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POSTPONEMENT OF 65TH FOUNDATION DAY AND 2013 CONVOCATION CEREMONIES


Due to the industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) causing a disruption of the academic calendar, the 2013 Convocation and 65 th Foundation Day Ceremonies of the University of Ibadan earlier scheduled to hold from Friday, 15 to Monday, 18 November, 2013 have been postponed till further notice.

However, to commemorate the 65th Foundation Day, there will be a Jumat Service at the UI Central Mosque on Friday, 15 November, 2013 at 2.00pm and a Thanksgiving Service at the Chapel of the Resurrection on Sunday 17 November, 2013 at 10:00am.

The University Management regrets the inconvenience this postponement may cause.

Thank you.

Signed,

Olujimi I. Olukoya,

MNIM, FPA

Registrar

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Former ASUU president, Festus Iyayi dies in car crash - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/former-ASUU-president-festus-iyayi-dies-car-crash/#sthash.zgEiAdgA.dpuf








Former president of the Association of Senior Staff of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Festus Iyayi is dead. He died Tuesday morning in a car crash on his way to Kano to participate in tomorrow’s National Executive Council Meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) expected to declare an end to the over 4-month strike.

ASUU President Dr. Nasir Fagge confirmed his death to our correspondent. He said the sad news was broken to the union a few hours ago.
Prof. Fetus Iyayi

Prof. Fetus Iyayi

Prof. Iyayi was president of ASUU from 1986 to 1988.

He was born in 1947, in Ugbegun, Ishan, Edo State.

In 1968, 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 U.S.S.R., 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.

A well known author, with four books to his credit (Violence, The Contract, Heroes, and Awaiting Court Martial), Prof. Iyayi won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature for his book Heroes in 1988.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/former-ASUU-president-festus-iyayi-dies-car-crash/#sthash.zgEiAdgA.dpuf

More units of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, including the
University of Ibadan and Ahmadu
Bello University chapters, have
voted for the suspension of the
strike by the union during chapter
congresses held nationwide.
The union met with a Federal
Government team led by President
Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday in
Abuja.
Government has promised to inject
N220bn yearly into the public
universities for the next five years.
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
(today).
This is to enable all the lecturers to
make input into the action the union
would take after its NEC meeting on
Thursday.
As at press time on Monday, 20 of the
28 chapters that had concluded their
meetings supported the suspension
of the strike, while the remaining
eight preferred that the varsity
teachers pressed on with the strike.
The teachers in the University of
Abuja, for instance, supported the
suspension of the strike but listed
conditions that must be met by the
Federal Government.
A source at the meeting on Monday
said the congress demanded that the
withheld three months salaries of
the lecturers must be paid.
“Members also demanded for
commitment on funding. We also
want assurance from government
that no lecturer will be victimised on
the account of participating in the
strike. We also asked that the
template for sharing the earned
allowance should be prepared within
the next two weeks,” the source
added.
The conditions were the same for
Nasarawa State University, which
voted for continuation of the strike.
Chairman of ASUU in the school, Dr.
Theophilus Lagi, told our
correspondent after the congress
that as far as his members were
concerned the strike should
continue.
He said, “There are certain grey
areas that must be cleared. The ‘no
work no pay’ policy must be sorted
out. Government must pay lecturers
the arrears.
“We also need evidence that the
N200bn that government promised to
release this year is in the central
bank. We are not going to suspend
the strike until the money is there
and available for sourcing. That is
the position of the congress.
“Nobody trusts government. They
have been making promises since
2009 and nothing has been
implemented except the N30bn
earned allowances.
“Secondly, the 2009 agreement is
due for review; nothing has been
said about that. Lecturers have been
denied salary for three months,
those monies must be paid.”
Among the universities that
supported that the strike be called
off are Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria; Federal University of
Technology, Minna; University of
Lagos; University of Ibadan;
University of Calabar; University of
Port-Harcourt; Federal University
of Technology, Akure; Usmanu
Danfodiyo University, Sokoto; and
Ekiti State University.
The list also include the Federal
University of Technology, Owerri;
Delta State University; Bayero
University Kano; Imo State
University; Federal University of
Agriculture, Abeokuta; and Olabisi
Onabanjo University, among others.
On the other hand, majority of
lecturers at the University of Benin;
and University of Jos wanted the
strike to continue.
However, in the Bauchi zone of the
union, five universities voted for
continuation of the state strike,
while the remaining three threw
their weight against the
continuation of the strike.
Source:
www.punchng.com/news/ui-abu-others-support-suspension-of-ASUU-strike/

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The hope that the four month old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, may be called off this week, following President Goodluck Jonathan’s intervention last week, may be dashed as the 61 chapters of the union are divided over the move to call off the strike.

