ASUU Strike 2013 Update:
Union to Meet with
President Jonathan, May
Call Off Strike on Monday
The ASUU strike 2013 continues, but the latest
update is that the union may call off the strike on
Monday.
The union held a two-day National Executive
Meeting on Friday and Saturday, and a source says
that the union may call off the strike on Monday,
after meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck
Jonathan.
The main caveat would be a stipulation that the
Central Bank of Nigeria and a fiscal commission
monitor the agreement between the union and the
federal government.
“We may call off the strike on Monday,” the insider
told the Leadership.
“It is one of the decisions we reached at NEC
meeting,” the source added.
The union will meet with the president on Sunday or
Monday, the source said, and issue an
announcement on Monday regarding its decision.
The union leadership unanimously decided to
involve the central bank and the Revenue
Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission in
the agreement, the source said.
Among the other issues discussed at the so-called
“secret meeting” was how to deal with the
universities that have announced that they will re-
open without union consent.
The news comes after a tumultuous last couple
weeks for the union. Besides the break-away
universities, the union has faced increasing
criticism from officials and the public over the
prolonged strike.
The union appeared to be prepared to end the strike
on November 20 and officially announce that it had
done so the next day. But former union president
Festus Iyayi suddenly died from a car accident on
his way to the NEC meeting, so the meeting was
postponed.
People weren’t sure when the meeting would be
rescheduled, and the union has remained secretive
about its actions after the crash. The two-day
meeting just held was referred to as the “secret
meeting” because there was no official
announcement and the only information gathered
about it came from anonymous sources.

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Why ASUU should end strike –
UNIJOS VC
on november 24, 2013 at 12:00 pm in news
By Taye Obateru & Marie-Therese Nanlong
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos, UNIJOS,
Prof. Hayward Mafuyai, has appealed to striking
lecturers, especially the institution’s local chapter,
to accept the offer made by President Goodluck
Jonathan at a recent meeting with their leadership
and call off their over four-month old strike.
”Continuing the strike will in no way help, but we
should take what government has given and press
forward for the good of all as no one can deny that
this government has done what no government has
done in regards to the welfare of ASUU”, he told
newsmen at the weekend.
”President Jonathan has done well by looking into
the problems of ASUU; my appeal to them is to call
off the strike.”
Mafuyai said UNIJOS has been recording various
achievements in the area of research which has
earned it recognition within and without the country.
He said that the university has been involved in
phytomedicine researches for which it won a grant
of $8,000,000 for the establishment of African
Centre of Excellence sponsored by the World Bank.
”The university has produced anti-diabetic product,
anti-hypertensive product, anti-snake venom
vaccine and contraceptive product which it wants
patented and produced in a commercial quantity “to
force the university research out of the shelf for the
advancement of the country and we are seeking for
industries to partner with us to patent our products
from phytomedicines”, the VC said.

ASUU agrees to suspend
strike, states three
conditions
According to reports from the Nigerian Eye,
Nigerian university lecturers have agreed to
end the five-month old strike, if the federal
government says yes to three of it conditions.
These conditions will be made known to
President Goodluck Jonathan today and if all
parties come to agreement, the strike will be
called off.
ASUU has forbidden its local chapters and
zonal chairman from talking to the media,
until the end of the session. But a source,
who was part of the ASUU session, which was
held at Mambayya House in Kano, revealed
the conditions as:
•Commitment from the President that any
review or reconsideration or renegotiation of
the 2009 Agreement will not substantially
affect the pact which is the cause of the
ongoing strike;
•Immediate payment of all outstanding
salary arrears and allowances of varsity
teachers without victimization; and
•A written commitment
from the President that
the Federal Government will commit
N225billion annually to the funding of
universities for the next four years.
There is a fourth condition, which is said to be
“personal” to ASUU.
The source said: “Our leaders are meeting
with the President on Monday to table these
conditions. Once the President accepts these
three terms, the strike will be called off.
“In principle, members voted about 60-40 per
cent to call off the strike, but they added a
caveat – that ASUU leaders should extract a
commitment (signed and sealed) from the
President.”
It became imperative for ASUU to makes
these demands, as it became obvious that
the FG wanted the 2009 Agreement to be
renegotiated.
“If ASUU had accepted to renegotiate the
entire Agreement , it means there will be no
basis for the ongoing strike. The worst that
can happen is either having the abridged
version of the 2009 Agreement or a phased
implementation of the document,” the source
added.

