misterjosh:
Yet they are still on the verge of collecting a loan to finance construction on a rail line to a neighbouring... the said bogus project has no tangible benefit to the country.

engrfcuksmtin:
Because they can easily steal from the project. Unlike the revitalization fund which ASUU has put machineries in place to monitor the disbursement and implementation of projects.
ASUU have thier flaws but on the current agitation, I stand with them.

engrfcuksmtin:
A Brief Perspective On Profligacy: a case of comparative view

"We can't meet ASUU's Demand".....Ngige, Daily Trust, 5 November,2020.

This sounds as one of the usual blackmail or propaganda against ASUU, does it not?

Before you get confused, ask yourself which of the ASUU demands is the FG represented here by the Hon Minister referring to? He is referring to one of ASUU's demands for revitalization of Nigeria's Universities which is estimated to cost N110bn for now.

Again before you think this money will go to the pockets of ASUU members, the money is for upgrading of teaching and research facilities including buildings in all the federal Universities which total stands at 73 in number.

Now divide 110 by 73 = 1.507 meaning ASUU is asking the FG to inject the sum of N1.507bn for upgrading facilities in each of her Universities to bring it to standard. This is the money the Hon Minister is telling you the FG cannot meet as ASUU demand. Just think over it.

The Poser and the profligacy

How many of you reading this piece have been to the National Assembly Complex? I have never visited the place, but I am told it is a good building. The NASS building complex is relatively much younger and smaller in size than most of our individual Universities. Do you recall that the FG budgeted (or is it released) the sum of over N37bn for the renovation of NASS building complex? Yes, over N37bn for a single building complex that is not even dilapidated compared to our university facilities. What is more, the NASS building complex houses able-bodied personalities that do not add up to 400 in number compared to the populations of our students in each university. It has been reported that majority of those individuals in NASS have allegedly never sponsored a single bill to improve the lives of Nigerians. Compare this scenario to our Universities that each houses tens of thousands of our students apart from the staff. For example, the lecturers are required to carry out research and publish same of their findings or else they stagnate. Yet, at the NASS where humongous sum is spent, whether one sponsors a bill or not, is nobody's business. How do you justify this economic paradox where much is given but less expected and vice versa?

Therefore, the statement coming from the FG through the Hon Minister, may at best be regarded as propaganda or blackmail against ASUU. Unfortunately, the money is not going into ASUU coffers but for the benefit of the students at large. What ASUU is simply telling FG is to prioritise its spending profiles in order to invest on the training of our youths.

Therefore, before you criticise ASUU, just take a visit to any of the public universities nearest to you and inspect the facilities. Your position against ASUU may likely change.
Edited.

B. B. Bukar
University of Jos

Just in case, ENDSARS damaged some properties in Lagos last month, this month (1 month after) they are proposing N1 trillion for rebuilding . This is for Lagos State alone, FGN is about giving them (if not given already). Yet ASUU is begging FGN for more than 10 years now, yes, more than 10 years for N1.1 trillion for 73 universities, they said they don't have money to spend on Education, so they keep the youths, our students on the streets and home. OK give only N110 billion for the 73 universities so that schools can be reopen, they say no money. Hmmmm Nigeria and value system.

sinkhole:
Even though I am a supporter of ASUU but I am getting tired of the stubbornness of ASUU:
FG owns the Universities and Nigerians are the ones sending their children to the Universities. ASUU is only an employee in the Universities.
FG said they do not have money to bring their Universities up to standard and parents, including their children said they do not mind receiving lectures under mango trees or "about to collapse" buildings! Then what is the problem of ASUU?
If the salary and welfare of ASUU members is taken care of, why all these issues of revitalisation, contracts of which may not even come to ASUU?

Saintinoo:

ASUU is just using revitalisation as a cover up, the issue is IPPIS, the bad news for ASUU leadership is that more lecturers are registering on IPPIS so there is no way FGN will do away with IPPIS even if ASUU will go on strike for 600years.

sinkhole:
I don't think IPPIS is suitable for the Universities according to my knowledge of the workings of the Academics in Universities. IPPIS will seriously infringe on the welfare of the Academics and hence I think they should fight it with all the blood in their bodies!
I also do not think they are hiding their rejection of IPPIS, they even provided an alternative to replace it.

Saintinoo:

What do you mean by IPPIS will infringe on the welfare of academics, as far as i am concerned the deductions are legal, if there are any problem with IPPIS then ASUU should point it out so that FGN will correct it, or do you mean IPPIS will stop multiple salaries which ASUU top members enjoy? Is that the welfare you are pointing at?

