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Date: 15-09-2013 11:50 am (11 years ago) | Author: dayo
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The lingering industrial strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities comes with a lot of cost for both students and lecturers. Two months after ASUU embarked on an industrial action, negotiations between the union and the Federal Government is still deadlocked.

    “Because the devil also finds work for ideal hands, these students may be getting involved in other things that may not be good for the economy; those who are just idling about at home could cause security problems.”

Like professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Yomi Akinyeye, noted, ‘one cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.’ In other words, one cannot achieve something without causing a few inconveniences.

According to Akinyeye, the strike will not only affect the students and the lecturers, but also the country’s economy, in the long run.

“Most of the problems that Nigeria is currently facing would have been better solved if the issues are properly addressed and the priorities set right. The academic calendar of the students has already been disrupted. This would mean the adjustment of their time table and a delay in their year of graduation. The man hours lost over this period would have to be paid for,” Akinyeye noted.

Considering the duration of the strike, which has lingered since July 1, the total sum in salary for the lecturers may run into billions of naira.

The strike also has a spiral effect on the nation’s education and economic sector, noted professor of Science and Technology Education, University of Lagos, Duro Ajeyalemi.

He stated that while the dreams of many students in their final year have invariably been put on hold, the delay in the university academic calendar will also increase the competition among candidates willing to gain admission into the universities.

These factors will also cause an increase in the number of fresh graduates in the labour market at the end of the academic year, he said.

The earlier the Federal Government resolved the matter, the better for the economy, Ajeyalemi advised.

Even students that believe in ASUU’s struggle are tired of sitting at home. An undergraduate student of the University of Lagos, Joshua Oyeniyi, wrote: “I write on behalf of the millions of dreams that are getting squashed by the day as the total shut-down of our universities persists. I write on behalf of the future of the several hundreds of thousands who have been privileged, amidst the stiff competition for admission, to grasp tertiary education but may end up worse than their disadvantaged counterparts, since they may never finish, much less finish on schedule their educational pursuits.”

He pleaded with the Federal Government to honour the 2009 agreement with ASUU so that students could return to the lecture rooms and pick up the pieces of their “scattered semesters.”

For the head of Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Dr. Ayobami Ojebode, the impact of the regular strike actions embarked upon by ASUU would be most felt, not only in the quality of graduates being churned out by the country’s public universities, but also by the labour market and employers of labour. Like he put it, the country has a “greedy and rabidly impatient employment system.”
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- Evablogger at 15-09-2013 11:56 AM (11 years ago)
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Posted: at 15-09-2013 11:56 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Afrogotojail at 15-09-2013 01:27 PM (11 years ago)
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devils workshop
Posted: at 15-09-2013 01:27 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- cadanre at 15-09-2013 02:59 PM (11 years ago)
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eranigbe4 it is not the ASUU strike that did that to them, they did it to themselves. They must be doing it long before the so-called ASUU strike. You better wake up!

Posted: at 15-09-2013 02:59 PM (11 years ago) | Hero
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- Toks-E at 15-09-2013 03:56 PM (11 years ago)
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Ok

Posted: at 15-09-2013 03:56 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- civictayo4great at 15-09-2013 04:12 PM (11 years ago)
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Lets see what the new minister is up to
Posted: at 15-09-2013 04:12 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- chicco77 at 15-09-2013 11:50 PM (11 years ago)
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- Shegzan at 16-09-2013 07:26 AM (11 years ago)
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- kceemore26pp at 1-05-2014 08:13 PM (10 years ago)
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pls next?
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