Moses,
Your attack on ASUU after seeing those gory pictures is wrongly placed. First
ASUU is not the owners of public universities in Nigeria. Second, ASUU is not the one that appoints Ministers or Commissioners whose function is to oversee the wellbeing of education sector including tertiary institutions and universities. Thirdly, ASUU does not appoint governing councils of the universities.
The primary assignment of ASUU is to look into the welfare of its members in the universities where they are serving. Asking for funding of public universities by ASUU is a secondary assignment.
The National Universities Commission has a responsibility to the wellbeing of the students. Have they played that role adequately well?
Nigerians should find out from the Head of the Commission. The National Assembly has oversight function over those institutions in the pictures, have they played their role adequately well?
ASUU should have been commended for taking a giant step by making Nigerian public become aware of the rotten situation of the infrastructures on the campuses of our public universities.
From the pictures we have all seen, tell me how any of the universities can rank among the best universities in the world?
I posted a case at University of Ibadan recently of what I saw in 1985 and 2011 of the decadence of infrastructure and amenities. As an Alma Mater, I felt terribly disappointed. We should have moved forward but that is not the case. We keep on moving backward in retrogressive manner, Moses.
Perhaps Emeka could have requested for current pictures from universities in the southwest and some universities that the Federal or State governments have properly funded and showcase-the infrastructure in those places. That could have given a balanced view of what is the true picture of the reality of the Nigerian public universities.
Segun Ogungbemi.
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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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