ASUU LATEST NEWS This Afternoon, Sunday, 6/12/2020

Brainnews returns this afternoon to update you on the latest from the ASUU strike.

Below is the latest from the ASUU strike;

1. ASUU, call off this strike for students’ sake

ASUU Strike And Students’ Right To Education

As students of public universities expect positive outcome from the second consultation of the various chapters of the Academic Union of Universities, ASUU, to review the ongoing industrial action, I have this to say: ASUU is understandably reluctant to end this strike. ASUU’s recent actions and inactions question their commitment, readiness to go back to the classrooms. I must say that if students’ interest is number one priority of ASUU, they should now consider the offers given to them by the federal government and waste no time to call off this strike.

Recall that exemption from IPPIS, increment of Earned Academic Allowances, EAA, and revitalization of universities were some major concern of ASUU; these have been exhaustively and positively resolved. Therefore, I wonder, having these issues addressed, what stops ASUU from ending this strike? One may continue to ask: for how long it will take ASUU to consider students’ frustrations? READ MORE HERE..

2. ASUU strike and students’ right to education

ASUU, when cometh the next strike or paradigm shift

The union says the strike is as a result of the disagreement between them and the federal government over the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) which ASUU said encroaches on the autonomy of the universities. And that the government also failed to implement the 2019 Memorandum of Action (MOA) signed with the federal government in 2019.

The strike is an infringement on the rights of Nigerian students to education. There are some key provisions in the 1999 constitution as amended and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights that guarantee the students’ right to education. While section 18 of the constitution says that “Government shall direct its policy towards ensuring that there are equal and adequate educational opportunities at all levels”; Article 11 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Right provides “that every child shall have the right to an education and prescribes measures that states must undertake as part of their efforts to achieve the full realisation of this right, including regarding school discipline and pregnant girls”. CONTINUE READING HERE..

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