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olojo oluwatobi: Hello frnds hw was ur day? Please stop posting all dis long news we all knw where 2 read dem frm dis trend is mainly 4 discussion on uniabuja nd nt ASUU/FG if they agreed or didn't.THANKS with sincere respect.

well, dis side is nt 4 jambite only, a lot of students are here and dey ar rely concern wth d strike. Though sm maybe current wth d situation while sm may not, their only source is here, so let pple post wat dey want as far it's true.

Dannyxy: actually,he is not wrong.where do you think jamb got the name from?,i will not dispute the fact that jamb will also add some names(so if u did nt write the post ume u might still be lucky),but it's the school that gives jamb the names,that's why most people that find their name on jamb list also find their name on the school list.

u ar also wrong, to make it short. Sch do nt send list to jamb rather jamb do send list to d sch. Guy ar u a learner or wat. Its seems u r jst new in uniabj go back to my previous post and see wat u dnt knw pls.

olojo oluwatobi: It is UNIABUJA list ooo bt not all,schs give few names to dem to post online nd I read it wen they released d first batch nd was told from a very very reliable source.

guy u ar wrong, dis is jst merit list frm jamb and it has ben gven to even dose who hv nt attend
Uniabj screening. Jamb has its own percentage to evry uni. NOTE; uniabj don't pest deir list on d net at all so in case u dnt knw go and fine out.

olojo oluwatobi: Am not really sure if ur name will come out in merit list since u didn't come for d screenin bt try checkin JAMB website if u were given admission goto www.jamb.org.ng nd click on check admission status 2013

many students were admttd last year wthout going 4 d screening. Note dis is jamb list nt uniabj list ok.

ASUU's 130bn Distribution: 18 Public Universities left Out






After a lot of heated debates and consultations, the Suswam-led committee submitted its report to government, which culminated into a letter to disburse N100bn for the implementation of identified needs of the public universities and another N30bn to off-set the EAA of teaching and non-teaching staff.

Despite this acclaimed commitment by government, ASUU still stood its ground, vowing to continue with the strike over issues bordering on government’s insincerity and the fact that the acclaimed disbursed funds are yet to translate into cash for earmarked varsities.

A critical examination of the distribution document made available to Vanguard Learning reveals some controversies in the disbursement of funds to federal and state varsities. While ASUU is contending that the N100bn is nothing near the N500bn due for 2012 and 2013, as contained in the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement and the January 2012 MoU signed by both parties, some other discrepancies discovered include that government’s claim to distribute the released funds to varsities based on student population was not religiously followed.

Partitioned under four categories with student population of 30,000 and above; 29,000 and 25,000; 24,000 and 15,000; 14,000 and below, it was found that some varsities with lower student populace got more funds than their counterparts with higher populace.

For instance, Ebonyi State University, with student population of 23,437 got N3.050bn while Lagos State University with the highest student population of 90,885 got N1.300bn, University of Abuja, with 62,528 students got N3bn; National Open University of Nigeria N850m with 57,759 students and University of Calabar N1.250bn with 29, 357 students. Also, our findings revealed that of the 40 federal varsities, 13 were left out.

They include: Federal University, Gashua; Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa; Federal University, Dutsin-ma, Katsina; Federal University, Kashere, Gombe; Federal University, Lafia, Nassarawa; Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi; Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi; Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa; Federal University, Wukari, Taraba; Federal University, Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi; Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara; Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti and Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State.

While of the 39 state varsities, Bukar Abba Ibrahim University, Damaturu, Yobe; Northwest University, Kano; Sokoto State University, Sokoto; Tai Solarin University of Education; Ijebu-Ode, Ogun and Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State, were left out.

With about 18 public universities left out of this distributed funds, what is the guarantee that their local ASUU chapters won’t shut-down their schools within the shortest period to fight for their share?

Personally, i think the local chapter of ASUU in my school (TASUED) should just resume back to work since we aren't receiving a dime.

Richiez: If this strikes doesn't end this year, 2013/2013 and 2013/2014 sets would be merged together

that can't be possible ok.

ASUP Strike: FG Agrees To Meet Lecturer’s Demands

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The Federal Government on Monday met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of polytechnics behind closed doors and agreed to meet the demands of the union.

The Minister of State for education, Nyesom Wike, and the Labour Minister, Emeka Wogu co-chaired the meeting while ASUP President, Chibuzo Asomugha, led the union team.

None of the parties, however, spoke with journalists after the brief meeting held at the Federal Ministry of education in Abuja.