President Jonathan held a meeting with the leadership of ASUU last week, where he made some offers which ASUU was expected to take to their members for deliberation with the hope that it will pacify them into resuming academic activities this week.

Congresses of the 61 chapters of the union were therefore held, yesterday, while the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting will hold tomorrow in one of the northern universities.

The outcome of the union’s congresses indicated that there was disagreement on the need to call off the strike.

Vanguard gathered that while some ASUU chapters were ready to suspend the strike in the light of the President’s intervention, others insisted that they will continue the strike due to what they described as their distrust for the government.

It was learnt that while the University of Lagos, UNILAG, resolved to suspend the strike, chapters like the University of Ibadan, UI; University of Benin, UNIBEN; University of Calabar, UNICAL; University of Jos, UNIJOS and the Lagos State University, LASU, said the strike must continue, arguing that the Federal Government could not be trusted to fulfil its promise of injecting over N1.1 trillion to universities in the next five years.

Voting at UNIJOS

Members UNIJOS chapter, yesterday, voted overwhelmingly for the strike to continue.

After receiving briefings on what transpired at last week’s meeting of the union’s representatives with President Goodluck Jonathan and after going through copies of the resolution of the meeting, 194 members voted for the strike to continue while 80 voted for a suspension.

Sources told Vanguard that after hours of debate by those for and against the continuation of the strike, it was obvious that majority felt that the meeting with the president did not achieve much.

Those who spoke in favour of the strike to continue wondered why the strike should be called off on the basis of pleas and verbal promises by the president, when the government is allegedly reputed for not to honoring agreements.

They were said to have argued that the suffering by students and members in the last four months would be a waste if something concrete did not come out of the strike to improve the situation in universities.

It was further gathered that those for the suspension of the strike spoke passionately on the need to consider the impact of the strike on students and the gesture from President Jonathan, who met personally with ASUU leaders and pleaded with them to suspend the strike.

A few of them were quoted as saying it was better to suspend the strike and find other ways of pursuing their demands so as not to lose the support of the people.

It was learnt that the Branch ASUU Chairman, Dr. David Jangkham, after announcing the result of the voting, said it would be taken to the national body which would collate the referendum on the issue from various chapters to come up with a position on whether the strike would be suspended or sustained.

A member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, expressed fears that the referenda in other branches might follow the same trend “if the briefing we got here is what they got.”

UNILAG

A source at University of Lagos, UNILAG, chapter, told Vanguard that the debate at its congress was on whether to end or suspend the strike.

He said: “We eventually moved to suspend the strike and end it only when the President pumps in the first N220 billion into the universities in January 2014.

“Although this is not totally in line with the 2009 agreement, we feel that we can suspend the strike out of respect for the President. We just want to give him the benefit of doubt, and hope that he fulfills his promise.”

LASU

At Lagos State University, LASU, one of the executive members of ASUU, who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity, affirmed that though the chapter was not averse to the proposal of President Jonathan, but the consensus at its congress was that ASUU should not just be a monitoring body when the fund is finally injected.

He said: “After our congress, which lasted several hours, it was the resolve of our chapter that the strike should not be called off, because we are uncomfortable with the fact that the Federal Government has said that ASUU will just be a monitoring officer, while the Minister of Education will be the implementation officer.

“We argued that we must be part and parcel of how the funds are managed and what they have earmarked for within the period of five years.

“How can we know if the Ministry of Education and other authorities are prudently spending the funds for the proposed projects if ASUU is not part of the management committee? So, our position is that the strike should not be called off.”

LASU’s internal issues

The source added that LASU chapter of ASUU may embark on its local action, after the national strike is suspended or called off if the university’s Governing Council and the State Government fail to adequately address some of its local issues, which border on members’ welfare and a reduction in the institution’s tuition fees.

He said: “It is our resolve at the congress that if the state government and the university’s Governing Council, which is meeting on Wednesday, fail to address our local issues adequately, we shall embark on local actions.

“The university management has wasted four months without addressing our local issues, which border on the casualisation of our academic staff, the steep increment in tuition fees paid by students and the non-implementation of the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 2012, which allows academic staff on professorial cadre to retire at 70 years against the former 65 years.”

At UI

At the University of Ibadan, Vanguard gathered that members asked their leadership to commit the President to signing the resolution of FG/ASUU meeting held last week and include non-victimisation clause.

The Chairman, ASUU, University of Ibadan, Dr. Segun Ajiboye, said that the union had set up project monitoring committee to ensure that funds released by government was not misappropriated.

Ajiboye maintained that it was not how quick the strike ends but how well it ends, adding that the goal of the strike must be actualised.

