ASUP Preparing to Resume Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) announced the decision to suspend the nationwide strike on July 16, 2013. Unfortunately, it has just been a pause.ASUP is gearing for another industrial action, which would commence after next week, and would be indefinite.The union made the appropriate statement on August 13, 2013, Tuesday during the mass protest to'save public education'in Lagos."The suspension of the strike will expire next week and up till now government has not done any single thing in the agreement," said Chibuzo Asomugha, ASUP's National President.After 81 days of inactivity in polytechnics across Nigeria, the union decided to suspend the strike following the level of progress made in negotiations with the government.ASUP said that it suspended the strike to allow the Senate Joint Committee on Education to liaise with relevant government agencies with a view to tackling the union's demands within one month.Among ASUP's demands include the need for constitution of the Governing Councils of Federal Polytechnics; migration of the lower cadre to CONTISS 15 salary scale; and the "worrisome condition" of state-owned polytechnics in the country."Government should stop paying lip service to public education," said Mr. Asomugha. "The closer you get to this people in government, the more you lose hope."whats wrong with this our govt?

ASUU Strike: Activists Ask Jonathan To Sack Okonjo-Iweala

A group of activists under the aegis of Anti-Corruption Networkhave called on PresidentGoodluck Jonathan to sack the minister of Finance and coordinating minister of the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, without further delay.The group, which spoke through its director of outreach services, Mr Timi Frank, during a press conference in Abuja yesterday , also threatened to mobilise students and youth against the federal and state governments if they refuse to take urgent steps to end the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).Reacting to media reports credited to Okonjo -Iweala that the federal government does not have the N92billion demanded byASUU, the activists gave an ultimatum to the federal and states’ ministries of Education to release the said money or face the wrathof youths and students across the states who will take over premises of the education ministries.....we are prepared for that,okonjo nwela graduated with her first daughter from Harvard university so she don't how it is schooling in Nigeria...

ASUU Strike: FG, ASUU Continue Negotiations

Another round of discussions and negotiations between Federal Government’s NEEDS assessment committee and theAcademic Staff Union of Universities has begun in the Federal Capital Territory.In his opening remarks, the Chairman of the committee, Governor Gabriel Suswan of Benue state expressed hope that the two bodies will reach an agreement and suspend the industrial action.However, the president of ASUU, Dr.Nasir Fagge said the union is opened to discussions on the funding of the education sector in Nigeria.It would be recalled that talks between both parties has hit birk walls severally with the recent one earlier in the month, as Professor Nasir Faggae vowed that the union would not succumb to any pressure to call off its six weeks old strike if all its demands are not met by the government.Mr. Fagge told journalists in Abuja that although negotiations have continued, there’s nothing yet on thetable. He said the union remains resolute in sustaining the ongoing strike action to ensure that the topical issues affecting the nation’s university system are tackled decisively once and for all.However, the chairman of the NeedsAssessment Committee of the Nigerian Universities, Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue state saysthe public holidays have stalled the smooth progress made so far, but ifall goes according to plan, the strikemay be called off next week and also assured Nigerians that the industrial dispute will be resolved.The President of ASUU, Professor Nasir Faggae was not under pressure to call off the strike,as he insisted that the union is resolute in sustaining the ongoing strike action if the issues in contention are not met.

Why we cut female NYSC member’s hand – Suspects

Two suspectedcultists have been arrested in connection with the recent macheting of the right hand of a ‘Batch A’ female member of theNational Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Folakemi Akinbode, at Obunagha community of Yenagoa Local Government area of Bayelsa State.The suspects, now in security custody, were said to have confessed that they attacked and severed Akinbode’s right hand because she refused to hand over to them an unspecified amount of cash and other valuables like handset in her handbag.The two suspects, identified as Ebi Jato and Weriye Aluwa, were arrested on Wednesday in the neighbouring Koroama community while trying to sell Akinbode’s mobile handset.It was gathered that their arrest was effected by the Bayelsa State Special Security Task Force code named ‘Operation Doo Akpor.’The bandits, who had been trailing 26-year-old Akinbode, macheted her right hand on Monday night at the entrance of the Obunagha Corpers’ Lodge at about 8.30 p.m., as she returned from work.She is a graduate of nursing from the Madonna University, Elele Campus, Rivers State, and doing her primary national assignment at the Niger Delta Teaching Hospital (NDUTH), Okolobiri, near Obunagha.She had struggled with them as they attempted to snatch her handbag resulting in the macheting of her right arm.The suspects were said to have narrated in their confession that Akinbode was in charge of a huge amount of money used by the NDUTH to pay blood donors at the Blood Bank section of the hospital on the night of the attack.“They (the suspects) claimed that allthey wanted from her was the remaining money she kept in her bag after the payments in the afternoon. But when she struggled and identified one of them, they attacked her with their machete,” a source said on Thursday.He said their arrest was made possible by the youths of the area who teamed up to fish them out.Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Bayelsa State, Alex Akhighe, confirmed the arrest of Jato and Aluwa.Paramount ruler of Obunagha community, Godgive Apoh, also confirmed the arrest of the suspects, adding that the community’s Youth Vigilante Association assisted greatly in the achievement.Source: Dailyindependent

