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ASUU STRIKE: FG may take decision today
The Federal Government is likely to take a decision on how to handle the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, gave the indication on Monday, after an aborted meeting with the union which shunned government.
ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, on Tuesday confirmed that the union will not attend the meeting. His reason was that ASUU has met and discussed the new offer from the Federal Government as well as submitted a proposal to the government.
According to him, ASUU can only attend another meeting with the Federal Government after it must have received a reply to their proposal from the government.
Ngige however told newsmen that ASUU’s new letter dated August 28, 2017, would be submitted to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its meeting today (Wednesday).
According to him, ”The government, as you know, has made an offer to ASUU through the Ministry of Education and late yesterday (Monday), ASUU got back to us with their counter offer.
“By then, this meeting had been scheduled and the government’s side needed to deliberate on their counter offer before we can have a reconciliation meeting to further discuss areas of disagreement.
“That is the position right now. We are holding a government side meeting, while the Minister of Education is also holding meeting and we will meet later today and formalize our position”.
He further said that there are aspects of the demands by ASUU that needs FEC approval to go on with.
“Thereafter, we will meet with the ASUU team either tomorrow (Wednesday) evening or Thursday morning, which ever will be more convenient,” the minister said.
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
Latest News On ASUU Strike Today 28 August 2017
•The Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU ) says there is no going back on its on going strike as 80% of the chapter voted for continuation
•Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, the union’s National President , told the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN ) on telephone in Abuja that the strike would be total and indefinite.
The union leadership , after its executive committee meeting , declared the strike continues toll the FG yield to it request.
Ogunyemi said chronic under-funding of the sector through low budgetary allocation, which went from 11 per cent in 2015 to eight per cent in 2016, did not go down well with the union.
He pointed out the failure of government to implement the 2009 agreement and the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU ) as some of the reasons for embarking on the warning strike.
The president said that its members were tired of what they described as “government ’s empty promises ’’ in setting up its negotiation team for the review of agreement as consistently requested by ASUU since 2012 .
The president said that its members were tired of what they described as “government ’s empty promises ’’ in setting up its negotiation team for the review of agreement as consistently requested by ASUU since 2012 .
“There shall be no teaching , no examination and no attendance of statutory meetings of any kind in any of our branches while the strike lasts .’’
According to him , the union will put machinery in place to ensure that there is total compliance during the strike..
He explained that the essence of the strike was to draw attention of concern stakeholders and the general public to the challenges that the unions, universities and other stakeholders in the sector were facing.
“Nobody will say before we exhaust the warning strike some issues cannot be addressed if government want to be sincere with our cause.
“We are doing this because we want Nigerians to come into the matter and ensure that these issues are given adequate attention they deserve
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“Our lecturers are given 40 per cent of their salaries , which is just not encouraging, as this will lead to poor commitment in carrying out their jobs .
“We are doing this because we want Nigerians to come into the matter and ensure that these issues are given adequate attention they deserve
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“Our lecturers are given 40 per cent of their salaries , which is just not encouraging, as this will lead to poor commitment in carrying out their jobs .
“I am sure nobody will like a 40 per cent university education or 40 per cent teaching of various courses including research development and output .
“That is why we have to take the matter before the National Assembly, which we believe , will come into the matter just like the Nigerian parents .’’.
ASUU also uses this medium to wish all student happy salah .
Saturday, August 26, 2017
ASUU Strike: End of the Road for Ngige?
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has blasted the Minister for labour and employment, Dr Chris Ngige on his attempt to blackmail the union on its demands.
The spokesperson for the union, Comrade Olisa Umeh today in Awka, Anambra State describe as unfortunate efforts by the Minister to sabotage the union for his selfish reasons.
Umeh disclosed further that Ngige has lost focus on his primary duty as a minister of Labour where he is expected to spearhead negotiations between ASUU and the Federal government. But rather, the minister has turned himself to an emergency godfather in view of the upcoming Anambra election.
To express their displeasure, the Union is currently holding a peaceful rally in Awka to press home their demand having embarked on an indefinite strike since Monday over Federal Government failure to keep to the 2009 agreement.
Ngige was expected to borrow a leaf from the strands of his white hair by exhibiting wisdom by addressing the protracted ASUU strike and bring an end to it through proper negotiation with the union in the absence of the president.
This display of grandstanding by Dr Ngige is seen by many as irresponsible, ineptitude and unprofessionalism in the discharge of his duties. Since he assumed office as the minister, he has not been able to show serious zeal in moving the country forward through the portfolio that was assigned to him.
He should endeavour to address the lingering Labour problems in the country which even degenerated to the killing of civil servants in Kogi and other states.
In addition, Pensioners, under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Pensioners ( NUP) has also criticized the minister while ccusing him of high level of nepotism in the discharge of his duties.
Specifically, the NUP declared that Ngige was using his position to circumvent the trade union and pension laws to favour his kinsmen.
Briefing the Press at the Labour House, Abuja, the Chairman, Electricity Sector branch of the NUP, Mr Abel Olas Eikhor, accused the Minister of directing the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorates (PTAD) to circumvent the law and pay union dues into the account of an individual who is not a member of the Union.
