baralatie:

It does not work that way!
As long as kogi state has entered the case(if through).it will have to see it to the end
Unless the kogi state does not have evidence to prove their claim .it is an open and closed matter
Court will strike it out without mincing words

people have the liberty to withdraw civil case and settle out of court. Infact, the court encourages that a lot.

Kasssandra:


And where would the government get the money for all that

1.Good roads....usually road tolls. But in 2002, we removed tolling from the roads, and everyone cheered...now our roads are worse.

2.Electricity 20 hours...when the government is sabotaging the power sector by forcing them to lose money by setting their price for them...instead of letting them set their prices....at the end, they don't make a profit to fix things and attract investment.

3.Health: Hospital fees are too low in government hospitals...and at the end, the hospitals don't have the money to imprve things. Plus taxes. UK funds its NHS from taxing people.

4.Security...the same thing. Our police polices people on one tenth of what New Yourk city polices its people...and we have 210 million of us. Naturally, ye pay taxes.


Or how do we fund these things you want? On revenue from 2-3 m bpd of oil which isn;t enough for a nation of 20 million people, talk;less of 200 million people (Don';t mention Saudi and UAE. UAE produces 3 m bpd and has 15 million people.. Saudi has 40 millon and produces 10 m bpd).

Or we take another loan?

Reality is very hard to face.

n.b This does not excuse Buhari, or bad leadership...this shows what a good leader needs to do. In addtion to actually fighting corruption.

Let them stop stealing the billions they are stealing. Then, every Nigerian should remove corruption from their blood. Before you know, things will be far better

TheNiceGuy:
I hope ASUU won't be paid for the 8 months they've been on strike anyway

Should they be paid, who'll compensate students

So if they are not paid the 8 months, how is that compensation to students? I don't understand this your logic. If you are asking for compensation for students, ask if you don't want to, leave it

Another administration will come and be pressured to withdraw all court cases if they are not going the way of Dangote. By then, Bello will not be relevant in the scheme of things again

Angelfrost:


Will proscribing a labor union end the consistent and glaring rot in the education and healthcare sectors?!!

Sometimes, I think some of you are either clueless about leadership or just too selfish to face facts!

The tire me. Many of them are very clueless. Just resume resume. To do what exactly? This nation deserves more than pity. Many of the so called youths are as lazy mentally as Buhari insinuated. Very unfortunate

Ebubu:
ASUU should look for other means to drag FG example court cases, instead of industrial strike.

Strike is the only way they will keep dragging. Federal government d obey court?

Shows hoe neglected our education is. But some empty brains are rejoicing that government forced ASUU to call off strike not even understanding that certain things were agreed on. Buhari was right after all. Most youths are lazy

Nosayer:


Shows you're not in tune with how the strike was called off.

If they called off the strike based on the court's ruling alone, it would have been disastrous for the students.

Have you seen teachers working maximally when forced to work before, talk more of university professors.

The House of representatives waded in and have been negotiating with then for a while. Now, they're already talking about how to settle their arrears for the 8 months.

ASUU still lost?

The best Nigerian University is ranked 401st in the world, i just saw that on a thread above this one. It beats my imagination on how some people are happy in their myopic thoughts that government has won not even knowing the agreements arrived at. Of a truth, Buhari may not be that intelligent but he was when he said Nigerian youths are lazy. Many indeed are lazy

yinkus6750:
What a shame .
Guess PMBs government held ASUU by the jugular, hence they had no other option than to retreat.
Enough of toying with the future of the youths.
Everytime, strike , strike , strike.
Are they the only union affected by situation of the country since years past ?
Better to jaw jaw than war war.
They should have waited for FG to proscribe the union and arrest the leaders for contempt of court.
The breakfast would have been sweet.
Hope they won't get paid for awoof 8 months of doing nothing ?

someone wrote the below. Kindly go through it

"Suspension of strike - the losers and the winners:
1. ASUU: they will receive withheld salary, 50 billion has been mapped out for earn allowance, 170 billion for salary increment and 250 billion for revitalization. With all these, the strike was SUSPENDED conditionally. ASUU ARE AMONG THE WINNERS

