While reacting to their recent declaration of carrying on with the strike action, the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari slammed an ultimatum on the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu while giving him two weeks to proffer a solution to the prolonged industrial action which had been undergone by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Sources in the Presidential Villa had revealed that the Nigerian President had given the directive on Tuesday during a meeting with relevant government Ministries, Agencies, and Departments (MDAs).
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In a bid to bring to an end the lingering strike which the organisation has undergone for the past few months, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari to meet with the Prof. Nimi Briggs-led Committee on negotiation.
ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osekede said this on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Briggs committee which was set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria on June 7, is to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement with ASUU and submit its report to the Education Minister, Malam Adamu Adamu in three months.
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The Presidency while reacting to the lingering strike has queried the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over their direct query to the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari over the lingering strike.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu who is part of the Presidency, had openly wondered why ASUU was holding the President by the neck over an agreement which had not signed by his government. Shehu recalled that the agreement in contention was signed in 2009 by the then Federal Government.
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Professor Emmanuel Osodeke who is the ASUU Chairman has revealed that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is actually ready to call off its four-month strike despite being blackmailed by the Nigerian Government.
He had made this statement on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
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According to him, the reason for the prolonged industrial action was that the Federal Government did not take aggrieved lecturers seriously.
…Osodeke noted that the union was waiting for a positive response from President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.“As far as ASUU is
While reacting to the incessant strikes by ASUU since its inception, the League of Imams and Alfas in Ogun State have openly lamented that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has gone on strike for a cumulative period of 52 months since 1999 and they called for a reasonable solution to their incessant strikes.
This, the Islamic clerics analysed had amounted to a total of two years and four months altogether.
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They also opined that the incessant strike action in universities had turned Nigerian youths into unskilled …
While reacting to the dangers of the ongoing ASUU stike on tertiary education in Nigeria, the Save Public Education Campaign has threatened to lead a mass protest over the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike.
Vivian Bello who is the Convener of the group had told reporters on Monday that the plight of Nigerian students was worrisome.
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Noting that education is non-negotiable, she said the insecurity in Nigeria “is traceable to the failure of the education sector”.
Bello decried “the near-total collapse of tertiary education” in the country.
In a new announcement which was put out by the organisation, the head council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has made some suggestions that the method to resolving its ongoing strike action could be done with the full adoption of the transparent payment platform, University Transparency and Accountability Solutions (UTAS) which would be used as an alternative to IPPIS.
The Chairperson of ASUU, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State chapter, Dr Socrates Ebo had in a statement which he had put out made the lamentations that the deep-rooted penchant for corruption within the Nigerian government ethos is …
Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York have revealed that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has set the records straight that the Federal Government of Nigeria did not invite the union to any meeting to iron things out over the strike action.
Chris Ngige, who is the Nigerian Minister of Labour and Employment, had on Wednesday announced that the Federal Government of Nigeria had scheduled a meeting with the Union, while making assuranced that the strike would be called off.
Ngige, who spoke after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, had also debunked …
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
As the strike action by the umbrella body of the Nigerian Univesities trudges on into months, some students of Nigerian public universities have expressed their displeasures and frustration over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Some of the students in an interview with Newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday appealed to the Federal Government to meet at least 50 per cent of ASUU demands to end the strike.
Greatness Nnamdi-Ikpo, a third-year student of the University of Port Harcourt, who is studying gas engineering, said that the ongoing strike was impacting negatively on the future
A group of Nigerian female students who threatened to protest nude on the streets over the prolonged strike action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU have been advised against the action.
Reports gathered by Africa Daily News, New York on social media had said some female students are planning to protest naked on the streets asking the government and ASUU to reach a compromise and call off the strike.
Reacting, Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna senator, urged students not to protest naked in order not to create distractions to their main cause.
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Campus shop owners, in Kaduna State University (KASU), on Thursday, decried the continuous strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Africa Daily News, New York recalls that ASUU had on February 14th this year embarked on a one-month warning strike, but because their demands were not met, the union vowed to continue until the Federal Government responds favourably.
However, during the visit by correspondents to the institution, on Thursday, to the main campus of the Kaduna State University, the environment which was unusually quiet, while many business centres within the school campus, especially, the photocopying …
