ASUU BREAKING NEWS THIS AFTERNOON, Friday, November 20
Good afternoon and welcome to Brainnews updates on the ongoing ASUU strike across the nation.
Below is the latest you need to read:
1. UTAS: NUC has framework for hardware, says ASUU
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the National University Commission has the framework for warehousing the University Transparency Accountability Solution software.
UTAS is the platform created by ASUU as an alternative to the Federal Government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
The Chairman of ASUU, Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi, made this known in an interview with The PUNCH while reacting to the statement by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, that the Federal Government did not make provision for the procurement of UTAS hardware in the budget.
Ngige had also claimed that if the software passed the integrity test being conducted by the Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency, the university teachers did not have the needed fund to procure the necessary hardware for its implementation.
2. Strike: FG meets ASUU faction, reviews registration application
The Federal Government has said it was reviewing an application for registration by the Congress of University Academics which was requesting registration as a trade union.
The union members who were part of the Academic Staff Union of Universities applied to the Ministry of Labour and Employment after their application for registration was rejected by the Corporate Affairs Commission.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, told CONUA executives who visited him in his office on Thursday, that they have a right to apply for registration as an association distinct from the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
He added, “This is because the Nigerian constitution in section 40, which you have rightly quoted here, gives you the right to relate with persons or like minds. And to that extent, it says that you can form trade unions, and for us as politicians, we can form political parties subject to INEC registration as a valid political party, within which you can enjoy rights as candidates and other rights associated with that.