2. Speaker house of rep.: Femi took it upon himself to mediate between ASUU and the president. His effort paid. ASUU, the students and his party APC see him as a hero. His effort will impact positively on his political career. FEMI IS AMONG THE WINNERS

3. FG: They won on issue of payment platform. The burden of financing higher institution has been partially transfered to schools and by extension to students and parents thereby partly relieving FG. For the rulling party, strike will no longer be a problem during campaigns. FG IS AMONG THE WINNERS

4. STUDENTS: They have lost 8 months which can not be recovered. FG insisted that from 2024 earn allowance will be generated by universities. That means there will be great increase in tuition fees. Students may have to pay between 150k to 1 Millon depending on the course of study and school. STUDENTS ARE AMONG THE LOSERS

4. CHRIS NGIGE: He fought ASUU and the minister of education. Insisted on increase in tuition fees. He did what he could to frustrated the effort of negotiation committee. He blackmailed the presidency and probably tried to use ASUU to frustrate his political party against next election. At the end his effort was in vain. His political party is calling for his sack. He is seen in bad light by ASUU, other ministers and his party. NGIGE IS AMONG THE LOSERS."

By Punch Editorial Board
13th October 2022


BEREFT of practical ideas on ways to end the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Federal Government last week hurriedly registered two rival unions in the university system in an undisguised move to divide lecturers. The new unions are the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics and the Congress of Nigerian University Academics. The government misses the point; it should focus on the short-term goal of getting schools to reopen, and on the long-term objective of revitalising the tertiary education system, its funding and equipping.

Obviously confident that the move would end the strike, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, while presenting the certificates of registration to the two unions, said they would exist alongside ASUU. Public university lecturers had embarked on strike on February 14 to protest over unpaid allowances, demand a better welfare package, and better funding of the universities, among others.

The government’s move could eventually prove counter-productive; unions opposed to strikes today may become militant in future. Brinksmanship is not the way out: the issues and ASUU’s demands are germane: fulfil past agreements, fund tertiary education adequately, and provide better welfare for the teachers.

Lecturers and indeed, all workers have the right to freely form, join or opt out of trade or professional associations. The International Labour Organisation describes this principle of the freedom of association as “the core of its values;” it is enshrined in its constitution adopted in 1919, and reaffirmed thereafter in several treaties and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). At face value, therefore, the new unions accord with global best practices. And viewed alongside the disagreement of a minority of lecturers across the country with ASUU’s frequent strikes, rival unions offer them other avenues to ventilate alternative views and aspirations.




But birthed by a desperate government, the new unions may struggle for legitimacy in future. Besides, the government may unwittingly be setting the stage for unhealthy rivalry, acrimony, and mutual distrust on the campuses. Multiple unions do not address the problems of the tertiary education system.

Resolving three issues should be the government’s preoccupation: one is raising the funds it agreed to release to lecturers and the institutions; how to rationalise its universities, and how to fund them in a sustainable manner. Anything less cannot guarantee industrial harmony.

Sadly, Nigeria has yet to meet the UNESCO benchmark that governments should spend between four and six per cent of GDP on education, and that in the government’s annual budget, a significant percentage should be earmarked for education.


Since assuming office in 2015, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has not drastically departed from his predecessors’ low funding for education. In 2016, the regime’s first full year budget, it allocated N369.6 billion representing 6.7 per cent of the N6 trillion budget to education; in 2017, N550.5 billion or 7.38 per cent of the N7.29 trillion budget. In 2020, N671.07 billion of N10.33 trillion amounting to 6.7 per cent was allocated; while in 2021, education received N742 billion, 5.6 per cent of the N13.6 trillion budget. In 2022, education was earmarked N923.79 billion amounting to 5.39 per cent of the N17.13 trillion budget plan.

Education is on the concurrent legislative list, indicating that both the federal and state governments are responsible for driving quality research and learning. State governors should do much more in funding and upgrading their universities.

The proliferation of universities amid chronic underfunding, infrastructural rot, poor pay and emoluments of staff and faculty, and understaffing is unreasonable. Both the states and the Federal Government engage in this reckless practice. At the tertiary level especially, quality drives education and not just numbers.

