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EducationRe: FG Didnt Give ASUU Ultimatum – Jonathan by sonickay(m): 6:52am On Dec 01, 2013
theoctopus: He knows he cant sack the lecturers? Where did you get that from? Did he call you to tell you that or you are just spurning it from your backside as usual? grin
Did you believe him when you reported that he ordered so? Well, only a bought over mind, soul and body will take such declaration without doubt cluelessly. As a reminder, here is a thread you opened to justify ů̶̲̥я̲ pay www.nairaland.com/1534773/jonathan-orders-university-authorities-re-open

Before money was involved, now its paperworks, I wonder how long it will take FG to sign. It is just funny that the FG can't do the simple and right things. You have reached a conclusive agreement with ASUU, sign the paperworks. Let's wait and see...
EducationRe: FG Didnt Give ASUU Ultimatum – Jonathan by sonickay(m): 6:40am On Dec 01, 2013
theoctopus: We have already passed that stage now. The schools are already resuming and any lecturer who doesnt show up will be sacked. That is what is on the table now. Good news is, many of the lecturers are going to resume because they are already pissed with the ASUU leadership. You saw that on channels TV yesterday
Did you and Sincere9gerian watch the LIVE programme together yesterday?
PoliticsRe: Asari Dokubo Released & Flown To Abuja by sonickay(m): 12:30pm On Nov 28, 2013
Cubeet: Alhaji Muheedeen Asari-Dokubo
Alhaji MAD grin
Cubeet: Alhaji Muheedeen Asari-Dokubo
Alhaji MAD
Forum GamesRe: Make A Full Sentence Without Using "Is", "The", "Of", "And", "In" and "A" by sonickay(m): 12:07pm On Nov 28, 2013
ARareGem: Are you saying what I think you're saying?
Yes, I love you.
Christianity EtcRe: Pictures Of People At Miracle-Healing River In Enugu by sonickay(m): 1:20pm On Nov 27, 2013
I hope they reserved a tanker for ASO Rock as well, our leaders and Aso Rock visitors need the water if it works as reported.
RomanceRe: Don't Let Your Girl Talk To Another Guy About Her Problems by sonickay(m): 9:55am On Nov 25, 2013
Ijele-igbo:
Don't ever let your girl talk to another guy about her problems.

A shoulder to cry on,Becomes a dick to ride on.

This kind of stuff happened to me last year.... My cousin's girlfriend came to me, crying and complaining to me how my cousin's cheating on her.... I comforted her and she told me she doesn't want to sleep at her hostel that day. I wasn't a bad guy last year because if I was, I'd have taken her to my house and f'uc'ked her pu's'sy so good but instead I asked her where I should take her to and she begged I take her to her best friends house who happens to be a male.

So guys...... BE CAREFUL how you treat your girl..... If you treat your girl cruel, another man will treat her nice.... That's life!!!
You are right there. But a corollary to that is sharing ů̶̲̥я̲ own problems with her even if you wont state all the facts of ů̶̲̥я̲ problems. This puts her at ease to share hers too.

However, when a lady rants out, tells you things you didn't ask for or request to know, she is either sharing the things with you honestly or honestly to cover up something or pull a wool across ů̶̲̥я̲ eyes.
LiteratureRe: My Complicated Love Story With My School Mum by sonickay(m): 7:24pm On Nov 24, 2013
Prince Come Continuation now
PoliticsRe: GEJ Threatens To Sue SaharaReporters, Thanks Nigerians For Their Solidarity by sonickay(m): 6:51pm On Nov 23, 2013
donphilopus: Don't mistake the person you quoted to be me...

