ASUU Continues Strike

[Muhsin]

Nagode Aunty Husna for such a good prayer. Wannan reply dinma, I did it in BUK library internet services centre. Everything is going to be soon alright for we are waiting for new timetable right now to be placed.

Do you know something? We're almost all puzzled--thinking about the conclusion of our exams. Some have ineluctably forgot where they are even heading-almost forget what their courses are all about and will have to start new studies. And more frightenen, the exam, as the romour has it, is going to be started on Monday next week.

Anyway, mine is just praying and reading what we're taught last before the 'arrival' of Mr. Strike that strike us half-dead, half-baked, amidst the way.

Allah ya bamu sa'ar jarabawa Muda. Have you finished or about to?

[Dan-Borno]

ASUU gives FG 21 days to conclude negotiation
By MODESTUS CHUKWULAKA, Abuja
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has again pleaded with President Umar Musa Yar'Adua to order the immediate reinstatement of the 49 dismissed lecturers of the University of Ilorin in the spirit of the agreement reached between it and the Federal Government in March.

It also wants the president to intervene and ensure that the on-going ASUU-Federal Government negotiations are concluded before the year runs out.

Specifically, ASUU wants the government to expedite negotiation in the areas of funding which is the basis for the restoration of the universities, remuneration of teachers, democratization of university system, university autonomy, review of the role of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the Education Tax Fund (ETF).

ASUU President, Dr. Abdullahi Sule-Kano, who spoke to journalists in Abuja yesterday expressed surprise that the 49 lecturers, who were arbitrarily sacked at the University of Ilorin were yet to be reinstated nine months after the government had accepted to re-absorb the affected teachers as a condition for the suspension of ASUU's last strike in March, 2007.

Sule-Kano said his union had written to Yar'Adua, who is the visitor to the university, asking him to resolve the matter politically, pointing out that ASUU had assumed that once the reinstatement of the lecturers had been agreed by the parties at the negotiation table, they would be immediately recalled.
Expressing surprise that the government had failed to fulfil its part of the bargain, ASUU said the re-absorption of the 49 lecturers was something that Yar'Adua could handle as there was no disagreement between the parties as to the fact that the rights of the teachers had been violated.

Noting that his union had to suspend its last strike in deference to the appeal pledge made by the president that the contentious issues would be resolved, Sule-Kano said the National Executive Council of the union would meet and decide on further line of action should the government failed to conclude the outstanding aspects of the negotiations by the end of this month.

"The hopes raised by the presidential intervention in June in the academic community are yet to be realized," the ASUU president said, pointing out that so long as the negotiations remained open-ended, the effects would continue to be demoralization, discouragement, alienation and the one-way movement Nigerian lecturers to Southern Africa, Europe, the US and the Middle East.

Sule-Kano said ASUU had been particularly worried because it had hoped that any agreement reached in the course of the negotiation and which had financial implications must be provided for in the 2007 budget. "Without a firm funding commitment anchored on the budget, the agreement, no matter how sound in content, would not yield result," he said, adding that it was for this that pressed for a speedy conclusion of the negotiation in view of earlier agreement that the negotiation would end in September.
According to Sule-Kano, "the sense of importance and urgency attached to the president's pronouncement on the need to resolve the problems of the university system appear to have been lost," since "federal and state budgetary exercises had not received any input arising from the vital negotiation on the funding of the universities."
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ASUU kenan, sun ga sabon gwamnati, they want to try
on this one too.

[manasmusa]

Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihirrajiuun.

mun shiga uku mun lalace, I dont know about this before but its expected since. if you can recall ASUU did not said that they dismised the strike but,postppned until GOVT. do something. may be govt did not.

We at BUK can say Alhamdulillah! sai dai mu jajantawa 'yan uwam mu at other Universities. Allah ya kiyaye gaba.

Negotiating kuma we can say HAKA aka saba if you could remembar that is how it goes during last strike. I can remember there was a day that negotiation was arranged but through out the scheduled time neither ASUU nor Federal Govt delegation were seen. Except mafarauta labarsi - jornalist that are waitin for the outcome.

Yanda aka dafa da haka zamu ci mu dai. with or without a self interest strike we must watch out tunda babu 'ya'yansu A Nigerian Universities.

[Muhsin]

Wata sabuwa...inji 'yan caca. To, Allah gamu gareka.

[Dan-Borno]

Unilorin 49: ASUU begins strike today  | Print |   E-mail 
Written by Inalegwu Shaibu     
Sunday, 17 February 2008 
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will begin a one week warning strike today to protest the sack of 49 lecturers of the University of Ilorin .
The decision to embark on the warning strike was contain in a press statement signed by ASUU president Dr. Adbdulahi Sule-Kano.

Reason giving by the union for embarking on the strike is the breakdown of negotiation between ASUU and the federal government leading to its failure to order the re-instatement of sacked lecturers.

The statement reads, "In 2001, forty-nine academic staff were sacked from their jobs at the University of Ilorin in violation of the non-victimization clause in the June 30, 2001 Agreement between the Federal Government and ASUU.

"Since 2001, ASUU has put its case before several competent bodies, which established that the sack of the UNILORIN 49 was unlawful and recommended their recall.

"Despite all these interventions, the injustice at the University of Ilorin has been sustained. Prof. A.E. Annor, Prof. E.E. Adegbija, and Dr. Samuel Ajayi have died, unable to cope with the consequences of injustice done to them at the University of Ilorin . Others are still suffering from deprivation and lack of humanness on the part of those who wield power both at the University of Ilorin and in Government.

"ASUU NEC, at its last meeting held January 26-27 at the Anambra State University, Uli, resolved that if by Friday, February 15, 2008, there is no satisfactory progress toward reinstating the UNILORIN 49 as promised by the Visitor to the University of Ilorin as conveyed by the letter from the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, 26th June, 2007, ASUU branches would embark upon a one-week warning strike.

"Accordingly, since all efforts to get Government to make satisfactory progress in reinstating the UNILORIN 49 have been rebuffed, all ASUU Branches shall go on one-week warning strike from Monday 18th February, 2008 to Friday 22nd February, 2008."

The Union hereby appeals to all well-meaning Nigerians, organizations and individuals, to prevail upon Government to resolve this problem now as soon as possible, adding that it is not interested in another prolonged crisis that will damage the education of Nigerian people.

[Muhsin]

INNAALILLAHI WA INNAA ILAIHI RAAJI'UUN.