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in fact, i'm tired of copying and pasting you can read th full gist here.
ynaija.com/opinion/ASUU-part-quatre-we-have-an-agreement/

For housing loans, each academic was
entitled to 8 times his/her annual salary to
buy a house. After 6 years service, an
academic would be entitled to a sabbatical
leave. If this sabbatical was abroad, the
university would pay the ‘transport’ costs for
the academic, a spouse and up to 4 children.
If hospitalised, an academic would be
entitled to 6 months paid sick leave which
could be extended for another 6 months.
Retirement age was increased from 65 to
70 and any one who retired as a Professor
would be entitled to a pension equivalent to
his/her final salary. Indeed even if the
Professor retired before the retirement age
of 70, he would still be entitled to the final
salary pension provided he had served as a
Professor for 15 years in a university.
University staff and their spouses as well as
up to 4 children under the age of 18 were
entitled to health insurance. There are
various other benefits in the agreement but
these are mainly standard stuff like
maternity and 26 days leave.
What I find interesting is that while the
section on pay was quite specific in what
university staff were entitled to, as soon as
you get to the other sections, everything
turns to a ‘recommendation’. So for example
it was recommended that the government
spend N472bn on the universities in 2009,
N498bn in 2010 and N549bn in 2011.
Somehow, the Federal Government was also
supposed to fund the State Universities (at
least recommended to) on a per student
basis i.e. N3.7m per student in total from
2009 to 2011.

I am not too familiar with the intricacies of
academia but another N200,000 was to be
paid to external assessors for the position
of Reader and Professor. Call duty and
clinical hazard allowances were to be paid
to those who qualified to them per existing
government regulations.
It is unclear what a Responsibility Allowance
is (at least to me) but a Vice Chancellor and
Librarian were entitled to N750,000 per
annum for this allowance while ‘all other
officers’ were entitled to N150,000.
Excess Workload Allowance was to be paid
per hour to teaching staff ranging from
N2,000 per hour for a Graduate Assistant to
N3,500 per hour for a Professor.
You can see the problem with these
allowances – there is no way for the
government to know how much they will
cost in advance. They could cost N10bn or
they could cost N100bn. Lecturers would
simply submit the bills and the government
would have to cough up the money. You can
also see that ASUU played a clever hand by
giving the government a ‘discount’ on the
base salaries while loading up with all sorts
of allowances elsewhere. For a lecturer
earning say N3m per annum, it wont take
much for he/she to earn an extra say 50%
of that salary through all these allowances.
The government isn’t there on the campus
so it will simply get the bill to pay. And I have
not even mentioned corruption.
5. There were other non-salary benefits in
the agreement as well. Each academic staff
was entitled to a car loan equivalent to his/
her annual salary charged at 2% for
administrative cost (stop laughing). They
were also entitled to a car refurbishment
loan for those who wanted to refurbish
their old cars, again charged at 2%. At least
with a car loan you get to see the new car if
you want to, but refurbishment? That’s just
money in the bush.

Something called Earned Academic
Allowances was also agreed to by both
parties. In essence, this was supposed to be
a kind of piece-rate payment where ASUU
members as academic staff were paid a
fixed amount for each unit of work they did.
So for supervising postgraduate students, a
Professor was to be paid N25,000 per
student while a Lecturer 1 and Senior
Lecturer were to be paid N15,000 and
N20,000 per student respectively.
For Teaching Practice/Industrial
Supervision/Field Trips, a Professor was
entitled to N100,000 per annum. Further, if a
Professor did more than one field trip in a
year, he would be paid separately for each
one. Even though this money was for field
trips, such an academic staff would be
entitled to mileage and overnight allowance
in line with government regulations. It’s
unclear why, after being paid N100,000 for
a field trip, the same person will then be
entitled to mileage and overnight allowance.
What is the definition of ‘field trip’ I
wonder?
There was also Honoraria for helping to
conduct exams internally or externally
ranging from N45,000 for Master’s to
N105,000 for Doctorate. For moderating
external undergraduate or postgraduate
exams, there was a separate honoraria
ranging from N60,000 for 50
undergraduate students to N80,000 for
more than 10 postgraduate students.
To encourage young academics to ‘further’,
postgraduate study grants were to be given
– N350,000 per session (up to a maximum
of 2 sessions) for a science based masters
and N500,000 per session (up to a
maximum of 4 sessions) for a science based
doctorate. The figures were N250,000 and
N350,000 respectively for non science
studies.

