anticipated that ASUU’s show of shame would last this long?

At first, we all sympathised with the pedagogues, thinking they were protesting to secure better learning conditions for the younger generation. Alas, we were wrong! Now, the varsity teachers have made it clear that they are more interested in their personal comfort than the future of our nation.

At the beginning of the strike, the union bought us over by presenting poor infrastructure as the ostensible reason for their action; yet even after government has made concessions, releasing 130 billion naira and making a commitment to do even more, the lecturers have remained implacable. Isn’t it clear that they have less than noble intentions?

To make matters worse, ASUU has resorted to ludicrous antics in a bid to hoodwink Nigerians into thinking that they are national heroes fighting for the evolution of a better educational system. Obviously, this is far from the truth. Rather, they are simply using our young ones as pawns in a ruthlessly brutal duel to prove some political point, which is best known to them and their sponsors.

In times past, ASUU has called off strikes even when their requests were not acceded to. Why is it that they have remained adamant now that government is responding positively? I am especially appalled at the manner with which these people continue to insult our sensibilities by maliciously passing the buck to the government and deliberately maligning well meaning people like the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who interestingly has nothing to do with the whole thing.

Being a daughter of academics and an academic herself, Madam Finance minister understands the need for a viable educational system, which explains why she has played a major role in ensuring that funds are released to cater for the provision of infrastructure in our universities. The last I heard, 100 billion naira has been released to put needed infrastructures in place on our campuses. Furthermore, the Federal Government has also committed to spending N200 billion in the 2014 budget on the universities as well as in each of the next three-four years until the universities are brought to world-class standard. This is in addition to the N100 billion dedicated and already made available for 2013. Not stopping there, the government has also increased to N40 billion the first instalment of funds for the payment of earned allowances to the striking lecturers, an improvement from the N30 billion previously released.

Any objective observer can easily see that the Finance Minister is in total support of improved emoluments for university teachers. But since it will be unwise to overdo it in a way that it will not be sustainable, she has appealed that they should accept what government has offered. Now, what is wrong with that?

Unfortunately, members of ASUU have continued to blackmail the woman for taking such a stance in the interest of national good. For them, it doesn’t matter if the entire economy shuts down as long as their own bank accounts are well funded. Isn’t that the height of irresponsibility?

Every university student knows that most lecturers don’t take their responsibility seriously. Most of them run personal ventures at the expense of the students they are being paid to teach. Yet, they keep agitating for pay raise. What an irony!

It is time for Nigerians to wake up and nail the real culprit. Like I observed in one of my recent articles, one of our major problems is the fact that we don’t take time to analyse issues for ourselves. Rather, we flow with the tide of public opinion which is most often defined by a few opinion shapers. We must tell ASUU that we cannot contain their excesses anymore. We will not allow them to continue to make scapegoats of our bright young minds, who incidentally are our hope and pride, in a bid to satisfy their selfish ends.
Source : http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=289630&comment=0#com

When a father becomes old his brain stop to function well then he is I'm need of an helper. Mr governor can run jos affair well he needs is Un matured son advice. Imagine a fool advising a mad man

Money dey nigeria I need to dey were I go fit steal money like dis woman.

I want to know of University is also on strike

Japanese london use or German London use as long as London is there am good 2 go

Soon am joining them to make it over 3 million nd 1

Only d dance different every na d same

ASUU members re fools bringing religion into this

There are two main issues arising from the Federal Government’s non-implementation of the 2009 agreement between the lecturers and the government that forced them (lecturers) to embark on their “total strike.” The first is the non-payment of “earned allowances”, or overtime pay. ASUU has a N92 billion figure for this. Out of this, the government, claiming that it would go bankrupt if it had to meet all of ASUU’s demands, has provided N30 billion. ASUU however insists that the money has to be fully paid before lecturers can return to their teaching posts.

