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Parents, under the aegis of the National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, have said they can only beg members of the Academic Staff Union of ...

They have set up a committee to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement and they are yet to come up with anything from the report of the committee they set up. “The negotiation should involve parents, NANS, ASUU and government team. “Let the FG consider all the reports of the various committees it set up to negotiate with ASUU. There was a committee led by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari among numerous committees.

The statements by the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, that security challenge rocking Nigeria is a global phenomenon and not peculiar to ...

The secret is that this President Buhari-led government is merely posturing and does not know how to handle the affairs of the country. Bringing the ASUU issue to a domestic level where parents now have to beg them to go back to class is the worst and weakest form of negotiation.” Afterwards, we would schedule a meeting with ASUU to also hear from them so we can know what to do next or who to hold responsible for the prolonged ASUU strike. This is akin to my security man asking me to bear the presence of criminals in the city because it’s countrywide. The insecurity that grounds the economy is the worst of its kind,” he said. “What has parents got to do with begging ASUU? That is the weakest form of negotiation. “The statement on ASUU strike is an act of arrogance to dodge their responsibility in settling with the striking lecturers. “So, whether or not there is insecurity in other parts of the world is immaterial. It is government’s lack of sincerity that keeps the ASUU strike going. The ACF chieftain said he sympathised with President Muhammadu Buhari because, “he is going to see more of these denial and betrayals from his party members now, so I am not shocked, I am not surprised. Rather than ask us to go and beg ASUU, we expect government to invite us to mediate and by the grace of God we will resolve the face off.” He also said Keyamo’s statement that parents should go and beg ASUU was an act of arrogance to dodge their responsibility.

It is well known that members of the Academic Union of Universities (ASUU), the umbrella body of academic staff in Nigerian oublic universities, ...

When you refused to do it, one of them who is also in your cabinet stood before you in the last convention and accused you and your party of injustice. Or is it the result of renegotiation for which the the federal government never called ASUU and stated what it can pay? So, the expectation is high and the performance is dismal. If that is the case, why does it have to take the federal government six months of ASUU strike to state it? What about other issues like the UTAS for which the federal government has been meeting with ASUU and making claims of having conducted tests with xy results? The issues are many and not all of them have to do with money and, in fact, not all the money mentioned in the dispute between ASUU and the federal government goes to the pockets of ASUU members. On the particular issue of ASUU and sister unions, Mr President seems to be overconfident in the Labour Minister, Chris Ngige, a South-east politician who was expecting you to anoint him to take over from you next year. In case you do not understand this, it is about the condition of service (SALARY AND ALLOWANCES) of academic staff which the government promised to review every four years and the promise was not fulfilled for 13 years. Is it the revitalisation fund Keyamo is talking about, which ASUU never requested the federal government to pay in bulk? This money does not go to ASUU. It is used to carry out projects by contractors appointed by the federal government or its appointee governing councils. One of them is the proliferation of public universities. The issues for which members of ASUU are on strike are the same issues for which the immediate past Goodluck Jonathan government commended the union for being patriotic and selfless.

ASUU declared a strike on Monday, February 14, 2022, at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. 5th aNNI. The union blamed the government for failing to meet some of ...

The government has not released one kobo to any university since the strike started, but you are giving N1.14 billion worth of vehicles to government officials in the Niger Republic. We challenge him to tell the Nigerian people what the government has done concerning the seven demands that were listed. “These people do not have the interest of Nigerians at heart. How much has been released for the payment of the earned academic allowances? These are the questions Nigerians have to ask them. How much has been released for the revitalisation fund for universities?

ASUU dared Keyamo to list the interventions the Buhari government has made to end the ongoing strike by the union. | Pulse Nigeria.

The government has not released one kobo to any university since the strike started, but you are giving N1.14 billion worth of vehicles to government officials in the Niger Republic. We challenge him to tell the Nigerian people what the government has done concerning the seven demands that were listed. How much has been released for the payment of the earned academic allowances? This same man has turned around to fight the Nigerian people. These are the questions Nigerians have to ask them. How much has been released for the revitalisation fund for universities?

Parents have said they cannot beg ASUU to call off their strike unless government considers the reports of the various committees set up.

“I wonder why some people behave as if they are living in another world entirely. “They have set up a committee to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement and they are yet to come up with anything from the report of the committee they set up. “Let the Federal Government consider all the reports of the various committees it set up to negotiate with ASUU.

The National Association of Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria has advised the Federal Government to convey a tripartite meeting of parents, ...

I am not aware of it and in all honesty, that is the truth.” Have the issues that do not have to do with money been resolved? You may however wish to contact the labour ministry for further information”. The tests have been concluded three weeks. “We have been begging ASUU, we are not begging them again. FG has been meeting with ASUU they know what ASUU wants; we also know what ASUU wants through what we read.

Reports on the country's economic situation, especially the federal government's plan to increase tax on telecommunication services dominated the cover ...

The Presidency has urged Nigerians to beg the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off the ongoing strike. President Muhammadu Buhari's.

“The strike is unnecessarily extended and this should not have been the case. “It came like a bolt in the sky. Speaking over the weekend in Abuja, Shehu insisted that the Federal Government was working to resolve the face-off.

FROM the look of things, President Muhammadu Buhari's sudden ultimatum to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to resolve the strike of the Academic ...

We still demand that the president settles with ASUU to enable our children return to class. Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world. If Adamu stays in office till the expiry of the Buhari government in May 2023, he would have spent eight years on the job. Under his watch, the number of out-of-school children skyrocketed from 10.5 million to over 18 million currently. In giving the ultimatum, the president placed the responsibility squarely on Adamu’s shoulder. The president gave the ultimatum on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.

A financial expert, Kalu Aja has explained how university lecturers could earn double salaries from more than one institution under the Integrated Payroll.

Kalu (an employee) can work in University of Nigeria Nsuka, UNN, full-time but teach in Abia State University part-time, but UNN and ASUU are paid by the FGN; thus, if Kalu (the employee) registers with IPPIS, he can’t get paid. “This is self-serving. In the past, civil servants fraudulently created 100 ‘Kalus’ (accounts belonging to the same individual) and earned 100 salaries. This is what ASUU is fighting. The new system allows payment of salaries direct to all FG employees after appropriate deductions. He explained, ” IPPIS tracks earning persons.

However, Nigerians are now backing the FG in implementing the Integrated Personnel and Payroll System (IPPIS). Concerned by the long hold in academic activities ...

- @FinPlanKaluAja1 said, “The issue of IPPIS should be non-negotiable. - @adagba01 said, “The system may not be perfect, but IPPIS is the thing they got right. The system may not be perfect but IPPIS is thing they got right. Whatever other issue ASUU is striking for could be valid but not this. ASUU should accept the payment system the government is proposing.” Whatever other issue ASUU is striking for could be valid but not this.