Ademola47:
I know UI, Unilag and OAU won't call off anything unless there's a general agreement to call it off...

You see these first generation universities UI,UNN,UNILAG,OAU and ABU...

Na for these schools ASUU bury their placenta. They can never call off strike or pull out of any strike. Except na general agreement.

This is a good time to be in a state university. Next year JAMB may swing in favour of state universities. Since Federal universities no won get sense.

This election is unpredictable.

Though I'm Obidiently Obident,but I respect BAT's political intelligence so much.
Let's see how it will go.

Power MUST come back to South.

Let's try Peter Obi of Labour party. If he fails, we vote him out same way we will vote APC out come 2023.

We need new crop of politicians.

babyfaceafrica:


You don't understand politics. You think it'd about rivers vote? Continue

It's about what?
Anything any aspirant is doing now is to win election.

Even if Wike decamp, Nothing go change.

Rivers no go vote APC

Someone that is a graduate. But didn't stop there. Went further and graduated from top business schools round the world and is successful una won bad mouth.

PO is a banker. He may not be a professional banker but he's a banker nonetheless.
To be the chairman is not easy. I'm sure some of these APC supporters do not know management skill is very important.

Anybody who's opportune to hold an office where he/she makes the final decision wouldn't come out and talk trash about PO.

Can we stop comparing Lagos to Anambra.

Lagos had a headstart. So any dumdum can rule Lagos and would be seen as a successful governor.

Can we compare what each aspirant got to offer?

We have numerous problems in Nigeria, which one are they willing to tackle?

If each successive government had been tackling one problem at a time, we won't be here today.

Viraltrends123:

ALWAYS COMING OUT TO FIGHT FOR PEOPLE THAT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LIFE.

SAME WAY YOU VOTED FOR HIM ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, AND ANAMBRA IS STILL IN A MESS TODAY.

SAME WAY YOU WERE HERE BUSY HYPING SOLUDO, #SOLUDO-SOLUTION AS IF HE CARE WHO THE FUQ YOU ARE, AFTER 1 MONTH IN OFFICE, HE SACKED ALL THE TEACHERS, BUT YOU WILL RATHER TALK ABOUT EL RUFAI SACKING KADUNA STATE TEACHERS.

HIS COMMISSIONER ORGANIZED EXAMS FOR THE TEACHERS IN A SMALL HALL, AND WAS ABUSING THEM FOR RUSHING TO ENTER THE HALL, CALLING THEM NAMES.

THEIR ONLY SOURCE OF LIVING WAS COLLECTED FROM THEM, AND YOU EXPECT THEM NOT TO RUSH TO TRY TO GET INTO THE HALLS, SOME OF THEM WERE EVEN AROUND THEIR VENUE AS EARLY AS 5AM. AFTER ALL THE STRUGGLE, THE EXAMINATION WAS CANCELLED, THE COMMISSIONER FROM HER HOUSE, UNDER A.C WAS BUSY CURSING AND ASKING THEM STUPID QUESTIONS, SAYING THEY ARE NOT FIT.

SOLUDO-SOLUTION YOU ALL WERE READY TO DIE FOR CAME OUT IN HER SUPPORT.

ALL THE BUILDINGS HE HAS BEEN DEMOLISHING, HOW MANY ROADS HAVE HE BUILT ON THEM.

MUMUSS ARE STILL ALWAYS OUT TO FIGHT FOR THEM CURSING YOURSELVES, THESE PEOPLE CAN SAY ANYTHING TO GET IN POWER. MUMUS ARE ALWAYS READY TO TREK FROM STATE TO STATE FOR A POLITICIAN, DRINK GUTTER WATER FOR A POLITICIAN, COME ONLINE 24/7 CURSING OTHERS, AND ALWAYS TAKING HEAVY CURSES TO YOURSELVES, YOU ARE A MUMU WEY NO GET SENSE.

Please, type well. Why are you using all CAPS?

Waramiedema63:
Please who knows if UNN accept second class lower in biochemistry for medicine

Yes.
But chances of gaining admission with it is slim.

