The rot that infested the head of the Nigerian fish has now consumed the whole fish, tail and fin included.
The tragedy is now a farce!
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Thanks you very much, Tunji Azeez, for placing the ASUU-student needs in context.
If I might ask, though, those pictures suggest deterioration over a long period of time.
What do you think of the question of why some of those gains from earlier ASUU demands seem not to have been funnelled to those facilities we see in the pics?
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toyin
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:36 PM, <orunmilababa@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Moses,--
It may interest you that in 2012, ASUU demanded that universities be well funded and that monies released to universities be directed at specific projects so that university administrators be held accountable for them. ASUU only demanded that its members be involved in the monitoring exercise not spending.
Based on this, the government set up a committee called the NEEDS ASSESSMENT COMMITTE made up of Government representatives drawn from relevant ministries, agencies and parastatals including office of finance and budget, education ministries and ASUU. The Committee was headed by Governor Suswan of Benue state. It was this Committee that went to all public universities with the exception of the newly established ones, to verify the true state of things. It was this committee with ASUU members serving as members only, that arrived at the current amount of 1.3trn as what was needed to bring the system close to acceptable standards of those universities being attended by children of those looting our treasury.
Based on this, an MOU was signed on implementation. What ASUU expressed in 'general terms' on progressive funding of university through increased budgetary allocation from what it was in 2009 when ASUU-FGN signed the agreement was anchored on infrastructure, research and sundry issues. The allowance that is now seen as a problem was and is part of it. The agreement was meant to return some level of credibility to the system so that brilliant minds like you and so many others on this list would find it worth your while to apply to teach in Nigeria and help raise the standard to what it was when most of you were in those schools.
The government promised to implement the Needs Assessment Report by releasing 400bn in two installments and 300bn as last tranche. One year after, the level of that implementation is what led to the current strike action.
I teach in one of the public universities and I know what is and what ought to be. I'm not an old man but I remember protesting against overgrown lawns back then in Ife . I heard some people before me protested when the full chicken they were eating was reduced to half. I'm sure some people on this list can attest to or debunk this. But at least, we had a fairly good number of classrooms, and we didn't have to struggle for seats most times except in classes that were referred to as "Dugbe" classes. Dugbe is a market in Ibadan. So, I leave you to imagine the size of the classes.
Even then, there were times we had to go and fetch water from the stream to bathe and some of us resorted to what we called, "bush attack" to answer the call of nature because of the state of our toilets!
That was over twenty years ago. The level of decay, today, is what you see in these pictures.
On earned allowances, do you think it's morally wrong for a worker to be paid his/her entitlement? I have supervised a number of postgraduate students. The last one was a year ago. Is it morally wrong for me to protest non-payment of my entitlement for fear of being accused of asking for "perks"?
The truth, Moses, is that ASUU is not without its blames but I sincerely believe that part of the process to correct whatever is wrong with ASUU and its members should begin with building befitting universities where anyone who can not operate within university best practices will have to be shown the way out.
Many years ago, a student who was really desirous of learning appealed to me to allow her keep the chair and desk that she was about bringing from home to be kept in my office. Her reason? She wanted to be in front always but try as she did, because the class was always over-crowded with some students peeping to hear or catch a glimpse of me, she wouldn't mind building her own chair and desk! I understood where she was coming from; she was a product of a society that made her build her own desk and chair in her secondary and primary school days. She only wanted to continue at the university. Of course, I dissuaded her from doing it to prevent the embarrassment that her action would have created. You may not believe me but she ended up having to stand in front whenever she missed a seat in front! She's still in touch with me and I still tease her with it.
She was not alone. There were and there are thousands with similar stories. All those who think that ASUU's fight is pecuniary should go round our universities and contest ASUU claims instead of this mud slinging.
On a final note, I have a copy of how the 100bn promised by government has been distributed, at least on paper. My school got about a billion and what it's meant for are classrooms, lecture theatres and laboratories. I'm sure Prof. Aluko can oblige us with the full details.
We must all make our leaders perform their responsibilities to the people. Education is not the only sector neglected by them, other sectors have protested and resorted to strike as last option to force the government to listen. We must put an end to using strikes to make them listen, I agree. We must all come together to fashion other ways to make our rulers responsive to the needs of the masses and not become experts at arm chair criticism.
Tunji Azeez, PhDSent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Nigeria.From: Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com>Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 14:04:13 -0500To: USAAfricaDialogue<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>ReplyTo: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.comSubject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: State of the Nigerian Universities in PHOTOS and Our National Legislators earns N15,000,000,.00K a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Go to Abuja and you see Legislators buying mansions with huge monies WHILE THE UNIVERSITIES ROTTENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Those pictures vindicate those who criticize ASUU, for they substantiate the argument that ASUU's perennially AMBIGUOUS campaign for more "funding" for higher education has not solved the infrastructure problems that make STUDENT LIFE uncomfortable and LEARNING harder, despite the release of funds, no matter how limited, over the last decade and half. Do these pictures not show clearly that the funding has not been targeted at projects that have the capacity to improve the conditions and wellbeing of students? And is that not ASUU's fault, for failing to designate specific projects in the agreements and following up on them? In other words, either ASUU has been using the vague rhetoric of "funding" to glamorize its pecuniary demands, or, as Bolaji eloquently surmised, ASUU has often failed to tie its funding requests to SPECIFIC projects, especially those that would bring more comfort to students and enable them to learn better. ASUU has instead preferred general principles, vague funding agreements, "agreements to recommend," and ill-defined and general funding demands. As long as ASUU gets its pecuniary demands for allowances and other perks met, they don't bother with the infrastructural funding that affect students and learning--and that they claim to be fighting for. It's a classic case of deploying the rhetoric of funding to legitimize more quotidian demands. In all honesty, does anyone believe that if the earned and unearned allowances (the final figure that VCs supplied, per Bolaji's numbers), had been paid in full, ASUU would have gone on strike? As student infrastructures have deteriorated, ASUU members' perks have clearly improved, begging the question of whether ASUU has paid as much attention to infrastructural needs as its members' welfare. After all, these infrastructures are almost exclusively student-related and rarely detract from lecturers' personal comforts. The pictures, almost all of them depicting depressingly poor student conditions, buttress the argument that students and their welfare have never been part of ASUU's discourse and have thus never made it into ASUU menu of demands. This is tragically ironic, since the object of the ASUU struggle, to the extent that it is a genuine effort at reclamation, should be to create conditions for good learning, leading to the production of good graduates. What's the point of having well paid lecturers if students live and study in poor conditions and if the quality of instruction continues to be so bad as to foreclose on possibility of sound learning? All of these factors--quality instruction, lecturers' welfare, students' welfare/conditions, equipments--go together to determine the quality of education we're giving our youths. The problem is that ASUU seems to want to pick and choose the ones that affect its members and to neglect the ones that affect students and their interests directly.--On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:51 PM, onyima blessing <nonyelin2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
I remember every girl suffered candida because of these infectious toilets in the university hostels. None escaped it, no matter how neat we tried to be,as long as you visited the toilet, you must contact one disease.
