As a body comprising academics, ASUU should provide intellectual leadership for other unions to follow, not the other way round. Uncritical acceptance of the hard-line posture of a union in the complex and controversial issue of strike is anathema to the spirit of free thought which academics ought to uphold, although the critical attitude native to philosophy is inconvenient for hard core unionists in ASUU.

ASUU, I suggest, should rethink its strategy of indefinite strikes in dealing with problems in the universities. As I said before, the strategy is overrated and overused; it might actually be yielding diminishing returns as the years pass by.

SOME of these damages are long term, and would require years of uninterrupted improvement in quality to put right. Secondly, at ASUU congress meetings, lecturers scathingly excoriate top government officials. We are fond of name-calling the president, minister of education members of the legislature and all the sybaritic occupiers of high official positions.

I STRONGLY suspect that the former would be higher, since the “pigs” have the financial power to pay tuition fees and other “incidentals” required for university education in foreign institutions. Because top government officials benefit from the skewed emolument system in Nigeria , they do not really appreciate the daunting sacrifices lowly paid Nigerians, including lecturers make daily to keep things going.

I strongly suspect that the former would be higher, since the “pigs” have the financial power to pay tuition fees and other “incidentals” required for university education in foreign institutions. Because top government officials benefit from the skewed emolument system in Nigeria , they do not really appreciate the daunting sacrifices lowly paid Nigerians, including lecturers make daily to keep things going.

We shall concentrate on the current strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) because, apart from being a member of that very union; I think that over the years the other two unions, SSANU and NASU, look up to ASUU on strike as a viable strategy for compelling the government, both state and federal, to enhance the welfare of their members.

This is why in theology and political ideology persecution is usually employed to force unbelievers to accept opinions which otherwise they would not accept.

The Jews believe that they were chosen specially by their tribal God, Yaweh, for a divine purpose, from the races of humankind, whereas Muslims have an unusually high opinion about Arabs and the Arabic language.

Race is a deep cesspit of absurdities. One of the inverted theoretical justifications of slave trade and colonization is the doctrine that the White race is innately superior to the Black race

IF, as believers argue, Lucifer has the power to deceive people, it is possible that the evil one would deceive them into accepting as the will of God something which Lucifer himself actually intended. Most believers dogmatically maintain that God’s will is embodied in the scripture. But which one? Generally, people accept the book considered sacred in the society in which they were born, and out of that book they select the parts that suit their purposes, neglecting the others.