Academic and other official activities were yesterday grounded at the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) by protesting members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU).
The aggrieved workers, under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) comprising of Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the National Association of Academic Scientists (NAATS), said they were following the directive of the national body.
Chairman of JAC Comrade Ibeji Nwokeoma said: “The Federal Government gave N23 billion for the payment of earned allowance to all workers of Federal Universities, unfortunately, the money was hijacked by our sister union and they shared it as their spirit moved them, giving over N18 billion to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) alone, leaving a little above N4 billion for three independent staff unions. ASUU hijacked the money at the national level in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education.
“We felt it was wrong and we asked the Federal Government what the sharing formula was, why they could give one union over N18 billion out of the N23 billion. We also want to know the yardstick for the sharing, whether population or the nature of work they do in the university, but till now, the Federal Government has answered us.
“So we are demanding that if what they gave is academic earned allowance as they called it, the government should give us our own fair share of the largesse. They should also give the Non-Academic Staff their own earned allowance because we all work in the university.

“We have been peaceful all these while about the strike but the government has been recalcitrant and that is why we adopted the measure to draw the public’s attention to prevail on the Federal Government to address the issue so that our students will not suffer”.
SSANU Chairman, Comrade Franklin Matheus, said: “We want to inform the public through this action that we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Government on issues including shortfall in workers’ salaries, earned allowances and Staff School emoluments, but none has been implemented. We agreed that these earned allowances will be paid before the end of last year, but what the government did was to give ASUU N23 billion and a paltry N4 billion to all the non-academic staff unions. So if the Federal Government can pay N23 billion to ASSU as earned academic allowance, we are demanding N66 billion as our earned allowances.
“We want the government to obey the judgment of the Industrial Court. We can only end this strike if the government addresses the skewed allowance and pay us N66 billion which is the earned allowance for non-academic staffs.”




source-http://www.jowan.online/2018/01/futo-shutdown-as-non-academic-staff.html

Ok

Hmmm

Corruption every where

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I blame the students

every agencies are just shutting down under bubu. maritime shut down, uniabuja shut down, futo, shut down. continue.

Maritime workers going on strike...

Uniabuja people too join...

Now FUTO....

When will Buhari begin his indefinite strike please?

Futo

Na waa o, shitting down university because if some free money... And we call these people, educated? E don finish o

Ok

2018 a year of shutting down/strike

Nobody can process transcripts except NASU, person don comot school person still hook again. I seriously owe my children another Nationality.....

Futo And strike tho, abeg shey lautech still deh function?

Pls I Nd A Help, Do Any1 Have Idea Of How Much It Cost 2 Run An Pgd, M.Sc In BUK Pls

But why all these strike now

princetom1:
Na waa o, shitting down university because if some free money... And we call these people, educated? E don finish o

which free money? a labourer deserves his wages.

Ngige is a Bastąrd


Kemi is a useless bîtch.

Buhari is a goat.

Irrelevant NASU always trying to rob shoulder with ASUU.

So so sad.
I had an offer of admission from a foreign university, but i can't take it because my Nigerian University won't validate my certificates.
Why? NASU is in strike.
So shameful of a nation.

You have to see the mail I received from the school abroad. They just lambasted our university system.

and yet we are celebrating 40 billion in external reserve. APC is the most useless party to govern this nation. God forbid

Unizik Nasu gas been on strike since December last year

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Which Futo abeg?
When we have lectures by 8:30am? False NeWS.

Hmmmm why this now. The strike have been on since December, 2017.

jboy73:
Which Futo abeg?
When we have lectures by 8:30am? False NeWS.

Why not check your non academic staffs, they have been on strike since December, 2017. That lectures are ongoing doesn't mean that university is in session. You can't sideline the non academic staffs they are part and parcel of the university.

The exams and record, offices, laboratory, libraries, admission office, critical offices are on a shut down.

jboy73:
Which Futo abeg?
When we have lectures by 8:30am? False NeWS.

Nasu is differrent from ASSU
U guys can have timetable and lectures but na under tree una go learn am because d non-academic staff wil lock dwn d classess

jboy73:
Which Futo abeg?
When we have lectures by 8:30am? False NeWS.

You would understand better when you need your results processed

Futo
Eksu
Rugipo
Uniabuja

All grounded in d name of strike

jboy73:
Which Futo abeg? When we have lectures by 8:30am? False NeWS.

see a university student. He can't understand what he read. So sad.