ASUU strike update

2022 - 9 - 21

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Court orders ASUU to suspend strike (Premium Times)

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend its seven months old strike.

Good journalism costs a lot of money. The federal government’s counsel, James Igwe, had applied for an interlocutory injunction to restrain ASUU from continuing with the strike pending the determination of the referral by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige. The order followed the granting of an injunction sought by the counsel to the federal government.

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Court Orders ASUU To Call Off Strike (CHANNELS TELEVISION)

The National Industrial Court has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to call off the ongoing Strike. Delivering a ruling on the ...

“As we promise them that we will not allow any political campaign to hold across the country until we are back to class. “Our blocking of access to public roads and ports is just a warning. In a bid to get the lecturers back to the citadels of learning, the Federal Government dragged the ASUU to the National Industrial Court. [forced back to the classrooms](https://www.channelstv.com/2022/09/20/asuu-cautions-fg-against-forcing-lecturers-back-to-school-via-court-order/). The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike since February 14, 2022 as talks between the Federal Government and lecturers of public universities have not yielded a comprise upon which students can return to class. [political campaign](https://www.channelstv.com/2022/09/21/no-campaign-will-hold-till-asuu-strike-is-called-off-nans/) hold across the country till students of public universities return to classrooms.

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ASUU strike: 'No headway as lecturers damn court order, fight on' (Daily Post Nigeria)

Despite Wednesday's judgment by the National Industrial Court, Abuja Division, the prolonged industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of.

“I can assure you, when this strike is over, a large number of our lecturers are going to migrate from this country. I have just gotten the order of court asking ASUU to go back to work. “Let me tell you the catastrophe of what has just happened. Chris Ngige, declaring that the Committee of Vice Chancellors would be asked to re-open the universities for teaching and learning. It is a win-win situation for all of us- government, students, lecturers- all Nigerians indeed. Before the government approached the court, it had tried using ‘no-work-no-pay to break the lecturers’ ranks.

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Students react as court orders ASUU to call off strike (Businessday.ng)

On Wednesday the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) ordered the ASUU to call off its ongoing nationwide strike...

The court don pay the money? Let the government do what is needful for every sector of the economy and all will be well. Their resumption will be a more disaster to the educational system than the strike itself.

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FG may withdraw ASUU's registration over failure to submit audited ... (Vanguard)

INDICATIONS emerged Wednesday that the Federal Government may withdraw the registration of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, as a trade union ...

Even a strike during negotiation is now an instrument of blackmail and intimidation during negotiation and it is not allowed in wage fixing mechanism. It is the 2009 revitalisation of the government of Goodluck Jonathan we couldn’t pay. It is not a wrong thing for government to say it is unable to pay. The award was for an increase of 23.5 percent across board for everybody in the university system, including SSANU, NASU and NAAT and 35 percent for professors. The person in NSIWC was also told to leave. It was in the renegotiation of 2009 in 2013 that President Jonathan and his team agreed to pay you N1.3 trillion-N220 every year for six years. They have not responded to the letter. We met with the traditional rulers, Sultan and NIREC and asked NITDA to give us a report in six weeks. So, the Trade Union Act says that in June of any given year, unions should produce audited account at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. He further said, “ASUU has not responded to the relevant section of Trade Union Creation for submission of audited accounts. “The Registrar of Trade Unions has written them to show cause why we should not withdraw their certificate of registration. The laws of the land.

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