To the agreement proper – there were 4
main issues to be negotiated namely 1)
Conditions of service [salaries] 2) Funding 3)
University autonomy and freedom 4) ‘Other
matters’.
Here are the highlights of the agreement as
I saw them
1. ASUU asked for and got a special salary
structure for themselves called Consolidated
University Academic Salary Structure II
(CONUASS). This CONUASS was further made
up of 3 components – 1) CONUASS I [the
previous one from 2007] 2) Consolidated
Peculiar University Academic Allowances
[CONPUAA] 3) Rent.
The CONPUAA was apparently to capture all
the other allowances that they wanted but
not captured in the CONUASS. Stay with me.
The reason why they were allowed this was
because the committee agreed that
‘Nigerian academics represent the critical
mass of scholars in the society’ and as a
result of this they ‘deserved unique
conditions that will motivate them [...] to
attain greater efficiency’.
2. In exchange for this new pay, ASUU
agreed to be of good behaviour and not do
anything that disrupts the academic
calendar to get whatever it wants i.e. no
striking.
3. Next thing they did was to look at the
countries where Nigerian academics
frequently migrated to e.g Botswana, Ghana
and other developed countries. Based on
this they came up with a salary structure
that would prevent this kind of brain drain.
They called this Table 1. The highest salary
anyone could earn based on this table was
N7.5m per annum.
But ASUU then seemingly looked at the
government’s condition and took pity on
them because the government didn’t have a
lot of money and then gave them some sort
of ‘discount’. This gave birth to Table 2 in
which the highest possible salary was N6m.
The cynic in me thinks this was simply a
clever negotiating tactic but I wasn’t there.
4. As far as I am aware from all of ASUU’s
statements since the strike began, the
government has complied with this
CONUASS salary structure. Indeed it will be
difficult for the government to not pay them
the salary they agreed to. It is the next bit
that seems to have caused all the problems
and it’s easy to see why.

Before you complain that Peter Jackson’s
Lord of The Rings only had 3 parts, I have 2
words for you – The Hobbit.
First of all, shout out to the good man who
dug up this agreement, scanned it and
emailed it to me. As we say here in Blighty;
you Sir, are the dog’s bollocks. Thank you.
I think the first thing that struck me about
this agreement is how strong ASUU are as a
union. I wonder how other unions will feel
if they see the kind of stuff ASUU managed
to extract from government. Part of the
reason for this, in my opinion, is
immediately obvious when you look at the
list of the people who negotiated for both
sides. While the ASUU delegation was led by
its President and senior members, the
government side was led by Gamaliel
Onosode and some other Professors and ex
Pro-Chancellors. The highest ranking
members of the negotiating team from the
government side appear to be some civil
servants who acted as ‘observers’.
This is not to invalidate the agreement of
course – the government clearly signed it so
they should honour it. But when you look at
the composition of people purportedly
negotiating on behalf of the government,
ASUU were already 1 nil up even before
anything was signed. Does anyone know
why things were done this way? Was it that
relations between government and ASUU
had broken down to the point where they
couldn’t sit round a table and trash out the
issues? Not even a minister?
Contd.....

these lecturers are becoming annoying by the day. U kept our children at home yet u said the fg is playing politics with their future. This share wickedness on the part of ASUU.

these lecturers are becoming annoying by the day. U kept our children at home yet u said the fg is playing politics with their future. This share wickedness on the path of ASUU.

Mzsolex: Oh lordy, what is He saying? did he ever attended english class?

did u?

Sicozone: That was the only achievement he kept mentioning telling us his mother uses a cell phone. What a joke!!! Gosh am really getting sick of this media chat.

stop watching and go to d hospital, sho na by force?

[quote authorHearme]Out of the 100billion for infrastructure, BSU got 950million. Ask Suswan the last Project he did in that university? Then imagine the face of that school in the next 5years if they receive that same amount yearly on equipment and infrastructure. They have decided to run down our university system but God will salvage it from them through dedicated steps like this. So our degrees and schools can be well recognized all over the world and we can attract other Africans to study in Nigeria. Just imagine Nigerians in Benin Republic, Namibia, Ghana etc. The conclusion is that the giant is about to die or is dead, but someone must resurrect or resuscitate it.

If ASUU call of the strike today. You will be very greedy to have wished to just graduate and allow your younger ones or children to suffer deprivation.[/quote]shut up, u r talking nonsense. Ask those nigerians in these countries u mentioned why they choose to sch ther and i bet u ther response wil be 'because of too much strike action by ASUU'

i'm not sure these ASUU guys av bin paid salary. They are just pouring their frustration on everybody, first it was NuC and now suswan, Ayim and Maku. Mayb NANS will be next. Hahaaha!