However, a source at the meeting, who confided in our correspondent, said the union obtained a strong commitment from the government.

He said, “The union tabled three key issues at the meeting. One is the need to constitute the governing councils of the remaining seven polytechnics. Wike was said to have informed the union that the Federal Government had agreed to constitute the remaining governing councils. He promised that the List would be out by this week and the union was happy about it.

“He also promised that the white paper on the visitation panel to the polytechnics was almost ready and would be released soon.

“On the CONTISS 15, Wike promised to work with the Minister of Labour to get the circular ready from the Head of Service having got commitment from the Presidency to work out the modality on the migration to CONSIST 15 for the polytechnic teachers.

bahlow: Juma kuna nan kalau?Wat up all Uniabuja students?u guyz are d best. How i wish am a stdt of Uniabuja bt God knows all. I did d best i could bt i think my best was not enough. Though, i was admitted into a federal College of Education bt University Of Abuja z still on my mind. I wish to cum through direct entry after i must av completed my NCE programme with gud grade by God grace into der faculty of Education, educatn nd social studies to be precised. Longlive Nigeria! Long live Abuja! Long live University Of Abuja Students! Shalom!!

kai wayakoyamaka wannan yaran?

ASUU Strike: Wogu appeals to lectures to end strike

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The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Mr. Emeka Wogu has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go back to the classes while the negotiation is ongoing. Speaking on Channels

Television's magazine programme Dateline Abuja, Mister Wogu said the government has shown enough commitment to address the issues once and for all.

Wogu explained that the plight of students whose academic programmes have been disrupted is enough motivation for everybody to resolve the situation and improve the standard of the nation's university education.

The federal government on Friday had released the sum of N130 billion to federal and state universities to execute projects and pay allowances.

ASUU: FG Full Of Deceit, Not Ready To End Strike – Fagge



on August 23, 2013



The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday came to the conclusion that the government was not ready to end the 8-week-old strike, after both parties failed to reach an agreement in ten meetings, lamenting that government displayed dishonesty and lack of integrity during negotiations.

ASUU’s President, Dr. Isa Faggae, who spoke at a briefing in Lagos claimed that government had declared it would not implement the agreed injection of funds to revitalise the public universities, but was only making a dubious statement of supporting some universities with N100 billion.

“Government had also declared that it will not pay university academics their earned allowances which accumulated from 2009 to 2013. Rather, it is talking about providing N30 billion to assist various Governing Councils of Federal Universities to defray the arrears of N92 billion owed to all categories of staff in the university system.”

Speaking on how the last meeting with the Government held on Monday went, Faggae said ASUU was “shocked by the level of deceit, dishonesty, and lack of integrity displayed by the Government. Never in the history of ASUU-Government relations have we, as a union, ever experienced the kind of volte-face exhibited by Government. At one stage in the interaction, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation ridiculed the agreement, the MoU and the Needs Assessment Report, mocking the Minister of Education to “go and give them N400 billion,” at which members of the government scornfully laughed.”

He argued that the Governor Gabriel Suswam-led Implementation Committee was being used as smokescreen to “deceive ASUU, Nigerian students and their parents, as well as other unsuspecting members of the public on the purportedly released N100 billion for the implementation of the Needs Assessment Report.

First, he said, “government plans to divert the regular yearly allocations to universities by Tertiary Education Trust, TETFund, to make at least 70% of the N100 billion. This is unacceptable to ASUU. It is like robbing Peter to pay Paul, since the idea of revitalization took full cognizance of the intervention role TETFund ab-initio.

“Again, contrary to subsisting operational procedures, about 75% of the money meant for revitalizing universities would not be released to them as the Suswam Committee plans to hand over construction of the hostel projects to the Federal Ministry of Education and/or the National Universities Commission, for implementation. This is illegal; neither the ministry nor NUC is backed by laws of Nigerian Public Universities to divert monies meant for the development of these institutions into centrally executed projects.”

Faggae also questioned the committee’s motives for proposing to commit N1.6 million to a bed space, instead of N200, 000 to N400, 000, saying, “We see a continuation of outrageous contract regimes in the plan to centrally coordinate the construction of student hostels as done in the case of the 12 newly established Federal Universities with TETFund resources. The NUC has transmuted itself into a “Tenders’ board” which awarded contracts for the construction of 560 bed spaces hostel for each university at a whooping sum of 1.2 bn. This contract sum translates into N2.143 million per bed space.”

