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My question to ASUU is do FG fund private institutions that you would expect them also to strike when you call, private institutions help a lot as you can plan you beginning and graduation calendar (have been there) if you got no results issue.

mistyebby:
Rochas will be all smiles now. His plans to use students as political thugs coming to reality.

STUDENTS PLEASE SHUN POLITICAL THUGGERY!!! DON'T BE USED!!! THEIR KIDS ARE ABROAD!!!

Apart from that, alot of voters will be disenfranchised if ASUU didn't call off. That would have being a big risk

kenedy175:
Apart from that, alot of voters will be disenfranchised if ASUU didn't call off. That would have being a big risk

You are right about the disenfranchisement. If only students will heed.

HigherEd:
I'm now more convinced that ASUU leadership is very foolish. Private Universities are the cash and carry universities that is being referred to lol. What is dubious about advertising non disruption to academic calendar, which is the major selling point of any private university? Should all universities in the country be shut down simply to satisfy ASUU's ego? Or would ASUU be happier if these students are moving to Togo, Benin republic and Ghana just to get stable education at the expense of Nigeria's economy.

Lalasticlala

Was ASUU not going on strike before cash and carry people existed?
They can force private units into their ASUU so we all can be doing solidarity strike.

ASUU needs to cleansed from the top to bottom.

Now that a school cert. with hearing problem have listened to ASUU... On to the #NextLevel

I just hope they don't go on strike again anytime soon....

Tlyon:
My question to ASUU is do FG fund private institutions that you would expect them also to strike when you call, private institutions help a lot as you can plan you beginning and graduation calendar (have been there) if you got no results issue.

How can private universities possibly force ASUU into strikes when we know they are the once who have agents in private unis and not the other way round?

Pruwa:
Thank you ASUU and fg

Where do you school? Will like to know you

adekalumichael:
Our education has suffered in the hands of recent government. Good development for the resumption.

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It could not have been recent Govt. The issues ASUU have are as a result of unfulfilled agreement signed in 2011 under PDP government. The same ASUU was on strike for 5months in 1999 under Obasanjo/ Atiku Govt. in 2003 same under Obasanjo/ Atiku government, and ASUU strike was witnessed. While ASUU were on strike, both Obasanjo and Atiku were stealing public money to build their private Universities

Afamed:
It could not have been recent Govt. The degenerating or lingering issues which ASUU claimed that have not been fulfilled was a product of agreement signed in 2011 under PDP government. The same ASUU was on strike for 5months in 1999 under Obasanjo/ Atiku Govt. in 2003 same under Obasanjo/ Atiku government, and ASUU strike was witnessed. While ASUU were on strike, both Obasanjo and Atiku were stealing public money to build their private Universities

I can not agree less. The bottom line is government constitutes the impediment witnessed in the academics body.


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adekalumichael:
I can not agree less. The bottom line is government constitutes the impediment witnessed in the academics body.


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You are right but , but the buck of the blames should not have been passed to the present government according to your submission. If the the agreement in 2011 has been honored by then government, perhaps we would not have witnessed the last ASUU strike

Na University of Ilorin this man dey call enemy of ASUU o.
BTW, they said loyal memeber of ASUU in University of Ilorin, is the union not for all the lecturers.
Chai

Timekeeper:
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has, Thursday, suspended the over three months-old strike it embarked upon since Sunday, 4th November, 2018.


ASUU Strike: INEC alleges 2019 Elections under threat
The union suspended the strike after a memorandum of Action, MoA, it reached with the Federal government towards the revitalisation of public universities.

The ASUU National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi who announced the suspension, however, said that the union had embarked on the strike to “stem the continued slide into rot and decay in public universities since the 1980s.”

He however decried the unpatriotic attitudes of some university chancellors whom he said tried to undermine the union’s struggle towards ensuring that universities in the country are revitalised.

The statement reads thus:

“ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU), NATIONAL SECRETARIAT. TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU), THURSDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 2019, AT NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS HEADQUARTERS, PASCAL BAFYAU HOUSE, ABUJA

Protocol

Friends and compatriots of the Press, On Sunday, 4th November, 2018, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resumed its strike action which was conditionally suspended on 14th September, 2017.