You're just tittle tattling
I can't stop laffing, this guy won't leave you alone until he fills fulfilled or receive a pat on his back. Check all his posts, the handwriting is clearly on the wall. His username is "Wesley80", he must "Snipe" everything unpalatable to his master's gut. Nigerian Wesley Snipe I hail oo, I reeled out the last time he attacked my posts. No more twale Wesley na bouate now!
GamingRe: Computer Games To Try Out Before The Year Runs Out by sonickay(m): 8:56pm On Nov 22, 2013
OMG! Nobody mentioned 'Resident Evil'
GamingRe: Computer Games To Try Out Before The Year Runs Out by sonickay(m): 8:22pm On Nov 22, 2013
Rhaspody: hi guys, i want to share a list of games that came out this year on pc that are awesome

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 : Full Burst
Metal Gear Rising
Battlefield 4 (if your pc can handle it)
Call of Duty GHOST
NFS Rivals
Grid 2
Dead Space 3
Tomb Raider (2013)
FIFA 14
Remember me
Assassins Creed 4 (if your pc can pc handle it)
Beyond
Dead Rising 3
Crisis 3 (if your pc can handle it)
Infamous : Gods Among Us


these are the ones i've played or still playing or want to play (NFS Rivals)
have tried ů̶̲̥я̲ hands on 'Freedom', 'Chicken Invaders' series
EducationRe: Adekunle Ajasin University Resumes Academic Activities by sonickay(m): 4:55pm On Nov 21, 2013
ajibolabd: fake news
Ajipa iro, do you mean the school's website was hacked. This information is the top story on the website/source posted above dude.
EducationRe: LECTURER: Sleep With Me Or You Won't Graduate. by sonickay(m): 4:29pm On Nov 21, 2013
Nonybb: If she is a virgin that she have my sympathy, but if she isnt then i dont knw why she refused
VIRGIN? I leave a question mark?? on this. She must have done something /promised to give something to the guy for him to agree to carry out such herculian feat and risk losing everything for her. Like seriously, its not something of monetary value (she can't pay 50k for lecturer); its either she promised the guy PUNANNY TILL SHE SEE THE RESULT OF THE EXAM or something worth more than toTo. I can't imagine anymore...
EducationRe: LECTURER: Sleep With Me Or You Won't Graduate. by sonickay(m): 3:41pm On Nov 21, 2013
ifoundmyperfect: This one wey e don make front page, some snitch may probable have alerted the randy old faggort. OP, you sldnt have given so much detail. Esply the dept!

Here is what she needs to do

Gather as many evidence as possible
bug your phones with one of these call recorders available for various fone types

Ensure you get him to implicate himself during the conversation

Ehen school resume, meet those lectures that were supporting him privately to beg on your behalf. they will still spew the same shit. record it!

make a statement of sexual harassment to the nigerian police and support it with the evidence u have gathered.

book a hotel. (you dont need to have the 50k on you)

sacrifice few mins of touch-body allowance from the lecture, while u have stationed your fone or any video recording device to capture the moment.

Police will burst in on him

School authorities will hear

You'd make youR fears known to them(school senate) about the remaining randy disciples.

They may be asked to write an undertaking

*since itz just her year 3rd, u don't have much to lose.
she has to take the bull by the horn. Coz it wont stop!
Like seriously, the lecturer isn't dumb my friend. He has the answer scipt of the exam with him in the guy's hand writing.
That is prima facie evidence, the guy can't exonerate himself. Likewise, the lady's absence in the exam hall as till the point the guy got caught is self-incrimating, she has no alibi for missing the exam.
She better no try wetin you talk, reporting her part to the authorities as well with a readiness to facing her own punishment of exam malpractice is better than carrying out a sting operation James Bond won't carry out.

To do this successfully on all fronts without any loss as you said, she must steal, annihilate and extricate that answer sheet from the man's office or else...
EducationRe: LECTURER: Sleep With Me Or You Won't Graduate. by sonickay(m): 3:32pm On Nov 21, 2013
WHIZBRO: Two wrongs don't make a right. Your 'friend' hired someone to write her exams for her, @ that point she lost her moral highground and capacity to report that lecturer, Let her visit T.B Joshua ASAP. undecided
redcliff: [size=14pt]"Lol. to me, this is the superstory of the century. If you read well and you know that you are confident enough to pass a lecturers exam, when you write it and he fails you ask for your paper, the Senate knows how to handle those kinds of paper call backs and another lecturer from another school would mark it. If the paper is missing, sue the man to court and find out why its only your own paper thats missing. Shes not even serious shes paying someone to write her paper for her. [/size]
emmy-richie:
Let her try to record their next conversation, and then proceed to duplicate it in other places. After which she should proceed to report the matter to the school senate and sue the murafucker to court.
rodeo0070: in oau, we ave female gender organizations that can handle issues like this. if the lady involved has a good motive and she is sure of herself academically, then pray and search for trusted morally upright female lecturer that can step in.

