The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to extend its ongoing industrial action in two weeks time.

 

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to extend its ongoing industrial action in two weeks time.

This is according to a statement signed by the union president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke seen by INTEL REGION.

The union condemned the Federal Government’s handling of negotiations and its nonchalant attitude towards the ongoing strike. 

Recall that ASUU on February 14 embarked on strike to press home pending demands from the government which include include the release of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the UTAS payment platform the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers.

While appearing on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ last week, Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige advised the union to meet with the Benimi Briggs Committee, adding that the decision to stop ASUU’s strike could only be made by the union.

On when the issue will be resolved, the minister had said, “It depends on ASUU. The ball is in their court. They should go and meet the Benimi Briggs Committee and look at what the committee is doing and make further inputs so that the work can be accelerated.”

 

However, ASSU chairman reacting to Chris Ngige’s comment said it was humiliating for the minister to encourage the union to work with a party other than the government. He also condemned the FG’s nonchalant attitude towards the ongoing strike.

He went on to say that the union may have no choice but to extend the strike after it expires.

He said, “The rollover ends in two weeks, and there is no information, nothing new from the FG. They didn’t make any effort to get in touch with us or seek ways of ending the strike.

“Our members will decide after two weeks what step to take. We will meet. We are not begging them for discussion; they should invite us for any meeting. That’s the way it should be. We are not on strike with Ngige or Briggs but against the government, so why is he saying we should go and meet one committee or one person? We are on strike against a system. Ngige just talks without thinking. Are we on strike with a particular person?,” he said.

The ongoing strike which has entered its tenth week will end by May 15, if the union won’t extend it.

The union in another bulletin released ordered all its members, especially the executive members not to attend any meeting summoned by the government without informing the Zonal coordinator

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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has declared that the Federal Government may have no other choice than to drag the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the industrial court if efforts to resolve the ongoing strike fails.

The minister who made the disclosure during a television interview on Thursday, April 21, said ASUU is in the habit of intimidating and threatening officials in the ministry of digital communications and economy and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) over the deployment of the proposed University Transparency Account System (UTAS) and must be stopped.

Ngige cited a case where the professorship of Isa Ali Pantami was declared fake and illegal by ASUU because he wouldn't give in to their demands on the use of UTAS. He further stated that the union also bullied the director of NITDA, by threatening to withdraw the certificate conferred on him by Ahmadu Bello University.

He explained that the Nimi Briggs-led renegotiation committee were given six weeks to submit its report, which ends on Friday, and both parties involved would be invited for a meeting by next week, and if reconciliation fails, the government would consider taking the union to the industrial court.

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ASUU STRIKE: no resumption until FG settle our demands- ASUU

 

The Academic Staff Union of Universities ,(ASUU)  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 national action was rolled over for another eight weeks following the resolution taken at an emergency NEC meeting at the Festus Iyayi National Secretariat on March 14.

“The action, as you are probably aware is to, among other things, compel the Federal Government to sign and implement the draft renegotiated 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement submitted to it by the Prof. Munzali Committee in May 2021.

“Deploy for use in the Nigerian university system, was the home-grown payment and personnel solution called UTAS developed by ASUU as replacement for the failed IPPIS.

As usual, the Federal Government has ignored ASUU’s call for full implementation of that famous agreement and other memoranda signed with the union.

“No meeting has been held between the two parties since the commencement of the ongoing strike. The only exception is our union’s re-submission of UTAS for a retest.

“The summary is that unless and until the renegotiated 2009 agreement is signed and implemented and UTAS deployed, there will be no work in public universities.”

 ASUU, Benin Zone, also on Monday pleaded with Nigerians to join the union in rescuing what it described as dying university system. The union’s Zonal Coordinator, Prof Fred Esumeh, in a press briefing at the ASUU Secretariat, University of Benin, Edo State, said the union called on well-meaning Nigerians to rise up and join it in repositioning the nation’s universities to a globally competitive level that would be able to produce the manpower required to jump-start the re-emergence of a country driven by technology.

He said, “We call on all well-meaning Nigerians, students, workers, civil society organisations to wake up and join ASUU to rescue the dying university system.

“It will help reposition the universities to be globally competitive and able to produce the manpower required to jump-start the re-emergence of the country.”

Also on Monday in Ibadan, ASUU flayed the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, over what it described as a reckless comment that the union is “mean and wicked for shutting down universities.”

ASUU chairman in the University of Ibadan, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, in a statement said lecturers in Nigeria had  sacrificed their labour, sweat and health “only for parasites in government to come and destroy common heritage and collective patrimony.”

Akinwole said, “The Minister of State for Education represents one of the deceptive and insincere characters of the Buhari administration.

“It is a sign of acceptance of failure for a minister to admit that they have consistently been irresponsible by pleading with a union to bury the welfare of its members and not fight for infrastructure face-lift for the children of the masses and new salary for the welfare of her members.”

The ASUU boss, who challenged the minister to make public his salaries and allowances, also asked him to tell Nigerians how much he is being owed by government since he became minister.

Akinwole said lecturers have been considerate of the plight of the students and the society and this is why it has taken the union members’ show understanding with government owing her members 12 years of earned academic allowances and 13 years on old salary when the  likes of  ministers and cabinet members in the government enjoy periodic review of allowances and salaries.