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Strike: ASUU Wants Minister’s Certificate Withdrawn, Edo Students Protest

5May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

Strike: ASUU Wants Minister’s Certificate Withdrawn, Edo Students Protest

ASUU The Academic Staff Union of Universities has written to the University of Jos, demanding a probe and the recall of the doctorate degree of the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba. Also on Wednesday, students from different tertiary institutions in the Edo State protested the lingering ASUU strike in Benin, the state capital. ASUU, which commenced a warning strike on February 14, 2022 has yet to call off the industrial action. Some of the demands of the union include the demand for university autonomy, release of revitalisation funds for Nigerian universities, and the deployment of the University Transparency Accountability and Solution payment platform for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers among others. The government ...

2023: Nigerians Should Rise Up As Minister Buys N100m Form – ASUU Chair

2May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

2023: Nigerians Should Rise Up As Minister Buys N100m Form – ASUU Chair

Emeka Nwajiuba The National Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has urged Nigerians to rise up and vote for those interested in the country. Osodeke was reacting to reports of the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, obtaining the All Progressives Congress, APC, expression of interest and nomination forms worth N100 million. Speaking with Daily Post, Osodeke said security agents should have invited Nwajiuba for questioning on how he came about N100 million. According to the ASUU Chairman: “In a normal clime, a minister should have been invited by security to show how he raised N100 million and if he had paid tax for such an amount. But we are in a country where anything goes; it sounds somehow that he can’t solve th...

Buhari Silent On Varsities’ Strike, Deregulation As Workers Boo Ngige

2May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

Buhari Silent On Varsities’ Strike, Deregulation As Workers Boo Ngige

May Day The current industrial action by the four tertiary institution-based unions and uncertainty surrounding the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) were sidelined in the address of President Muhammadu Buhari at the May Day event, which held yesterday in Abuja to mark Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day. Rather, the President, who was represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, mentioned the payment of salaries since his assumption of office as a major achievement. The Vice President, a Professor of Law and a presidential aspirant in next year’s general elections, insisted the Federal Government has never underestimated the importance of labour in the dynamics of politics and good governance. He urged labour to always exercise restraint in their declaration of trade dis...

Labour Day: Kenya, Morocco To Increase Minimum Wage

2May

By Chukwuebuka FestusNo Comments

Cost of Living, Kenya, Labour, Morocco, News

Labour Day: Kenya, Morocco To Increase Minimum Wage

The governments of Kenya and Morocco are set to increase the minimum wage to cushion workers against further erosion of their purchasing power. Speaking at Labour Day celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said a rise of 12% was necessary to help workers cope with a surge in consumer prices, which has been partly driven by the war in Ukraine. “As a caring government, we find there is a compelling case to review the minimum wages so as to cushion our workers against further erosions,” Kenyatta said at a Labour Day rally. Minimum Wage Increase He said the 12 percent increase would come into effect from May 1. It takes the minimum monthly wage from 13,500 Kenyan shillings (about $116.5, 110.5 euros) to 15,120 shillings ($130.5, 124 euros). Read Also...

Nwajiuba Receives APC Nomination Form For President, Speaks On ASUU Strike

28Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

Nwajiuba Receives APC Nomination Form For President, Speaks On ASUU Strike

Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has accepted the All Progressive Congress (APC) expression of interest form to become the President of the country in 2023. Mr Nwajiuba, who accepted the nomination form at a reception hosted by the Project Nigeria Group (PNG) in Abuja on Wednesday, called on the party to forge the trust on him as their new symbol of unity, growth and regeneration. “I thank with profound respect my fellow Nigerians both those present here and those in all our nooks and cranny, whose desire for a regeneration has led them to identify me as their Chief Recruit for the job of moulding Nigeria along the path of its collective dreams. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has accepted the All Progre...

NLC Seeks FG Intervention In ASUU Strike

28Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

NLC Seeks FG Intervention In ASUU Strike

ASUU The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to address issues that necessitated the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions in tertiary institutions. President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, made the call when he addressed newsmen shortly before going into a closed-door meeting of the Congress’s Central Working Committee (CWC) on Wednesday in Abuja. Recall that ASUU embarked on a nationwide warning strike to press home its members’ demands from Feb. 14. The lecturers’ demands include; funding of the Revitalisation of Public Universities, Earned Academic Allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) and promotion arrears. Others are the renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and the incons...

Senegal: Health Workers Strike Over Death of Pregnant Woman

25Apr

By Chukwuebuka FestusNo Comments

Judiciary, Justice, Labour, News, Senegal, Women Empowerment

Senegal: Health Workers Strike Over Death of Pregnant Woman

Health workers in Senegal went on strike to protest at charges filed against six midwives accused of negligence in the death of pregnant woman that sparked nationwide anger. The National Association of Midwives and several other groups in the health sector said they were joining a work stoppage ranging from one to three days. The public health system has been “paralysed,” Mballo Dia Thiam at an umbrella group of healthcare workers called ASAS, said. The health ministry, gave no details about the impact of the strike, saying only that it had “taken steps.” The affair was sparked by the death of a nine-months-pregnant woman named Astou Sokhna at a public hospital in the northern town of Louga. She repeatedly pleaded with doctors to perform a caesarean secti...

Lack Of TRCN Registration: 300,000 Teachers May Miss New Welfare Package

25Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

Lack Of TRCN Registration: 300,000 Teachers May Miss New Welfare Package

Classroom No fewer than 300,000 teachers in public primary and secondary schools in the country may miss benefiting from the new welfare package the government wants to implement for teachers in its payroll. Findings by the Vanguard revealed that the development is because such teachers are not licensed, certificated and registered by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN.It was gathered that the government has made registration with the TRCN a condition for benefiting from the scheme. From investigation by our correspondent, the TRCN, which conducts Professional Qualifying Examination, PQE, four times a year, has so far registered and licensed about 800,000 teachers out of the about 1.1 million teachers in public schools. Speaking on the matter, Registrar of the ...

Strike: FG May Take ASUU To Court If Reconciliation Fails – Ngige

22Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

Strike: FG May Take ASUU To Court If Reconciliation Fails – Ngige

ASUU-FG Meeting Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, says the federal government may consider taking the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the industrial court if the process to resolve the strike fails. On February 14, ASUU embarked on a one-month warning strike over the non-implementation of an agreement reached with the federal government in 2020. On March 14, the union extended the strike by eight weeks following dissatisfaction with the federal government’s “disappointing” response on the matter. Amid the strike, the federal government and the leadership of ASUU have held a series of meetings, but no agreement has been reached by both sides on ending the strike. Speaking on Thursday in an interview with Channels Television, Ngige said ASUU ...

FG Faults UTAS, ASUU Accuses Govt Of Misplaced Priority

15Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Finance, Labour, News, Nigeria

FG Faults UTAS, ASUU Accuses Govt Of Misplaced Priority

ASUU Leadership The Federal Government has said the non-acceptance of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution by the National Information Technology Development Agency is not a tangible reason for the Academic Staff Union of Universities to embark on strike. Speaking in an interview with one of our correspondents, the Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, said the priority of ASUU leaders should be the welfare of their members and not on the choice of payment platform that government should use. ASUU had declared that its ongoing strike would not be suspended until the government adopted UTAS as its payment platform, implemented the renegotiated agreement, and paid all outstanding allowances. But Nwajiuba said, “They are complaining about the IPPI...