The Federal Government’s patience seems to have run out with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as it has decided to wield the big stick on its members threatening to invoke the no-work-no-pay policy to force the striking lecturers back to work.

Secretary to Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, on Friday ordered the striking university lecturers to return to their duty posts while the pending issues were being resolved. He also directed all the governing councils of the various universitiesto open the gates of the institutions to students as from next week.

The directives followed the inability of both parties (FG and ASUU) to reach a definite agreement on the issue earned allowances touniversity workers after about two months of dialogue and negotiations and the threat by the union to discontinue talks with government.

ASUU began its current strike on July 1 following failure of government to implementa 2009 agreement between the two parties on public universities funding.

Anyim gave the directives at a meeting with the chairmen of the councils and vice-chancellors in Abuja on Friday.

The Federal Government on the occasion alsodisbursed the N30 billion it provided to support the councils for the payment of academic earned allowances to lecturers.

Anyim said this was in addition to the N100 billion provided by the government to address the challenges of infrastructural deficit in the system.

He said: “Mr. President is fully committed to bringing the students back to school and appreciates the patience of parents and students as government is making every effort to revitalise the university system.

“By this demonstration of clear commitment to revitalise the university system, government hereby urges every (member of) staff of the nation’s universities to return to work as all issues are being resolved.

“With particular reference to the contentious issue of earned allowances, every (member of) staff of the universities that is so entitled should verify his claim with his university council and accordingly get paid,” he said.

ASUU had on Thursday foreclosed further talks with the Federal Government negotiation team, an indication of a total collapse of negotiations.

SGF said the Earned Allowances was the major issue in dispute, adding that traditionally, universities pay deserving staff but “because of the amount that ASUU now claims as arrears, government decided to assist the university councils to pay.”

He said the Federal Government did not receive any computation of amount involved until February, 2013 and that ASUU demanded for an outrageous sum of N92 billion arrears for three years’ payment based on percentage range of between 15 and 20 of personnel cost.

The Minister of Education, Professor Rugayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, also said that ASUU actually went on strike over the initial offer offive per cent of personnel cost of the entire university staff.
She said that government had addressed all other issues raised by the union for them to call off the strike. She maintained that government had no money to pay the N92 billion academic Earned Allowances requested by ASUU, insisting that it was not feasible in view of the current state of the nation’s economy.

Anyim further said: “After series of discussions involving the National Assembly; the SGF; the Chairman of the Needs Assessment Report Implementation Committee, Governor Gabriel Suswam; the ministers of Education, Labour; and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and other stakeholders, government has now provided N30 billion to support the universitycouncils in settling the Earned Allowances.”
He said all other issues of Consolidated Salary Structure for Academics in Nigerian Universities (CONUASS II), amendment of Pensionable Retirement Age of Academics in the Professorial Cadre to 70 years have been fully implemented.

Anyim said most of the issues contained in the 2009 agreement, which necessitated the current strike, have been fully met, except for the Earned Allowances, which ASUU pegged at N92 billion.
He said, “On July 2nd, 2013, ASUU declared what it called, ‘total and indefinite strike’ overissues it says have remained unresolved pertaining to an agreement it reached with government in 2009. It is pertinent to narrate the genesis of the 2009 agreement. ASUU went on strike action in 2006 based on their request for a review of personnel matters, onaccount of this, government initiated a NeedsAssessment of the University system comprising federal and state universities.

The negotiations led to the 2009 agreement.

FULL STORY HERE: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=117746

Uhuhuh.... In victory, You should know when to stop or else you accomplish the opposite.

Our govt just like propaganda they have forgotten they are dealing with senior lecturers and professors... Telling us they've release N100b whereas they hv not

SMH

I don forget wetin to type sef....I think it is time for ASUU to call it to a halt before this shit got ugly,but they wont mark my word.

