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NASU, SSANU to commence warning strike Monday

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The Non-Academic Staff Unions of Universities (NASU) says from Monday it will embark on a five-day warning strike over the inability of the federal government to implement the 2009 agreements.

The joint action committee (JAC) comprising of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the National Association of Academic Technologists will also down tools.

The notification of the strike was conveyed in a letter addressed to Adamu Adamu, minister of education and was signed by Samson Ugwoke, SSANU president; Sani Suleiman, NAAT president and Chris Ani, NASU president.

“The university system is challenged by poor governance and administrative lapses which needs to be addressed holistically,” the letter read.

“Poor funding of our universities, shortfall in payment of staff salaries, increasing corruption in the university system should be addressed.”

Also they called on President Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the disagreement between Adebiyi Gregory, vice-chancellor of Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) and the labour unions.

“It is noteworthy that the university has been experiencing serious industrial disharmony since October 6, 2016, as a result of workers demand for the removal of the VC on grounds of alleged corruption and maladministration,” they said.

“Sir, it is on record that the vice-chancellor has a case to answer at the EFCC. He is however yet to be arraigned. Indeed, the allegation of corruption against the VC is substantial.

“It is the candid opinion of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) unions of NAAT, NASU and SSANU that a government which is bent on fighting corruption in all ramifications should not turn a blind eye under these circumstances.

“So, it will be in the interest of justice and industrial harmony that the VC be prosecuted by the relevant government agencies so that normalcy can be restored in the university.”

ASUU Ends Warning Strike, Orders Lecturers Back To Class Wednesday

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday confirmed that it had ended its one week nationwide warning strike over the non-implementation of a 2009 agreement with the Federal Government.

The President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who said this in Abuja, urged lecturers to return to work.

“We are making progress, especially with the intervention of the Senate. In the next one or two meetings, if we are able to get a clear path to the matter, we will avoid elongation of the strike action.

“I have been receiving these reports that ASUU says strike continues. No. The strike ends today (Tuesday). All lecturers are to go back to work Wednesday morning.”

According to him, ASUU was hopeful of a positive outcome, going by the response coming from the Federal Government.

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FG, ASUU Meeting Deadlock As Warning Strike Ends Tomorrow

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The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) could not agree on Earned Allowance due to lecturers despite the Senate’s intervention, a situation which forced the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETfund to adjourned the peace meeting it convened indefinitely.

The meeting chaired by Senator Jibrin Barau had in attendance the national leadership of ASUU led by I’d national president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi; the executive secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed; and the director general of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs. Ahonu-Amazu, among others.

The meeting ended at about 8.20pm this night without a definite resolution even as the one-week warning strike embarked upon by ASUU since last Wednesday will end today.

Briefing journalists after the meeting, Senator Barau, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETfund, said the peace meeting agreed on all issues at stake except the one on ‘earned allowance’, hence the meeting was called off for further engagements among all parties.

Recall that the Senate had on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 resolved to mandate Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to intervene in the looming industrial action with the aim of averting the strike.

After the first meeting held behind-closed-doors the next day after the Senate’s resolution at the Senate President’s Meeting Room 301 at the New Wing of the National Assembly Complex last week, all parties were upbeat on the quick resolution of the crisis in the tertiary education sector.

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Update: Nnamdi Azikiwe University to join ASUU warning strike.

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The Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has said it will to join the one-week warning strike against the non-implementation of agreements reached in 2009 and 2013.

 

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in the institution, Prof. Dennis Aribodor, told newsmen in Awka on Tuesday that it had constantly reminded the government of the need to implement the agreements.

 

Aribodor said that part of the agreements were the shortfall in salaries leading to payment of fractions of staff salaries in universities from December 2015 and non-payment of salaries in staff primary schools since December 2015 contrary to the 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement.

 

Others are funding of universities for the revitalisation and registration of National University Pension Management Company, payment of earned academic allowances and non release of subvention to state universities by their visitors.

 

He also pointed out that budgetary allocation to education dropped from 12 per cent to 11 per cent and down to 8 per cent in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

 

Aribodor said that the government was reluctant to set up its negotiation team for the review of the 2009 agreement as consistently requested by the union since 2012.

 

He said that the strike would be total and comprehensive as there would be no teaching, no examination and no attendance at statutory meetings of any kind, among others.

 

He noted that chapters of the union which opted out of the national directive were moles targeted at destabilising the genuine agitation of the workers.

 

Aribodor said that those chapters would see the outcome of their “unpatriotic” action.

NLC To Declare National Warning Strike Over Electricity Tariff

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The Nigeria Labour Congress says it will declare a one-day national warning strike over the refusal of the Federal Government to reduce the electricity tariff.

NLC President Ayuba Wabba said this while addressing newsmen during the Central Working Committee meeting of the congress on Wednesday in Abuja.

On January 29, the NLC led the picketing of electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) nationwide, the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, and the National Assembly.

The action, aimed at getting the Federal Government to reverse the 45 per cent tariff hike did not yield the desired result.

Wabba insisted that the tariff increase was “illegal, unfair, unjustifiable and an exploitation of the already exploited Nigerians.

“The privatisation of the power sector was done in bad faith and it has become obvious that the investors did not have the capacity to improve power generation and supply in the country.

“The CWC will agree on a day to embark on the strike, because several actions promised by the Federal Government to checkmate the tariff increment have not been implemented.”

He also noted that the current fuel scarcity in the country had brought untold hardship to workers and Nigerians as a whole.

“We must, however, make the point that spells of scarcity will not be acceptable to Labour and other Nigerians because the human and economic costs are unimaginable.

“We have been patient with this government but this persistent scarcity and suffering of our people will no longer be tolerated.”

The NLC president also frowned at the failure of the government to constitute the board of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency.

He said that no individual had the right to fix the prices of petroleum products.

“We demand the constitution of the board of NNPC and PPPRA. The latter is a 26-man board vested with powers of regulating prices of petroleum products. Today, it is a one-man show.”

On the economy, Wabba noted that Nigerians were groaning under harsh economic conditions.

He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent steps to implement the budget.

“Government must consult more widely and come up with an enduring solution, Wabba said.”

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