Strike: FG, ASUU Meeting Ends In Deadlock Again!

This news really saddens my heart...7years plus in the university all because of one form of strike or the other..

Using one tool to fight the government over and over again yet no tangible lasting solution. Wont you change tactics. i mean it’s only a fool who does something in a particular way and manner over again and expects a different result..haba.. Wherever you read or hear the name ASUU there will surely be the word "strike" in that same sentence or conversation...very annoying lots..i

u hardly see foreign students in Nigeria universities these days cos of this incessant disruption of academic calendars...the government is irresponsible. Yes we know! But must you further contribute to the decay of our tertiary institutions. u say if not for ASUU struggle, Nigeria federal universities would have been on shamble s or the school fees would have been exorbitantly high. bla bla bla....now i ask u ASUU, are schools like uniilorin,lasu and other states universities not doing well too? are the school fees of these institution very high?

looking forward to seeing that day when i will read news like " ASUU urges the federal government to heed to its demands or else they would temporarily call of its members to discontinue the research of a vaccine for endemic illness like say malaria, or drugs or economics , agricultural, mining , conflict resolution strategies..."..Never!!! all you hear is ASUU threatens strike, strike and strike cos of cos that’s the only bargaining power they have.....mtchheeww

and for those of you praying for school to resume next year, well i believe you guys are still kids in probably your first or second year (no insult intended) my prayer for u is that may ASUU strike and other strikes that may continue to happen in future not put u in a position that jobs would reject you not cos u didn’t do excellently well in job interviews but simply because you have exceeded the age limit needed for employment

#EndAsuuSrike

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Tijani Umar: ₦1.3 Billion Approved For Villa Clinic Is Too Small

 

Tijani Umar: ₦1.3 Billion Approved For Villa Clinic Is Too Small

 The Permanent Secretary of the State House, Tijani Umar, has said the N1.3bn approved for Villa clinic was too small.

He spoke in an interview with journalists on Thursday after defending 2021 budget estimate before the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs State.

The Permanent Secretary who promised to put necessary arrangements in place to meet the medical needs of the President and other top officials once the budget was approved said, “The N1.3bn is absolutely inadequate when you juxtapose the amount proposed, the labour, and the status of the principals that the project is going to serve.

“When compared with worldwide standards, you’ll see that it is not anything near what we need.

“It (the clinic), is considered a legacy project for us because we want to leave something down.

“We have realigned some many things and one of the fundamental challenges we have dealt with is the sustainable supply of drugs and consumables.”

Earlier, the Senate told officials of the State House to discourage the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), from foreign trips for medical treatment by ensuring that the State House clinic becomes functional.

The State House official had presented a budget of N19.7bn for 2021, out of which N1.3bn was proposed for the State House Clinic. The Chairman of the Senate panel, Senator Danjuma La’ah, said the committee would approve the budget for the State House Clinic but the President and other top officials should no longer be flown abroad for medical treatment.

He said, “Our President is not a man to be taken out anytime or whenever anything happens to him on sickness matter.

 

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ASUU_We can’t go back to school with empty stomach

ASUU_We can’t go back to school with empty stomach

The eight month ASUU strike seems not to be ending soon as the striking lecturers said they won’t go back to classed on empty stomachs.
Union members in Calabar vowed to continue with the strike until the Federal Government meets the union’s demands/
Dr Aniekan Brown who is the zonal chairman of the union, disclosed this when he addressed a press conference at the University of Calabar. He said;


“Sometimes, either by deliberate ill-intended machinations or for want of understanding, ASUU’s struggles are misunderstood.
In the light of the above, it considered expedient to engage the public, to bring to the fore ASUU’s stance on the on-going strike action, and the government-induced distraction known as the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System and the Federal Government of Nigeria’s illicit commitment, hard-work, determination, and treachery to forcefully migrate staff of Federal Universities to IPPIS.”

The press conference was attended by ASUU chairmen from universities in the zone which comprises Abia State University, Akwa Ibom State University, Cross River University of Technology, Alex Ekwueme University, Ebonyi, University of Uyo and University of Calabar.
Nigerian Universities have been closed for eight months after ASUU declared an indefinite strike in March this year. The union’s president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, who announced the strike at a press conference, said the strike is over the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System and the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement.

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