Students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, have
commended the leadership of the institution for exhibiting exemplary
leadership even as the Vice Chancellor, Professor Femi Mimiko and the
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Rotimi Ajayi, returned to lecture
rooms apparently to make up for a shortfall in the number of
academic staff that have resumed work.
Professor Mimiko, last week, was said to have taken POS 204
(InternatAAUAional Relations), while Professor Ajayi taught PHY 102
(General Physics). It was reported they would take the courses
throughout the second semester.
Some of the students were said to have considered themselves
privileged to have been taught by the Vice Chancellor and described the
gesture as a symbol of dedication and humility.
In his remark after the lecture, Professor Mimiko was quoted to have
said that “I have always looked forward to meeting my students again,
having been off class for four years running now. I thank my Head of
Department for allocating the course to me to teach this semester
and I will be dutifully present to teach the course throughout the
semester by the grace of God.”
He also expressed satisfaction at the effectiveness of the
resumption.
Also, as the Federal Government’s deadline for the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU) ends today, some lecturers of University
of Lagos, have agreed to resume work today, five months after the
strike.
One of the lecturers, Dr Micheal Ogbeide, in an interview with the
Nigerian Tribune, said some of them have decided to resume against
the union’s position. He said, “I, alongside other lecturers, who are ready
to resume work will go back to work as directed by the government,
who owns the school.”
Nigerian Tribune, gathered that the lecturers agreed to resume work,
whether ASUU called off the strike or not, while some of them
agreed out of fear of losing their jobs as threatened by government
and/or exhaustion from the longevity of the five month-old-strike.
A law student at the Lagos State University (LASU), who pleaded
anonymity, stated that as far as he knew, no student of the school
had been prompted to resume school today.
In the light of this, activities on the UNILAG and the Lagos State
University (LASU)campuses, have shown no indications for
resumption, as, in various interviews with the Nigerian Tribune,
students were yet to be alerted by the school authorities nor their
lecturers to resume school today.
ASUU reiterated its stand not to call off the strike, on the basis that
the union has not been alerted to the actual payment of the N200
billion government claimed to have paid into an account at the CBN for
the union.
The refusal of government to sign a letter, that none of its members
would be victimised when the union eventually ends the strike, as well
as a payment of the five-months salary government owed the
lecturers, as stated by the chairman, ASUU Unilag, Dr Karo Ogbinaka,
last week.
Also, in line with the decision of the Governing Council of the University
of Ibadan, which was predicated on the directives of the Committee
of Pro-Chancellors (CPC) of Federal Universities and the National
Universities Commission, the institution will re-open on January 4,
2014 for full academic and allied activities.
In a University of Ibadan Official Bulletin signed by the institution’s
Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mr Olujimi Olukoya, council
explained that the re-opening became imperative in view of the
consideration of all matters relating to the on-going ASUU strike, at
its recent meeting.
According to the release, “consequent upon the directives of the CPC
which directed the Vice-Chancellors to re-open the universities for
academic and allied activities to commence, Management on Tuesday,
December 3, 2013, directed the Deans and Directors to open
resumption register for academic staff willing to resume work to
sign, on or before 04 December, 2013.
Council, the bulletin stressed, “at its extra ordinary meeting held on
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 deliberated on all the actions taken
and ratified by the Committee of Provost, Deans and Directors
(COPD) and ratified them”, adding that “Senate at its Special Meeting
held on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 considered the revised
academic calendar for the remaining part of the second semester of
2012/2013 session proposed by the Committee of Provost, Deans
and Directors and approved.
Consequently, students are expected to arrive the university campus
from Saturday, January 4 to Sunday, 05 January, 2014.
Examination will start on Monday, March 31 and end on April 11, while
the three weeks for the processing of examination results in
Departments and Faculties will start on April 14, 2014.
The revised calendar further shows that the university’s Senate
meeting for the consideration of final year result is Monday, Monday,
12 May, 2014 while the Senate meeting for the consideration of
non-final year results and end of session is Monday, June 2, 2014.
Meanwhile, an educationist and executive director of Abuja-based
Doveland International School, Tina Ulumma Chukwu, has urged the
Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government to
return to negotiation table so as to reach an amicable agreement over
the lingering strike action embarked upon by the union.
ASUU strike which commenced in July has lasted for about five
months with the government threatening the university lecturers with
sack if they fail to resume classes today, Monday.
But speaking with the Nigerian Tribune, at the weekend, Mrs. Chukwu,
said there was need for the government and ASUU to get back to a
point where they can agree on the way forward since it was the
students that had borne the brunt of the closure of universities for
months now.
Speaking during cultural day of Doveland International School, the
educationist noted that the fact that the students had overstayed at
home did not say good of the education system of the country.
Also, issuing threat and deadline to lecturers to resume work is not the
best way to resolving the lingering ASUU strike, a member of the
Senate Committee on Education, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, has
stated.
