TREND
OF EVENT
Monday, 19
December 2011 06:04 ASUU Website
The National Executive Council, NEC, of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, met from Tuesday 29th November to
Thursday 1st December 2011 at the University of Port-Harcourt to review, among
other things: the level of implementation of the 2009 ASUU/Government
Agreement; the extent of compliance with the 2011 ASUU/FGN Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) on the implementation of the Agreement; Government unilateral dissolution
of Universities Governing Councils; the on-going institutional accreditation
and the state of the Nation, including the issues of alleged removal of fuel
subsidy
No
agreement was reached at the meeting.
The Monday meeting
between striking university lecturers and the federal government ended without
a resolution of the crisis.
The meeting, which
held at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, was
attended by the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Minister of Labour,
Emeka Nwogwu; Minister of Education, Rukayyatu Rufai; and the Benue State
Governor and head of the government’s delegation, Gabriel Suswam.
The lecturers’
union, ASUU, was led by the President of the union, Nasiru Fagge.
The meeting lasted
for over four hours (from 3:p.m. to about 7:15p.m).
ASUU Strike: No Retreat, No
Surrender —President
Published on August 19, 2013 by pm news
Ahead
of today’s meeting with the Federal Government, President of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, has declared that the union will
not back down on the ongoing strike if a compromise is not reached.
Dr.
Fagge who made this disclosure to P.M.NEWS via a telephone chat this
morning, maintained that the “strike action was not embarked upon just for the demands,
but for the Federal Government to honour a Memorandum of Understanding which
it signed in 2012 with ASUU”.
He
said: “Who’s talking about demands here? We presented our demands in 2006 and
it took us three years to get it into an agreement.
“The
Federal Government signed an MOU in 2012, that’s what we are asking them to
honour, period. The strike action will not continue only if they implement the
MOU we had last year.”
Dr.
Fagge further disclosed that “If we call off the strike when the MOU has not
been implemented, of what use was the strike action in the first place? We are
holding on until everything is sorted out.”
The
industrial action by the lecturers will be forty-nine days old if ASUU does not
reach an agreement with the Federal Government at the meeting scheduled to hold
later today.
ASUU Strike Update: No Retreat, No
Surrender – ASUU President
19
August, 2013
In anticipation of today’s meeting between the Federal Government and
ASUU representatives, the President of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Dr. Nasir Fagge, has stated that the union will not back down on
the ongoing strike if a compromise is not reached.
Dr. Fagge made this statement in a telephone interview
earlier today. He maintained that the strike action was not embarked upon just
for the demands, but for the Federal Government to honour a Memorandum of
Understanding which it signed in 2012 with ASUU.
The ASUU President: “Who’s talking about demands here?
We presented our demands in 2006 and it took us three years to get it into an
agreement.
“The FG signed the MOU in 2012, that’s what we are
asking them to honour, period. The strike action will not continue only if they
implement the MOU we had last year.”
The ASUU President further noticed that “If we call
off the strike when the MOU has not been implemented, of what use was the
strike action in the first place? We are holding on until everything is sorted
out.”
The
strike by the lecturers lasts for forty-nine days if, ASUU does not reach an
agreement with the Federal Government at the meeting scheduled to hold later
today.
MATTER ARISING
“The threat of ASSU now is the beginning of
wisdom to federal government of Nigeria”.
Hence, the pandemonium experience today in our education sector is as a result
of negligence of government in carrying out their civic responsibilities.
Governments all over the world today usually invest heavily on education for
their citizens with the view that it is a prerequisite to national economic
development. The media dated 21 August 2013 reported that Thirty billion naira was offer
to ASSU in contrast to agreed 80 billion naira which was outrightly
rejected
Former
minister of education shocked the citizens some days back through the exposure
of financial irregularities in the legislative arm of the federal republic of
Nigeria by accusing the lawmakers of squandering a whopping sum of 0ne trillion
naira + within a period of eight years
in office. However, the same government who could not fund education
sector of the economy could give such amount of jumbo packages to individuals
who are supposed to be the people’s servant.” I am not surprise because must of these individuals need
money to pay tuition fees of their faithfuls who school abroad”
According to press release dated 21 August 2013, the
acclaimed best university in the country was rated 8th position in
the soil of Africa and yet we are the giant of Africa continent. In those days
my doubt is that the poor state of educational development in NIGERIA was a
result of people of less academic caliber that govern the economy but
eventually when I later discover that , at least people that have experience
four walls of universities take charge of the economy , I was happy that at
least the revolution time as come for development of education system in the
country.
“If Nigeria nation cannot fund education
system with 80billion to restore and revive our education system and yet the
government can use 1billion naira to fill pot holes along Lagos – Ibadan
expressway then I think ………”
Nigeria is a great country no doubt about that, why should a
nation sign agreement they can’t honour with their workforce? Is that
government sincere...? I think you can decide the answer!
If government can sign an agreement over a year ago on issues that
can open a course of development for the children of the common man and renege
on the agreement worse enough to what we experienced today, I think that
government needed to be question….well , can anybody question Nigeria
government? Dammed these deceitful people who play on
intelligence of common man!!
Although, the strike action will only affect the common man who
could not send their children to school abroad compare to those who their
children never experience Nigeria education system
THE PROBLEM STATEMENT
1.
Most people in
government do not have their own children in Nigeria universities
2.
The few individuals that
have theirs lodge them in private universities or better still own their
private institution
However, the common man on the street suffers this set back in our
education system; of what significance it’s to the elite and the most powerful?
Ironically, most people in our corridor of power even today pass
through some of these universities but send their own future generation to
better countries for better education. Assuming education system eventually
collapsed, they should remember that, their own children will eventually return
to the country to live in the same society with the disadvantaged children of
the common man and let see who survive the society
“It is high time; our rulers understand that
oppression can only last for a while not forever”
If
the children of the deprived common man become miscreants as result of denying
them of their civic right while you protect your territory. You need to
remember that one day these miscreants will be a threat to your territory and
let see who survive the race!
Equality
is what we need in this country to move forward, one of my favourite adage says
that, “live and let others live”. What this means is that, send your own
children to schools abroad or any where of interest but do not deprive the sons
and daughters of the poor from going to their local school, do not infringe on
the constitutional right of the common man.
Fix
our education sector, return the children of the poor to the classroom may be
some day; they can know, demand and clinch their civic right to channel the
course of development for their up coming generation
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