FG condemns ASUU’s new demands

The Federal Government, yesterday,
condemned the new conditions which
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,
insists must be met before the five-month old
strike could be called off.
The three conditions were payment of four
months salaries, which accumulated during the
period of the strike; immediate implementation
of the N1.2 trillion offered by the government to
public universities, starting with the release of
N100 billion this year and the balance of N1.1
trillion to be spread over five years from 2014.
The union also demanded that the salary
arrears must not be paid in piecemeal.
These were some of the resolutions reached by
members of the National Executive Council,
NEC, of the union that met in Kano on Friday.
Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom
Wike, condemned the new conditions but
assured that he would present them before
President Goodluck Jonathan.
EBSU breaks ranks, recalls students
Meanwhile, the management of Ebonyi State
University, Abakaliki, EBSU, yesterday ordered
lecturers and students of the institution to
return to classes following the inability of ASUU
to end its strike.
A statement by the Registrar of the institution,
Mr. Sam Egwu, stressed that the institution had
resolved to resume academic activities
regardless of the ASUU-FG dispute, adding that
academic activities would resume in all the
campuses of the institution from today,
Tuesday, November 26.
EBSU chapter of ASUU however, said that
lecturers would not return to classes until their
demands were met in line with the position of
its national body.