The action of 2017 was suspended following the signing of a Memorandum of Action (MoA) in which the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) promised to address the contentious issues within a timeline that was to end in October 2017.

While announcing the suspension of the nationwide action, however, our Union made it categorically clear that “ASUU will not hesitate to review its position should government renege on the signed Memorandum of Action”.

Predictably, Government implemented the MoA in the breach, thereby forcing ASUU to resume the suspended strike action.

Comrades and compatriots, as we have always argued, the last thing ASUU members love doing is to cause disruption in smooth intellectual engagements with colleagues, friends and students right on our university campuses.

This has nothing to do with the dubious advertorial of “non-disruption of academic calendar” by proprietors and administrators of some cash-and-carry universities and other self-styled enemies of ASUU.

Rather, it is about deep-seated pains members of the Union undergo to prevent strike actions and the equally painful consequences strike situations bring to all who are genuinely averse to the mercantile disposition to university education.

Why Strike Action? The question has been asked time and time again: Why does ASUU like embarking on strike action that causes disruption and dislocation in the universities?

However, ASUU is strongly convinced that if academics fail to fight the cause of university education, the fate that befell public primary and secondary schools would soon become the lot of the public university system in Nigeria.

ASUU’s advocacy on the need to stem the continued slide into rot and decay in public universities since the 1980s has fallen on deaf ears. Our experience, as a trade union, shows that successive governments in Nigeria always entered into negotiated agreements only to placate those pleading the cause – be it education, health, transportation, employment or any other issue of meaningful living.

This proclivity of the Nigerian ruling class, irrespective of which wing of the insensitive stock they belong, must be continually be tracked, engaged and resisted by all people of goodwill.

ASUU ‘s action strike, which started on 4th November, 2018, was situated in the context of accumulated records of indifference and lackadaisical attitude of Government to negotiated agreements with the Union.

At our media interaction in University of Lagos on 23rd December, 2018, we highlighted the outstanding issues in the crisis to include the following:

– Funding for the revitalization of Public Universities based on the FGN-ASUU MoU of 2012, 2013 and the MoA of 2017

– Reconstitution of the current Government Team to allow for a leader and Chairman of the FG-ASUU Renegotiating team who has the interest of the nation and the people at heart.

– Release of the forensic audit report on Earned Academic allowances (EAA), offsetting the outstanding balance of the EAA and mainstreaming of same into the 2018 budget.

– Payment of all arrears of shortfall in all universities that have met the verification requirements of the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA)

– Provision of a platform by the federal government for ASUU to engage Governors on the proliferation of universities, underfunding of university education and undue interference in the affairs of the universities

– Release of PFA operational license to NUPEMCO

– Payment of EAA to loyal ASUU members at the University of Ilorin A new Memorandum of Action and Our Resolution To date, ASUU has had a total of ten (10) interactive meetings with representatives of FGN which have culminated into a Memorandum of Action of

2019.

Highlights of the MoA include the following:

In addition to the N20 billion for 2018, the sum of N25 billion only would be released in April/May 2019, after which government would resume full implementation of the MoU of 2013.
Part-payment of the outstanding arrears of the earned academic allowances; defraying the balance up to 2018 in 4 tranches within 36 months; and mainstreaming further payments of EAA into the annual budgets beginning from 2019 budget.
PICA verification and the release of the arrears of salary shortfall at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, not later than 15th February 2019.
Strengthening the Consultative Committee on State-owned Universities (CCSOU), inaugurated on Monday, 28th January, 2019 to look into the issues of proliferation, underfunding and governance to consistently deliver on its mandate.
Payment of the outstanding EAA arrears of all eligible staff in the University of Ilorin, especially the loyal ASUU members whose appointments were illegally terminated by today, 7th February, 2019.
Acknowledgement and appreciation of Government for facilitating the release of the final letter of approval for the granting of operational license to NUPEMCO.
Visitation to all Federal Universities would commence tentatively by 11th March, 2019.
Provision of documented guidelines on procedures and roles of parties in the process of renegotiating FGN-ASUU Agreement of 2009 which would commence not later than 18th February 2019 and end by Friday 29th March 2019.
Based on the initial proposals from Government, the Union made extensive consultations through its various organs. The final level of consultation was the meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) which took place 6th-7th February 2019.

