The union’s plea highlights the urgent need for reforms to alleviate the hardships faced by Nigerian academics and to restore the integrity of the country’s educational institutions.
Ongoing disputes over issues such as the payment of Earned Academic Allowance and the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement have fueled recurrent strikes in government-owned universities.
ASUU, during the meeting, lamented the deliberate attempt by the Accountant General’s office to further impoverish its members by the refusal to pay their promotion arrears of the majority since 2018.
“Zonal coordinators and branch chairpersons should immediately mobilize our members to participate in the action.” ASUU
This was as the Trade Union Congress said it was expecting the Federal Government to provide feedback on its demand for N200,000 minimum wage by June 19.
Recall that on Monday, during his inaugural speech at Eagle Square in Abuja, the President, Bola Tinubu declared that the era of subsidy payment on fuel has ended.
Adamu also noted that the effective running of institutions depended on the recommendations contained in the document.
Recall that the four university based unions, SSANU, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Non-Academic Staff of Allied and Educational Institutions, NASU and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, had last year, shut down public universities over the inability of the government to attend to their demands.
“That bill is in the Senate, awaiting concurrence. We hope it will get to the president before the expiration of this administration,” he stated.
“They called on Nigerians to tell the FG that any attempt to casualize lecturers would spell doom for the university system and cripple it.”
“I was pained to note that this outgoing Federal Government has taken deliberate actions to humiliate our university lecturers. The matter is no longer for ASUU members as he that is down needed fear no fall.”
Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, President of the Academic Workers Union of Universities (ASUU), has argued that parents and students will have to deal with them for a little longer as the … Read More
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