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edoairways:
I doubt that.

OK o

me I'm still waiting for ASUU response to this coz we dunno who is deceiving who.

What do u think the guy should do when top people in the country that suppose to intervene in the matter keep quiet because their children are not affected.

I support the move virtually and I'm 100% sure that some private uni students too will support this. shey b we are all students, why would some people be in school while some are at home? shey them get two heads ni?

if both FG and ASUU no gree, make them shutdown all unis in operation make everybody dey house.

dem no fit borrow money to finance education but for other things.......wetin them use all those abacha money wey dem collect do sef?

Freesia20:
500level, Nursing Science.... OAU.
Just starting the session before the strike

OAU, Management and Accounting 400Level
Omo school mi, I need a Nurse o.
please, let's connect.

what vital info. thanks a lot, God bless you.

FG hasn't implemented the 65billion they initially proposed and now they said they are increasing it to 70billion. who is fooling who sef? I think they are just using all these tricks to stop students from protesting.

Official_ASUU
@ASUUNGR 1h

The Negotiation between FG and #ASUU today yielded very good results.

1. The government has agreed to use the old platform before #IPPIS, to pay all withheld salaries.

2. #UTAS is still undergoing usability test.

3. On revitalization, the government offered N15billion in addition to the N20billion pledged earlier.

4. #ASUU would now consult with its council and then get back to the government in a short while, to make their final intention known; if the strike will be suspended or not.

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

Federal Government has finally accepted the demand by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that its members be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS)

At Friday’s meeting with ASUU, the federal government’s side shifted grounds on a number of issues, including the insistence that all the academic staff of the federal universities must be paid through IPPIS platform.

While reading out the communique at the end of seven hours negotiations at the conference hall of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Minister, Senator Chris Ngige, said government had agreed to ASUU’s demand to pay their members salary arrears from February to June using old salary payment platform, GIFIMS.

The government also offered to increase the Earned Allowances of university staff from N30 billion to N35 billion and revitalization fund from N20 billion to N25 billion.

More details later…

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/11/20/at-last-fg-agrees-to-exempt-ASUU-from-ippis/

many elites that suppose to put mouth for this issue keep quiet because it doesn't concern them.

I'm suggesting we should peacefully move to close all universities (states and privates) that have resumed because we are all Nigeria students and they cannot be in school while we are not.

TN: two or three days notice might be given to them.

if all Nigeria students are at home(poor and rich), I think there should be solution insha Allah.

ASUU should please and rectify the irregularities on IPPIS and accept it for the sake of their students. it's crystal clear that they are fighting to revive the Nigeria tertiary education system but the FG whom they are locking horn with is not ready to succumb to ASUU's will. Because their children are where they are having the best education

to be sincere, it's glaring that those people governing us are heartless and I believe majority of Nigerians are tired of this current administration but we are just enduring while praying for better government by 2023.

Our lecturers, we know your children are also among us and you're like fathers to many of us. please endure the difficulties of the current administration with us while we pray for better governance to take over soon. please ASUU, enrol on IPPIS and ensure that any irregularities on your payments are rectified.

We students know that you're on your right, but the FG you're dealing with care less about us(the poor). even if the institutions are closed for two years, they are concern less as far as Private institutions and going abroad are there.

Our Fathers(ASUU), please train us to avoid the children of those evil minded people in power now to take over in future.

If ASUU and FG fail to reach agreement today, it's high time for a peaceful protest to shutdown all the whole tertiary institutions(state and privates) currently working in the country. for us to be on the same page.

#EndASUUstrikenow
#Shutdownalluniversities
#Anotherpeacefulprotest

LINTUNE:
alright, cos this year has ended already, lets pray school resumes on jan, if it doesn't, i propose we student should embark on a serious protest, i suppose to be a graduate of elect eng this year, but hear i am, loosing a complete year in school...

I'm also a finalist and that's why it's paining me so much.

LINTUNE:
but he told u the bitter truth, unless ur parents are very rich, i see no reason wgy u can't hustle or learn a skill within this period, other than staying at home, doing nothing, still collecting recharge card money from mumsi, all in the name of waiting for school to resume..

Hmmm! I was learning skill initially but I av stopped due to some reasons and I'm still looking for hustle but I haven't seen any.

since everyone is enduring this current administration, ASUU too should calls off the strike and endure their palava coz I'm not sure this FG is ready to succumb at all but hunger can later make ASUU succumb to FG.

I don give up on this matter. like FG and ASUU are just toying with our future. A friend(casual worker) called me a lazy ass today coz I av been at home doing nothing all in the name of we will resume very soon. I felt like crying but wetin man go do?

it happened to me too

May be you're using GLO. U know we are in raining season

By Adeola Badru

Following the violence that trailed the ENDSARS protest in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Governor of the state, Mr. Seyi Makinde, has deployed members of the Operation Burst to various hotspots in the metropolis, to arrest the situation and restore normalcy.

