#ASUU Strike: NANS barricades Niger Bridge for hours

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Friday barricaded the Asaba axis of the Niger Bridge for more than two hours. The action, which was jointly carried out by some university students and their polytechnic counterparts, was in protest against the protracted strike by ASUU.

The aggrieved students blocked the bridge at about 1 p.m., which resulted to a traffic gridlock that stretched from the bridge to Okwe junction about five kilometres to Asaba Town.

They also lamented the recent decisions of polytechnic lecturers under the auspices of ASUP to also embark on a similar strike, saying it would further cripple the education sector and send a wrong signal to the international community.

By: Unknown On 11:04 AM

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#ASUU STRIKE UPDATE::FG Agrees To Spend N200b Each For Four Years To Bring Nigerian Universities Up To World Standard

Towards ending the ongoing ASUU strike, the Federal Government has committed to spending N200 billion in the 2014 budget on the universities as well as on each of the next three-four years until the universities are brought to world-class standard.  This is in addition to the N100 billion dedicated and already made available for 2013.

By: Unknown On 8:11 AM

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#CODED-ish News:: Students Insist On Planned Protest Despite Police Presence

Despite the heavy presence of security men at the premises of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) following the students' plan to protest the lingering industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Tuesday, the students have insisted that they will proceed with their demonstration regardless of the development.

ASUU has been on strike since June 1, 2013 following the inability of the Nigerian Government to honor the agreement it signed with the union in 2009.
The UNILAG students are also agitating for the reinstatement of their Student Union Government (SUG) as well as the reversal on the hike in tuition at the Lagos State University (LASU).

Coordinator of the Lagos State chapter, Joint Campus Committee of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Yaqub Eleto, said the body has a responsibility to ensure welfare of all students.

"For many years now, UNILAG has been without a Students Union and LASU school fees is too high. This is a developing country and we should be encouraging students to go to school rather than hike their fees," Eleto said, insisting that students would not give in for any kind of threat.

By: Unknown On 7:13 AM

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#CODED-ish News: VP Sambo Takes Over Government’s Negotiation With ASUU

ASUU has been on strike since June 30.
The Vice President Namadi Sambo has, in a bid to end the continuous gridlock in the dialogue between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and federal government, taken over the negotiation process.

The government's negotiation team was formerly headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim.

For the first time since the commencement of the over 10-week-old strike action by the union, the Vice President met with the leadership of the union at the Presidential Villa on Thursday.
The meeting was held behind closed doors.
Nigerian Universities have been shut down since June 30 as a result of federal government's failure to honour an agreement signed between it and ASUU in 2009 bothering on issues of university funding and improvement of infrastructure in the sector.

Speaking to journalists at the Presidential Villa after the closed door meeting, the ASUU President, Nasir Fagge, said that he was taking back a "message given to him at the meeting for his members" and that Nigerians would have to wait for the response of his members on the way forward.

By: Unknown On 10:08 AM

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#ASUU STRIKE UPDATE:: ASUU lacks justification for protracted strike —Group

AS the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) enters the third month, Coalition of Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria (CCSON) has called on the striking lecturers to shift ground, base on what it terms “positive” response of the Federal Government in resolving the impasse.

The group, in a communiqué jointly signed by its national coordinator, Mr Temitope Fadahunsi and national secretary, Mr Ahmed Yahaya, after an emergency meeting in Abuja, at the weekend, said ASUU had no justification for the continued strike.

Fadahunsi argued that the release of about N130 billion by the Federal Government for universities, in the wake of the current strike, was enough basis for the union to shift ground.

He added that the intervention was in addition to previous attempts by the current administration to address some of the demands of the lecturers, as contained in the 2009 agreement.

The group asked the lecturers to be more logical in their quest for improved funding of the education sector, as the ongoing strike had had more debilitating effect on education in the country.

By: Unknown On 8:08 AM

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#ASUU STRIKE UPDATE:: NANS give FG, ASUU 7-day ultimatum to end strike

Nigerian students have had enough of staying at home due to the ASUU strike and they have made this clear by speaking out.

As a result of the almost two month old strike, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), yesterday issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government and the union’s leadership to resolve their differences or face serious consequences.

According to reports, the students said if the impasse was not resolved within the next seven days, it will mobilize students on a nation-wide riot in what it described as ‘operation occupy Nigeria’.

By: Unknown On 8:56 AM

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#ASUU STRIKE UPDATE:: Jonathan urges ASUU to end strike

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) should call off its strike, as the Federal Government has released N30 billion for earned allowances.

He spoke at the inauguration of the Federal Government- sponsored transformation projects at the Federal University of Technology (FUTO), Owerri, the Imo State capital.

The President, who was represented by the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqqayat Rufai, said N30 billion has been released for the payment of earned allowances in public universities.

