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ASUU STRIKE Update: Pro-
chancellors order universities open
nationwide
REPORT CULLED FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
The 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.
Meanwhile, the crisis rocking the University
of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter of ASUU, over its
continued participation in the ongoing strike
action by the union’s national body,
worsened on Tuesday as the two factions in
the crisis openly traded insults.
The congress, called on Monday, saw a sharp
division in the chapter with a faction
favouring a pull-out from the strike action,
giving a week ultimatum to open the
institution.
The faction also promised undisclosed
further actions if the ultimatum was not met,
after it held a separate congress following
the disruption of the earlier one.
Short URL: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=133532

ASUU STRIKE Update: Pro-
chancellors order universities open
nationwide
REPORT CULLED FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
The 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.
Meanwhile, the crisis rocking the University
of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter of ASUU, over its
continued participation in the ongoing strike
action by the union’s national body,
worsened on Tuesday as the two factions in
the crisis openly traded insults.
The congress, called on Monday, saw a sharp
division in the chapter with a faction
favouring a pull-out from the strike action,
giving a week ultimatum to open the
institution.
The faction also promised undisclosed
further actions if the ultimatum was not met,
after it held a separate congress following
the disruption of the earlier one.
Short URL: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=133532

Emzybrown: what semester are u guys in? Sorry ok in my 5 yearz in university, i have witnessd enough strike capable of causing heart attack, countless ASUU national and internal strike, with even southeast universities joint strike. I am suppose to be a graduate by july ending but now am already in my 6th year for 5 years courze.

am tru wif my final exams...ve submitted my project. ..jst to defend d project remain wey ASUU scored a goal.... I suppose dey service now buh dem dun delay me....... dey can only delay me..dey cant stop Allah's work from manifesting. .... @funaab

kolidave: 2sessions? How? How's dat possible?

SIS (semester is short)
8wks of lectures, 3wks 4 exam, 1 week rest= 3months
did d same thing in funaab back in 2009 during d 3mnts 20days strike jst to meet up wif d calendar. ..

BREAKING NEWS!
ASUU STRIKE SUSPENDED
SOURCE: Koko inu iwe iroyin

your site is not goin joor...

space booked

Al amdulilah. ... I was surprised wen I couldnt find d thread again.... tut naone of awa jealous enemy dey beef us

una all want to hear good news...
CONGRATULATIONS NIGERIAN STUDENTS
- # ASUU # ASUP strike has
just
been called off, for more enquires, visit us @
www.una_go_wait_tire.com

banega: kill, yuh mean?

lol

lwkmd... I jst cnt help but laff...... d asuu_Nigeria Twitter account is a fake..... d guy using it has changed d name to Andre dis mawnin... so mk una 4get abt nec meeting or no nec meeting.... dem fit cum reschedule d meeting afta 7days mourning oooo.... buh dat yesterday rampage on nec meeting is totally a fkin lie... capiche?

Osogbo – An 18-year-old boy, Olalekan
Adetoyinbo, who resides in the Irojo
neighbourhood of Ilesa, Osun, on Wednesday
killed his 56-year-old father, Mr Ayodele
Adetoyinbo.
The incident occurred on Wednesday evening,
while the boy had since been arrested by the
police for interrogation.
The suspect, on returning from school, had a
heated argument with his father, who had
accused him of stealing some empty containers.
The boy reportedly hit his father on the head
with broken concrete blocks and the man could
not recover from the injury inflicted on him.
The man was reportedly rushed to a nearby
hospital, where he died.
DSP Folashade Odoro, the Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO) in Osun, who spoke on
behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Mrs
Dorothy Gimba, confirmed the incident to
newsmen in Osogbo on Friday.
Odoro said that the suspect was arrested by a
team of police detectives attached to the Police
‘B’ Division in Ijamo, Ilesa, for murder, adding
that the boy had made a confessional statement
to the police.
“Argument ensued between the boy and his
father; he hit his father’s head with cement
blocks and the man sustained serious injury on
his head which led to his death,” she said.
The PPRO said that the police commissioner
had since ordered a full-scale investigation into
the incident, adding that the matter would
later be referred to the court for prosecution.
(NAN)
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/boy-18-kills-father-concrete-blocks-osun/

good morning nairalanders... importers.. nd my Oga@ d top... aw una nyt

tunshe: Salaam,

I was in shoprite as promised and presented the case.

They denied using pig fat and took me into the bakery right behind the counter. I was shown a gallon of the oil( whitish in colour ) and I read the composition.

With the best of my knowledge, there's no trace of pig/pork/ lard/ beacon/....... Although emulsifier was on the list which I can't really say the source.

In conclusion, I think it's safe to eat the bread until proven otherwise.

