FG condemns ASUU’s new demands

ABUJA — The Federal Government,
yesterday, condemned the new conditions
which Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, insists must be met
before the five-month old strike could be
called off.
The three conditions were payment of four
months salaries, which accumulated
during the period of the strike; immediate
implementation of the N1.2 trillion offered
by the government to public universities,
starting with the release of N100 billion
this year and the balance of N1.1 trillion
to be spread over five years from 2014.
The union also demanded that the salary
arrears must not be paid in piecemeal.
These were some of the resolutions
reached by members of the National
Executive Council, NEC, of the union that
met in Kano on Friday.
Supervising Minister of Education,
Nyesom Wike, condemned the new
conditions but assured that he would
present them before President Goodluck
Jonathan.
EBSU breaks ranks, recalls students
Meanwhile, the management of Ebonyi
State University, Abakaliki, EBSU,
yesterday ordered lecturers and students
of the institution to return to classes
following the inability of ASUU to end its
strike.
A statement by the Registrar of the
institution, Mr. Sam Egwu, stressed that
the institution had resolved to resume
academic activities regardless of the
ASUU-FG dispute, adding that academic
activities would resume in all the
campuses of the institution from today,
Tuesday, November 26.
EBSU chapter of ASUU however, said that
lecturers would not return to classes until
their demands were met in line with the
position of its national body.

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