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donphilopus: PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to involve past leaders in the resolution of the lingering face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

National President of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Michael Alogba Olukoya, gave this advice in Abuja, on Wednesday, at parley with the Supervising Minister of Education, Barrister Nyesom Wike and Minister of Labour, Chief Emeka Wogu.

The meeting called at the instance of Wike, was to brief the NUT leadership on the efforts made by the government toward resolution of the ASUU strike and to appeal to the teachers not to embark on the proposed solidarity strike.

Olukoya, who said the teachers were concerned with the state of education in Nigeria, especially the ASUU strike that has lasted for over three months without hope for resolution.

NUT President, after listening to the brief by the Supervising Minister of Education, said there was the need to involve the past leaders and powerful voices in the country in the resolution of the logjam.

He urged President Jonathan to call all the past leaders, including Alhaji Shehu Shagari, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (Rtd), Abdulsalami Abubakar among others to a roundtable in order to resolve the crisis.

According to him, the Union was worried by the poor quality of the product of the system, especially the half-baked graduates churn out annually from the nation’s university system.

On the proposed solidarity strike, Olukoya said: “we have listened to the appeal of the two ministers and we will go back to brief our principals.”

Olukoya also urged the Federal Government to relax the conditions for accessing the intervention fund from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).
Earlier, Wike, in his brief, apologised to the leadership of NUT over comments credited to him that NUT had no business in the ongoing ASUU strike.

He explained that the Federal Government was still in talks with the ASUU leadership, expressing hope that the strike would soon be called off.

SOURCE: www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/23043-involve-shagari,-obasanjo,-shonekan,-others-in-resolution-of-ASUU-crisis,-nut-advises-jonathan.html

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Wsdm: Mr Kaduna man please answer these question with sincerity; are the Muslims as hostile to you as other people accuse them?
Living in Kaduna , you must have some Muslim friends, what is their reaction to all these menace?
Have you not seen Muslims protecting some Christians even against sectarian crises?
Living in Kaduna is not a yard stick that you know what is happening all over the North. I have seen people refute a certain news in a part of some state only to find out latter that it is true. Or are you saying because you live in Kaduna you know more than Shiekh Gumi that accuses GEJ of all the bombings? We live in a global village Mr. Man.

geeez: Dokubo

If not the Ijaws will secede from the ND Republic

true2god: This so-called lecturers are too greedy. Why ask for 3tr naira in a developing country like naija? Hw much do dey want to be allocated to other sectors?

They are already making money throught sales of diploma forms, pre-lim forms, post utme forms, school fees and govt allocations. An average Nigerian lecturer cannot boast of a single research to his credit despite all the billions allocated to the educational sector.

There salaries should be stopped until dey go back to classes. Most of these lecturers go to school on fed govt scholarship and now they are playing part in destroying the future of Nigeri youths while their childres school in the UK and US.

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yibomustgo: @the highlighted

Definitely someone brought money to induce lawmakers. She also showed us that Jonathan is hell bent on just fighting everyone who opposes his politics when she said "You don't achieve anything by fighting."