ASUU strike: Jonathan
approves N400bn lifeline –
SSANU
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.
The document to this
effect is expected to be
made available today at
the meeting of the
presidential committee on implementation of the
NEEDS assessment in the
universities with the
leaders of the four
university-based unions –
the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian
Universities (SSANU), the
Non-Academic Staff Union
of Educational and
Associated Institutions
(NASU), the National Association of Academic
Technologists (NAAT) and
the Academic Staff Union
of Universities (ASUU).
The President of SSANU,
Samson Ugwoke, made the revelation while
addressing his union
members at the SSANU
National Executive
Committee (NEC) meeting
held at the weekend at the University of Abuja.
Ugwoke, briefing the
SSANU members on the
activities of the NEEDS
assesment implementation
committee, led by Benue State Governor, Gabriel
Suswam. He noted that the
fund was different from
the N100 billion Governor
Suswam had raised from
donor agencies and big companies to tackle the
problems of Nigerian
universities in 2013.
The labour leader said:
“Let me give you a tip on
what the NEEDS assessment committee is
doing. The president has
approved that within the
next four years; N400
billion would be expended
in infrastructural development of Nigerian
universities, to transform
the universities to
international standard.
“N100 billion has already
been raised by Suswam committee out of which 61
universities have been
pencilled down, as
contained in the NEEDS
assessement committee.
The N100 billion is expected to address needs
of the universities in the
areas which include re-
furbishing and renovation
of lecture theatres and
lecture halls, re-furbishing and renovation of
laboratories/libraries and
the renovation of hostels.
“The second category is
building of new hostels of
international standard, self-contained rooms, the
latest model in the world.
That is the standard to be
built in every university,
and also the state-of-the-
art laboratories as well as classrooms, lecture
theatres and the halls.”
Ugwoke pointed out that
the money had been
shared and out of the
N100 billion, N96 billion had been sent to
universities.
He added: “The committee
is meeting again on
Monday, and by Monday
(today), the document will be out. This time around, it
is not only by giving
university money, but it
will be monitored to
ensure that the money is
used to transform the universities, to bail
universities out of the
present situation and
developed to an
international recognized
university standard.” http://

I just pray God wil torch d hart of both d FG nd ASUU...i want d ASUU demand be reached nd also i want d strike be cut off as soon as possible....oh lord hear my prayer

ASUU strike: Jonathan approves N400bn lifeline - SSANU

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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.

The document to this effect is expected to be made available today at the meeting of the presidential committee on implementation of the NEEDS assessment in the universities with the leaders of the four university-based unions – the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The President of SSANU, Samson Ugwoke, made the revelation while addressing his union members at the SSANU National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the weekend at the University of Abuja.

Ugwoke, briefing the SSANU members on the activities of the NEEDS assesment implementation committee, led by Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam. He noted that the fund was different from the N100 billion Governor Suswam had raised from donor agencies and big companies to tackle the problems of Nigerian universities in 2013.

The labour leader said: "Let me give you a tip on what the NEEDS assessment committee is doing. The president has approved that within the next four years; N400 billion would be expended in infrastructural development of Nigerian universities, to transform the universities to international standard.

"N100 billion has already been raised by Suswam committee out of which 61 universities have been pencilled down, as contained in the NEEDS assessement committee. The N100 billion is expected to address needs of the universities in the areas which include re-furbishing and renovation of lecture theatres and lecture halls, re-furbishing and renovation of laboratories/libraries and the renovation of hostels.

"The second category is building of new hostels of international standard, self-contained rooms, the latest model in the world. That is the standard to be built in every university, and also the state-of-the-art laboratories as well as classrooms, lecture theatres and the halls."

Ugwoke pointed out that the money had been shared and out of the N100 billion, N96 billion had been sent to universities.

He added: "The committee is meeting again on Monday, and by Monday (today), the document will be out. This time around, it is not only by giving university money, but it will be monitored to ensure that the money is used to transform the universities, to bail universities out of the present situation and developed to an international recognized university standard."

STRIKES: Polytechnics and Education College Lecturers May Join ASUU

Posted on August 19, 2013

The lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education may join the strike held by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The claim their demands have not been met by the FG. 