NEC resolved that: Following a careful review of the report of engagements with the Federal Government on proposals for addressing all outstanding in the 2013 MoU and 2017 MoA, NEC resolved that the current strike action by the Union should be suspended conditionally with effect from 12.01 a.m on Friday 8th February 2019.

However, should Government fail to fulfill its part of the agreement as reflected in the 2019 Memorandum of Action, ASUU shall resume its suspended strike action as the Union deems necessary.

Conclusion

ASUU notes, with serious concern, the covert and overt roles of some vice-chancellors in the management and application of funds attracted by our Union to Nigeria’s public universities.

Consequently, we condemn, in the strongest terms, Vice-Chancellors who have made efforts to undermine and, in some cases, attempted to break our patriotic struggles for the revitalisation of public universities in Nigeria.

ASUU will not shy away from taking headlong those Vice-Chancellors who are reputed for acts of impunity, nepotism and other forms of conduct which are antithetic to university culture and the progressive development of our universities.

Our union will compile all their shenanigans and forward them to relevant authorities for further action.

Finally, ASUU acknowledges the understanding and support demonstrated by patriotic Nigerian students and their parents all through the strike period.

We equally appreciate the comradely assistance from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), represented by the newly re-elected President, Comrade Ayuba Waba, who has stood by us throughout the struggle.

We also acknowledge the solidarity of the civil society organisations, especially the Joint Action Front (JAF) and the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), and members of the progressive wing of the media who have consistently partnered with us in our mission to rescue Nigerian public universities from imminent collapse.

While we put a closure to this phase of the struggle, it is our hope and desire that the Nigerian governments (Federal and State) will play the roles expected of them in order to make the new Memorandum work.

We shall never abandon our obligation to ensure the survival of a sound university system.

For ASUU, the struggle certainly continues!

Thank you for listening.

Biodun Ogunyemi

President

7th February 2018”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/why-we-called-off-strike-ASUU/amp/

Thank God for Unilorin.
Uninterrupted calendar dey pain them

Timekeeper:
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has, Thursday, suspended the over three months-old strike it embarked upon since Sunday, 4th November, 2018.


ASUU Strike: INEC alleges 2019 Elections under threat
The union suspended the strike after a memorandum of Action, MoA, it reached with the Federal government towards the revitalisation of public universities.

The ASUU National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi who announced the suspension, however, said that the union had embarked on the strike to “stem the continued slide into rot and decay in public universities since the 1980s.”

He however decried the unpatriotic attitudes of some university chancellors whom he said tried to undermine the union’s struggle towards ensuring that universities in the country are revitalised.

The statement reads thus:

“ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU), NATIONAL SECRETARIAT. TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU), THURSDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 2019, AT NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS HEADQUARTERS, PASCAL BAFYAU HOUSE, ABUJA

Protocol

Friends and compatriots of the Press, On Sunday, 4th November, 2018, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resumed its strike action which was conditionally suspended on 14th September, 2017.

The action of 2017 was suspended following the signing of a Memorandum of Action (MoA) in which the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) promised to address the contentious issues within a timeline that was to end in October 2017.

While announcing the suspension of the nationwide action, however, our Union made it categorically clear that “ASUU will not hesitate to review its position should government renege on the signed Memorandum of Action”.

Predictably, Government implemented the MoA in the breach, thereby forcing ASUU to resume the suspended strike action.

Comrades and compatriots, as we have always argued, the last thing ASUU members love doing is to cause disruption in smooth intellectual engagements with colleagues, friends and students right on our university campuses.

This has nothing to do with the dubious advertorial of “non-disruption of academic calendar” by proprietors and administrators of some cash-and-carry universities and other self-styled enemies of ASUU.

Rather, it is about deep-seated pains members of the Union undergo to prevent strike actions and the equally painful consequences strike situations bring to all who are genuinely averse to the mercantile disposition to university education.

Why Strike Action? The question has been asked time and time again: Why does ASUU like embarking on strike action that causes disruption and dislocation in the universities?