Worried by the situation, the Senior Staff Association of Universities and other stakeholders have cautioned against establishing universities that governments obviously cannot fund. Save for possibly Lagos, all the national and sub-national governments are cash-strapped. Sixty-three bills are currently before the National Assembly for the creation of additional tertiary institutions. Ignorantly, federal and state legislators view them as ‘constituency projects’ with which to score political points.

There are currently 49 federal universities listed by the National Universities Commission, but none is well-funded. The state universities are worse off, created by governors without adequate planning or revenue sources just to satisfy political ends.

Laughably, the government approved the disbursement of N18 billion as take-off grant for four new specialised universities of technology and health sciences in June 2021. Rationality prevails elsewhere. The Institute for Fiscal Studies notes that under England’s current higher education funding system, the government pays around £21 billion to fund the education of each cohort of around 425,000 English-domiciled full-time undergraduate students studying anywhere in the UK.

Some alumni associations in Nigeria have tried to support in the areas of research, medical centres, renovations, and buildings. But their donations are a drop in the ocean. They should do more to salvage the universities.

In the United States, philanthropists, foundations, and wealthy alumni support colleges. A businessman, Michael Bloomberg, in 2018, donated $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University. Nike’s co-founder, Phil Knight, donated hundreds of millions of dollars spanning years to the University of Oregon, from where he graduated. A 2020 research by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education showed that alumni donations to US colleges accumulated to $11 billion in 2019.

The Nigerian government should merge some of the federal universities to achieve optimal standards. It should shut down the extra multiple military and paramilitary universities it rashly approved in recent years without regard to needs and funding.

Multiple unions and court rulings ordering ASUU back to work leave the issues of release of promised funds and equipping the universities unresolved. The government and the ASUU should therefore urgently reach an agreement for an out-of-court settlement to solve these knotty issues.

Already, an entire academic session is lost; for the sake of the hapless students, and their parents/guardians, urgently, both sides should shift ground.

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haslaw:



Stop ranting and foaming at the mouth and listen to logic.

1) The ASUU president's graduated from a foreign university a few weeks ago

2) ASSU are not above the law. It would become contempt of law

3) The case is no longer between ASSU and FG but between ASSU and the court.

4) If is court with contempt, they would be considered as a lawless organisation and FG would start taking steps to deregister them

It is illogic i am listening to from you. How do you force people to go back to such work as lecturing via questionable court orders? What will be the quality of their output? Did the ASUU president graduate with a first degree or even a second degree? If the schools here were anything to write home about who will pay cutthroat fees to foreign schools who on the other hand use the money to grant their citizens free education and also better their economies. Your sense will not tell you that if the governments of those countries were treating their education the way it is done here, the thieving class will not be able to go and enroll their kids there. That ASUU president or anyone garduated abroad further strenthens my point that our education system is nothing to write home about hence the need to seek for a better place.

However, as it is with anyone who supports the clueless government, i will not expect you to know all this. You will rather unknowingly make another point that will further strenthen what i have been saying since. Common sense is indeed not common.

haslaw:



Even members of ASUU would not argue your DAFT ways.

Let ASUU be so f00leesh to disobey court order and see

What will they see? You are just mirroring what you are. No wonder we are led by this useless people. We will see the wrong path they are taking and foolishly back them. The same people with their children studying abroad cos of the decay in our schools o. But here you are dancing shamelessly in their support. There no hope for this country with this kind of mentality

BeardGangJnr1:
FG rendered ASUU handicapped already,
Xccept u are hatching a plan to disobey dual Court orders....u have zero options other than resuming... regardless of the offer presented to UU, by FG (Buhari, Ngige and Reps speaker)
.

Unfortunately, NLC leadership is occupied by wannabe politicians...!
.

Appeal court simply said, Obey before complain
.

If u check very well....there wasn't any significant changes in the content the Reps speaker presented and what the FG renegotiated, ergo students shouldn't have been kept this Long at home.
We all yearn for the betterment of our citadels of learning...mind UU, I'm not taking sides.

