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       FG Opens Fresh Negotiations With ASUU
   DIR By: Ebenezer
       Date: July 25, 2013, 4:45 am
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       The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it was renegotiating
       the 2009 agreements it signed with the members of the Academic
       Staff Union of Universities, who are currently on strike.
       The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu,
       stated this while answering questions from journalists after
       briefing members of the National Working Committee of the
       Peoples Democratic Party on the activities of his ministry in
       Abuja.
       The reason for the renegotiation, according to him, was to clear
       some grey areas in the agreements, which he said were put in
       place before the coming into office of the present government.
       The nine-point agreements ASUU signed with the Federal
       government 2009 included funding requirements for revitalization
       of the Nigerian universities; Federal government assistance to
       state universities; establishment of NUPEMCO and progressive
       increase in annual budgetary allocation to educationto 26 per
       cent between 2009 and2020; and earned allowances.
       The minister, who refused to say whether there was a particular
       area of the agreements that was not acceptable to the
       government, however pleaded with the university lecturers to
       return to the classroom.
       Wogu said, “We are renegotiatingthe 2009 agreement which predate
       this administration. It therefore has to be renegotiated.
       “However, while we are still talking, we are pleading with ASUU
       to go back to their work.”
       Meanwhile, Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, has said
       lecturers of states and private universities should not join
       federal universities staff to embark on strike.
       Aliyu said this in Minna on Tuesday when he received in audience
       members of the Governing board of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida
       University, Lapai, in Government House.
       The governor argued that in a federation, what obtains at the
       Federal level should not necessarily affect states, especially
       if the demands of the aggrieved lecturers were not the same.
       He said, “The union at the centre cannot ask people at the state
       to go on strike. State universities arelike private
       universities; they cannot go on strike just because their
       colleagues at the federal universities are on strike.”
       Aliyu said he discussed the first convocation of the university
       with the visitors and the ongoingstrike by members of ASUU.
       Also, ASUU has called on ExecutiveSecretary of the National
       Universities commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, to publicly
       declare his assets.
       In a joint statement by the chairmen of the University of
       Calabar branch of the union, Dr. James Okpiliya and his Cross
       RiverState University of Technology counterpart, Dr. Nsing Ogar,
       the ASUU officials accused the NUC boss of fueling the crisis in
       the university system.
       They noted that instead of addressing the issues in dispute,
       Okojie rather resorted to campaign of calumny against the union
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