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ASUU STRIKE
The meeting between the Federal Government team and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) appears to have ended in a deadlock.
Atiku Abubakar has pledged to work with university authorities to end incessant strikes if elected president in the coming general elections.
The Federal Government has inaugurated a Presidential Steering Committee to review Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS).
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has reacted to the interview granted by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo.
The Federal Government has urged parents to beg ASUU to call off their ongoing strike action, by appealing to their sense of patriotism.
The Federal Government has stated that it has no Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
ASUU has maintained that they have not received any official invitation from the FG for a meeting aimed at resolving the areas of disagreement and calling off the strike.
The FG has stated that it has no plans to introduce a different salary payment platform for the trade unions in tertiary institutions...
ASUU has revealed that it is yet to get any feedback after its discussion with the FG renegotiation committee on the 2009 agreements.
The current ASUU strike is predicated on the assertion that the FGN did not treat the agreement with “utmost urgency”.
The FG has announced that it will spend N34 billion as arrears of Minimum Wage Consequential Adjustments in the education sector effective from 2019.
Our current educational structure would not make our graduates appealing to hiring firms not ready to engage them in additional capacity building.