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Latest ASUU News On Resumption, ASUU Strike Update Today, 21 August 2022
Below is the latest Asuu Strike Update.
Update Obotexer info guidelines has compiled the latest ASUU news on the current strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), a Nigerian union of university academic staff.
Strike Continues As ASUU Meeting With FG End In Deadlock, the meeting between the federal government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Tuesday ended without an agreement.
As a result of this, the six-month-old strike embarked on by public university lecturers is set to continue.
The lecturers met with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee at the National University Commission (NUC) in Abuja with high hopes of resolving the impasse.
The meeting is coming on the heel of failed negotiations and what ASUU described as insincerity of the Federal government in implementing the resolutions of committees it set up to look into their demands.
Recall that the university lecturers downed their tools on 14 February 2022, Nigerian students have been at home amidst less effort by the Federal government to resolve the strike.
Speaking on Channels Television programme monitored by Newsonline, Professor Emmanuel Osedeke, ASUU National Chairman, disclosed that the body will be meeting with the Federal government today.
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ASUU Strike: Umahi, Keyamo Are Interlopers, FG Must Meet Our Demand- Osodeke
ASUU president, Osodeke said the comment of the duo that the Federal government cannot meet their demand and will not borrow to meet their demand showed they are interlopers.
Professor Osedeke stated that at no time did the Federal government approach the university lecturers’ body with a plea that they cannot meet their demand.
ASUU said that the Federal government did not appoint Governor Umahi to speak on the issue because the government understand that ASUU made its position clear.
ASUU Strike: Vote Out APC In 2023- ASUU Begs Students, Parents
SUU said the ruling APC government of President Muhammadu Buhari does not value the future and education of the Nigerian youths.
ASUU National President, Professor Emmanuel Osedeke, stated that the government of APC has shown that it was not ready to address the demands of the body which is improving the university system.
ASUU went on strike on the 14 of February 2022, demanding that the Federal government should implement the agreement it had with the body in 2009.
ASUU Strike ‘ill Never Happen In My Administration- Atiku Pledges
Atiku stated that he started investing in education for 30 years from nursery to university and understood how it should be run.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar stated this on Friday while commemorating International Youths Day (IYD) with the youths of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja.
Atiku stated that he understands to value and importance of education in a child because he benefited from education even though he had uneducated parents.
He said ” It will never happen under a PDP government or under my administration when I am elected.
“Do you know why I say that? I have been investing in education for the past 30 years. In the nursery, I started Primary, Secondary, and University we have never gone on strike for even one day.
ASUU Strike Can’t Stop Us From Conducting Exam — JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the prolonged industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has kept their students away from classrooms now for many months cannot stop it from conducting another round of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) when it is due.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, gave this position in Lagos, on Saturday, while monitoring the mop-up exam, specially arranged for candidates whose centres were allegedly involved in malpractice and candidates with biometric issues during the general examination for this year in May.
About 1.7 million candidates sat for the exam nationwide while no fewer than 42, 000 candidates from the number sat the mop-up exam across 10 centres (outside their original centres) in about five states of the federation including Abia, Anambra, Delta, Edo and Lagos.
The Federal Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has stated that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, should not expect the Federal government to meet its requirement because the government cannot close other sectors.
Recall that the university lecturers union on Monday extended their industrial action which started on February 14 by four weeks after a failed negotiation between the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and the body.
President Buhari had given the minister a two weeks ultimatum to address the demands of ASUU for students who have been at home for five months to return to school.
ASUU Strike: I’ve Never Seen Weak President Like Buhari- Tanko Yakasai
The former Media Aide to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, Tanko Yakasai, said the president has lost control of his appointees.
Salihu Tanko Yakasai, who was fired by Abdullahi Ganduje for criticizing President Buhari on insecurity said it was worrisome that after the two weeks ultimatum given to the Minister of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu had expired, the ASUU strike continues without an end in sight.
Describing President Buhari as weak, Tanko Yakasai said the action of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, without consequence, was shameful and embarrassing.
ASUU Strike Continues As NEC Fails To Suspend Industrial Action
the industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will continue as members of the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union did not consider the option of suspending the action at its meeting which ended in the early hours of Monday in Abuja.
Checks by Update Obotexer info guidelines showed that the national leadership of the union only briefed the meeting on their interactions and submissions made to the Prof. Nimi Briggs Committee set up the Federal Government to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement with the union.
FG Must Implement First Before We Return To Class- ASUU Insists
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has stated that the Federal government must implement its agreement before they return to class.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, also stated that ASUU is right in its resilience to save the education sector.
Chairman of ASUU, University of Calabar Chapter, John Edoh said” it was inexplicable that the entire tertiary education system was shut down from Feb. 14 till today July 26 and the government has done nothing.”
John Edo who stated this in Calabar at the NLC solidarity protest said ASUU has several agreements and memoranda with the government which has not been implemented.
Edoh said, “This time is a time of implementation, the Federal Government must implement first before we return to the classrooms.”
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has said he stands with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU in their ongoing strike, stating that Buhari should take over the negotiation to ensure it is resolved.
ASUU Strike: Why Lecturers Must Call Off Strike – FG
Federal Government has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its six-month-old strike.
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