dont give in to him , he is as scared of you as you are of him.

stay bold and have you reported the matter to your parents?, your father or mother can be a good mediator in this issue. that is if really want to be free and there is no skeleton in your cupboard, your pride will not solve this problem neither will being naive do.
timi4mayo: Give dis to him
Just too bad for her. She lost her game cards after hiring that guy to write her exam for her; she had the ball before but now the ball is in the court of the lecturer, he has some good evidences against you (answer script and your absence from exam hall).
If you report or carry out a sting operation, the lecturer may go down likewise you and the guy will be rusticated and go down with him as well.
You can't put something on nothing and expect it to stand, you have lost your ACE already. My advice is that you should find a God-fearing lecturer, explain things to him and seek his advice, he may change the yeye lecturer's heart to exempt the guy and the 50# cash but he will still want your toto as outstanding settlement.
If you can't do the above, you and the guy could resolve to face disciplinary action by reporting all that happened without excluding a bit, you will surely stand atop, even if you were rusticated.

You deserve some dignity, the lecturer wants that dignity with pride, what an impunity! You can't give him; then you jeopardised the dignity of a guy gentleman. He redefined dignity and took it too far without giving you good advice and put dignity at the egde ultimately. What for? If he draws oil from your toto, do what the lecturer wants, if he doesn't vote for rustication together. You can always start afresh without losing hope in the Nigerian system again.
What a shame! Pay the price either way.
Christianity EtcRe: Using Rubber Thread On Your Hair Is Demonic, May Lead You To Hell by sonickay(m): 12:21pm On Nov 17, 2013
highyo: wao Anu, I'm glad you read my thread so on that day when we both appear on that white great throne, you will not be able to point your finger at me that I never warned you. But by then, if you die with an attachment, sorry it will not appear before the throne as an attachment but you will be carrying a snake on your head. You your self will judge your self before you hear the voice depart. Anu, you cannot enter the kingdom of God with a snake on your head. Stop attaching snake on your head, be contended with the one the lord gave to you
is this the freedom and liberation the bible was talking about? To spew your personal and subjective beliefs around the internet and judge henceforth and offend other people's esteem, you should be on the strEets doing this my friend.
The righteousness is as bold as the lion indeed, I hope God enlighten you better, for many righteous have foolishly gone astray...peace be upon thee.
TravelRe: The Shame Called Murtala Muhammed International Airport by sonickay(m): 11:55am On Nov 13, 2013
Sincere 9gerian: I'll be back to return fire to the fool, who wrote the above one-sided article, which is nothing but another heap of rubbish, coming from the usual axis of EVIL- Tinubu Punch.
he will NEVER COME BACK I bet! "Beaf" knows better.
Car TalkRe: Nigeria Now Producing Armoured Vehicles (photo) by sonickay(m): 1:28pm On Nov 11, 2013
vislabraye: I can't judge yet until I see the performance of the vehicle.
Building an armoured vehicle is different from armourizing a vehicle. There are so many things that entail building a vehicle.
Seconded. This looks like an "assembling point" to me, that shud be the right phrase not "manufacturing", Armoured Personnel Carriers are not plastic toys, it requires lots of manpower, time and resources to build.
GamingThe Wonders Of Playing Video Games To Your Brain- Study by sonickay(op): 8:53pm On Nov 06, 2013
Study Shows Playing Video Games Really Can Make Your Brain Bigger-

