ASUU Strike Update: ASUU Wants Watertight Deal From FG

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Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have given the Federal Government certain conditions to be met before the union could call off its four-month old strike.
Part of this condition, Saturday PUNCH learnt, is that all federal parastatals in charge of fund, labour, and education must sign the agreement purportedly reached between its leadership and the Federal Government on Tuesday.

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ASUU Strike: Rejecting ₦ 220 Billion Over Five Years to End Strike Will Have Grave Consequences.

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After getting an annual payment offer of N220 billion for the next five years, from the federal government, following a marathon meeting that ended Tuesday, indications have emerged that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may lose the sympathy of several and might make the  government wield the big stick if it rejects the recent offer by the government, with the full blown implementation of the ‘no work, no pay'policy likely to break the ranks of the union and cause disaffection on the list of members who'd have the pinch of the salaries being withheld.

FG To ASUU: FG to give varsities N1.1tn in five years.

FG To ASUU: FG to give varsities N1.1tn in five years.

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Details of the  Monday/ Tuesday marathon meeting  between President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of Academic Staff Union  of  Universities have begun to emerge.

The PUNCH  gathered on Tuesday evening that a key component of the agreement reached by the parties was  that the Federal Government  would  inject N1.1tn into public universities in the next five years.

A reliable source, who made this known, also hinted that the strike would be called off anytime next week.

He  said the government team which was led by President Goodluck Jonathan would release   N220bn yearly into the sector beginning from 2014.

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ASUU Puts the blame on IBB for decay in education sector

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has blamed former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida for the present problems bedeviling the nation's education sector. The union believed that the former military President presided over what it described because the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and Structural Adjustment Programme, whose policies were used to “kill public schools” in the late 1980s.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: Nigeria Universities may Re-Open Next Week With Or Without ASUU

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In a last ditch effort to solve the ASUU strike, President GEJ will on Monday, November 4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa.  This is part of the resolutions of the meeting involving the ASUU leadership, Vice President Namadi Sambo and the Supervising Minister of Education on Tuesday as was first reported by this medium.

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Lagos Passengers Stranded As BRT Employees Join ASUU Strike

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Commuters in Lagos, western Nigeria, were stranded, Saturday morning, when workers with the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT scheme refused to act as they protested their unpaid salaries. The commuters, who expected to board the bus after the monthly sanitation, were left to bemuse their fate once the boarding points at Ketu and Ojota bus stops were  empty.  It was revealed that the ticketers and drivers refused to act as their salary for last month hadn't been paid-a situation which they're not used to.

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ASUU Strike: Chika Ike Talks about it.

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Atiku, 215 others sign petition to end ASUU strike

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Two hundred and sixteen Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora have signed an online petition asking the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to end the industrial dispute which has kept public universities shut for four months.

The petition launched on change.org, a go-to site for web protests, is asking President Goodluck Jonathan and the National President of ASUU, Dr. Nassir Faggae, to reach an “amicable consensus.”

In the petition entitled, “Mr. President and the Academic Staff Union of Universities: Please End the ASUU Strike now,” the petitioners said the Presidency should stop playing politics with education of the Nigerian youth.

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'ASUU Strike Will Be Over ‘In A Few Months’, Says Federal Government.

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Nigerian students were yesterday assured by the Federal Government that the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be over in a few months.

Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike stated this at the anniversary lecture of National Universities Commission, NUC, in Abuja.

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APC blast FG over ‘plot to break ASUU’

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All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Federal Government of employing “cheap and ludicrous strategy” by utilizing market women, religious leaders and students to put strain on the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its strike.

APC, in a record in Lagos, yesterday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated that the strike, that is now in its fourth month, could have ended by now if the Federal Government had pursued its negotiations with ASUU with half the power it had been using to rally various groups to protest from the union.

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Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Leaders Receive Death Threats

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Leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) complain of receiving death threats by phone messages and begin to go underground for fear of these lives.

