₦airaland Forum

PJ123:
Contrary to your your thought, I was also from a poor home and was a university lecturer for many years.
I understood what you went through because I went through harder situation and was privileged to have friend and together with my Vice Principal who paid my WAEC close to three decades ago.
The funding of university throughout the world is not done by government alone. Everyone contributes to it. Let the actual cost of university education be charged, while government allows each university to negotiate with each lecturer what each university can afford to pay them. Government should provide subvention from time to time to augment Capital infrastructure in university, and students on 2:1 and above should be placed on scholarships. Students on 2:2 and below(with clear evidence of being from poor home) shoukd be placed on borrowing to be paid back when they start working.
By so doing, you and I would have been covered and other poor students. It will encourage many students to work harder and everyone would have contributed to finance education.

I must be sincere with you, with years of my teaching in University, I came across many students that had no business with university education because they have passion and talent for other things. Unfortunately, they had to come because of too much noise on university education. Government subsidy on such students was a complete waste of resources. It would have made sense if the funds have been used to finance technical education, fashion school, football academy and music school.

kingyakos:
He has travelled outside the country more than five times since the strike commence and came back still no solution so this particular travelled and coming back won't change anything. If he is serious, he should first of all show it by paying them their three or four months salary of no work no pay, lecturers and other university staff are passing through alot.
Are you aware that the former CJN Mohammed tanko has received his retirement benefits alerts of 2.5b naira but university staff are suffering

Patriottt:
Nigerians are not complaining.. they are focused on more pressing concerns like insulting each other on Nairaland..

Kaiair:
Can't fg just disband this union

ufotunang:
When the politcians children are schooling and attending universities in abroad, foreign country then how do you expect the federal government to take ASUU issues serious and education in nigeria.... have patient when Peter obi becomes president all your problems, ASUU problem and university issues will be solved

sinkhole:
Just relax!
The problem of ASUU is much more complicated than CJN retirement. FG and the Unions are seriously working to see end to the strike, if President comes back we expect something good to happen!

brightonos24:
Peter Obi tell NLC, TUC- I just want to serve Nigerians & Go home
(Watch Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA2au2mzdoY

PJ123:
ASUU is a very selfish union. They're tactically fighting for their selfsh interest and hiding under the image of fighting for students.
Imagine refusing to work for several months and expected to be paid to during the strike or at worst all the accumulated salaries after the strike. They didn't loose anything fighting for their supposed selfsh interest.

Virtually all the sectors of Nigerian economy is in serious crisis. Imagine the situation of our doctors and state of the hospitals in Nigeria, if doctors go on strike for 4 months given the pressure they go through daily and poor state of health facilities, what would be the fate many poor Nigerian patients who still patronise government hospitals and some of them still receive their health care in those government facilities.

Government needs to be very decisive with this union, funding of Universities throughout the world is a concerted efforts of the government, universities, private sectors and the alumni.
Many professors in Canadian Universities are appointed on part time basis.
Government needs to grant these universities financial autonomy. Government should stop paying university salaries, all government needs to do is to provide subvention from time, and allow each university to source money to pay whoever they employed as lecturers. The students should be made to pay the actual cost of the University education as obtainable elsewhere. While government should provide comprehensive scholarships for students on 2:1 and above, while those on 2:2 below with clear cut evidence of being an indigent students should be placed on loan to be repaid after school.

PJ123:
ASUU is a very selfish union. They're tactically fighting for their selfsh interest and hiding under the image of fighting for students.
Imagine refusing to work for several months and expected to be paid to during the strike or at worst all the accumulated salaries after the strike. They didn't loose anything fighting for their supposed selfsh interest.

Virtually all the sectors of Nigerian economy is in serious crisis. Imagine the situation of our doctors and state of the hospitals in Nigeria, if doctors go on strike for 4 months given the pressure they go through daily and poor state of health facilities, what would be the fate many poor Nigerian patients who still patronise government hospitals and some of them still receive their health care in those government facilities.

