ASUU-AKURE.NEWS.

The management of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko in Ondo State yesterday announced that academic activities would resume in the institution as from Monday November 25.
                                                                                                                  A statement signed by the registrar of the university, Bamidele R. Olotu, yesterday said: "Academic activities of the second semester of 2012/2013 session truncated as a result of the ASUU national strike are to resume on Monday, November 25, 2013 with registration on the university portal".
The statement further said lectures are to start Monday, December 2. But in a swift reaction , members of ASUU in the Ondo State owned institution disassociated themselves from the statement, saying they would not succumb to any threat or intimidation. 
                                                                                                                 ASUU branch chairman in the school Dr Busuyi Mekusi told Daily Trust on phone that the national strike continues. According to a statement signed by him, the ASUU in the university dissociated itself from the purported resumption of academic activities as members are still part of the on-going national strike by the union.
"Members should therefore disregard any pull to abandon the struggle and be steadfast until the present position is reviewed by NEC. The union also wants to make it abundantly clear that it would resist every tyrannical propensity to intimidate and harass members," the statement said.

Asuu news,today,

 There is a paradox
spending billions of Naira on education, yet the financial issues around
 education are not being resolved. The Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, strike is only one of many matters that are dogging
education.Government’s supposed interests in negotiating with
ASUU, the speed being applied, and the uttermost neglect of other
aspects of education confirm the diminishing importance that governments
 attach to education.ASUU’s case is exceptional, in that
governments appeared concerned. When the Academic Staff Union of
Polytechnics, ASUP, went on strike, it took almost three months before
governments started talking to the union. The issue remains partially
resolved.With the ASUU strike, the failure of governments and
their programmes are obvious. Governments sign agreements they do not
intend to keep. ASUU is on strike over a 2009 agreement. Governments
want to re-negotiate implementation of a four-year-old agreement.They
 also know that the negotiations for a new agreement are due. We have
governments that plan for immediate needs, if they ever do. They are
exhausting themselves over ASUU strike as if meeting ASUU’s demands
would resolve the challenges that our education faces, among them
irrelevant curricula.How do governments spend billions of Naira
they budget annually for education? Bureaucracy consumes the bulk of the
 money. Duplication of agencies that manage education is the biggest
cost centre in our national education management. Governments are
running up new costs.New higher institutions are being built with
 emphases on physical structures. Laboratories, libraries and research
centres that they require to be centres for meaningful academic
engagements are available in inadequate numbers.It is absurd that
 governments — the owners of the universities — would need an ASUU
strike to determine the status of the facilities in universities.What
 plans do governments have for education? How would they tackle
sustainable funding so that we are not soon back to another wave of
strikes in a matter of months? Would governments ever consider
education important enough that it should run without disruptions from
strike? There would be no easy solutions. Many of the federal
agencies on education just drain resources that should have been
invested in improving learning facilities. States imitate the federal
waste, making education one of governments’ biggest cost centres,
without commensurate value for the expenditures.Governments can
save costs by eliminating duplication in the functions of education
agencies. There should be clearer lines about the roles of governments
at different levels of education. The Federal Government should not be
dabbling into primary school education.Finally, the future of
education is too important to be left to haphazard funding. Governments
should provide resources for education beyond ASUU’s demands.

governments have built around education — they are

Good News,"ASUU" 5-Month Old Strike May End On 26th Nov.2013.

     Latest update is good news–the "asuu"’s postponed meeting is expected to be held on November 22.

The union is still expected to end the strike at the meeting, which was postponed after the sudden death of former union president Festus Iyayi.

Friday’s meeting may or may not be held at Bayero University in Kano, where the meeting was slated to be originally held.
     "ASUU" leadership said that it was never planning on canceling the meeting for good, only to hold a 7-day mourning period for professor Iyayi,former "ASUU" president.
Once the meeting is held, and provided the strike is called off, the strike would likely officially end on Monday, culminating with another meeting between union leadership and President Goodluck Jonathan.
      From Our Desk,We Pray This Strike Ends Soooooooooon!!!

Negotiation Between "ASUU" And FG Cant Work Without Salaries Wage Commission.

