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What the confederates and Public should know about ASUU Strike

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Dr Nuraddin Danjuma

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"xX2DqiwY" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>From the 1999 to present day there has been up rise in  harmonious relationships between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Academic Staff Union of Universities&period; According to some sources and unfortunately&comma; getting to 4 years &lpar;almost 5 sessions&rpar; was wasted within the last 22 years&period; So sad indeed as the situation is today very much caved-in courtesy of the FGN and often complicated by her agents &lpar;some of which are religious scholars and academics&rpar; and the public&period; The FG&comma; her agents and the public should know that to varying degree their actions are undermining education in Nigeria&period; ASUU is only wallowing to survive and resuscitate the system&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"ZoUbjMcq" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The FG and her unrelenting pursuit of abstraction of common pool resources &lpar;supported by vested self-interest minds and the terms and conditions of the Bretton Woods lenders – IMF and World Bank&rpar; often with no consideration of public opinions<br &sol;>&NewLine;is the main problem of Nigeria today&period; As for Public Universities in Nigeria&comma; the present action of the FG is perhaps the most brutal to the System and one in many attempts by pro-gamers to privatise such as institutions to service external debt that tripled past governments’ figures under this administration &lpar;&dollar;39&period;69 billion as of March&comma; 2022 well above Egypt’s &dollar;157&period;8 billion within same period&rpar;&period; This administration that has been known as ASUU’s friend – the President&comma; his VP&comma; Chief of Staff&comma; Minister of Education as well as ES NUC are all associated at one time with the Union&period; It is only now that we understand that their ultimate aim was merely to cling to the top and serve the Supreme Being of Man who according to Ali Mazrui is &OpenCurlyQuote;Man’&period; In order to support Mazrui&comma; Adamu Adamu came out and told Nigerians that 80&percnt; of the demands by ASUU are met but all will be captured in 2023 budget&period; For goodness sake&comma; which sane people who know how this government operates by scam and Yahoo boys tactics will accept such a &OpenCurlyQuote;offer curve’&quest;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Similar to their masters&comma; the agents of FG such as Professor Maqari and one Paiko from IBBU Lapai are mostly parasitic-opportunists with blurred lenses&period; Having gone through Maqari’s academic resume&comma; I found more questions difficult to answer but by him&period; While there are still issues to puzzle out&comma; I got an early hint that he is a leapfrogger&comma; a parasite and an opportunist&period; First&comma; he spent his 21 years hopping from ABU Zaria to Jama’atu Institute of Advanced Studies&comma; Zaria to FCE Zaria to Nigeria Arabic Village to KASU and later BUK &lpar;where he became a Professor&rpar;&period; This is typical leapfrogging hence he can only publish 20 articles in grey journals&period; A casual search of JSTOR&comma; Scopus&comma; Arabic Collections Online &lpar;ACO&rpar;&comma; Index Islamicus&comma; Qatar Digital Library&comma; Bibliography of Asian Studies as well as Researchgate and Google Scholar speaks differently&period; &ast;Tunaninka kamanninka&ast; so said in Hausa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;01&sol;kano-adp-gubernatorial-candidate-mourns-rabi-shehu-sharada-says-her-death-a-national-tragedy&sol;">Kano ADP Gubernatorial Candidate Mourns Rabi Shehu Sharada &comma;Says Her Death A National Tragedy<&sol;a><&sol;p><div class&equals;"91GC6vlM" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Maqari ought to be very patriotic by staying one more decade in this excruciating environment doing quality job in order to justify his assertions&period; Like a parasite he jumped out immediately after Professor when he is needed most in the system&period; With 20 years sojourn amidst hopping on&comma; Maqari’s false assertion like others’ is mere tales by moon light&period; Take &&num;8211&semi; it &&num;8211&semi; or &&num;8211&semi; leave&excl;&period; Anyway&comma; we must also recognise that he is protected by the constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria&period; Religious man like you should please sue for peace Maqari&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As for Paiko&comma; its either he’s provoked by the frustrations in the system or wanting to trail the likes of good researcher Maqari&period; Let him know that a loner is like a low hanging fruit&period; Paiko please go for ASUSU&period; You’ll be tamed in ASUSU &lpar;money bank in Hausa&rpar; like a coin&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the dominance of bandwagon effect&comma; the public were made to understand that the struggle is all about personal benefits&period; All the three well educated people I met in two days were condemning ASUU in my face&period; That ASUU is unpatriotic and aiding and abating to kill the system&period; That according to Adamu Adamu about 80&percnt; of our demands were met yet we remain adamant&period; I share with them the video cliff which Adamu bluffed and ask them to watch with open mind&period; We met later and all stated that Adamu instead of ASUU got the wires crossed&period; And I said can’t you see that he couldn’t make head or tail of this situation after six months and after three weeks of ultimatum&quest;&period; This is how the public should judge a book not by its covers&period; The public should be aware that by joining Adamu and others to serve the new Supreme being an end to public education in nearer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>My ASUU colleagues &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;success is not final&comma; failure is not fatal&period; It is the courage to continue that counts&&num;8230&semi;&period;&period;”&period; Strong men always say &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a bend in the road is not the end of the road”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nuraddeen Danjuma<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bayero University Kano<br &sol;>&NewLine;4&sol;9&sol;2022<br &sol;>&NewLine;188&sol;3&sol;2022 &lpar;IPPIS-APC CALENDAR&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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