The Federal Government has begun moves to prevent an industrial action in the country’s public universities as the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ three-week deadline ended on Sunday.

The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, in an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday, said the ministry had written a letter to the Ministry of Finance on the payment of allowances to staff of universities.

But the union told one of our correspondents that government had only met one of its demands.

ASUU had on November 15 given the Federal Government a three-week ultimatum over government failure to meet its demands

The lecturers threatened to embark on another round of industrial action following the ‘government’s unfaithfulness’ in implementation of the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union upon which last year’s strike action was suspended.

After the union’s National Executive Council meeting at the University of Abuja on November 13 and 14, ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, lamented that despite meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige on October 14, 2021, on issues including funding for revitalization of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution, promotion arrears, renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, and the inconsistencies in Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system payment, none of the demands had been met.

The Federal Government promised to pay N30bn as revitalisation fund to universities. It also promised to pay N22.1bn earned allowances to university workers. When contacted on Saturday night, ASUU president told one of our correspondents that government had not met all the demands.

Osodeke said the union would meet on Sunday to take a decision on the issue. As of the time of sending this report, the union was still meeting.
“The deadline will elapse by Sunday. They only met one out of our requests which is the NEEDS assessment; the revitalisation funds of N30bn but they paid only N20bn to the universities. The other requests have not been fulfilled even the ones they promised. Our officers are meeting tomorrow, we will let you know our decision by tomorrow (Sunday),” he said on Saturday.

When contacted at 8:30pm on Sunday, ASUU president said the union was still meeting. “We haven’t taken a final decision yet. We have to consult all our branches and zones. The national cannot just sit down and call for action. The government didn’t implement what they promised us,” he said

But Nwajiuba said the ministry of education had written its finance counterpart on the payment, adding that the Minister of Finance had acknowledged the receipt of the letter.He said, “We have sent a letter to the ministry of finance and in the letter we did a breakdown of each university and the individuals to be paid. We do not pay unions. What we will do is to pay each university. We have done the breakdown.

“I spoke to the minister of finance yesterday and she said she got the letter and her ministry would work with the breakdown that we gave them. The payment will be paid as soon as due process is concluded by the ministry of finance. But it should be noted that the money will not be paid to the union as a whole but it would be paid to each university.” ,,

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We'll continue to turn round like barber chair on this issue until a law bans medical & educational tourism by elected Govt officials & public servants.
None of them or their children should travel out for treatment or education. That's true patriotism.
Let's all stay back together to make or mar the country.

Honestly this strike is long overdue don't get me wrong please, what I'm saying is that ASUU shouldn't be blamed if they eventually embark on an industrial action because they would have gone on this strike a long time ago if not the fact that they have the students interest at heart and FG is compromising on this fact. Las las they should just wait for me to sign out next week before they embark on their millennium strike

Bad news
FG do not give education much priority it deserve. We lost our core value academically, and this give rise to all insecurity challenges in the country. Can't this problem be solve once and for all? The negotiators do have take home goodies and negotiating allowance that is why they making this strike of a thing annual festival.

Strike looming

What sort of useless and irresponsible government be dis na. Always talking with both sides of her mouth.

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Strike no dey shake government, instead government will even threaten them of loosing their jobs.

@61 years of independence we are still talking about some issue.

ASUU strike started since 1980’s and here we are still talking about it

Isn’t Nigeria a failed country ?

it's unfortunate that Lecturers are treated as trash in Nigeria.
Many competent and capable hands are running away from lecturing job in Nigeria, just because of this.

The unending ASUU/FG drama
"Season 37"

Na only cow, lies, borrow and travel dis buhari government sabi... I've never seen a government so full of deceit in all my life... Buhari government took us 30yrs backwards

Again.. na wa oo

Another round of 6 months strike.... Later employers go dey ask for 26 years old.....

Another strike imminent. So someone can't attend a government institution in this country without experiencing strike

Sadly, this government is killing every sector of the economy. Education seems to be the least of their problems and so they don’t care. As long as they can send their kids abroad, the less privileged and not so privileged are the unfortunate ones.

Another strike looms

WibusJaga:


We'll continue to turn round like barber chair on this issue until a law bans medical & educational tourism by elected Govt officials & public servants.
None of them or their children should travel out for treatment or education. That's true patriotism.
Let's all stay back together to make or mar the country.

And who do you think will make that law?

Sometimes I wonder if these guys (ASUU and FG) have conscience at all.yoi will go for strike,fed gov.will fulfill later and there will no form of compensation to the students .so sad.pls guys click my link Biko I need money plsssssssssss

Lekabaya

ASUU strike pass thunder.