A source from the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) disclosed that the union may resume its strike, suspended on 16 July, due to a lack of significant progress from the government on the union’s wage dispute. Consequently, a meeting has been scheduled to hold between ASUP, the Governing Council Chairmen, Rectors and Registrars of Polytechnics and the National Board for Technical Education in Abuja this week between Tuesday and Wednesday, after which the union will convene its National Executive Council meeting. In an interview with PUNCH correspondent, the ASUP President, Chibuzo Asomugha, said,

“The Federal Government asked for two weeks, we gave them one month because there were outstanding issues, like the CONTISS 15 migration. The approval for that has come from the Head of Service but they are still to work out the modalities for the implementation. This involves arrears, and we have not been assured of where the arrears will come from and when. “Government also promised to constitute the Governing Councils for the remaining polytechnics within two weeks; it is one month now but nothing has been done.”

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (CEASU), which had earlier issued a 21-day notice, on Friday released a fresh strike noticE. In an August 15 letter to the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, entitled ‘Re: Festering issues prone to industrial action: An Ultimatum’ and signed by its President, Asagha Nkoro, and the General Secretary, Nuhu Ogirima, the union issued a 14-day ultimatum to the government to meet its demands and expressed worry about the attitude of the government to the crisis in the education sector, especially over poor working conditions.

“The entire academic staff of the nation’s colleges of education would, indeed, cease all responsibilities and functions dischargeable under the law and statute, if by August, 29,2013, the Federal Government refuses to take practical and meaningful steps towards addressing the union’s demands,” the letter reads.

However, today it became known that ASUU may end its strike if President Goodluck Jonathan approves N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities.

STRIKES: Polytechnics and Education College Lecturers May Join ASUU

Posted on August 19, 2013

The lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education may join the strike held by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The claim their demands have not been met by the FG. 

A source from the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) disclosed that the union may resume its strike, suspended on 16 July, due to a lack of significant progress from the government on the union’s wage dispute. Consequently, a meeting has been scheduled to hold between ASUP, the Governing Council Chairmen, Rectors and Registrars of Polytechnics and the National Board for Technical Education in Abuja this week between Tuesday and Wednesday, after which the union will convene its National Executive Council meeting. In an interview with PUNCH correspondent, the ASUP President, Chibuzo Asomugha, said,

“The Federal Government asked for two weeks, we gave them one month because there were outstanding issues, like the CONTISS 15 migration. The approval for that has come from the Head of Service but they are still to work out the modalities for the implementation. This involves arrears, and we have not been assured of where the arrears will come from and when. “Government also promised to constitute the Governing Councils for the remaining polytechnics within two weeks; it is one month now but nothing has been done.”

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (CEASU), which had earlier issued a 21-day notice, on Friday released a fresh strike noticE. In an August 15 letter to the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, entitled ‘Re: Festering issues prone to industrial action: An Ultimatum’ and signed by its President, Asagha Nkoro, and the General Secretary, Nuhu Ogirima, the union issued a 14-day ultimatum to the government to meet its demands and expressed worry about the attitude of the government to the crisis in the education sector, especially over poor working conditions.

“The entire academic staff of the nation’s colleges of education would, indeed, cease all responsibilities and functions dischargeable under the law and statute, if by August, 29,2013, the Federal Government refuses to take practical and meaningful steps towards addressing the union’s demands,” the letter reads.

However, today it became known that ASUU may end its strike if President Goodluck Jonathan approves N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities.

STRIKES: Polytechnics and Education College Lecturers May Join ASUU

Posted on August 19, 2013

The lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education may join the strike held by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The claim their demands have not been met by the FG. 

A source from the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) disclosed that the union may resume its strike, suspended on 16 July, due to a lack of significant progress from the government on the union’s wage dispute. Consequently, a meeting has been scheduled to hold between ASUP, the Governing Council Chairmen, Rectors and Registrars of Polytechnics and the National Board for Technical Education in Abuja this week between Tuesday and Wednesday, after which the union will convene its National Executive Council meeting. In an interview with PUNCH correspondent, the ASUP President, Chibuzo Asomugha, said,

“The Federal Government asked for two weeks, we gave them one month because there were outstanding issues, like the CONTISS 15 migration. The approval for that has come from the Head of Service but they are still to work out the modalities for the implementation. This involves arrears, and we have not been assured of where the arrears will come from and when. “Government also promised to constitute the Governing Councils for the remaining polytechnics within two weeks; it is one month now but nothing has been done.”

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (CEASU), which had earlier issued a 21-day notice, on Friday released a fresh strike noticE. In an August 15 letter to the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, entitled ‘Re: Festering issues prone to industrial action: An Ultimatum’ and signed by its President, Asagha Nkoro, and the General Secretary, Nuhu Ogirima, the union issued a 14-day ultimatum to the government to meet its demands and expressed worry about the attitude of the government to the crisis in the education sector, especially over poor working conditions.

