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Resume Back To Classes, No Agreement Yet, FG Tells ASUU, Others

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The Federal Government on Wednesday stated that there was no Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between it and the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) awaiting the signature of President Muhammadu Buhari. Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige said this in a statement by the Deputy Director Press and Public Relations in the Ministry, Olajide Oshundun on Wednesday. Ngige noted that even when such a CBA was produced between unions and the Federal Government, it was not the President that would sign but the government side, MDAs led by the direct employer with the conciliating ministry witnessing. The Minister accused ASUU of fixing its salaries and allowances through the Nimi Briggs Committee to the exclusion of the statutory government ministries and agencies that manage the entire annual finances of government, budget and fiscal policies and the Office of the Head of Service in charge of ensuring that public service rules and regulations are not undermined in a...
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FG to assist admission into Nigerian universities for Nigerian students affected by Russia-Ukraine war

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 The Federal government has disclosed that it is ready to aid Nigerian students who fled from Ukraine and Russia due to the ongoing war between both countries, in gaining admission into universities in Nigeria. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement released yesterday July 4, 2022, instructed the affected students interested in continuing their education in a Nigerian university to visit the website of the ministry at  https://foreignaffairs.gov.ng/  for assistance. This is despite the fact that academic activities in public universities in the country have been crippled for over four months following the declaration of indefinite industrial action by university workers.
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NECO SSCE 2022: There will be no exam on Sallah day, council clarifies

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  The National Examinations Council (NECO) wishes to state that it has not scheduled any examination for Saturday 9th July, 2022. This is contrary to insinuations in some quarters that the Council has scheduled examination for 9th July, 2022, which is Sallah Day (Eid- Adha). The council made this known via is twitter handle. This followed calls from Islamic group, MURIC for NECO to move exams from Sallah Day. NECO SSCE 2022: There will be no exam on Sallah day, council clarifies According to the NECO, conscious of the importance of religious festivals, the Council has always made adequate provision for such in fixing examination dates. The Council has given a whole examination free week, beginning from Friday, 8th July to Wednesday, 13th July, 2022 in the On-going Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for School based candidates to enable Muslim faithful have enough time to celebrate the festival. It would be recalled that the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE...
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Lecturers give updates on ASUU Strike - "Strike Can End Tomorrow"

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  ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this while speaking on Channels Television's Politics Yesterday on Monday night. Osodeke claimed an agreement had been reached with the government, but it has not been signed. According to him, ASUU's insistence on using their own generated payment platform, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), is a key demand. "As far as ASUU is concerned, the strike can end tomorrow. "We have finished the negotiation. If the government calls us now to come and sign the agreement, we will be there tomorrow. "Let the government tell us they have finished testing the UTAS and we have accepted it, then we will call off the strike. "When will they sign the agreement? When will they accept UTAS? Those are the two questions we should ask the Nigerian government," Osodeke said.
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We Will Call Off Strike Moment Federal Govt Accepts UTAS - ASUU

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  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has challenged the federal government to accept the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) payment platform for it to call off the ongoing strike. ASUU national president, Prof. Emmanuel Osedeke, who said this while speaking on Channels Television on Monday night, said the strike will continue unless government accept UTAS and honour the 2009 agreement. It would be recalled that the ASUU strike action, which started on February 14, 2022 has entered 140th day this Monday. ASUU has been at loggerheads with the federal government, citing the refusal of the latter to honour the 2009 agreement it entered with the The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has challenged the federal government to accept the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) payment platform for it to call off the ongoing strike. ASUU national president, Prof. Emmanuel Osedeke, who said this while speaking on Channels Telev...
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ASUU STRIKE: EMPTY SCHOOL BUILDINGS MAKE ME FEEL LIKE CRYING - VC

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  Prof. Kabiru Bala, Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, said the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike dampens his spirit. The Don spoke on Monday at a meeting organised by the Kano Zone of ASUU. Bala noted that the industrial action has lasted 140 days, affecting the economy of host communities. He urged the government, ASUU and stakeholders to consider the effect of the strike on the citizens. Bala said Ahmadu Bello University had more than 30,000 students who spent at least N300 each on food. "We also have more than 13,000 employees each of whom has an average of three to five dependents who feed on a daily basis. "The strike also has far-reaching implications on security." Bala added that the strike was also affecting lecture theatres, classrooms and laboratories. "When I look between the ABU Senate Building and the Engineering Department complex, I feel like shedding tears as nobody is using the facilities. "These are infra...
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THE SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE - BY:ARC. D. BONAVENTURE

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  The influence of social media (SM) technology is wild and far reaching. It's vast and globalistic attributes is one that have brought both joy and pain, love and acrimony, a facade of peace and a backdrop of anarchy and many more to the world.  While it has been all fun, free and full with varieties - SM has shown over time that the magnitude of its potential to be effectively weaponised (or used as a tool of influence) is exponentially inundating.  No matter the jurisdiction of application, the factor to exploit and influence are embedded.  Social media for all its benefits tend to have pushed us farther apart from reality.  We became interconnected across the globe ; yet we are more distant than ever in human history.  People fancy taking a picture than saving a life that's in danger.  We have had more evidences to show yet little justice.  We have more opinions but are more divided than ever before in history.  Yes we have made work eas...
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Buhari to decide on UTAS, wage increase for varsity lecturers, others, says Ngige

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  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). Dr. 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 the government side and not with ASUU members as assumed by their leader...
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Strike: ASUU Won’t Dictate To Us, Says FG

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THE Federal Government through the Ministry of Labour and employment, Sunday gave insight into why no unions in the nation's university system education were invited to last Thursday's meeting. FG stated that the meeting was to assess the progress made so far on addressing the few outstanding demands of the striking university workers, such as the contentious payment platform and the renegotiation of their conditions of service. In a statement by Head, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Olajide Oshundun, lamented that the combative and several unfounded allegations by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU against the government, particularly, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, saying, "all insinuations that the Ministry of Labour does not sympathise with the students, unions and parents, of which the Minister is one, should be disabused It noted that "ASUU should know that we arbitrators and concili...
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Strike: Varsities will soon re-open, FG assures

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  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 Technologists, NAAT, joined in the strike over the inability of the government to addr...
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