Two, ASUU, seeing the degradation of hostel accommodation, libraries, laboratories and research in Nigerian universities, wants the government to fund infrastructure development with N400 billion. According to Nyesom Wike, the minister supervising the Education Ministry, the government has provided N100 billion, and has added another N100 billion sourced from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. This leaves a balance of N200 billion, which, again, ASUU insists must be given before it calls off its strike.

Since 1999, when Nigeria returned to civil rule, lecturers have been on strike for a total of “30 months out of 156 months, or 20 per cent of the total time in the past 13 years,” according to TheScoop, an online publication. “This is an equivalent of six semesters or three academic sessions,” the publication added. The worst of the strikes lasted for six months between 2003 and 2004 when lecturers demanded that professors had to retire at the age of 70.

However, last week, the federal government decided to invoke the no work no pay policy on the striking lecturers.

Many believe the no work no pay policy invoked by the federal government on the striking lecturers is intended to starve the lecturers and break them to submission. Meanwhile, others say the government is making an error. The FG is only complicating issues with their obnoxious mantra of “no work no pay.”

The Trade Union (Amendment) Act, 2005 empowers the government to invoke a no pay no work policy if it deems it necessary.

The federal government last Friday defended the implementation of its ‘no work-no pay’ policy against the striking university lecturers. The lecturers, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have been on strike for over three months demanding that government implements the 2009 agreement it had with the union.

 ASUU confirmed the stoppage of their salary after a zonal meeting of the union in Abuja on Thursday. ”The Federal Government has through the National Universities Commission (NUC), directed universities to stop the payment of our salaries effective September this year and since then our salaries have not been paid,” Clement Chup, ASUU Zonal Chairman in Abuja, said.

The NUC, its spokesman defended the directive, saying the commission was only applying extant laws. The Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations of the NUC, Ibrahim Yakasai, said the directive was not a policy but a law that affects all sectors of the economy, adding that it had been in the constitution for a long time.

 “It’s a law in this country that if you don’t work you will not get paid. But the government was magnanimous enough to pay their salaries for a month or two when they started the strike. After everything that has been done, (the lecturers) don’t want to go back to work; so, the law must be applied,” he said. Mr. Yakasai lambasted the lecturers for collecting salaries in the first place while on strike.

 “Let’s watch and see how far they can go with this strike. In any case, why would anyone want to pay someone that is not working? Should they even have accepted the salaries in the first instance? In fact, what are salaries for? It’s for work to be done,”

But ASUU insists that no amount of threat through the implementation of no-work-no-pay rule applied by the federal government would force its members to suspend their four months old industrial action.

The body, who lashed out at those advising  the president to  apply the rule, which he described as ‘barbaric, obsolete and inhuman’, said no amount of pressure would dissuade the union from ensuring that the federal government implemented the agreements reached with the body in 2009.

“We will not succumb to blackmail. We will remain focused and insist that the 2009 agreements be implemented,” the Ilorin Zone coordinator of the union, Dr. Ayan Adeleke said.

 Source:http://leadership.ng/news/221013/ASUU-strike-fg-begins-no-work-no-pay-policy

National President, ASUU, Nasir Issa-Fagge
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has turned down President Goodluck Jonathan’s plea  for  the lecturers to  end their 114-day-old strike.

 The Chairman of ASUU at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Adegbola Akinola,  and his   University of Ibadan chapter counterpart, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye,  said university teachers would only  return to the classrooms if  the government honoured the 2009 agreement it entered into with them.

They spoke just as the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, berated the union, saying it had taken unionism to an all time low.

 But Akinola  told  journalists   during a rally staged by members of the union in Ile-Ife on Monday, that  Jonathan  needed not beg  for the strike to be called off.

He said, “ASUU does not need any plea from Mr. President. We are not asking for impossible things. The Federal Government reached an agreement with us and we are asking them to honour it. It is so simple.

“Government should be honourable. Is it honourable not to honour an agreement? Certainly no. The Federal Government should not allow the public universities to continue to degenerate. Posterity will not forgive us if we allow public universities to totally collapse.

