The Federal Government has welcomed favorable to chancellors, bad habit chancellors and directors of overseeing gatherings of bureaucratic colleges to a gathering in Abuja on September 6 as a component of endeavors to determine the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
The gathering was met by the National Universities Commission, which expressed that members would survey activities of the public authority on the strike.
The letter welcoming the tops of the colleges to the gathering was endorsed by the NUC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Administration, Chris Maiyaki and got by one of our reporters on Tuesday.
This came to the front as the strike by ASUU entered the 198th day in the midst of the choice of the college speakers to pronounce a complete modern activity.
Partners, especially guardians, in various meetings with The PUNCH, upbraided ASUU and the public authority, bemoaning that the eventual fate of their kids was being played with.
An examination of a scholastic meeting by one of our reporters uncovers that a meeting is near nine months; partitioned into first semester which is prevalently known as harmattan semester and the second semester which is likewise viewed as downpour semester. Most Nigerian state funded colleges, overall, burn through nine months for every meeting.
ASUU on February 14 started the strike because of what it depicted as “disappointment” with respect to the public authority to fulfill its needs.
The requests incorporate the installment of procured stipends, installment of revitalisation assets to colleges, making of appearance boards and execution of the University Transparency Accountability Solution rather than the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System for the installment of laborers in the ivory towers.
The public authority set up a board of trustees headed by Prof Nimi Briggs to investigate the requests of the association and survey the 2009 ASUU-FG understanding.
ASUU pioneers, who left a gathering with the public authority on August 16, claimed that no deal was made to them.
Yet, the Minister of Education, Adamu, in a meeting with writers, said non-scholastic associations had consented to end their strike.
The priest said college instructors demanded that they ought to be paid for the period they didn’t work, a solicitation he said the public authority was not prepared to give.
ASUU, after its National Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Sunday and Monday, said it had chosen to proclaim “a thorough, all out and endless strike” in view of the public authority’s inability to satisfy its needs.
In its greeting letter, the NUC the gathering on September 6 with supportive of chancellors and bad habit chancellors would survey moves made on the hits by college associations with the end goal of arriving at an agreement.
It expressed, “As the supportive of chancellors and directors of gatherings and the bad habit chancellors are very mindful the modern activity by University-based associations has prompted the conclusion of the establishments since February 2022.
“You are likewise mindful that the non-showing associations have suspended their modern activities with impact from 24th August, 2022, while a ultimate choice is being anticipated from the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
“It has become essential for the overseeing boards and the administrations of the colleges to be informed on the choices and moves made by the Federal Government such a long ways to take into consideration a very much organized survey of the circumstance including building agreement around succeeding activities.
“Thusly, I am to welcome the favorable to chancellors and executives of chambers as well as bad habit chancellors of government colleges to an exceptional intuitive gathering with the Honorable Minister of Education on Tuesday, September 6,2022.”
Albeit the letter didn’t contain the point by point plan of the gathering, The PUNCH accumulated that it would talk about choices for funding colleges, including the N10,000 demand proposed by the Parent-Teacher Association, considering the money crunch and spending plan deficiency the public authority was engaging.
A source in the commission expressed, “We will examine ways we can end the strike and colleges can be better supported.”
Guardians, instructors
A teacher at Adekunle Ajashin University, Victor Olumekun in a meeting with one of our journalists in Abuja, faulted the public authority for the misfortune endured by the understudies.