He said the inaugurated projects were in line with the Federal Government’s commitment to provide quality education in the country, adding that the projects were based on the need assessment exercise conducted by the Federal Government in the universities.

Jonathan urged the universities to engage in research for national development, stressing the need for proper maintenance of completed projects.

By: Unknown On 8:41 AM

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#ASUU STRIKE UPDATE:: ASUU rejects FG offers; says strike must continue

Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Monday, rejected the N130 billion the Federal Government disbursed into the university system, as part of efforts to persuade striking lecturers to call off  the strike action they embarked on July 2.

In a letter written to Head of National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy, NEEDs Assessment, and Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswan, by President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Isa Fagge.

The union insisted that based on the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement and the January 2012 Memoranda of Understanding, MoU, signed by both parties, what was due for 2012 and 2013 was N500 billion, not N100 billion.

The letter read: “We observe that the Committee is so far mentioning only N100 billion. If the implementation is to be related to the funding requirements in the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement and the Jan 2012 MoU, what is due for 2012 and 2013 is N500 billion not N100 billion. Only the provision of this sum will meet the immediate needs of the universities.

By: Unknown On 7:19 AM

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#ASUU STRIKE UPDATE:: ASUU Withdraw From Negotiation With Government

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday announced its disengagement from further negotiations with the Federal Government, over what it describes as the latter’s perceived insincerity in the 2009 agreement as well as the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) both parties signed in January last year.

The union National President, Dr. Nassir Faggae Isa, said at a press briefing held at the University of Lagos on Thursday that the 2009 agreement and the MoU must first be honored, even if ASUU feels the need to consider renegotiation with the government.

The union had embarked on a total strike on July 2 over government‘s failure to honour the 2009 agreement.

Faggae said, “Consequently, our members are left with no other choice than to prosecute this strike to its logical conclusion. ASUU members nationwide are saying this strike will not be suspended until and unless the government respects the 2009 agreement and makes concrete efforts to implement it in the best interest of the country.”

According to him, during a meeting held between ASUU and the government representative on Monday, government declared that it neither had any motive to revitalize public universities through committed funding, nor was it ready to pay in full the accumulated Earned Academic Allowances between 2009 and 2013.

By: Unknown On 7:18 AM

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#CODED-ish Update:: ASUU Strike To Be Called Off Soon As Jonathan Approves N400bn

The end to the present strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in sight as President Goodluck Jonathan has approved N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities.

By: Agent Coded On 1:45 PM

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#ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: ASUU’s demands will ensure quality graduates – Prof Aloysius Okolie

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will sustain its ongoing strike until the Federal Government gets the money to meet its demands, an ex-official member has said.

Prof Aloysius Okolie, the immediate past chairman of the union at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, said in Nsukka, Enugu State on Friday that the government should not allow a total collapse of tertiary education in the country.

Okolie said that no country had attained enviable height economically and technologically without adequate funds for the education sector.

He said the sector remained the engine room of national development.

“The National Assembly and some executive members are paid jumbo salaries but when it comes to education funding the government has no money.

“How will the country be able to achieve its vision 20:2020 of being among the 20 leading economies if the education sector is not well-funded,’’ he asked.

The former chairman solicited the understanding of the students and their parents saying the union’s demand was to ensure quality teaching and learning in the universities.

By: Unknown On 7:26 AM

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#ASUU Strike: “ASUU will wait till FG gets money” – Professor Okolie

According to Professor Aloysius Okolie, the immediate past chairman of the union at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will not call off the ongoing strike, until the Federal Government gets the money to meet its demands.

Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Okolie said: “The National Assembly and some executive members are paid jumbo salaries but when it comes to education funding the government has no money.
“How will the country be able to achieve its vision 20:2020 of being among the 20leading economies if the education sectoris not well-funded.”


The ex-officio member, also pleaded with the students and their parents, explaining that the union’s demand was beneficial to all parties involved.
“It is unreliable that in some universities student receive lectures under the trees and in stadium.

“Books, laboratory equipment in our libraries and laboratories are outdated while some politicians and government officials are wasting money in building houses in every state capital and buying fleets of exotic cars.

By: Dharmmy09 On 12:35 PM

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#CODED-ish:::ASUU STRIKE UPDATE

The meeting held today between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, though not conclusive, ended a success. According to the Head of the FG negotiation team, Governor Suswam, the pending issue is the arrears of the striking lecturers which would be acceded to very soon. He stated that it would be trashed out in their final meeting holding next week monday.

By: Agent Coded On 11:06 PM

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#ASUU UPDATE: Students plan to block all roads in mass protest

Nigerian Students have plans to organize a mass protest on Tuesday due to the on-going ASUU Strike that has crippled the University System. The protest organized by Joint Action Force (JAF) will kick off at eh Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) office at Yaba, Lagos at 8am. Protesting students in the South-West zone may block all roads leading to Lagos State tomorrow.