The agreement between "ASUU" and the federal government seems to be taking another direction as  Chairman, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service Matters, Aloysius  Etok,have come up to say that the on going negotiation between the two parties ie "ASUU" and FG,cant work out,without the input of the National Wages and Salaries Commission,he made this statement in  Abuja during his committee’s oversight tour  on the activities of the agency.
 “We have said this earlier that on no account should Federal Government negotiate salary increase or anything that has to do with wages or salaries without the input of the Commission.says the chairman,
“They should avoid the issue of sentimental increase or negotiation and there should be no exceptions. Four months is about a semester.”
Etok further stated that the commission was expected to have played a prominent role in the 2009 agreement reached between the Federal Government and ASUU.
Questions budget
implementation
      The committee also demanded explanations from the commission on how the 2013 appropriation was implemented and why the impact of the commission was not felt on civil servants salaries crises that threaten some sectors of the economy from time to time.
He lamented the withholding of part of the 2013 budget of the commission, stressing that the commission required funds to carry out its research-based projects, calling for its immediate release so that the commission can implement its budget to the full.
He said: “The commission might look small but the importance cannot be overestimated. We have come to know your level of im-plementation of 2013 budget.
“We also want to know the relevance of the commission to the Federal Government; why your impact is not felt in the salary problems across the country; why the commission would be there when ASUU is on strike for months and who guided the Federal Govern-ment in the agreement entered into with ASUU in 2009?
“You cannot be ruled out in the scheme of things in this country.”
“They allowed ASUU compute its own salary”
Also speaking, Chairman of the commission, Dr. Richard Egbule, exonerated the com-mission from the agreement reached between the Federal Government and ASUU.
He said: “The Wages Commission has been up and doing in everything concerning wages and salaries in this country.
“When the controversial agreement was reached in 2009, we were there but not as negotiators. We made it known to them that the route they were going was wrong. Today, I wish to say that ASSU did not go on strike because of salaries because we handled it very well.
“What is controversial was the excess workload allowance, but we have asked them to employ more lecturers to avoid excess workload.
“There has never been a time any agency was asked to go and compute its own salary, but they allowed ASUU to do so. We needed a structural increase where government agency would be factored in.”
Egbule noted with regret that successive leaderships of ASUU had established the culture of using industrial action to announce their arrival.
The Senate committee visited the National Assembly Service Commission, where the Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Umaru Fika, disclosed that N2.5 billion was appropriated to them in the 2013 fiscal year.
        To close this article, lastly,i wonder when this strike would definately come to an end,lets pray it ends soon.

ASUU NEWS

Four Esut Professors, Queried For Impairing On-Going "ASUU" Strike.

      ASUU-ESUT chapter, have queried four professors,whom where master minders of the non official re-opening of  esut, obstructing the on going "ASUU" strike,this was made known when the chairman of "asuu" esut  branch was interviewed on the the matter,

Prof. Agu Gab Agu, Chairman of ESUT-ASUU, revealed this on Monday, after a congress of the local union in Enugu.

He said with almost half the population of its members present, they made it clear that they still stand on the resolutions of the ASUU National Executive on the strike.

      He went further to say that the action taking by the four professors is very un-callful,and undiplomatic in the sence that the body is still mourning the former "asuu" president,prof Iyayi,he said they have being queried and waiting for their reply,which would be forwarded to the national "ASUU" head quearters.He also added that the defualted professors would definately face the full consequencies of what they have done,to teach others.
When asked on the faith of the on-going "ASUU" strike,Prof. Agu said that they abide by whatever decision of the National Executive Council and await further directives on the strike.

ASUU NEWS.

ASUU SAYS ESUT NOT RESUMING ON MONDAY,18TH NOV 2013.

       Rumours spread,that the Enugu State University Of Technology(ESUT) would resume on the 18th of nov. 2013,to enable the school complete its academic calender for the year,meanwhile  ASUU have come up strongly to say that the body had never planned on reopening the afore-mentioned school,the Enugu State "ASUU" chairman chapter made this known to the press when interviewed on the matter.

       The Chairman of ASUU, ESUT chapter, Prof. Agu Gab Agu says ESUT cant reopen since the body is still mourning the death of the former ASUU president,Prof Iyayi, it awaits the direction of the NEC on the ongoing ASUU strike”.He went ahead to pray for the soul of Prof Iyayi,that the Good Lord would grant him eternal rest,AMEN.

ASUU STRIKE

ASUU STRIKE END ON DELAY AS FORMER "ASUU" PRESIDENT DEAD.

        Prof Festus Iyayi,former "asuu" president who died last week on lokoja-abuja road,on his way to kano to attend the "ASUU" National Executive Council meeting when one of the vehicles in the convoy of the governor of Kogi State rammed into the vehicle conveying him and others,the meeting which was to hold on that day didnt hold again due to the death of one of the bodies key holders, 

         Prof Iyayi was one of the greatest pioneer`s of justice when it comes to nigerian education,his death is said to cause a prolong of the ASUU strike,even when we all thought the "asuu strike" would be coming to an end soon,after the federal government and "ASUU" had agreed on ending the longing strike soon.The agreement reached, was for the FG to inject N1.1tn into public universities in the next five years. Beginning from 2014, the FG would release N220bn per annum.

