The House of Representatives and the Academic Staff Union of Universities and embroiled in a war of wards over agreements reached by the two parties that culminated in bringing the union’s eight months industrial action to an end,
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The Nigerian Government, through the Minister of Education, Prof. Adamu Adamu, has insisted that university lecturers will not be paid for work not done in line with the ‘No work, no pay’ policy. The Minister made this known during a briefing with State House correspondents in Abuja. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, which embarked on strike in February, called off the action in October following the directive of the Court of Appeal which ordered the lecturers back to work. Following the calling off of the strike, the government paid…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has resolved to change its response to the recent half salary paid to its members by the Nigerian government and it is set to embark on a one-day nationwide protest rally over the “no-work, no-pay” policy for lecturers in the country. ASUU saya the protest will be organized at the branch levels of the union across public university campuses nationwide and it will take place as a lecture-free day for all lecturers who are members. A member of the National Executive Council of the…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday accused the Federal Government of treating university lecturers like casual workers through the government’s recent action of paying its members October salary on pro rata basis covering only 18 days. According to a statement made available to newsmen after its NEC meeting at its national headquaters at University of Abuja, the union maintained that by its members on pro rata basis, the governments is treating the university teachers like daily paid workers, a situation it described as unacceptable. The union, therefore, asked…
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The Federal Government on Saturday explained why it failed to pay full salaries to lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. In a statement, by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the government noted that members of ASUU were paid their October salary pro-rata. According to the ministry, pro-rata was done because they cannot be paid for work not done. The statement further clarified that the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, never directed the Accountant General of the Federation to pay the…
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Anger and shock are what described the feeling among members of the Academic Staff of Nigerian University ASUU as the Federal Government only paid lecturers under its umbrella for 18 working days in the month of October. ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke, while confirming the development to a correspondent of The PUNCH newspapers said, “Yes, it is true and we are honestly shocked”. National Infinity reports that ASUU had on Friday, October 14 announced a suspension of the strike which commenced on Monday, February 14, 2022. Lecturers and senior members of…
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Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says members of the union may find it difficult to get to their respective schools on Monday as they do not have money for transport. Osodeke said this on Sunday while speaking about matters arising from the suspension of the ASUU strike on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. According to him, unlike those days when lecturers lived in staff quarters very close to campuses, most lecturers now live far away from the school campuses as most schools could not…
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Exactly eight months after it began an industrial action to seek enforcement of its long-standing agreement with the Federal Government, the Academic Staff Union of Universities has suspended the strike. The decision was taken at the end of the National Executive Council meeting which was held at the ASUU secretariat in Abuja. Details of the agreement between the FG and the union remain sketchy as at the time of this report, the union’s president, Emmanuel Osodeke, is expected to release an official statement later today.
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The Federal Government will modify the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System to accommodate the peculiarities of the University Transparency Accountability System, a payroll system developed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities for the payment of salaries and allowances of University lecturers and the Universities Peculiar Personnel Payroll System developed by The Joint Action Committee of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities. The issue was discussed during the meeting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and ASUU’s…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reiterated its willingness to call off its eight-month strike, expressing optimism that the ongoing talks between the Presidency and the House of Representatives leadership will yield positive results. Counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana, stated this on Monday in a chat with Channels Television after the Court of Appeal in Abuja ordered the striking lecturers to resume academic duties. “The legal advice that I will give to my clients is confidential. But I can assure you that the strike will soon be called…
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The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has ordered the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities to resume work immediately. The appellate court gave the order today while granting leave to ASUU to appeal the interlocutory injunction of Justice Polycarp Hamman of the Abuja Division of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria on September 21, 2022, asking members of the union to resume work. The court presided over by Justice Hamma Barka, warned that if ASUU failed to comply with the court order, it automatically lost the right to appeal against…
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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige is expected to issue a certificate of recognition to a factional trade union in the university system, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA). This was contained in an invitation sent to reporters on Tuesday by the Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Oshundun Olajide. CONUA is a union for lecturers across the nation’s universities and it is led by a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Niyi Sunmonu. The group…
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The House of Representatives, on Thursday, concluded its meetings with stakeholders over the lingering crisis between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, saying its recommendations would soon be presented to the President, Muhammadu Buhari. At the third of the series of marathon meetings held in Abuja, the government’s side urged ASUU to allow their accommodation under the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. The ASUU side, however, insisted on an independent and domesticated platform for university lecturers, challenging the National Information Technology Development Agency to prove…