However, ASUU is strongly convinced that if academics fail to fight the cause of university education, the fate that befell public primary and secondary schools would soon become the lot of the public university system in Nigeria.

ASUU’s advocacy on the need to stem the continued slide into rot and decay in public universities since the 1980s has fallen on deaf ears. Our experience, as a trade union, shows that successive governments in Nigeria always entered into negotiated agreements only to placate those pleading the cause – be it education, health, transportation, employment or any other issue of meaningful living.

This proclivity of the Nigerian ruling class, irrespective of which wing of the insensitive stock they belong, must be continually be tracked, engaged and resisted by all people of goodwill.

ASUU ‘s action strike, which started on 4th November, 2018, was situated in the context of accumulated records of indifference and lackadaisical attitude of Government to negotiated agreements with the Union.

At our media interaction in University of Lagos on 23rd December, 2018, we highlighted the outstanding issues in the crisis to include the following:

– Funding for the revitalization of Public Universities based on the FGN-ASUU MoU of 2012, 2013 and the MoA of 2017

– Reconstitution of the current Government Team to allow for a leader and Chairman of the FG-ASUU Renegotiating team who has the interest of the nation and the people at heart.

– Release of the forensic audit report on Earned Academic allowances (EAA), offsetting the outstanding balance of the EAA and mainstreaming of same into the 2018 budget.

– Payment of all arrears of shortfall in all universities that have met the verification requirements of the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA)

– Provision of a platform by the federal government for ASUU to engage Governors on the proliferation of universities, underfunding of university education and undue interference in the affairs of the universities

– Release of PFA operational license to NUPEMCO

– Payment of EAA to loyal ASUU members at the University of Ilorin A new Memorandum of Action and Our Resolution To date, ASUU has had a total of ten (10) interactive meetings with representatives of FGN which have culminated into a Memorandum of Action of

2019.

Highlights of the MoA include the following:

In addition to the N20 billion for 2018, the sum of N25 billion only would be released in April/May 2019, after which government would resume full implementation of the MoU of 2013.
Part-payment of the outstanding arrears of the earned academic allowances; defraying the balance up to 2018 in 4 tranches within 36 months; and mainstreaming further payments of EAA into the annual budgets beginning from 2019 budget.
PICA verification and the release of the arrears of salary shortfall at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, not later than 15th February 2019.
Strengthening the Consultative Committee on State-owned Universities (CCSOU), inaugurated on Monday, 28th January, 2019 to look into the issues of proliferation, underfunding and governance to consistently deliver on its mandate.
Payment of the outstanding EAA arrears of all eligible staff in the University of Ilorin, especially the loyal ASUU members whose appointments were illegally terminated by today, 7th February, 2019.
Acknowledgement and appreciation of Government for facilitating the release of the final letter of approval for the granting of operational license to NUPEMCO.
Visitation to all Federal Universities would commence tentatively by 11th March, 2019.
Provision of documented guidelines on procedures and roles of parties in the process of renegotiating FGN-ASUU Agreement of 2009 which would commence not later than 18th February 2019 and end by Friday 29th March 2019.
Based on the initial proposals from Government, the Union made extensive consultations through its various organs. The final level of consultation was the meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) which took place 6th-7th February 2019.

NEC resolved that: Following a careful review of the report of engagements with the Federal Government on proposals for addressing all outstanding in the 2013 MoU and 2017 MoA, NEC resolved that the current strike action by the Union should be suspended conditionally with effect from 12.01 a.m on Friday 8th February 2019.

However, should Government fail to fulfill its part of the agreement as reflected in the 2019 Memorandum of Action, ASUU shall resume its suspended strike action as the Union deems necessary.

Conclusion

ASUU notes, with serious concern, the covert and overt roles of some vice-chancellors in the management and application of funds attracted by our Union to Nigeria’s public universities.

Consequently, we condemn, in the strongest terms, Vice-Chancellors who have made efforts to undermine and, in some cases, attempted to break our patriotic struggles for the revitalisation of public universities in Nigeria.

ASUU will not shy away from taking headlong those Vice-Chancellors who are reputed for acts of impunity, nepotism and other forms of conduct which are antithetic to university culture and the progressive development of our universities.

