When ASUU finally calls off the strike, some of your course mates will not resume with you, the population of students in your department will slightly decrease and you may never get to see some of your course mates again.

Right now, many Nigerian students are transferring and applying for private schools. Those whose parents can afford it without squeezing to feed and take care of other family needs are sending their wards to private universities; nobody wants to watch his son/daughter grow old because of a system that doesn't value education.

Nobody wants to watch their children sit at home idle while their dream of becoming Doctors, lawyers, educators, civil engineers and all professions you can think of be are made to sleep, or worse die a horrific death. Absolutely nobody, well, except our leaders.

Those who run our institutions don't even send their wards to public universities, because they know they are lacking in their commitment to service. Our government officials send their kids to the best universities in the countries, but the average Nigerian man, who is delegent, commited to his civic duties, and depends on the state to feed and send his children to school has to watch his hard-earned money waste away and his children, sit at home.

I imagine the pain in a mother's eye who sacrificed her last savings even though she had no idea where the next family meal would come, sent her child a whooping sum of Fifty - seventy thousand for accomodations, but her child hasn't been in that room for the last six-seven months. Rats are the new tenants and the landlords can't wait for the start of a new year to seek for their rents again.

Imagine a family who's hope of a better tomorrow rest on a shoulder of one member, someone they hoped will one day graduate from the university, serve a country that mandated him to spend eight years in the university instead of four and get a job to take care of home. Imagine the hopes of these people being stretched.

ASUU and FG are all useless

ASUU contributed a lot to this current worst Mohammadu Buhari government. Their staffs were hired by INEC as returning offices, they were in charge of election materials, they went there in 2015 manipulated the election results and count scores for that vegetable called Buhari

Youngwiz71:
ASUU and FG are all useless

Exactly.

But I think ASUU is even more useless now.

Secondly:


Exactly.

But I think ASUU is even more useless now.

What have we, the students done to curb this menace?

I tend to think there's a conspiracy by the government to cripple the intellectual strength of this country - hence, the little regards for higher education. ASUU may be useless but the students leaders are more useless. We the students are the major enablers, no cap. We don't even how great we are losing. Many students are even happy to be home. How sad!

Should I start with the fact many jobs, particularly civil service having limited age entrance (26/27), or that you can't serve at 30, wasted house rents, life goals at a pause because most of us students want wrap up academics before be venturing into other things. Melo melo?

By now, I expected us, as reasonable students to organise protests to either the government's office or the ministry of education. Imagine 'one million march protest" to the ministry of house; insisting that the private universities be shut down too because that's where most of these politicians' children are. This is the reason why they can't be bothered. I tell you that in 2 days, this issue will be resolved. But like I said earlier, our students leaders are useless.

As long as government officials are absolved of the consequences of their irrational inactions, this strike will continue to linger. For their children who's advantaged to start school at early age and enrolling into a private University, 4 years is 4 years and upon graduation, they are fixed in reputable offices while we wail as age won't be on our side even though the connection comes.

A time will come where what befell public secondary schools will befall public universities; total irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. Our eyes go open that time.

ASUU is the standing hope for the students, Incase you don't know.

Epositive:


What have we, the students done to curb this menace?

I tend to think there's a conspiracy by the government to cripple the intellectual strength of this country - hence, the little regards for higher education. ASUU may be useless but the students leaders are more useless. We the students are the major enablers, no cap. We don't even how great we are losing. Many students are even happy to be home. How sad!

Should I start with the fact many jobs, particularly civil service having limited age entrance (26/27), or that you can't serve at 30, wasted house rents, life goals at a pause because most of us students want wrap up academics before be venturing into other things. Melo melo?

By now, I expected us, as reasonable students to organise protests to either the government's office or the ministry of education. Imagine 'one million march protest" to the ministry of house; insisting that the private universities be shut down too because that's where most of these politicians' children are. This is the reason why they can't be bothered. I tell you that in 2 days, this issue will be resolved. But like I said earlier, our students leaders are useless.

As long as government officials are absolved of the consequences of their irrational inactions, this strike will continue to linger. For their children who's advantaged to start school at early age and enrolling into a private University, 4 years is 4 years and upon graduation, they are fixed in reputable offices while we wail as age won't be on our side even though the connection comes.