Previous research on whether playing video games
can make us smarter has been mixed, but a new
study demonstrates a very tangible effect of
playing video games: Parts of the brain can get
bigger.
In particular, playing Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes
a day over two months increased adult volunteers'
brain volume in their right hippocampus, the right
prefrontal cortex, and the cerebellum. These
regions in the brain are responsible for memory
formation, strategic planning, muscle control, and
spatial navigation.
The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for
Human Development and Charité University
Medicine St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus measured the
volunteers' brains via MRI and compared them with
a control group that didn't play video games. They
found "significant gray matter increase" among the
gamers and theorize that playing video games
could be useful to treat brain disorders:
The presented video game training could
therefore be used to counteract known risk
factors for mental disease such as smaller
hippocampus and prefrontal cortex volume
in, for example, post-traumatic stress
disorder, schizophrenia and
neurodegenerative disease.
While researchers are mixed on whether a bigger
brain necessarily means you're smarter, the size of
certain areas of the brain can be significant.
( Discovery points to Albert Einstein's average-sized
brain with the parts connected to mathematical
thinking larger than usual.) Increased gray matter
has been positively correlated with better memory,
and decreased gray matter correlated with things
like bipolar disorder and dementia.
Especially interesting in this study: the volunteers
who said they enjoyed playing the video games had
even higher increased gray matter. (Also, as Kotaku
has reported, the size of certain parts of your brain
may be related to how good you are at playing
video games. It all makes sense now!)

In any case, this may be just more supporting
evidence that playing video games can be
beneficial for more than just entertainment.
Playing Super Mario induces structural brain
plasticity: gray matter changes resulting from
training with a commercial video game (Abstract) |
Molecular Psychiatry via Quartz
Photo by Tom Newby Photography.

Source- @LifeHacker

GamingThe Wonders Of Playing Video Games To Your Brain- Study by sonickay(op): 8:38pm On Nov 06, 2013
Study Shows Playing Video Games Really Can Make Your Brain Bigger-

Previous research on whether playing video games
can make us smarter has been mixed, but a new
study demonstrates a very tangible effect of
playing video games: Parts of the brain can get
bigger.
In particular, playing Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes
a day over two months increased adult volunteers'
brain volume in their right hippocampus, the right
prefrontal cortex, and the cerebellum. These
regions in the brain are responsible for memory
formation, strategic planning, muscle control, and
spatial navigation.
The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for
Human Development and Charité University
Medicine St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus measured the
volunteers' brains via MRI and compared them with
a control group that didn't play video games. They
found "significant gray matter increase" among the
gamers and theorize that playing video games
could be useful to treat brain disorders:
The presented video game training could
therefore be used to counteract known risk
factors for mental disease such as smaller
hippocampus and prefrontal cortex volume
in, for example, post-traumatic stress
disorder, schizophrenia and
neurodegenerative disease.
While researchers are mixed on whether a bigger
brain necessarily means you're smarter, the size of
certain areas of the brain can be significant.
( Discovery points to Albert Einstein's average-sized
brain with the parts connected to mathematical
thinking larger than usual.) Increased gray matter
has been positively correlated with better memory,
and decreased gray matter correlated with things
like bipolar disorder and dementia.
Especially interesting in this study: the volunteers
who said they enjoyed playing the video games had
even higher increased gray matter. (Also, as Kotaku
has reported, the size of certain parts of your brain
may be related to how good you are at playing
video games. It all makes sense now!)