Wa Lahu Alaam.

jazakum lah khAiran

Shocking News: Former ASUU President Dies On
His Way To ASUU National Meeting At Abuja
Festus Iyayi
A former President of the Academic Staff Union
of Universities, Festus Iyayi, is dead, union
officials said.
Witnesses said Mr. Iyayi, 66, died along the the
Lokoja-Abuja highway in an accident involving
the the convoy of Kogi state Governor, Idris
Wada.
The late university teacher was among ASUU
leaders who met with President Goodluck
Jonathan in Abuja last week to deliberate on
how to end the four-month strike by lecturers.
Mr. Iyayi is believed to be travelling to Kano for
Wednesday’s National Executive Committee
meeting where a vote is likely to be taken on
whether the ongoing strike should be called off.
One of the pilot cars in the governor’s convoy
reportedly rammed into the vehicle in which Mr.
Iyayi and other activists were travelling, killing
him instantly, witnesses said.
But the Special Adviser to the Governor, Jacob
Edi, said it was untrue that it was the
governor’s pilot vehicle that hit Mr. Iyayi’s car.
“There was a collision on a narrow road and it is
too early to say who rammed into who,” Mr. Edi
told PREMIUM TIMES. ”The ASUU car was
dodging a trailer and an accident occurred. It is
not fair to politicise this incident.”
Mr. Edi said as soon as the accident happened,
the governor directed that the ambulance in the
convoy be used to convey the victims to the
Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.
Some of the victims, he said, were also taken to
the Government House Clinic.
The Kogi governor’s spokesperson said the
governor later visited the hospitals to sympathize
with the victims of the accident.
He dismissed suggestions that the accident
happened because of overspeeding by his boss’
convoy, saying Mr. Wada’s convoy travels at 80
km per hour.
This is the second time Mr. Wada’s convoy would
be involved in deadly accident in less than a
year.
On December 28, 2012, the governor’s motorcade
was involved in a crash that the auto crash that
broke Mr. Wada’s leg, killed his security aide
and injured two other state officials.
Below is Mr. Iyayi’s brief biography as
published by Wikipedia.
Iyayi was born in Edo state, Nigeria. His family
lived on little means but instilled in him strong
moral lessons about life. Iyayi started his
education at Annuciation Catholic College in the
old Bendel state popularly known as ACC
finishing in 1966. In 1967 he went to Government
College Ughelli, graduating in 1968. In that same
year he was a zonal winner in a Kennedy Essay
Competition organised by the United States
Embassy in Nigeria.
He left the shores of Nigeria to pursue his
higher education, obtaining a M.Sc in Industrial
Economics from the Kiev Institute of Economics,
in the former USSR and then his Ph.D from the
University of Bradford, England. In 1980, he
went back to Benin and became a lecturer in the
Department of Business Administration at the
University of Benin.
As a member of staff of the University, he
became interested in radical social issues, and a
few years after his employment, he became the
president of the local branch of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), a radical
union known for its upfront style on academic
and social welfare. He rose to the position of
president of the national organization in 1986,
but in 1988, the union was briefly banned and
Iyayi was detained. In that same year, he won
the Commonwealth Prize for Literature for his
book “Heroes”. He was later removed from his
faculty position. Today, Iyayi is a member of
different Nigerian literary organizations and
works in the private sector as a consultant.

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yup.... 11th

good morning

ASUU strike: Schools resume November
18
Posted by The City Reporters
The City Reporters
Yes! Pack your bags!
A source close to top guns in the Academic
Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) has told The
City Reporters the lecturers will ditch their
four month old strike this weekend so students
could resume on November 18 (next Monday).
The source said there was no way the union
could reject the new offer of N220bn a year
tabled by President Goodluck Jonathan during a
marathon meeting with ASUU last week
Tuesday.
ASUU had come out of that meeting to tell
Nigerians it needed time to deliberate on the
new deal and reach a consensus among it
members before talking to the press.
A top official of the union, has however said
the government could not be trusted even on
the new offer, and that ASUU’s members were
divided over the government’s offer. He,
however raised a beam of hope by saying the
majority still decided to give the government
the benefit of the doubt.
As ASUU executives meet this Wednesday, if
the fate of the strike is down to a vote among
the striking lecturers, as suggested by ASUU
chairman, Nasir Fagge, the four month old
impasse may surely end this week.
ASUU went on strike July 1 over the non-
implementation of a 2009 agreement it had
with the government with a key component of
the memorandum of understanding the
allocation of 26% of Nigeria’s total budget to
education.
Although the government is planning to
allocate just 9% of the 2014 budget to
education, ASUU now seems set to end the
strike after government offers that would
surely boost lecturers’ take home pay and
improve varsity infrastructure.
http://thecityreporters.com/ASUU-strike-schools-resume-november-18/2013/