A time will come where what befell public secondary schools will befall public universities; total irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. Our eyes go open that time.

ASUU is the standing hope for the students, Incase you don't know.

Story.

ASUU is using you the students as a bargaining chip.

It's sad that you don't even know this.

The fact that ASUU can go on strike for months because they know that there is no consequences and their salaries will still be paid in full is a direct pointer to this.

They don't care at all about how much time the student is wasting during all those strikes. To them, the students are just like some sort of collateral damage.

What is the quality of the Nigerian graduate in the past 15 years or so?

I know you might be tempted to say that is the reason why ASUU is fighting but are you aware that anybody who wants to start a booming business but is still waiting for the right conditions to met before they can start the business might never start the business at the end of the day?

What am I trying to say?

Go and ask ASUU what they have done with the "little" they were provided with by the Federal Government in the past.

Secondly:


Story.

ASUU is using you the student as a bargaining chip.

It's sad that you don't even know this.

The fact that ASUU can go on strike for months because they know that there is no consequences and their salaries will still be paid in full is a direct pointer to this.

They don't care at all about how much time the student is wasting during all those strikes. To them, the students are just like some sort of collateral damage.

What is the quality of the Nigerian graduate in the past 15 years or so?

I know you might be tempted to say that is the reason why ASUU is fighting but are you aware that anybody who wants to start a booming business but is still waiting for the right conditions to met before they can start the business might never start the business at the end of the day?

What am I trying to say?

Go and ask ASUU what they have done with the "little" they were provided with by the Federal Government in the past.

What "little"? do quantify the little they are provided with.

You want to compare graduates of 15 years ago to recent graduates? Some jokes write themselves.

And if improving the welfarism of the staff is tantamount to using the students as bargaining chips in your books, then you don't know what the whole situation is all about.

Epositive:
What "little"? do quantify the little they are provided with.

You want to compare graduates of 15 years ago to recent graduates? Some jokes write themselves.

And if improving the welfarism of the staff is tantamount to using the students as bargaining chips in your books, then you don't know what the whole situation is all about.

If you want to improve your welfarism, please do so, but don't hold innocent students at ransom.

What little you ask?

Have you ever heard of TETFUND?

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If you want to improve your welfarism, please do so, but don't hold innocent students at ransom.

What little you ask?

Have you ever heard of TETFUND?

I'm a student. You mentioned the little that FG provided, and I asked what little?

perhaps, you'd said that the doctors also held the patients on ransom when they went on strike.

Good thing you acknowledged that their salaries will be paid regardless. While you talk about students resuming regardless of government funding, you should also worry about the consequential sub-standard learning they will be subjected to.

Your anger/concern is misdirected.

ASUU is not at fault. Abi can you teach on an empty stomach

Epositive:


I'm a student. You mentioned the little that FG provided, and I asked what little?

perhaps, you'd said that the doctors also held the patients on ransom when they went on strike.

Good thing you acknowledged that their salaries will be paid regardless. While you talk about students resuming regardless of government funding, you should also worry about the consequential sub-standard learning they will be subjected to.

Your anger/concern is misdirected.

I ask you again, do you know what TETFUND is?

Even doctors that go on strike still practice in their own private hospitals because

1. They know that money has to be made and bills have to be paid
2. They are all about saving lives.

But in your own case, ASUU is only interested in holding you as a hostage/collateral damage in their unending struggle that started since 2009 and yet, you are here defending them.

If the so called "intellectuals" cannot see that there is a no way out of this their unending struggle with the Federal Government and they cannot fashion out another way of going about their struggles except through incessant strikes upon strikes, then of what use are they in the system?

What ASUU may not understand right now is that the more they continue with this their needless strike, the more obvious it becomes that they are totally useless and redundant in the society.

Can you imagine what will happen if Google goes on strike for a day.

But yet the useless ASUU president is telling students that they are ready to wait for 2 years to solve their issues.

What a stupid talk.

How I wish so many students will just abandon ASUU and their nonsense and redundant education that only gives them one useless certificate at the end of the day and start focusing on acquiring more useful skills that will actually help them earn a living.

ASUU my arse!