The University of Ibadan has announced that its second semester examinations for the 2016/17 academic session would commence as scheduled from January 8, 2018.
This is in spite of the strike action embarked upon by members of the non teaching staff of Nigerian universities.
Strike: SSANU, NASU, NAAT remain adamant, demand N66bn
The NON teaching staff in the universities have said that their members will not resume work today pending when the Federal Government will pay them their Earned Allowances totalling over N66 billion.
ASUU: Catholic bishops declare strike as unnecessary, a burden But the Federal Government has promised to mop up money for the non teaching staff comprising the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Non Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions, NASU, and National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, alleging that the N23 billion released to the four university based unions was hijacked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
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SSANU, NASU, NAAT Strike Continues
Meeting between federal government officials and universities’ unions ended in a deadlock
The leaders of all the university unions in various branches and institutions have been informed on the outcome of the meeting The effort to end the ongoing strike by unions of Nigerian university workers has reached a deadlock, Premium Times reports.
A meeting between the federal government officials and the university workers on Tuesday, December 19, ended without an agreement between both parties. Speaking after the meeting, some executives of the unions – Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) said the strike would continue.
Source : PremiumTimes
SSANU, NASU, NAAT request N30 billion from FG to end strike
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) have asked the federal government to release the sum of N30 billion to them.
The unions said the N30 billion is a condition given to the federal government to fulfill before they can call off their ongoing industrial strike action. The demand was made by the national vice president of SSANU, Alfred Jimoh, during a protest against FG’s refusal to negotiate and the failure of government officials to honour agreement reached with them.
Speaking to journalists, Jimoh said, should the federal government release the N30 billion as requested, it would be added to the N4.6 billion shared among the three non-teaching staff of the unions. Jimoh said: “Government should release more funds to take care of the arrears of the earned allowance of the three non-teaching staff of universities and commence the immediate implementation of the allowances to forestall further accumulation of the arrears.”
Source : Vanguard