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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The hope of academic activities kick-starting soon in the nation’s public universities appears threatened as the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT has issued a 14-day strike notice to the Federal Government over the disparity in sharing the N40 billion Earned Allowances that was recently released for the four university-based unions. This is as the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU has expressed disappointment over the government’s refusal to honor its promise to pay the arrears of the new national minimum wage that...

Strike: Varsity non-teaching staff unions meet on Friday On By Johnbosco Agbakwuru NON-teaching staff unions in the universities under the umbrella of Joint Action Committee, JAC, will be holding a crucial meeting on Friday over the recent disparity in the sharing formula of the N40 billion Earned Allowances released by the Federal Government to the four university-based unions. Also part of the agenda at the meeting will be the problem associated with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, the non-implementation of the October 2020 Memorandum of Understanding, MoU b...

Share THE year 2020 will go down in history as recording one of the longest of all strike actions embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria. ASUU had commenced the strike on March 9, 2020 which was suspended on December 23, 2020. Accordingly, the strike is likely to be resumed in 2021 going by the trust issues between the Federal Government mediation team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige and the representatives of ASUU led by its president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, on some contending issues. Several meetings were held by bot...

Experts observed that in the event the non-academic members of the university community decide to go on strike, they would make the agreement between ASUU and the government a wasted effort. ASUU had since the return of democracy in 1999 expended four years on strike, an equivalent of one term for an elected president or governor. Prof Biodun Ogunyemi Under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the union had ‘wasted’ 58 weeks on strike, meaning they had been at home for about 15 months. The union had spent four weeks in 2017 and 13 weeks in 2018; while 2020 witnessed the longe...

Other unions threaten hell as ASUU ends strike On Kindly Share This Story: …It appears Govt doesn’t want peace—SSANU …Govt shied away from its responsibility—NAPTAN …NANS clamours for students’ involvement in future negotiations By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Adesina Wahab  &  Joseph Erunke As the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, suspended its nine-month old strike, yesterday, hope of normalcy returning to the ivory towers, may have been dashed, as non-teaching staff in the universities have vowed not to go back to work if the Federal Government does not correct the alleg...