National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Biodun Ogunyemi has declared indefinite strike over the increment of fuel pump price.
The union said the government should revert the oil price to N86 per litre.
The letter sent to members of the congress nationwide was read at the University of Ibadan Chapter, where the Chairman, Dr Deji Omole mobilized members to get ready for mass resistance to what he called the obnoxious and callous policy of fuel price increment.
According to Omole, the policy of subsidy removal was the most criminal ambush from the Mohammadu Buhari-led federal government to empower the rich and cripple the poor.
The ASUU boss who said that the common denominator to all Nigerians was poverty, added that the same APC government that failed to pay civil servants for months was now celebrating budget signing with the legalization of black market.
ASUU president in the letter entitled “Increase in Pump price of Premium Motor Spirit to N145 perlitre: Proposal for Joint Action with NLC stated that ASUU members are called upon to according to our Union’s principles, fully respect Article 2 of the Constitution of ASUU; that our Union and members shall work for the protection and advancement of the socio-economic interests of the nation. Branch Chairpersons are to conduct emergency congress meetings on Tuesday 17 May 2016 to mobilise our members for the action commencing on Wednesday. All branches of ASUU nationwide are to comply”.
Ogunyemi anchored the position on “delayed, partially paid and in most cases unpaid salaries for a number of months by state, federal and local governments, disguised retrenchment of workers, especially by State Governments, in the name of verification exercise and endless hunt for ghost workers and heavy taxation”.
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*How does ASUU going on strike help anyone?this people are just compounding this thing,which one is indefinite strike?...Why are things done like this in Nigeria?what about students who had exams and supposed to graduate?I hope they will not ask students to pay resumption fee when they get back.....Mscheeeew!
buhahahahahahah!!!! this is crazy but I had to laugh mehn...... I just like that they didn't make noise abt it...they just went on strike gbam, not like NLC...all talks n no action.
ReplyDeleteYES! Well said annon. Shame on u NLC, APC and Buhari. Protest allowed in d North supporting the removal of subsidy but stopped with a court injuction here cos it's against subsidy removal! Welcome to Dictatorship!
DeleteNice one.
DeleteLMAO!!! I trust ASUU, them no dey waste time. They would go on strike even if NLC doesn't. Kikikikiki
DeleteAnon 10:33 olodo! Where is ASUU ,where is NLC????ASUU is an affiliate of the NLC. Ok what this means in short is ASUU is under NLC. There are 2 labour centres in NIgeria. The NLC and TUC .and other unions are either registered under the NLC or TUC. But TUC is more involved with the senior staff. That is why (before the fraction in NLC)NUPENG which is the union workers in oil and gas is with NLC and PENGASSAN which is an association of senior staff workers in oil and gas is with TUC.
DeleteI hate this i swear.I am supposed to graduate before july 20th. This is just sad. Why do i have a bad feeling about this strike action? Buhari is not as peace loving and calm as GEJ. Abeg people should not protest in the streets but if you must, let it be peaceful.
Deleteabeg oo... We don't want strike oo
DeleteThey should just allow for us to finish this semester's exams... ASUU wait till June 4th!!!!!!!!!!!
Non mais! Ça ne va pas?
ReplyDeleteHahaha this is ludicrous.
DeleteWhat has fuel subsidy got to do with asuu?
This people would have just said they've been wanting to go on strike and now they just found d flimsiest excuse
This is totally unreasonable and they just made themselves look stupid
So students off campus won't enter transport? Do you know how transporters inflate their prices and take advantage of people at bus stops during such times? Does the govt have adequate transportation? If buses decide to carry routes that are N100, N250 or more how would the students survive? Why should the govt even if they think they have good decisions why would they make such a drastic decision and not expect any revolt and go and take court injunctions up and down, even if they had good intentions, N145 is too high, and we all know that nothing that goes up comes down in this country.
DeleteThe name "ASUU" ! is synonymous with the word "strike"
DeleteMake me join them too. I dey go on strike for tomatoes that is not in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteI follow u strike😂
DeleteWetin consign asuu with strike?*confused* what has fuel price got to do with universities? They should just say they want to stay at home for awhile and not use this as a cover up
ReplyDeleteLol..Abia state university won't go on strike of they are being owed but will embark on this this rubbish with Asuu
ReplyDeleteStella I support them biko...we need to shake Buhari and co..
