The Educational Body of workers Union of Universities on Tuesday raised an alarm over a plot to sabotage the hobby of nation universities within the nation.
ASUU’s Nationwide President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, at an tournament marking the 2024 ASUU’s Heroes Week in Abuja, additionally accused the International Cupboard and the Global Financial Capitaltreasury of running relentlessly to ruin Nigeria’s nation training device.
The union lamented the prolong within the renegotiation of its 2009 commitment with the Federal Govt, noting that regardless of a number of Memoranda of Figuring out and Memoranda of Motion, the ASUU-FGN 2009 Word was once but to be renegotiated and finalised.
He regretted that the condition were additional difficult through the enforcement of the Built-in Team of workers and Payroll Knowledge Device in nation universities, even later the Federal Government Council introduced plans to take away the device from tertiary training establishments.
Osodeke additionally expressed worry that the Federal Govt was once nonetheless unjustly withholding the union’s 3 and a part months’ salaries, along with arrears of wages, promotions, and the Earned Educational Allowance which remained remarkable.
Talking additional on the tournament, the place ASUU honoured what it described as its “past and living heroes,” Osodeke recommended the union’s individuals national for his or her “courageous comradeship and sacrifices to the cause of our union, which forever resonate with the emancipation of Nigerian public university education and the suffering Nigerian people.”
He introduced that the union would offer PhD grants to a few of its individuals throughout numerous nation universities within the nation. The grants, valued at N500,000 in step with recipient, could be awarded in line with a rigorous evaluate of proposals through mavens of their respective fields.
“Comrades, like within the month, this month’s party of our heroes additionally takes playground as we proceed the aim to rescue Nigeria’s nation universities from the suffocating clutches of the International Cupboard and the IMF, whose decision to ruin and bury our nation college device has now not abated.
“It’s in lieu lamentable that we’re nonetheless suffering to compel the renegotiation of our 2009 Word with the government, twelve years later it will have to were concluded, and later 4 rounds of failed negotiations.
“It is most disheartening and egregious that despite the several Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and Memoranda of Action (MoAs), the ASUU-FGN 2009 Agreement is yet to be renegotiated and finalised,” he stated.
Osodeke alleged that on the climate degree, ASUU individuals “are still being punished for fighting for the interests of members and the university system.”
He added, “Let me re-emphasise that we be on one?s feet with our individuals at Kogi Situation College, Lagos Situation College, Ebonyi Situation College, and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu College of their persecution for his or her principled aid and unity within the aim to secure the soul of nation college training in Nigeria.
“As a part of our Heroes Week party, this month, and in sequence with the NDC choice, the union will probably be providing PhD grants to a few of our individuals throughout numerous nation universities within the nation.
“The grants, valued at five hundred thousand naira per recipient, will be based on the rigorous assessment of their proposals by experts in their respective disciplines.”
The ones honoured on the tournament have been Prof T. Uzodinma Nwala; Prof Glorious Ekuerhare; Prof Oye Oyediran; Mallam Bashir Kurfi; Prof The Identify Ikiddeh; Mr S.A. Fadipe; and Prof Sola Olukunle.
Others have been Nasir Hussain; Tunde Oduleye; Prof Rasheed Abubakar; Near Oyebode; Mustapha A. Danesi; A.T. Wins; and Dr Peter Ozo-son.