₦airaland Forum

ajasa4link: this is the updated academic calendar
OFFICIAL LASU 2012/2013 UPDATED SCHOOLCALENDER.Outcome of todays senate meeting.*SchoolResume 23rd Dec 2013* 3 Weeks of Lectures-23rd Dec 2013 to 15th of Jan2014.* 1 Weeks Revision-16th Jan 2014 to 22nd Jan 2014.* 2nd Semester Exams-23rd of Jan 2014 to 5th of Feb 2014.* 6th to 19th Jan 2014 Grading of script.NOTE:We shall be having lectures weekend inclusive just to be able to cover up......Hapy Resumption!!!

Guy did you see this bulleting yourself or you copied from someone? cos its hard to belive...besides a friend sent me d same yesterday n i am wondering y it has the same format.
Lets be very sure of the info we disseminate.
#just saying

Thank you FG.

But wait o, CBN said "Two Hundred Billion Naira ONLY", they call that only?...this banking sector with their ethic sef.

ajasa4link: if u are a female and ur parents have got the bucks,then go for julian hostel...its just a little stone throw from the school,as a matter of fact its just outside the small gate at the back of lasu... my friend's gf that stays there says its 115k per student and two students stay in a room...its a modern hostel with cctv,mall,24hours power supply,a common room equiped with dstv ,etc.....for the guys,just go for lily nest hotel,its in ojo not too far from alaba. its equally Behind and a little bit expensive but u wont regret staying there . i have friends who stay there.....for those who cant afford these places,then u will need to get hostel in areas like okoko,iyana isashi,ojo town,post service,ppl,cassidey etc..i have a guy who can procure hostel for u there...if u are interested i will drop his number

Guy abeg no sweet-talk these neophytes, Julian Hostel's got no CCTV and 24hours power supply is not true either.

Another strategy by ASUU to seek public sympathy...y dem no FAST n PRAY before embarking on the strike? Now they r suddenly solliciting for God's intervention abi.

Now make we reason this issue together, I ask you for money, U tell my children say you don pay am to my account, no be me go check my account to confirm?
ASUU should relax their muscles and do the needful, cos FG is nt only concerned with the education sector...so let em confirm the money demselves.

"It is totally immoral in a federal system of government to have state universities shut down for months in sympathy
with Federal universities and we join well meaning Nigerians to condemn this reckless loss inflicted on the nation by this practice."

My sentiment exactly, silly things happens in Nigeria...I bet this can't happen in europe. The management of the state unis should be sued.

