ASUU is really trending hight with calling off its nationwide strike.
The news is currently tops on social media with over 30,000 tweets already.
@MySchoolNews.com first broke the news this evening with a post that:
“The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called off its strike on wednesday, 23rd September, 2020 after reaching an agreement with the Federal Government.
“The ASUU President, announced after a meeting with the union’s executive committee that they would suspend the industrial action for one month till end of October. According to Professor Abiodun, this was to allow the Government enough time to fulfill its promises as contained in the recent agreement with them. To this end, the union directed university lecturers to resume duty effective from monday 28 September, 2020.
“Sources in the Labour Ministry indicated that ASUU’s decision to suspend the strike was reached after a four hours closed door meeting with the Federal Government delegation led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige.
“At the meeting, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by the union’s President, Professor Abiodun and Dr. Ngige on behalf of the federal government. Others who signed the document were: President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade AyubaWabba; Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Architect Sonny Echono; Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr. Bolaji Adebiyi; as well as other members of the government team.
“Highlights of the agreement reached included funding of government universities, payment of earned academic allowances, government responsibility as regards academic staff schools (primary wing), pension matters for professors, payment of salary shortfalls on which implementation has already commenced and resolution on exemption of Treasury Single Account (TSA) payment system in certain areas.
“In his reaction, Dr. Ngige said the grey areas were conclusively dealt with to the satisfaction of both patties.”
Panic memes and stories greeted the news all day:
However, the University of Lagos chapter of the union speaking through its Chairman, Dr Dele Ashiru said that there is, “nothing of such.”
According to him, “if we are going to call off our strike, there is a process that will be followed and nothing of such has been done.
ASUU also distanced itself from the news posted by @myschoolnews_Ng in an official twitter post. The union described the news as fake:
ASUU embarked on a nationwide strike in March 2020 following disagreements with the Federal government over working conditions, remunerations and funding for the nation’s tertiary eduction.
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Really, ASUU Trends with Calling Off Strike ?