The governor, in a broadcast on Tuesday, hinted that members of the team will continue to protect genuine protesters and their right to protest, pointing out that the state would not allow persons with ulterior motives to hijack the protests.

He said: “I have always said that peaceful protests are an important part of our democratic process, and no one should be harassed or brutalised for protesting. For this reason, we deployed members of Operation Burst to protect protesters. And we are happy to report that there have been no cases of disruptions of protest grounds in Oyo State since they started work.”

“However, the past two days have seen a new dimension to the ongoing protests. Thugs and hoodlums have taken advantage of the situation to perpetrate uncivil acts and harass citizens who are going about their day-to-day activities.”

“Some thugs are going as far as forcing people who have businesses open to close shop and join in the protests. We know these are criminal elements. And so, as a state, we must act to protect the citizenry.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/endsars-makinde-deploys-operation-burst-team-to-troubled-spots-in-ibadan/

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the FG should pay civil servants based on their qualifications and not based on the sector they are working. Although there may be difference in allowances.

this will encourage people to work in any sector of the government since they already know what their pay will be with what they have. and it will also reduce the level of unemployment in the country.

even if na OND president get, make him receive same salary with teachers with same qualification but there allowances may different sha.

this will even encourage people to value education sef coz nobody go want earn less. and with this, we will have more literate in the society which will in turn reduce the number of nuisances.

Great! please make it snappy

No be ASUU get the twitter account

After all, it’s the fashion these days to be a desk general!” — the last quip of Jero’s Metamorphosis (published 1973) — was Prof. Wole Soyinka’s wry but devastating dig, at power-grabbing, opportunistic soldiers.

The late Chuba Okadigbo, inimitable Oyi of Oyi, and former president of the Senate, would further explore this dismissive motif. He gored them as “coup heroes”.

But perhaps the most blistering, on the military power bullies, was Policeman, Alozie Ogugbuaja, and his pepper soup-and-coup theory.

The then Police superintendent strafed the military as streaming with idle minds, downing bowls after bowls of pepper soup and choice beer each day from 11 am, and thinking and dreaming and plotting nothing but coups!

Sure, that Alozie bomb blasted Ogugbuaja into career Siberia. But it was a sobering thunder clap, which boxed the vain ears of the ruling military elite, at the high noon of General Ibrahim Babangida’s regime — the most reckless and insidious of them all!

Still, when our own WS was coining that immortal line — the final flourish of Jero’s Metamorphosis — he probably never knew how hard it would come back to haunt his now much debased kith-and-kin, in the Nigerian intelligentsia.

Pray, what is the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) today, but a bunch of ”audio” intellectuals, barking insane threats on the union turf, rather than vibrating with ground-breaking research, and grooming, with quality intellect, the young lives in their care?

Like desk generals, like audio lecturers — epochal dual impostors fated, by the scandal of their near-zero sense of duty, to blight the future of their compatriots and wards!

Still time was, when the polity quaked with ASUU sympathy; and rocked with solid legitimacy for its cause: saving public universities, from wilful government disinvestment.

That peaked during the IBB frenzy at emplacing systemic underdevelopment, of which public education was first casualty; and President Olusegun Obasanjo’s pursuit of fond personal glory, when public good, forlorn and shunned, beckoned in vain.

Both eras (IBB’s military rule: 1985-1993; and Obasanjo’s second coming: 1999-2007) teemed with ASUU long strikes that all but destroyed the university calendar as we knew it. Yet, the long-suffering victims, Nigerian students and their parents/ guardians, in ASUU’s support, bore the brunt with admirable patience and stoicism.

Between 1999 and now, ASUU has gone on strike 15 times, in 21 academic years — excluding its current comical “strike”, even after COVID-19 had paralyzed all: 1999 (five months), 2001 (three months), 2002 (two weeks), 2003 (six months), 2005 (two weeks), 2006 (one week), 2007 (three months), 2009 (four months), 2010 (five months), 2011 (two months), 2013 (five-and-a-half months), 2017 (one month) and 2018/19 (three months: 4 November 2018-7 February 2019).

The “strike campaign” birthed a landmark agreement in 2009, a Federal Government-ASUU deal, signed by the historic midwives: Bolanle Babalakin, SAN, the chairman of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities, the late Gabriel Onosode, chairman of the re-negotiation committee and Ukachukwu Awuzei, then ASUU president.

That historic breakthrough — at least that was what the new save-the-university-template was assumed to be back then — agreed that each federal university should get a jab of at least N1.5 trillion between 2009 and 2011; and their state counterparts, an infusion of N3.6 million per student. The deal also agreed to at least 26% of Nigeria’s yearly budget funding education, half of that going to the universities.

