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  YSU ASUU votes for continuation of strike, provides fund supports for staff SAMBLOG  Jun 29

 Strike: Buhari to decide on ASUU UTAS this week SAMBLOG  Jun 27 President Muhammadu Buhari will soon take a decision on the controversial University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) and the condition of service for varsity teachers, Labour and Employment Minister Chris Ngige hinted yesterday. To guide the President in taking a decision, the inter-ministerial departments and agencies committees of the Federal Government will turn in their reports on Wednesday. The reports of the committees could bring an end to the four-month old strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).  Ngige dropped the hint in a statement yesterday by his ministry’s spokesman Olajide Oshundun. The striking lectures are at war over which payment platform to be adopted in public varsities between the government-approved Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and ASUU-preferred UTAS. Yesterday, Ngige said last Thursday’s meeting was with th...

  ASUU proffers solution to ongoing strike SAMBLOG  Jun 25 The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has observed that resolving its ongoing strike action could be done by the adoption of the transparent payment platform, University Transparency and Accountability Solutions (UTAS). Dr Socrates Ebo, Chairperson of ASUU, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State chapter, in a statement, lamented that the deep-rooted penchant for corruption within government ethos is all out to frustrate its deployment, saying that UTAS has been proven to be a flawless payment platform. According to him, the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), has been decisively proven to be a porous, easily compromised payment platform. The chairperson opined that the IPPIS has been ineffective in curtailing waste of resources, stressing that on the contrary it has been used to pad payrolls and used to effect all manner of fraudulent deductions from workers’ salaries. He expla...

 NASU, SSANU extends strike by another two months SAMBLOG  Jun 22 The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and allied institutions has extended its ongoing strike by two months. This was made known on Wednesday, in a statement signed by the National President, SSANU, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim, and General Secretary, Mr. Peter Adeyemi. The statement partly read, ‘‘In view of the fact that government is still a long way from effectively resolving the issues in contention, it is only expedient that we allow the process to be fully concluded before directing the end of the strike. Consequently, you are hereby informed that the strike has been extended by two months, within which we are hoping that all the contentious issues would have been effectively laid to rest. The two-month extension is with effect from Friday, June 24, 2022.’’ The PUNCH  had reported that NASU/ SSANU’s strike started w...

 ASUU Strike: Varsities will soon re-open, FG assures SAMBLOG  Jun 22 THE Federal Government on Wednesday gave the assurance that its face-off with the university based unions will soon be resolved and academic activities resume in earnest. The Federal Government has also denied the allegation that it was planning to create a different payment table for the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. This is as the government has summoned all the relevant agencies including the National Information Development Agency, NITDA to brief it on the success so far recording in resolving the contentious issues that led to the ongoing strike by the four university based unions. Recall that the public universities were shutdown on February 14 by the ASUU and the other three university based unions, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions, NASU and the National Association of Academic Technologist...

 ASUU STRIKE MORE COMPLEX THAN NIGERIANS THINK-  SAMBLOG  JUN 15 The Federal Government has said issues around the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other three… The Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this Wednesday while briefing State House reporters on the outcome of the virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He also announced that council approved the establishment of e-learning centers for primary schools across the 36 States of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The ASUU had started strike on February 14, 2022, over unresolved issues with the federal government. Subsequently, other university-based unions, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Union of Universities and Associated Institutions (NASU) as well as the National Assoc...

 FG Continues Talks With ASUU As Strike Enters Fourth Month The Federal Government has continued its negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the strike by the lecturers enters its fourth month. A meeting between the striking lecturers and the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee, however, ended without a concrete agreement as members planned to reconvene within 24 hours to consider a draft agreement. Talks between both parties were held on Monday at the Nigeria University Commission (NUC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). A senior member of the union who attended the meeting told Channels Television that they reached some agreements with the Federal Government, but members had to break and reconvene within 24 hours to consider the new terms in the draft agreement. The Federal Government set up the committee led by Professor Briggs on March 7 with a three-month mandate to renegotiate the 2009 ASUU/Federal Government agreement. The government had ...

  TEAM PLATO REPORTS Our Negotiation With FG To Be Concluded Soon ― ASUU SAMBLOG  Jun 12 The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed hope that its ongoing negotiation with the Federal Government over their long-standing differences that have crippled academic activities in the nation’s public universities for about five months now would be over soon. The President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, gave this hope in an exclusive interview with Tribune Online at the weekend. He was asked for an update on the union’s position as regards its ongoing negotiation with the Federal Government team led by Prof Nimi Briggs, who is the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT). The ASUU boss said that even though calling off the strike is not a personal decision but that of the union congress, all he could say for now is that their negotiation with the Federal Government team was still ongoing and at the advanced stage of reaching concl...

  ASUU reverses decision to brief media, expresses disappointment on FG SAMBLOG Jun 10 The leadership of the Academic Staff union of universities, ASUU has rescinds its decision to brief the media this week on possible suspension of strike. ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke told ait.live exclusively via telephone, that they are also disappointed over the development. Professor Osodeke said until government gives the green light on adopting the University Transperancy and Accountability Solution, UTAS over IPPIS, it will remain on strike for as long as possible. ASUU President particularly pointed accusing fingers at the National Information Technology Development agency, NITDA a parastatal under the ministry of communications and digital economy, for deliberately frustrating the process. The ASUU President argued that contrary to public perception, “no work no pay” is already on for the lecturers, as salaries have not been paid since February, a development Professor ...