Other zones in the protest include Kano, Ibadan, Owerri, Calabar, Abuja among others. 

The aim of the protest is to draw attention to the bleak future that awaits Nigerian children due to the neglect of public education, “while children of top politicians and government officials are trained in private schools in Nigeria and abroad with funds looted from public coffers.”

ASUU Strike has entered 41 days today and issues have not been resolved. The government has not fulfilled its own part of the 2009 agreement with ASUU.ASUU said there is no going back this time around.

By: Unknown On 12:07 AM

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#CODED-ish Update:: End in sight to ASUU strike???

 

After about 5 weeks of negotiation between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, it seems like an end to the lingering strike is in sight. After series of meetings, Governor Suswam confirmed that by next week, the strike would be called off ( I sincerely hope so, at least for the sake of thousands of youths just idling and whiling away time when their counterparts in private institutions are making the best use of theirs'). Meanwhile, some institutions like Adamawa State University have made moves to pull out of the strike and I think other universities should tow that line so sanity could be restored to our educational system. Keep up with CODED-ish for more updates on the on-going strike...

By: Agent Coded On 10:50 AM

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#ASUU strike: We have no reason to join industrial action – SSANU

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has said its refusal to join the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the ongoing nationwide indefinite strike was because there were no sufficient reasons to do so.

This was disclosed by the vice president (West) of the union, Alfred Jimoh, in a chat with journalists after addressing the congress of the University of Ibadan (UI) chapter at the Theatre Arts Department of the institution on Wednesday.

Jimoh said the union was still waiting to see how Federal Government would handle its own demands, especially the issue of payment of what he referred to as ‘earned allowance’, stressing there was no point going on strike because some people were.

He explained that positive signals were coming from the Federal Government as regards their demands, hence the decision to sheath the sword for the time being.

By: Dharmmy09 On 6:07 PM

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#CODED-ish ASUU UPDATE:: ASUU’s 2009 Agreement is "Impossible to Implement"- FG

The Minister Of Labour and Productivity, Chukwuemeka Wogu has revealed that he met on ground the agreement signed by the previous government with ASUU when he resumed as the Minister of Labour, but stated that the agreement is impossible to implement.

He declared that the present administration  which is led by President Goodluck Jonathan is finding a way out and doing everything possible to resolve the issue to the satisfaction of everybody.

His words: “I inherited an agreement signed by the Federal Government with ASUU and that agreement is practically impossible for any administration to implement. We are still discussing with them, if I leave here, I am going to the Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) where we are meeting with them. I hope that very soon, we will resolve it.”

By: Unknown On 3:29 PM

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#ASUU STRIKE::ASUU threatens to prolong strike,gives FG ultimatum..

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Benin zone, on Friday threatened that the ongoing strike embarked upon by the union could be prolonged if President Goodluck Jonathan repeated the mistakes of previous administrations.

Addressing journalists at the University of Benin main campus, Coordinator of the zone and member of the National Executive Council of ASUU, Dr. Sunny Ighalo, said the strike could be indefinite if government remained insensitive to lecturers’ plight and refused to honour the agreement it had with the union.

Giving an update on the three-week strike, Ighalo said this time around, the action would be total and comprehensive in all Nigerian universities.

Ighalo said members would not shift ground except government honoured the agreement it entered into with ASUU, adding that members would not yield to government’s threat of no-work-no-pay rule.

By: Dharmmy09 On 5:50 AM

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#ASUU STRIKE::ASUU,Ibadan Branch,reluctant to call off strike

Source:NigerianEye



The Ibadan Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not call off its strike until the Federal Government meets the union’s demands, according to the Zonal Coordinator, Dr Adesola Nassir.

Nassir stated the union’s stance at a news conference at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Wednesday.
The union embarked on a nationwide indefinite strike on July 1 over claims that the Federal Government had failed to implement parts of the  agreement they signed in 2009.


“We as members of the ASUU Ibadan Zone, comprising University of Ibadan, University of Lagos, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Lagos State University, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and Tai Solarin University of Education, have resolved to remain on strike.

By: Dharmmy09 On 7:25 AM

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ASUU STRIKE::300-Level Students Can’t Write a simple Letter – ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday decried the level of decay in Nigerian universities, saying 200 and 300 level students could not write ordinary letters.

The Chairman of the Ahmadu Bello University branch, Dr. Mohammed Aliyu, stated this while addressing a news conference in Zaria, Kaduna State.

He said, “It is disheartening to note that students in 200, even 300 level cannot write ordinary letters. This has shown how poor our education standard is.”

By: Dharmmy09 On 7:37 AM

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