The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the University of Lagos from February 12-13 during which it undertook a comprehensive review of the state of Nigerian universities and the worsening living and working conditions in the university system.
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At the end of the meeting, the NEC resolved to embark on a four-week roll-over total and comprehensive strike action, beginning from today, February 14.
Issues discussed during the meeting are:
– Non-implementation of Memorandum of Action and Memorandum of Understanding by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
– Non-deployment of University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS); declaring that FG’s IPPIS is found to be marred with irregularities.
– Failure of FG to release white paper many months after the visitation panels to universities submitted their reports.
– Non-payment of outstanding Earned Academic Allowance (EAA), which are serving as triggers for an industrial crisis in the universities.
– Non-payment of EAA to members of ASUU at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
– Illegal appointment of Dr Isah Ali Ibrahim Pantami as a professor of cybersecurity by the Federal University of Technology (FUTO), Owerri.
– Decayed infrastructural facilities, poor staff welfare as a result of the proliferation of State and Federal Universities.
– Victimization of academics in State Universities
– Accusing JAMB of encroaching into university autonomy
– State of the nation; which includes, rising insecurity, kidnapping, banditry and insurgency in various part of the country.
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