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Federal Government takes ASUU to Industrial Court and claims that negotiations have Failed

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The THISDAY newspaper reported that the academic Staff Union of Campuses (ASUU) and the federal government are embroiled in a bitter dispute that has caused several universities to be closed for more than seven months. The case will move to the industrial court on Monday.

Since February 15, ASUU has been on strike in protest at what it claims is the decline of the institutions’ infrastructure and the disregard for the welfare of their members.

Thisday newspaper reported that they were informed by a reliable source last night that the Federal Ministry of Labour’s Trade Dispute Department filed a complaint with the Abuja Industrial Arbitration Court. The hearing will start on Monday, the source said.

The report states, “The federal administration has filed a complaint at the Industrial Court contesting the university teachers’ ongoing strike. According to Section 17 of the Trade Dispute Act, this is in compliance.”

ASUU leadership and the federal government have engaged in a number of conversations, but all have failed to produce a positive result.

However, last Tuesday’s meeting between the federal government and ASUU at the office of the National University Commission in Abuja resulted in a breakdown of the negotiations, The THISDAY newspaper reported.

The federal government had made it clear that it wouldn’t sign any further agreements that it couldn’t carry through.

At a meeting of the provosts and vice chancellors of federal universities convened at the NUC’s headquarters, the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu, revealed this.

According to Adamu, President Muhammadu Buhari had urged the government’s negotiating team with ASUU not to make a commitment that the government would not be able to keep, The THISDAY newspaper reported.

As THISDAY reported with the exception of the professorial cadre, who will receive a pay increase of 35%, the minister stated that the government has offered the union a wage increase of 23.5% for all categories of employees at federal universities. The government, according to him, has pledged to pay N150 billion “as funding for the revitalisation of federal universities, to be disbursed to the institutions in the first quarter of the year” in the 2023 budget.

A further announcement from the government stated that N50 billion would be set aside “in the 2023 Budget for the payment of outstanding arrears of earned academic allowances, to be paid in the first quarter of the year.”

The offer was, according to ASUU and three other university unions, rejected because it was “inadequate to meet their individual requests needed to handle the difficulties facing the university system,” The THISDAY newspaper reported.

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