-Warn your girl child never to sit on anyone's
laps no matter the
situation including uncles.

-Avoid getting dressed in front of your child
once he/she is
2years old. Lean to excuse yourself.

-If you have to hire a house-help
please kindly take them for HIV screening to
determine their HIV
status, properly interview them and make up
your mind to treat
them well.

-Never allow any adult refer to your new born
as 'my wife' or 'my
husband'.

-Never tempt your husband with your
younger sister. (Else he'd
say its her's and the devil's fault)

-Avoid unnecessary familiarity and make sure
you take care of
your husband by yourself lest you lead him
into temptation.

-Whenever your child goes out to play with
friends make sure
you look for a way to find out what kind of
play they played
together because young people now sexually
abuse themselves.

-Never force your child to visit any adult he or
she is not
comfortable with and alsobe observant if
your child becomes too
fond of a particular adult.

-Once a very lively child suddenly
becomes withdrawn you might need to
patiently ask a lot of
questions from your child.

-If you don't teach your children
about sex, the society will teach them the
wrong values.

-It is always advisable you go through any
new material like
cartoons you just bought for them before
they start seeing it
themselves.

-Teach your 3year olds how to wash their
private parts properly
and warn them never to allow anyone touch
those areas and that
includes you. (remember, charity begins at
home and with you)

-Blacklist some materials you think could
threaten the sanity of
your child (that includes music, movies and
musicians) and let
them understand the value of
standing out of the crowd.

-Once your child complains about a particular
person, don't keep
quiet about it. Take up the case and show
them you can defend
them always!

Against the backdrop of the recent
interview where 2face alleged he had
invited Blackface to his wedding,Blackface
has reacted in an interview with Abuja
based radio station Hotfm stating that 2face
keeps avoiding him for reasons best known
to him.
He says he’s been trying to get across to
2face to talk about his song African queen
that has been sang by a Jamaican artist in
the US without the right to do so…’ if
someone sings that song it means someone
gave out the right ’he keeps avoiding me
cos he doesn’t want to talk about these
issues.
Blackface, Tuface
For the wedding ‘he would have put the
blame on his management and called me or
something’ but till today since he returned
from his wedding in Dubai, he hasn’t called
me, my uncle whose house we stayed
throughout the days of our musical career
passed away during the time of his
traditional marriage, then the white
wedding he never called to even ask about
my uncle or to sympathize with me, so there
must be something wrong somewhere …it
must be about the music money.
In any case Blackface has a new single titled
‘see you move’ enjoying airplay on some
radio stations across the country.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/blackface-reacts-to-tufaces-alledged-wedding-invitation/

for this END TIME, Nollywood no gree improve. Na wa o. I'm beginnin to bliv this end time tins oo.

A blind man, Shehu Sarki, 62, of Aso Pada,
Monday, told a Grade 1 Area Court, Mararaba,
Nasarawa State, that he did not entice his
friend’s wife.
The complainant, Shaibu Ibrahim, 56, also a
blind man, had accused Sarki of enticing his
wife Lami, 33, with money.
At the resumption of hearing, Presiding
Officer, Mr. Albert Maga, asked the accused if
he heard and understood the testimony
given by the complainant at the last
adjourned date.
Sarki said he understood and denied
enticing Ibrahim’s wife.
Maga adjourned the case to September 25
for defence and advised the accused to
come with all his witnesses.
On September 5, Ibrahim testified in the
court as to how Sarki enticed his wife and
took her away from him.
On that same date, Ibrahim said that he
became friends with the accused in 2012,
when the accused assisted him to secure
accommodation at Gwagalape, near Nyanya
in Abuja.
“He is richer than me”
He said: “He enticed my wife with money
because he is richer than me. He took
advantage of a little misunderstanding I had
with my wife over N1,000 daily contribution.
“He was my good friend. When he
intervened, I thought he was concerned. I
did not know that he had evil plans.”
Ibrahim had earlier told the court that the
accused was the one that instigated his wife
against him.
He said: “When I could not provide the
N1,000 daily savings to my wife to enable us
buy a house, he took my wife and gave her
another room in his compound.
“Each time I go to see her or sit on her bed,
she will send me out and say she has no
business with me.
“He began threatening me. He even told me
that he has the money power to take my
wife and marry her.”
Ibrahim had alleged that his wife, through
Sarki’s influence, had offered to pay him
back the N19,000 he paid as dowry on her.
On August 27, Ibrahim had dragged Sarki,
his friend and Chairman of the Blind Peoples’
Association in Aso Pada, to court for
allegedly enticing his wife, Lami.
On the same date, Ibrahim told the court
that the accused was the one that
introduced him to Lami and later enticed her
away from him.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/blind-friends-in-court-over-wife-enticement/