Government needs to be very decisive with this union, funding of Universities throughout the world is a concerted efforts of the government, universities, private sectors and the alumni.
Many professors in Canadian Universities are appointed on part time basis.
Government needs to grant these universities financial autonomy. Government should stop paying university salaries, all government needs to do is to provide subvention from time, and allow each university to source money to pay whoever they employed as lecturers. The students should be made to pay the actual cost of the University education as obtainable elsewhere. While government should provide comprehensive scholarships for students on 2:1 and above, while those on 2:2 below with clear cut evidence of being an indigent students should be placed on loan to be repaid after school.

osazsky:
hope u read the news that the retired cjn is going home with close to 3b naira..my dad retired as a lecturer in one fg uni for over 7 years yet not a single 1naira as pension no need to talk abt gratuity u are a self centered person

ogaontop:
You tried sounding intelligently but you don't have facts...
1. The federal government signed minimum wage into law, why is the minimum wage and arrears not being paid?
2. Revitalization money for the universities are being handled by FG, VC's or their contractors, not ASUU
3. IPPIS is massively flawed, imagine a situation where you have 6,000 staff and in IPPIS record they pay 7,000, they end up bloating the numbers straight to their pocket, of recent the AGF scooped more than 100billion through IPPIS
4. The NUC approved adjunct, sabbatical for Professors, a situation where you can go to another university as a part time, if that is their problem, then they should stop it and proceed with UTAS, ASUU is not hell bent on adjunct! Mark my words!!
5. Visitation panels: imagine a situation where ASUU is begging the government to set up visitation panels that will regularly check mate what is happening in the university management
6. The MAJOR issue here above others is FG implementing the terms of 2009, 2015, 2020 agreements it reached with the unions and even more recently listen to the resolutions of the committee you set up during the current strike and call ASUU for a truce!
What ASUU is asking for is not worth half of what their colleagues in South Africa and even neighbouring Ghana earn

Every responsible government will address these issues sensibly and call for a truce where need be!

PJ123:
Contrary to your your thought, I was also from a poor home and was a university lecturer for many years.
I understood what you went through because I went through harder situation and was privileged to have friend and together with my Vice Principal who paid my WAEC close to three decades ago.
The funding of university throughout the world is not done by government alone. Everyone contributes to it. Let the actual cost of university education be charged, while government allows each university to negotiate with each lecturer what each university can afford to pay them. Government should provide subvention from time to time to augment Capital infrastructure in university, and students on 2:1 and above should be placed on scholarships. Students on 2:2 and below(with clear evidence of being from poor home) shoukd be placed on borrowing to be paid back when they start working.
By so doing, you and I would have been covered and other poor students. It will encourage many students to work harder and everyone would have contributed to finance education.

I must be sincere with you, with years of my teaching in University, I came across many students that had no business with university education because they have passion and talent for other things. Unfortunately, they had to come because of too much noise on university education. Government subsidy on such students was a complete waste of resources. It would have made sense if the funds have been used to finance technical education, fashion school, football academy and music school.

dogmart:
OYO.
ASUU will have it worse when/if Obi becomes president. U don't need rocket science to know that.
Do you know what ASUU is fighting for ?
The federal government wants to tamper with their largesse.
That is the main issue.

Going by what u all potray Obi to be (let's just assume he is truly what u say he is)
ASUU won't have it easy with him

Ibegtodiffer:
How many from poor background would have your kind of luck? Oga, you're dispensing energy on a matter that doesn't concern you. Go and rest. We the students understand better now.

If not wickedness, how can a FG borrow and spend over 4.2 trillion naira in 5 months on fuel subsidy (yet we don't see the fuel), but cannot spend 1.2 trillion on universities in 6 years? How do you even begin to justify this, sir?

For the wrong reasons, FG has money...but for things that affect the masses, they never have money. This is not fair.

PJ123:
You must be lying or your dad is not telling you the truth. A senior colleague retired two years ago during COVID-19. He has received his entitlement, I was part of the people that linked him to one of the good asset management firms in the country to invest his entitlements last year.
So you need to question your dad.

PJ123:
My wonderful bro, I understand what you're saying. The matter concerns me because I have children and family members in Nigerian schools.

I quite agreed with you, FG is very wicked but unfortunately ASUU is very selfsh because you cannot be comparing yourself with wicked people. ASUU wants to spend like politicians; this is not obtainable anywhere in the world.
I remembered during my postdoctoral research training in UCT many years ago, I was staying with professor and his wife is also a professor.
They had one car each and in most cases, they only go out with one car. I remembered I once asked him how many houses did he and his wife have. He said do they need more one house? He said they don't need such things.
Also, in my current base in Europe, no professor has more than one house I don't know anyone with more than one car.
On the contrary, I stayed in University staff quarter BQ for a while in Nigeria, I didn't know
any professor with one car. All my senior professors have multiple of cars and no one had less than two houses apart from staying in university quarters.
Let me tell you one bitter truth, as at the time I was staying in the BQ of the University Staff Quarters, the professor that owns the main building was collecting about #70k annually from me for staying in two rooms. He and his family are staying in the main building, and government was taking just #30k annually from his salary.
Anytime we engaged in discussion about Nigeria state of affairs, the same Profs would be the first to nail the politicians.

