Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - ASUU is on Strike Again! Tell Us Something New!

Criticizing ASUU the way Okigbo has done won't and can't solve the structural problems caused by several years of the neglect our university system has suffered under the watch of our visionless leaders.

All the things you mentioned are wrong with the Nigerian university system were never caused by ASUU or in fact, its resistance to them. As Prof Etannibe rightly points out, they are symptoms of a system disorganization caused by caused by several years of corruption and mismanagement.

What people like Okigbo should understand is that until our leaders begin to address this systemic disorganization, we won't get anywhere. He is however right admitting that the problem is even far more serious than we are willing to admit. ASUU's resolute resolve to resist the decay in the university system is usually misunderstood by those who choose to do so. The current struggle is not so much about improved remunerations. It is about funding the education sector as a condition for making it more responsive to meeting the nation's many development challenges. The point should be made that until we begin to appreciate such real issues, it would be difficult to understand any criticism against ASUU, especially if such criticism is coming from quarters removed from the stark realities of the Nigerian university system.

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From: alemikae@yahoo.com

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:20:45 +0000

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XOkigbo. The system needs help and sacrifice from you to come and do real work which no one is doing except you. Will you put yourself and insight where your mouth of criticism has always been. That is the only way to undermine the antics of ASUU, which you imagine is the cause of the university crisis rather a symptom of a social system disorganization at levels of value, governance and policy. Hope you are aware that the government has just announced its intention to establish five new specialized universities. Where are the lecturers for such venture. Please come and do real work in those new universities before they are contaminated by ASUU members. Please come and exhibit your world acclaimed real work.
Etannibi

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From: Ayoola Tokunbo <toks_ayoola@hotmail.com>

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:12:37 +0000

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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - ASUU is on Strike Again! Tell Us Something New!

On  the current situation in Nigerian universities, we do not need emotional ranting, but rational analyses and solutions.
 
This Abani-like condemnation of everything Nigeria would not get us anywhere.
 
Tokunbo
 

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:59:13 -0800
From: xokigbo@yahoo.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - ASUU is on Strike Again! Tell Us Something New!
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Nigeria's Academic Staff Union (ASUU) is on strike again. That is really not news, they are ALWAYS on strike; it would be news if they announced that they were going to be in the classrooms doing real work on behalf of the hapless children of the dispossessed trapped in those decaying pretend institutions euphemistically called "universities." The abuse of other people's children in Nigerian "universitie" has been going on for a very long time. Below are two articles I wrote in 2009 about ASUU that dysfunctional body. Nothing has changed with ASUU, that bully-pantheon that has been hijacked by thugs in academic gowns.

Enjoy the rest of my rant here...

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