The Minister of Education,
Professor Rugayyatu Ahmed
Rufa’i, also said that ASUU
actually went on strike over
the initial offer offive per cent
of personnel cost of the entire
university staff.
She said that government had
addressed all other issues
raised by the union for them
to call off the strike. She
maintained that government
had no money to pay the N92
billion academic Earned
Allowances requested by ASUU,
insisting that it was not
feasible in view of the current
state of the nation’s economy.

not feasible due to the current state of the economy indeed!
But billions of naira can be feasible for the politicians to blow as they like.

planetuzor: Our govt just like propaganda they have forgotten they are dealing with senior lecturers and professors... Telling us they've release N100b whereas they hv not

this isn't SSANU
ASUU members should not be paid their salaries

This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of
an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a
maladorous excresence of mobocracy. With all tarmangant ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy,
our knowledgia centura is enveloped in a paraphlegic
crinkum crankum. Therefore, ASUU, cest in dejavu, dejavu peret ologomabia.....

Oga ju!

joking right?

GOD HELP BEFORE THE FEDERAL GOVT AND ASSU FRUSTRATES US ALL!

ASUU

Kaydem: This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of
an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a
maladorous excresence of mobocracy. With all tarmangant ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy,
our knowledgia centura is enveloped in a paraphlegic
crinkum crankum. Therefore, ASUU, cest in dejavu, dejavu peret ologomabia.....

My guy, this your grammar wont solve our problem ooo..

And u expect me to trust that source?

This game looks interesting,dont even know which team to join........anyway am on the winning side...........

Kaydem: This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of
an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a
maladorous excresence of mobocracy. With all tarmangant ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy,
our knowledgia centura is enveloped in a paraphlegic
crinkum crankum. Therefore, ASUU, cest in dejavu, dejavu peret ologomabia.....

are you one of the sons of prof wole soyinka......
can you please speak in english sir.....

Kaydem: This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of
an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a
maladorous excresence of mobocracy. With all tarmangant ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy,
our knowledgia centura is enveloped in a paraphlegic
crinkum crankum. Therefore, ASUU, cest in dejavu, dejavu peret ologomabia.....

Let it be noted that at the risk of sounding platitudinously humdrum,we have asseverated for the upteenth time, that the convocation of a sovereign national conference for purposes of interrogating the odoriferous vaudeville of our national jeremiad, remains the only potentand efficaciously utilitarian paspartou out of our cascading national sirocco but alas, disdain complacency to say the least and at best Olympian pococuranteism and the tedium of prescriptive poco a poco is what we have been greeted with by intellectual philistines, high priests of a prebendal state and their opprobrious agents...LOOK AM NOW?If this is indeed true,many more may follow and this deposits me in a state of heebie jeebies.

make ASUU president and e cabal go carry farm, all this sadist lectural buy text book, block, f**k and still fail or pass with E, people way negotiate the agreement self them compromise call of strike during their time considering the country way we dey oga jona Don try make dem let me finish this one semester way I get under ASUU and if we must struggle for better education for Nigeria then all of us must suffer the calamity of the strike not just we student while those who claim are fighting for us sit at home and collect salary let us strike for 1 year am ready as long as ASUU no collect salary am okay.....

AYODEJI4LOVE: This game looks interesting,dont even know which team to join........anyway am on the winning side...........

which side is winning ooo

Na wash.ASUU get there own tactics.if dem say no pay ASUU will use youths to take off to the street.thief dn get opportunity o.dem go loot and burn government house.FG be careful o

Govt should stop threatening ASUU rather dey should do d ryt tin at d ryt tym...dis pple ar playing ACTOR AND BOSS on our future bt GOD pass them jawe

GOVT IS WASTING ITS TYM...WEDA DEY PAY ASUU OR NOT DEY CNT PREVENT ASUU STRIKE...ASUU IS D BEST STRIKER NIGERIA HAS EVER HAD...bt i try o 2 de 4 4rnt role twice

****splits 0n dz thread**** m g0na break d j0ystick 0f fg nd ASUU presd0 vry s00n....

Gpius: GOVT IS WASTING ITS TYM...WEDA DEY PAY ASUU OR NOT DEY CNT PREVENT ASUU STRIKE...ASUU IS D BEST STRIKER NIGERIA HAS EVER HAD...bt i try o 2 de 4 4rnt role twice

best striker Lol, you want to kill me ooo... 8-)8-)8-)