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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has again indicated that if the federal government does not implement its Memorandum of Action, MoA, by January ending, they will likely shut down universities. Speaking with Vanguarde in an interview, the Union’s president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the union was waiting for the period of grace given to lapse before taking the necessary steps. “ As a responsible union, we are consulting widely on the issues at stake. We have an MoA that is yet to be implemented fully and we also have the renegotiation of the 2007 Agreement pending. A lot of groups and concerned individuals have stepped in to intervene in the matter. “We are responsible unionists and citizens and we must give room to those interventions; may be they can help persuade the government to do the needful. We have given them up till the end of this January and if nothing is forthcoming, we can take the next step,” he said. It was gathered that if the union’s demands ar...

The federal government has announced that it has paid lecturers N30 billion in Revitalisation Fund and N22.5 billion in Earned Academic Allowance, noting that it has achieved significant progress in implementing the Memorandum of Understanding established with university employees. Senator Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, told THISDAY over the weekend that he had got confirmation from the Federal Ministry of Finance that monies had been granted to universities for the revitalization of infrastructure and payment of earned allowances. "By yesterday (Friday), the Federal Ministry of Finance's Accountant General's Office and the Funds Office assured me that they had paid the Earned Allowances to the 38 federal universities, and that by today (Saturday), all of the impacted universities would have received their payments for workers." He said, "I've conveyed the position to ASUU leadership." Ngige also said that the...

ASUU SET TO BEGIN FRESH STRIKE The Federal Government has said it is still reviewing the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding which it signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities.The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja. ASUU had on November 15, 2021 given the Federal Government an ultimatum of three weeks over the failure of the government to meet some of its lingering demands. The lecturers had also threatened to embark on another round of industrial action, following the unfaithfulness in the implementation of the Memorandum of Action the Federal Government signed with the union upon which the year 2020 strike action was suspended. The National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview with The PUNCH on December 5, 2021 lamented that despite the meetings with the minister of labour; only one of the demands by ASUU had been met.When contacted by our correspondent,...

ASUU THREATENS FRESH STRIKE OVER NON - IMPLEMENTATION OF AGREEMENT Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have threatened to embark on another industrial action following a three-week ultimatum issued by the union last month.   They, however, called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to honour the agreement reached with the union. The lecturers made the call on Friday at separate briefings held in the northern and southern parts of the country where they said the government’s action has left them with no other option than to withdraw their services. At the end of a meeting of the Ibadan Zone of ASUU held at the University of Ilorin, the zonal coordinator, Professor Oyebamiji Oyegoke, said the union has been pushed to the wall over the non-implementation of the Memorandum ofAction (MOA). Leave Your comment below 👇👇👇👇 Join the whatsapp Group for more updates -  https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ig89...

The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education,  Sonny Echono , on Thursday 9th DECEMBER 2021, said most of the agreements reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities were under duress. This was stated during a retreat organised by the governing council of the University of Abuja. Sonny Echono said, “I have heard so much about the fact that the government has failed to honour the agreements with ASUU. I have a different view about that because most of these agreements are imperfect. If somebody comes to my house and puts a gun to my head, I might agree to everything because those agreements are signed under duress. If you want to introduce obligations or responsibilities on their part, they will insist you cannot.” ASUU have decide whether to go on strike or not following the end of its scheduled zonal conferences on December 15, 2021. It have been made known to us that the meetings would take place between December 9 and December 15 in Abuja, ...