ASUU BREAKING NEWS This Afternoon, Saturday (05/12/2020)
Brainnews returns this afternoon with the latest from the ongoing ASUU strike in Nigeria.
Below is the latest you need to read:
1. ASUU Strike And Students’ Right To Education – What Is The Way Forward?
For the past eight months, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the union that represents universities’ academic staff has been on strike, grounding all academic activities in the universities. Despite a series of unproductive meetings between the federal government and ASUU, the strike does not appear to be ending soon with the union’s insistence that all their demands must be met. CONTINUE READING HERE..
2. Let’s kill ASUU once and for all
Since February when ASUU commenced the on-going industrial action, there have been many calls and cries to the union to sheathe its sword and return to the classroom. Among such calls, one seems to always stand out because it has become a refrain each time there is a strike. That is, ‘ASUU should device other means, apart from strike, to compel the government to honour agreement’’.
Unfortunately, the proponents of ‘other means’ have not come out with suggestions or ideas about how to engage a government is averse to honouring agreement. It is so sad that avoidable industrial action is always allowed to spell further doom for our epileptic educational system. More worrisome is the silence of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the future of whose members have been mortgaged and short-changed. NANS has allowed partisan politics and love of money to rob it of its constitutional duties to teeming Nigerian youths whose future are bleaker than ever before. It is disheartening that NANS could even wait on ASUU to always declare a strike to compel the government fund the universities. READ LATEST UPDATES FROM THE STRIKE HERE..
3. Oba, farmers’ murders; ASUU
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Why were 43 or more heroic rice Nigerian farmers murdered in Borno and eight in Kaduna? And the Olufon of Ifon, Adegoke Adeusi, last week? If this is not war, what is? Can no farming this year = famine next year? Is this a roadmap, a plot? Nigerian needs 500,000 strong armed forces and 500,000 police force urgently!
Nigeria has often had one strike or protest. Remember struggles of your parents when young like the 1971 student protests in which Kunle Adepeju was shot dead. ASUU strikes are not about ASUU but fighting ‘education decay’ and a protest against the inaction/negative policies of governments to punish educators and students or ‘put them in their place’ – below and beholden to politicians. READ LATEST UPDATES FROM THE STRIKE HERE..
4. ASUU, call off this strike for students’ sake
Recall that exemption from IPPIS, increment of Earned Academic Allowances, EAA, and revitalization of universities were some major concern of ASUU; these have been exhaustively and positively resolved. Therefore, I wonder, having these issues addressed, what stops ASUU from ending this strike? One may continue to ask: for how long it will take ASUU to consider students’ frustrations?
The students, the parents, guardians and the generality of Nigerians are looking up to ASUU to, as a matter of fact, end this strike for the sake of the students’ future. Because, to me, this is the most elongated strike in the history of this country. Subjecting every single decision to innumerable consultations, as ASUU is wont to do, will further add more pains to the already emotionally disturbed students. Initially, the labour and employment minister was lampooned by Nigerians for not acting in the right way to bring ASUU back to the negotiation table. However, with his latest efforts, the minister has left no one in doubt about his determination to resolve ASUU’s grievances. READ LATEST UPDATES FROM THE STRIKE HERE..