Source- @LifeHacker

PhonesRe: BBM8.0 Upgrade; FULL TUTORIAL To Register & Download by sonickay(op): 10:44am On Nov 01, 2013
Dear BBM Users,
As an afterthought, I have received several messages about the performance of BBM8.0 and other released versions. Users have complained of awful and increased RAM consumption resulting into slow running or crawling of their devices.
The smooth performance or otherwise of the BBM depends on the device Ram and specifications. It is advised that users delete less relevant applications on their phones to free up RAM memory. This could fix the problem in the long run.
However, if you still experience lagging/crawling of ů̶̲̥я̲ device afterwards, you could be left with the dilemma of downgrading back to the previous BBM7. To do that, go to Appworld and search for ''BBM" of which is BBM7. Download and ů̶̲̥я̲ BBM Messenger will be restored to the previous version.
Good day!
EducationRe: Universities To Open Next Week, With Or Without ASUU - FG by sonickay(m): 10:37am On Nov 01, 2013
Sincere 9gerian: I seriously pity gullible goats who believe ASUU is fighting for PROGRESS or infrastructural developments in the universities. Just imagine the current governors, ministers, civil servants, legislators, private sector workers,etc going on strike or protesting or fighting for ANYTHING other than extra-pay/allowances for their pockets. That is impossible. ASUU is fighting for more allowances for lecturers, pure and simple. The other tales of fighting for infrastructural development is a facade to deceive gullible goats.
was ů̶̲̥я̲ principal owing you unpaid salaries and allowances during the periods the agreement was formulated, negotiated upon negotiation and finally assented to by ů̶̲̥я̲ principal? I can't imagine what else you were doing den, just becos ů̶̲̥я̲ principal was owing you unpaid salaries and allowances for dis private defender job at the material time, you refused to advise him on the workability and gullibilty or otherwise of signing that agreement by both parties. You are such a callous person, I wonder what will happen to ů̶̲̥я̲ unborn lineage/generation if you continue like this! You are SINCERE INDEED, what an IRONY!
EducationRe: Universities To Open Next Week, With Or Without ASUU - FG by sonickay(m): 10:31am On Nov 01, 2013
Billyonaire: We all know that these lecturers do not know anything. Equipped with internet, students can totally study their courses and know beyond what their Lecturers know.

It is time to abrogate ASUU and restore the Education system to Pre-ASUU days, Tertiary Education was better before ASUU was formed, and will be better after ASUU is abrogated.

They right to peaceful Assembly, does not include the Liberty to Unite for Anarchy and totalitarian malapropisms against Education of our Youths.

ASUU is totally interested in what goes into their individual bank accounts and not the plight of the Students in this country.
"If Satan vanishes indeed God will be useless" just don't vanish, myopic satanic entity. Have you asked yourself, was d govt sleeping wen it agreed to pay dem d 92Billionaira allowances. Likewise who awards and undertake contracts and projects in the universities as well as pocket part of the funds? ASUU or School Management+NUC(Repping d govt.). I just don't understand the way you and ur myopic cohorts treat issues, have u been bought over completely along with ů̶̲̥я̲ family such dat u see nothing legal for somebody to be given what he earned as due by his employer!
PoliticsDetained Sylva Loyalist, Okio, Sues Police Over Alleged Unlawful Detention by sonickay(op): 10:18am On Nov 01, 2013
[quoteBy Samuel Oyadongha
Yenagoa—A loyalist of former Governor Timipre Sylva
of Bayelsa State, Tonye Okio, has instituted a suit
against the state Commissioner of Police, challenging
his arrest and detention.
Okio, in the suit before a Bayelsa State High Court
sitting in Yanagoa, is contending that his continued
detention is unlawful.
In an affidavit in support of the suit, Okio averred
that he was taken to Yenagoa by road, hand- cuffed
and blindfolded throughout the journey, from Abuja
to Yenagoa.
He is asking the court to declare that his arrest and
detention is contrary to section 35 of the 1999
Constitution, as amended.
He also wants the court to declare that his arrest and
detention on the basis of a publication on his
Facebook account was a violation of his fundamental
rights.
Okio also prayed the court to hold that the physical
and mental torture he has been subjected to
amounted to a denial of his right to dignity.
Accordingly, he has asked the court to award him
N2.2 billion in exemplary and general damages.
Okio averred in his affidavit that “On October 26,
2013, some officers and men of the Bayelsa State
Command of the Nigeria Police arrested me while I
was in my house in Abuja and whisked me away to
their office in Yenagoa and have continued to detain
me.
“The policemen refused to disclose to me their
reason for the arrest but simply informed me that
they were from the Bayelsa State Command of the
Nigeria Police and that I was needed by Governor
Dickson and the State Police Commissioner. I was
taken to Yenagoa by road, bound feet to hands with
cuffs and blindfolded throughout the journey from
Abuja to Yenagoa.
“I was beaten and tortured by the policemen, who
openly boasted that they will kill me and do away
with my corpse for daring Governor Dickson, who had
instructed them to do to me as it pleased them. I was
so afraid of being killed by the policemen in the
course of the dark journey as the words and actions
of my captors were mutually reinforcing to the extent
that I even urinated on my clothes in the process.”
quote]Source- http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/detained-sylva-loyalist-okio-sues-police-alleged-unlawful-detention/
sonickay: [/quot[quote author=sonickay]Source- http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/detained-sylva-loyalist-okio-sues-police-alleged-unlawful-detention/
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PoliticsRe: Stella Oduah Armoured Car Scandal House Committee Hearing (2) – Live Update by sonickay(m): 4:31pm On Oct 31, 2013
ThankGod Edeh: Thank you and God bless you.
No I disagree completely partially. Her proper name should be INNOCENTA OLIVER TWIST
EducationRe: No Retreat, No Surrender- ASUU Leader (interview) by sonickay(op): 11:12pm On Oct 27, 2013
Allohrandy: FG should stop paying them their salary
haba their salaries had been stopped already; the striking union was expectant as well. Hangover of a football match? Pwele...
EducationRe: No Retreat, No Surrender- ASUU Leader (interview) by sonickay(op): 11:09pm On Oct 27, 2013
b3llo: Hallelujah!!! First to comment am going for thanksgiving next sunday. Wait o... S̤̥̈̊o̲̣̥ Govt didn't release that N100bn for disbursement. It is well with my soul! All is well. FG I don tire for una n ASUU sef.
I bet you didn't read a quarter of the whole posts. End Time Tins indeed; when people lying-in-state will not allow you to finish ů̶̲̥я̲ posts before jumping to say "first to comment". Lolz, how many hours have u been waiting to go "first to comment"?
EducationRe: No Retreat, No Surrender- ASUU Leader (interview) by sonickay(op): 11:04pm On Oct 27, 2013
*Continued*

