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PREMIUM TIMES makes the much talked about agreement public
On the first day of July this year, the Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, began an indefinite strike that has lasted till date and may run deep into
the future.
According to the union, the strike followed government’s inability to keep to an
October 2009 agreement reached by both parties.
The agreement was reached after two years of negotiation between the lecturers
and a government team appointed by the then Education Minister, Obiageli
Ezekwesili.
The Government team was led by the then Pro-chancellor, University of Ibadan,
Gamaliel Onosode while ASUU’s team was led by its then president, Abdullahi
Sule-Kano.
The agreement reached at the negotiations included conditions of service for
university lecturers, funding of universities, university autonomy and academic
freedom, and issues that required legislation to implement.
Details of that agreement were held as confidential by both ASUU and the
government, leaving the public to feed on crumbs of information thrown out at
negotiation meetings between the two parties.
PREMIUM TIMES has now obtained a copy of the agreement and is now making
it available for public viewing.

The agreement
The agreement included details such as the breakdown of lecturers’ salary
structure, staff loans, pension, overtime, and moderation of examinations.
Part of the agreement dwelt on funding of universities where both parties
agreed that each federal university should get at least N1.5 trillion between
2009 and 2011 while state universities, within the same period, should receive
N3.6 million per student.
The agreement also had parts that asked the re-negotiation committee to
ensure that at least 26 percent of Nigeria’s annual budget was allocated to
education, and half of that allocation to universities.
The agreement also asked that the 2004 Joint Admission and Matriculation
Board, JAMB, Act, and the National University Commission Act 2004, be
amended.
Text of the suggested amendment bills – including suggestion for amendment of
the Education (National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions)
Act 2004 – were provided in the agreements.
The agreement was signed by Bolanle Babalakin, the then chairman of
Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities; Gamaliel Onosode,
chairman of the re-negotiation committee; and Ukachukwu Awuzei, the then
president of ASUU.
The agreement demanded a heavy financial commitment from the government
and was an adaptation of an earlier agreement reached in 2001.
It is unclear how much of the agreement have been implemented by the
government. However, the secretary to the federation, Pius Anyim, after one of
the recent failed negotiations, said that most of the issues contained in the
2009 agreement, had been fully met except for the earned allowances estimated
at N92 billion.
“Some of the issues which bothered on amendment of pensionable retirement
age of academics in the professorial cadre, consolidated peculiar allowances
(CONPUAA)- exclusively for university teaching staff, National Health Insurance
Scheme (NHIS), setting up of budget monitoring committee in all public
universities have been fully implemented,” he disclosed.
ASUU Chairman, Nasir Fagge,could not be reached to confirm how much of the
agreement have been implemented.

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