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The disagreement over the government offer led to raising the revitalisation fund to N40b, while earned allowances remained N30b. The Federal Government also gave assurances that it would address the pending issues of constituting visitation panels for federal universities, which it had since done, as well as raising a new renegotiation team to begin talks with ASUU on the 2009 agreement.
“The starting point is to say that those were outstanding issues from the Memorandum of Agreement signed with the government on February 7, 2019, which it had yet to do anything significant to address. But since then, IPPIS has been elevated almost over and above these other issues earlier highlighted.
WITH the latest development, university campuses are becoming restive across the nation, as academics are threatening to shut down schools again as a result of government’s failure to implement many aspects of the Memorandum of Action that it willingly signed with ASUU in a bid to end the last strike in December, 2020.
“Change of administration should not be an excuse to renege on binding commitments made by the government, especially that relating to a critical area like education,” Iloebe said. A committee headed by erstwhile Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund , which conducted a NEEDS Assessment of universities, recently came up with a report that unearthed the odious rot in the system.
In the midst of this grim scenario, ASUU has spent a total number of 1, 500 days, which translates to 4.09 years on industrial actions since the return to democracy in 1999, findings by The Guardian has shown. 2003: In 2003, Nigerian university undergraduates had to stay at home again for six months as ASUU embarked on another industrial action due to the non-implementation of previous agreements, which covers poor university funding and disparity in salary and retirement age.
2008: In a bid to press home its demands, ASUU went on strike for one week in 2008. The demands included an improved salary scheme and reinstatement of 49 lecturers who were dismissed at the University of Ilorin.
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