Please can you put side by side what Ngige put forward and what the house agreed? It looks as though you even know what has not been disclosed already. Many people speculate on what they know nothing about and it is a big problem. A lot of people don't even know the issues involved in the ASUU and government tussles. The only thing they know is ASUU want their salaries increased and that's all. It is quite a shame on this country that we cannot get the simplest of things right

haslaw:



Stop advertising your ignorance. That would have been contempt of court and that would make ASUU a lawless organisation

Did you not see that it was a court case?

You the ignorant one here. So what happens when you force them to open schools? Will you also force them to teach? And what will the students learn under poor condition of university together with unhappy lecturers? Ask your self why these politicians pay huge sums abroad for their children to study, go to abroad to treat themselves of headache, ear pain etc, even have political meetings abroad. Ask yourself these questions and maybe your ignorance will be cleared

BeardGangJnr1:
FG rendered ASUU handicapped already,
Xccept u are hatching a plan to disobey dual Court orders....u have zero options other than resuming... regardless of the offer presented to UU, by FG (Buhari, Ngige and Reps speaker)
.

Unfortunately, NLC leadership is occupied by wannabe politicians...!
.

Appeal court simply said, Obey before complain

Oga stop with this nonsense. Are you proud of how our universities are? The very people you are defending have their children in schools abroad. Why are they not in the fantastic schools here? If not that the government is useless, how will you even think of forcing lecturers to class via court rulings instead of ironing out things amicably? ASUU can obey the court judgement but will the teach? Who told you they cannot declare another strike in the next one month after resumption? So how have you solved the issue? What the house of rep did is what Ngige and Adamu should have done since instead of grandstanding.

And hope the government will honor it's agreement with ASUU, otherwise we will be back to square one soon

gp6liveth:


Who is this fool calling professors cowards

Do not mind this people. Check very well and this kind of person is in the category of youth. Shamelessly glorifying government mediocrity. He may even want to japa and leave this country simply because the people he is so much proud of have rendered the country useless. Such a big shame

sofeo:
The truth is, they themselves are actually getting really fed up, they never thought thing would be this messed up.

That's why they are trying to consider options they once rejected when the strike was still fresh.

If Buhari should continue to show them, the No Work No Pay policy, along with other tactics, they will continue to be weakened and consider resuming in no time.

Cowards.

No wonder, the country is this way and people especially professional are running away in their numbers. When the vultures in government steal our common wealth to send their children abroad in the best schools empowering those economies, attend to ordinary ear pain abroad, vacation there and have common meetings there, yet they have people drumming their support. No one talks about the sorry state of all our sectors. The people willing to speak are tag cowards. Is there hope for this nation?

lhordspy:
Why is a court room like that for christ sake?


Just look at what those lawyers are sitting on. Just like football viewing centre where people gather to watch match.
It is well.

the thing weak me

The lazy youths who could not read the first statement will surely claim ordinary powder was burnt no cocaine. Trust them to change mouth

Eriokanmi:
You don't destroy an exhibit before arraignment, even if it occupies a warehouse, it doesn't matter. You keep it with full security guard day and night until the conclusive end. Video evidence and samples taken can be manipulated. Whenever customs confiscate goods, they don't burn them rather, they take them to their warehouses. Go to Ikeja and see impounded truck loads of contraband. After the court ruling, they now burn them openly or sell them off to general public in line with court judgement.

You forgot one key thing, that is why you made this point. Read the story again. The COURT permitted that, that portion be destroyed just like the court can permit auctioning if the product is autionable. You were not there to hear arguments made before this took place. Again, don't compare cocaine with bags of rice, turkey, cars etc. This is a highly dangerous consignment that you cannot trust anyone with.

casppyjay:
u are a very argumentative man however ur sense of law is at a cradle level
If at u possess any … it’s highly illogical to think the whole lot will be a physically presented.. the contention here is wether it’s ethical judicially to burn or destroy evidence even before trial and conviction..it’s sad u had to make me go diz level to explain to u because u appeared informed initially..