“The entire academic staff of the nation’s colleges of education would, indeed, cease all responsibilities and functions dischargeable under the law and statute, if by August, 29,2013, the Federal Government refuses to take practical and meaningful steps towards addressing the union’s demands,” the letter reads.

However, today it became known that ASUU may end its strike if President Goodluck Jonathan approves N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities.

In anticipation of today's meeting
between the Federal Government
and ASUU representatives, the
President of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Dr. Nasir Fagge, has stated that
the union will not back down on the ongoing
strike if a compromise is not reached.
Dr. Fagge made this statement in a telephone
interview earlier today. He maintained that the
strike action was not embarked upon just for the
demands, but for the Federal Government to honour
a Memorandum of Understanding which it signed in
2012 with ASUU.
The ASUU President: "Who's talking about demands
here? We presented our demands in 2006 and it
took us three years to get it into an agreement.
"The FG signed the MOU in 2012, that's what we are
asking them to honour, period. The strike action will
not continue only if they implement the MOU we
had last year."
The ASUU President further noticed that "If we call
off the strike when the MOU has not been
implemented, of what use was the strike action in
the first place? We are holding on until everything is
sorted out."
The strike by the lecturers lasts for forty-nine days
if, ASUU does not reach an agreement with the
Federal Government at the meeting scheduled to
hold later today

Breaking: ASUU strike continues as FG, lecturers meeting deadlocked!!

The Monday meeting between striking university lecturers and the federal government ended without a resolution of the crisis. The meeting, which held at the office of the Secretary to the Government of

the Federation, was attended by the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Minister of Labour, Emeka Nwogwu; Minister of Education, Rukayyatu Rufai; and the Benue State Governor and head of the government's delegation, Gabriel Suswam.

The lecturers' union, ASUU, was led by the President of the union, Nasiru Fagge.

The meeting lasted for over four hours (from 3:p.m. to about 7:15p.m).
More details later...

ASUU Strike: Negotiations Deadlocked As FG Releases N130bn



on August 20, 2013



Negotiations between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering strike by the university lecturers has again reached a dead end as both parties differed on crucial issues bordering on funding.

Chairman of the Presidential Universities’ NEEDS Assessment Committee and Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, who spoke immediately after about four hours of deliberations between the union and the government team at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), said negotiations would continue.

He said progress was made in the area of addressing the infrastructural deficit in the universities with the release of N100 billion, which would be distributed next month.

“The federal government has been able to harness about N100 billion, which Mr. President has agreed. And that will begin the project and starting from the first week of September in virtually all the universities. The process of achieving that is ongoing at the centre and due process for it at various universities,” Suswam said.

“The infrastructure deficit like hostels, laboratories and libraries will be addressed. Some will be renovated while others will be brand new. Every university will be affected and each of the hostels will accommodate 1,200 students.

Despite the efforts announced by the FG, ASUU has refused to shift ground on the two outstanding issues of infrastructure funding and pending arrears.

ASUU President, Nasir Isa Fagge, told journalists after the meeting that they would meet with their National Executive Council (NEC) to decide the appropriate response to the federal government.

That said, Fagge made it clear that ASUU’s position had not shifted from the 2009 agreement. “The union is talking about the implementation of 2009 agreement and not renegotiation.”

“If you remember, the objective of going on strike is to get government to implement the 2009 ASUU and federal government agreement particularly to implement the provisions of the memorandum of understanding we reached with the government in 2012.

“I want to say that at today’s meeting, we looked at all the issues and it is clear to us that the Suswam Committee that is working on the funding requirement for revitalising the university system particularly on the implementation of the NEEDS assessment report… its clear to us that we have not really gone far in that aspect.”

“So, on the basis of that, we will also go back and inform our principals on the development. I think it is important to clarify that at this point that we are not making a demand, there was an agreement with government, and even that aspect that government is talking about, the entitlement of earned staff of then university, that includes the technical staff, members of the senior staff association and members of the non academic staff.

“So, I think at this point, what the union is talking about is the implementation of 2009 agreement not the renegotiation of the agreement.

“Well, we will wait to hear from government after the consultation with the councils. Whatever they place on the table, we will look at it. But for now, we will also go back and report to our principals,” Fagge stated.