According to him, it was regrettable that it took the Federal Government four months to think education was an important sector, adding that no country in the world plays with education the way Nigerian leaders do.

David-West

Also, former Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West said, yesterday, that ASUU would continue to go on strike as long as injustice remained in the system.

He said this at the UI-ASUU congress, where he vowed to always support all the struggles that would lead to the rejuvenation of the education sector.

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ASUU Meetings Update: UNILAG, UI, Others Voted In Congresses To Call Off Strike





Barring a last-minute change, the National Executive Committee of ASUU will at its meeting on Wednesday night suspend the lingering ASUU strike to allow public university students to return to their classes as reports from the various local congresses of the union today has shown.

Myschool gathered that at the University; members of ASUU in the University who have been front-liners in the industrial action today accepted the new offer from FG and voted that the strike be suspended. Other Universities that have so far voted for the suspension of the industrial action are Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Usman Dan Fodio University Sokoto, Federal University of Technology, Minna, and the University of Lagos. Others are, the University of Calabar, Federal University of Technology Akure and Ekiti State University. As of Press time, only the University of Benin has refused to yield to the call that the 4-month old ASUU strike be suspended.

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".

It will be recall the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) has on 1 July, 2013 embarked on an indefinite strike to put pressure on the FG to implement the 2009 agreement it entered into with the Union.

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The strike by Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) may end on or before 15th
November,2013 if feelers from the union’s zonal
congresses are anything to go by.
Journalists gathered from reliable sources that
the national leadership had briefed the zonal
chapters of the union on the outcome of the
recent meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan.
A source close to the leadership told journalists
in Zaria yesterday that “The zonal congresses
where held on Wednesday 6th November, 2013.
For example, the Kano Zone meeting was held at
the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria.
“At the end of the meeting the body language of
ASUU chairmen that make up the zone and
attended the meeting indicated that they may
accept the offer of the president, but you know
this depends on the outcome of the congresses of
the various universities that make up each zone.
“All the universities in Nigeria that are
participating in the strike will now hold their
individual congresses on Monday, 11th
November,2013 to brief their lecturers on what
the president has offered. If majority of the
lecturers in every university agree to accept the
offer of the federal government, it means that
the national leadership of ASUU will call off the
strike on or before Friday, 15th November,2013
as all the results of the congresses would have
been collated latest by Wednesday.
“We are optimistic but it depends on the
decision that individual lecturers would make,”
the source said.
Chairman of ASUU-ABU Zaria chapter, Dr.
Muhammad Kabir Aliyu, confirmed that ABU
Zaria would have its congress on Monday next
week.


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The various chapters of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, are scheduled to
hold their congresses on Monday to decide
whether or not to suspend the over four month
indefinite strike.
This disclosure was made by the chairman of the
University of Calabar, UNICAL, branch of ASUU,
Dr. James Okpiliya. Okpiliya, who spoke
exclusively with Saturday Mirror, further
disclosed that the report of the chapter
congresses will be submitted to an enlarged
National Executive Committee, NEC, of the
union.
According to the Senior Lecturer at the
Department of English and Literary Studies,
“Nigerians should understand that ASUU is
structured in a way that the national president
has no power to call off or suspend strike.
“In fact, even NEC cannot on its own suspend
strike, and that is why all the universities will
hold chapter congresses to decide whether to
suspend the strike or not. “When we are done on
Monday, we will simultaneously submit our
individual reports to NEC on Wednesday,”
Okpiliya said.
He noted that the strike will be called-off if the
number of branches for is more than those
against. Asked to be categorical on when a
decision will likely be made, he said “may be
Saturday”.
It will be recalled that President Goodluck
Jonathan had held a marathon meeting with the
leadership of ASUU on Monday, where he was
said to have offered the union N220 billion as
part of its “enhanced allowances.”
Consequently, ASUU president, Dr. Nasir Fagge,
who led his members to the over ten hours’
meeting, said he was taking “a message” from
President Jonathan to NEC. ASUU declared an
indefinite strike on July 1, to compel the federal
government to implement the 2009 agreement
both parties were said to have signed.


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Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have given the Federal Government certain conditions to be met before the union could call off its four-month old strike.

Part of this condition, is that all federal parastatals in charge of fund, labour, and education must sign the agreement purportedly reached between its leadership and the Federal Government on Tuesday.

A prominent member of the union, who craved anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the union, told our corespondent that doing this would give the association the confidence that “the Federal Government knows what it is doing when it signed the agreement.”

He said, “I must tell you that our mandate remains. The only mandate we have is that 2009 agreement must be met. We have not reached any agreement with the Federal Government.

