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N40 billion conundrum Daily Trust reports that part of the agreements the government reached with ASUU at Tuesday’s meeting was to release N40 billion as the Earned Allowance and N30bn for the revitalization of the university system bringing the total payment to N70 billion. Reacting to the sharing formula of the N40bn, the President of NAAT, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma said anyone thinking that the non-teaching staff unions in the universities would resume with the recent development was day-dream...

ASUU suspends nine-month strike Kayode Oyero The Academic Staff Union of University, on Wednesday, suspended its strike, ending the industrial action that started since March 2020. ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi, made the announcement during a briefing of the union in Abuja. He said the suspension of the strike takes effect from Thursday, December 24th, 2020. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, assured Nigerians that the ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Oyero Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Wednesday, said he won’t give the Academic Staff Union of University any excuse to go on strike again. Ngige, whose ministry is the negotiator between the varsity lecturers and the Federal Ministry of Education, said he would ensure the government keeps its part of the bargain. The PUNCH had earlier reported that ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi, on Wednesday morning in Abuja, “conditionally”...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sodiq Oyeleke The Academic Staff Union of Universities and Federal Government on Tuesday resumed negotiations over the ongoing strike embarked upon by the lecturers. The PUNCH gathered that the two parties converged for a new meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. The FG’s team was led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, while the lecturers were led into the meeting by their president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi. The two parties had met last Thursday for over fiv...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Grace Edema and Tony Okafor The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Monday, said university students would resume in January 2021. Ngige spoke in Alor, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State during the inauguration of his medical outreach for the people of the area. He said the Federal Government had met 98 per cent of the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, adding that the remaining two per cent...

Strike: FG, ASUU in closed-door meeting The representatives of federal government and leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are currently in a marathon closed-door over ongoing strike that... By Thu Dec 17 2020 The representatives of federal government and leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are currently in a marathon closed-door over ongoing strike that had grounded academic activities in universities. The meeting, which started at about 5:13pm was re...

Strike: FG, ASUU keep mum after five-hour meeting Adelani Adepegba,Abuja The Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Thursday, kept mum on the outcome of a closed-door meeting called to resolve the lingering strike which had grounded academic activities in the universities. The five-hour meeting, which started about 5:13 pm, and ended around 10 p.m, was re-convened by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, after it was earlier postpone...