Needless to say, controversy broke out on the deal’s implementation. The government claimed it had tried to consummate it, subject to the availability of funds — hardly good faith! Lecturers’ pay was much enhanced, though, somewhat stalling the brain drain.

Still, ASUU insisted the government had not tried enough; and often, to drive home its point, reverted to its inevitable strikes. Unfortunately, by ASUU’s bulldog approach to strike, as a cure-all tool, it started bleeding badly, on public trust and confidence.

But, no thanks to its hubris and arrogance, ASUU little realized it. The premise of that hubris was that the government was always unpopular and could easily be tarred and bullied. That fired the ASUU all-conquering bully complex.

But alas! On that haughty altar, it merrily slaughtered its essence, surrendered its prime duty to its students, scorned the community that stood by it, and became a critical part of the problem it claimed it strove to solve.

Under the current presidency of Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU has plumbed its most insensate and insensitive worst. That it little realizes it is well and truly tragic!

That’s why it would growl to be on an “indefinite strike”, when its students are anxious to salvage their 2020 academic year, after the COVID-19 paralysis; and its competitors, the private universities, are using the shambolic public university calendar to market own trade. What crap!

ASUU’s case is not helped at all by its conceit, goading it to dictate how its employer must pay it. But which employee does that, so long as he gets his due? That is the long-and-short of its anti-IPPIS crusade. For ASUU, it could well end in tears!

The Federal Government has done well to give a final IPPIS ultimatum. If it gets to that, it should declare a state of emergency in tertiary education. Let academics who want to teach stay. Let those fired by permanent Aluta leave. It’s time the system reclaimed its soul!

That Prof. Ogunyemi could be comfy, operating from the University of Ibadan, shows a much degraded academy, across the board. In late 1982, a students’ unrest led to a two-month closure of UI, spilling into 1983. But despite further breaks, caused by the 1983 general election, the UI calendar had normalized by November 1983!

Is that UI culture, of fierce academic focus, no matter what, gone with the winds, of ASUU’s perpetual agitation?

While as an undergraduate at UI, ASUU had issues. Yet, the likes of Prof. Abiola Odejide and Mr. Pius Omole (Language Arts) and Prof (then Dr.) Niyi Osundare (English), made a lasting impact on their students — of which Ripples is proudly one.

So did the University of Lagos trio of Profs. Olatunji Dare, Idowu Sobowale and Andrew Moemeka, all of Mass Communication, later at the Unilag Post-Graduate school.

Great teachers all, earning eternal gratitude, they helped to shape the Ripples’ offerings on this page, every week.

So, how much impact, on their students, are these ever-on-strike, unionized campus cowboys of today making; strutting the turf and making eternal threats?

For the sake of our future generation, it’s time we all called ASUU’s bluff!

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has described the directive stopping the salaries of university employees , who have not enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, as blackmail to weaken workers and make them enroll on the platform .

The Chairman of the University of Port Harcourt Branch of ASUU , Dr Austen Sado , who spoke on Sunday , explained that though some of his colleagues had not been paid salaries since February , the union would not be cowed into enrolling on IPPIS .

Sado , who spoke on the telephone , said , “ It ( directive to stop salaries ) clearly shows that there is something the Federal Government is not telling the people. They are not paying us ( some lecturers) . So, why are they saying by November ?

“What they are doing now is just blackmail and threat to see how they would weaken our members to go and enroll ( on IPPIS ) . People who have not enrolled are not being paid ; some people for eight months , some for three , going to four months . I have not been paid salary since July , while some people have not been paid since February.

“They have not paid us because of IPPIS . A few of the people that registered with IPPIS are being paid . But when they pay them , they don ’t even get the full complement of their salaries; some of them claim that they get like N 50 , 000 , N 60 , 000 , and we are talking about senior lecturers and above.

“A professor told me that what he is getting is N 100, 000 ( as monthly salary ) and yet they want to put more people into that . But we have resolved that we will not succumb to this blackmail.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/fg-blackmailing-varsity-workers-into-enrolling-on-ippis-ASUU/%3famp=1

Thelife:
Smile, one like shite and Sunni not to talk of other Islamic sect, when will you stop killing your brother because of sect difference?

Sorry bro, no one care about you guys, we are just tired of your hypocrisy

just tell me the

Allah of each sect?
Quran of each sect?
kibla of each sect?
Ramadan of each sect?
Hajj of each sect?

sorry bro, your ranting can't change what had already been sealed. Islam is the same in the past, present and it will remain the same till eternity.

ImpregnaTor:
clap for yourself, you have been totally brainwashed, you will soon receive the certificate from your imam..

I wonder how guys of this 21 century could be this brainwashed. pity!

That's why we are Muslims. you can't use your brain to give verdict in Islam but follow the will of Allah who created the brain and the sunnah of his holy prophet(peace be upon him).

the truth is you guys too are also brainwashed.

Lol.... Baba one stream of income don burst

make una resume first and expose later