ASUU BREAKING NEWS This Afternoon, Tuesday, November 17

Brainnews is back this afternoon to update you on the latest from the ASUU strike across Nigeria.

 

Below is the latest you need to know:

1. ASUU strike: Governors seek shift of positions

Governors seek shift of positions over ASUU strike

 

Worried by the shutdown of the nation’s universities for about eight months, governors have asked the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to shift grounds.

They are pleading with the Federal Government to create a temporary salary payment window pending the outcome of the ongoing testing of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), recommended by ASUU.

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA is already subjecting UTAS to test.

It was learnt that the governors have met with some past leaders of ASUU on how to end the strike on mutual terms.

ASUU has been on strike since March 23, leading to a near loss of 2019/2020 academic session.

The nation’s varsities may also record admission backlogs, should the crisis persist beyond December.

According to investigation, the governors are disturbed by the consequences of the continued closure of the universities on the future of younger generation.

2. Hurray, ASUU wants prompt pay for endless strikes!

ASUU STRIKE

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nigeria’s celebrated and unfazed intellectual parasites, just declared their democratic right to pay for work not done — applause, applause!

And to push their cause in the deepest and most consuming of democratic sympathies, ASUU has declared its members, never-appreciated arch-patrons fighting for the eventual salvation of the Nigerian Academy, celebrated beggars, beggared by the very cause they love and fight for — tears, tears, drip, drip!

And why must ASUU not push for pay for endless strikes that undo the young charges in its care, instead of ceaseless teaching, that endow them? Why not?

If DisCos bill for darkness and get away with it, why shouldn’t ASUU growl for salaries, for endless strikes? Is that not a sacred right, which the harassed government have a sacred duty to fulfil?

And after King Kong ASUU has done it and got away with it too many times, who will stop it now? If past all-mighty military governments could not do it, is it this miserable civilian order, that has to dodge a fusillade of bullets from the cannon of citizens’ rights, that would prevail?

3. ASUU insists on salary payment during strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday accused the Federal Government of “dehumanising” its members by withholding their salaries while on strike.

It said the non-payment of salaries have reduced the country’s intellectuals to “beggars and nonentities”.

The union said the government has not addressed any of its demands to a “logical conclusion.”

ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, said in an interview with The Nation: “What we are doing is a patriotic duty to this country because we know that in every society that has ever experienced development, universities have been used as the incubation centres.

“It is like we are missing it in Nigeria and the ruling class are not demonstrating sufficient knowledge of what we are missing.

“They are toying with the intellectual aspect of Nigeria. Yet we say we want to compete in a knowledge economy of the 21 century. You can’t have a knowledge economy without having a knowledge society.

4. ASUU Strike: Buhari playing with country’s educational system – Cleric

Buhari playing with country’s educational system over ASUU Strike – Cleric

Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Afikpo, Rev. Paul Udogu, had said the federal government is playing politics with the nation’s educational system.

He said rather than playing politics with the system, it was time for the government to overhaul the education system and invest heavily in the sector.

Speaking during of 5th synod of the Afikpo Anglican Diocese held at Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic Unwana, Afikpo, Udogu argued that most of the nation’s tertiary institutions look like glorified secondary schools.

The opined that there are poor infrastructures in the tertiary institutions with crowed crowded lecture rooms with little or no furniture for students, inadequate funds for research, and poor workers remuneration which he said pose a serious challenge to the system.

“The introduction of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System(IPPIS) by the federal government is a good move to curb the issue of corruption and ‘ghost workers’ in our higher institutions but the irregularities and the deficiencies in the IPPIS have not helped matters, as ASUU advocate for University Transparency and Accountability Solution(UTAS).

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