The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its over five months old strike.

ASUU Chairman, University of Lagos Chapter, Dr. Karo Ogbinaka told Channels Television that the union decided to suspend the strike after a marathon meeting held in Minna, Niger State capital on Monday.

In attendance at the meeting, which ran till late in the evening, were all the ASUU branch chairmen and secretaries, the national executive members of the body, coordinators and past leaders, including 56 members from 52 universities.

Dr. Ogbinaka said that, in line with procedures, the different chapters of ASUU would hold congress meetings on Wednesday to inform members and managements of the institutions of the latest development.

“We expect the students to resume and expect their members to go back to class immediately after the congress meeting and we expect the government to keep to the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),” Dr. Ogninaka stated.

He said that the union and the government would hold meetings in 2014 to look at gray areas that may arise and come to a common ground.

The Federal Government and ASUU had reached a compromise during a negotiation brokered by the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar on Wednesday, December 11, which led to the signing of the MoU.

Speaking to journalists after the agreement with the government on Wednesday, the National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Isa Fagge, said that the union would consult with its National Executive Council and would intimate Nigerians of its decision on the strike within one week, expressing optimism that the outcome of the consultation would be positive.

It was gathered that the MoU addressed all the resolutions that the leadership of the ASUU and the Federal Government agreed to in their 13-hour meeting with President Jonathan on November 4, as well as their widely criticised fresh demands.

ASUU’s demands

ASUU’s demands include the upward review of the retirement age for professors from 65 to 70; adequate funding to revitalise the university system; progressive increase of budgetary allocations to the education sector by 26%; transfer of Federal Government property to universities; setting up of research and development units by the companies; and renegotiation of the signed agreement.

The fresh demands include a non-victimisation clause, provision and deposit of N200 billion infrastructure revitalisation funds in an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) details of disbursement of the funds and payment of salary arrears which has accrued to the teachers during the strike.

The Wednesday agreement between the two which is reportedly due for renegotiation in 2014 was reached barely 24 hours after the Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe presented a proof of payment of N200 billion into an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Nigeria’s university lecturers have been on strike since July 1, 2013 to demand full implementation of the 2009 agreement it reached with the Federal Government on conditions of service for university lecturers, and funding of infrastructural development in Nigerian universities.

Watch Interview with Dr. Karo Ogbinaka On Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E2y8jtWf79s#t=0

Sources :
1. Academics Nigeria
2. Channelstv

Finally!!

Good good

3rd!

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Merry Christmas in advance.

At last!

Sylvyangel: Thats nice.. The thing is that many wont be returning
Some have died
Some are pregnant
Some have travelld abroad
And for those that will return its now time for mass cleansing, rebooting and restarting of rotten brains

That's true...let's hope this doesn't happen in this country ever again

She needs a lawyer

To blazes with Assu

Everything that has a beginning MUST have an end. If every organized cabal keeps holding the Presidency and by extension, the Federal Government to ransome, then the valuable time we lose is ours, the monumental achievements we stall are our cups of tea.

Now, I admonish the Presidency, to push forward with other items on the menu of the transformational Agenda, if and only if the Obasanjo Kaduna Mafioso will allow GEJ focus on his mandate of 2011-2015 without heating up the polity with their selfish turn by turn "gentlemanly agreement". In what world, will an ex-President, not retire to the village but continue to hunt every sitting President.


Lets I forget, we were talking about ASUU, congrats to all students, and to the girls, I hope you enjoyed the rigmaroles, if you know warra mean.

ASUU?that na name of secret cult??me don give up on education Ooo since november,I dey hustle now

oh yeah! ASUU strike is over but at wat cost?? 6 months of our lives hv been wasted! ASUU gets their 6 monts salary, d FG s nt affected in any way its us students that pay d price. yeah i knw dat wen two elephants fight, d grass suffers. but sum1 shud pls warn those elephants dt wen next dey want to fight, dey shud find a place where dey ar no grasses!
congrats to all patriotic students...dere s neva gona b anytin like strike again til we graduate by God's grace!

see gobe, what else can i say?

Billyonaire: Everything that has a beginning MUST have an end. If every organized cabal keeps holding the Presidency and by extension, the Federal Government to ransome, then the valuable time we lose is ours, the monumental achievements we stall are our cups of tea.

Now, I admonish the Presidency, to push forward with other items on the menu of the transformational Agenda, if and only if the Obasanjo Kaduna Mafioso will allow GEJ focus on his mandate of 2011-2015 without heating up the polity with their selfish turn by turn "gentlemanly agreement". In what world, will an ex-President, not retire to the village but continue to hunt every sitting President.


Lets I forget, we were talking about ASUU, congrats to all students, and to the girls, I hope you enjoyed the rigmaroles, if you know warra mean.

Ur post summarised in 1 word - Unnecessary!!!!

Sylvyangel: Thats nice.. The thing is that many wont be returning
Some have died
Some are pregnant
Some have travelld abroad
[s]And for those that will return its now time for mass cleansing, rebooting and restarting of rotten brains[/s]

Emzybrown:

whats with the face?
Do u still remember ur matric number?

Sylvyangel: whats with the face?
Do u still remember ur matric number?

Yes!!!

Oghos1:

Ur post summarised in 1 word - Unnecessary!!!!

He's saying d obvious. Go and check well, even d strike had a lot of political undertones.