How many times did ASUU warn the Federal
Government?

We wrote 53 letters since February 2012 and each of
the letters was made public. There is none of our
National Executive meetings we would not publish
advertorial in newspapers and warnings constantly.
We even visited some eminent Nigerians and urged
them to talk to the Federal Government to honour
the 2009 agreement.
We told them then we would eventually go on strike
and it would not be good for anybody but they kept
quiet; it is now they realize that there should be
truce, truce for what?
All we want from the Federal Government is to tell
ASUU how they are going to implement the 2009
agreement, that is all. Government cannot run away
from the agreement; we must work based on the
agreement.
But the Federal Government said it cannot
implement some of the things in the agreement? It
said the idea of releasing N400 billion per annum is
not realistic?
Who signed it? Ask them. Looking at the kind of
government we have in this country, only last week,
the government said it was getting ready to bail out
the aviation sector for the second time. They feel this
sector is important because they fly;
But they have forgotten about most Nigerians that
travel by road. Is it not Government money they are
going to use? Where did they get the trillions they
are going to use?
Nigeria is supposed to commence the operation of
national carrier before the end of this year – that is
more of a priority to them. Education is not. You see
the outrageous expenditure for those in government.
Does that give the impression that the nation doesn’t
have money? A few days ago, the Central Bank came
out to tell us that in nine months, the nation made
over N6 trillion and our budget is just over N4 trillion.
They shouldn’t come out with the falsehood that the
nation cannot afford to implement some parts of the
2009 agreement.
Meanwhile, the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation mid-wifed the memorandum of
understanding that they are saying they cannot
release, that is the insincerity we are talking about.

Is there end in sight to the four months old ASUU
strike?

We don’t know, it is not for us to end it. When
government is ready, we are ready.
What specifically does ASUU want the Federal
Government to do?
We don’t want a fresh negotiation. When we wanted
to go on strike, there was referendum in all our
branches and they said until there is substantial
evidence of implementation the 2009 agreement, we
shall not suspend the strike. All we are saying is that
the agreement should be implemented. There is
nothing new about it, it is what we have been saying
since the strike started and even before we went on
strike. So let the Federal Government go on and
implement the 2009 agreement. We cannot abrogate
our agreement – on it we stand.
We are doing our best to give updates but you will
agree with me that we are handicapped and we don’t
have the quantum of resources that Federal
Government has for propaganda. You will agree with
me that is a challenge on its own. That is not to say
that we are not doing our best trying to explain to
Nigerians our situation.