Alexaonfleek:
Omo...go bowen if u have the funds
Only God knows when ASUU strike will end.
Bowen is accredited and mbbs is mbbs anywhere.
Most federal universities are living on past glory.
Besides, if you leave Oau now and end up starting 200l, you might even finish before your mates in Oau.

This advice is good. if you have the fund, go to BOWEN @Adeboy29.

One of my friend was in 3rd year in a public university when his sister gained admission in private. Today, he's still in final year and his sister is also in final year and may graduate before him if ASUU strike persist till the end of this year.

Surely, we aren't sure if this strike would be the last one through out your stay in OAU. Go to private, repeating one year is nothing. You will still catch up with your mates in public universities and may even graduate before them if FG and ASUU continues their yearly ritual of madness.

But then, if there is no fund, go to LASU. The non Academics has called off their strike. So you can process your transcripts and other documents for transfer.

Mynd44:

Yes. Universities have no power to touch these funds.

Now in what I have explained, these Unis will have to generate funds to be better and improve. They can start giving 6,12,24 months diplomas for a fee where you can go get a diploma in restaurant handling now or Viewing centre management. They bring actual restaurant management of Viewing centre owners to lecture you, and you pay.

How can universities of Agriculture now have farm markets?
How can Universities of tech not be supplying the local markets with solutions to their basic tech needs?

These universities have become redundant and need to be off-loaded. This can't happen while the government still control them

You mean federal universities do not have access to their acceptance fees?
If there are no benefits whatsoever, why are they charging for acceptance fee at all. They could have just charge 1000 naira.
I schooled at UNN. Acceptance fee was 6000, later increased to 25,000. I think it's up to 30k now.

So UNN no get share.

DrLevi:

What I hear you saying is "School is for the rich"... The rich don't even use the universities in question so it becomes pointless privatising them to start with. You raise the fees and these universities die a natural death. UTME registrations go from 1M+ to 10k

For a clearer example, look at our airlines in the last couple months since the hike. Ask them what happens when a product is unaffordable to the poor

And where does it end? with just education or we would take a shot at healthcare too?

Since the fees are relatively low has anything changed? Aren't our universities dying?

Personally, If privatization is not the answer then these universities should be given their autonomy. Let them fix their fees (with government regulation of course). That way; we are sure of graduates that are capable and sound. Not these half baked graduates that schooled with stop and start academic calendar.

DrLevi:

I’m not among the privilege so yes I would speak from my position.

Paying 45k for other charges was hard for me and the same for a lot of my colleagues and the entire student population.

If education was privatized, I would be a mechanic or computer operator or something. Definitely not even bother to go to the university.

10 universities translates to 60,000 admissions a year for a population of 200M. Does that scale make any sense to you considering half of that population live below the poverty line.

Only 5 of those universities have medical schools, so your medical workforce would be reduced to ~1000 freely trained doctors. The rest have to go at terrible fees or take student loan. I personally wouldn’t have bothered

You don’t see how healthcare would become very very expensive’? Because no doctor world accept the rubbish 180k COMESS currently offers

Your solution is terrible flawed. Universities aren’t the problem. The unnecessary theft and misappropriation of funds is the problem.

School is not for everyone!
Education especially tertiary is expensive anywhere in the world!
This the truth some of us do not want to accept.
Even FG knows that is the solution to this incessant strike.
Since they know you and I would kick against it, they continue to allow you get your below average education while they train their kids in standard universities round the world.

OP is right. Hold on to technology and first generation universities. Any poor child that wants to attend any of them would know he/she is up to the task. because it will be very competitive and those with the best brains would be admitted.
If you don't have money and NOT so brilliant, then look for something else.
Before all these; FG needs to upgrade and get our technical schools up and running too.

Tunjibalogun:

They're mostly frustrated that they lack the ability to ease off sometimes. Lol

Nna ehhh ..
I tire oh

Horus:
Is it just about looking handsome or about the attributes of a leader?. A leader leads by example. He does not just issue orders.
He teaches others how to do things by first doing them himself. A good leader creates leaders, not followers. He takes good care
of those whom he is leading. He delegates responsibility

Na wa oh...
The topic says "the most handsome".
It's not about leadership skill or what a governor has or hasn't done.

