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ASUU strike durations by administration:

🔴 Obasanjo (1999–2007) — 18 months
🔴 Yar’Adua (2007–2010) — 4 months
🔴 Jonathan (2010–2015) — 13 months
🔵 Buhari (2015–2023) — 21 months
🔵 Tinubu (2023–present) — 9 days

Buhari recorded 21 months of strikes during his eight-year tenure — the highest total since the return to democracy in 1999.

So far, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recorded only 9 days of nationwide strike action as of May 2026.

TINUBU IS THE MOST STUDENT-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT EVER.

This is just one index. Tell me more!

Nothing else to judge him? Try something more beneficial to students please

Kaa4:
This is just one index. Tell me more!

You can do your research on health or Doctors strike and post.

Those confused opposition supporters will still tell you president Tinubu hasn't done a thing

Kaa4:
This is just one index. Tell me more!

So no disputing about this right?

No be person wey see food chop belle full dey strike...?


How is ASUU staff's welfare compared to obasanjo's era?


Many of those staff have given up to fate. And too tired to voice their frustrations!

Kaa4:
This is just one index. Tell me more!

Glad you didn't deny this. It means you are reasonable👏

jogsman01:
Nothing else to judge him? Try something more beneficial to students please

At least you didn't deny this. Good. We are getting there gradually 😜

helinues:
Those confused opposition supporters will still tell you president Tinubu hasn't done a thing

Don't mind them. They chose to be deliberately blinded by hate and bitterness. Anyone with open mind will see all the reforms going on. For the first time each state are allowed to own their power generation, transmission and distribution, black market no longer controls dollar price. Now we have tax reform, we have states paying back back log of debt, foreign investors are growing more confident that they will be able to repatriate their profits with fx stability, subsidised dialysis for vulnerable, nelfund for less privileged, road networks, cng alternative fuel source for automobile, decentralization of cbn operation, decentralization of police academy, decentralization of army depot and many more.

You guys will feel it

Wealthyonos:
You guys will feel it

We are already feeling it. That's nothing to scare us with.

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9days strike yet most students can't afford hostel accomodations, feeding and fees. What kind of celebration is that

How is ASUU not going on strike an achievement? We have really set the bar so low.

Kdon2:
ASUU strike durations by administration:

🔴 Obasanjo (1999–2007) — 18 months
🔴 Yar’Adua (2007–2010) — 4 months
🔴 Jonathan (2010–2015) — 13 months
🔵 Buhari (2015–2023) — 21 months
🔵 Tinubu (2023–present) — 9 days

Buhari recorded 21 months of strikes during his eight-year tenure — the highest total since the return to democracy in 1999.

So far, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recorded only 9 days of nationwide strike action as of May 2026.

TINUBU IS THE MOST STUDENT-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT EVER.

Another achievement is making arsenal to lift EPL cup last night
Nonsense!

Kdon2:
ASUU strike durations by administration:

🔴 Obasanjo (1999–2007) — 18 months
🔴 Yar’Adua (2007–2010) — 4 months
🔴 Jonathan (2010–2015) — 13 months
🔵 Buhari (2015–2023) — 21 months
🔵 Tinubu (2023–present) — 9 days

Buhari recorded 21 months of strikes during his eight-year tenure — the highest total since the return to democracy in 1999.

So far, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recorded only 9 days of nationwide strike action as of May 2026.

TINUBU IS THE MOST STUDENT-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT EVER.

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But now, the students are being kidnapped everyday, is it not time Tinubu goes into the forest with local hunters and confront the bandits since the Nigeris' security agencies are useless?

Unfortunately, the students are dropping out of school themselves because their parents can no longer afford to keep them in school.

It has become so bad that jamb is lowering standards for admissions to attract people

Why's Nigeria on a steady decline.

Other African countries are making a little bit of progress while Nigeria is on a daily retrogressing.

Electricity zero. Damnnnn.

Useless post like this will begin to fly around now, cos election is approaching just to cover up their mess but hey! It will never work.

What was the value of the naira while these strikes were taking place back then and now? Was it only salary the striking lecturers were asking for? I know of 3 vibrant lecturers in Unilorin who had left Nigeria for Canada this year alone. That's my alma mater.
How many lecturers are able to buy a car from their salary ? I knew of a lecturer who bought 2 cars without kickbacks or printing handouts. Can it happen now, with the so called salary? What's the condition of hostels and lecture theatres in the federal universities nationwide ?