ABUJA—Three other unions in the nation’s
university system, besides the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday,
gave the Federal Government till tomorrow
to pay the August salary of members or they
will begin an indefinite strike.
The unions are Senior Staff Association of
Nigeria University, SSANU, National
Association of Technologists, NAAT, and Non
Academic Staff Union, NASU.
President of SSANU, Samson Chijioke
Ugwoke, in a statement said: “I, Samson
Chijioke Ugwoke call on Federal Government
of Nigeria to release the August 2013
salaries of federal university workers
without further delay. Today is September
11, 2013, and August 2013, allocations to
Federal universities are yet to be released
and no one has given reasons for the delay.
“This situation is unhealthy and it is
bringing untold hardship to the workers,
their families and dependents. SSANU and
other sister unions in Joint Action
Committee, JAC, will be forced to review her
stand with the Federal Government if by
Friday, August 13, 2013, the salaries of our
members are not paid”.[Url]
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/SSANU, NASU, others give FG ultimatum
over August salary./[/url]

UMUAHIA – The Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, has blamed chairman of
universities’ NEEDS Assessment Committee
and governor of Benue State, Mr. Gabriel
Suswam, for the lingering strike by the
union.
According to the union, the governor and
his committee did not advise the Federal
Government properly.
ASUU also accused Suswam of trying to
blackmail the union but warned that no
amount of blackmail or intimidation would
stop it from pursuing the implementation of
the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement, which was
the only way to move the nation’s education
forward.
Briefing newsmen at the Michael Okpara
University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia
State, the Calabar Zone of the union, led by
Dr. Charles Ononuju, accused the NEEDS
Committee of rushing to release money to
pro-chancellors and vice chancellors, instead
of addressing abnormalities in the NEEDS
Report Implementation Committee.
Flanked by ASUU chairmen at the university
of Calabar, Michael Okpara University of
Agriculture, University of Uyo and Cross
River State University of Technology, Calabar,
Ononuju said by throwing arbitrary awards
at the universities, the government had
repudiated the 2009 agreement and 2012
MoU.
He said: “Since the commencement of the
strike, our union has met with government
team for more than 11 times. After the last
meeting, the union raised some
observations/abnormalities on the Governor
Gabriel Suswan-led NEEDS Report
Implementation Committee and
communicated same to the chairman of the
committee, Governor Suswan, expecting a
response.
“Rather than responding to the
observations raised by the union that would
usher in quick and peaceful resolution of
the impasse, the government summoned a
meeting with pro-chancellors and vice
chancellors and offered to them N130 billion
with a matching order for the lecturers to
return to work, thereby pulling out of the
dialogue.
“Government, by throwing arbitrary awards
at the universities, has in effect repudiated
the 2009 Agreement and the MoU of 2012
based on that agreement. We reject the
arbitrary imposition of money from the
government. What makes a person, an
organisation, including government
honourable is honouring an agreement
freely made.
“The government should honour the
agreement it freely entered into with the
union since 2009. ASUU is not making any
fresh demands. This is our position and
where we stand and shall continue to
stand.”
Ononuju also attacked Governor Suswam for
accusing the union of playing politics with
its demands, describing the governor’s
position as “false, dishonest, calculated to
misinform the public and cause disaffection
towards the union.”
“Rather than seek cheap popularity, he
should tow the part of honour by asking his
principal to honour the agreement.
“We hereby call on our members and the
Nigerian people to reject this cheap
blackmail and continue to stand on the path
of truth and social justice.”
“No amount of blackmail will make the
union jettison our resolve to get the
government to implement the 2009 ASUU/
FG Agreement and MoU of January 24, 2012.
“We wish to emphasise strongly here that
our struggle has no political undertone as is
being falsely and mischievously propagated.
Those saying otherwise are economical with
the truth.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/strike-suswams-committee-didnt-advise-fg-properly-says-ASUU/

I was inspired here on nairaland, when i saw a man like me bathing his baby. So i decided to help my wife too while she was doing her house chores.