ASUU’s NEC voted to end STRIKE; sets
to meet Jonathan for formality – Insider
SOURCE: NEWS EXPRESS
The majority of member of the National Executive
Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) who attended the two-day NEC
Meeting of the union that ended yesterday in Kano
voted to end the five-month-old strike.
A report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
quoted a source as disclosing that 60 per cent of the
members voted to have the strike called off while
the remaining 40 per cent wanted it to continue.
The report said that ASU, however, resolved to keep
mum until it met with President Goodluck Jonathan,
who is due home this night after attending a
meeting of Nigeria’s Honorary International
Investors’ Council in London.
The report quoted a reliable source as saying:
“ASUU has decided to meet with President Jonathan
before making whatever decision they took during
the meeting public.”
The NEC meeting considered a fresh proposal by
President Jonathan aimed at ending the ASUU strike
which has paralysed activities on Nigeria’s
university campuses since July 1. The meeting was
billed to hold two weeks ago but was postponed
following the death of a former ASUU President,
Professor Festus Iyayi, in a road accident in Lokoja.
ASUU embarked on a national strike that has shut
down all Nigeria’s government owned universities,
since July.
The academics wanted government to implement
an agreement reached in 2009, that would improve
funding for infrastructure in the universities and
welfare of the teachers.

ASUU Strike 2013 Update:
Strike Not Over, Wike Calls
Union’s Demands
‘Outrageous’
The ASUU strike in 2013 continues, and the latest
update is that the strike is not over as was
predicted over the weekend.
But the end is called into question now as it seems
the federal government and the union haven’t
actually met yet. The meeting was supposed to
happen after union leadership voted to end the
strike on Saturday.
The vote, however, included three conditions that
the federal government must meet in order for the
strike to get called off.
Instead of meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan as planned, the union delivered a letter
outlining the three conditions to Minister for
Education Nyesom Wike. It’s unclear why the
meeting didn’t happen.
Wike is not happy with the union’s demands.
“I will have to see Mr. President to see how the
government can go about this development, which
is not favorable,” said Wike, reported the Nation,
making the first comments by a federal official
about the latest developments. “It is outrageous.
ASUU is now making fresh demands and this will
definitely need further discussion.”
As reported previously, besides the three
conditions, the union wants legal binding from the
president before ending the strike.
“ASUU leaders are not ready to take anything for
granted this time around; every clause in whatever
is agreed upon will have legal effect on the two
parties,” a source told the Nation.
One of the three conditions conditions is a written
commitment from President Jonathan that the
federal government will commit N225billion
annually to the funding of universities for the next
four years.
That’s not as simple as it sounds, a presidency
source said.
“The government is also weighing options on the
demands of ASUU especially the aspects relating to
financial commitment. You know, what the
government spends has to depend on what it earns.
If there is a binding financial commitment and there
is global recession in the oil industry, will
government now look for money at all cost?
“This is one grey area of the pending agreement on
which the two parties must reach a compromise.”
Another union source said that the government
aims to trick the union into calling off the strike
while not implementing the 2009 agreement, which
is supposedly what the strike is over. The source
said that the union may continue the strike into
2014.
Dr. Adeyemi Daramola, a lecturer in the Department
of English at the University of Lagos, supported that
claim, telling the Nigerian Tribune that the union
plans to strike until mid-January 2014.
That’s surely shocking news if it is true, because it
has appeared numerous times over the past few
weeks that the strike would be called off any day.
The majority of the union leaders voted to end the
strike at campuses across the country following a
meeting with President Jonathan and government
officials.
The National Executive Council was scheduled for
November 20, and the union appeared ready to end
the strike at the meeting and make it official the
next day.
But former union president Festus Iyayi suddenly
died from a car accident on his way to the NEC
meeting, so the meeting was postponed.
People weren’t sure when the meeting would be
rescheduled, and the union remained secretive
about its actions after the crash. However, it
emerged that a two-day meeting “secret meeting”
was held over the weekend, at which the union
leadership voted to end the strike but also to
demand the three conditions which has upset
government officials.