A lot of myopic people often think that people prefer private universities because of strike lol. In private universities accommodation, infrastructure, facilities are so good. Its just like comparing public secondary schools with private schools. It's sad to note that our private universities made the best 1000 worldwide while only one public university did. UI used to be on the list of the best 100 in the world. What had happened ? It may not be Tinubu's fault but what had he done to improve on the ratings ?

Before anyone can rate this man, he should place lecturers on the salary equivalent of what they were earning during his predecessors' regime, but I doubt he will. They're earning far less now

They are scrapping the bottom of the barrel to look for anything to call a success for Tinubu now.

helinues:
Those confused opposition supporters will still tell you president Tinubu hasn't done a thing

Do you expect him to owe lecturers after subsidy removal?

When you don't have anything to campaign with, it's number of days or months ASU was on strike compared to other president, tell your tinubu to end the f**king insecurity in the country
You can as well compare the cost of living in tinubu's time with the aforementioned presidents, tinubu is the worst president any country will ever have in the world

He is. It is in this scenario that he can never be able to match Awolowo's legacy of free education. He was the first to raise the school fees of LASU to a high fee and they claimed that education wasn't cheap. That move made education out of reach. Now the same thing is playing out, after school fees have been increased due to his policies, they then give you a Greek gift called student loans. Not grant, a loan. So you are indebted to pay what they raised so high due to their policies.

What is being done in federal is no different than what he did as a Governor. You don't teach an old dog new tricks.

Nigeria: Tinubu imposed Fees on LASU - another major attack on Education
Dele Adebole in Lagos06 June 2006
Nigeria

Back in February two Lagos students were killed by police as they protested against the recent hike in school fees. In some cases fees have been increased a hundred times over. This is making it practically impossible for poor and working class Nigerian children to get an education.
"The Lagos State university students' union in conjunction with the NANS zone D and NANS JCC Lagos Axis berate the satanic increment in LASU school fees and the killing of some students of LASU during the peaceful protest against the increment in school fees. And call for the immediate reversal of these exploitative fees as a prerequisite to let the less privilege have access to Education".

These was the first paragraph in the leaflet issued by the students' union alongside with NANS zone D and JCC Lagos in February after the students' protest against the fees, which led to the killing of two students by the police on the command of the Lagos State Government.

It will be recalled that immediately after the appointment of a new vice chancellor last year, December 2005, the Tinubu regime of Lagos State announced to Lagos residents that the government could not afford to subsidize education and that in line with the ‘reforms' in the education sector, there cannot be any free education. The university authorities were directed to increase the fees from 250 Naira for old students to 25,000 Naira, while the freshmen's old fee of 1, 000 Naira was increased to N35, 000. This increment exclude the acceptance fees N10,000 introduced earlier to the fresh students two years ago.

It is very important to note that even while the official school fees were placed at N250 earlier, an average student still pays as much as N25,000 to the university or its agents. This takes the form of handouts, registration fees, etc.

Not excluding the current attempt to deny the children of the working class education by the newly imposed post-JAMB test, according to ruling elites, it is to checkmate examination malpractice experienced during jamb exams but from reality, it has been confirmed as another conduit pipe through which money is generated and siphoned without question. This post jamb fee in LASU is N2,000. All these fees stated above do not include various expenses to be incurred while going through the registration processes.

The Tinubu administration carrying out these attacks on students is a master of deception. Towards the end of his first four years, he became one of the most hated governors in Nigeria as he committed enormous atrocities against workers, students and rendered many people homeless. The sacking of over 10,000 workers in 2001/2002 over the N7,500 minimum wage protests is still fresh in the memory of the working class despite the treachery of the labour leadership.

The process of destroying public schools did not start with LASU neither will it end with LASU. If we flash back our memory, this regime handed over schools to private individuals and missionaries four years ago.

This was a process of saying government cannot fund education and moral standards had fallen because missionaries and Muslim clerics were not allowed to teach morals and that handing over would increase the standard of education. But the current state of public primary/secondary schools nose-dived to an all time low. Where on religious bases students were not allowed to enroll in certain schools. Teachers were transferred from outside on religious sentiments. This marked the beginning of privatization of education in Lagos State under Tinubu.