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drake2005: The man has better legs/thighs than all the women in the pic...very toned thighs. If his face was cropped out, I would have though he was a female. One reason men should never wear shorts as that short as that.

gay things on ur mind.

source?

favouryemmy: I understand. I also have younger ones in school. Point of correction: ASUU is not greedy. You say you're a doctor. Hmmmm. Doctor's strike in this country is even worse than that of ASUU. Because anytime you people strike, PEOPLE DIE. I mean every time! How do you expect patients to treat themselves when there are no doctors. I don't expect someone like you to not understand the way things are in this country and the kind of government we have. If there are any set of people that should criticize ASUU it should NEVER be the doctors cos the also do the same. Even when you go on strike you still have your private practices, so you don't really care.

I'm sure u r not talking about veterinary doctors?

favouryemmy: I'm guessing you're still a student. I understand now why you're this bitter. Lecturers are not greedy as you claim, otherwise what will you say about our executives and legislature? If they are greedy then they wouldnt have been fighting for proper funding of the universities. An agreement is an agreement: why would you enter into agreement with someone knowing you are not ready to fulfill your own end of the bargain. Its just like giving someone a dud cheque which will lead to jail sentence. Four years of patience is enough patience for an agreement that should have lasted three years.

point of correction i was a student and if u must know i'm a doctor. I'm also a stakeholder in this sector since i av siblings who are stil in sch.
Sentiment apart, i stand for the truth and nothing but the truth and dat is what u and ur colleagues are running from. You only knw how to quote figures, statistics and compare our system with dat of Ghana forgetting dat there are other countries in Africa dat our system is better than and yet you choose to ignore this.
What agreement are u talking about? you mean the agreement ASUU forced fg to sign in 2009?
For ur information, the fg didnt enter dat agreement willingly, they wer forced to sign it by ASUU who refused to call off a 3-month old strike back then insisting dat fg signs it b4 they do. My frnd, if u are in the shoes of fg who are more sensitive than ASUU to the plight of Nigerian students then, what will u do? I stil stand on my statement dat ASUU is greedy, covetous and insensitive.

@favouryemmy and niyitogun, do you knw dat any university you go to in Africa (including those with lesser burgetary allocation) u will find atleast 5 Nigerian students?
Just the other day, i read sm where dat abt 500 Nigerian students were seen in one illegal university in BENIN REPUBLIC, u can imagine!
Like it or leave it, here are the two major reasons, parents send their wards abroad;
1) irregularities/difficulties in securing admission into a Nigerian federal university due to admission malpractice by these same greedy lecturers( u must sort smbody in the uni or u must come with letter frm national assembly of course with money)

2) incessant strike action embarked upon by so called lecturers who claim to have these universities at heart yet do evrytin possible to destroy her reputation both home and abroad. Sela!

obi4eze: OP is this your source? http://alariwo.net/fg-offers-ASUU-n30bn-asks-lecturers-to-make-sacrifices-and-resume-work/

u are the op using diff usernames, sodat we can click on ur blog abi?
Old trick.

niyitogun: Anytime Government is ready to stop playing around with the quality of education of Nigerian youths. Their own kids are sent abroad for quality education anyways. How many folks here can boast about their science laboratories in their schools. Education is the grassroots for growth of any society.

oh shut up! I'm tired of hearing this fg sending their ward to abroad thing, u dnt have to be a politician to send ur ward abroad to study for christ sake.
If u dont knw let me tell u dat most nigerians dat go abroad to study, do so cos of constant interruption of academic calendar by who? ASUU! of course. Thereby helping to destroy the reputation of our universities.
In case u dnt knw, these federal uni ASUU is trying to destroy by all means still av better learning facilities than the so called private schools in this country.
There are better universities here in nigeria than in Ghana yet u find students running to Ghana cos they want schools with smooth calendar and without these devilish, greedy and lazy lecturers called ASUU.

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oh.dude:
Sometimes, I bury half my body in the garden soil and pretend I am a carrot, othertimes, I scream at the sight of a Nigerian senator

meaning? This is absolutely off point.

how old are u op?

I listened to Suswan this morning and what he said was quite different frm what i'm reading here.
He said dat both ASUU and fg agreed on the 100billion univ funding and that they have one more contending issue which is the earned allowance and dat they've made substantial progress on dat but they will stil meet on monday.

cardoso111: You need to ask for forgiveness from ignorance of what ASUU is asking from government!!

shut up, these guys are nothing but greedy fools. They will be soon exposed by the Fg, watch and see.