Also speaking after the meeting, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said all the issues had been resolved except the unpaid allowances.

Anyim said the federal government had agreed to release the sum of N30 billion in that regard, which must be paid according to the verifiable claims by each university councils, adding that the sum of N92 billion being demanded by ASUU could not be met as the claims upon, which fund were to be released could be faulty using the initial criteria being proposed by the academic union.

He said they had shifted the responsibility of settling the pending arrears to the university councils, who will be supported with the N30 billion.

“ASUU is asking for the N92 billion and we felt that the way the whole process is being done, there would be discrepancies and we want things to be done according to due process.

“We know that it is the responsibility of the university councils to take care of the issue of unclaimed allowances. So the actual figures will be verified by the council and we will be supporting them with N30 billion,” he said.

Also speaking on the funding of the universities’ infrastructure, Anyim said federal government would start with the sum of N100 billion.

He said the federal government would release funds in a progressive manner over a period of three years to meet up with the sum of N400 billion being demanded by ASUU.

when two elephants fight, the grass suffers...I do hope this strike issue becomes something of the past ASAP

bsquare18: I just pray God wil torch d hart of both d FG nd ASUU...i want d ASUU demand be reached nd also i want d strike be cut off as soon as possible....oh lord hear my prayer

Hello, not cut off but call off .

Jonathan directs immediate action to end
ASUU strike
2013-08-20 16:52:51
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday directed
the two Federal Government committees
negotiating the requests by Academic Staff Union
of Universities (ASUU), to take immediate
measures at ending the on-going strike.
The Chairman of the Universities Needs
Implementation Committee, Gov. Gabriel Suswam
of Benue, made this known after a closed-door
meeting of the two committees and other
stakeholders with President Jonathan at the State
House.in Abuja.
Vice-President Namadi Sambo, the Chairman of
the Earned Allowance Committee and the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation
(SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim were in attendance
at the meeting.
Also in attendance were, Ministers of Education,
Prof. Ruqayyat Rufai, Labour, Emeka Wogu, the
Executive Secretary of National Universities
Commission, Prof. Julius Okogie and the Chief of
Staff to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadome.
Speaking with State House correspondents,
Suswam said that the meeting was summoned by
the President “to take some decisions that would
end the strike''.
“The President has instructed us, as to what to do,
and he has shown a lot of commitments to
flagging off projects worth about N100 billion in all
the universities in the country, about 61 of them.
“So, we are hoping that we will be able to see the
end of the strike very soon.
“At the end of the day, we hope ASUU is satisfied
with the measures that have so far been taken.
“The federal government will also be meeting with
the Universities Councils and Vice Chancellors of
our universities within the week towards updating
them on some of the decisions taken,'' he said.
Suswam said about N100 billion had been
approved by the Federal Government to his
committee to address infrastructure deficit in all
the Universities.

Jonathan directs immediate action to end
ASUU strike
2013-08-20 16:52:51
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday directed
the two Federal Government committees
negotiating the requests by Academic Staff Union
of Universities (ASUU), to take immediate
measures at ending the on-going strike.
The Chairman of the Universities Needs
Implementation Committee, Gov. Gabriel Suswam
of Benue, made this known after a closed-door
meeting of the two committees and other
stakeholders with President Jonathan at the State
House.in Abuja.
Vice-President Namadi Sambo, the Chairman of
the Earned Allowance Committee and the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation
(SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim were in attendance
at the meeting.
Also in attendance were, Ministers of Education,
Prof. Ruqayyat Rufai, Labour, Emeka Wogu, the
Executive Secretary of National Universities
Commission, Prof. Julius Okogie and the Chief of
Staff to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadome.
Speaking with State House correspondents,
Suswam said that the meeting was summoned by
the President “to take some decisions that would
end the strike''.
“The President has instructed us, as to what to do,
and he has shown a lot of commitments to
flagging off projects worth about N100 billion in all
the universities in the country, about 61 of them.
“So, we are hoping that we will be able to see the
end of the strike very soon.
“At the end of the day, we hope ASUU is satisfied
with the measures that have so far been taken.
“The federal government will also be meeting with
the Universities Councils and Vice Chancellors of
our universities within the week towards updating
them on some of the decisions taken,'' he said.
Suswam said about N100 billion had been
approved by the Federal Government to his
committee to address infrastructure deficit in all
the Universities.

abayomi350: Hello, not cut off but call off .