Senator Bagudu, who spoke with journalists during the burial ceremony
of former ASUU President, Professor Festus Iyayi, at the weekend in
Ugbegun, Edo State, said the deadline issued university lecturers to
resume work was not the best way out of the logjam.
“I condemn all provocative statements from whosoever. We are all
Nigerians, ASUU members are Nigerians, who are committed to the
development of the Nigerian state. We have interacted with them and
they are committed to the development of the education sector
along with others who are also committed to the sector,”
He explained that the Senate Committee on Education has been at the
forefront in the last five months in the negotiation between ASUU
and the Federal Government, adding that the Senate has always
express its belief that every Nigerians is a stakeholder in the education
sector.
He recalled that the Senate in a motion on the floor of the House,
addressed the issue and called for a show of maturity and
statesmanship in dealing with it.
However, a leading human rights group in Nigeria, identified Centre for
Social Justice and Equity of Nigeria (CESJEN) has urged the leadership
and members of the Academic Staff Union of the universities not to
succumb to the sack threat and intimidation of the Federal
Government on the ongoing strike action embarked upon by the union
for non-implementation of the 2009 agreement between the
government and striking lecturers.
The group also condoled with the union over the recent death of its
former President, Professor Festus Iyayi, in a ghastly motor accident
along Lokoja-Abuja Road on his way to Kano for the extended national
Executive Council(NEC) meeting of the union on how to resolve the
current industrial dispute.
In a statement issued and signed by the group’s Executive Director,
Kamorudeen Adekunle Adeoti, which was made available to newsmen in
Osogbo, on Sunday, the group argued that the threat statement was
a mere political statement from President Goodluck Jonathan-led
government that could not hold water, but a ploy to discredit the union
before the public.
Adeoti declared that the government cannot force the members back
to the classroom until their demands were met, stressing that threat
of mass sack would not bring lasting solution to the imbroglio.
According to him, “The Federal Government’s ultimatum to the
universities’ teachers is a ploy by the government to portray the
members of the academic union as irresponsible, retrogressive and bad
element but to us, the deadline threat for the striking lecturers to
resume was laughable and retrogressive in nature.
“Since the inception of ASUU in the nation’s ivory tower, it has been
on democratic struggle for collective bargaining in the interest of the
general public. The threat is the handiwork of political academic
jobbers in the cabinet of President Jonathan that are feeding fat in
the ongoing imbroglio between the Academic Union and the Federal
Government,” Adeoti remarked.
Students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, have
commended the leadership of the institution for exhibiting exemplary
leadership even as the Vice Chancellor, Professor Femi Mimiko and the
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Rotimi Ajayi, returned to lecture
rooms apparently to make up for a shortfall in the number of
academic staff that have resumed work.
Professor Mimiko, last week, was said to have taken POS 204
(InternatAAUAional Relations), while Professor Ajayi taught PHY 102
(General Physics). It was reported they would take the courses
throughout the second semester.
Some of the students were said to have considered themselves
privileged to have been taught by the Vice Chancellor and described the
gesture as a symbol of dedication and humility.
In his remark after the lecture, Professor Mimiko was quoted to have
said that “I have always looked forward to meeting my students again,
having been off class for four years running now. I thank my Head of
Department for allocating the course to me to teach this semester
and I will be dutifully present to teach the course throughout the
semester by the grace of God.”
He also expressed satisfaction at the effectiveness of the
resumption.
Also, as the Federal Government’s deadline for the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU) ends today, some lecturers of University
of Lagos, have agreed to resume work today, five months after the
strike.
One of the lecturers, Dr Micheal Ogbeide, in an interview with the
Nigerian Tribune, said some of them have decided to resume against
the union’s position. He said, “I, alongside other lecturers, who are ready
to resume work will go back to work as directed by the government,
who owns the school.”
Nigerian Tribune, gathered that the lecturers agreed to resume work,
whether ASUU called off the strike or not, while some of them
agreed out of fear of losing their jobs as threatened by government
and/or exhaustion from the longevity of the five month-old-strike.
A law student at the Lagos State University (LASU), who pleaded
anonymity, stated that as far as he knew, no student of the school
had been prompted to resume school today.
In the light of this, activities on the UNILAG and the Lagos State
University (LASU)campuses, have shown no indications for
resumption, as, in various interviews with the Nigerian Tribune,
students were yet to be alerted by the school authorities nor their
lecturers to resume school today.
ASUU reiterated its stand not to call off the strike, on the basis that
the union has not been alerted to the actual payment of the N200
billion government claimed to have paid into an account at the CBN for
the union.
The refusal of government to sign a letter, that none of its members
would be victimised when the union eventually ends the strike, as well
as a payment of the five-months salary government owed the
lecturers, as stated by the chairman, ASUU Unilag, Dr Karo Ogbinaka,
last week.
