ASUU Breaking News This Morning, November 9

Brainnews returns this morning, Monday, November 9, 2020 to update you on the latest from the ASUU Strike across the country.

Why Strike Will Continue - ASUU Reveals

Below is the latest you need to read from the ASUU Strike:

1. No pact as Govt, ASUU ‘shift grounds’

Both the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday claimed to have shifted grounds in the knotty negotiations to end the seven-month strike by public university lecturers.

However, there is no agreement yet to pave the way for the reopening of schools.

ASUU has been on strike since March 23, leaving the students stranded at home. They have now lost an academic session.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, said the Federal Government had tried its best to meet the demands of ASUU.

2. Fed Govt irresponsible on ASUU, IPPIS

Years of strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and repeated but broken agreements by the Nigerian government have done virtually nothing to reverse the worsening condition of Nigeria’s public universities. Forgive the pessimism, but conditions will continue to worsen in the universities until a government which knows what to do, and is willing to put its money where its mouth is, takes office. This government, like its predecessors, simply does not know how to set priorities. Education in Nigeria as a whole requires the declaration of an emergency. Instead, the government has peevishly and indifferently offered palliatives, citing arguments about declining national revenue. Nonsense. It’s a question of priorities.

The recent ASUU strike was ignited by the insistence of the federal government to pay university lecturers through a payroll system described as Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS). University teachers, already chafing under other disputes with the government relating to arrears in revitalisation funds to public universities and other germane issues, are adamant that the payroll system is inadequate and distortionary. The lecturers have suggested an alternative, the University Accountability and Transparency Solution (UTAS). But most commentators have sentimentally sided with the government, insisting that employees could not dictate how they are to be paid.

3. We’re tired of strike; pity the children of average Nigerians, ASUU begs FG

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday urged the Federal Government to pity the children of ordinary Nigerians and quickly attend to their demands noting that they are tired of strike action.

The union disclosed that FG is rushing the union to resume because the government is scared of youths’ protests after they saw their demonstration during #EndSARS agitations.

The Akure Zone of the union, represented by Dr Olayinka Awopetu of the Federal University of Technology, Akure; Dr Kayode Arogundade of Ekiti State University; Dr Adeola Egbedokun of Obafemi Awolowo University; and Dr Gabriel Omonijo of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, in a press conference, disclosed the position of the union.

The statement, which was read by the union zonal coordinator, Prof. Olu Olufayo, explained that the lingering industrial action of the union was to get the FG to fulfil the agreements of 2013 and 2019 and not primarily about Integrated Personnel and Payroll System (IPPIS).

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