yeah...tanks 4d correction God bless u

ASUU Must Call Off Strike
Over N130 Billion FG Proposal “This Strike In
Nigeria Will Soon Be Suspended” – Benue
Governor
Days after President Jonathan approved N400
Billion injection into the Nigerian Universities, the
offer has been lowered to 130 Billion, a move that
caused ASUU officials to reject the proposal again
for the second time.
According to Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam
who is the Chairman of the Universities Needs
Implementation Committee, ASUU should call off
its strike based on the N30 billion earned
allowances offer and another N100 billion promised
injection into the infrastructures in the 61 public
universities.- He said this to State House
correspondents on Tuesday August 20, 2013.
Nigeria’s Federal Government on Tuesday asked the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU to
reconsider its rejection of the N130 billion deal it
offered it yesterday to call off the national strike
that has grounded activities in public in universities
across the country for over a month now.
Negotiation between the Federal Government team,
led by Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State and
the University lecturers broke down yesterday after
government insisted on the offer of N30 billion for
the earned allowances.
The Government had insisted that it was the
responsibility of the Governing Council of the
Universities to pay the earned allowances.
The offer however was a far cry from the N87 billion
the teachers are asking as the cumulated earned
allowances of staff based on the agreements
reached with the Federal Government in 2009 and
ASUU wasted no time in rejecting the offer.
The Governor added that the federal government
will meet the universities’ councils and vice
chancellors later in the week to brief them on
government decisions and to also certify those that
are really entitled to be paid from the N30 billion to
be released for the earned allowances.
When Will ASUU Call Off Strike In Nigeria
This negotiation seems to be going no where.
So when willl ASUU call off strike?
Most Nigerian university students are tired of
staying at home.

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

House Committee On Education Urges ASUU To End Strike

Posted on August 22, 2013



The House of Representatives Committee on Education has pleaded with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the prolonged lecturers’ strike, even as it lauded the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, for his efforts in making the new institution to be on a sound footing.

Speaking, yesterday, in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when he led members of the committee to monitor the progress and challenges of the new university, Chairman, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, said that the committee’s on-going tour of the federal universities across the country was part of its oversight functions of tracking funds contained in the budget.

Suleiman lamented the lingering industrial action by ASUU, pleading with the union and the government to quickly resolve their differences, just as he noted that the two committees on education of the National Assembly had earlier facilitated the dialogue between ASUU and government.

He expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off by ASUU due to the steps the government had taken.

“As an institution, we are doing the best we could do to ensure the resolution of the strike. Government through the facilitation of the National Assembly had a series of meetings with ASUU. When ASUU issued the ultimatum, government was reluctant to meet with them.”

No Renegotiation On ASUU’s Paltry N87bn, National Assembly Spent N1tn In 8 Years – APC





The Federal Government should honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in order to end the ongoing strike that has paralyzed academic activities in government-owned universities, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said.

The party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday that no government can afford to play with education, because it is the path to national
development.

According to the party, ASUU was not making any fresh demands beyond the agreement it reached with the government in 2009, adding: “Agreements are meant to be honoured, and breaching them comes with some consequences.”

APC said the industrial action by the university lecturers which has kept students in public universities at home for many weeks is a further blow to the country’s education system which has deteriorated so much that no Nigerian university is currently listed in the top 100 universities in the world and only a few Nigerian universities have made the top 100 in Africa.

“The 87 billion naira that ASUU is demanding represents earned allowances hence cannot be renegotiated. In any case, this amount pales into insignificance when placed side by side with the 1 trillion naira that has been spent on federal legislators in the past 8 years; or the frivolity involved in a government minister travelling to China to negotiate a $1 billion loan in a chartered jet (with its attendant costs) and with a retinue of staffers who earned generous estacode in hard currency.

“It is an indication of the kind of priority that this Federal Government attaches to education that while it has refused to meet its own side of an agreement it reached with ASUU since 2009, it could pay out 3 trillion naira in non-existent fuel subsidies to fat cats, spend 10 billion naira annually to maintain the jets in the presidential fleet and do little or nothing to prevent the stealing of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day, which translates to $120 million in a month, money that surely ends up in some people’s pockets!

“What we are saying is that if the Federal Government would reduce its profligacy and cut waste, there will be enough money to pay teachers in public universities, as well as fund research and upgrade infrastructure in such institutions. Hungry teachers can neither teach well nor carry out research. And poorly-taught students can neither excel nor propel their nation to great
heights,” the statement said.