No Renegotiation On ASUU’s Paltry N87bn, National Assembly Spent N1tn In 8 Years – APC





The Federal Government should honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in order to end the ongoing strike that has paralyzed academic activities in government-owned universities, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said.

The party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday that no government can afford to play with education, because it is the path to national
development.

According to the party, ASUU was not making any fresh demands beyond the agreement it reached with the government in 2009, adding: “Agreements are meant to be honoured, and breaching them comes with some consequences.”

APC said the industrial action by the university lecturers which has kept students in public universities at home for many weeks is a further blow to the country’s education system which has deteriorated so much that no Nigerian university is currently listed in the top 100 universities in the world and only a few Nigerian universities have made the top 100 in Africa.

“The 87 billion naira that ASUU is demanding represents earned allowances hence cannot be renegotiated. In any case, this amount pales into insignificance when placed side by side with the 1 trillion naira that has been spent on federal legislators in the past 8 years; or the frivolity involved in a government minister travelling to China to negotiate a $1 billion loan in a chartered jet (with its attendant costs) and with a retinue of staffers who earned generous estacode in hard currency.

“It is an indication of the kind of priority that this Federal Government attaches to education that while it has refused to meet its own side of an agreement it reached with ASUU since 2009, it could pay out 3 trillion naira in non-existent fuel subsidies to fat cats, spend 10 billion naira annually to maintain the jets in the presidential fleet and do little or nothing to prevent the stealing of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day, which translates to $120 million in a month, money that surely ends up in some people’s pockets!

“What we are saying is that if the Federal Government would reduce its profligacy and cut waste, there will be enough money to pay teachers in public universities, as well as fund research and upgrade infrastructure in such institutions. Hungry teachers can neither teach well nor carry out research. And poorly-taught students can neither excel nor propel their nation to great
heights,” the statement said.

The party also registered its disgust at the demonstrated nonchalance of those who should be working round the clock to resolve the crisis, especially the Minister of State for Education Nyeson Wike, who the party said has enough time on his hands “to be launching vigilance groups and dancing ‘palongo’ around town when the nation’s public universities are shut and students are languishing. This is shameful and totally unacceptable.”

“We are not surprised because most government officials have sent their children and wards to foreign universities, hence do not give a damn if the children of others are in school or not.

“Education is the key to national development. This is why UNESCO has recommended an allocation of at least 26% of national budgets to that critical sector. Therefore, talking about national growth and development without adequately funding education is a pipe dream!” APC said.

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

ASUU Strike: Negotiations Deadlocked As FG Releases N130bn



on August 20, 2013



Negotiations between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering strike by the university lecturers has again reached a dead end as both parties differed on crucial issues bordering on funding.

Chairman of the Presidential Universities’ NEEDS Assessment Committee and Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, who spoke immediately after about four hours of deliberations between the union and the government team at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), said negotiations would continue.

He said progress was made in the area of addressing the infrastructural deficit in the universities with the release of N100 billion, which would be distributed next month.

“The federal government has been able to harness about N100 billion, which Mr. President has agreed. And that will begin the project and starting from the first week of September in virtually all the universities. The process of achieving that is ongoing at the centre and due process for it at various universities,” Suswam said.

“The infrastructure deficit like hostels, laboratories and libraries will be addressed. Some will be renovated while others will be brand new. Every university will be affected and each of the hostels will accommodate 1,200 students.

Despite the efforts announced by the FG, ASUU has refused to shift ground on the two outstanding issues of infrastructure funding and pending arrears.

ASUU President, Nasir Isa Fagge, told journalists after the meeting that they would meet with their National Executive Council (NEC) to decide the appropriate response to the federal government.

That said, Fagge made it clear that ASUU’s position had not shifted from the 2009 agreement. “The union is talking about the implementation of 2009 agreement and not renegotiation.”

“If you remember, the objective of going on strike is to get government to implement the 2009 ASUU and federal government agreement particularly to implement the provisions of the memorandum of understanding we reached with the government in 2012.

“I want to say that at today’s meeting, we looked at all the issues and it is clear to us that the Suswam Committee that is working on the funding requirement for revitalising the university system particularly on the implementation of the NEEDS assessment report… its clear to us that we have not really gone far in that aspect.”

“So, on the basis of that, we will also go back and inform our principals on the development. I think it is important to clarify that at this point that we are not making a demand, there was an agreement with government, and even that aspect that government is talking about, the entitlement of earned staff of then university, that includes the technical staff, members of the senior staff association and members of the non academic staff.

