Government of Nigeria

ASUU Demands Are So Simple

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 23, 2022
Post category:Elections Governance Institutions
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ASUU Demands Are So Simple

How can a sapiocidal (killers of the most intelligent) government have credibility? The industrial action of the ASUU of 2022 is an unlikely revelation of how much incapacity and insensitivity the Government of Nigeria (GON) hides behind. A government refuses to pay the salaries and benefits of academic staff and other civil servants. And cannot invest in universities and other institutions across the civil service. What happens? The GON cannot win. (more…)

Does National Security Expire?

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 14, 2022
Post category:Corruption Culture as Institution Governance Institutions
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Does National Security Expire?

The Anarchy

The anarchy brewing in Nigeria is near complete. Noting the security problem in Nigeria is dire is not news. It has become a daily and worsening fact. Wear is Nigeria’s national security? No one is safe from violence in the country any longer. Not even the military academies and barracks, high security prisons, nor police stations. And not the Presidential Guard or the President himself. What does the President, Buhari care? Moreover, the Government of Nigeria (GON) has no effective response to the failing state of security in the country. None. None from above and none from below. Video clips of bandits, terrorists, and criminals hold one key reason for this sorry state in plain sight.

Accordingly, the fabric of Nigerian society and culture is today determined by the insecurity. Both rural and urban areas are just as unsafe as each other. The roads are now highways to hell. It is that bad. (more…)

Nigeria Youth Storm Rebellion

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 12, 2022
Post category:Governance Institutions Social Crisis
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Nigeria Youth Storm Rebellion Abuja 8 a.m. The Assistant Inspector General of Police assures six senators in confidence, “It won’t happen, it won’t happen, Wallahi!” The doubt with which he…

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Are Vice Chancellors to Blame?

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 6, 2022
Post category:Culture as Institution Governance Special Interest Groups
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The ASUU Strike of 2022 is raising important questions and responses we must not dodge. Market reforms now demand Vice Chancellors should raise tens of billions of naira annually to fund their universities. Otherwise they are not fit for purpose. Really? Are Vice Chancellors to blame for the government’s ancient failures in education policy and practice? Thus, it is a question worth examining.
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:July 29, 2022
Post category:Governance Institutions Social Crisis Special Interest Groups
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5

The Second Target

“The neglect of a child is abuse; a nation’s neglect of its youth is wilful filicide.”

The other target of the Government of Nigeria that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is striking over is the fate and future of students in tertiary education. ASUU with vehemence detests and protests a few things. (1) The gross over-population classes they teach in dated small lecture theatres. Venues where students sit in windows, on steps, on the floor or even listen to from outside. (more…)

The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:July 27, 2022
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4

The First Target

The continuing romance of the Government of Nigeria (GON) with globalisation is ever demanding of the immiseration of the country. Globalisation has done nothing good for Nigeria and Nigerians, other than in strange abstract terms. One-size-fits-all globalisation policies always end up favouring the few and failing everyone else. The Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) is a one-size-fits-all policy instrument and does not fit with university systems. Rather, it targets university staff. (more…)

The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 3

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:July 27, 2022
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 3

The Unexpected

“Often your most visible adversary is the least dangerous.”

The Nigerian youth as an unintended consequence, see the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Strike 2022 as the Government of Nigeria (GON) spitting and shitting all over them with contempt. When the ASUU goes on strike, academic and non-academic staff feel the pain, but the youth and students feel it much more in the present climate of “nothing nothing” to look forward to. “Nothing Nothing” – no money, nourishment, jobs, accommodation, fulfill-able aspirations respectability, or hope. The youth sense it as repression and oppression. The GON were not expecting such a development, it came as a surprise. (more…)