Has ASUU called off strike

After all, it was out of the ashes of ASUU strike that the Education Trust Fund, TetFund- a critical source of funding support...

And in the year 2004, the University autonomy bill was passed which vested in the university governing councils the rights of employers of staff of universities. And that is if we equip our youths with a top-notch education in order to be fit for the future or future ready. “As we speak,three previous laws are important in the attempts to provide a solution. And there is likely to be many more such institutions in public service. Does the incumbent FGN not have limits to how low in the level of underdevelopment it would blindly drag our beloved country into? One significant point in senator Olamilekan’s observation that struck me is that universities generate as much as N15-16b which they spend based on their whims and caprices. Even the blind can tell that our country is currently in financial dire straits and therefore anemic as its life-blood-crude oil is being illegally sapped from the pipelines by oil theft cartels. Steve Oronsaye led commission that recommended the downsizing or rightsizing of the civil service? But that verdict had only helped to galvanize the resolve of the discontented lecturers to further dig in their heels. “According to Omokhodion who was the pro-Chancellor and chairman of the governing board of Ambrose Alli university, “In decree No. In its ruling on Wednesday, September 21, it was held that the striking lecturers must return to the classrooms. This implies that getting teachers back to work should be by persuasion, not coercion.

Legal adviser and defence counsel to ASUU, Femi Falana (SAN), has disclosed that the academic lecturers will likely return to lecture theatres in couple of ...

[ASUU might not win against the federal government in Nigeria ](https://www.legit.ng/education/1496761-strike-real-reason-asuu-win-court-nigeria/)after the decision of the court of appeal. The appeal court has asked the striking lecturers to obey the order of the national industrial court before it could entertain their appeal. [Abuja](https://www.legit.ng/tag/abuja-city-news-today/), but the court of appeal said it won’t entertain the union’s case until it complied with the judgment of the industrial court. [Lagos](https://www.legit.ng/tag/lagos-state-news-today/) - [Femi Falana](https://www.legit.ng/tag/femi-falana-san/), the lead counsel to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has disclosed that the academics' 8 months of industrial action will be called off in days, not weeks. The union further appealed the judgment at the appellate court in Falana has been the lead defense counsel to the university lecturers after the union was dragged to the national industrial court by the

Senior Advocate of Nigerian, Femi Falana has expressed optimism that the lingering strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ...

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A legal practitioner and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana, has expressed optimism over the lingering strike action embarked upon by the |

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October 10, (THEWILL) - Senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN), Femi Falana, has expressed optimism that the lingering strike action embarked upon by the ...

However, amid several failed negotiations, the Government approached the court to order ASUU to suspend its strike, while it engaged the union to address the dispute. The Federal Government had set up a negotiation team to look into the Union’s demand. Lecturers of the Federal Government owned universities had embarked on strike since February 14, 2022, to demand the release of revitalisation funds for universities; deployment of the University Transparency Accountability System (UTAS) for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers; release of earned allowances; the release of the white paper report of the visitation panels to universities and other issues involving the ASUU-FGN 2009 agreement.

Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and the lawyer to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has disclosed that the...

However, he said the impasse between the striking lecturers and the federal government is likely to be settled fully out of court. The appeal court insisted that the lecturers must adhere to the interlocutory order of the national industrial court (NIC), which had on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 ordered the aggrieved university lecturers to return to the classroom till the court determines the legal action instituted against them by the federal government. Falana made this unknown on Monday, October 10 during a book launch in Lagos.

The eight-month-old strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is expected to be called off in days.

The ASUU President, Prof. Our advice to ASUU will be based on the court order and other relevant reports. “Advising clients to call off a strike is the most difficult aspect of my practice.