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Strike: Drop Your Ego, Accept UTAS, COEASU Tells FG

14Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Finance, News, Nigeria

Strike: Drop Your Ego, Accept UTAS, COEASU Tells FG

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, has advised the federal government to drop its ego and rather embrace the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, as a payment system in the country. The union, in a statement, Wednesday, said, “The intractable challenge created by the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, has been a great source of worry and constituted one of the major issues prone to the industrial crisis in the College of Education, COE system.” “IPPIS breaches the establishment integrity of the tertiary institution’s system, undermines the statutory functions of the Governing Councils, and opens the payroll up to unilateral manipulations”, it claimed in the statement, signed by its president, D...

13Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

Strike: ASUU Tackles NITDA Over UTAS

ASUU The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, berated the National Information Technology and Development Agency, NITDA, over what it described as ‘deliberate misinformation and disinformation of the public on the integrity test conducted on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, by the agency. The Lagos Zonal Coordinator of the Union, Mr Adelaja Odukoya, who spoke at a press conference held at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, said the utterances of the NITDA spokespersons are capable of elongating the ongoing strike. Odukoya said its members would not return to the class until the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, is adopted and all their allowances paid. His words: “We, however, wish t...

No Resumption Without Meeting Our Demands, ASUU Tells FG

12Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

No Resumption Without Meeting Our Demands, ASUU Tells FG

ASUU The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abuja zone says there will be no resumption in public universities until the renegotiated 2009 agreement is signed, implemented and the University Transparency and Accountability Solution deployed. The ASUU zonal coordinator, Dr Salawu Lawal, made this known during a press conference at the University of Abuja in Gwagwalada on Monday. According to him, members are ready to return to their duty posts as soon as their demands are met by the Federal Government. He said, “You would recall that the Academic Staff Union of Universities declared a four-week rolling strike at the University of Lagos National Executive Council meeting held on February 14. “Owing to the failure of the Federal Government to act within that period, the nat...

ASUU Strike: Details of FG’s Meeting With Lecturers Emerge

12Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

ASUU Strike: Details of FG’s Meeting With Lecturers Emerge

ASUU The Federal Government has insisted it supports the renegotiation of the welfare package for university workers in line with current realities. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stated this during a meeting with members of the 2009 FG and university-based unions renegotiation committee on Monday. Ngige admitted the government was not pleased with the approach being used by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to pursue its demands. ASUU embarked on a one-month warning strike on February 14 and extended it by another two months, over the alleged failure of the government to address their demands. But Ngige, speaking during the meeting with the Federal Government Renegotiation Committee in his office, pleaded with the committee to ensure that...

After 56 Days Of Strike, FG Set To Meet ASUU Today

11Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

After 56 Days Of Strike, FG Set To Meet ASUU Today

ASUU-FG Meeting The Federal Government through the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, is set to meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities today, Monday, April 11, 2022. The meeting which is scheduled to commence by 5p.m will have in attendance representatives of the Federal Government and ASUU. The Director of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Patience Onuobia, in a notice of meeting sent to journalists on Monday, said Ngige will chair the meeting himself. “The Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, will be meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities today by 5 pm,” the notice read. Read Also: ASUU Demands ₦1 Trillion From FG To Suspend Ongoing Strike The ongoing industrial action by ASUU ...

FG, ASUU Trade Blame As Strike Enters 50th Day

5Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

FG, ASUU Trade Blame As Strike Enters 50th Day

ASUU The Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, has said striking university workers including the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions are mean and wicked for shutting down universities across the country. This is just as the ASUU’s strike enters its 50th day on Tuesday (today). The unions are currently on strike over failure by the Federal Government to honour the various agreements reached with them. Nwajiuba, in an interview with Punch, said it was an act of wickedness for the unions to go on strike for entitlements that the government would still give them. The minister said, “We are negotiating with...

UTAS Comment: ASUU Threatens To Withdraw NITDA Boss Degree Certificate

1Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

UTAS Comment: ASUU Threatens To Withdraw NITDA Boss Degree Certificate

ASUU The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Branch, has threatened to initiate the process of withdrawing the degree certificate of the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency, Kashifu Inuwa, as an alumnus of the university. This withdrawal, the union said, was been considered after Inuwa’s submission that “the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, had failed integrity test, vulnerability test (security integrity), User Acceptance Test and stress load test, as well as the hardware requirements.” The union described his submission, which it claimed, was made on March 9th, 2022, after the Federal Executive Council meeting at the prompting of his boss the Minister of Communication and Digital Econom...

Strike: NANS Begins Daily Protest In Abuja

29Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

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Strike: NANS Begins Daily Protest In Abuja

ASUU Logo The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, yesterday started a daily protest in Abuja over the continuous shut down of the nation’s universities as a result of the strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Speaking in a telephone chat with Vanguard, the National President of NANS, Sunday Asefon, said students from across the country were already converging on Unity Fountain, Abuja, to express their displeasure with the ongoing industrial action in the university system. “Yes, the two-week ultimatum we gave the government and ASUU to resolve their differences and allow Nigerian students to go back to their classes has lapsed and nothing has been done. Right now, we are mobilising at Unity Fountain here in Abuja and a...

BREAKING: ASUU Extends Strike For 2 Months

14Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

BREAKING: ASUU Extends Strike For 2 Months

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has extended its warning strike for another two months. The decision to extend the strike was taken at the union’s National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja last night. Read Also: Anxiety As Students, Parents Await ASUU’s Decision On Strike Although the union has not made any public statement regarding the outcome of the meeting, a source told Vanguard that members resolved at the meeting held in an undisclosed location that the industrial action is extended for two more months. The outcome of the meeting, the source said, was being drafted to be released in a statement to the media soon. Details coming… Source: Vanguard

Anxiety As Students, Parents Await ASUU’s Decision On Strike

14Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Anxiety As Students, Parents Await ASUU’s Decision On Strike

Parents and undergraduates waited anxiously, yesterday, as leaders of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) met to review their one-month industrial action. They had repeatedly appealed to the university teachers to give peace a chance, resume dialogue with the Federal Government, and return to classrooms. The union, on February 14, declared a one-month warning strike to protest non-implementation of the 2009 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) reached with it. Rising from its two-day National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the union said though the decision to disrupt the academic calendar was painful, it had no other choice as government had failed to fully meet its demands. President of the union, Prof. Emmanue...