Blessing.
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For those who are won't to crucify ASUU for the current strike you may go through this gory pictures and decide whether this is your dreams for the Nigerian Universities. When the chips are down we should also ask our colleagues who end up as Vice-chancellors how they superintend over such mess. We must not let the rest of the world see this.Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTNFrom: Innocent Igwilo <igwilocent@yahoo.com>Sender: nisebnigeria@googlegroups.comDate: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 12:04:09 +0100 (BST)To: chikeoka@yahoo.com<chikeoka@yahoo.com>; victorenemor_nau@yahoo.com<victorenemor_nau@yahoo.com>; tetresearch@yahoo.com<tetresearch@yahoo.com>; ubaojiawka@yahoo.com<ubaojiawka@yahoo.com>; uchefeneh@yahoo.com<uchefeneh@yahoo.com>; emekarhythm@yahoo.com<emekarhythm@yahoo.com>; udedi2003@yahoo.com<udedi2003@yahoo.com>; cnezekwesili@yahoo.com<cnezekwesili@yahoo.com>; jemeh2003@yahoo.com<jemeh2003@yahoo.com>; eze okonk<ejokonkwo@yahoo.com>; josephine nebedum<jossieneb@yahoo.com>; ugochukwu g<ugochukwugc3045@yahoo.com>; adinducs908f@gmail.com<adinducs908f@gmail.com>; Apbch<appliedbiochemistryunizikawka@yahoo.com>; Dr. Ozumba<nwaozumba@yahoo.com>; chikeoka@yahoo.com<chikeoka@yahoo.com>; tetresearch@yahoo.com<tetresearch@yahoo.com>; ubaojiawka@yahoo.com<ubaojiawka@yahoo.com>; uchefeneh@yahoo.com<uchefeneh@yahoo.com>; emekarhythm@yahoo.com<emekarhythm@yahoo.com>; udedi2003@yahoo.com<udedi2003@yahoo.com>; cnezekwesili@yahoo.com<cnezekwesili@yahoo.com>; jemeh2003@yahoo.com<jemeh2003@yahoo.com>; eze okonk<ejokonkwo@yahoo.com>; josephine nebedum<jossieneb@yahoo.com>; dr. ejeatuluchukwu obi<ejeatuluobi@yahoo.com>; okpogba<okpogba4real@yahoo.com>; enemuoh frank<eneody@yahoo.com>; Dr. Ozumba N<nwaozumba@yahoo.com>; jimbanugo@yahoo.com<jimbanugo@yahoo.com>; PROF. UFEARO s<csufearo@yahoo.com>; amaks2cherish@yahoo.com<amaks2cherish@yahoo.com>; dr.okoli<ikeokoli@msn.com>; ugochukwu g<ugochukwugc3045@yahoo.com>; adindu<benchuzy200@yahoo.com>; umeoguaju francis<admin@ufumes.com>; prof. eneanya<ceneanya@yahoo.com>; prof ewuim<cewuim@yahoo.com>; okoye e c<ec.okoye@unizik.edu.ng>; dr. ogbo f<frankogbo@yahoo.com>; icuzochukwu@yahoo.com<icuzochukwu@yahoo.com>; Obiora Ikpeze<ikpezevet@yahoo.com>; io.igwilo@unizik.edu.ng<io.igwilo@unizik.edu.ng>; okonkwo j chike<jamechike@yahoo.com>; prof okigbo r<okigborn17@yahoo.com>; ogoke toochukwu<toochijjr@yahoo.com>; unizikbiochemistry@yahoo.com<unizikbiochemistry@yahoo.com>; Enemor Victor<victorenemor@gmail.com>; nisebnigeria@googlegroups.com<nisebnigeria@googlegroups.com>ReplyTo: Innocent Igwilo <igwilocent@yahoo.com>Subject: Fw: State of the Nigerian Universities in PHOTOS and Our National Legislators earns N15,000,000,.00K a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Go to Abuja and you see Legislators buying mansions with huge monies WHILE THE UNIVERSITIES ROTTENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please find attached the level we are now in Nigerian universities. This is now or never to SAVE NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES.
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--Friday, October 4, 2013Unbelievable! Please read the photo captions in green. See more photos...Despite being the giant of Africa and being the most populous nation in the African continent, no Nigerian university is listed in the top 1000 best schools in the world. That is because our education system is a mess. The deplorable infrastructures in some of our schools have been captured in photos.
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