'Fruitful' Talks May End Nigeria's Education Staff Strike
The government has said that its negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have yielded "fruitful" results. The strike that started 8 months ago, has seen the government make an offer of U.S.$183 million to the union for outstanding benefits to its members. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said: "ASUU will take the outcome to its members for ratification, and will revert back to the government by December 4, 2020, with a resolution to call off the strike". The union has also been at loggerheads with the government over a new Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System ( IPPIS), which the government says, will assist in curbing payroll fraud in Nigerian universities. The union has said IPPIS "will remove university autonomy".
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Nigeria:
'Fruitful' Talks With Govt May See Education Union Call Off Strike
This Day, 27 November 2020
* ASUU to meet with members for ratification of outcome Read more »
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Nigeria:
Education Staff Union Set to Call Off Strike as Govt offers U.S.$183 Million
Vanguard, 27 November 2020
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to call off its eight-month-old strike after the Federal Government offered to pay the lecturers N70 billion. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Govt, Academic Union Meeting Ends in Deadlock
Premium Times, 4 November 2020
ASUU has been on strike since March and the lecturers say they are not backing down on their demands. Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU Strike Now Anti-People
Vanguard, 22 October 2020
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been on its latest strike since March 23, 2020. Prolonged strikes have been part of the unenviable traditions of the Union. They… Read more »
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Nigeria:
On ASUU Strike and Tone-Deaf Reactions
Daily Trust, 22 November 2020
The Igbo have a saying: one's height is not a yardstick for determining one's maturity. A Nigerian professor, who shall remain unnamed, recently said that the present ASUU strike… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Govt and ASUU, Enough Is Enough!
Daily Trust, 2 November 2020
It is now eight months since members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities [ASUU] commenced a strike, which began as a warning strike on March 9, 2020. Read more »
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