Latest ASUU News On Resumption, ASUU Strike Update Today, 5th August 2022

Latest ASUU News On Resumption, ASUU Strike Update Today, 5th August 2022

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Latest ASUU News On Resumption 5th August 2022

Strike: No Lecturer Has Been Paid Since February – ASUU President, Prof Osodeke

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke has disclosed that since the ongoing strike which started in February, the government has held the salaries of lecturers.

He disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV this morning August 2. He accused the Federal Government of using hunger as a tool to force the striking lecturers into returning to their classrooms.

According to him, the Federal Government thinks that depriving the lecturers of their salaries will force the university teachers to collapse and end the strike.

“Our salaries have been held, this is the sixth month or salaries have been held. They thought that if they hold our salaries for two or three months we will come begging and say ‘pls allow us to go back to work. But we as a union of intellectuals, we have grown beyond that. You can’t use the force of hunger to pull our members back which is exactly what the government is doing.”

ASUU on February 14 embarked on strike to press home its demands for a better welfare package, revamping of the nation’s education sector among others, a situation that has forced many Nigerian students to be at home.

Worried by the lingering industrial dispute, President Muhammadu Buhari had on July 19 directed the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to proffer a solution to the challenge and report back to him in two weeks.

The presidential ultimatum will elapse today and ASUU remains adamant until its demands are met. The union had on Monday, August 1, announced a 4-weeks extension of its strike.

Kaduna University Defies ASUU Strike, Commences Second Semester Exams

The management of Kaduna State University (KASU) has resumed academic activities as it commenced second-semester exams for students.

The institution had suspended its activities after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on strike action.

However, after five months of inactivity as ASUU and the federal government could not reach a good end, the school management asked students to resume for the 2020/2021 academic session.

Confirming the development while speaking to Channels Television, the acting Vice Chancellor of Kaduna State University, Prof. Abdullahi Ashafa said the school does not have any industrial dispute with the local branch of ASUU, hence there is no need to continue keeping the student at home.

The varsity Don warned that there will be severe consequences for students and lecturers who fail to resume classes as directed by the university management.

Buhari Is Weak, His Appointees Don’t Answer To Him – Yakasai

A former media aide to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, Tanko Yakasai has described President Muhammadu Buhari as weak over the lingering industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Yakasai, in his reaction, wondered why the Minister of Education, who was directed to end the strike, did not act and why there was no sanction for his action.

He further stated that it is shameful that the time frame given by president Buhari did not yield any result.

Yakasai, in a post on his Twitter account, wrote, “I’ve never seen a weak president like Buhari. He gives directives to his appointees and they ignore them without consequences.

“He gave 2 weeks ultimatum for ASUU strike to be resolved, nobody took him seriously & the time has elapsed. Shamefully embarrassing to say the least!”

ASUU strike: Why we adopted voluntary conciliation – Ngige

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, yesterday explained that his ministry adopted voluntary conciliation for the resolution of the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, instead of arbitration, in order not to delay the resolution process.

Ngige disclosed this while answering questions from journalists at the Joint Workshop on International Labour Standards and Dispute Resolutions, Organised by the Industrial Arbitration Panel,  IAP, in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation, ILO, in Abuja.

According to him, by the second meeting, most of the issues arising from the 2020 Memorandum of Action, MoA, signed between ASUU and the Ministry of Education with other government agencies involved, were conciliated, leaving out only two.

Ngige said:  “The two outstanding issues were the conditions of service which, according to the 2009 agreement, would be reviewed every four years. The last review was in 2013 and we started the review in 2018 under Wale Babalakin SAN as the chairman of the renegotiation committee. We could not conclude because Babalakin left.

“A new committee, headed by Munzali came. Munzali finished his work and put in his report at the Federal Ministry of Education. All these committees, including the previous Onosode committee, were all internal committees of the Ministry of Education.

‘’They discussed with the unions and gave them offers and counter-offers vis-a-vis what they have said. Once the committees are finished, their products are sent up.

“The major issue here is salary and wage review. That is where they were before ASUU embarked on strike.”

“If a party wants us to transmit a matter back to them to have a second look, you assist them. That is what you call voluntary conciliation.  It is voluntary because if I apprehend and bring all the parties to the negotiation table and a party requests that I should take the matter to NICN, I will do so,’’ he said.

Strike continues as ASUU NEC fails to suspend action

ASUU Extends Strike By Another Four Weeks

The strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been extended by another four weeks.

The development was confirmed on Monday in a statement by the ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke on behalf of the union.

Naija News reports the decision to extend the strike was reached at the end of the union’s National Executive Council meeting held at its national secretariat in Abuja on Sunday and concluded in the early hours of Monday.

ASUU explained that the time extension is to allow the federal government enough time to meet their demands.

The statement signed by Osodeke reads in part: “following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MOA), NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.

“The role-over strike action is with effect from 12.01a.m. on Monday, 1st August, 2022.”

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