Make una try de rest.

adioolayi:
If una end the strike without ensuring a Professor take home is higher than that of Presidential Aides... especially when una don know wetin one of PMB's aides dey take home..

Una be Epa.. Groundnut

Aides are appointment.
ASUU are civil servants. Irrespective of the government of the day, they are still there. There is a difference between civil servants and public servants in Nigerian context.

Invest4growth:
Who i vote for is my business. I am BATified 100percent and I have one.vote. I am a Christian but I disagree with CAN, PFN and their affiliates on this APC ticket. They are becoming political arm of political parties. I am a Christian to the core. So what was the benefits realized when we had a Christian VP?? I beg they should redirect energy to other things. BATified without apology

Rest please. You are not a christian.
Do you know what they call sense of belonging? It's about balance. We know the VP is almost useless. But let a christian be there. It shows sense of belonging.

If the M-M move forward. If anything happens, Christians wouldn't have anybody that would understand them in the government.

2023 will be interesting.
E no sure for anybody.

Auskyd:



Labor laws don't allow for that tho. If that were the case a lot of unions will never attempt striking. Do your findings lol. Every dime of that money will be paid. E sure die. Never in the history of striking has any govt not paid full. ASUU or any other union.

And don't forget there are 3 other unions on strike. Even if ASUU calls off theirs, what happens to the rest? You think classes will just resume? Lol students don't know that ASUU na 20% of the problem.

Make them settle them oh..
Make school resume.

Auskyd:


Lol right now, the only thing holding the strike from being called off is salaries. Buhari said he isn't going to pay that six months, and ASUU should compensate students for staying home during the strike.

Lol this strike just start, if he isn't paying lecturers for the last six months.

Check punch newspaper. The only one. It's there.

Na wa oh.

Well I believe ASUU is aware of the "No work, No pay" policy. Now they want salaries for staying at home.

starz100:

Federal universities can not be fully autonomous because they are not owned by ASUU. There is no way the government will wake up one day and raise its fees like those of private unis. Nobody will pay #300k in public university when you can get better education in private unis or abroad. Mind you the glory of the federal university is the high patronage it enjoys.
The reason why ASUU will never support a full fledge autonomy is because they will become like private universities. Public university lecturers , you should know earn far more than their private uni counterparts. If federal govt totally hands off subsidy of education, that will mark the beginning of the collapse of education. Again no amount of fee raise that will stop ASUU from going on strike in the future. Around 2001, school fees in federal university was about #3,500 per session, today in the same federal university it about a 100k,that is about 2800% increase for twenty years period. So, yes, this is not the first time.
Any fees increase without commensurate improvement in standard can backfire.

I get your point now.

starz100:

Who says they don't pay school fees in federal universities. You for say na free education

You are not paying shit!

uuzba:

The Education in Nigeria was given to us by the British when they colonised Nigeria.
They set up science labs and technical schools.
These are what educate the people to setup and successfully run fictional industries.
Properly equipped science laboratory AND technical schools .That is the foundation.
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But when the British left, we Nigerians destroyed all our science laboratories, destroyed our technical schools and chose to cram answer and pass exam instead .
Now, nobody knows how to make anything.
Can you produce stainless steel? Do you even have any idea of the chemical equation and where to source the materials?
Yet stainless steel is the foundation steel used in every food industry because it doesn't rust.
Since we dont have enough of it, hence we have very few food industries and all their food is expensive. When last could you afford milk?
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As we don't/can't produce anything, we chose to be importing instead. We have imported so-tey all our money has finished and we are now borrowing money from useless China (that can't even speak English)... The day they start using kungfu to dismantle our head, that's when we would stop borrowing more money.
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All we do is import goods and pose with them. And this government is so good at expensive bullsh1t lifestyle.

And here is ASUU now crying for the upgrade that should have been part of their education right from the very beginning... Properly equipped laboratories, properly setup technical schools, and well paid staff to run and teach in these places. These are the foundation required to run industries that will produce and refine raw materials in to finished goods that can be exported to foreign exchange.
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$1 = ₦1 back in the 70s. Today we are gathering. ₦700 to buy $1 and people are celebrating that the price has come down.
What a great STUPID celebration.

