Every average student in Nigeria is SCARED of
these people called asuu, will they are in the news
again but this time it has nothing to do with the
past strike that we all had to pay for........
The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) yesterday
revealed that the management of the
Lagos State University (LASU) has
withdrawn the PhD certificates of
some of its members which include
the branch ASUU LASU chairman, Dr.
Adekunle Idris.
ASUU Lagos zonal Coordinator, Dr.
Sola Nasir, dropped the bombshell at
a press briefing held at the old LASU
Sociology Department lecture hall of
LASU and flanked by ASUU chairmen
from University of Lagos, Olabisi
Onabanjo University, University of
Agriculture Abeokuta, Tai Solarin
University of Education and the host
ASUU-LASU.
The ASUU-LASU, Dr. Adekunle Idris
confirmed that the management
withdrew his PhD and that of 13
others from different departments
claiming errors were made in the
wordings.
According to Dr. Nasir, the LASU
management in their letters to the
affected lecturers said it discovered
some errors in their PhD and asked
the holders to return them. He said
the union expect them to correct it
and produce new ones for Dr. Idris
and others.
His words: ‘’The ASUU-LASU
chairman, Dr Idris is not alone, there
are 14 other lecturers with the
Accounting Department having the
highest with five. For LASU Senate to
have made those errors, it places
question mark on the persons that
make up the Senate. We can rule
that the purpose was to victim some
of our members’’.
The ASUU Lagos coordinator called
on Governor Babatunde Fashola to
set up a visitation panel on LASU and
also urged the state government to
call the VC to order to give peace a
chance.
‘’What we experiencing in LASU is a
fall out of the last ASUU-LASU strike.
ASUU Lagos zone and national are
behind ASUU-LASU. We will fight him
(VC) until he is out of the office’’, Dr.
Nasir, warned.
Giving details of the PhD withdraw,
Dr. Idris, said he concluded his PhD in
2011 and was issued the certificate in
2012 and signed by the current Vice
Chancellor, Prof John Obafunwa and
the former Registrar, Mr. Lateef
Animashaun.
‘’I fulfilled all the conditions before
being issued the PhD certificate. It is
because of the last ASUU strike, it is a
backlash. They are withdrawing the
certificate, if I were working abroad
what will happen? The Senate that
took the decision ended there
meeting after 8pm without lunch or
dinner for the Professors and others.
‘’Accreditation is coming in
December in 2014, five of lecturers
whose certificates were withdrawn
are from a department that will face
National Universities Commission
(NUC) accreditation team. Th3e issue
of certificate withdraw is an act of
victimization. There are 14 persons
involved, but I know I am the target.
In the letter asking me to return the
PhD certificate, no time frame was
given unlike others’’.
‘’ My PhD is in the Business Admin
(Marketing) but they say the error is
the marketing but my counsel has
written the Governing Council and VC,
Prof Obafunwa on the PhD certificate
withdraw’’.
Daily Sun gathered that two of those
affected in the Accounting
Department used same PhD
certificates to earn promotion to
Associate Professors.
Sun News
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