           So many many bodies like the Coalition To Save Nigeria,Edo house of Asemble,Lagos State Asemble etc and other well meaningfull members of the Nigerian society have called on "ASUU" to call-off the strike in respect to the death of the former ASUU president,late Prof Iyayi,who was a great fighter of social justice,someone who fought tirelessly for the best of Nigerian University Education.

May his soul resy in perfect peace,AMEN.

Coalition to Save Nigeria (                 

Coalition to Save Nigeria (CSNhave called on "ASUU" to end the 5-month old strike in commisirating the former "ASUU" president

ASUU TO END STRIKE SOON.

"Asuu" ready to call off 4-months old strike.

After meetings with the senate president ,senator David Mark in the senate house on tuesday,the outcome of the meeting wasnt released to the press,that same day,it was as if the meeting between the two bodies didnt yield any positive result.Later on that same day, the union,as it was also gathered, asked the Federal Government to slash across board, salaries of National Assembly members, ministers and other political office holders by 2014.
The demand was placed on the Federal Government at a meeting of the union held with President Goodluck Jonathan and other key government officials at the Presidential Villa, on Monday. ASUU had suggested this based on the complaint by the Federal Government that it had no money to implement all aspects of the 2009 agreement as demanded.
 

 ASUU president Dr Isah Fagge had been directed to brief their members on the offer by President Jonathan, which is largely an addition of N20 billion to the N200 billion already agreed upon with Vice President Namadi Sambo to be released to universities annually.  The Federal Government had agreed to release N220 billion yearly to the public universities, beginning from 2014 till the next five years. 

It was also gathered that the meeting adopted the accord struck by the vice president with the union, on the need to increase the N30 billion already released for the payment of academic earned allowance to N40 billion.FG also agreed that the N40 billion should be regarded only as first instalment, and not a once-and-for-all payment.

At the meeting, the FG assured that it would, among other things, revamp the public universities by ensuring that all those issues that always led to strike were dealt with once and for all.

ASUU president had, after the meeting, said  that after meetings with the chairmen of "asuu" nation wide and other members of "asuu" that they would know if a decision would be taking.

ASUU MEEETS PRESIDENT TODAY

    The president have summoned  "ASUU" leaders to the aso rock villa today in a view to putting an end to the strike that have being on for 5 months now.The chairman of "ASUU" abuja chapter mr clement chup re-instated that the federal government dares not to force the body re-open forcefully,he said that anything apart from the implementation of the agreement between the two bodies signed by the president in the meeting wont yield any result."ASUU" said the president cant use force to end the strike,also said that any thing apart from the implementation of the agreement wont end the strike.

"ASUU" Strike Update.

          Yesterday the federal govervnment of nigeria through the vice president,Namadi Sambo once more pleaded to the body of the Academy Staff Union Of Universities,"ASUU" to please call off the ongoing strike to enable the nigerian students go back to school,he stated this in bauchi during the commissioning of bauchi state university gadau.

The vice president made it known that the government is making all effort to make nigerian education system one of the best in africa,by funding of universities  through TETFUND which is an indication that government believes its transformation agenda can only be realised through sound education. He disclosed that about N2.2 billion has been approved for the Bauchi State University as special intervention fund by the Federal Government.

Asuu;N600b offer wont be accepted.

Asuu Vs FG

The striking body of university teachers "asuu" last month rejected the additional N300b offer from the federal government,making it N600b total for the use of the body "asuu".
Previously ,more cash has been pledged for projects on the campuses. Besides, the earned allowances due to the teachers have been increased from the initial N30 billion offer, which the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) rejected. The teachers are insisting on the 2009 agreement, which they say President Goodluck Jonathan was part of. Besides, they say, they do not trust the government.,

The V.C of the federal university bayelsa,prof bolaji aluko,in a statement on the lingering matter,said the government has pledged to spend N200 billion on the universities in the 2014 budget and the same amount annually for the next three to four years, in addition to the N100 billion already made available this year, but which ASUU has rejected.

The national treasurer of "Asuu" Dr Ademola Aremu,have said it clear that the  latest offer by the FG is not up to what the body has being fighting for,that is not up to expectation at all,so they will keep on fighting till the agreement between the body and the FG is reached.

Asuu said in a momerandum that is not making any new demand, but a mere implementation of an agreement. They pointed out that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by both parties in 2009 stated that the government would commit N1.5 trillion to the system in three years.

Lets keep on supporting the "asuu"