{"id":9932,"date":"2022-08-16T21:41:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2022-08-16T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:41:18","slug":"strike-to-continue-as-asuu-fg-meeting-ends-in-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9932","title":{"rendered":"Strike To Continue As ASUU-FG Meeting Ends In Deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday\u2019s meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government has again ended without an agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n

This means the six-month old strike by public university lecturers is set to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n

The striking lecturers had met with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee on Tuesday at the National University Commission in Abuja with high hopes of resolving the impasse.<\/span><\/p>\n

A senior member of ASUU, who craved anonymity told Channels Television that members of the Briggs renegotiation committee did not come with any new offer on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, the ASUU source said, the committee plead with the lecturers to suspend the ongoing strike, with promises that their concerns will be included in the 2023 budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the source, the meeting, which started at about 12pm, lasted for about three hours without any agreement reached.<\/span><\/p>\n

ASUU\u2019s Demands<\/span><\/p>\n

ASUU embarked on a four-week warning strike on February 14.<\/span><\/p>\n

On March 14, the union extended the industrial action by another two months to allow the government meet all of its demands. A 12-week extension was announced on May 9.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since May 9, the union has remained on strike, vowing to persist until its demands are met.<\/span><\/p>\n

The academics are seeking improved welfare, revitalisation of public universities and academic autonomy among other demands.<\/span><\/p>\n

One bone of contention for the academics is the non-payment of university revitalisation funds, which amounts to about N1.1 trillion.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Federal Government has said it doesn\u2019t have the money to pay such an amount, citing low oil prices during the Muhammadu Buhari administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

The agreement was struck in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another is the issue of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).<\/span><\/p>\n

The academics have proposed an alternative payroll system, the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday\u2019s meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government has again ended without an agreement. This means the six-month old strike by public university lecturers is set to continue. The striking lecturers had met with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee on Tuesday at the National University Commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[622,5635,200,5634,4714],"class_list":["post-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-asuu","tag-deadlock","tag-fg","tag-meeting","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9934,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions\/9934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}