“So, I think at this point, what the union is talking about is the implementation of 2009 agreement not the renegotiation of the agreement.

“Well, we will wait to hear from government after the consultation with the councils. Whatever they place on the table, we will look at it. But for now, we will also go back and report to our principals,” Fagge stated.

Also speaking after the meeting, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said all the issues had been resolved except the unpaid allowances.

Anyim said the federal government had agreed to release the sum of N30 billion in that regard, which must be paid according to the verifiable claims by each university councils, adding that the sum of N92 billion being demanded by ASUU could not be met as the claims upon, which fund were to be released could be faulty using the initial criteria being proposed by the academic union.

He said they had shifted the responsibility of settling the pending arrears to the university councils, who will be supported with the N30 billion.

“ASUU is asking for the N92 billion and we felt that the way the whole process is being done, there would be discrepancies and we want things to be done according to due process.

“We know that it is the responsibility of the university councils to take care of the issue of unclaimed allowances. So the actual figures will be verified by the council and we will be supporting them with N30 billion,” he said.

Also speaking on the funding of the universities’ infrastructure, Anyim said federal government would start with the sum of N100 billion.

He said the federal government would release funds in a progressive manner over a period of three years to meet up with the sum of N400 billion being demanded by ASUU.

Breaking: ASUU strike continues as FG, lecturers meeting deadlocked!!

The Monday meeting between striking university lecturers and the federal government ended without a resolution of the crisis. The meeting, which held at the office of the Secretary to the Government of

the Federation, was attended by the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Minister of Labour, Emeka Nwogwu; Minister of Education, Rukayyatu Rufai; and the Benue State Governor and head of the government's delegation, Gabriel Suswam.

The lecturers' union, ASUU, was led by the President of the union, Nasiru Fagge.

The meeting lasted for over four hours (from 3:p.m. to about 7:15p.m).
More details later...

STRIKES: Polytechnics and Education College Lecturers May Join ASUU

Posted on August 19, 2013

The lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education may join the strike held by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The claim their demands have not been met by the FG. 

A source from the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) disclosed that the union may resume its strike, suspended on 16 July, due to a lack of significant progress from the government on the union’s wage dispute. Consequently, a meeting has been scheduled to hold between ASUP, the Governing Council Chairmen, Rectors and Registrars of Polytechnics and the National Board for Technical Education in Abuja this week between Tuesday and Wednesday, after which the union will convene its National Executive Council meeting. In an interview with PUNCH correspondent, the ASUP President, Chibuzo Asomugha, said,

“The Federal Government asked for two weeks, we gave them one month because there were outstanding issues, like the CONTISS 15 migration. The approval for that has come from the Head of Service but they are still to work out the modalities for the implementation. This involves arrears, and we have not been assured of where the arrears will come from and when. “Government also promised to constitute the Governing Councils for the remaining polytechnics within two weeks; it is one month now but nothing has been done.”

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (CEASU), which had earlier issued a 21-day notice, on Friday released a fresh strike noticE. In an August 15 letter to the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, entitled ‘Re: Festering issues prone to industrial action: An Ultimatum’ and signed by its President, Asagha Nkoro, and the General Secretary, Nuhu Ogirima, the union issued a 14-day ultimatum to the government to meet its demands and expressed worry about the attitude of the government to the crisis in the education sector, especially over poor working conditions.

“The entire academic staff of the nation’s colleges of education would, indeed, cease all responsibilities and functions dischargeable under the law and statute, if by August, 29,2013, the Federal Government refuses to take practical and meaningful steps towards addressing the union’s demands,” the letter reads.

However, today it became known that ASUU may end its strike if President Goodluck Jonathan approves N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities.

STRIKES: Polytechnics and Education College Lecturers May Join ASUU

Posted on August 19, 2013

The lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education may join the strike held by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The claim their demands have not been met by the FG. 

A source from the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) disclosed that the union may resume its strike, suspended on 16 July, due to a lack of significant progress from the government on the union’s wage dispute. Consequently, a meeting has been scheduled to hold between ASUP, the Governing Council Chairmen, Rectors and Registrars of Polytechnics and the National Board for Technical Education in Abuja this week between Tuesday and Wednesday, after which the union will convene its National Executive Council meeting. In an interview with PUNCH correspondent, the ASUP President, Chibuzo Asomugha, said,

“The Federal Government asked for two weeks, we gave them one month because there were outstanding issues, like the CONTISS 15 migration. The approval for that has come from the Head of Service but they are still to work out the modalities for the implementation. This involves arrears, and we have not been assured of where the arrears will come from and when. “Government also promised to constitute the Governing Councils for the remaining polytechnics within two weeks; it is one month now but nothing has been done.”

