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ASUU Strike Small Campus Businesses Dying – KASU Traders

ASUU Strike: Small Campus Businesses Dying – KASU Traders

May 6, 2022 12:34 am

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 …

Strike ASUU Tackles FG Over Railway Construction To Niger

Strike: ASUU Tackles FG Over Railway Construction To Niger

March 20, 2022 6:27 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has again blamed the Federal Government for the ongoing strike in public universities lambasting it for not showing commitment to education.

The union’s National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, stated in an interview with newsmen on Saturday stated that the government ‘went to sleep’ for eight months after it completed negotiations with the union in May 2021.

According to him, ASUU waited for actions from the government to no avail.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that ASUU had on Monday, March 14, 2022 announced an eight-week rollover of its four-week warning strike, which …

ASUU Kicks As NASS Moves To Establish 186 Universities

ASUU Kicks As NASS Moves To Establish 186 Universities

March 19, 2022 6:07 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has tackled the national assembly over the initiation of new bills for the creation of new universities in Nigeria.

ASUU wondered why the government would push for the creation of new universities while ignoring the existing ones currently in dilapidated states.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the National Universities Commission, the regulatory body of universities in Nigeria, puts the total number of federal universities at 49; state-owned universities, 55, and private-owned universities, 99.

Though the NUC had earlier argued that the number of universities and lecturers in the country might not …

Strike We Won’t Make Gunpoint Negotiations With ASUU - FG

Strike: We Won’t Make Gunpoint Negotiations With ASUU – FG

March 14, 2022 7:13 am

The Federal Ministry of Education has declared that it will not enter into agreements with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) under duress as the union is presently pushing it to.

The ministry called on ASUU to call off its ongoing industrial actions ‘so that we will not have gunpoint negotiations and make promises that we will not be able to fulfil.’

This was made known by the ministry’s spokesman, Ben Goong, in an interview yesterday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the National Executive Council of the union, which is currently holding a meeting at the University …

FG Unconcerned About Public Universities, ASUU Laments

FG Unconcerned About Public Universities, ASUU Laments

March 12, 2022 5:01 am

Less than two days to the expiration of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the National President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke has accused the Federal Government of not caring enough for public varsities insisting that ‘nothing tangible has been done’.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the union had on Monday, February 14, 2022, declared a total and comprehensive four-week warning strike.

The strike, according to the union, was due to the failure of the government to implement the agreement the Federal Government signed with the union in 2009.

ASUU had also …

FG Declares ASUU Strike Illegal As Meeting Ends In Deadlock

FG Declares ASUU Strike Illegal As Meeting Ends In Deadlock

February 23, 2022 8:43 am

The conciliatory meeting which was conveyed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige to hold discussions on the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), ended early Wednesday morning in deadlock, with the Federal Government declaring the industrial action as illegal.

While the government has continued to maintain that the demands raised by the union were already being met, ASUU thinks otherwise.

Addressing stakeholders at the meeting, Ngige described the ongoing strike as a clear breach of the law, adding that the union did not go through the normal process before embarking on the industrial action.…

FG Moves To Meet ASUU’s Demands, Constitutes White Paper Panel

FG Moves To Meet ASUU’s Demands, Constitutes White Paper Panel

February 18, 2022 1:43 am

The Federal Ministry of Education has announced the commencement of a move to meet one of the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) after the university lecturers embarked on a one-month warning strike earlier in the week.

The Education ministry made this disclosure in a press statement issued by its Director of Press and Media Relations, Ben Goong, on Thursday which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York.

Recall that the move by the government to inaugurate a white paper drafting panel coming almost a year after the visiting panels to tertiary institutions constituted by the …

Strike Shelved As FG, ASUU Reach Agreement

Minister, ASUU To Hold Emergency Meeting As Strike Looms

April 5, 2021 4:57 pm

Following the threat to embark on another round of strike the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has invited the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to an emergency meeting with hopes to dissuade such actions.

The emergency meeting is to hold Tuesday, the 6th of April 2021 at 11:00 am in the Ministry’s Headquarters in Abuja, said a statement by Director Press and Public Relations, Ben. Bem Goong.

Read Also: I Have Three Children In Public Universities – Ngige

Explaining the reason for the emergency meeting, the Minister said the meeting is intended to nip the strike in the …

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.

Read Also: We’ve Not Agreed On Date To Call Off Strike,

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We've Not Agreed On Date To Call Off strike, FG Lied - ASUU

We’ve Not Agreed On Date To Call Off Strike, FG Lied – ASUU

December 11, 2020 3:35 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated that the Federal Government lied against the union on the date to call off strike.

The body denied that it reached an agreement with the federal government, to call off its ongoing strike on December 9, 2020.

Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, had on Tuesday claimed that ASUU promised to call off their nine-month old strike before Wednesday. The Minster further stated that the government has delivered on offers made to ASUU.

Read Also: FG Lied About Agreement On Date To Call Off Strike – ASUU

But …

ASUU Confirms Kidnap Of Two Profs, Others In UNIABUJA

FG Lied About Agreement On Date To Call Off Strike – ASUU

December 10, 2020 3:33 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has denied that it reached an agreement with the federal government, to call off its ongoing strike on December 9, 2020.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, on Tuesday claimed that ASUU promised to call off their nine-month old strike before Wednesday.

Ngige further stated that the government has delivered on offers made to ASUU.

Read Also: ASUU: Lecturers Not Considering Nigeria’s Problems – Buhari

However, ASUU president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in a statement on Wednesday, made it clear that representatives of the union, don’t have the powers to suspend …

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.

Read Also: Don’t Attend UI Convocation – ASUU To Members

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 …

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