*Source* http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/retreat-surrender-fg-deceiving-nigerians-ASUU-leader/
EducationRe: No Retreat, No Surrender- ASUU Leader (interview) by sonickay(op): 10:56pm On Oct 27, 2013
*Continued*

Can you react to government’s allegation that ASUU
is politicizing the strike?

Well, a thief always thinks that every other person is
a thief; because they believe politics is all about
falsehood, they think others are reasoning like them.
But the question they should be asking is, does ASUU
have basis for going on this strike? Let anyone of
them come out and say no. Does the agreement exist
and did the Federal Government sign the
agreement? The answer is yes.
Why are they refusing to implement it? Like I said
earlier, they have the machinery for propaganda at
their disposal they can disseminate whatever false
information they want and they think everybody is
like them. We are a union of intellectuals we don’t
just come out to say anything or do anything, we
subject it to scrutiny. We cannot become like them; it
was said even by government at the highest
quarters, but you would recall they have not told us
how, what manner of politics has come in and let
Nigerians know. They said ASUU has been politicized.
How? and it has been influenced by the opposition.
The question we should ask is by which opposition.
We look at them as politicians and all this claim is a
tool by the Federal Government to blackmail us
cheaply and we know they cannot succeed.

How many meetings have you had so far with the
Federal Government and are the meetings on-going?

I prefer when you talk about meetings and
discussions because there have been no negotiations
going on but there are discussions, because you
already have something to work with because when
you have an agreement, it is a product of negotiation
and it took us three years and I want to emphasise,
three years, to arrive at that document called the
2009 agreement and, for you to arrive at an
agreement, you must have made concessions. We
have the document, it is for government to honour it.
We would not refuse any invitation by anybody. The
Federal Government has been calling us for
discussions and we have been going. So, as long as
they call us we will go, probably they want to tell us
how they are going to implement the agreement.
It was reported that the Federal Government has
increased the N30 billion it released for earned
allowance to N40 billion. Is this true?
The Federal Government didn’t consult us before
they released the N30 billion. You see the insincerity?
We were discussing how to implement the 2009
agreement and they simply went and released
money to the universities, without any template, to
cause further problems in the universities. So, if they
have decided to add, and it was not part of the
agreement, if they want to give universities award,
they should go ahead.
If somebody wants to give you award, you won’t
reject it, but we know that we have an agreement
and you should implement the agreement and when
you want to implement the agreement, you are
supposed to carry us along.
Government is using this to blackmail us cheaply,
and the next thing they would say is they have
‘released money, why won’t you call off the strike?’
We are not part of it and we have refused to
participate in it and, in all the universities, you can
ask, our members are not participating in the sharing
of that money because it was not part of the
agreement.

Public sympathy on the strike, what is ASUU doing
about this?

We are taking that into consideration. You know one
thing about public sympathy, it can easily change
depending on circumstances, but what we are
looking at is the fact of the matter and the truth on
ground. Now if you look at it, people that are heroes
historically were called rebels, even in the Bible,
Jesus Christ was called a rebel, the people he was
dying for were the ones shouting ‘crucify him’. ASUU
stands for the truth to advance the cause of
education in Nigeria. And also the cause of this
country because by the time government becomes
responsible, it will benefit not only education but also
everybody. It is will be a stepping stone, then people
will realize that government carries some
responsibilities. For now, we are appealing to the
public but we know we are fighting a just cause and
we will continue. There are people who feel ASUU
should call off the strike and then come back for
negotiation?

There are no negotiations going on; so which
negotiation are we going to allow or are we saying we
should allow implementation?
Where was government when we were giving
warnings? This is part of the insincerity by
government we are talking about.

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