Academic Staff Union of Research Institutions

I Have Three Children In Public Universities – Ngige

Workers’s Union Seeks Minister’s Intervention Over Crisis

The Academic Staff Union of Research Institutions (ASURI) Reformed Group, South East Zone, has urged the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige to intervene in the age-long crisis rocking the national leadership of ASURI.

Africa Daily News reports that the group had been enmeshed in a protracted crisis leading to its polarization.

Rising from its meeting at National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike Umuahia, Abia state, the ASURI Reformed Group, which broke away from the ASURI mainstream body, said the minister’s earlier attempt to address the crisis in the Union, was allegedly blocked by some powerful interests