“Our country has the resources to honour the agreement but education is not given priority.

“The Minister of Aviation (Mrs Stella Oduah)  just  got  two bulletproof cars  bought for N255m by an agency under her supervision. So,  who do you want to tell that this  country does not have the resources?

“We won’t allow public universities to be destroyed. That is why they are establishing private  universities all over the country with the nation’s money. Except those owned by the  missionaries, tell me which of the private universities was not established with the nation’s resources?”

 Akinola said that infrastructure were decaying in public  universities because of the   neglect they had suffered.

He explained that the strike was not about members of the union but a means to force the government to do the right things.

 The ASUU chief warned that  children from poor  homes  might no longer have access to university education if the union  should succumb to the blackmail being employed against it by the government.

 Also Ajiboye said at a town hall meeting and presentation of the  National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy assessment report to clerics , civil society,  labour and students at the Trenchard Hall, UI on Monday, that  Jonathan’s plea  would not make ASUU end the strike.

He  said, “Will the President be quiet if his children are in one of our public institutions and be at home for four months? Does he care about the future of the country while the children of the masses in public institutions have been asking their leader to be more sensitive and patriotic enough to public institutions?

“How many years of appeal will make the President implement a four-year-old agreement? The truth is that  we are tired of appeals. We need action .

“In ASUU, our belief is that today’s event will shape the future. We cannot live on appeal while the  children of the rich use public funds to study abroad and even make use of government scholarship scheme.”

However, about 200 heavily armed policemen on Monday stopped members of ASUU from carrying out an enlightenment walk on the   strike in Calabar,  Cross River State.

The walk  was organised by the University of Calabar and Cross River  State University of Technology branches of ASUU.

It  was to take off from the UNICAL gate at 7am through some streets of Calabar, but the policemen ensured the union members  did not leave the gate of the institution.

They  said they were acting on “orders from above.”

The Chairman ASUU, UNICAL branch, Dr. James Okpiliya, said, “Our union is law- abiding. We wrote to the police and other security agencies on our intention of walking the streets in pursuance of our cause to put the records straight.

“Many groups have been walking the streets giving people the wrong impression about the situation. We just want to put the records straight. The police are telling us that they have orders from above not let us walk the streets of Calabar. It is a shame. You can all see the hypocrisy of government.

“They allowed youths and market women but they would not let us   do the same. We would remain resolute. No amount of provocation would stop us.

“We are not on strike because of our salaries. We are fighting for our students and the terrible conditions of our universities. Most of our science students do not know the difference between a Bunsen burner and a stove. They don’t even know the chemicals.

“The Tertiary Education Trust Fund today has become a main funding source of our universities, but this is not to be so. TETFUND is only an intervention agency. Government has bailed out banks and even Nollywood, but not our universities.

“The strike would continue as long as the government remains adamant. The President said after all, the strike in Ghana lasted two years; so that means this one could  continue even up to five years.”

The Chairman of ASUU, CRUTECH branch, Dr Nsing Ogar, said the Federal Government must honour the 2009 agreement.

But  university administrators in the country on Monday expressed concern over the  strike and appealed   to both ASUU and the Federal Government to urgently reach a compromise on the issue.

The National President of the Association of Nigerian University Professional Administrators, Mr. Samuel Mwansat,  made this appeal at the ongoing annual retreat of the National Council Members of the association   at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun in  Ogun State.

He stressed that the current disagreement between ASUU and the government required “understanding.”

 In Abuja,   Okonjo-Iweala,  accused  ASUU of taking unionism to an all time low with its   latest approach to  the strike.

She   accused  the union of   introducing    politics  to  the strike  through the  distribution of “flyers riddled with lies in mosques in the North.”

The minister, in a  statement by her Special Adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu,   said contrary to the position being  spread by ASUU, she had  not taken a “take-it-or-leave-it approach” to the face-off between the union and government.

She claimed that  it was ASUU that had taken  such an approach,  saying   no government had  been as responsive to the demands of the striking lecturers as that of Jonathan.