The Union stated that rather than address the issues of a petition written against a former Chairman, Temple Ubani, the Minister who should be conversant with the provisions of the law asked PTAD to pay check off dues deducted from the Union members to Ubani even when Ubani was no longer a member of the union, having formed his own association.
He pointed out that in total disregard to the provisions of the Trade Union Act, the Minister has directed the PTAD to remit union dues of members of the Union to the accounts of Chief Ubani.
He pointed out that in total disregard to the provisions of the Trade Union Act, the Minister has directed the PTAD to remit union dues of members of the Union to the accounts of Chief Ubani.
This is a clarion call by Mr President to save his prestige as well as that of Nigeria from an ineptitude that is associated with the office of minister of labour and employment. Technocrats who know what the ministry is all about should be shopped for to replace the medical Doctor immediately who was appointed on compensation basis.
Ngige should be relieved of his duties now to avert this ugly scenario that has consistently played out since he assumed office. It is time we start putting round pegs in round holes.
Kelvin Ighalo wrote from Awka
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Restructuring: Southern Nigerians take agitation to UK
Southern Nigerian groups have resolved to take the agitation for the restructuring of the country to United Kingdom with a maiden international summit.
To that end, an inaugural meeting for the campaign is being held today, Tuesday, August 22, 2017.
The groups involved in the Diaspora agitation for restructuring are South East /South South Network, Afenifere Renewal Group UK, Bendel Foundation and Igbo Ekunie Initiative.
In a statement issued by the groups and signed by Coordinator, Dr Philip Idaehor, the Southern groups would use the medium to draw the attention of the international community to the need for restructuring the country for better performance.
According to the groups, the meeting will be first in a series of round-table consultations to deliberate on the way forward for Nigeria following the defeat of constitutional amendments aimed to restructure the federation at the National Assembly.
“The round-table series will be a platform to ponder on various problems bedevilling the country since attaining independence and fashion out ways out of the country's age long crisis”, the statement said.
“Planned to be a quarterly event in the Diaspora, the round-table Southern Nigerians summit will address various issues facing the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and at the end of the meeting, the groups will come up with memorandum that will be submitted to National Assembly”, the statement concluded.
Finally! ASUU'S ending Stike soon (see)
Ever since I concluded that Brian Acton and Jan Koum who started
WhatsApp in 2009 could not have imagined how some Nigerians would use it, I paid little attention to most messages on the platform. If you are not being added to groups without your consent, folks will be asking you to send particular messages to others for their own kind of blessingsB
utose fault is it that our universities don’t have enough professors? Since the National Universities Commission is a political organ at a level, could ASUU please tell us who are the members of accreditation committees, which regularly vet courses in our universities? Are they not the ones that have consistently shut out professionals who could serve as professors of professional practice as commonly done in other parts of the world through insistence on possession of PhDs before you can be recognized as a university lecturer? Who are those involved in the practice of allowing their profiles to be on private universities’ staff lists to fulfill accreditation criterion even when they are still serving in public schools?
The shenanigans that accompany appointments of vice chancellors cannot make any politician respect our lecturers. Issues like ethnicity; quota system and religion are regular features in such moments so much that vice chancellors become attenuated on assumption of office. The point is that our campuses are not different from what we have outside and so expecting the situation to be YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: name of best university in Nigeria to study medicine 2017 (photos)
different is a tall order. Good enough that the federal government had admitted that it was in the wrong regarding previous agreements, it is up to ASUU too to admit that the way our universities are being run now cannot guarantee good products. Our lecturers seem insulated from cutting edge thinking needed for this century. Issues like appointment of governing council members who can position the universities better and not the usual crowd of politicians we have presently deserve attention.A way of bridging the funding gap is better alumni relations but this has not been explored fully. People graduate from universities completely alienated from the institutions based on what they experienced as we no longer produce ‘total person.’ Dissent is no longer seeing as a mark of freedom in the academia and students are regularly hounded because of their union activities. A result of this is the lack of intolerance permeating our country in political debates and low civic education. We can take our universities back and return them to their glorious days, but ASUU members should keep their house in order first by removing the log in their eyes.
Monday, August 21, 2017
We’ve not called off strike – ASUU
National leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, said it was not true that the indefinite strike declared last week had been called off.
There was a report, weekend, that the strike had been suspended after the Federal Government representatives led by Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, and Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, met with the leadership of the union in Abuja, Wednesday.
But the National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said on telephone, yesterday, that there was no truth in the alleged suspension of the strike.
Instead, he said the union was still consulting with the relevant stakeholders on the outcome of the meeting it had with government representatives.
Asked when the union would meet again with government and when the National Executive Council, NEC, of ASUU would meet to take final decision, Ogunyemi said for now he was not aware of when to meet with government representatives and that it was after consultation that the NEC would meet.
Vanguard reliably gathered that the principal officers of ASUU, including zonal officers, met on Saturday at the union’s secretariat Gwagwalada to review the meeting with government representatives and the offer so far made by government.
A source within the union said it was not possible for the national executive to call off strike without consulting the zonal and branch executives which will meet to get mandate from members before taking any decision.
Recall that ASUU declared indefinite strike on Monday last week over contentious issues with the Federal Government which included the non implementation of the 2009 agreement the union and the government entered into.