The party also registered its disgust at the demonstrated nonchalance of those who should be working round the clock to resolve the crisis, especially the Minister of State for Education Nyeson Wike, who the party said has enough time on his hands “to be launching vigilance groups and dancing ‘palongo’ around town when the nation’s public universities are shut and students are languishing. This is shameful and totally unacceptable.”

“We are not surprised because most government officials have sent their children and wards to foreign universities, hence do not give a damn if the children of others are in school or not.

“Education is the key to national development. This is why UNESCO has recommended an allocation of at least 26% of national budgets to that critical sector. Therefore, talking about national growth and development without adequately funding education is a pipe dream!” APC said.

ASUU: FG Full Of Deceit, Not Ready To End Strike – Fagge



on August 23, 2013



The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday came to the conclusion that the government was not ready to end the 8-week-old strike, after both parties failed to reach an agreement in ten meetings, lamenting that government displayed dishonesty and lack of integrity during negotiations.

ASUU’s President, Dr. Isa Faggae, who spoke at a briefing in Lagos claimed that government had declared it would not implement the agreed injection of funds to revitalise the public universities, but was only making a dubious statement of supporting some universities with N100 billion.

“Government had also declared that it will not pay university academics their earned allowances which accumulated from 2009 to 2013. Rather, it is talking about providing N30 billion to assist various Governing Councils of Federal Universities to defray the arrears of N92 billion owed to all categories of staff in the university system.”

Speaking on how the last meeting with the Government held on Monday went, Faggae said ASUU was “shocked by the level of deceit, dishonesty, and lack of integrity displayed by the Government. Never in the history of ASUU-Government relations have we, as a union, ever experienced the kind of volte-face exhibited by Government. At one stage in the interaction, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation ridiculed the agreement, the MoU and the Needs Assessment Report, mocking the Minister of Education to “go and give them N400 billion,” at which members of the government scornfully laughed.”

He argued that the Governor Gabriel Suswam-led Implementation Committee was being used as smokescreen to “deceive ASUU, Nigerian students and their parents, as well as other unsuspecting members of the public on the purportedly released N100 billion for the implementation of the Needs Assessment Report.

First, he said, “government plans to divert the regular yearly allocations to universities by Tertiary Education Trust, TETFund, to make at least 70% of the N100 billion. This is unacceptable to ASUU. It is like robbing Peter to pay Paul, since the idea of revitalization took full cognizance of the intervention role TETFund ab-initio.

“Again, contrary to subsisting operational procedures, about 75% of the money meant for revitalizing universities would not be released to them as the Suswam Committee plans to hand over construction of the hostel projects to the Federal Ministry of Education and/or the National Universities Commission, for implementation. This is illegal; neither the ministry nor NUC is backed by laws of Nigerian Public Universities to divert monies meant for the development of these institutions into centrally executed projects.”

Faggae also questioned the committee’s motives for proposing to commit N1.6 million to a bed space, instead of N200, 000 to N400, 000, saying, “We see a continuation of outrageous contract regimes in the plan to centrally coordinate the construction of student hostels as done in the case of the 12 newly established Federal Universities with TETFund resources. The NUC has transmuted itself into a “Tenders’ board” which awarded contracts for the construction of 560 bed spaces hostel for each university at a whooping sum of 1.2 bn. This contract sum translates into N2.143 million per bed space.”

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ASUU Strike: FG Urges
Lecturers To Resume
Work
Despite the resolve on Thursday by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
to continue the ongoing strike until all
agreements signed in 2009 are
implemented, the federal government
yesterday ordered the lecturers to go back to
the classrooms after it had disbursed of
N30b for Earned Academic Allowances,
(EAA).
The directive, which was issued yesterday by
the secretary to the government of the
federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, during a
meeting between the federal government
and the vice chancellors of the 61 public
universities, stated that “government hereby
urges every staff of the nation’s universities
to return to work as all issues are being
resolved.”
He also urged “every academic member of
staff of the universities that is so entitled to
verify his claim with the university council
and accordingly get paid.”
Anyim added: “From the foregoing, it is
obvious that government has demonstrated
sufficient commitment to the
implementation of the 2009 FG/ASUU
agreement.”
“After series of discussions, government has
now provided N30 billion to support the
university councils in settling the earned
allowances. The fund will be disbursed to the
various university councils which are in the
position to know who is entitled to how much
after verification.”
Anyim revealed that “traditionally,
universities pay this to deserving staff but
because of the amount which ASUU now
claims as arrears, government has decided
to assist the university councils to pay, as
government did not receive any computation
of amount involved until February, 2013.
“By this computation, ASUU is claiming N92
billion as arrears for three years payment
based on percentage range of between 15
and 20 per cent of personnel cost.”
While there is consensus that revitalising the
tertiary institutions is of critical importance
to the nation, Anyim noted that “when put
together, the amount of funds from the
budgetary and non-budgetary sources that
go into the sector is quite huge but without
corresponding impact.”

