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       ASUU Strike Continues As FG Frustrates Senate - ASUU
       Negotiations 
   DIR By: adebayo
       Date: November 17, 2016, 4:07 pm
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       The intervention by the Senate President Bukola Saraki into the
       one-week warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of
       Universities (ASUU) failed to yield any positive result, as the
       absence of the Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun marred the
       resolution of the crisis.
       At a marathon meeting with the national leadership of the Union
       on Wehe Ministry of Education as well as Labour and
       Productivity, no agreement was reached, as the Union vowed to
       continue with the strike.
       The meeting which lasted for about three hours was presided over
       by Saraki.
       The one-week strike which commenced on Wednesday enters its
       second day today, even as ASUU President Biodun Ogunyemi told
       newsmen that the industrial action would continue.
       Areas of disagreement between the Union and government include:
       payment of fraction of staff entitlement and the denial of staff
       entitlement in respect of earned academic allowance amounting to
       about N128 billion, funding of universities for revitalization
       and the refusal to register the the Nigerian Universities
       Pension Management Company by the National Compensation
       Commission.
       Others include the introduction of the TSA, decrease in
       budgetary allocation to education and the refusal by government
       to renegotiate the 2009 agreement which was due for
       renegotiation since 2012.
       Addressing journalists after the meeting, Chairman Senate
       Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND, Barau Jibrin,
       disclosed that a sub-committee has been set up to resolve the
       issues.
       He said another meeting would hold today which would include the
       Finance Minister and Director General of the Budget Office, Ben
       Akabueze.
       Said Jibrin: “We have had a fruitful deliberation. And a way
       forward has been found by creating a sub-committee of this
       committee to sit and find out certain things in the Ministry of
       Finance which will bring us close to the resolution of this
       problem. We will start sitting by tomorrow (today) including the
       Ministry of Finance who has not been able to attend this meeting
       but we are sure she will be here tomorrow and the Director
       General of the Budget Office.
       “We have created a template about how to resolve this problem.
       And you know ASUU is a democratic body, they have to consult.
       So, it’s ongoing, it’s a work in progress. And a very important
       headway has been created. A good template has been created. And
       we see light at the end of the tunnel”.
       On their part, Minister of State for Education, Anthony Anwuka
       and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment,
       Clement Ilo, commended the Senate leadership for its
       intervention and expressed optimism that they issues would be
       resolved very soon.
       The Senate Tuesday mandated Saraki to liaise with the Academic
       Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Executive arm of
       government over the warning strike by the Union.
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