There was a mild drama when the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) rejected Berekete Family radio’s intervention to end the ongoing strike.

ASUU has been on strike since February and all efforts to make lecturers return to the classrooms have not yielded results.

On Saturday morning, host of the radio programme, Ahmad Isah, popularly known as Ordinary President, invited ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, and his team, to explain to Nigerians the perennial problems and state why the union is still on strike.

Isah also said he had set up a special intervention bank account domiciled in TAJ Bank to raise funds for the union, with a view to ending the strike.

Apparently to convince ASUU to buy into the idea of the intervention, Isah publicly showed the N50 million cash donated by Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State.

Immediately the money was displayed, ASUU President frowned at the development, saying they should not be associated with such.

At that point, Isah threatened to discontinue the intervention and many Nigerians who phoned in during the programme described ASUU as ”insensitive”.

The striking lecturers’ demands include, funding of the revitalisation of public universities, Earned Academic Allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) and promotion arrears.

Others are the renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and the inconsistency in Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.

In an interview last month, Osedeke told NAN that none of these demands had been met by the Federal Government.

“All the issues that made us to go on strike are still there; that is the revitalisation fund, that is putting more money into universities and revitalising the infrastructure in the universities. There is also the issue of our mode of payments in the universities. There is no university in the world where lecturers are paid salaries from the Accountant General’s Office.

“We have challenged them to provide one, if universities are a universal body, why are they doing things differently. We talk of negotiation of the agreement, the proliferation of universities, among others, so there are lots of issues that they have not resolved,” he said.

The ASUU president also said that the government had also refused to accept UTAS that he said had been tested and passed with a scored 99.3 per cent.

Osedeke urged the Federal Government to do the needful in order for students to return to school.

https://dailytrust.com/breaking-drama-as-ASUU-president-rejects-n50m-intervention-to-end-strike

Lol the 50meter is for what to pay the Lecturers arrears nd developer the schls I don't understand....

What!

50m for T-fare or what?

There is a law that prohibits anyone who did not serve NYSC from being employed by Govt or to work in public service.
Until a similar law is enacted for people who did not, or their kids did not attend our Govt universities, these incessant ASUU strikes will never end.

Foreign-School-Graduate Children of our patriotic leaders...

50 million kee!! While APC presidential ticket is 100 million you people are not serious

ASUU should just calm down and collect the 50m sha, these politicians i know don't have any of their kids and relative attending any Nigerian university. Last last them go still manage the 50m

50 million for what?. Peanut.

Only PETER OBI can solve this ASUU crisis.

The subject is misleading and juatifies the action and words of the ASUU president.
Ordinary goofed too by displaying the cash. An account update would have been sufficient.
What ASUU president said that ASUU was not part of this drive and disassociates itaelf from it.
Watch the whole show on youtube - BREKETE FAMILY SHOW JUNE 11, 2022

WibusJaga:


50m for T-fare or what?


Foreign-School-Graduate Children of our patriotic leaders...

No be crime. If you no like am, join drug cartel, hustle and later you go fit send all children go school for Harvard and yale

Cypress042:
ASUU should just calm down and collect the 50m sha, these politicians i know don't have any of their kids and relative attending any Nigerian university. Last last them go still manage the 50m

You think sey those children happy for dem Yankee schools. You never see college community for US. Dem brutal no be small. Any small misunderstanding, dem go call you nigga. Even the nigga go call you african monkey. Naija students get their own group, because everybody else go dey look dem like sey dem be chimpanzee. Forget, the rich also cry

osinbanjoisaliar:


You think sey those children happy for dem Yankee schools. You never see college community for US. Dem brutal no be small. Any small misunderstanding, dem go call you nigga. Even the nigga go call you african monkey. Naija students get their own group, because everybody else go dey look dem like sey dem be chimpanzee. Forget, the rich also cry

This our world no balance.