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Strike: ASUU Wants Minister’s Certificate Withdrawn, Edo Students Protest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Strike: ASUU Wants Minister’s Certificate Withdrawn, Edo Students Protest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

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...

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...

FG Withholds Salaries of Academics, Expects to be Begged – ASUU Says as it Threatens Strike

6Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

FG Withholds Salaries of Academics, Expects to be Begged – ASUU Says as it Threatens Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has urged the Federal Government to implement the agreements reached before the suspension of its 10-month strike to avert a further strike by the union. The union lamented that the government was yet to pay some of its members in several universities, with arrears ranging between three and 14 months being owed. The President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed these in an interview with SundayPunch. Speaking on a possible reaction of the union should the government remain intransigent, Osodeke said he would not hesitate to continue where his predecessor, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, stopped. He said, “It is continuity, we run a collective leadership. So, it’s continuity from where my immediate predecessor stopped. It (the crisis) is not ...

Strike: ASUU Yet to Conclude Consultations

7Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Strike: ASUU Yet to Conclude Consultations

The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has sought time to conclude consultations with its chapters on Wednesday. The union was expected to communicate its stance on the lingering strike to the federal government last Friday but reports say ASUU asked for an extension of time to Wednesday as it could not collate decisions by all branches last week. ASUU had requested that its meeting with the federal government initially schedule for last Friday be postponed to Wednesday to enable it to collate and analyse decisions of nationwide branches, a source told This Day. The source said, “ASUU requested for the extension of time for it to hold wider consultations with members and to be able to receive positions of the various branches. They said they should be gi...

ASUU Strike: FG Says Only One Contentious Issue Left

15Nov

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, Nigeria, Youths

ASUU Strike: FG Says Only One Contentious Issue Left

The Federal Government has stated that its disagreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities will soon come to an end as all but one of the issues have been resolved. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja after monitoring the Professional Qualifying Examination organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria. Echono said, “The government is working very closely. We are very concerned and the President is very concerned about this protracted (ASUU) strike which, to so many of us, is unnecessary. We believe there are other ways of getting things done. “There’s a shared acceptance of so many of the issues and we are at a point that very quickly and soon, it will be resolved. T...

ASUU Reveals When Strike Will be Called Off

27Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Youths

ASUU Reveals When Strike Will be Called Off

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it is ready to call off its ongoing strike as soon as the Federal Government conducts an integrity test on the proposed payroll system, University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). ASUU said that its members are ready to return to the classroom once government shows commitment to implementing contentious issues. ASUU had opposed enrollment into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). It rather developed the UTAS as a peculiar payment platform for its members. ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi in an interview with newsmen revealed that while a proposed meeting with government on Monday was cancelled, the body was expecting the government to give clearance to National Information Tec...

ASUU Strike: An End in Sight as Buhari Govt Agrees to Pay N30bn Earned Allowance

16Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Youths

ASUU Strike: An End in Sight as Buhari Govt Agrees to Pay N30bn Earned Allowance

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has agreed to release N30 billion to pay earned academic allowance to lecturers of universities. The allowance will be paid in tranches between May 2021 and February 2022. As part of the agreements reached to bring an end to the strike action, African News Today gathered that the FG also committed to spend N20 billion on revitalisation of the education sector. The agreements were reached during a meeting between the FG and leadership of ASUU on Thursday. Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige who spoke to journalists before the meeting said students were being lured into the #EndSARS peaceful demonstrations due ASUU strike. “We don’t take very great pleasure in the fact that the children who are supposed to be in school a...