ASUU STRIKE: Fresh Demands Shatter
Students’ Hope
Fresh requests by
members of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities
heighten anxiety over the
resumption of academic
activities in public
universities,
he mood was on the
upbeat on Saturday night
at the Ikeja residence of
the Ugboduagas. While Mr.
Alphonsus Ugboduaga exchanged banter with his
wife, their 18-year-old son, Junior, also looked very
excited.
Other members of their family present in the house
seemed to be in a pleasant mood, too. So the
Ugboduaga’s popped a bottle of champagne. Their
excitement was born out of the expectation that
after four months, the gates of the nation’s public
universities would be opened, at least, going by
media reports earlier in the day.
Beyond that, the Ugboduaga family was in a joyful
mood because Junior’s fate in relation to the
admission he secured to study Computer Science at
the Ekpoma State University, Edo State would come
to fruition. Following the protracted ASUU strike, the
youngster was not sure whether the admission
offered him by the university would still materialise
this year. However, the positive reports on Saturday
gave him hope.
As a result of this development, Junior left Lagos for
Ekpoma on Monday morning to commence his
registration process. But just as he was doing this,
information filtered in that the striking university
teachers had made fresh demands as a condition to
return to classrooms.
On receiving this news, Junior’s mood and
countenance changed almost immediately. What
does this fresh request by ASUU portend? Is it that
normalcy is still far from returning to the nation’s
public universities? What has befallen him and
many other potential admission seekers? These and
many other questions raged on his mind.
Miss Usen Enoh also faced the same uncertain fate.
Before this latest development, the third year Music
student of the University of Uyo had thought that
with the intervention of President Goodluck
Jonathan, the resumption was as good as sealed.
The President had promised the ASUU leadership
that his administration would from 2014 inject
N1.1tn into the university system. He also promised
to release another N100bn for the sector in the
remaining part of this year.
But the report on Monday that the striking teachers
were demanding the payment of their salaries,
among other requests, seems to have thrown a
spanner in the works. Little wonder, Enoh looked
frustrated. Before now, her calculation was that she
would enter the New Year as a final year student.
Indeed, the fears and frustrations of Junior and Enoh
are not out of place. One of the resolutions reached
by the striking teachers, who ended their National
Executive Council meeting in Kano on Friday, our
correspondent gathered, is that the FG must show
enough commitment, especially with regard to the
payment of their four months’ salaries.
They are also seeking the immediate
implementation of the N1.2tn offer by the
government to public universities, starting with the
release of N100bn this year.
But even as lecturers make these demands,
analysts look at their requests with mixed feelings.
For instance, an education consultant, Dr. Olusegun
Omisore, notes that the auto accident, which killed
a former ASUU President, Dr. Festus Iyayi, must
have contributed to the latest demands by the
striking lecturers.
According to Omisore, the controversial
circumstances in which Iyayi died must have
prompted the lecturers to take this position.
Iyayi died in an auto accident involving the convoy
of the Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, and an
ASUU vehicle on his way to Kano to attend the NEC
meeting penultimate week.
For a Lagos lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, the lecturers
have no need to nurse any fear about the possibility
of getting their salary arrears. The action they
engaged in trying to revamp the nation’s tertiary
institutions, he says, is a legitimate one before the
law.
He states, “The FG has no justification to attempt to
use the no-work, no-pay policy to further drag on
the debate. Strike is one of the legitimate
instruments workers use to fight their cause. The
cause the lecturers are fighting is not a private one,
but for the public good. What they are seeking is for
the good of the university system and the nation.
“Therefore, if they are punished for this, it will be
against the tenet of fair industrial practice. Again,
that policy will not work in this country. It is just a
decorative part of industrial law.”
As Aturu holds this view, Omisore is asking the
teachers to temper justice with mercy. He notes
that the worst hit in the crisis are the students.
Omisore says, “On the bottom rung of the ladder
are the students. ASUU members should not forget
that students are involved in all of this. The damage
done to their psyche and the future of Nigeria is
enormous. Since the FG has shifted ground, the
striking teachers should try to meet the the
government at the middle road.”
He also appeals to ASUU members to exploit the
support they have earned from members of the
public to call off the industrial action.
Like Enoh and Junior, who are disillusioned with the
development, a 200-level student of the Federal
University of Agriculture, Oyebanji Omotayo, says
he is tired of the strike.
He notes, “I am fed up and tired of staying at home.
The only thing I want to hear now is the suspension
of the strike. ASUU should resolve all the
outstanding issues quickly. I hope the situation is
not going out of hand. I implore the FG to do what is
needful so that the striking teachers return to
classes.”
Similarly, Fadlulah Hammed, a part two English
Language undergraduate of the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife, says, “The strike at this point has
become unbearable. I understand that the striking
teachers have put up some fresh demands, but I
urge them to consider our plight and call off the
action.”
For Suliat Olubisi, a 300-level student of the
Ahmadu Bello University, Zari, who claims she has
been on campus since the strike begun, it is high
time the action was called off.
She says, “Any time I attempt to return home, there
is always the rumour that the strike will end. I
therefore plead with ASUU members to sheathe
their swords, as it were.”
But Dr. Fidelis Okoro, who teaches at the University
of Nigeria, Nsukka, says the issues at stake are
beyond sentiments. According to him, the blame for
shunning the classrooms should be laid at the
doorsteps of the FG. Their action, he explains, arose
because the authorities breached an agreement
unanimously signed in 2009.
He adds, “Nobody can blame us for this, if the FG
had kept to the agreement in the first place, the
strike would not have cropped up at all.”