NASS, FG urge ASUU to call off
strike
on august 24, 2013 at 1:26 am in news
By LAIDE AKINBOADE
As the industrial action embarked upon by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, enters
it second month, the leadership of the
National Assembly, NASS, and Federal Government,
yesterday, appealed to the lectures to end the
strike.
The NASS and FG made the plea after a meeting
with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of public
universities in Abuja.
They pleaded that the FG has made offers and
commitment to necessitate the resumption of
academic activities in the nation’s public
universities.
According to Senate Chairman on Education,
Senator Uche Chukwumerije, “The Senate
Committee has always sought the required fund for
our nation’s universities.
We plead with ASUU for immediate end of the
strike. We want to plead with lecturers to be more
sensitive to their scale of priorities especially in the
area of education and timely implementations of
agreements. The present ASUU strike must end. It is
time for the nation to take the bull by the horn”.
Chairman House Committee on Education,
Honourable Aminu Suleiman said, “I want to
commend all those who have fought for the proper
funding of our universities in the country. The
Federal Government have also taken position to
identify the needs of all our Federal Polytechnics
and Colleges of Education to stop this problem once
and for all.
“It is gratifying to know that government has
shifted grounds and it is also in our position to
passionately appeal to the aggrieved members of
ASUU in the interest of the system to also make
concession so that students can resume school”.
He noted, “We always agree to disagree we can
always disagree without disrupting the system. We
must appreciate that by prolonging this strike we
are doing more harm to the system and causing
more problems for the country in general.
What government has done is quite in line with the
legislative agenda which we set out for ourselves as
members of House of Representatives. No sacrifice
is too much in ensuring the development of the
sector”.
The SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said the FG has
already demonstrated sufficient commitment to the
implementation of 2009 FG/ASUU agreement.
He said President Goodluck Jonathan has set N100
billion to develop infrastructure in 61 universities
and N30 billion to support the university councils in
settling the earned allowances.
The SGF therefore appealed to the university
teachers to call of the two months old strike.

ASUU Strike: Wogu appeals to lectures to end strike

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The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Mr. Emeka Wogu has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go back to the classes while the negotiation is ongoing. Speaking on Channels

Television's magazine programme Dateline Abuja, Mister Wogu said the government has shown enough commitment to address the issues once and for all.

Wogu explained that the plight of students whose academic programmes have been disrupted is enough motivation for everybody to resolve the situation and improve the standard of the nation's university education.

The federal government on Friday had released the sum of N130 billion to federal and state universities to execute projects and pay allowances.