ReplyDeleteThis suffering is too much!...
A bag of rice is now 18-20k...tell me how the poor will survive...
Fuck APC!...
Fuck Buhari!!!...
Bag of rice is really 20k. When i heard it i thought it was a rumor.
DeleteI'm a distributor for stallion rice n I sell for 13k500 in ph here. Dunno where u guys buy yours.
Delete13,500?...
DeleteBiko drop your contacts...
Yeah, the poor includes you my dear blog queen. Of course I mean in the real world outside this blog
DeleteLinda I thought you are rich? Babe no fall my hand oooo. Even if it rises to 50k, I trust you. You are equal to the task. Mberede ka eji ama dike.
DeleteAnon where is your shop?
Delete18k? I bought last month for 15k. Pls it should go down b4 i exhaust this one. Everything is just going 4m bad to worse and finally worst. May God help us o
DeleteAnnon 11.03, are you for real? Even those dt re-bag don't sell that low. The last I heard was 15k!
DeleteI swear everything is so expensive now. Buhari is dealing with us
DeleteIs NLC on strike? Activities here doesn't look like what NLC strike use to be.
DeleteAsuu should allow our children graduate. This is the reason why we have people like Portable n others claiming graduates
ReplyDeleteYou get children for university?
DeleteEnd time strike
ReplyDeleteAsuu should allow our children graduate. This is the reason why we have people like Portable n others claiming graduates
ReplyDeleteThey have been compromised by the subsidy cabal.
ReplyDeleteAfterall sls said they can bribe their way to anyone at any price.
Lord!!! Make these people pity students now
ReplyDelete*Larry was here*
Bad News everytime and everywhere. I am fed up of this country.
ReplyDeleteSaturday laughs gbagaun
DeleteASUU, please let me just finish. My mate n friends have all graduated. Was seriously affected by the last six months strike, now this one. Abeg ooo
ReplyDeleteI understand. E affect me too.
DeleteYour mates were not affected by the strike? Abeg read and stop repeating class jor!
DeleteLooooooooooooooooooooooooooool. That's just cruel bro!
DeleteThis is just d beginning of more to come.Instead of looking 4 solutions 2 curb d raging storm,they r busy threatening d masses! Revolution is on d way!
ReplyDeleteSince Buhari came to power, it always from one problem to another for Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame Buhari. His children are in schools in England. He does not care about Nigerian students
Eya. Throughout my 5yrs in school, I only experienced on ASUU strike and it lasted for one month. I pity students.
ReplyDeleteIf them no pay them salary after one month they will return back to work.
*strike once
DeleteI was in school during the six months strike. I am supposed to graduate in less than 2months and now another indefinite strike. This is just bizarre.
DeleteWhat is "bizarre" about this now ??? You people will just be using English any how ; nah wa
DeleteAnon 14:05 me I hv gvn up ooo... Any English dt rocks deir boat.... Lol.....
DeleteAnon, before you type, think and google to be sure, see definition below
Deletebizarre
bɪˈzɑ
adjective
very strange or unusual.
"a bizarre situation"
synonyms: strange, peculiar, odd, funny, curious, offbeat, outlandish, eccentric, unconventional, unorthodox, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, atypical, unusual, out of the ordinary, out of the way, extraordinary;......
Asuu has joined too?
ReplyDeleteNow shit just got real.
The federal govt.is insensitive
They want everyone to obey court order by not embarking on strike,but are yet to release Nnamdi Kanu that the court gave an order to be released.
You give what you can take bih.
Let me kiss your ass for this comment. You refuse to obey rule of law and you want your citizen to obey the law? Nigeria is lawless!!
DeleteNigeria of today is like , we masses are crying No tomatoes to prepare stew . we manage to get small pepper ( Rodo ) to make the stew , later we complained its too pepperish to eat , then our government now gave us grounded pepper ( Ata gungun ) to add to the stew so it will be plenty . The government then promised us in next 2 years they will produce Tomato paste for us to subdue the pepperish stew .
ReplyDeleteSeems they are blind to sense the hardship the common man will go through before their tomato paste arrived when they ( government personnel ) have Ketchup tomato paste , Heinz paste n Geisha in their kitchen . How many will live to taste the useless insensitive paste ? When frustration , hardship ,hunger , anger, poverty , hypertension , hard criminal- minded e.t.c must have taken masses to six feet underground . ... Lies upon lies from our leaders .
