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Half-Salaries: ASUU Rules Out Another Strike Sction

Half-Salaries: ASUU Rules Out Another Strike Sction

November 8, 2022 9:09 pm

In lieu of the controversial half-salary saga which the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had gotten themselves embroiled in, the ASUU has finally ended its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting with a resolution not to embark on another strike action.

The union, however, openly condemned the attempt by the Federal Government to turn the academics into casual workers through the so-called ‘pro-rata’ payment for 18 days.

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In a press statement on Tuesday after the end of the NEC meeting, the ASUU national …

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We Didn’t Sign Agreement With FG To Quit Strike – ASUU

October 24, 2022 9:02 pm

In a bid to set the records about the details of the strike action straight, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has made a fresh disclosure that no agreement had actually been signed between them and the federal government before they had called off the eight month strike.

The President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke had made this disclosure on Monday during a meeting with some of  the leadership of the House of Representatives.

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It would also be recalled that the Appeal Court had also affirmed the ruling …

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Strike: We’ll Sign A Fresh Deal In A Couple Of Days – ASUU

October 10, 2022 6:45 pm

In lieu of the recent rebuffs by the courts, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) and the House of Representatives have on Monday met to iron out the lingering issues bordering on the industrial action which had been embarked on by the lecturers.

The lecturers who had also been led by ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke and the leadership of the House, who had been in turn led by Femi Gbajabiamila had met behind a closed-door meeting for about 30 minutes before having another one in front of the camera.

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Reason Our Last Meeting With FG Ended In Disagreement – ASUU

August 18, 2022 5:12 pm

While reacting to the massive backlash on them as a result of the bad turn their last meeting with the Federal Government took, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has come out to give a reason why the meeting with the Federal Government of Nigeria had ended in a deadlock.

ASUU had also revealed that it ad rejected the Federal Government’s offer because it is “miserable”.

ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke had also made this disclosure in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘Why ASUU rejects government’s award of salary’.

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ASUU Mulls For Regulation Of Foreign Education For Public Officers

July 27, 2022 8:57 pm

In lieu of the lingering strike, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have made an open call for a bill to regulate how children of public officers would be able to enroll in schools outside the shores of Nigeria.

Prof. Kingdom Tombra, who is the Chairman of the University of Niger Delta University Wilberforce Island chapter of the union, had made this known at the solidarity protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday in Yenagoa.

Recall that the NLC embarked on the nationwide protest in solidarity with the ASUU and other affiliate unions over the lingering …

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ASUU: Transport, Power Sector May Shut Down As NLC Protests

July 26, 2022 11:11 am

Coming on the heels of the prolonged industrial action which had been embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and some other unions will begin a nationwide solidarity protest today as has been previously announced.

Africa Daily News, New York has also recalled that some of the university lecturers had on February 14, 2022, shut down most of the public universities in Nigeria over the inability of the Federal Government  of Nigeria to fully  implement some of the agreements the two parties entered into in previous years.

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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.

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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.

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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 Strike: ASUU, FG Meet In Abuja

ASUU: Why We Haven’t Called Off Strike

October 27, 2020 8:12 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it has yet to call off its ongoing strike because it is waiting for the government to conduct an integrity test on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution.

The UTAS is the payment platform created by ASUU in place of government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.

ASSU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi in an interview with The PUNCH said the government needed to give the clearance to National Information Technology Development Agency to conduct integrity test on UTAS.

“The integrity test will be handled by NITDA, it is government that will …

Despite meeting Senate President, ASUU says strike continues

Despite Meeting Senate President, ASUU Says Strike Continues

October 13, 2020 3:47 am
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, says its nationwide strike continues despite meeting with Senate President on Monday.

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan met with leadership of ASUU on Monday where he appealed to them to go back to the classroom.

But ASUU, in a statement on its twitter handle said it would now meet with its members in an internal meeting, but that till then, the strike continued.

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According to ASUU, ‘The Senate President appealed to the FG and ASUU to be ready to sheath

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We Will Soon Expose Those Feeding Fat On IPPIS – ASUU

October 12, 2020 8:32 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it will soon expose those feeding fat on the adoption of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, by the Federal Government as its payment platform.

This is just as the union alleged that some people in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation are subverting its efforts to reach an understanding with the Federal Government on the controversial payment system.

The National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, stated this on Sunday in an interview with NAN.

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ASUU berates FG over new fuel pump price, electricity tariff (1)

ASUU Berates FG Over New Fuel Pump Price, Electricity Tariff

September 6, 2020 1:47 pm

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has flayed the Federal Government over the recent increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol as well as the electricity tariff.

The Akure zone of ASUU, which frowned over the development after its zonal meeting at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, also condemned the proposed plans to re-open schools.

According to the Union during a press briefing over the weekend, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has not been forthcoming over the anti-masses policies of the federal government.

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