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ASUU Strike 2013 Latest
News Update: Nigerian Student Appeals To
University Lecturers To Agree With FG
The threat to academic stability in the nation’s ivory
towers because of the current strike by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has
attracted headlines in the dailies. The media has
also been awashed by many criticisms, most of
which have been directed at the Federal
Government in which President Jonathan is the
representational character. However, it appears
many of the critics have failed to consider the other
side of the coin, which is one of the essentials in a
debate on such a controversial issue.
Therefore, the focus of this piece is to examine the
purpose of the present ASUU’s strike and their
sympathizers’ rage against the FG. Firstly, ASUU
came up with the issue of autonomy for
universities. The FG approved the idea of autonomy
so long as the universities would generate internal
revenue to offset their expenditure, including
salaries and allowances. This government’s position
provoked ASUU members.
They poured venom on the government for merely
supporting the idea of autonomy – existence as an
independent body! Having realized the illusion
surrounding university autonomy, members of the
academic union played down their demand. This
raises a question on the sincerity of ASUU’S
demands.
On the issue of Federal Government’s assistance to
state universities, this writer supports the idea of
assisting the state universities. But must the
Federal Government be compelled to render support
to universities established and owned by state
governments? Methink helping state universities
should be as necessary as the state governments
are required to support the federal institution
located in their domain. Needless to say that state
governments collect tenement tax from federal
institutions sited in their states.
The idea of compelling the federal government to
offer help to state-owned universities is borne out
of the fact that academic staff from state
universities are also part of ASUU. The truth must,
however, be told. The Visitors to state universities
are the state governors. Academic and non-
academic staff of state-owned universities are
employees of the state governments. Compelling
the FG to assist state universities no doubt negates
the principle of federalism. It only brings to fore the
over dependence of constituents on the government
at the centre.
The progressive increase of education budget to
26% between 2009 and 2020 is another contentious
issue in the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement. The agitation
for increase to 26% in budgetary allocation, as
recommended by UNESCO for developing nations, is
a legitimate one. So there is need to improve the
current 8% total budget to education by the FG.
However, while the FG should be chastised for its
current 8% budget to education, one needs to
remind discerning readers that in nations where
huge budgetary allocations are committed to
education, members of the academia engage in
scholarly research that help to solve societal needs.
Only a few of our academics engage in fruitful
research capable of solving the needs of our
society. Most of the university teachers set their
target in journal publication that would help them
gain promotion in their academic career even when
such is far from rendering solution to our societal
needs.
Akin to increase in budgetary allocation is the issue
of earned academic allowances for university
teachers. Allowances are stimulants that reinforce
positive inclination towards work. While
government is working out modalities to pay earned
academic allowances to deserving university
teachers, the Dr. Fagie led ASUU is kicking against
such, insisting that allowances should be paid
across board, even when not all lecturers merit such
allowances.
My experience as an undergraduate and post-
graduate student in one of the first generation
universities showed that not all university lecturers
deserve mention in the earned allowance,
particularly the absentees. It is an open secret that
some of the lecturers who are fulltime employees in
the federal universities abandon their duty posts to
shuttle between federal and private universities.
They stagger their responsibilities in multiple roles
as lecturers–in-charge in both public and private
universities sacrificing quality of delivery in the
process, at the expense of unsuspecting students in
public universities.
These ‘abroad’ lecturers hardly attend classes to
teach in the public universities. When they return,
mostly towards the end of the semester, they
engage the students in lengthy, patchy lecture
hours in a bid to cover a course work that ought to
have been concluded before the time of exams. Any
student who dare challenges lecturer’s absenteeism
in public universities are often victimized with a
threat of carry-over of the course handled by the
lecturer or delay in graduation.
At the post-graduate level, the situation is even
more unpalatable. Many post-graduate students fail
to complete their programmes in line with the
academic calendar due to lecturers’ negligence.
They hardly spend quality time to guide and mentor
their students in their long essays. With this
domineering posture, a percentage of the students
either incur extra year(s) or abandon their
programmes out of frustration. If you would not
grow grey hair while undertaking a Ph.D degree as a
student, you have to not only be hard working in
your research pursuit, but also be willing to worship
the deified characters in lecturer’s garb! Let me add
here that a considerable number of the lecturers
have passion for their calling. Those ones always
act right by performing their duties without
compromising standard; they deserve their earned
allowances and should be rightly rewarded.
The influx of private universities became more
pronounced during the regime of ex-president
Olusegun Obasanjo. Yet, thousands of university
applicants seeking admission could not either gain
admission into the universities or afford the luxury
of high fee demands of the private universities. In
fulfilling his campaign promises in 2011, President
Jonathan established nine federal universities and
further established three to make it twelve. The
establishment of federal universities provided
succour to admission seeking candidates. Besides
providing admission to deserving applicants, it also
signaled a massive employment into the education
sector. Jonathan will go into the history books as
one whose regime established most federal
universities in a single tenure.
The prolonged quagmire and the sit tight approach
of ASUU members are having devastating effects
on Nigerian students, undergraduates and post-
graduates. The rot in the education sector as
claimed by ASUU should not be further fertilized by
ASUU’s hard-line posture. The standstill caused by
ASUU/FG impasse could have been resolved if only
ASUU and FG would shift ground and make
concession, at least for the sake of the students
who bear the brunt of the face-off.
Already, the Federal Government has made a
spirited effort to get the striking lecturers back to
work. The government recently released a
whopping 130billion naira in response to ASUU’s
demand for infrastructural development in public
universities.
According to the Secretary to the Federal
Government, Anyim Pius Anyim, 100billion naira is
for infrastructural development, while the remaining
30billion naira has also been disbursed as part of
FG’s attempt to defray the backlog of the earned
allowances.
That means the federal government has shifted
ground in this regard, so what is ASUU waiting for?

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