ASUU BREAKING NEWS This Morning, Friday, November 13
Brainnews returns this morning to update you on the latest from the ASUU Strike across Nigeria.
Below is the latest from the strike:
1. UNIPORT ASUU vows to shun acting VC after January
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Port Harcourt chapter, has vowed to shun the acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Okodudu, if he remained in office beyond his stipulated term of six months as provided by the Universities (miscellaneous provision) Act 2003.
The union said their stand was premised on the fact that the Federal Government had refused to constitute a Governing Council in the institution, pivotal to the appointment of a vice chancellor, a development the union described as a “tacit approval of sole administration in the university”.
Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday, the Chairman, ASUU, University of Port Harcourt chapter, Dr Austen Sado, said, “The government is engineering a crisis in the University of Port Harcourt if it fails to constitute a Governing Council for the university immediately.
2. UNILAG: ASUU, NASU hail Buhari’s directive reinstating sacked VC
THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has approved the reinstatement of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Toyin Ogundipe, saying his removal by the Governing Council did not follow due process.
This was as the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, UNILAG Branch, lauded the decision of the President to reinstate Prof. Ogundipe.
The government said the process adopted by the council in the appointment of Prof. Omololu Soyombo as acting Vice Chancellor of the university was inconsistent with the provisions of the law relating to the appointment of an acting Vice Chancellor.
3. SSANU, NASU reject ASUU’s payment platform
THE industrial crisis rocking the nation’s public universities worsened on Wednesday when the Federal Government said the non-academic workers in the public universities rejected the new payment platform proposed by lecturers.
The Federal Government is currently studying the University Transparency Account System presented to it by the Academic Staff of Union of Universities.
The development had forced the Senior Staff Association of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities to kick against the payment platform.
The Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige, told journalists that the development was raising fresh concerns in the nation’s ivory towers.