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01/08/2022

JUST IN: ASUU Extends Ongoing Strike By 1 Month To Give FG More Time.

01/08/2022

; Strike continues as ASUU NEC fails to suspend action

The industrial action by members of the Academic Sftaff Union of Universities, ASUU, will continue as members of the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union did not consider the option of suspending the action at its meeting which ended in the early hours of Monday in Abuja.

Checks by Vanguard showed that the national leadership of the union only briefed the meeting on their interactions and submissions made to the Prof. Nimi Briggs Committee set up the Federal Government to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement with the union.

A source said the leadership also told the meeting about the intervention of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in the matter and the subsequent nationwide solidarity rallies held by the Congress and its affiliates last week.

“Since there is no sign of any serious commitment on the part of the government, there was no need for the NEC to consider suspending the strike. Can anybody say this is what the goverement is offering? They were the ones who set up the Briggs Committee and it made recommendations and the government jettisoned the report.

“The government is not sincere. Let us assume that we are asking too much, which is not even the situation, is it not that the government will come out with its offers and we will deliberate whether to accept or not. We have been saying it that they want to kill the university system just as they did public primary and secondary schools.

“How many Nigerians are now proud to send their children to public primary and secondary schools that we all attended in those days? The national leadership of the union will soon come out with our decisions,” the source said.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, solidarity rallies were held across the states and in Abuja to press the goverement to accede to the requests of the union and for immediate reopening of the universities.

Credit; Vanguard News

27/07/2022

; The House of Representatives has resolved to intervene in the on-going dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government.

27/07/2022

: ASUU To Declare Indefinite Strike In 5 Days

26/07/2022

Today, the NLC protest will hold!!

Let's all go out there comrades and tell the government to give us our rights!!

25/07/2022

: NLC to Embark on Three-day Warning Strike after Protest

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that it will embark on a three-day warning strike immediately after the Tuesday and Wednesday nationwide protest in solidarity with the striking lecturers.

It further stated that it might extend the warning to an indefinite strike if the federal government fails to resolve the issues with the university unions and have the schools reopen for Nigerian students.

The labour movement said it has mobilized workers across the country for a nationwide protest in all the 36 states of the federation and Abuja Tuesday.

The protest is to compel the federal government to resolve all the lingering issues to re-open universities for academic activities.

NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, stated this while speaking to journalists at the ongoing 18th NLC Rain School in in Uyo, Akwa Ibom.

“The protest happening tomorrow is not a solidarity protest but a protest of NLC against government actions that lead to our universities being shut down and our kids staying at home instead of going to school. All the unions directly involved in the strike are NLC affiliates and their members are part of NLC.

“We have taken three levels of decision. First is the protest, which is going to be national tomorrow. After the protest, a three-day national warning strike will start, and if they fail to resolve the issues and bring back our kids to school, we go on indefinite strike.

“That is the decision of our National Executive Council. And what will be helpful for them is to check the timeline we have given for them to resolve the issues. We are optimistic that they will be willing this time because we are also willing to get our children back to school,” he said.

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23/07/2022

Federal Govt Is Concerned About ASUU Strike, Meetings Ongoing To End Industrial Action – State Minister for Education

Hon. Goodluck Nanah Opiah, the newly appointed Minister of State for Education, has assured Nigerians that the Federal Government is working relentlessly to see that schools are reopened by resolving the lingering disputes with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other University staff unions. https://bit.ly/3IX7gYH | Students Mouthpiece

Federal Govt Is Concerned About ASUU Strike, Meetings Ongoing To End The Industrial Action – Opiah - News_Politics - operanewsapp

22/07/2022

; FG has appealed to the NLC to cancel its planned protest over the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other university-based unions.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, made the appeal on Thursday at a meeting with the leadership of NLC in his office.

20/07/2022

COEASU Extends Strike By 3 Weeks

20/07/2022

; NANS ask All Students to Join NLC Solidarity Protést

19/07/2022

; President Buhari Gives Education Minister, Adamu Adamu 2 Weeks To Resolve Issues With ASUU.

All these is about to end soon Nigeria students should prepare!.

19/07/2022

President Muhammadu Buhari in Consultation with Ministers and other Government Officials over ASUU STRIKE.

19/07/2022

ASUU meets August 1, strike enters 155th day

The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities is scheduled to hold its meeting in the first week of August, 2022, The PUNCH has reliably gathered.

Punch correspondent learnt that a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the strike which enters its 155th day on Tuesday (today), will be taken at the meeting.

The chairman of ASUU, Federal University of Technology, Minna chapter, Dr. Gbolahan Bolarin, confirmed the planned meeting to our correspondent on Monday.

Bolarin said the meeting would be held either on July 30 or August 1, 2022.

Ahead of the NEC meeting however, Bolarin ruled out the possibility of suspending the strike.

According to him, the government has not brought anything to the table that can lead to such decision.

“We are not even at a point to vote on continuation or not because there is nothing from the Federal Government yet.