ASUU strike: Schools resume November
18
Posted by The City Reporters
The City Reporters
Yes! Pack your bags!
A source close to top guns in the Academic
Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) has told The
City Reporters the lecturers will ditch their
four month old strike this weekend so students
could resume on November 18 (next Monday).
The source said there was no way the union
could reject the new offer of N220bn a year
tabled by President Goodluck Jonathan during a
marathon meeting with ASUU last week
Tuesday.
ASUU had come out of that meeting to tell
Nigerians it needed time to deliberate on the
new deal and reach a consensus among it
members before talking to the press.
A top official of the union, has however said
the government could not be trusted even on
the new offer, and that ASUU’s members were
divided over the government’s offer. He,
however raised a beam of hope by saying the
majority still decided to give the government
the benefit of the doubt.
As ASUU executives meet this Wednesday, if
the fate of the strike is down to a vote among
the striking lecturers, as suggested by ASUU
chairman, Nasir Fagge, the four month old
impasse may surely end this week.
ASUU went on strike July 1 over the non-
implementation of a 2009 agreement it had
with the government with a key component of
the memorandum of understanding the
allocation of 26% of Nigeria’s total budget to
education.
Although the government is planning to
allocate just 9% of the 2014 budget to
education, ASUU now seems set to end the
strike after government offers that would
surely boost lecturers’ take home pay and
improve varsity infrastructure.
http://thecityreporters.com/ASUU-strike-schools-resume-november-18/2013/

here 4u

BY SEGUN OLUGBILE AND KAMARUDEEN
OGUNDELE
Indications have emerged that the Academic
Staff Union of Universities may call off the
over four-month-old strike on Thursday.
Barring a last-minute change, the National
Executive Committee of ASUU will meet on
Wednesday night to consider the position of the
congresses of the over 50 public universities on
the offer made by the Federal government to
revamp the institutions.
The union met with a Federal Government
team led by President Goodluck Jonathan last
Tuesday in Abuja.
The ASUU leadership, after briefing the zonal
coordinators on the offer, had directed the
local branches to organise congress meetings
between Friday last week and Tuesday
(tomorrow).
This is to enable all the lecturers to make
input into the action the union would take after
its NEC meeting on Thursday.
However, feelers from most universities that
had organised their congresses revealed that
ASUU would suspend the strike after the
Thursday NEC meeting.
In some universities, including the Obafemi
Awolowo University and the Lagos State
University that have scheduled their congress
meetings for Monday (today), union leaders
and lecturers expressed hope that the strike
would end this week.
Also, some top officials of the union in some of
the nine zones of ASUU said even though they
were not happy with the plan by the
government to inject N220bn yearly into the
public universities for the next five years, they
were pleased that a commitment had been
obtained by the union.
Though the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of ASUU,
Dr. Nasir Adesola, confirmed that the NEC
meeting would hold on Wednesday, he did not
say whether the strike would be called off or
not.
“Yes, the NEC will hold on Wednesday evening
but ASUU has a process which we are going to
follow. NEC reserves the right to call off the
strike after due consultation with members and
this is why congresses are being called in all
the chapters of the union. Please, wait till after
the congress,” he told one of our
correspondents on the telephone.
But another source said, “Our NEC meeting
will hold between Wednesday night and
Thursday. Our chapters have started holding
meetings to discuss the Federal Government’s
offer. This is to allow input from all the
lecturers. We have to carry them along to
avoid disunity since there are moves by some
elements to infiltrate us.”
Another source told one of our correspondents
that some members had expressed mixed
feelings about the Federal Government’s new
offer based on its refusal to honour past
agreements.
“The radicals among us are sceptical about
this latest offer. They do not believe that
government will respect the agreement. Their
view is that government only wants to
deceive the union to call off the strike before
it will jettison it.”
A top official of the union, who confirmed the
fears, told one of our correspondents that
although members’ opinions at the zonal
congresses were divided over the government’s
offer, the majority still decided to give the
government the benefit of the doubt.
He also said that the majority opinion was
that the review of the agreement which was
supposed to hold this year should be postponed
till next year in the interest of peace.
The official added, “Members were persuaded
because President Goodluck Jonathan personally
met with the union. They felt since the
President was involved in the negotiation this
time around, the government would not say
that it was arm-twisted to make the offer.
“This is the problem we are having with the
2009 agreement. By now we should be talking
about a review but we are still having troubles
with implementation.
“Although feelers across the zones are that we
should call off the strike, we are going to put
down the government offer in black and white
and make it public so that nobody accuses us
tomorrow of asking for too much.”
Some universities are expected to hold their
congresses on Monday (today) to discuss the
outcome of the zonal congresses held at nine
centres across the country last week.
A source at the meeting between the
government and ASUU told one of our
correspondents that the government after a
long debate agreed to inject N220bn yearly for
the next five years beginning from 2014.
He had said, “The meeting should be the
longest that we have ever had on this crisis
but I can tell you that both parties were frank
all through the discussions. The parties also
showed commitment towards ending the crisis.
The President in particular showed that he was
serious about ending the strike and that was
why he offered to release over N1tn to the
universities in the next five years.
“The money will be released on a yearly basis
at N220bn per annum beginning from 2014.
For the outgoing year, the Federal Government
will only release N100bn and this has been
processed.
“In order to show commitment to this deal, the
money will be kept at the Central Bank of
Nigeria and will be released on a quarterly
basis to the universities. So, there won’t be
any problem about funding the deal.”
The source added that the National Universities
Commission and the Trade Union Congress
would be joint guarantors of the new
agreement while the Minister of Education
would be the implementation officer.
He said that the government also agreed,
among other things, to revamp the public
universities by ensuring that all the issues
that always lead to strike were dealt with once
and for all.
http://www.punchng.com/news/ASUU-set-to-suspend-strike-this-week/

