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Trade Union Congress Appeals To ASUU To Reconsider Demands

Trade Union Congress Appeals To ASUU To Reconsider Demands

June 21, 2022 3:15 pm

Reacting to the strike action that has spanned for so many months, the Nigerian Trade Union Congress (TUC) has made open appeals to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to shift ground and reconsider some of their demands by making some concessions so that the Nigerian university students can return to school after being forced to stay at home since February.

Mr Monday Ogbodum who is the Chairman of the Cross River State chapter of the Union had also made the appeal on Tuesday in an interview in Calabar, the state capital.

Ogbodum said ASUU had “clearly” made their

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Stop Delaying Children’s Progress – Parents To ASUU

May 26, 2022 1:00 pm

As the effetcs of the ASUU strike wanes on, some parents in Enugu State have called on the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end the union’s prolonged strike and stop delaying students’ progress.

The parents made the call on Thursday in Enugu.

Some of them had reiterated that they were sad and pained as their children sat idly at home while their peers in private universities were making progress in school.

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Mrs Marbel Onuchukwu, a widow who has two undergraduate children said it was painful …

ASUU Strike: ASUU, FG Meet In Abuja

ASUU Strike: ASUU, FG Meet In Abuja

December 18, 2020 2:14 am

The end of nine month long strike action embarked upon by the members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be around the corner as the representatives of the union and the federal government on Thursday met again in Abuja to continue talks over the strike embarked upon by the academics.

The ASUU strike which started in may has paralysed academics activities in government universities in the whole of Nigeria. The academics are seeking an overhaul of their salary structure and increased funding for universities, among other demands.

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ASUU: FG Reveals Next Action If Lecturers Fail To Resume

ASUU: FG Reveals Next Action If Lecturers Fail To Resume

November 14, 2020 2:40 pm

The Federal Government will consider ‘options’ to stop the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) from continuing its industrial action.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, spoke on a Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.

‘There are so many options left. We have the labour laws and I have options left to me in the labour laws. I have other channels,’ he said.

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Ngige complained that the union was not considering the challenges their demands would create.

The minister said even if countries go to war, they eventually meet …

'ASUU Strike Will Continue As Long As FG Withholds Our Salaries'

‘ASUU Strike Will Continue As Long As FG Withholds Our Salaries’

October 29, 2020 9:17 am

Despite pleas by stakeholders and Nigerian students to end the strike, the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi, in this interview with IYABO LAWAL, insists that schools will remain shut until issues of members’ salaries and revitalisation are settled.

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What is the update on the seven-month strike embarked on by university teachers?
Nothing has changed significantly. We have presented our issues. We started with five, and we now have six issues. These are revitalisaton of universities; renegotiation of 2009 agreement; visitation panels to universities; …

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Your Virtual Matriculation Is A Scam’- ASUU To Osun Uni

May 16, 2020 12:47 pm

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Saturday described the virtual matriculation organised by the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Labode Popoola as a scam.

Africa Daily News gathered that Osun State University recently conducted a virtual matriculation exercise attended by only principal officers of the institution led by the Vice-Chancellor.

But, ASUU while reacting, lashed out at the Vice-Chancellor.

The union alleged that the Vice-Chancellor was aiming to use the virtual matriculation to get financial favour from the federal government.

ASUU stated that its strike action was ongoing to get the federal government to commit funds to

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Strike Action: ASUU, FG Reach Concrete Proposals

March 18, 2020 5:21 am
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it has reached concrete proposals with the Federal Government on the ongoing warning strike embarked upon by the union.

Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President said this in Abuja while addressing newsmen at the end of a closed-door reconciliatory meeting at the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

The meeting which began by 3 p.m ended at about 11 p.m on Tuesday.

ASUU began the warning strike on March 9, 2020, after disagreement with the Federal Government over issues of revitalization of universities, earned academic allowance.

Others are visitation panel, mainstreaming and most importantly …

UNILAG Council Followed Due Process To Remove VC – Babalakin

Babalakin Is Destroying UNILAG Because Of His Private Uni

March 12, 2020 6:15 am
The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) Chapter, Dr Adebayo Olusoji Oni, has accused Dr. Wale Babalakin of plans to ‘pull down’ the University of Lagos (UNILAG) because he wants to establish his own private university.

 

Wale Babalakin is the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of UNILAG Governing Council.

The University of Lagos Chapter of ASUU, on Wednesday, declared Babalakin as a persona non grata, for allegedly being instrumental to the postponement of the University convocation, which was supposed to hold last week.

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ASUU Strike - Unilorin Suspends Exams, Joins Action

ASUU Strike: Unilorin Suspends Exams, Joins Action

March 11, 2020 10:59 am

For the first time in 20 years of uninterrupted academic calendar, the University of Ilorin’s Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU chapter joined the two weeks warning strike declared by the national body over the IPPIS controversy.

DAILY POST reports that consequently, academic activities have been paralysed at the main campus of the institution due to the strike by the union over the refusal by the federal government to pay the February salaries of the university teachers.

The Federal government hinged the delay in payment of salaries in the failure of teachers to enroll for the integrated payroll and

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ASUU Battles Kano University Magt Over Fees Increment

February 27, 2020 3:05 pm
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, chapter, has faulted the recent increase of students’ registration fees.

It described the decision as a clear act of insensitivity.

Besides, the academic union insisted that such decision by the Vice-chancellor and the school’s management was not in tandem with the new Kano State policy on Free and Compulsory Education.

ASUU in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman Comrade Muhammad Sani Gaya and Secretary Comrade Murtala Muhammad regretted that the increase was coming at a time the university was expending extravagant resources on exotic cars

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You Are Incompetent, Resign Now – ASUU Tells AGF

February 20, 2020 10:50 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday asked the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris to resign over gross incompetence.

ASUU said that the failure of the Accountant General to release remit deductions of University workers salaries for the month of January three weeks after payment of their salaries is a deliberate plan to make university staff suffer.

A release jointly signed by the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of the Union, Dr Ade Adejumo and University of Ibadan Chairman Professor Ayo Akinwole stated that salaries are not paid when deductions on cooperative societies and other schemes are

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Sexual Harassment In Schools: ASUU Counsels Lawmakers

February 18, 2020 6:30 am

Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday, advocated the review of existing laws on sexual harassment in tertiary institutions.

He made the call at a hearing in Abuja on “Sexual Harassment of Students in Tertiary Educational Institution Prohibition Bill”, organised by Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters chaired by Sen. Bamidele Opeyemi.

Ogunyemi declared that ASUU was not in support of sexual harassment in any form.

He said since there were laws that addressed the menace, there was no point wasting time on another law.

“Are there laws that would

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