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ASUU Strike: Jonathan Calls for Review of Labour Laws

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday advocated a review of labour laws to curtail the excesses of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other labour unions. The President, who made the call during a Presidential media chat in Abuja, …

ASUU Strike: We’ll Shut Primary,Secondary Schools — NUT

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  THE leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has vowed to ground both primary and secondary schools in the country if the Federal Government fails to resolve its feud with the Academic Staff  Union of  Universities  (ASUU), as soon …

Jonathan Is Withholding Our Salary, We’ll Not Break —ASUU

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Lecturers in the nation’s public universities  vowed to continue with their indefinite strike, declaring that President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to withhold their salaries would not stop their resolve to ensure the university system is made better once and for all. …

ASUU May End Strike Next Week

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Vice-President Namadi Sambo Hope of an early resolution of the strike embarked on by the public universities’ lecturers rises as the Vice-President Namadi Sambo met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Abuja on Thursday. The meeting …

FG Agrees To Meet Poly Lecturer’s Demands

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  The Federal Government on Monday met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics behind closed doors and agreed to meet the demands of the union. The Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, and the Labour Minister, …

The Painful Consequences Of ASUU Strike

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Two months after the Academic Staff Union of Universities embarked on an industrial action, the negotiations between the union and the Federal Government is still deadlocked. Like professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Yomi Akinyeye, noted, ‘one …

ASUU STRIKE: Blame Finance Minister

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This is a government that signed an agreement with us on January 24, 2012, to the effect that they would inject N100 bn as funding into the universities in the first month; and that before the end of 2012, they …

NBA Urged ASUU Not To End Strike

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The Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities not to end its ongoing strike which started on July 1, 2013 unless its demands are met by the Federal Government. Chairman of the …

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

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  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 …

Jonathan Directs Immediate Action To End ASUU Strike

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  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. …

Our Salaries Are Outrageous, And I Feel Guilty For Milking The Country’s Funds – Ex-Senator

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A Nigerian senator earns far higher than United States president, whose total salary per annum is $400,000. Amid the increasing criticism of the huge salaries and allowances of Nigeria’s lawmakers, a senator (name withheld) has affirmed insinuations that their earnings are …

N92bn Allowance: Nigerians Rubbish Okonjo Iweala, Back ASUU Strike To Continue

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Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is currently under fire over a recent statement attributed to her, when he said that the federal government cannot afford the N92bn demanded by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Angry Nigerians, while describing …

Let the Strike Continue! FG Can’t Meet With ASUU Demands – Okonjo-Iweala

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Hopes of quick resolution of the present face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities were dashed on Tuesday as the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said the government has no resources to meet the …

ASUU – “The Current Strike Is Beyond Salaries And Allowances For Lecturers”

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  The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT chapter, has blamed government’s poor funding of the educational system, for the falling standards in the sector. Members of the Union have been on strike …

Strike: FG, ASUU Continue Talks Today

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The Federal Government has disclosed that it will on Friday hold a meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on the ongoing strike embarked upon by university lecturers over the non- implementation of the 2009 agreement. Both parties had …

Return to work and continue talks – FG begs ASUU

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In response to the crippling of the nation’s tertiary institutions as a result of the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ,ASUU, the Federal Government on Monday, met with Vice Chancellors of all public universities, with …

ASUU strike is an indictment on Jonathan, other academics in his government – CPC

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The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has said that irresponsibility on the part of the Federal Government was the sole reason for the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The party in a statement on Sunday …

ASUU Commences Nationwide Strike

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Two months into a nationwide strike by polytechnic lecturers, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Monday, 1st of July 2013 began a nationwide strike over alleged Federal Government’s refusal to implement the agreement between it and the union over unpaid …