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (CEASU), which had earlier issued a 21-day notice, on Friday released a fresh strike noticE. In an August 15 letter to the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, entitled ‘Re: Festering issues prone to industrial action: An Ultimatum’ and signed by its President, Asagha Nkoro, and the General Secretary, Nuhu Ogirima, the union issued a 14-day ultimatum to the government to meet its demands and expressed worry about the attitude of the government to the crisis in the education sector, especially over poor working conditions.

“The entire academic staff of the nation’s colleges of education would, indeed, cease all responsibilities and functions dischargeable under the law and statute, if by August, 29,2013, the Federal Government refuses to take practical and meaningful steps towards addressing the union’s demands,” the letter reads.

However, today it became known that ASUU may end its strike if President Goodluck Jonathan approves N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities.

STRIKES: Polytechnics and Education College Lecturers May Join ASUU

Posted on August 19, 2013

The lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education may join the strike held by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The claim their demands have not been met by the FG. 

A source from the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) disclosed that the union may resume its strike, suspended on 16 July, due to a lack of significant progress from the government on the union’s wage dispute. Consequently, a meeting has been scheduled to hold between ASUP, the Governing Council Chairmen, Rectors and Registrars of Polytechnics and the National Board for Technical Education in Abuja this week between Tuesday and Wednesday, after which the union will convene its National Executive Council meeting. In an interview with PUNCH correspondent, the ASUP President, Chibuzo Asomugha, said,

“The Federal Government asked for two weeks, we gave them one month because there were outstanding issues, like the CONTISS 15 migration. The approval for that has come from the Head of Service but they are still to work out the modalities for the implementation. This involves arrears, and we have not been assured of where the arrears will come from and when. “Government also promised to constitute the Governing Councils for the remaining polytechnics within two weeks; it is one month now but nothing has been done.”

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (CEASU), which had earlier issued a 21-day notice, on Friday released a fresh strike noticE. In an August 15 letter to the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, entitled ‘Re: Festering issues prone to industrial action: An Ultimatum’ and signed by its President, Asagha Nkoro, and the General Secretary, Nuhu Ogirima, the union issued a 14-day ultimatum to the government to meet its demands and expressed worry about the attitude of the government to the crisis in the education sector, especially over poor working conditions.

“The entire academic staff of the nation’s colleges of education would, indeed, cease all responsibilities and functions dischargeable under the law and statute, if by August, 29,2013, the Federal Government refuses to take practical and meaningful steps towards addressing the union’s demands,” the letter reads.

However, today it became known that ASUU may end its strike if President Goodluck Jonathan approves N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities.

ASUU strike: Jonathan approves N400bn lifeline - SSANU

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The end to the present strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in sight as President Goodluck Jonathan has approved N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian

universities.

The document to this effect is expected to be made available today at the meeting of the presidential committee on implementation of the NEEDS assessment in the universities with the leaders of the four university-based unions – the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The President of SSANU, Samson Ugwoke, made the revelation while addressing his union members at the SSANU National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the weekend at the University of Abuja.

Ugwoke, briefing the SSANU members on the activities of the NEEDS assesment implementation committee, led by Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam. He noted that the fund was different from the N100 billion Governor Suswam had raised from donor agencies and big companies to tackle the problems of Nigerian universities in 2013.

The labour leader said: "Let me give you a tip on what the NEEDS assessment committee is doing. The president has approved that within the next four years; N400 billion would be expended in infrastructural development of Nigerian universities, to transform the universities to international standard.

"N100 billion has already been raised by Suswam committee out of which 61 universities have been pencilled down, as contained in the NEEDS assessement committee. The N100 billion is expected to address needs of the universities in the areas which include re-furbishing and renovation of lecture theatres and lecture halls, re-furbishing and renovation of laboratories/libraries and the renovation of hostels.

"The second category is building of new hostels of international standard, self-contained rooms, the latest model in the world. That is the standard to be built in every university, and also the state-of-the-art laboratories as well as classrooms, lecture theatres and the halls."

Ugwoke pointed out that the money had been shared and out of the N100 billion, N96 billion had been sent to universities.