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Strike: FG, ASUU shift grounds
on november 06, 2013 at 2:00 am in news
By VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG & BEN AGANDE
THERE are strong indications that the
protracted strike by Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, that has crippled academic
activities for over four months may end in the
next one week, Vanguard has gathered.
Vanguard sources at the Monday night meeting
between the Federal Government led by
President Goodluck Jonathan, the leadership of
ASUU, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and
Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, said
both the Federal Government and leaders of
ASUU had shifted grounds and leaders of ASUU
would meet with its organ (National Executive
Council) to brief members of the outcome and
then take necessary action.
One of the sources told Vanguard: “Both the
Federal Government and the leadership of
ASUU are now on the same page. Both parties
have shifted grounds. The leadership of ASUU
will now meet with its appropriate organ to
brief its members and take the necessary
action.
President Goodluck Jonathan (left); ASUU Vice
President, Mr. Biodun Ogunyemi Onabanjo (2nd
right); Vice President Namadi Sambo (2nd left)
and ASUU President, Nasir Faggae (right)
during the meeting.
“ASUU is in the right position to inform the
public after meeting with its organ. However, I
can tell you that all things being equal, the
strike should be over in the next one week.”
The meeting between the government and the
labour leaders started at about 2:30pm on
Monday and ended at about 3:30am on Tuesday
with a 15 minutes break.
Fagge, Wogu speak
National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Isa
Fagge, emerged from the meeting and curtly
told newsmen that his delegation was taking
back a message from President Jonathan to
their members.
He declined to disclose what the message was
and when asked whether he was satisfied with
the outcome of the meeting, the ASUU leader
told journalists not to put words in his mouth.
He said: “We have had a lengthy meeting with
Mr. President, rubbing minds on how best to
address the problem of university education in
this country.
“We now have a message from Mr. President
that we are going to take to our members and
we are expecting that our members will
respond appropriately to his message.”
The Minister of Labour, Chief Emeka Wogu,
who also attended the meeting, told journalists
after the meeting that certain mileage had
been attained and expressed the hope that the
university lecturers would call off the strike
soon.
He said: “The President of ASUU told you that
they are going back with a message from the
Federal Government to their members and the
message is full of high expectation and hope.
“Our prayer is that they will come back with a
positive outcome. They might even not come
back to meet us. They might take decisions that
will meet your expectations.”
According to the Minister, what government
brought to the negotiation table were offers
that were in tandem with the 2009 agreements
between it and ASUU, pointing out that since
the strike was based on the 2009 agreement,
the government did not go beyond that
agreement.
Roll call
President Jonathan, who led the Federal
Government’s delegation, was joined by Vice
President Namadi Sambo; Minister of Finance,
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius
Anyim; Supervising Minister of Education,
Nyesom Wike; and minister of Labour, Emeka
Wogu.
The ASUU delegation was led by its President,
Dr. Nasiru Fagge; past presidents such as
Professor Abdulahi Sule-Kano, Dr. Dipo Fashina
and Professor Festus Iyayi.
Other members of the delegation were Prof.
Biodun Ogunyemi, Prof. Victor Osodeke, Prof.
Suleiman Abdul, Dr. Victor Igbum and Mr.
Michael Odunmoraye.
President NLC, Abdulawahid Omar and TUC,
Bobboi Kaigama, also attended the meeting.
While exchanging pleasantries with the ASUU
delegation, President Jonathan had told them “I
hope this strike will end today. Our children
have suffered enough. We must find a
solution.”
SOURCE:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/strike-fg-ASUU-shift-grounds/