“Since the Federal Government wants to be releasing N220bn every year for five years, then all monetary and regulatory agencies must sign. The Central Bank of Nigeria, Ministries of Finance and Labour, National Assembly, Office of the Presidency, National Universities Commission, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Trade Union Congress and our umbrella body, the Nigeria Labour Congress, must sign with consequences stated.

“The reason we will ensure this is that we don’t want argument tomorrow that the agreement was entered in error or that they don’t know the implication of signing the agreement. If possible, documents that will provide for automatic deduction of the agreed money at a particular/agreed date must be provided.”

The leadership of the union had engaged in a 13-hour marathon meeting with government delegation led by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja between Monday and Tuesday.

Though it was generally perceived that both ASUU and the Federal Government achieved breakthrough in negotiation for the first time after the lengthy meeting with the President, Saturday PUNCH learnt that the lecturers might not be in a hurry to go back to class.

Another source close to ASUU who was also part of the marathon meeting with the President in Abuja, said there was nothing new in what the President promised members of the union.

According to him, government had always failed in implementing agreements reached with ASUU. He said, “Truly the President sat down for more than 13 hours with us. He told us that we were not leaving the venue until the issues were resolved. The Federal Government also promised to inject funds into the system, but a promissory note is not enough.

“Where would the money come from? There is no assurance that government will provide money especially with the mop-up policy in place that ensures that unspent money is refunded to government’s coffers at the end of every year.’’

Asked when the lecturers would call off the strike, he said, “I doubt if the strike is ending soon. The problem is with the Finance Minister. Where is government getting N1trn from? A government that could not implement agreement between 2009 and 2013, what is the guarantee that they would honour this agreement.

“It is all politics. We are still awaiting directives from our branches. We have told them the outcome of the meeting with the President but we are waiting for them to tell us what they think of government’s proposal.

“Imagine the Minister of Education has travelled out of the country. He was appointed Vice President for UNESCO General Assembly. How can he travel out of the country without resolving the crisis in the education sector?’’

He said the Federal Government should spend the trillions of dollars in its Sovereign Wealth Fund to finance university education and improve infrastructure in the country.

A key component of the agreement reached by both ASUU and the Federal Government was that government would inject N1.1trn into public universities in the next five years. Government is expected to inject N220bn yearly into the public university sector beginning from 2014. But government said it could only release N100bn this year, noting that the amount had already been processed.

The Federal Government also indicated that the N1.1trn would be domiciled at the Central Bank of Nigeria to show its commitment to the agreement. The money is expected to be released on quarterly basis to the universities so that there won’t be any problem about funding the deal.

The National Universities Commission and the Trade Union Congress will be the joint guarantors of the agreement while the Minister of Education will be the implementing officer. Government, according to sources at the meeting, also agreed to revamp public universities by ensuring that all the issues that always lead to strike are dealt with once and for all.

Asked to confirm if lecturers were planning to call off their strike, ASUU Chairman, University of Calabar branch, Dr. James Okpiliya, said the local chapter was yet to get formal briefing on the meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan.

He, however, said the union would make its position known to the press on the President’s offer after the end of a meeting scheduled for mid-night Thursday.

Also, Chairman of ASUU in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Adegbola Akinola, said that members must be properly briefed on the resolution between the Federal Government and representatives of ASUU in the last marathon meeting.

He said the only condition that could make its members accept any offer would be the provision of necessary documents.

He said, “The NEC meeting may not hold now. It is the local congress that is expected to hold first which is either tomorrow or Monday.

“Our members are not yet briefed about the details, so it is when we meet that we will know the details and then discuss whether what we got is sufficient enough to justify our action or demand.

“I can’t really pre-empt the mind of other members. But if we are to accept any offer, there must be document to back that up. We need to obtain documents on that. Maybe if there is a document, people may look at it critically.”

However, the Federal Government said it would include the N1.1trn promised ASUU in the education budget starting from next year. It also said it was waiting for the union to know the next step to take.

The Director, Press and Public Relations of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Olu Lipide, told one of our correspondents on Thursday that government was waiting for ASUU to take the necessary steps.

Meanwhile, the Dean of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, Prof. Omololu Soyombo, has said that the general ASUU body must agree before the strike could be called off.

He said, “It is difficult to believe the President but we give him the benefit of doubt. We believe that the President is noble, the ASUU president promised to give him a feedback. If this had been done earlier, the strike wouldn’t have extended for so long.”

Corroborating his view, the Chairman, Lagos State University, ASUU, Dr. Jamiu Oluwatoki said, “It won’t be long again. By next week there should be a NEC meeting and subsequently the congress meetings before the president can call off the strike.”

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