College students and dad and mom look ahead to ASUU’s choice at the strike
ASUU president denies calling country varsities quack
The countrywide govt Council (NEC) of the educational team of workers Union of Universities, ASUU, will Sunday night time/Monday morning determine whether the union will retain it's over six-month strike or not, The nation has discovered.
The nation reports that ASUU began a national industrial movement on February 14 and has persevered to increase it as there has been no great agreement with the authorities.
Bear in mind that on August 1, ASUU announced every other extension of the strike with the aid of some other four weeks.
The NEC assembly guarantees to be a decisive one and may decide whether the government might drop the union as is being rumored in a few quarters.
The country accumulated that dad and mom and college students are preserving their ears extensively open to hear the final results of the striking academics.
On social media where many have aired their opinions, they appealed to the college teachers to present peace a risk, resume dialogue with the Federal government, and return to lecture rooms.
But, a final decision on whether to name off the strike or expand it is going to be reached at the NEC meeting.
The state discovered that various ASUU branches have held their congresses during the week, and the general public voted for every other rollover of an indefinite strike.
The renegotiation of the 2009 agreement and the substitute of IPPIS with UTAS are the predominant needs of the striking teachers.
Meanwhile, the Senior personnel association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-educational body of workers Union of instructional and Allied establishments (NASU), and the national association of academic Technologists (NAAT) have suspended their moves for a few months to permit the Federal government to investigate their needs.
The President of the Union, Emmanuel Osodeke, had come below sharp complaint regarding different universities that announced resumption regardless of the union’s ongoing strike as “quacks”.
But he denied the now-viral record. Describing the record as faux, Osodeke lamented unprofessionalism in reportage, alleging that the media geared toward growing confusion in the machine.
He said, “there's nothing like that. It's far a lie. I've instructed myself that I can now not communicate to the clicking once more because they constantly misrepresent things.”
ASUU has, but, accused the Minister of training Adamu Adamu, of leading a gang of ministers to combat them over the continued strike.
The university academics made the allegation at a press conference held at the ASUU Secretariat, University of Jos, yesterday.
Prof. Lawan Abubakar, the Zonal Coordinator of the Bauchi zone of ASUU, who addressed the press on behalf of his colleagues, said, “Adamu now leads his colleagues like Chris Ngige, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmad, and so on., to misrepresent facts and lie to the coolest human beings of Nigeria against ASUU.”
Abubakar who described the antics of the minister as unlucky stated, “it's far the very best level of unpatriotic disservice a minister might do to his state, especially a zone like schooling which is the spine of the development of any united states.
“If this is the manner to end the ASUU strike, ASUU, Bauchi area is taking exception to it and assuring Adamu Adamu that he is incorrect; he has as a substitute succeeded in undermining the destiny of Nigerian youths.
“If it would take him six months to best come up with this deceit as an approach to the strike, we then have the right to invite whether he has a brain in his skull. It has now come to bear, that the minister had all alongside been deceiving all of us because 2017, as far as ASUU’s agitations in the tenure of this authorities are worried.”
He brought: “We need you, gents of the clicking and the majority, to know that the Federal authorities via Adamu Adamu did no longer approach ASUU with any affordable and suited answers to the issues in the rivalry that brought about the present day strike; the depressing and insulting award of the authorities had been as it should be and squarely rejected by way of the union.
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