ASUU threatens fresh strike, issues 3 weeks ultimatum to Nigerian Govt

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has therefore given the Federal Government a three-week ultimatum within which it would firmly start an industrial action if its demands are not looked into.

ASUU FUD Branch Chairman in Jigawa State, Comrade Salim Ahmed, stated this during an emergency press briefing held at the FUD, ASUU, Secretariat in Dutse.

In his own words, “The Members of the Expanded Executive Officers of the ASUU Federal University Dutse met today, Wednesday, June 19, 2024, to decide and take a cursory look at the patriotic activities of the union and/or federal and state governments on how to effectively tackle all the issues affecting Nigerian public universities”.

He further said that the present administration had chosen not to recognize the leadership of the Union after it assumed office on May 29, 2023. On the incidents in which the leadership of the Union has employed every possible method to get the government to schedule a meeting and listen to ASUU to deliberate on the contentious issues embodying the ILO principle of collective bargaining, it stated that all have failed.

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Ahmed said the renegotiation of the FGN/ASUU 2009 agreement contains all the core issues of ASUU members’ welfare: University Accommodation and Funding for Rehabilitation of University Education in Nigeria, positive efforts such as University Autonomy, Funding for the Re-establishment of Nigerian Universities and The Advancement of the Public Universities.

He stated that the core areas of discussion concerning the state of service comprise all such contentious questions, which are covered in FGN and ASUU MoU 2012/2013, MoA of 2017, proscription of governing councils in the federal and state universities, and release of three and a half (7) months of the outstanding three and a half withheld salaries for work done.

Others are the payment on the unpaid sabbatical, adjunct, etc salaries due to IPPIS inadequacies and inefficiency, the release of third-party deductions by IPPIS, payment of Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) and implementing the report of the visitation panels as well as replacing IPPIS with UTAS.

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From all these, the members of our great union in this branch like the other branches think it fit to inform parents and stakeholders in university education that the Federal Government seems not willing to confront the outstanding issues with the union squarely; For this knowledge and by the direction from the national secretariat, we arranged this press briefing.

“It means the general public should know the truth or reality of the situation. ”

Ahmed revealed that, in the next three weeks, the union would coordinate more and develop ways of sensitizing its members on further actions to be taken.
“The union is appealing to all reasoning and reasonable human beings that this ought not to be so and is therefore calling on the Nigerian government to address these outstanding issues and come to terms with our union leadership, to prevent an avoidable industrial action that may further comp ob any frail and weak university system that we have,” Ahmed stated.

Source: Dailypost

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Our turn over strike is four months old at this point.
As the battle proceeds, individuals are lauded for their responsibility and faithfulness in the enthusiastic battle for the endurance of the University framework in our country.
Individuals are especially cheered for keeping confidence with the Union disregarding the difficulty forced on our families because of the stoppage of pay rates. You have offered the expression distinctly that we are not beggers and, accordingly, hunger is a feeble instrument to break our determination.
Our iron-cast resolve has constrained the public authority to plunk down and haggle with us. We have had five gatherings with Federal Government Team and two gatherings with Minister of Education.
The renegotiation of the 2009 understanding of ASUU-FGN arrangement is advancing without a hitch and has arrived at a high level stage. Be that as it may, we should stay centered to the furthest limit of this battle.
UTAS has been tried for the third time. Up to this point NITDA has tried UTAS and UPS and will begin testing IPPIS one week from now. We are unfazed by the joke of some administration authorities in this regard.
Obviously hunger, falsehood, mutilation of realities, terrorizing and other sundary demonstrations of arm-bending have neglected to break our purpose to date; they shouldn’t break us now.
Disregard counterfeit news and disruptive data exuding from the online entertainment and a part of the press. If all else fails over any issue, contact your Chairperson for right data.
We are at the edge of triumph. Allow us to keep confidence with the Union. A group joined can never be crushed.

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The Federal Government uncovered on Wednesday that the explanations for the continuous strike by ASUU and three other college associations are not quite as basic as they maintain that Nigerians should accept.
The Federal Government has shown that the continuous clash with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is convoluted.

Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, expressed this on Wednesday following a gathering of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Notwithstanding the intricacies, he expressed that much is being finished in the background to determine the issues.

