Federal Government versus ASUU; What you should know.!

Many federal university student are actually lamenting and angry currently, especially those in their final year, and why is this, it is because the Academic Staff Union Of Universities, (ASUU), have been on strike several time which has delay the academic session of many student in different federal university.

While many of these students blame the politician, some blame ASUU staff because they refuse to meet up and come up with a lasting solution to the strike. Many student believe the reason why they cant meet up to an agreement is because none of their kids study in any of this federal university, most of the politician kids are either in a private university in the country or are studying outside the country, same goes for the staff of ASUU.

Recently another 3 month strike was announced, student have no choice than to go back home and get something to do than stay in school and do nothing, according to the ASUU official page on twitter, they said “ASUU president just confirm that the union will be meeting with the management of the national information technology department agency(NITDA) by 2pm today (Monday) over the deployment of the UTAS for the payment of university lecturers.”

This tweet was a day ago then another tweet followed it today saying “FG tells ASUU Nigeria minister of education, Mallam Adamu Adamu has claimed the government has already made by ASUU, hence it was wrong for the union to extend the strike instead of suspending it”

The public don’t even know the decision that was made, cause another meeting has been schedule again for a meet up, and it’s a closed door meeting, no one knows what is been discussed and what are the condition the ASUU wants the federal Government to meet, all we know is that the federal government is owning ASUU a Huge amount of money of about 1.3 trillion Naira.

These are some of the response from the Nigeria student on twitter

Something the student fall to understand is that the Academic staff union of university (ASUU) is also fighting for them, many of the lecturers in the federal university are in support of this strike because many of them are underpaid or are being hold salary. Normally, a lecturer is meant to take only 100student at most, but you see the university admitting over 700 student in a department and they all paid school fee and acceptance fee and some other fee that is beyond our thinking just to extract money from student that want to learn, how the federal government is asking, where did all that money go to, most of the university can’t answer that question, all they want is that the federal government meet up to their demand and pay them, and the federal government on the other hand are not ready to pay those who won’t answer their question, they won’t pay a lecturer taking 500 student any additional salary as many lecturer want increment in salary, they would only pay the normal percentage they think is right to be paid.

Another thing is that, the university lack proper infrastructure for proper learning, this is another thing ASUU is asking for, sometimes I wonder, why can’t they use all the fee collected from the extra student to develop the school than wait for the federal government. I don’t know what to say, what I will say is that “birds of the same feather, fly together” due to lack payment of salary, this has pushed many lecturer into doing things to get extra money, like payment to get good grade, payment to miss exam, payment to miss project defense and many more.

I hope things get settle soon so student can go back to school and complete their education and pursue new dreams. Thanks for having me.

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