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Olu-Olu wondered how the Federal Government expected university teachers “to be happy on the job when we cannot pay our utility bills, hospital bills or school fees of our children while their wards are schooling outside the country. Must you wait for all of us to die before you know there is fire on the mountain?”

Dr. Salahu Lawal, the Abuja Zonal Coordinator of the union, disclosed this during a news conference in Gwagwalada.

The Coordinator of the Kano Zone of the Union, Prof. Abdulkadir Muhammad, made the call at a press conference.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, spoke at the end of the meeting on Monday.

The Chairman of ASUU in the university, Associate Prof. Lazarus Maigoro, stated this in a notice of withdrawal issued on Wednesday in Jos.

The 18 staff were sacked for participating in the Nigerian Labour Congress warning strike in the state between May 17 and 19.

The Chairman of the panel, Ambassador Usman Sarki, made the pledge at the resumption of its sitting in the university in Ndufu-Alike on Wednesday

Its Chairman, Dr. Peter Adamu, said in a statement in Kaduna on Wednesday that the students might have to leave because their parents could not afford to pay.

The Coordinator of CONUA, Dr. Niyi Sunmonu, announced the body’s position in a statement on Saturday in Lagos

The President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, gave the commendation while addressing newsmen at the end of a meeting between the leadership of the union and the Federal Government on Friday in Abuja.

The chapter Chairman, Dr Samuel Shikaa, said this while addressing journalists shortly after the meeting.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities got the Federal Government to approve and release the allowance after about 10 months of strike and negotiation between the lecturers and government officials.

Diri, who inaugurated the committee on Friday in Government House, Yenagoa, after meeting separately with both bodies, expressed his administration’s preparedness to ensure a peaceful resolution of the welfare issues affecting staff of the state-owned higher institutions.

Dr. Bentse Pamson, Chairman of the chapter, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos on Wednesday that ongoing and completed projects in the institution were funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.

The meeting was to amicably resolve the face-off between both parties, which has disrupted academic activities in the Ebonyi State University

Dr. Pamson Bentse, Chairman of the union in the University, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Jos, said the decision to proceed on strike was reached after its congress meeting, held on Monday at the University’s main campus in Bokkos.

Dr. Dipo Akomolafe, Chairman, ASUU, Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology Chapter, Okitipupa, Ondo State, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Okitipupa.

The President of NANS, Sunday Asefon, said this in a statement on Tuesday

The directive was contained in a statement by the NUC’s Deputy Executive Secretary (Administration), Chris Maiyaki, on behalf of the Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, on Friday

This was the kind of explanations from many ASUU members following the suspension of the nine months strike by ASUU a day earlier, on December 23, 2020. Since March 23, 2020, all public universities in the country have been shut down by this strike.