₦airaland Forum

change is here and must be sustained

fingers buhari official u mean the female ones ..

the very fact that there is truth or reality in the message being passed across but it shouldnt have taking this dimension of misrepresenting sagays view... SAGAY ur are a professor of law, you know what to do in this case. i am not as learned as you are but if you failed to act means they are right and you actually said so.....

The Senior Staff Association of the Nigerian Universities has called for an indefinite strike on December 24, 2015 to protest a recent decision of the Federal Government to sack 2,000 university workers across the country by January, 2016.

The National President of SSANU, Mr. Samson Ugwoke, said during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday that the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, and the National Universities Commission had written letters of termination to 2,000 members of staff of the universities.

Ugwoke said that the senior staff union of the universities had already dispatched letters to the Ministry of Education, the NUC and the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to withdraw the letters of termination issued to varsity workers of the University of Ilorin, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto and others.



He said that SSANU also urged the Education Ministry and the other agencies to ensure immediate withdrawal of similar letters to vice chancellors to terminate the appointment of personnel of university staff primary schools.

He said the letter dated December 17, 2015 also copied President Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Senate, Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige and others.

Ugwoke added that the 2,000 workers affected in the planned retrenchment exercise were drawn from 31 universities and were employed by the councils of the various institutions to make the requisite contribution to educational development in the institutions and the society over the years.

The SSANU leader noted that the directive to sack the workers who are expected to leave service in January 2016 was contained in a circular said to have been written and signed by a Deputy Director in the Ministry of Education, Mr. E.O Fayemi, on behalf of the minister.

He stated further that the circular dated April 21, 2015, was attached with a memorandum and report from the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission dated March 2014 and February 2014 respectively.

According to him, the commission responded to the circular by directing the removal of personnel of staff schools and other institutions affiliated to the universities from the payroll.

He said, “The implementation of this directive would be a gross violation and breach of the SSANU/FGN 2009 Agreement, which explicitly stated that the University shall bear full capital and recurrent cost of University Staff primary schools.

“It is further shocking to note that till date, the Federal Ministry of Defence still funds the capital and recurrent costs of over 100 Army Children Schools, Command Children Schools, Navy Primary Schools and Air Force Schools; while the Ministry of Police Affairs still funds its Police Children Schools, all from the Federal Treasury.

“We are surprised that an agency of government, the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, could continue with this callous, wicked, insensitive and ill-intentioned agenda, despite our calls, letters, press releases and publications on the issue.

“With the advent of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, we had written series of public and confidential letters on same with no positive response.”

He said that 90 per cent of the pupils of the university staff schools were children of the staff of the institutions stressing that the schools were established alongside other academic components of the universities in some cases.

The unionist said SSANU had to give the December 24, 2015 deadline to the Federal Government as part of the efforts to prevent the over 2000 workers of the universities from being sacked.

Several efforts by Saturday PUNCH to get the response of ASUU National President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, was resisted because he said, “I am out of the country and you don’t expect me to answer you from abroad.”

Also when contacted, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of State for Education, Anthony Akuneme, directed our correspondent to the office of the Education Minister, Adamu Adamu.

But several calls and SMS to the Assistant Director of Press in the Education Ministry, Abdul Onu, were not replied.

at OP. how peaceful are they by occupying one part of the road and subjecting motorist to hardship, is it their leader that construct that road or is it being financed by Iran...if buratai wan pass where u expect him to pass.... they dont take other people into consideration...


they are not peaceful but pissful ....shites kor poo ni

Ramos16:
I know how the amount was come about, what I am saying is that the amount surmounted to a very large sum, hence considerations should be given, considering that MTN may likely run out of business if they pay that amount;

do you also consider what their negligence have cause the country.. how many ve died cos of their negligence due to terrorist actuvities and kidnapping ...if it means they should run out of biz ..who cares ..theirs is not the first

