The association accused the Federal Government of sabotaging the genuine protests to compel the lecturers to reopen public universities.
ASUU has revealed that the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement with FG is at an advanced stage.
BrandNewsDay reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the union has reached an advanced stage.
The union encouraged its members to remain focused to the end “of the struggle.”
The union made this known in a memo titled, “Strike bulletin number 6”, signed by its National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, and made available to all branches of the union.
Government Suspends ASUU, SSANU, NASU, ASUP Over Strike
BrandNewsDay reports that the Edo State Government on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, suspended union activities in all state-owned tertiary institutions of higher learning in the state.
This online news platform understands that the decision was Peeved by Tuesday’s protest in Benin by students of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions.
A statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Osarodion Ogie after a State Executive Council meeting in Benin sighted by BrandNewsDay, listed the affected unions as ASUU, Non-Academic Staff of Universities (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Non-Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and all allied unions in state-owned tertiary institutions.
The statement noted, “By this notice, academic activities are to resume in all state-owned institutions and all cadre of staff are directed to report to their duty posts immediately.
The Federal Government has Confirmed When ASUU Strike Will Be Called Off, Brand News Day confirms.
BrandNewsDay reports that the Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday, June 22, said the ongoing ASUU strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities would soon be called off.
This online news platform understands that the FG also said there are no plans to establish an alternative payment table for all the labour unions in tertiary institutions.
Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers of the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.
Despite four months into the strike already, Ngige assured Nigerians that efforts were underway to resolve the ongoing dispute largely fueled by payment platforms.
ASUU, which grounded academic activities in Nigerian universities since February 14, 2022, had insisted on the use of its own generated payment platform, University Transparency, and Accountability Solution.
Northern Elders Slam Buhari, Amechi, Ngige Over ASUU, Train Attack, details can be accessed below.
BrandNewsDay Nigeria reports that Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has slammed President Buhari, Rotimi Amechi, and Chris Ngige over their handling of the state of the economy, ASUU strike, and continuous train attack.
According to the Northern Elders Forum said it is regrettable that President Buhari does not care who runs the country in a mess as the economy of the country moves from bad to worse.
National convener of the Northern Elders Forum, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said it was bad that President Buhari and his cabinet members are not disturbed by the problems facing the country.
Northern Elders said it was displeasing that Labour and Employment Minister, Chris Ngige, is mismanaging the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU crisis which has led the strike to prolonge to four months without any foreseeable resolution.
Northern Elders stated that while the university education is shut down as a result of Buhari and Ngige’s lapses, Ngige is chasing presidential ambition.
ASUU strike: Pass no-confidence vote in Buhari, HURIWA tells NASS
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has called on the National Assembly to pass a vote of no confidence on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
According to the group, the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, which began on February 14, has endangered the security of the country with students being out of classrooms.
This was contained in a statement signed by the National Coordinator, HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, on Wednesday, which noted that students could have been recruited to commit crimes such as terrorism, banditry, Internet fraud, prostitution, and drug trafficking.
The statement read in part, “We call on the National Assembly to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari for letting the ASUU strike linger thereby endangering national security. Everyone knows an idle hand is the devil’s workshop. This is why it is not imaginable that some undergraduate youths would have gone into sophisticated crimes such as kidnappings, cultism, terrorism, and drug trafficking, amongst others.
“The government’s inability to resolve the industrial crisis in the public universities whereby over 70 per cent of youths attend because they are from poor backgrounds is a direct declaration of war on the youths.
“HURIWA, therefore, urged the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to be a man now that he couldn’t get his promised presidential candidacy from the cabal in Aso Rock. He should do the needful and etch his name on the sands of time by impeaching the President.”