ASUU will end up wasting students time and subjecting their jnr members to hunger and at the end they will have to go with IPPIS, btw i met with about 5 lecturers who just came back from ABUJA and guess what they went to do, they all went to register on IPPIS, sooner more and more lecturers will register and ASUU will completely lose this battle.

sinkhole:
Even though I am a supporter of ASUU but I am getting tired of the stubbornness of ASUU:
FG owns the Universities and Nigerians are the ones sending their children to the Universities. ASUU is only an employee in the Universities.
FG said they do not have money to bring their Universities up to standard and parents, including their children said they do not mind receiving lectures under mango trees or "about to collapse" buildings! Then what is the problem of ASUU?
If the salary and welfare of ASUU members is taken care of, why all these issues of revitalisation, contracts of which may not even come to ASUU?

amerengues:
Hmm

A Balanced approach to this impasse between the Government and ASUU will be a compromise on both ends. However, a compromise on ASUU is indirectly a signed agreement to mortgage the future of the students.

1) ASUU isn’t asking for increment of their paltry salaries. I implore you all to check the pays of their salaries. It is as low as $300 ( 105k for Graduate Assistant and about 120k for Assistant lecturers with some 3k yearly increment) for an Assistant lecturer

2) Don’t fall for the propaganda of Lecturers earning in multiple places. It is only those at the upper cadre of the hierarchy that has a chance (Not necessarily all of them) of doing that. Unfortunately, a very minute fraction of the lecturers can do this. Journey down to your alma mata, how many profs do you have to other other lecturers? Some dont even have.

3) In recent times, first class students were retained to lecture but as I write you this, most have left the institutions and a sizable fraction of the remaining are about to leave. Their first pay is 105k� with bad working conditions in some cases.

4) Ever heard of publish or perish? If you don’t publish you perish. It is out of this same minuscule salary that isn’t enough that they will publish from and in some instances, equip themselves.

5) If some lecturers ( Very minute proportion like sen lect and professors) don’t go to other institutions to lecturer or cover up, some students will loose accreditation. Government should fund the institutions, then employ more capable hands.

6) There will always be adjunct lecturers which is a universal practice in most cases. You might not have proficiency in some courses and you may need to lend from the industry- IPPIS doesn’t capture this.

7) Rickety libraries, low standard classrooms, poor infrastructure, bad laboratories etc is still very rife.

Note: “I want to graduate on time please call it off” is the basis of today’ suffering by our dear sisters and brothers. We have never asked Government as students to fund our schools. Schools in Africa are beginning to take over us in rankings and quality education.

sinkhole:
Chairman, I think ASUU should drop that revitalization thing and focus on their salaries and other welfare!
How many TETfund projects has ASUU monitored and give report on or are you telling me that all TETfund projects in our Universities have been without corruption?
How many times has ASUU complained about payroll manipulation by the senior members of SSANU et al. or are you telling me that those things do not happen in our Universities?
ASUU can not monitor the implementation of the revitalization fund!

sinkhole:
FG can not correct anything on IPPIS. I say it again, FG can not correct anything on IPPIS!
FG can not do that, because as they themselves pointed out, doing so will cost FG more money. This is because IPPIS is not owned by FG and any alteration will have to be done by the contractors who will have to pay the original engineers of IPPIS.
If FG could tweak IPPIS they would have since addressed issues raised by SSANU, NASU, Oil Workers Union, among others.

You only saw five lecturers registering on IPPIS?
I saw more than twenty lecturers being led to Abuja by their HOD for enrollment on IPPIS besides, all newly employed academic staff are automatically enrolled on IPPIS and still yet I do not believe ASUU will loose this IPPIS battle

Saintinoo:
It will suprise readers to note that thesame lecturer that took his time and write this has been using note of 2010 for his lectures without updating.....

Nigeria public university lecturers are all out to fight IPPIS thereby using university funding to cover up.

sinkhole:
Chairman, I think ASUU should drop that revitalization thing and focus on their salaries and other welfare!
How many TETfund projects has ASUU monitored and give report on or are you telling me that all TETfund projects in our Universities have been without corruption?
How many times has ASUU complained about payroll manipulation by the senior members of SSANU et al. or are you telling me that those things do not happen in our Universities?
ASUU can not monitor the implementation of the revitalization fund!

sinkhole:
Sincerely speaking, I can't understand what ASUU meant by revitalization!
TETfund have been funding the building of many structures in our tertiary institutions across the country. If you go to some of the institutions, including State owned, all you see is TETfund1999, TETfund2002, etc on all the buildings. When you entered teaching laboratories, you will see same on the equipments! So, why can't TETfund be used for revitalization? Afterall, ASUU brought TETfund too.

Saintinoo:

You don't see ASUU losing this battle? You see that thing they call UTAS, FGN have already thrown it into their waste bin, students can stay at home for 600years as far as FGN is concerned if adopting UTAS is the only option to end the strike.

