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Amid ongoing strike of ASUU, governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said tertiary education is not meant for everybody.

“University education is not for everybody and that is the truth. The basic education every country strives to attain is secondary school and vocational schools. He said, “Our basic problem in this country remains security, health and education.

Ebonyi state Governor David Umahi has called on the federal government to come to an understanding with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to ...

Let’s meet ourselves halfway and open the schools to save the fate of our children.” Yes, but we can start with a fraction of that and then have a program that will run on the platform of sincerity to address all the lots. “But let me also say that most of the time, our people have a low appetite for maintenance of public works. “University education is not for everybody and that is the truth. “I have read social media, and newspapers about how students got into trouble just by sitting at home or engaging in means of keeping themselves busy instead of being in schools. The basic education every country strives to attain is a secondary school and vocational schools.

The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi on Wednesday, asked the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the lover five.

We didn’t kill them but we brought them back to our fold and reintegrate them” he stressed. ASUU is not asking for this, for them to take to their house but for the betterment of our children. But there is no way the country Nigeria will go and borrow #1.1trillion to meet ASUU demands. I have seen how painful it is for the students to sit at home instead of being in school. “There is a need to review our educational system and it mustn’t be for everybody. University education is not for everybody and that is the truth.

Benjamin Nworie. Ebonyi State Governor, Mr. David Umahi has called on the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to show ...

Let’s meet ourselves halfway and their open the schools to save the fate of our children” “University education is not for everybody and that is the truth. Speaking further, he said: “But let me also say that most of the time, our people have low appetite for maintenance of public works.

The Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, says that it is not possible for the Federal Government to borrow N1.1 trillion to meet the demands of the Academic ...

Yes, but we can start with a fraction of that and then have a programme that will run on the platform of sincerity to address all the lots. He added, “So, it is important for ASUU to show some understanding and for those who are negotiating on the side of government to also show some understanding,” he added. “There must be a commitment on the side of both parties that look, this ASUU is not asking for this to take to their houses’ so to say.

By Peter Okutu. Abakaliki—GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State, yesterday stressed that there's was no way the country can borrow N1.1 trillion, in order to ...

Yes, but we can start with a fraction of that and then have a programme that will run on the platform of sincerity to address all the lots. “But let me also say that most of the time, our people have low appetite for maintenance of public works. “I have read in social media and newspapers, how students got into trouble just by sitting at home or engaging in means of keeping themselves busy instead of being in schools.

ASUU has been on strike since February 14 over the failure of the federal government to honour an agreement on issues bordering on funding of universities, as ...

But I can tell you as of today, we have not received any official offer or information from the government with respect to the status of our negotiation. “You know the president still came back to say the two weeks notice was not sacrosanct; they were thinking of two to three weeks. “I hope that the institutions that we have like ASUU will sympathise with the country and the people. According to them, the perennial strike is a threat to the education of students as academic calendars are disrupted – prolonging the years spent in school. As things stand, the Nigerian university educational system has been crippled and this may be the beginning of the end of what used to be a qualitative and prime higher educational system in the country. While ASUU said Nigerians should blame the government for its failure to take necessary steps to address the protracted strike; the federal government, on the other hand, said it was not at fault, accusing the union of making negotiations difficult.

The university's chapter of ASUU is also at loggerheads with a breakaway faction under the umbrella of the Congress of Nigerian University Academics ...

Good journalism costs a lot of money. Mr Omole was unable to successfully complete his term. The leadership of CONUA on the campus has consistently accused Mr Osodeke of being a major culprit in the leadership crisis that rocked the union on the campus, which it said forced some members to form a parallel union in 2018.

Following inundating calls from students and other stakeholders in education, the Senator representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, has pleaded with the ...

They have nothing to sustain them”. He lamented that thelecturers are suffering in the absence of salaries for about five months, pleading passionately, “I want the federal government to consider paying them some of their salaries while negotiation is still on”. Fielding questions from newsmen on Wednesday evening on the welfare of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, Kalu pleaded with the federal government and ASUU to reconsider their stands on the persisting strike.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has spent 580 days (19 months) on strike since Muhammadu Buhari became Nigeria's president, FIJ can report.

In 2005, ASUU spent two weeks on strike. ASUU complained about the failure of the government to implement the 2009 MoA, and again went on a two-month strike from December 2011. On November 4, 2018, ASUU announced another indefinite strike, which spanned days. Again, in 2002, ASUU went on strike for two weeks, and then in 2003, it experienced the then longest strike, which lasted for six months and ended in 2004. OBASANJO (18 MONTHS) — In 1999, after Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in as president, ASUU embarked on a strike action that lasted for 150 days (five months). Another three-month strike occurred in 2001. A year after this action, the longest ASUU strike in Nigeria’s history occurred for 272 days, and two years after, ASUU is on strike again.

In other climes, a total shutdown of the public university system in a pre-election year should be a major source of worry...

