The President of ASUU, Dr. Abdullahi Sule-Kano, said the National Executive Council of the union took the decision following intervention by President Umaru Yar‘Adua, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Patricia Etteh, and the Senate.

Sule-Kano, who spoke at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday also said that the decision to suspend the strike was in recognition of the intervention by other well-meaning Nigerians and traditional rulers.

He, however, warned the government against reneging on its promise to revamp the university system.

The ASUU president said, “Given the assurances, the pleas of our students and parents, the National Executive Council of our union, at an emergency meeting held on Saturday, June 30, at the University of Abuja, resolved to suspend the current industrial action effective 12 midnight of Sunday, July 1. All lecturers are to resume all academic activities accordingly.”

The ASUU leader said the union noted particularly the firm signals emanating from the government to reinstate the 49 lecturers of the University of Ilorin.

The lecturers were sacked in violation of the non-victimisation clause in the 2001 FG-ASUU Agreement, which was a result of an out-of-court settlement.

Sule-Kano added that the union took cognisance of the assurance of the government to employ the principle of collective bargaining, and to address the rot and brain drain in the universities by establishing internationally-competitive standards.

He said the government also indicated interest in the peculiarity of the work of university scholars and the need to remove them from the civil service framework, especially as it relates to pensions and consolidation.

He said that the government equally showed a firm signal to improve on the funding of the university system through increased budgetary allocations and exploitation of extra-budgetary sources of funding.

The ASUU boss said that in weighing the interventions, “the NEC particularly considered as serious, the pronouncement of the President on the srike and his assurances to resolve the issues in the interest of education and development of Nigeria.”

Finally, we can move with lives.

I pray that the FG grant their promises to avert future strike actions.

tenk

SEUN AM DISSAPOINTED IN YOU FOR THIS KIND OF MODERATOR YOU HAVE GIVEN US. OLAWALEBABS I TIRE FOR YOU.

kwakayekaa: tenk

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ASUU’s strike not about salary reward – Don
on August 09, 2013 at 4:11 pm in News
Abuja – A lecturer at the University of Abuja, Prof. Femi Odekunle, says the current ASUU strike is not about salary or benefits but about ensuring an effective university system.
Odekunle on Friday in Abuja said that the claim by the Federal Government that some of the agreements reached between the union and government were not implementable was untrue.
“I do not believe that any agreements reached are not implementable, otherwise they would not even have been reached in the first place.
“And these issues that ASUU is fighting for have to do with infrastructure, funding and conducive environment for learning and all capture such nuts and bolts that drive the system.’’
 “So the claim by anyone to say that certain aspects of the agreement are not implementable is fraudulent.
“If the Federal Government can put funds into the National Assembly in terms of salary and allowances, why can’t it do the same for education that produces the manpower for the development of the nation.’’
Odekunle accused the Federal Government of employing tactics that were creating division between ASUU and management of universities by its sudden increase of vice-hancellors’ salaries and allowances.
The don, who noted that some lecturers were also culpable in contributing to the sector’s decay, noted, however, that majority of the the lecturers were serious and committed.
He said that government should address issues, including the misuse of resources, corruption of the political and government class, high cost of governance and other issues that had continued to have adverse effects on the country’s development.
Odekunle advised the government to address the ASUU strike from its root cause and not to “play politics and games with our children’s future’’. (NAN

ASUU’s strike not about salary reward – Don
on August 09, 2013 at 4:11 pm in News
Abuja – A lecturer at the University of Abuja, Prof. Femi Odekunle, says the current ASUU strike is not about salary or benefits but about ensuring an effective university system.
Odekunle on Friday in Abuja said that the claim by the Federal Government that some of the agreements reached between the union and government were not implementable was untrue.
“I do not believe that any agreements reached are not implementable, otherwise they would not even have been reached in the first place.
“And these issues that ASUU is fighting for have to do with infrastructure, funding and conducive environment for learning and all capture such nuts and bolts that drive the system.’’
 “So the claim by anyone to say that certain aspects of the agreement are not implementable is fraudulent.
“If the Federal Government can put funds into the National Assembly in terms of salary and allowances, why can’t it do the same for education that produces the manpower for the development of the nation.’’
Odekunle accused the Federal Government of employing tactics that were creating division between ASUU and management of universities by its sudden increase of vice-hancellors’ salaries and allowances.
The don, who noted that some lecturers were also culpable in contributing to the sector’s decay, noted, however, that majority of the the lecturers were serious and committed.
He said that government should address issues, including the misuse of resources, corruption of the political and government class, high cost of governance and other issues that had continued to have adverse effects on the country’s development.
Odekunle advised the government to address the ASUU strike from its root cause and not to “play politics and games with our children’s future’’. (NAN