I don't pity the students because they should have have also put more pressure on ASUU to call of the strike but seems they enjoy the strike more. FGN will never, i repeat never adopt UTAS.

Saintinoo:

You don't see ASUU losing this battle? You see that thing they call UTAS, FGN have already thrown it into their waste bin, students can stay at home for 600years as far as FGN is concerned if adopting UTAS is the only option to end the strike.

I don't pity the students because they should have have also put more pressure on ASUU to call of the strike but seems they enjoy the strike more. FGN will never, i repeat never adopt UTAS.

sinkhole:
OK.
Your Opinion: FG will never adopt UTAS.
My Opinion: FG may adopt UTAS.

Let us wait and see how it goes. They have sent the UTAS for the so-called integrity test this week, if the integrity test lasted for more than two weeks then, I think, we can safely conclude that FG has failed the UTAS

Saintinoo:

Running test on a software, a payment software doesn't take two weeks, according to investigation, it might take upto 6months for that test to be done with.

sinkhole:
OK, that is around April next year.

samuelpeters:

I weep for nigerians!
How low we now think of ourselves.
Imagine what you are saying. FG doesn't have money but they will have money to spend on things that are irrelevant.
Trillions for palliative we didn't see. Billions on railway but couldn't bring 110billion for public universites.
It will NEVER be well with all our politicans.

What has happened to nigerians, that we feel what is our right is a privilege
Since you know the contract may not come to them, it show ASUU is fighting a just cause.

engrfcuksmtin:
A Brief Perspective On Profligacy: a case of comparative view

"We can't meet ASUU's Demand".....Ngige, Daily Trust, 5 November,2020.

This sounds as one of the usual blackmail or propaganda against ASUU, does it not?

Before you get confused, ask yourself which of the ASUU demands is the FG represented here by the Hon Minister referring to? He is referring to one of ASUU's demands for revitalization of Nigeria's Universities which is estimated to cost N110bn for now.

Again before you think this money will go to the pockets of ASUU members, the money is for upgrading of teaching and research facilities including buildings in all the federal Universities which total stands at 73 in number.

Now divide 110 by 73 = 1.507 meaning ASUU is asking the FG to inject the sum of N1.507bn for upgrading facilities in each of her Universities to bring it to standard. This is the money the Hon Minister is telling you the FG cannot meet as ASUU demand. Just think over it.

The Poser and the profligacy

How many of you reading this piece have been to the National Assembly Complex? I have never visited the place, but I am told it is a good building. The NASS building complex is relatively much younger and smaller in size than most of our individual Universities. Do you recall that the FG budgeted (or is it released) the sum of over N37bn for the renovation of NASS building complex? Yes, over N37bn for a single building complex that is not even dilapidated compared to our university facilities. What is more, the NASS building complex houses able-bodied personalities that do not add up to 400 in number compared to the populations of our students in each university. It has been reported that majority of those individuals in NASS have allegedly never sponsored a single bill to improve the lives of Nigerians. Compare this scenario to our Universities that each houses tens of thousands of our students apart from the staff. For example, the lecturers are required to carry out research and publish same of their findings or else they stagnate. Yet, at the NASS where humongous sum is spent, whether one sponsors a bill or not, is nobody's business. How do you justify this economic paradox where much is given but less expected and vice versa?

Therefore, the statement coming from the FG through the Hon Minister, may at best be regarded as propaganda or blackmail against ASUU. Unfortunately, the money is not going into ASUU coffers but for the benefit of the students at large. What ASUU is simply telling FG is to prioritise its spending profiles in order to invest on the training of our youths.

Therefore, before you criticise ASUU, just take a visit to any of the public universities nearest to you and inspect the facilities. Your position against ASUU may likely change.
Edited.

B. B. Bukar
University of Jos

Just in case, ENDSARS damaged some properties in Lagos last month, this month (1 month after) they are proposing N1 trillion for rebuilding . This is for Lagos State alone, FGN is about giving them (if not given already). Yet ASUU is begging FGN for more than 10 years now, yes, more than 10 years for N1.1 trillion for 73 universities, they said they don't have money to spend on Education, so they keep the youths, our students on the streets and home. OK give only N110 billion for the 73 universities so that schools can be reopen, they say no money. Hmmmm Nigeria and value system.

sinkhole:
Even though I am a supporter of ASUU but I am getting tired of the stubbornness of ASUU:
FG owns the Universities and Nigerians are the ones sending their children to the Universities. ASUU is only an employee in the Universities.
FG said they do not have money to bring their Universities up to standard and parents, including their children said they do not mind receiving lectures under mango trees or "about to collapse" buildings! Then what is the problem of ASUU?
If the salary and welfare of ASUU members is taken care of, why all these issues of revitalisation, contracts of which may not even come to ASUU?