The obvious implication of privatization and handing over of schools to both Muslim and Christian clerics is that this is damaging. As the children of the poor working class will be denied access to education based on affordability and religious grounds. This in turn will lead to mass illiteracy as is currently already developing in the country.

Despite the killing of Rashid Giwa during the protest and closure of LASU campus, the students' union had been campaigning against the fee in the print and electronic media.

However, students must be wary of some so-called ex-LASU students' leaders and human right activists who are trying to divide and restrict the struggle against the fee to the vice-chancellor alone but are afraid of exposing and challenging Tinubu, who as the governor gave the directive as the owner of the university, because they are also members of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, or personal assistants to AD top officials, while some of the right-wing activists are Tinubu-AD loyalists.

The way forward
It is clear that the class-conscious approach to the struggle against fees must be adapted. The LASU students must appeal to non-academic workers and lecturers for solidarity in order to defeat this regime.

All other Lagos State tertiary institutions are connected to this cause as their cause since they are under the same state, while also spreading the campaign to all other campuses throughout Nigeria for concerted effort in defeating the Obasanjo and Tinubu policy on education.

One sure way of achieving victory of the students' movement is by booting out state agents in NANS in our various institutions.

The LASU students have proved themselves once again, after many years of reaction taking over the students' union leadership, when their existence as students has been threatened by the state.

The only socio-economic system that can grantee free and quality education is a government led by workers with clear-cut socialist policies.

May 2006

I like him though, he does not pretend to be what he is not. It's those who pretend that he is malevolent that surprise me. I am sure you watched his remarks at the African CEO Conference in Kenya. He has no mercy for the poor so whenever someone shows you who they are, believe them.

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

Kdon2:
ASUU strike durations by administration:

🔴 Obasanjo (1999–2007) — 18 months
🔴 Yar’Adua (2007–2010) — 4 months
🔴 Jonathan (2010–2015) — 13 months
🔵 Buhari (2015–2023) — 21 months
🔵 Tinubu (2023–present) — 9 days

Buhari recorded 21 months of strikes during his eight-year tenure — the highest total since the return to democracy in 1999.


So far, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recorded only 9 days of nationwide strike action as of May 2026.

TINUBU IS THE MOST STUDENT-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT EVER.

Fraudulent achievement by causing division among ASUU members ? Progress that’s always based on anarchy

math2001:
Agricuĺture. Tractor purchase by agricultural ministry

These tractors have still not been distributed? Na wa for this country.

And can you go to that school without life? Because security, is ZERO, light to read, is ZERO and food, to get strength, no dey till today, after African China sang about it. So your President, na CONFIRMED FAILURE.

Kdon2:
ASUU strike durations by administration:

🔴 Obasanjo (1999–2007) — 18 months
🔴 Yar’Adua (2007–2010) — 4 months
🔴 Jonathan (2010–2015) — 13 months
🔵 Buhari (2015–2023) — 21 months
🔵 Tinubu (2023–present) — 9 days

Buhari recorded 21 months of strikes during his eight-year tenure — the highest total since the return to democracy in 1999.

So far, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recorded only 9 days of nationwide strike action as of May 2026.

TINUBU IS THE MOST STUDENT-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT EVER.

how many students don die? How many them don kidnap?? How many don drop out? How many parents don close business??

Kdon2:
ASUU strike durations by administration:

🔴 Obasanjo (1999–2007) — 18 months
🔴 Yar’Adua (2007–2010) — 4 months
🔴 Jonathan (2010–2015) — 13 months
🔵 Buhari (2015–2023) — 21 months
🔵 Tinubu (2023–present) — 9 days

Buhari recorded 21 months of strikes during his eight-year tenure — the highest total since the return to democracy in 1999.

So far, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recorded only 9 days of nationwide strike action as of May 2026.

TINUBU IS THE MOST STUDENT-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT EVER.

My question is why are you guys always excluding Buhari and APC tenure of eight years from Tinubu. Tinubu openly told us he only took over from himself. Meaning he has been directing Buhari all along to his doom and now trying to rectify it to claim glory

9 days achieved by threatening lecturers with no work, no pay policy and causing division by creating a rival union CONUA. Tinubu administration is a mafia administration.

How much is the salary of a university professor ?

In Dollar terms, I can tell you for free, university workers were better off under those other governments