He added: "The committee is meeting again on Monday, and by Monday (today), the document will be out. This time around, it is not only by giving university money, but it will be monitored to ensure that the money is used to transform the universities, to bail universities out of the present situation and developed to an international recognized university standard."

Nigeria Is Not Broke, We Are Just Saving Excess Funds For Future Generations – Senator. Senator Ahmed Maccido, representing Sokoto Central senatorial district in the National Assembly on Thursday dismissed reports saying Nigeria is broke. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation however noted that I cannot see anybody coming to tell me that Nigeria is broke.

FG To Offer ASUU N30bn, Asks Lecturers To Resume Work!!


The federal government is offering N30 billion as earned allowances to the striking university lecturers in a bid to end the lingering strike, which has shut down academic activities in the universities nationwide.

A top official from the Federal Ministry of Education told THISDAY Thursday, that due to the dwindling revenue base of the government, it was ready to offer N30 billion to the striking lecturers under the auspices of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to end the strike.

Government’s position is believed to be a sincere approach in ending the strike in the midst of dwindling revenue profile occasioned by oil theft and macro-economic measures aimed at diversifying the economy.

While all the demands of the striking lecturers had been resolved, the bone of contention had been ‘earned allowances’, which they have put at N87 billion.

According to our source, the N30 billion, which the federal government was offering, was in the conviction that considering the nation’s current revenue base, ASUU should make some sacrifices and go back to work in the interest of the students and the country at large.

He disclosed that the government was desirous of a holistic and sustainable solution to the problems bedeviling the entire education sector, adding that the focus is on infrastructure development, which the federal government had set up the Governor Gabriel Suswam-led University Needs Implementation Committee to handle.

The NEEDS Implementation Committee had announced on Tuesday, that N100 billion would be made available to universities for infrastructure development.
Government’s approach, he added, was on a specific, once-and-for-all solution and wants every Nigerian, including the lecturers to make sacrifices and call off the strike so that the students could resume academic work.

Pay ASUU Or Resign, Fawehinmi To Okonjo-Iweala. She said, “I must send a clear warning to Okonjo-Iweala who had said the FG had no resources to accommodate the demands of ASUU. If she is tired of the job she can as well resign and go to her first country of choice, the United States of America.

“It appears highly despicable that having been a party to the 2009 agreement, the government has reneged on the said agreement. It shows complete wickedness, selfishness and heartlessness.

“The situation shows the incompetence of Minister of Education, Ruqqayat Rufai, Miniter of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike and the Minister for Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, who were the three ministers who should have ensured that the terms of agreements with ASUU were honored.”

Fawehinmi said youth unemployment had led to various vices in the country.

She condemned Minister of Labour, Emeka Wogu, for failing to create jobs for up to a quarter of Nigerian population.

She said, “Wogu should be blamed for unemployment of the youth in the country. In a population where labour force accounts for more than 60 million people, he has not encouraged job creation for for the people, since he was sworn in.

She said the FG was supposed to provide jobs for at least five million persons every year.

Meanwhile, a civil rights organization, Anti-Corruption Network, has asked the government to release the money being demanded by ASUU or face nationwide unrest.

The organization specifically gave the government till Monday next week to settle with ASUU, failing which it said it would mobilize students and youths across the country to protest against the non-insensitivity of the federal and state governments to the striking lecturers.

ASUU, Others Protest Poor Education Funding, See Pics


PROTESTING STAFFS

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and other stakeholders shut down activities on the ever-busy Ikorodu Road, Lagos to protest against the poor state of public education in the country.

Others that joined the protest were the National Association of Nigerian Students, Concerned Students Against Education Commercialisation and Education Rights Campaign. The protest was organised under the aegis of the Joint Action Front.

The protesters said they were waging a war against what they described as commercialisation of education in the country, adding that the Lagos rally was a prelude to a nationwide campaign targeted at shutting down the nation.

Secretary JAF, Abiodun Aremu, said, “The goal of this protest is to shut down the nation until those in government begin to take education seriously.

“Governments in Nigeria today operate anti-poor policies and they are not bothered about public education.

“Funding of public education is not given the priority it deserves, because the children of those in government and their friends are being trained in private schools in Nigeria and foreign countries with looted funds.”

According to JAF, the march was holding simultaneously in other Nigerian cities, such as Kano, Owerri, Calabar, and Abuja.

In Lagos, the placard-bearing protesters marched from Yaba through Ikorodu Road to Ojota chanting solidarity songs.

The protesters succeeded in forcing vehicular traffic on both sides of the expressway to a standstill.

