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The Federal Government has expressed optimism that the decisions reached in its three-part meeting with university-based unions would yield fruits next week. The Head, Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr Olajide Oshundun, in a statement on Friday, said some agreements had been reached between the government and the unions. The Academic Staff Union of ...

By Casmir Igbokwe The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has become a renowned hostage of some sort. Recently, he informed whoever cared to listen that he had budgeted N50 million to set himself free from the prison camp of his own political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Another N50 million, he said, would come from his supporters. ...

The Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, has stated that the Federal Government does not have the funds to meet its obligations in the agreement signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Ngige said the government was considering a renegotiation of the terms of the agreement with ASUU, in the effort to end the ongoing strike ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Let’s play politics, because as they say, all politics is local. The absurd theatre of trying mightily to turn Anambra State into a private fiefdom by the powers-that-be did not start this Wednesday. The political desperadoes who always claim to have INEC in their back pocket and the presidency under their top hat have the modus operandi ...

The meeting between the Federal Government team and the non-teaching staff in the universities under the umbrella of Joint Action Committee, JAC, ended Tuesday without any resolution of the contentious issues. Recall that JAC comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU had threatened to shut down the ...

The Federal Government says it has delivered on offers made to the Academic Staff Union of Universities. This was in reaction to the claim by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, that the government had failed to deliver on offers made to the union. Ogunyemi had blamed the FG for union’s failure to call ...

The Federal Government on Monday night announced the reduction of petrol price by N5 per litre. But the reduction will take effect from next week Monday. Recall that the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, had told the government negotiation team led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, that until ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has agreed to call off its eight-month strike which has grounded academic activities in the public universities since March. The union leadership reached the consensus during a meeting with the government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment,  Dr Chris Ngige, in Abuja, on Friday. The government also pledged to pay N40bn ...

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) appeared on Friday to be moving closer to an agreement after government decided to exempt the union from the controversial Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The university lecturers are expected to develop their own payment platform, the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), which will replace IPPIS. ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says the federal government is insensitive to the plight of lecturers in Nigeria’s public universities. According to the union, lecturers in public universities still earn the same salary since 2009 and rather than an upward review of their take-home pay, the federal government chose to worsen their pitiable conditions with ...