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Nigeria’s National Universities Commission, Monday afternoon, withdrew its earlier circular which ordered vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open federal universities. It was reported earlier that a circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135 was addressed to all vice-chancellors; pro-chancellors and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities ordering them to re-open universities. But in another circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/136, which was also signed by the Director, Finance and Account of the NUC, Sam Onazi, the commission withdrew the order. The latest circular did not state the reasons for the withdrawal, it partly read, “I…
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Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, has directed that full academic activities should resume on campus with effect from today Thursday, September 22, 2022. The institution also appealed to the academic and non-teaching staff “to give their maximum support so that both the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 academic sessions would be completed without further delay”. The university management gave the directive in a statement by the Head, EKSU Directorate of Information, Bode Olofinmuagun, titled, ‘Resumption of academic activities in EKSU’. Olofinmuagun stated that “round off lectures for the second semester of 2020/2021 academic…
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National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has kicked against the National Industrial Court judgement ordering the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off its strike. According to National Infinity, the Court, on Wednesday ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off its seven-month-long nationwide strike. The union commenced the industrial action since February 14 to press home the demands for improved funding for universities, and a review of salaries for lecturers, among other issues. Several meetings between ASUU and the Federal Government had ended in a deadlock.…
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Students of tertiary institutions in Nigeria are to remain at home as the Academic Staff Union of Universities took a decision to extend its ongoing strike. The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja on Monday morning. National Infinity reports that ASUU had declared the commencement of nationwide strike action on Monday, February 14, 2022, at the University of Lagos.
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Sunday Ashefon, the National President of the National Association of Nigeria Students has advised the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, to apologise for calling state universities quacks. Osodeke had come under fire after an interview on Arise TV on Thursday where he addressed some issues regarding the ongoing industrial action by the union. Speaking on why some state universities pulled out of the strike, Osodeke said, “Talk about important universities, not those quacks. They’re not part of our strike.” Although he debunked the claim,…
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The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022, to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action. Sources among the union’s NEC members told our correspondent on Monday that the meeting will hold at the union’s national headquarters at the University of Abuja. Our correspondent further gathered that the council will take a decision on the industrial action based on reports from the various state congresses. The union had demanded the renegotiation of the…
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The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff of Union of Universities has vowed to continue the ongoing strike action, which has led to a shutdown of academic activities in public universities across the country for 167 days. National Infinity reports that the ASUU NEC met in the early hours of August 1, 2022 to review the activities and progress recorded so far. Sources at the NEC told National Infinity that ASUU was yet to hear from the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, despite a two weeks ultimatum to resolve…
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Hundreds of labour activists under the umbrella of the Nigeria Labour Congress stormed Ikeja, the Lagos State capital, protesting in solidarity with the six-month strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The protest which is ongoing is also an opportunity for the NLC to bring attention to other issues affecting the nation. The score of protesters who stormed the street carried placards with several inscriptions such as ‘Stop importation of petrol, refine the refineries’, ‘Nigeria at 60 years of independence, more hunger in the land, etc. Another placard…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday said it has no plan to suspend its ongoing strike but to end it permanently. It however said such can only happen when all demands have been met. The union’s President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, at a press conference in Abuja. “We want to end the strike. We are not suspending the strike. You can only end strike when all the demands have been met,” he said. While appreciating the efforts of some stakeholders on the strike, Osodeke, however, said “it is not…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities is to hold its National Executive Council meeting in the first week of August 2022 and top on the table will be a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the nationwide strike which enters its 155th day today. The chairman of ASUU, Federal University of Technology, Minna chapter, Dr. Gbolahan Bolarin, confirmed the planned meeting to our correspondent of The PUNCH on Monday. This is coming on the heels of a two weeks ultimatum to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu by…
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Emmanuel Osodeke, National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday said the union was not aware of the N1.2tn that the Federal Government said it would need to meet its members’ demands. Prof. Osodeke also accused the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, of misinforming the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), about the ongoing strike by the union. The Federal Government had, in a statement on Wednesday, by the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Olajide Oshundun, claimed that…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has rolled over its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks. A statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said this was to give the government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues. It also stated that the roll-over strike was effective from 12.01 am, May 9, 2021. ASUU said it took this decision after its National Executive Council meeting which started on Sunday night at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja. The statement read, “After extensive deliberations, noting…
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