18/07/2022

: FG HASN'T SHOWN ANY COMMITMENT YET - ASUU.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities have debunked the News Making round that the union might suspend their industrial action tommorow.

According to a realiable source, it was said that the federal government hasn't shown any commitment that would warrent the union calling or suspending the Strike.

However different labour unions have decided to show solidarity Support for the union to help push the Government to reach a favourable agreement and fairly fulfill it's conditions.

Recall that top ASUU OFFICIALS and Some Vice Chancellor's of different varsities might be meeting with the President tommorow.

17/07/2022

; NLC Declares Nationwide Protést For Next Tuesday & Wednesday Over ASUU STRIKE

14/07/2022

From NANS President.

*NANS Meeting with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, The APC Presidential Flag Bearer*

In our continuous efforts in advocating for the end of the prolonged ASUU Strike, I led the National Executives of NANS and stakeholders to meet with the Presidential Aspirant of the APC to annex his contacts and capacity to prevail on ASUU and the FG to put an end to the protracted industrial action. It is our believe that no stone must be left unturned in ensuring that ASUU return back to the classroom.

We had fruitful engagements and Asiwaju who passionately expressed his concerns and his efforts in the past during similar strike action commended the students leaders for their initiatives to engage in high level advocacy and seek political solution. He shared in our position that every reasonable Nigerian must be seriously concerned as the continuous strike poses a great danger to security and collective well being of our nation.

Asiwaju therefore promised to immediately step up his interventions, even now that the President has opened the window for individual contributions to dialogues in pursuit of the end of the industrial action.

Nigerian students expressed our deepest appreciation to Asiwaju for cutting short his very tight schedule and campaign activities to address our leadership and made strong commitment to the end of the strike. He also promised to continue to engage with us and youth organisations across the country to tap into our strength, ideas and creativities in the days ahead while ensuring that youth and students forms integral part of his programs.

NANS under my leadership will leave no stone unturned to ensure we see the end of incessant ASUU Strike in Nigeria.

We have reached a stage in this struggle where the end is more important to us than the means and as leaders we will not do less than our very best to ensure the end of the strike.

Viva Aluta!

Comrade Sunday Adedayo Asefon
The Revolutionary President of NANS

14/07/2022

Asiwaju bola ahmed tinubu meeting with NANS president yesterday.

14/07/2022

On this day 5 months ago ASSU strike started 😑🐤

13/07/2022

No agreement yet with ASUU - FG

The Federal Government on Wednesday stated that there was no Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between it and the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) awaiting the signature of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige said this in a statement by the Deputy Director Press and Public Relations in the Ministry, Olajide Oshundun on Wednesday.

Ngige noted that even when such a CBA was produced between unions and the Federal Government, it was not the President that would sign but the government side, MDAs led by the direct employer with the conciliating ministry witnessing.

The Minister accused ASUU of fixing its salaries and allowances through the Nimi Briggs Committee to the exclusion of the statutory government ministries and agencies that manage the entire annual finances of government, budget and fiscal policies and the Office of the Head of Service in charge of ensuring that public service rules and regulations are not undermined in any condition of service offered to public officers in the universities.

According to him, Prof. Briggs Proposal of 109 -185% increase in the university wage structure, would cost the federal government N560bn as salaries alone in addition to the current N412bn.

He added that N1.12tn would be needed to pay the salaries and allowances of university lecturers and other staff in the university system.

The statement reads: “This clarification has become necessary in view of the deluge of deliberate misinformation being dished out to Nigerians by the President of ASUU, Prof. Osodeke as well as his branch leaders, calling on President Buhari to sign an agreement which they claimed to have reached with the Federal Government.

“We wish therefore to inform Nigerians that there is no such Collective Bargaining Agreement(CBA) that has been reached between the Federal Government, ASUU and other university unions on the renegotiation of their salaries.

11/07/2022

: Enough Is Enough, Buhari Tells ASUU


President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Daura, Katsina State revisited the issue of the prolonged strike which has left students at home for months, telling leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that enough is enough.

The president called on ASUU to reconsider their position on the continued strike, expressing worry that the hiatus will have generational consequences on families, the educational system and future development of the country.

The President, who stated this when he received some governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), legislators and political leaders at his residence, said the strike had already taken a toll on the psychology of parents, students and other stakeholders, throwing up many moral issues that already beg for
attention.

President Buhari noted that the future of the country rests on the quality of educational institutions and education, while assuring that the government understands their position, and negotiations should continue, with students in lecture halls.

“We hope that ASUU will sympathise with the people on the prolonged strike. Truly, enough is enough for keeping students at home. Don’t hurt the next generation for goodness sake,” he said.

The president called on all well meaning Nigerians, particularly those close to the leaders and members of the association, to intervene in persuading the lecturers to reconsider their position, and the ripple effect on an entire generation and the nation.

President Buhari said students from Nigerian universities will be faced with the challenge of competing with others in a highly connected and technology-driven work space, and keeping them at home only deprives them of time, skill and opportunities to be relevant on the global stage.