Co-ordinator of Democratic Socialist Movement at the University of Ibadan, Michael Ogundele, said there were no better ways than mass protests to put political pressure on the government.

Ogundele, said, “There is nothing to show that government would fund public education, even if ASUU suspends its strike.

“That is why we are saying that the whole rank and file of Nigerian students should come out. We will all protest to put political pressure on these Nigerian looters to make them properly fund education.”

We Demanded N87bn, Not N92bn – ASUU

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities faulted the statement credited to the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, that the union demanded for N92bn, describing the claim as false.

ASUU said it never demanded such amount as earned allowances in the 2009 agreement it reached with the Federal Government.

Okonjo-Iweala had on Wednesday in Minna, said the Federal Government couldn’t meet the N92bn allowances as demanded by ASUU.

The univerisity lecturers, in a statement by the University of Ibadan branch chairman, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, described the amount mentioned by the minister as “a the imagination of the minister.”

Ajiboye explained that the earned allowances, the union and the governemnt calculated in the 2009 agreement, amounted to N87b, which covered allowances for three and half years for the lecturers in the nation’s universities.

He said, the N87bn was a compromise made by ASUU to scale down from N127bn.

He added that the N87bn was computed based on 15 per cent of the yearly recurrent expenditures of some nation’s universities.

The statement stated, “I want Nigerians to ask the minister where she got her figure of N92bn from. There was never a time that ASUU made a demand that is up to N92bn. I think the N92bn is just the imagination of the minister. “But that is not to say that this government did not enter into an agreement with us. This is a government that signed an agreement with us on January 24, 2012 to the effect that they would inject N100bn as funding into the universities in the first one month and that before the end of 2012, they would inject another N300bn.’’

ASUU strike: Nigerian Undergraduates take to ‘ragging’

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As the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, entered its sixth week, some students have devised “ingenious” means of making money; they declared Wednesday their “rag-day”.

As early as 8:45am, major inter-city roads and streets were literally overtaken by the students, who have been on “forced vacation”, since university lecturers “lowered their pens”, to press home enhancement of allowances.

With their shorts, tops and trousers turned, the young Nigerians approached motorists stocked in traffic as well as passers-by, for money. Though, the “rag-day” was said to be by students of College of Education, ‘Inside FCT’ was told that most of those “ragging” are undergraduates, who have been out of school, since the ongoing strike started.

The university students were said to have taken advantage of the development, to help themselves. One of the students, who gave her name simply as Sindy said: “Seriously, I’m an undergraduate and you know our universities have been on strike for over one month now, and we’ve got needs to meet.

I have to rag at least to make some cool money to keep on keeping on”, she said. Another student, Moses Abahing, said they had to do this, since “some parents and guardians hardly give them pocket money, during strike or holiday periods.”

FG/ASUU: Negotiations continues monday 19th

A common ground is yet to be reached between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government as negotiations towards calling off the ongoing ASUU strike action will continue on Monday.

The Chairman of the Universities Needs Implementation Committee and Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam made this known to newsmen in Abuja ON Tuesday after a three-hour meeting between ASUU and the government team.

According to him, the grey areas would soon be resolved going by the progress made so far.

He said “Well the meeting continues next week Monday. We made some progress, we had very fruitful discussion with ASUU and we have agreed we are to meet again on Monday at about three o’clock. When we meet again we will be able to arrive at some decisions.”

Reminded that he had made same promise last week, before, Suswam said“No, I said between one and two weeks. There is nothing wrong; you know we introduced some new faces, the minister of finance; you agree with me she is attending the meeting for the first time and also the Director General Budget. Now that Finance is coming, we are getting close to resolving it because the strike isabout settling some debts and also intervening in the universities and so she is here and she also has contributed.”

“We believe that when we meet next week Monday with ASUU we would have moved from where we are to the next stage. I can assure Nigerians that the President has taken this seriously as you can see the Minister of Finance and two ministers of education, Distinguished Senator, DG Budget, Minister of Labour, every person who should be here is here to show concern.”

He went on: “I have spent so much time as governor being part of this which shows the seriousness which the President attaches to what is happening in the education sector. As I leave here, we are going to the second meeting which is on the Needs Assessment. We want to make sure that we solve this problem so we are holding meetings round the clock.”

“We are making progress in the negotiations and we hope that we will be able to solve this problem soonest. The
stage that we are now we are hoping that when we meet next week, we should be able to conclude on the discussion.”

