Striking university teachers on Wednesday insisted that
they would not return to the classrooms until the Federal
Government honoured fully the 2009 agreement and
Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two
parties.
This came as there were conflicting reports from the
University of Jos over the institution post-Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination.
While the striking teachers insisted on Wednesday that
the exercise would not hold, the school authorities said
the screening was in progress.
University teachers under the auspices of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities embarked on a nationwide
industrial action on July 1, 2013.
However, the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr.
Adesola Nassir, during a briefing at the University of
Lagos, on Wednesday insisted that the strike would not
end until the Federal Government respected the signed
pact.
The zone has members drawn from UNILAG, University of
Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State;
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State;
Lagos State University, Ojo; Tai Solarin University of
Education, Ijagu, Ogun State and the Federal University
of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Nassir explained that though the union met with the
government's representatives, including the members of
the Senate Committee on Education last Monday, the
meeting ended in a deadlock.
He said, "This is because the Federal Government is still
not being sincere to address the issues at stake.
"The strike will remain for as long as it takes the Federal
Government to be faithful to the implementation of the
2009 agreement and its renegotiation as contained in
the Memorandum of Understanding reached by both
parties in January last year."
He explained that the FG's response to the action since it
started had shown that it was not ready to address the
challenges facing the nation's university system.
Meanwhile, the ASUU UNIJOS chairman, Dr. David
Jangkam, has urged parents not to send their children to
the school for the post-UTME.
He said, "No parent should send their children to UNIJOS
because the ongoing strike is total, comprehensive and
indefinite and so no academic activities in whatever form
is supposed to take place."
However, the university said the screening was in
progress.
Speaking with journalists on Wednesday, its Registrar,
Mr. Jilli Dandam, called on the public and participating
candidates to disregard any contrary announcement
from the striking teachers.

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ASUU should shut up then and continue with the strike. They are always quick to indirectly remind the country that they are still on strike by saying the same thing to the media every three days!

Greedy old men!