ANSU; ASUU FIXES DATE TO START STRIKE THIS WEEK, NO LECTURES, NO ACTIVITIES, NOTHING!!!

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,
said it would embark on a one week warning
strike over failure by the Federal Government to

implement the 2009 Agreement and 2013 MoU.
ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi,
spoke on Monday at the University of Abuja
during a press conference organised by the
union.
Mr. Ogunyemi said following a nationwide
consultation with members, the National
Executive Council, NEC, of ASUU resolved to
embark on a one week warning strike from
Wednesday November16.
“Many aspects of the 2013 MoU and the 2009
agreement with the Federal Government have
either been unimplemented or despairingly
handled.
“The agreements are: Payments of staff
entitlements since December 2015, funding of
universities for revitalisation, pension, TSA and
university autonomy and renegotiation of 2009
Agreement.
“Failure by the Federal Government to implement
this agreement has put ASUU leadership in severe
difficulty, responding to inquiries from members
of the union about the state of our agreement,”
he said.
The ASUU president said that during the warning
strike, there shall be no teaching, examination
and no attendance at statutory meetings in all
branches.
He, however, called on all education-loving
Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government
to address the patriotic demands of ASUU until
the Nigerian university system is repositioned.
“With the release of the 2016 Annual Budget, our
union wondered aloud why allocation to
education dropped from 11 per cent in 2015 to
eight per cent in 2016.
“With the introduction of TSA, the federal
universities find it extremely difficult to
discharge their core responsibilities of teaching,
research and community services.
“We tried to correct the erroneous impression in
government circles that the capital and research
grants to universities were being handled by the
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund),” he
said.