Smh

I think now is d fed gov dat is delaying, they should pay den there withheld salaries, or has dat money been shared

Committee of Pro-chancellors of Nigerian Federal Universities, on Tuesday, unanimously ordered immediate re-opening of universities across the country.

The communiqué signed by the Chairman of the Committee, Professor Kimse Okoko, was made available to newsmen late Tuesday in Abuja.

The communiqué was issued at the end of the committee meeting to discuss the protracted strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other issues affecting the Nigerian university system.

The communiqué stated that the decision to re-open the universities was unanimously agreed by all pro-chancellors in the overall interest of all concerned.

The pro-chancellors, in the communique, directed all vice chancellors to comply with the committee decision.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that the decision of the pro-chancellors was predicated on the earlier referendum held by various chapters of ASUU that voted 60-40 in favour of suspension of the over four months old strike.  

They expressed dismay that all efforts to resolve the crisis, including the intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan, has failed.

The communiqué recognised “all effort by Federal Government to address the major issues involved in the strike action including the bold and the supportive intervention by Mr President.”

It also stated that the committee noted “with satisfaction the outcome of the referendum conducted in all branches of ASUU nationwide which voted 60-40 in favour of the suspension of the ongoing strike by ASUU.”

The pro-chancellors called for the understanding of ASUU and indeed all staff of the various universities in Nigeria.

This order is coming on the heels of polarisation that has already crept into the ASUU, following the meeting they had with President Goodluck Jonathan penultimate week.

Nigerians were amazed that the emergency National Executive Council meeting, held in Kaduna last weekend, came out with fresh conditions for suspension of strike after it was rumoured that a deal was struck with President Jonathan.

ASUU has been on strike since July 1 and the NEC meeting was to deliberate on the resolutions of various chapters of ASUU on whether the strike should be suspended or not based on the offers by the government.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that the pro-chancellors were aggrieved that even when majority of the members of ASUU want the strike called off, few elements in the union have refused to yield to the popular desire of the members.

tryxe: I think now is d fed gov dat is delaying, they should pay den there withheld salaries, or has dat money been shared

Why should FG pay them? Did they do any work during the span of the strike?
No work no pay. If they are fighting and sacrificing to make our schools better, they should bear the brunt. Students have been at home for the past 5months, will ASUU give all of us a GP of 5.0?
No school, no grade for the students.
No work, no pay for the staffs. Shikena!