Guy, the COURT gave them the go ahead. Read the news again. Out of that, some quantities were kept for prosecution purposes. Some circumstances warrants the action the NDLEA take as far the the JUDICIARY permits, which it did in this case. How do you want NDLEA to store 1.8tones of cocaine in this very corrupt system? How do they secure it? Again Falz was just grandstanding, he doesn't know more than the court that ordered the destruction

GENES11S:


I'm not the reason for your frustrations

Thanks that you realize your error. Next time read properly

Eriokanmi:
What do you understand by exhibit to start with ?

May be you can explain your understanding of exhibit first. This one you are thinking 1.8 tonnes of crack should be taken to court room as exhibit, I don't understand

casppyjay:
do u know that courts can be misled? Please engage ur brains

You are the one to engage it. Do you expect 1.8tonnes of cocaine be presented physically in the court as evidence? You must be joking then. Do you know the amount of risks associated with storing 1.8tonnes of cocaine for even a year especially in this corrupt Nigeria? Engage your brain please

crafteck:


Na cobweb and milk dey ur head instead of brain, can you remeasure or retest the content of a video if it comes under probe, u go just use 10mb type nonsense.

You may do well to examine your brain as well as the reading the below

"Sunday said out of the 1.8-ton seized, 1, 828 blocks of the cocaine will be crushed and set ablaze while the remnant will be secured for purpose of prosecution of the suspects who were brought to witness the procedure and sign the certificate of destruction"

Freebills12:
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You are very stupid! Must you support the government even in their mistakes! This video of his confession is not enough, he can easily claim that he did that under duress. The court will still admit it. Burning of cocaine is a very stupid decision, you can't charge someone to court for trading a 1.8 ton of cocaine only to present 0.004 ton of cocaine as an exhibit. Where does it happen?

Haba, go and read this very news you are commenting on. It is the COURT, I repeat the COURT that ordered that destruction. So which court are you talking about defense again?

onosbaba3310:


You are the one disgracing your poor Dad after sending you to school, common sense no tell you say the culprit can defend that in court.

They can tell the court it was flour or something, how will NDLEA defend that without the evidence??

you that has common sense didn't read that the same court you are so confident the suspect will defend themselves ordered for the burning.

Why do we find it difficult to read and understand simple stuff?

GENES11S:



U never prosecute them, you don burn the evidence.

You didn't read the part quoted below or you have short memory

"Sunday said out of the 1.8-ton seized, 1, 828 blocks of the cocaine will be crushed and set ablaze while the remnant will be secured for purpose of prosecution of the suspects who were brought to witness the procedure and sign the certificate of destruction"

ada9ja:


What if the say they confessed under duress and what is there is just powder, what will the physical evidence to counter such. Just asking

READ! READ! READ!

"Sunday said out of the 1.8-ton seized, 1, 828 blocks of the cocaine will be crushed and set ablaze while the remnant will be secured for purpose of prosecution of the suspects who were brought to witness the procedure and sign the certificate of destruction"

backnbeta:

He's a lawyer; I doubt you are one! He spoke from a legal perspective. Destroying it after securing convictions sounds better IMO

The NDLEA personnel that spoke is a farmer abi? You people should be reading. The court gave the destruction order itself

Eriokanmi:
You're an ignorant in Law. It would have been better you kept quiet instead of spewing this. It's not every post you must respond to especially if you're a novice as in this case

Let the criminal get a sound lawyer, l'obatan, case closed. Video evidence will be thrown off.

come on man, you need to read properly and make informed comments. According to this report, the COURT of law permitted the destruction of the drugs, a portion was kept for prosecution purpose, the suspects witnessed and signed the destruction certificate. What else are you talking about? Do you mean NDLEA should take ten containers of drugs to court room as evidence? Haba, it is not done that way na

PerfectStranger:

You’re the one capping here. He’s seeing it from legal angle.
Falz is one of the outspoken musicians who speak up for the youths, so stop playing.

"Sunday said out of the 1.8-ton seized, 1, 828 blocks of the cocaine will be crushed and set ablaze while the remnant will be secured for purpose of prosecution of the suspects who were brought to witness the procedure and sign the certificate of destruction"

I don't think falz made any sense considering the above