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in
Nigeria, founded in 1978, took over from the
defunct Nigerian Association of University
Teachers, which was founded in 1965. Ordinarily,
ASUU, with a background of a recurring history of
militancy since its formation, would have been irrelevant in Nigeria today if successive
governments at both the Federal and State levels
did enough to promote, fund and sustain high
quality tertiary education in Nigeria.
From inception, ASUU has been in one battle or the
other, traversing various regimes, military and civilian, and culminating in the present one, which
like a few others before it, has hit a dangerous
mark. In all these, whenever ASUU went on strike, the
nation suffered loss. Parents and students were
adversely affected and disorganized. For a
growing nation like Nigeria to suffer an aggregate
loss of over two and a half years to avoidable
strikes that completely disrupted academic activities in our campuses since 1999 till date is
scandalous.
For the records, the following chronology of ASUU
strikes in Nigeria is worrisome. 1999 – 5 months;
2001 – 3 months; 2002 – 2 weeks; 2003/2004 – 6
months; 2005 – 3 days; 2006 – 1 week; 2007 – 3 months; 2008 – 1 week; 2009 – 4 months; 2010 –
5 months and 1 week; 2011/2012 – 3 months;
and 2013 – July 2, 2013 to . The truth today is that a systematic debasement of
tertiary education in Nigeria over the years has
taken a great toll on the economy of the nation.
There is a devastating erosion of confidence in the
education system and all countries of the world
know this. It has affected the political and economic image of Nigeria in a very negative light
and this sad situation cannot be allowed to stay
any more. It is difficult to exonerate the ASUU or the FGN and
the States in this decay that has become part of
Nigeria’s malaise. How has the ASUU and indeed
university lecturers protected the integrity of
education? This is a national embarrassment and
shame. This is a national calamity and we must tell ourselves the only truth and save the school
system from irrecoverable fall. Sentiments do not
come in here. Politics or party interest should have no business
here. Abusing the President or the Minister of
Education or ASUU President doesn’t solve the
problem. It is not about President Goodluck
Jonathan or his Ministers and it is not about the
ASUU President Dr. Nasir Fagge. I am concerned about the deep injury the Nigerian education
system is suffering. It is truly deep. We must begin to solve our critical national
problems with one heart and purpose. We must
draw a line when sectional interest or political
sentiments come in. We cannot toy with the future
of these children because they are the backbone
of the future Nigeria. No military commander can go to war with limping soldiers and win major
wars. So Nigerians together must see the fall of
tertiary institutions in Nigeria as a collective
concern and not a political tool or a matter for ego
voyage. We must address the problems and
honestly face the issues so that Nigerian universities can even begin to compete with other
universities in Africa. Nigeria is a rich nation and her assets in human
capital top the list but what have we done with our
strength? We are rapidly inflicting loses on the
economy of the nation. Many Nigerian students
litter foreign universities in search of uninterrupted
quality education. While the students migrate to other countries in search of better education, some
tentacles of the national economy also go with
them. Foreign fees are paid in foreign currencies
and the nation bleeds. Statistics in 2012 show that
there were 71,000 Nigerian students studying in
neighbouring Ghana spending close to N160 billion. This is in addition to an earlier report in
2010 that Nigeria supports the UK education
sector to the tune of N246 billion. The case of America and Canada is not different.
For two academic sessions alone Nigerians spent a
whooping N137 billion for tuition and living
expenses in British and American universities.
While state governments fall over one another to
grab foreign university education openings in other countries including the eastern bloc to the
detriment of the nation, official statistics show that
the FGN spent N900 million to sponsor 150
students in 2011 alone. The story is the same in
several other countries where Nigerians are
migrating to seek better university education and despite the huge capital flight, schooling abroad
has in addition, become a status symbol for many
people. Giving the belligerence of ASUU in the present face
off, many would think that only the FG share the
blame in failing standards over the years and even
long before President Jonathan became a Deputy
Governor in Bayelsa State. While Federal
universities are the responsibilities of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the same cannot be said of
state owned universities who have merely joined
the current strike in solidarity. It is totally immoral
in a federal system of government to have state
universities shut down for months in sympathy
with Federal universities and we join well meaning Nigerians to condemn this reckless loss inflicted on
the nation by this practice. Many blame successive governments for these
recurring failures. However, the university
community especially the lecturers who populate
the ASUU and hold the academic key in the
universities deserve some knocks. The falling
standards in education cannot only be found in the failure of infrastructure alone. Some of the
lecturers have become merchants, selling
handouts and using that as a condition for
examination favours. Sexual harassment has
become the order of the day and many complaints
against lecturers are poorly investigated or no action is taking at all because of victimization from
other ASUU members. Can this happen in any part
of the world without sanctions? Besides that, some of the lecturers have become
typical truants and barely have time to read,
prepare and impact adequate knowledge on the
helpless students and all these adversely affect
standards beyond the current impasse. Examination malpractices in the ivory towers have
assumed alarming dimension and this could not
have been possible without the active connivance
of some ASUU members. The cumulative effect of
these anomalies goes to the root of the quality of
education that our unemployable graduates receive in the hands of some ASUU members. This is a serious problem in our education sector
and unless all the stakeholders genuinely address
it beyond political considerations and the present
grandstanding of ASUU, foreign education will
continue to suck Nigerians to fund their local
university education. This is clearly a huge loss to our economy and a great damage to our psyche.

Source
www.dailypost.com.ng/2013/12/08/emma-okah-ASUU-damage-much/?wt=3

I bet ASUU would use this statement against him.
Another reason to prolong ASUU strike.

bros are you a neophyte on nairaland? Include your source to the news nah.

Although I kinda belive you sha, but for clarity sake, show us the source.

As for the strike, it is as good as been called off. Except ASUU now want to publicly decalare to us that them don merge with APC.

Buh sch nah still nxt year sha.

NICE! We get you bro...I am on the side of ASUU in this face off, but now I am having a rethink.

You said the truth.

May the wrath of the disgruntled Nigerian students strike ASUU!

May they become as shambolic and divided as PDP!

May the destiny of their future generations be
delayed for frivolous reasons!

ventingmyrage4asuu#