As a strong supporter and two terms exco member of ASUU, it will be interesting if the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) at the National level can call an emergency exco meeting of its branch executives and entertain the following;
1. Call off the strike immediately and stop further negotiations with this government.
2. Ask all academic staff on visiting appointments, sabbatical appointments to stop with immediate effect.
3. All accreditation exercises by academicians should stop henceforth.
4. Resource visitations should equally be stopped immediately
5. All responsibilities held by academic staff of universities be dumped such as deanship, Headship, examination officers jobs postgraduate coordinators and all other responsibilities for which allowances have been stopped. These responsibilities are ad-hoc in nature and not mandatory in nature.
6. The Federal government can employ staff for offices relating to 4 above specifically for those offices and be paid for.
7. Assessments of staff for promotion can continue since it is for staff development.
8. Staff should work for the minimum as approved by the National Universities Commission.
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9. In this case, you teach your students irrespective of the number but submit results of the first 40 students that submit their scripts and leave the rest for NUC / FGN. This is because official staff-student ratio for social sciences is 1/40 while in some other areas, 1/10; 1/20; and 1/30.
10. This is because excess workload payments for over 8 years are presently outstanding and no hope for payments even in the future.
11. Successive government in Nigeria do not respect agreements and do renege once strikes are called off and when the strike resumes, the general public and even the students see the Union as enemies of progress.
12. The government which is very much interested in proliferating universities without adequate teaching staff and facilities can think of the next line of action.
13. For the record, a professor ends his/ her grade level on 7/10. Imagining a staff that earns the professorship cadre at the age of 40, he moves to step 10 at age 50 and remains in that step for the remaining parts of his 20 years of I CTC with take-home pay of less than N400k having paid a monthly tax of over N70k. This is madness. What a nasty Country? We are fighting too much for the university administration/mgt n not much goes to labs, workshops n research!
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