Also, in line with the decision of the Governing Council of the University
of Ibadan, which was predicated on the directives of the Committee
of Pro-Chancellors (CPC) of Federal Universities and the National
Universities Commission, the institution will re-open on January 4,
2014 for full academic and allied activities.
In a University of Ibadan Official Bulletin signed by the institution’s
Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mr Olujimi Olukoya, council
explained that the re-opening became imperative in view of the
consideration of all matters relating to the on-going ASUU strike, at
its recent meeting.
According to the release, “consequent upon the directives of the CPC
which directed the Vice-Chancellors to re-open the universities for
academic and allied activities to commence, Management on Tuesday,
December 3, 2013, directed the Deans and Directors to open
resumption register for academic staff willing to resume work to
sign, on or before 04 December, 2013.
Council, the bulletin stressed, “at its extra ordinary meeting held on
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 deliberated on all the actions taken
and ratified by the Committee of Provost, Deans and Directors
(COPD) and ratified them”, adding that “Senate at its Special Meeting
held on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 considered the revised
academic calendar for the remaining part of the second semester of
2012/2013 session proposed by the Committee of Provost, Deans
and Directors and approved.
Consequently, students are expected to arrive the university campus
from Saturday, January 4 to Sunday, 05 January, 2014.
Examination will start on Monday, March 31 and end on April 11, while
the three weeks for the processing of examination results in
Departments and Faculties will start on April 14, 2014.
The revised calendar further shows that the university’s Senate
meeting for the consideration of final year result is Monday, Monday,
12 May, 2014 while the Senate meeting for the consideration of
non-final year results and end of session is Monday, June 2, 2014.
Meanwhile, an educationist and executive director of Abuja-based
Doveland International School, Tina Ulumma Chukwu, has urged the
Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government to
return to negotiation table so as to reach an amicable agreement over
the lingering strike action embarked upon by the union.
ASUU strike which commenced in July has lasted for about five
months with the government threatening the university lecturers with
sack if they fail to resume classes today, Monday.
But speaking with the Nigerian Tribune, at the weekend, Mrs. Chukwu,
said there was need for the government and ASUU to get back to a
point where they can agree on the way forward since it was the
students that had borne the brunt of the closure of universities for
months now.
Speaking during cultural day of Doveland International School, the
educationist noted that the fact that the students had overstayed at
home did not say good of the education system of the country.
Also, issuing threat and deadline to lecturers to resume work is not the
best way to resolving the lingering ASUU strike, a member of the
Senate Committee on Education, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, has
stated.
Senator Bagudu, who spoke with journalists during the burial ceremony
of former ASUU President, Professor Festus Iyayi, at the weekend in
Ugbegun, Edo State, said the deadline issued university lecturers to
resume work was not the best way out of the logjam.
“I condemn all provocative statements from whosoever. We are all
Nigerians, ASUU members are Nigerians, who are committed to the
development of the Nigerian state. We have interacted with them and
they are committed to the development of the education sector
along with others who are also committed to the sector,”
He explained that the Senate Committee on Education has been at the
forefront in the last five months in the negotiation between ASUU
and the Federal Government, adding that the Senate has always
express its belief that every Nigerians is a stakeholder in the education
sector.
He recalled that the Senate in a motion on the floor of the House,
addressed the issue and called for a show of maturity and
statesmanship in dealing with it.
However, a leading human rights group in Nigeria, identified Centre for
Social Justice and Equity of Nigeria (CESJEN) has urged the leadership
and members of the Academic Staff Union of the universities not to
succumb to the sack threat and intimidation of the Federal
Government on the ongoing strike action embarked upon by the union
for non-implementation of the 2009 agreement between the
government and striking lecturers.
The group also condoled with the union over the recent death of its
former President, Professor Festus Iyayi, in a ghastly motor accident
along Lokoja-Abuja Road on his way to Kano for the extended national
Executive Council(NEC) meeting of the union on how to resolve the
current industrial dispute.
In a statement issued and signed by the group’s Executive Director,
Kamorudeen Adekunle Adeoti, which was made available to newsmen in
Osogbo, on Sunday, the group argued that the threat statement was
a mere political statement from President Goodluck Jonathan-led
government that could not hold water, but a ploy to discredit the union
before the public.
Adeoti declared that the government cannot force the members back
to the classroom until their demands were met, stressing that threat
of mass sack would not bring lasting solution to the imbroglio.
According to him, “The Federal Government’s ultimatum to the
universities’ teachers is a ploy by the government to portray the
members of the academic union as irresponsible, retrogressive and bad
element but to us, the deadline threat for the striking lecturers to
resume was laughable and retrogressive in nature.
“Since the inception of ASUU in the nation’s ivory tower, it has been
on democratic struggle for collective bargaining in the interest of the
general public. The threat is the handiwork of political academic
jobbers in the cabinet of President Jonathan that are feeding fat in
the ongoing imbroglio between the Academic Union and the Federal
Government,” Adeoti remarked.
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