Uniabj studnts to resume 1st december 2013, Register

BREAKING NEWS! Uniabj studnts to resume 1st december 2013, Register

Pls
....is uniabuja about to write her second semester exam??

Jellyd: Pls
....is uniabuja about to write her second semester exam??

lmao, *forgive me for laughing*.. The admitted student for 2012/2013 are yet to be matriculated not to talk of exams...

mrpresido3: BREAKING NEWS! Uniabj studnts to resume 1st december 2013, Register

great, but is it the register that will teach student?, i do not want to be a pessimist, but i don't see how it will work.. Oluwa is involve

Jellyd: Pls
....is uniabuja about to write her second semester exam??

exam is gonna b january

Dannyxy: lmao, *forgive me for laughing*.. The admitted student for 2012/2013 are yet to be matriculated not to talk of exams...

re u serios?....wt wil nw hpn to 2013/2014?

If this news is actually true, then i will advice you(uniabuja student) to get ready, this strike has disrupted many things, if you are not mentally strong, you are going to fail woefully this section(yes section, there is no need sugar-coating it), and when i talk about being mentally strong, i am not talking about being intelligent or smart, rather i am talking about the ability to brace yourself up, and not letting the challenges weigh or overide you.. Be prepared...

Jellyd:

re u serios?....wt wil nw hpn to 2013/2014?

i am among them, we just have to patient. According to what i heard, each semester will take will take 8 week, so it will be 16weeks in a section, equaling four/five months, so by april/may next year they should resume, God willing..

Jellyd:

re u serios?....wt wil nw hpn to 2013/2014?

notin dan good! because dey wll also resume after 2nd semester's exam.

Dannyxy: i am among them, we just have to patient. According to what i heard, each semester will take will take 8 week, so it will be 16weeks in a section, equaling four/five months, so by april/may next year they should resume, God willing..

yeap

University of Abuja are 2 resume on Monday buh dis sunday wil be d best day 2 resume Even meeting is goingon nw Internal ASUU and senate meeting by 12pm. Today Dec.2013

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Uniabuja has pulled awt of ASUU*

Jonathan orders university authorities to re-open schools

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the
authorities of all the federal universities in the country to
resume academic activities, Thisday reports.
Jonathan said that any lecturer or member of the academic
staff that fails to comply with this directive will lose his job.
He directed the school authorities to declare vacant any
position of any defaulting member of academic staff.
Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian federal universities, on
Wednesday also called on all tertiary institutions in the
country to resume.academic activities

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Not dat important,I find it hard 4me 2 enter dis tread like b4 let 4get abwt knwing Issues!...New student 2013/2014 set are not xpected 2 cum until ur name has been pasted in the skul Notice board...The senate has finish with there meeting in Law block My 4lw student Nxt week Monday try nd get ful informatn wen cuming God is shwing is Miracle ova us...

jerrytosin: Not dat important,I find it hard 4me 2 enter dis tread like b4 let 4get abwt knwing Issues!...New student 2013/2014 set are not xpected 2 cum until ur name has been pasted in the skul Notice board...The senate has finish with there meeting in Law block My 4lw student Nxt week Monday try nd get ful informatn wen cuming God is shwing is Miracle ova us...

What kinda miracle? Do u want to graduate nd be called an "Half baked graduate".by thesame cabals who are refusing us quality education!.....No I support ASUU .Aluta continua

Plsss who knows about the 2013/2014 direct entry admission?

Phinity318:

What kinda miracle? Do u want to graduate nd be called an "Half baked graduate".by thesame cabals who are refusing us quality education!.....No I support ASUU .Aluta continua

Lol
What is this one talking about?
The only ALUTA I see here is from students who want to go back to school and their struggle is being garroted by an extremist and terrorist like group called ASUU. Selfish gray-headed bas.t.ards!!!

No time for dulling....

Hello pals pls if eventually d strike is called off update us on admission lists.Thanks