Collect Your Certificates Before Dec 31st Or Face Penalty - WAEC

'THE West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), has threatened to impose penalties on candidates who failed to collect their certificates on or before December 31.This is contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Mr Yusuf Ari, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos.It stated that millions of certificates of candidates who satfor WAEC examinations since 1960 had long been signed but were not collected by candidates.“We wish to inform the general public that certificates up to May/June 2012 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), conducted by WAEC have been printed and dispatched to schools for collection by candidates.“And certificates for external candidates for up to November/December 2012 WASSCE diet, also conducted by the Council have also been printed and are equally awaiting collection by candidates at WAEC offices nationwide.“The external candidates, especially who wrote the November/December examination diets are advised to go and collect their certificates from all our zonal branches or satellite offices in the states.“We urge candidates to go to where they sat for the examination because we no longer have enough space to harbour them.“Most of these certificates have been lying fallow in our various offices with no one coming forward to collect them.“Candidates come in trickles for them, only when they have absolute need for them and I think it should not be so.“We therefore wish to warn that WAEC will be charging extra fee for the custody of these certificates if the candidates failed to collect them later than December 31,” the statement said.Thank God i got mine earlier this year.

ASUU strike: President, Suswam, ministers in crucial meeting

Awuzie| credits:President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday met behind closed-doors with Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State and some key ministers over the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.Suswam is the Chairman of the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy Assessment Implementation Committee of the universities.Others, who attended the meeting, included the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqqayat Rufa’i;and the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu.The meeting, which was held insidethe President’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, lasted for a few hours.No official statement was made available at the end of the meeting.Okonjo-Iweala and Suswam left thepremises, using a gate that allowedthem to evade journalists’ that might have wanted to ask questions.Wogu, who was initially walking towards the Press Gallery, quickly made a detour when he sighted journalists waiting for him and left through the same gate that the minister and the governor had passed through earlier.Rufa’i, however, walked into the journalists’ ambush before she realised it.She initially declined comments on the meeting but when pressed further, she said the government was on course in its negotiation with ASUU.The minister, however, appealed tothe striking union to call off the industrial action in the interest of the nation.“I have not been mandated to speak to journalists on the matter but I can tell you that we are on course. I will only appeal to ASUU to call off the strike in the interest of the nation,” she said.Meanwhile, ASUU on Monday foreclosed an early resolution of the industrial crisis rocking the nation’s university system as the union insisted that it would not callof its industrial action until all its demands were met by the Federal Government.The President of ASUU, Nasir Fagge, insisted that the union was resolute in sustaining the ongoing strike action to ensure that the topical issues affecting the nation’s university system tackled decisivelyonce and for all.He said it was inconceivable for the union to call of the strike without achieving the objectives of the action only to call another one later.The ASUU President, who made the comment while speak with journalists at the Benue State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, said the union decided to continuewith the strike because of the failure of the government to address the issues raised after previous industrial actions were called off.

Most Expensive In Nigerian secondary school in Lagos. over (N4,480, 000.00) per year

Here is a list of elitist secondary schools in Lagos:
1. British International School
Location: 1, Landbridge Avenue, Oniru Private Estate. Victoria Island. Lagos.
Tuition and Fees: (Boarding Annual) $26,750+N200, 000
Additional Charges (at160 per dollar exchange rate) = N4,480, 000.00
Tuition and Fees: (Day) $15,250+
Additional Charges (at 160 per dollar exchange rate) =N2,640, 000.00
2. Lekki British International School
Location: Victoria Arobieke street, off. Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.
Tuition and Fees;(Boarding Annual) $19,500+N200, 000 development fee (at N165 per dollar exchange rate)= N4, 000,300.00
Tuition and Fees: (Day) $12,000+N200, 00 Development fee (at N165 per dollar exchange rate) =N2, 911, 300.00
3. Greensprings School
Location: 32, OlatundeAyoola Avenue, Anthony, Lagos.
Tuition and Fees: (Boarding Annual) N3, 185,200 . Additional charges excluded.
Tuition and Fees: (Day Annual) N1, 925,200.00. additional charges excluded.
4. Atlantic Hall, Epe
Location: Poka, Epe.
Tuition and Fees: (Annual) N2,270,000.00. Additional charges like uniforms are excluded from the fees.
5. Chrisland College
Location: No 2A, Ladipo Oluwole Avenue, Ikeja.
Tuition and Fees: (Annual) N2,000,000. Additional charges are excluded.
6. Dowen College
Located in the heart of Regency Town of Lekki, Lagos.
Tuition and Fees: (Boarding Annual) N 2,000,000.00. Additional charges excluded.
Tuition and Fees: (Day Annual) N 1,250,000.00. Additional charges excluded...Life is good but is it not the same final exams all schools are going to write?