The clergyman expressed that the Federal Government is worried about the long-running issues with the teachers and will keep on attempting to track down a speedy arrangement.

ASUU has been protesting since February 14 over issues like the execution of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS), non-installment of pay rates and stipends, and deficient college financing, among others.

On Monday, the public authority and association authorities proceeded with their exchanges to end the four-drawn out strike.

In any case, the gathering between the striking teachers and the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee finished without a substantial understanding since individuals wanted to reconvene in something like 24 hours to think about a draft arrangement.

The two players had conversations at the Nigeria University Commission (NUC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

As per a senior patron who went to the gathering, they agreed with the Federal Government, however individuals needed to have some time off and reconvene in the span of 24 hours to think about the new terms in the draft understanding.

On March 7, the Federal Government designated a council drove by Professor Briggs with a three-month order to rethink the 2009 ASUU/Federal Government understanding.

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Starting around 1999, college teachers having a place with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been protesting for a sum of 1,404 days.
Starting from the start of this vote based regulation in 1999, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, otherwise called ASUU, has protested for a consolidated complete of 1,404 days in that time span.

This figure shows that college teachers have utilized a three-year and ten-month blacklist of homerooms to press their requests on the bureaucratic and state legislatures.

ASUU, an umbrella group of showing staff at administrative and state government-claimed colleges in Nigeria, has been protesting since February 14, 2022, to request better working circumstances and pay.

The requests of the striking instructors incorporate subsidizing for state funded college renewal, Earned Academic Allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), and advancement unfulfilled obligations.

Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, President of ASUU, condemned the national government for the strike and its emotionless disposition toward tertiary schooling in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Abuja.

275 days in 2020

Statisense, an organization that gives information counseling administrations, answered the threat on its Twitter account on Tuesday by uncovering that teachers have used a sum of 1,404 days to air their dissatisfactions through strikes, with 275 days in 2020 being the longest stretch.

Statisense made a reference to Monogbe, B.O and Monogbe, T.G, the creators of “ASUU Strike and Nigerian Educational System: An Empirical Investigation of the Nigerian Tertiary Institution,” as it uncovered the figures.

In 1999 and 2001, the ASUU strike endured 90 days each, coming full circle in a 180-day strike, and it was another straight 180-day strike in 2003.

Teachers boycotted study halls for an additional 90 days in 2007. The following strike endured 120 days in 2009 and 180 days in both 2010 and 2011.

Because of a strike, there were no talks for 165 days in 2013, and another happened in 2018, enduring 94 days. The most recent strike is as yet happening following 120 days.

This week, it was accounted for by Vanguard that the initiative of ASUU had turned down a crowdfunding stage that had been laid out to stop the strike that is presently being organized by scholastics at state funded colleges in the country.

The notable donor and owner of Human Rights Radio, Ahmed Isah, sent off a stage for publicly supporting gifts fully intent on gathering assets for the teachers’ association with expectations of stopping the strike that has placed scholarly exercises in the country’s state funded colleges in danger.

Isah had welcomed ASUU President Osodeke to his station to illuminate them regarding his endeavors to determine the well established emergency among ASUU and the national government, however Osodeke straight declined.

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According to NAN, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, stated that the move was aimed at resolving the sector’s persistent crisis.

On Tuesday in Abuja, Ngige told reporters about the long-running protest by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and others.

Universities would receive N23.5 billion, polytechnics N6 billion, and colleges of education N4 billion, totaling N34 billion, according to Ngige.

While providing an update on the current strike, the minister stated that during the most recent tripartite meeting of the government and university-based unions, committees were formed.

He claimed they had been given a fortnight to submit their report and that they were still working on it, with committee reports due by the end of the week.

“Those committees are doing their jobs. The one on the National Information Technology Development Agency is putting three platforms to the test: the government’s Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, ASUU’s University Transparency Accountability Solution, and non-teaching staff’s Universities Peculiar Personnel Payroll System.

“On Thursday, they began the testing. The National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission has released their revision circulars. The unions have copies as well, in case responsibility or hazard allowances have not been correctly recorded.”

As the government accelerates efforts to streamline pay through the National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission, Ngige assured that wage modifications are likely.

He urged ASUU and other unions to call off their strike so that academic activity at public universities could resume.

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