Nigerian problem is systemic and all parties need to sit down to address the issues sincerely.
This continuous closure of the university is wickedness.

blinking001:
So far it's been evident that ASUU as a union is bitting more than they can chew.
It's common knowledge now what their grievances with the federal government are. We all know ASUU is fighting for their selfish interest with zero considerations and regards for our children in public universities.

The federal government are the employers of ASUU members, the courtesy and respect the federal government has shown ASUU so far should be commended by all.

ASUU has no right to demand for a different payment system asides the IPPS payment platform which is the major payment system the federal government has been using to pay her workers. ASUU insistence on UTAS just so they can continue milking the federal government of excess funds should be condemned by all.

The IPPS exposed most professors in our public universities, as it was evident some were teaching in 5 different public institutions and earned 5 seperate salaries, an anomaly the IPPS graciously obliterated to the dismay of ASUU members. ASUU as a union is too corrupt and must be exposed. They never had the interest of Nigerian students and their education at heart, all they are after is more money.

It's time ASUU is disbanded. They are constituting a nuisance to the growth of our educational sector. The federal government should employ public opinion against them.

Enough of ASUU's high handedness, the federal government should fix a date for school resumptions, any lecturer that fails to keep up with this directive should be fired and interviews for newly qualified lecturers should be advertised. It's time the federal government acts so our educational sector can saved from the hands of selfish pressure groups such as ASUU.

pedrilo:
We cannot reap cocoyam after planting yam.
In 2015, Nigerians voted for a uneducated man to preside over the country.
Now, the educational system has collapsed.
Keep calm and reap the benefits of your labour in 2015.
And remember to repeat same mistake in 2023

dogmart:
OYO.
ASUU will have it worse when/if Obi becomes president. U don't need rocket science to know that.
Do you know what ASUU is fighting for ?
The federal government wants to tamper with their largesse.
That is the main issue.

Going by what u all potray Obi to be (let's just assume he is truly what u say he is)
ASUU won't have it easy with him

pedrilo:
We cannot reap cocoyam after planting yam.
In 2015, Nigerians voted for a uneducated man to preside over the country.
Now, the educational system has collapsed.
Keep calm and reap the benefits of your labour in 2015.
And remember to repeat same mistake in 2023

Truthisunique2:
all noise

One civil servant alone looted 80billion how much is FG paying the entire lecturers that you are crying

sinkhole:
Bros, if you are benefiting from IPPIS then good for you, Universities said they do not want IPPIS and they brought cheaper alternative, FG has looked into the alternative and soon, I mean very soon, things will normalize for both students and lecturers!

pedrilo:
We cannot reap cocoyam after planting yam.
In 2015, Nigerians voted for a uneducated man to preside over the country.
Now, the educational system has collapsed.
Keep calm and reap the benefits of your labour in 2015.
And remember to repeat same mistake in 2023

blinking001:
So far it's been evident that ASUU as a union is bitting more than they can chew.
It's common knowledge now what their grievances with the federal government are. We all know ASUU is fighting for their selfish interest with zero considerations and regards for our children in public universities.

The federal government are the employers of ASUU members, the courtesy and respect the federal government has shown ASUU so far should be commended by all.

ASUU has no right to demand for a different payment system asides the IPPS payment platform which is the major payment system the federal government has been using to pay her workers. ASUU insistence on UTAS just so they can continue milking the federal government of excess funds should be condemned by all.

The IPPS exposed most professors in our public universities, as it was evident some were teaching in 5 different public institutions and earned 5 seperate salaries, an anomaly the IPPS graciously obliterated to the dismay of ASUU members. ASUU as a union is too corrupt and must be exposed. They never had the interest of Nigerian students and their education at heart, all they are after is more money.

It's time ASUU is disbanded. They are constituting a nuisance to the growth of our educational sector. The federal government should employ public opinion against them.

Enough of ASUU's high handedness, the federal government should fix a date for school resumptions, any lecturer that fails to keep up with this directive should be fired and interviews for newly qualified lecturers should be advertised. It's time the federal government acts so our educational sector can saved from the hands of selfish pressure groups such as ASUU.

ufotunang:
.Peter Obi will solve ASUU issues..he is a competent leader, humble and have conscience and feeling for the poor people, youths and nigerians