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  The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says  Academic Activities in Nigeria Universities will start in all Nigeria Universities by January 2021. He says the negotiations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government had reached 98 percent, adding that it remains only two percent to be completed.  He said this on Monday in Alor, Idemili South local government area of Anambra State, during the launch of Ngige free medical outreach at the Community’s Health Centre. Ngige said, “We have met about 98 percent of the request of ASUU. Some 5 to 2 percent is what you can call promissory notes. “So, I am very hopeful that by midnight today, there are some works we are supposed to get on to do. They also have some work they are supposed to do on their own side with their people. “Tuesday, we will meet in the afternoon and we will compare notes. We will put everything on the table and compare. I believe that we might ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has explained why lecturers are yet to call off their eight-month-old strike. Its leadership said the Federal Government has neither implemented nor fulfilled any of the offers it made to ASUU.  For instance, the union explained that the salaries of its members withheld by the government have not been paid despite the latest offer from the government negotiating team. The government, in its latest offers to ASUU leadership, pledged to pay N40 billion as Earned Allowance and N30 billion for the revitalisation of the university system, bringing the total payment to N70 billion.  The government also agreed to settle the arrears of salaries of the lecturers before December 2020, but after due consultation with the government side. It also accepted the demand by ASUU that they be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) pending the approval of their proposed payment system, the University Transpa...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that the federal government would meet all agreements with unions in the educational sector.  Buhari gave the assurance while expressing concern over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.  He appealed to the lecturers to return to their duty posts. The President spoke at the 2020 convocation and 72nd founding day celebration of the University of Ibadan, on Tuesday. President  Buhari was represented at the ocassion by the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed. He urged all unions in the educational sector to embrace dialogue, rather than confrontation.  “I wish to assure all stakeholders, in the education sector, that the Federal Government will continue to meet its obligations and agreements with all unions . “It is my earnest desire that all unions should shed the toga of confrontation and embrace dialogue, for the sake of our children an...