 ASUU raises hope of calling off strike SAMBLOG  Jun 6 Hope rises for public university students in Nigeria as Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) provides hints it might call off its 110 days long strike. ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, told AIT’s Abulu Osemuaghu exclusively via the telephone that it will brief the media this week. The ASUU President said as parents, he and other lecturers feel the pain of the students and want to see them back in classes as soon as possible. Osodeke however accused Federal Government of foot-dragging on its various demands especially the adoption of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, (UTAS) which it said has passed 90% test. ASUU admitted that the meeting with the Federal government’s 2009 Agreements renegotiation team led by Professor Nimi Briggs has so far been fruitful. There have been protests by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to scuttle political parties primaries if the sc...

 STRIKE: ASUU CONSIDERS COMPROMISE, AS NEGOTIATION CONTINUES SAMBLOG  Jun 6 With about 72 hours to the time limit the Federal Government gave the Prof. Nimi Briggs Committee to conclude negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, there are indications that the union may make some concessions in its demands from the government. Checks by Vanguard, yesterday, showed that this followed the progress being made in the meetings between the committee and the leadership of the union. Though the concessions may not include overlooking the demands that have financial implications, the union could give more time to the government to meet some demands. A source told our correspondent that both parties still met on Saturday, as the deadline given the Briggs Committee to conclude its assignment would lapse mid week. He said: “Demands that have financial implications such as the payment of Earned Academic Allowance, Revitalisation Fund, the payment of withheld salaries a...

  NYSC OPENS PORTAL FOR BATCH B STREAM I REGISTRATION SAMBLOG  Jun 3 The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC has open the portal for batch B stream I. All Prospective Corp Members, PCM'S should log in to the site and click on fresh registration then proceed to create their email and password via this  https://portal.nysc.org.ng/ nysc2/home?logout=true Registration closes June 10, 2022.

  Strike: ASUU meets as visitation panels submit reports SAMBLOG  Jun 3 The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday expressed optimism about its ongoing meeting with the Prof. Nimi Briggs committee, describing the negotiation as being progressive. Speaking in an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday, the National President, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the union had been negotiating with the Briggs committee since last week over its demands. ASUU commenced its ongoing strike on February 14, 2022, after the Federal Government failed to meet some of its demands including, the release of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution TEAM PLATO reported that on March 7, 2022, the Federal Government inaugurated a seven-person committee tasked with the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement reached wit...

  Join us in getting our demands from Nigerian govt, ASUU tells Parents SAMBLOG  Jun 2 The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared that Nigerian political elites are more interested in positioning themselves ahead of the 2023 general elections. ASUU explained that the political elites are not interested in fixing the problems in the education sector of the country, but are only interested in positioning themselves beyond 2023. Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Professor Ayo Akinwole made these disclosures on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Akinwole, who disclosed that though the government has resumed talks with the union, advised parents to join the union in getting their demands from the government. He noted that only a virile public education system will give children of the masses a future in Nigeria. Akinwole who spoke further insisted that the union has been justified in rejecting the IPPIS. He added that IPPIS was alien to ...

  FG receives panels’ reports on public varsities, set to end ASUU strike SAMBLOG  Jun 2 Nigeria’s minister of education, Adamu Adamu, has received the drafted white papers from the 21 white paper drafting panels constituted by the government in March. The ministry of education had constituted 10 committees to draft white papers from the visitation panel of 36 federal universities, six panels for 25 polytechnics and five for 21 colleges of education. The panels were tasked to prepare the white papers from the reports of the visitation panels that had earlier been submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari in April 2021. Findings by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that the draft white papers were submitted to the minister on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Submission Receiving the white papers, the minister was said to have assured the panels that the government will “make efforts” to implement the recommendations contained therein. He said the ministry will submit the reports t...

  Ebonyi Guber Aspirant Offers Solution to End ASUU Strike SAMBLOG  Jun 2 A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State, Senator Julius Ucha has called on all political parties that fielded candidates for the 2023 general election to release 50 percent of the monies realised from aspirants to the federal government to use to cushion the effects of the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).  Ucha, who made the call in Abakaliki, the state capital, said political parties have collected so much money from the society. He noted that it was unfortunate that ASUU has been on strike at a time that insecurity has worsened in the country. According to him, “It’s very unfortunate that ASUU is still on strike. The government is the largest shareholder in education in the country. The incessant ASUU strike has created a social problem. In every family, parents should be happy that their children are in...

  ASUU expresses concern over threats, intimidation by varsity management SAMBLOG  Jun 1 The Kano Zone of ASUU on Tuesday expressed concern over alleged intimidation and threats against some of its officials by the management of the Kaduna State University (KASU).  The Coordinator, Mr Abdulkadir Muhammad, expressed the consternation in a statement issued on Tuesday in Kaduna. Muhammad stated that the zone had received a disturbing report on the issuance of queries to the KASU Branch Chairman and Acting Secretary, Dr Peter Adamu, and Dr Akos Ibrahim, respectively. He added that the queries were vindictive and were issued to the two officials for communicating the decision of the branch’s congress through the media. He stated also that the congress agreed to communicate to the public its angst against reopening of the university by the management while ASUU strike subsisted. “We condemn the action of the university management which singles out the branch chairman and t...