There's one point you made that I love so much. "Our science laboratories and technical schools." We destroyed it. Made it useless. First world countries still have their technical schools because it is an integral part of the the system.

In Nigeria, everybody wants to go-to the university. The university is not for everyone.

TenQ:

ASUU is not pretending that they are fighting for their Students nor the Educational institution of Nigeria. They are fighting for themselves.

There are only two Labour institutions in Nigeria that the FG have not been able to destroy ASUU and NMA!

Of a truth, Nigerian Universities are grossly underfunded compared with their counterparts outside the country.

My problem is that the FG doesn't know the Reason why they established the Universities: this is the fundamental Problem!

FG always negotiate with ASUU without asking for ANYTHING in return. It shows they don't have a need for the graduates from our Universities.

At a point, I see students paying higher tution!

Yes. I agree with you that our institutions are underfunded. But do you think FG don't know the solution to problem?
They do.

For our institutions to move forward, fees MUST go up. It's a better pill we don't want to accept. FG cannot fund all universities to be on par with others.

Education is expensive anywhere in the world.
Since they know you and I would protest if they increase fees and allow universities to be fully autonomous. They continue to keep fees as low as possible and send their children to get a sound education in either our private universities or abroad.

Mind you, in Federal universities, we don't pay tuition. What we pay are services rendered by the university.

TenQ:

You seem not to understand the problem
1. There was an agreement between ASUU and the FG
2. The FG did not ask for anything in return for the agreement
3. FG refused to implement agreement citing lack of funds
4. Everyone can see that with the so-called lack funds, FG is still able to purchase luxury vehicles for Niger Republic, build railway to Niger Republic amongst others
5. Should ASUU believe that the problem is Lack of money rather than lack of commitment?

How much is the fund ASUU is requesting?
1.3 trillion i.e; atleast 200billion every year for 5 years.

I'm not supporting FG's way of throwing money into unproductive ventures. Yet, what ASUU is requesting for is a lot.

Finally, their primary point is UTAS. Revitalization find is now secondary. So at the end of the day, na for their selfish reason.

HaryaorGirl:


They will soon come for you, and claim the 1982 agreement also involves revisitation, increase and bla bla.

Meanwhile;

https://guardian.ng › news › well-su...
We'll suspend strike if UTAS agreement is signed with FG today - ASUU

That's what their president always say everytime he goes on live TV or whenever he's interviewed.

FG is never going to approve UTAS. The sooner ASUU realize this, the sooner we'll resume

UTAS is the main point now. Every other thing is secondary.

Like I said; if FG approves UTAS, they should get ready because other union will go on strike for their own payment platforms. IPPIS is affecting everyone.

Kelsmatuc:
Ofcos what do.u expect when ur president has no certificate....it will never be well with anyone who supports APC next year

It's not about APC sef.

This agreement was made in 2009. If FG had kept to their promise do you think this issue would come up today.

I know we love blaming the government in power. But it doesn't work that way. FG only need to re-negotiate based on what is on ground now.

In the end, no sane person should support APC. They failed in other aspect.

To your tent oh students.

FG is not serious. ASUU is also not Helping matters.

After all said and done.

ASUU is keeping students at home because of UTAS.
Selfish union!

Just like someone said;

9 out of 10 news is about Peter Obi.
Make una try de rest.
He's not the only one running for president.

He cannot cough in peace without some imbe.cile writing a very long article how the cough has made him not fit to be president.

Well, eithers ways, na all of us de here.

Whoever we vote, we go suffer am together.

All I know be say Power MUST return to South.

SU50:


For your likes, didn't expect to, you need to be spoken to in the language you understand - beaten hands down, seeing your grand vision go up in smoke before even coming to life.

As usual, Nonsense!

SU50:


Grandeur delusion. How can people be this pathetic? 'We are the most educated tribe in Africa, the richest, the most exposed, we are lost Jews (Jews are known for intellect), we are meant to dominate yen yen yen', yet simple 1+1 is eluding you?

Yet, you ain't making sense too.