The Federal Government and ASUU had an agreement on October 21, 2009 that a sum of N1.3 trillion would be injected into the university system for its revitalisation to make it globally competitive. In December 2013, government agreed to release the N1.3 trillion intervention funds in six installments over a period of six years starting with N200 billion in 2013 and subsequent payment of N220 billion each in the remaining five years spanning 2014-2018. The government should take a decision on what it wants to inject into each of its public universities per annum. If it is unreasonable to borrow money to meet ASUU demands, is it reasonable for Nigeria to buy N1.4 billion cars for Niger Republic when it claims it lacks the money to fund its universities? And to think that this is happening in a ministry manned by the President himself since 2015. Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world. Like Keyamo, a governor on the platform of APC, David Umahi of Ebonyi State, has also said, it would be unreasonable for the country to borrow N1.1 trillion to meet ASUU’s demand. Agreed, but how is Nigeria faring in the area of basic education despite being compulsory for every Nigerian child by law? Where is the space to accommodate two sets of admissions? Keyamo, like many others in government, are too distant from reality to know the implication of keeping university students at home for a straight six months in a nine-month academic session. He spoke as if the striking lecturers were begging government to give them free money to buy foodstuffs for their storehouses, despite knowing that in the legal profession where he is a top brass, any written agreement is a binding document and therefore sacrosanct. What happens to the backlog of 2021 admission.

The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi on Thursday expressed regret over the rise in cultism among lecturers and students in various varsities in the.

You can as well be on strike on any slightest thing and so, it is unreasonable to demand salaries while on strike” he stated. He said: “We will not allow clannishness to becloud our universities. Umahi aired his concerns while addressing the governing council of the Ebonyi State University and Board of the King David Umahi Federal University of Medical Sciences

An Abuja-based lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has appealed to chief executive officers of banks and billionaire businessmen including Aliko Dangote, ...

One of Nigeria’s greatest resources is its vibrant youth bulge and this population should be harnessed for productivity and not left to rot away.” The figure has definitely risen in the last one year. Spending loans on phantom White Elephant projects and train is counterproductive without building the mind.

Striking Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the government has not at any time indicated that it does not have money to fund the union's demands ...

“When did Umahi become the spokesperson for the FG? They can borrow money for Trader Moni, they can borrow money to feed schoolchildren in schools, they can borrow to buy vehicles for Niger Republic, but they cannot borrow to fund education. “We have the same situation coming up in 2022. They should hold their PVCs, and all those who have subjected them to this, they should vote them out. 2020 is still fresh in our memories when our schools were closed for close to one year. Is Umahi the FG? Has the Minister of Education said so? Has the Minister of Finance said so?

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday, asked Nigerians to ensure that all political office holders having hand in the prolonged and ...

He said: “As of now, we can’t identify what has been achieved because the government has not responded to virtually all the issues that we have talked about but the essence of what we have done is that we have mobilised the Nigerian people to know that this present set of leaders have no feelings for the Nigerian people, students and the country. From my interactions with him, he loves this university and also raised the issue of not having division here. “My advice to the students is that for any country to develop, people must make sacrifices and that’s what they are doing.

From Lateef Dada, Osogbo. The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, on Thursday lamented over the rate at which ...

When we were on strike, lecturers in the UK went on strike, and it didn’t take two days for them to resolve it. There’s no country in the world where their academics will go on strike and you think the best weapon to use is to seize their salary. For anything to develop some people will make sacrifices, you will agree with me that Nigerian universities are on the verge of collapsing.

By Shina Abubakar. PRESIDENT of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Victor Osodeke, yesterday, disclosed that many lecturers in ...

Because they do not commit, their children are not here, they are not Nigerians, their children are abroad, and their families are abroad. It is their right they voted them in, they can’t be at home while their children will be enjoying education outside the country. There’s no country in the world where their academics will go on strike and you think the best weapon is to seize their salary.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that a large number of its members are leaving the country to pursue their careers abroad.

He said, “We don’t have a certain statistic but a large number of our members have moved out of the country not because they hate this country but because of the way they are being treated. Recall that ASUU on February 14 shut down public universities over the inability of the Federal Government to implement previous agreements the both parties entered into. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that a large number of its members are leaving the country to pursue their careers abroad following the prolonged industrial action.

The Founder, One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj ji, on Friday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently sack Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and.

ASUU president too should remember one thing: he’s a parent.” “All the government negotiators, including the Minister of Labour and Minister of Education, should be sacked immediately,” “ASUU leaders too should be considerate in their demands in the interest of the future of our children.

President Muhammadu Buhari has again appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the ongoing strike.

Prof. Saliba James, who read the citation of the celebrant, said that Indimi had distinguished himself in promoting educational development within and outside the shores of Nigeria. “In this regard, I want to convey President Muhammadu Buhari call for ASUU to call off thier strike and return to classroom”. Buhari made the call on Friday in Maiduguri at the maiden Special Convocation Ceremony and conferment of Honourary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Maiduguri on Alhaji Muhammadu Indimi, Chairman, Oriental Energy Resources Ltd.