Kai....There are many reasons to tongue lash this government. .but using tomatoes scarcity as a yard stick is below par....jeez
DeleteEwo!!
ReplyDeleteASSU too?
This is real mehn!
Ah! Good news o. Atleast Lale will forget portal matter and focus on strike. Which gives me more time to make up my money and pay my feez. I nor even wish my enemy To repeat final year. ChiokiKe gworu meka ohh
ReplyDeleteEhya send in a plea na
DeleteASUU too? Until dey replace that ASUU presido.
ReplyDeleteI bought tomatoes almost twenty pieces for 200 naira here in garki abuja. So where is the expensive tomatoes?
ReplyDeleteNwa ajoka you are a liar!...
DeleteA stupid one at that!...
Tueh!...
Babe be happy because its very very cheap . 3 pieces is sold for 100, 6 for 200 abt 12 for 500 , 20 pieces should be selling for 1000naira now. You better go back n chatter that tomatoes
DeleteLiar liar pants on fair
DeleteIf NLC can be bought over let ASSU speak for us...
ReplyDeleteBuhari is evil
ReplyDeleteThis ASSU too like strike.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they've been praying for this fuel subsidy removal So they can have a tangible reason to strike.
N13k5 are you for real?
ReplyDeleteSince Court stops NLC and to think most Judges don't enter market or move around their neighbourhood(s) atleast to hear from the masses, better ASUU embark on strike.
Is Buhari demi-god? I have not seen light for 2 weeks now even NEPA abi KEDCO has refused to cut their light because no one wanna pay. #FirstTimeImExperiencingThis
Where I work, the Hausa boys and some Keke guys have been insulting Buhari since last month till today -No more "Sai Buhari" now it's "Ba ma so Buhari."
Mao akuh. .we may be neighbours .wow..kedco gave you away....click on my ID send me a mail...a hook won't be a bad idea
DeleteHaba ASUU nd strike again... Am here praying Imsu should call off there strike nd nw this...... Gosh am tired of staying at home, I just want to graduate, am I asking for too much
ReplyDeleteAsuu.... They don't need a thing to trigger their strike.. ..it's automatic!
ReplyDeleteI just feel like crying. I was really hoping for the strike. At least that way the pump price might reduce to 100 or even 110. But now, I dont know what will become of my business. And to make matters worse, we've not had light since last week. I spend the little i saved to buy fuel and nothing comes out of it. Paper that was sold for 800 has increased to 1400 per roll. Yesterday I went home with only N300 and that was because I dint eat sef. Is that what I will use to raise two kids?? And everything is now just very expensive. Today I told my kids no more Ribena only buscuit and you needed to see the way they cried. I just felt like killing myself...
ReplyDeleteGod please have mercy on us.....
Please don't kill yourself so that you can eat the good of this land Nigeria. Keep your faith alive, this government are not deceptive.
DeleteAnon 12:13,where is ur horseband?
DeleteDid you impregnate urself?
Kogi state university chapter of Asuu has been on strike since last month. Staff have not been paid 6 months salary.
ReplyDeleteI still stand by my opinion ,this industrial action any for that matter as regards removal of subsidy is straight up stupid...
ReplyDeleteIf you are going on strike because salaries haven't being paid I would understand..but this is the height of foolishness
Madam anonymous pls keep faith with God...he will take care of you n the children... As for u YEMI and all u pmb self deluded loyalist may amadioha strike down your lying and deceptive lips
ReplyDeleteGod will fix it
ReplyDeleteNwa Amaka?????????????????? but you can lie o...20 pieces of tomatoes for 200naira, even wen it was that cheap you can never get 20 pcs for 200naira!...I don't think you cook
ReplyDeleteBuhari that they have already infected!lol...Tinubu is the one ruling this country from a corner
My sister I just weak for the person, even farmers can't buy 20 at N200
DeleteSo students off campus won't enter transport? Do you know how transporters inflate their prices and take advantage of people at bus stops during such times? Does the govt have adequate transportation? If buses decide to carry routes that are N100, N250 or more how would the students survive? Why should the govt even if they think they have good decisions why would they make such a drastic decision and not expect any revolt and go and take court injunctions up and down, even if they had good intentions, N145 is too high, and we all know that nothing that goes up comes down in this country.
ReplyDelete