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11/07/2022

COEASU to Decide on Indefinite Strike July 19

10/07/2022

ASUU strike will end soon, FG Assures

The Minister of State for Education Goodluck Opiah has assured the Muhammadu Buhari administration is committed to ending the strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) soonest.

The Minister gave the assurance in Owerri at the weekend while fielding questions from newsmen during a reception organized in his honour by his friends.

“I can assure you that government is very concerned about the situation. Even as I speak to you now a lot of thinking, a lot of discussions and meetings are going on with a view to resolving the matter as quickly as possible.”

He expressed hope that the disagreement would end soon.

“I am hopeful that the disagreement between Government and ASUU will be resolved soon so that our children can go back to school”.

The Minister said the challenges in the education sector are surmountable and the Federal Government is not relenting in finding solutions and ending ASUU strike.

He said he is prepared to make impact in the sector by working with the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu.

He said: “I am prepared to make impacts in the Ministry and the Education sector working with the Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu. Where there are challenges there must be solutions. And I can assure you that we will find the solution and our children will go back to school.”

Credit; The Nation Newspaper

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10/07/2022

ASUU strike: Nationwide bláçkóut looms as workers threaten to shút dówn power sector

Workers in the power sector have threatened to shútdówn electricity supply in the country should Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, declare a nationwide protest over the protracted industrial crises in the country’s educational sector.

Under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, the workers argued that the carefree attitude of government towards the continued closure of schools is a sorry state in the process of Nigeria’s development towards nationhood.

In a statement by its General Secretary, Joe Ajaero, NUEE said it “is deeply sàddenéd and appalled by the impasse between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Unions in the Tertiary Academic Sector (Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and Research Institutes) which has avoidably lingered”.

It went on: “This deadlóçk which has lasted for several months with the students staying at home; is undoubtedly exposing the students to all forms of negative vices inimical to nation building.

“NUEE therefore calls on the Federal Government to address all issues concerning non implementation of Agreements and others affecting Nigeria’s hallowed Tertiary Institutions”.

Credit; Vanguard News.

10/07/2022

Good morning viewers,
No update from ASSU and FG yet but seems everyone is enjoying the holiday already 😅

09/07/2022

To all our muslim viewers eid mubarak🕋

06/07/2022

Striking varsity unions lament salary stoppage

Striking university unions, including the Academic Staff Union of Universities and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, have lamented the effect of the no-work-no-pay policy invoked by the Federal Government, saying it was meant to weaken their resolve.

The National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke; and SSANU’s National Vice-President, Dr Abdussobur Salaam, spoke in separate interviews with The PUNCH.

Osodeke told our correspondent that the last time he received his salary was in February, adding that the government’s strategy of withholding their salaries is meant to weaken their resolve over the union’s demands.

He however said members of the union would remain steadfast even if they will have to do menial jobs or embark on farming to get money.

He added that three weeks after they had the last meeting with the renegotiation committee, nothing had been heard from the government.

He said, “We have not heard anything from the government. This is the third week after the meeting with the renegotiation committee headed by Prof. Briggs. We will keep waiting until they respond.

“Ngige believes that our members will become hungry and beg them, but we will not beg them. We are ready to wait for a year, two years, till they respond.

“If it means doing taxi work, selling groundnut, doing farming to feed, we will engage in those ventures but he should be rest assured that his strategy of withholding our salaries will not work.”

Salaam corroborated Osodeke’s position, saying the government has resolved to use coercive means through salary stoppage.

He said, “The government itself has been delaying the process of negotiations. It seems they are comfortable with allowing the strike to linger long because there has been no serious commitment to any issues so far.

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05/07/2022

: APC National Youth Leader meet with the Executive Secretary of the National University Commission Over ASUU Strike.

Maybe the good news is coming soon!

04/07/2022

BREAKING 🔥 🔥 🔥
We Will Call Off Strike Moment FG Accepts UTAS – ASUU
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has challenged the federal government to accept the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) payment platform for it to call off the ongoing strike.

ASUU national president, Prof. Emmanuel Osedeke, who said this while speaking on Channels Television on Monday night, said the strike will continue unless government accept UTAS and honour the 2009 agreement.

Osodeke said, “Let government tell us they have finished testing the UTAS and sign the agreement, then tomorrow we will call off the strike.

“We challenge the government, when would they sign the agreement? When would they accept UTAS? These are the two questions we should ask Nigerian government,” he stated.

04/07/2022

APC Youth Leader Speaks To Emmanuel Osodeke, Promises To Engage Govt Stakeholders To End ASUU Strike.

Is this a green light what do you think??

04/07/2022

*🔥JUST IN*

*WE WILL CALL OFF STRIKE MOMENT FEDERAL GOVT ACCEPTS UTAS - ASUU

The question now is are these guys really fighting for students or themselves??
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04/07/2022

140th day of ASSU strike...
Who are we to blame??

04/07/2022

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