Ramos16:
That is why at the end of my statement I say "we should know how we handle the ones we have". You don't ask for ridiculous amount and not expect eye brows to be raised.

nigeria did not ask for any ridiculus amt. it was arrived from the numbers of line unregistered by mtn and a particular agreed to be paid with all stake holders duly signed ..

heaven will not come down if mtn cease to exist

Ramos16:
you don't know what you are saying, we are praying for foreign investors you are asking the few we have to go away, you think it will make us big and mighty in front of other investors, no no no, it will make us shitty, our economy is bad enough as it is to drive away investors, I think we should know how we handle the few we hyave..

more reason we should allow poo to fester on us ...guy na oja oyingbo....free entry free exist...

we need to send them parking jawe... who go to court and prison and come back to be friends again...abeg make then pay the full money or commot from our country abi na by force to trade where you are not wanted.

in short high chief dokpesi has been put to jail pending an impossible civil servant coming to bail him with 200million. even some one on rank 17 or 18 of the civil service with that amt in his account will never come cos of fear.

CACAWA:
You have forgotten that GEJ was not the president abi?

You better go and catch mama piss before she goes for surgery part 2.

yea i guess that was what he was trying to say....like "lemme see umaru diko" during sagari time

ckmayoca:
All documents prove? Scan one on NL and let us see sir.

all the one you have been seeing on nairaland with okonjo and kawasaki and emefiele input is not enough .

why cant we be in a para military wherr justice is fast and direct. they shld just sleep and not wake up like the principal of maritime academy oron.

why cant he be tried by the military....in as much as na military money he stole.....where is that anti aircraft gun

after the reggae play the blues

Okaakoko:
OK

so who now awarded the contracts. yimu for jonathan. all documents prove you are aware and you consent to it either verbally or not. we aint fool same way you said stealing is not corruption but dasuki can now answer to that in efcc net.

convoy involving COAS... there is no more respect for the ARMY again...imagine

Old2020:
I said...I knew Capital Oil license will be revoked/suspended because he is a Biafran and doing well in the industry. Capital oil has the largest fuel depot in Nigeria. This same company that came to our rescue during one of our nation's fuel scarcity.

I tell you...Biafra is here than never before

shut up there...the same capital oil thats financing biafra and tanoids...abeg he is not the only one involved in the sanction.. if dasuki was to be an igbo the same would ve been said about him.. you igbo people are the real bigots .... every part of your life is filled with hatred ..ofulefu republic

nice craft

GorkoSusaay:
But Hausa-Fulani rules?

population and rulership not sophistication

ghen ghen ....round one fight....

woreva not my concern n very soon we will know the truth about biafra.
the real people behind it and how much was given to kanu and who gave it to him
rule 9 stays and must ve subsections for punishments

what purpose if i may ask... is it for media support or for what..need more clarification...cos i am using this medium to advice PMB to build a new prison yard inside the gulf of guinea around 400nautical miles away and must be able to contain 10000 inmates and heavily guarded.

dazdilijae:
Social vibes of which state? Who are the lead artist in the festival? Is Tuface from Kaduna? Or is MI from kaduna?
It's pure and simple looting of public fund while giving it a name. The festival has no benefit to Kaduna state and it people. Over 300million naira fa? Haba n they wanna take gate fee again

bringing star artist to a state encourages the youth against social vices

abeg NIMASA is totally difrernt from Maritime academy ORON

Gamesmart:
Na wa! As usual, any opportunity to dance is welcomed!

Any opportunity to think is an abomination!

. the same sani and people that will against this will be the same people that you will see regularly at clubs and social events in lagos, abuja and other places of the world but whenever the poor masses want to enjoy such benefit,....always feel sad

dazdilijae:
It's a complete waste of tax payers money, as we speak not one road or hospital has been renovated in the state and the Govt is spending over 300million for music festival? The worst part is they there is gate fee so where is the unwirning as you guys choose to call it?

he is promoting the social vibes of the state. but am totlally against the gate fee