This is made known in a record titled

“ASUU strike: Union leaders go underground” by ASUU, University of Ibadan (UI) chapter, signed by Dr Olusegun Ajiboye. In line with the claims, union leaders are now being tailed by unknown elements suspected to be security agents involved by the Federal Government.

The extract from the statement reads as follows:

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ASUU Strike: "Youths May Be Forced To Revolt",says Rt. Rev Onah

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The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Rt. Rev. Professor Godfrey Onah, at the weekend, condemned the attitude of politicians and public office holders who are not concerned about the plight of youths and the generality of the masses.
Speaking during the funeral mass for Lolo Josephine Oyima Abba, mother of the Enugu State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Engr. Vita Abba at Ede-Oballa, in Nsukka Council Area of Enugu State, Onah warned that such neglect could force the youths to revolt against the leaders.

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ASUU Strike Made Me Take Part In Project Fame- Olawale Ojo, Winner Of MTN PF

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So who says ASUU Strike is not helping? LMAO...The fact is that the strike affected some people positively and some people negatively.

Olawale Ayodele Ojo, winner of the MTN Project Fame (Season 6), tells BAYO ADETU about his experience in the competition and other issues

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National Union of Electricity Employees Threaten Nationwide Blackout If FG Doesn't End ASUU Strike In 7 Days

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Labour activist and General Secretary, National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, Joe Ajaero has given the Federal Government 1 week to solve its differences with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) or cripple the Nation with the mother-of-all-strikes.
Ajaero who was speaking throughout the opening of an exercise workshop organized for labour leaders in Enugu, threatened to ally with other unions in the united states to participate ASUU on a solidarity stike if the impasse persists.

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ASUU strike not politically motivated, NLC tells Jonathan

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NIGERIA Labour Congress,NLC, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to discountenance the impression that ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, was a political action against his government as nothing could be farther from the truth. After that it advised the President to tackle the crises in the education sector and prevent a shut-down of the sector.

 NLC in a statement by its President, Abdulwaheed Omar, told President Jonathan that those telling him that the strike was politically motivated were the President's enemies who rather than tell him the reality preferred to indulge in sycophancy, hypocrisy and boot-licking. 

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ASUU Strike Will Be Over Soon, Says Mr President Jonathan

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President Goodluck Jonathan promised yesterday to finish the doctors'and university teachers'strike. The teachers'is over 90 days. Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) will also be on strike. The professionals are blaming the federal government for failing to generally meet up with the agreement reached with them. Jonathan promised to finish the strike when he received the leaders of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), led by its President, Dr. Osahon Enabulele.

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62 Reasons Why "ASUU is on strike" - Must Read

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For those who do not understand "Why ASUU is on strike" - Please read this and share widely.....

1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility.

2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards

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We Want 3 Trillion Before Calling off the Strike-ASUU

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Dr. Nasir Fagge, National President, ASUU

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The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Nasir Fagge, has accused the federal government of not telling Nigerians the truth about the demand of the union as regards the government’s statement that the union's demand has been met.
According to Fagge, ASUU had a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the federal government for it to spend over N3 trillion to turn around the fortune of all federal and state universities and also to better the lot of the educational sector in the country.

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ASUU Update: FG Invokes "No Work, No Pay" Policy For ASUU Lecturers

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The Federal Government has invoked the ‘no work, no pay’ labour rule against striking university lecturers as their industrial action enters the 93rd day with no end in sight.
Some of the federal university vice chancellors have not paid the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) members their August and September salaries in compliance with the government’s directive.
Some branch chairmen of ASUU see the government and vice chancellor’s move as an attempt to break the rank of their members, insisting that their members are resolute on the ongoing strike.

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ASUU strike: ANC gives FG seven-day ultimatum

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A civil rights organisation, the  Anti-Corruption Network,  has given the Federal Government “one week” to resolve its dispute with the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

It said it would mobilise Nigerians  for a protest  to the Federal Ministry of Education.

The group, which expressed disappointment at government’s lukewarm attitude to  the plight of students,   suggested that President Goodluck Jonathan should take loan to offset the N92bn  being demanded by ASUU.

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