The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU in loggerheads with the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN and the Ekiti State University, EKSU over strike extension, among other resolutions.
First, ASUU has extended the industrial action as talks with the Government yielded no desired results on expected settlements.
The National Executive Council, NEC meeting on Monday still had no solution in favour of the Government or the Union as an official from the Ministry of Education, Ben Goong revealed the FGN exhausted all its resources to bring the strike to an abrupt conclusion.
The terms and conditions regarding their discussions convey a whole lot of technicalities that are only peculiar to the various parties’ interests.
The major conflict is to successfully inaugurate a Working Committee, which has been done but tasked with the duty of harmonising the IPPIS, UTAS, and UP3 for a singular payment platform.
On the other hand, Ekiti State University, EKSU Management, Ado Ekiti, are tired of ASUU strike against Government and has insisted that its lecturers resume with immediate effect and commence with the school’s curricula.
According to its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Edward Olanipekun, the school is scheduled to start activities on August 29, 2022, as they believe the 6 months sacrificed for the protest cause is enough warning period to the Federal Government.
The school’s action provoked other learning institutes, and the anger was reflected in Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU’ President, saying, the Ado Ekiti tertiary centre is a “Quack and Irrelevant University.”
Reacting, the Ado Ekiti authorities asked the Union’s President to take back his comments and apologise to the school.