The statement reads in part,  “Contrary to some recent media reports, the Federal Government has not adopted a take-it-or-leave-it approach in its negotiations with ASUU. Rather, the approach is focused on positive engagement and achieving sustainable solutions to the challenges facing higher education in the country.

“That is why President  Jonathan recently appealed to ASUU to respond to government’s positive steps by calling off its strike in the interest of suffering students and parents.

“Despite this, for several days now, some elements in ASUU have been distributing pamphlets and flyers with abusive and inflammatory messages against  Dr. Okonjo-Iweala in mosques and other places. This is taking academic unionism to a new low and infusing it with unnecessary politics. I am sure majority of ASUU members are not in support of this.”

She said the  government  was  working hard   to seek practical and sustainable solutions to the challenges facing higher education in the country.

According to her, “ The President has made available N100bn  a year in the first instance to repair hostels, laboratories and classrooms and other facilities in the universities.

“An offer  of N30bn has also been made to ASUU   towards the  earned allowances of its members.”
Source :http://www.punchng.com/news/ASUU-to-jonathan-beggingll-not-end-strike/

Same old story

The oil they re fighting for is burning helplessly

Lecturers keep looking at d way politicians spend our money inside of them complaining they should also context election into public office nd see the work load. Nd if they steal money who care na tradition

Imperial McHæl: I wished you were alive and not merely breathing!
The longer the strike the more pointless it becomes....
The resultant effect on students is too harsh! And thank God we have a FG who scarcely cares.
@OP, this piece points out one thing: students are at a total disadvantage while lecturers are untouched (those who are still writing their M.phil/Phd are still students).
As students we have everything to loose!
Educate, train and equip well-balanced university graduates, this I believe should be the apropos behind any ASUU action but funnily, ASUU does not seem to have any of such in its addendum.

.




Now I realize some people re not for to be called. Human being d strike to hold for a year u be mumu

T-val:
I think with the way dis strike of a thing is goin, it is now time for students to think of schooling in private universities and state universities..

. State uni re also on strike my lecturers will only benefit from.d earn allowance but as for d rest no money is coming to my sch for infrastructure development

Him get money d idiot just want to show thunder fire am

It was gathered from the committee that 13 Federal universities have been left out of the initial disbursement. They are Federal University, Gashua; Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State; Federal University, Dutsin-ma, Katsina; Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State; Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State; Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State; Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State; and Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. Others are Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State; Federal University, Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State; Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State; Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State; and Police Academy, Wudil.

Vanguard learnt that these universities were left out because they have just been established by the present administration between 2011 and 2013 which committed trillions of naira in their establishment and that there was no need for additional funding.

Five state universities that were also unlucky are: Bukar Abba Ibrahim University, Damaturu, Yobe State; North-West University, Kano State; Sokoto State University; Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode; Ogun State; Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State.

Top five Federal universities that got the lion’s share of the money were: University of Ibadan, UI, with  students population of 33,481 which got N3.250 billion; University of Benin, UNIBEN, with students population of 56,501 got N3.200 billion; Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, with students population of 49,436 got N3.200 billion; University of Port-Harcourt, UNIPORT, with students population of 53,288 got N3.050 billion; while University of Lagos, UNILAG, with students population of 49,179 also got N3.050 billion,

Also, the state universities that benefitted are: Ebonyi State University, EBSU, with students population of 23,437 got N3.050 billion; Niger Delta University, NDU, Wilberforce Island with 12,793 students population received N2.800 billion; Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina with students population of 4,753 received N2.450 billion; Gombe State University, GSU, with students population of 4,383 got N2.450 billion, whereas the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo with the highest students population of 90,885 among all the considered universities got N1.300 billion. Source:
http://www.ngscholars.com/2013/10/ASUU-strike-update-yet-receive-n100bn-fg-vcs/

Nice concept new method of corruption ole

Short talent monkey doing well in our low rated movie industry

They kill for 20 naira talk less of 250 beer