“The fact that we were unable to conclude today does not mean that the meeting is deadlocked; very fruitful meeting and I believe that when we meet next week, we will arrive at some conclusion. That is what I can tell you.” He stated.

The ASUU President, Comrade Nasir Isa Fagge, however, declined to comment on the agreements so far reached at the closed door meeting.

FG Cannot Afford ASUU’s Demands – Okonjo-Iweala



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The demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, may not be met as the federal government lacks the resources to meet them, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said, dashing hopes of Nigerian students who were expecting a good outcome from the meeting of the two parties.

Following the discussions with the striking lecturers yesterday, the federal government’s Needs Assessment Implementation Committee has however agreed to release N100 billion for the provision and upgrade of infrastructure in the 61 public universities identified in the Needs Assessment Report.

Speaking in Minna, the Niger State capital in a speech at the opening of a two-day meeting of Commissioners of Finance and Accountants-General of states Ministries of Finance, Okonjo-Iweala said ASUU’s demands did not fall within the reach of the federal government. She added that there were a lot of things competing for the resources of the government.

“At present, ASUU wants government to pay N92 billion in extra allowances when the resources are not there and when we are working to integrate past increases in pension.

“We need to make choices in this country as we are getting to a stage where recurrent expenditures take the bulk of our resources and people get paid but can do no work.

“At the federal level and in most states, our budgets consist mostly of recurrent expenditures, yet, we continue to have demands for more recurrent spending,” she said.

According to the minister, recurrent expenditures account for about 77.2 per cent of the total budget, this the Ministry of Finance was working on, to re-balance the ratio and improve the budget formulation process.

The minister further said the country was still suffering from the effect of the 2010 increase in salary asking that “do we want to get to a stage in this country that all the money we earn is used to pay salaries and allowances”.

She said if the demands of the university lecturers were met and ‘we continue to pay them salaries and allowances, we will not be able to provide infrastructure in the universities.”

Okonjo-Iweala lamented Nigeria’s over-dependence on oil, which she noted has resulted in deterioration of the nations non-oil tax, adding that in 1970, non-oil taxes accounted for 74 per cent of federal government’s revenues but by 2012, it had declined to only 30 per cent of federal government revenues.

“Many states and local governments are also dependent on monthly revenue allocation from the central government. On average only 11 per cent of sub-national revenue was obtained from internally generated sources,” she said.

Okonjo-Iweala disclosed that the volume of external and internal debts of the country had been on the increase, saying “In August 2006, when I left office, we had a total of $17.3 billion comprised of $3.5 billion in foreign debt and $13.8 billion in domestic debt.”

She added that “by 2011, when I returned to office, the total debt now stood at $47.9 billion and the domestic debt had now grown to about $42.3 billion.”

The minister, however, said the federal government had taken measures to revamp the economy, adding that these measures have started yielding fruitful dividends in the areas of direct capital investment in the country in establishment of industries and agro-based firms.

FG Holds Crucial Talks With ASUU On Strike Today, Releases N100bn

The Federal Government will engage the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in a crucial talks today, in a move to end the ongoing strike by the union.

Minister of Education, Professor Ruqa’yyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, made this known in Abuja, on Monday, saying reasonable progress had been made in the ongoing efforts to get the lecturers back to classroom.

She noted that a presidential intervention of N100 billion had been released to the implementation committee of the Needs Assessment Report, which has the Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam, as chairman.

Professor Rufa’i, who spoke while declaring open the mid-term review of the four-year strategy plan for the development of the education sector, said this was to address some of the identifiable challenges in the nation’s university system.

She said it was as a result of the resolve to address all challenges facing the sector that assessments of each area of the education sector were carried out.
“We have done this for the federal unity schools and it is helping in their transformation. The recent one carried out for all public universities has led to a presidential intervention to ensure that challenges identified are given due attention.

“As a result, N100 billion has been committed to this and the president has inaugurated an implementation committee chaired by Governor Suswam,” she said.

The minister said the implementation of the four-year strategic plan (2011-2015) was on course, stressing that credible progress had been made in the six focal areas as outlined in the plan.

She reaffirmed the commitment to move the sector ahead, saying “we shall continue to dig deep and identify further challenges and address them.”

Professor Rufa’i, therefore, appealed to all stakeholders to continue to show understanding, support and partnership, noting that “our actions today will define where we are tomorrow.”

She added that government would continue to dialogue with ASUU in order to end the ongoing strike that had crippled academic activities in government’s universities in Nigeria.

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