Our union will compile all their shenanigans and forward them to relevant authorities for further action.

Finally, ASUU acknowledges the understanding and support demonstrated by patriotic Nigerian students and their parents all through the strike period.

We equally appreciate the comradely assistance from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), represented by the newly re-elected President, Comrade Ayuba Waba, who has stood by us throughout the struggle.

We also acknowledge the solidarity of the civil society organisations, especially the Joint Action Front (JAF) and the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), and members of the progressive wing of the media who have consistently partnered with us in our mission to rescue Nigerian public universities from imminent collapse.

While we put a closure to this phase of the struggle, it is our hope and desire that the Nigerian governments (Federal and State) will play the roles expected of them in order to make the new Memorandum work.

We shall never abandon our obligation to ensure the survival of a sound university system.

For ASUU, the struggle certainly continues!

Thank you for listening.

Biodun Ogunyemi

President

7th February 2018”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/why-we-called-off-strike-ASUU/amp/

We thank God for the intervention, so the federal government have to make sure they fulfill their promise

Get sure Bookings from a reliable source and make winning a habit.

Pruwa:
Thank you ASUU and fg

some people wan go back to campus just because dem no see prick chop for home as dem like

HigherEd:
I'm now more convinced that ASUU leadership is very foolish. Private Universities are the cash and carry universities that is being referred to lol. What is dubious about advertising non disruption to academic calendar, which is the major selling point of any private university? Should all universities in the country be shut down simply to satisfy ASUU's ego? Or would ASUU be happier if these students are moving to Togo, Benin republic and Ghana just to get stable education at the expense of Nigeria's economy.

Lalasticlala

ASUU leadership is foolish Tell us your highest academic qualification before disrespecting these men who have been to the nooks and crannies of the world for knowledge. And why did you carry the matter on your head? Does your father have a Private University?
Or you have been cursed with defending those who got rich from the sweat and labour of others, without giving anything back

Greatzeus:
ASUU leadership is foolish Tell us your highest academic qualification before disrespecting these men who have been to the nooks and crannies of the world for knowledge. And why did you carry the matter on your head? Does your father have a Private University?
Or you have been cursed with defending those who got rich from the sweat and labour of others, without giving anything back

You and those idiotic ASUU folks are eternally stupid. With all the academic qualification of you and the fraudulent ASUU people, how have they bettered Nigeria and its people
They only collect money without any tangible input. All the corrupt politicians that have ruined Nigeria have been produced by ASUU. What engineering products have ASUU been able to church out since inception of uni education?

A private university, redeemers was the first Nigerian uni to develop Ebola kits yet you stupidly talk down on private uni.

Go drink akamu ode!

Greatzeus:
ASUU leadership is foolish Tell us your highest academic qualification before disrespecting these men who have been to the nooks and crannies of the world for knowledge. And why did you carry the matter on your head? Does your father have a Private University?
Or you have been cursed with defending those who got rich from the sweat and labour of others, without giving anything back

You are worse than Boko Haram.

HigherEd:
I'm now more convinced that ASUU leadership is very foolish. Private Universities are the cash and carry universities that is being referred to lol. What is dubious about advertising non disruption to academic calendar, which is the major selling point of any private university? Should all universities in the country be shut down simply to satisfy ASUU's ego? Or would ASUU be happier if these students are moving to Togo, Benin republic and Ghana just to get stable education at the expense of Nigeria's economy.

Lalasticlala

I sent you messages but you haven't reply them why?

CodeTemplar:
Was ASUU not going on strike before cash and carry people existed?
They can force private units into their ASUU so we all can be doing solidarity strike.

ASUU needs to cleansed from the top to bottom.

Is Age babalola a good school for postgraduate?

asuustrike1:
I sent you messages but you haven't reply them why?

really?
When. I haven't seen any msg o

asuustrike1:
Is Age babalola a good school for postgraduate?

Yes it is.

HigherEd:
Yes it is.

Really! Are they fast?

asuustrike1:
Is Age babalola a good school for postgraduate?

Haven't heard much about it o. Try and mention highered he might be able to give provide clues.