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2022 - 9 - 16

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ASUU strike: Osodeke raises hope of resumption if FG complies (Businessday.ng)

Emmanuel Osodeke, the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has given indication that the striking lecturers are...

ASUU earlier had given conditions to call off the strike. “To end the strike, the federal government should implement the renegotiated 2009 agreement and pull out of the IPPIS with immediate effect and use UTAS as a payment platform for lecturers,” he said. Dele Ashiru, the University of Lagos chapter chairman of ASUU told BusinessDay that except the federal government is willing to implement the renegotiated 2009 agreement and pull out of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and begin to use the University Transparency, Accountability Solution (UTAS) payment platform the lecturers will not back down from the strike.

We're Willing To Call Off Strike – ASUU (Leadership Newspaper)

The President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has said that the union is willing to end its seven-month old strike.

Emmanuel Osodeke has said that the union is willing to end its seven-month old strike. ”So we have given them the minimum we want and we have to come down and they can do it in one day if there is a will.” The federal government recently sued ASUU at the industrial court in an attempt to end the strike.

ASUU Strike: Buhari promises to make consultations on lecturers ... (Vanguard)

The President made the promise after meeting with the Chairman and select members of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities on Friday at the Presidential Villa ...

The Pro-Chancellors were led to the meeting by Professor Nimi Briggs, who said they had come to meet with the President in three capacities: “As President and Commander-in-Chief, as father of the nation, and as Visitor to the Federal universities.” Recall that ASUU proceeded on one-month warning strike on 14th February over the alleged inability of the Federal Government to meet up with their demands and has been extending the strike up till date. The President made the promise after meeting with the Chairman and select members of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

UPDATED: ASUU Strike: Pro-Chancellors beg Buhari over salary ... (Premium Times)

Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to give more concessions to striking university lecturers.

Good journalism costs a lot of money. The statement by Mr Adesina said the Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nana Opiah, said all the concessions made by the government were to ensure that the industrial action comes to an end, “but ASUU has remained adamant.” At the meeting with the president on Friday, he commended the government for concessions already made to the striking lecturers, including the offer to raise salaries by 23.5 per cent across the board, and 35 per cent for professors.

Strike: FG may consider out-of-court settlement with ASUU (The Punch)

Days after dragging the Academic Staff Union of Universities before the National Industrial Court, the Federal Government may consider an out-of-court ...

He added that the council also approved N84.9m for the state’s University of Science and Technology in Wudil. The council also approved the release of N82.1m to the YMSU for the direct furnishing and provision of equipment at the Faculty of Science.” The reason for going to court is for the court to compel them to go back to work. Falana added that ASUU was currently meeting with stakeholders to ensure that the lingering crisis was resolved. Hamman subsequently adjourned the suit to Monday, September 19, 2022 for hearing. The names of the 10 others were inadvertently omitted during the previous payment exercise. But the counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana (SAN), opposed the request, stating that it would amount to determining the substantive suit. He said he had been served with the Federal Government’s motion for interlocutory injunction. The court subsequently struck out the earlier application. He said ASUU insisted that lecturers must be paid their salaries for the period they were on strike. The seven-month old strike embarked upon by ASUU was declared by the president of the union, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, on February 14, 2022 at the University of Lagos. The reason we dragged them to court initially was because they refused our pleas to return to work.

Buhari Meets Pro-Chancellors, Promises Further Consultations ... (THISDAY Newspapers)

Deji Elumoye in Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to engage critical stakeholders in the education sector towards ensuring that the seven-month ...

He, however, asked for “further inching up of the salary, in view of the economic situation of the country.” He added that despite the pall cast by more than seven months of industrial action, “the future of university system in the country is good,” citing as example the recent listing of the University of Ibadan among the first 1,000 universities in the world, a development occurring for the first time. The President, who spoke Friday at the State House, Abuja, while meeting with the Chairman and select members of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities, promised to hold further consultations with relevant stakeholders, with a view to ending the protracted strike by the university lecturers.