The Federal Government has been given six new conditions to meet up with before the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) can call off its two-week old strike.
But the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, August 29, pleaded with the lecturers to embrace peace for the sake of innocent students.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) is to discuss today the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and chart the way forward.
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Some of the options include:
Bringing back ASUU to the negotiation table;
Allowing the Wale Babalakin Panel to conclude its assignment;
Suing ASUU to either the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) or the National Industrial Court (NIC); and
Referring all issues to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, in line with the Trade Dispute law.
The six conditions were not part of the previous demands referred to the Babalakin Committee for arbitration.
The new conditions are that:
1.) The Federal Government should immediately accept payment of shortfall in salaries of universities;
2.) Universities to manage their IGR the way they like and exemption from TSA;
3.) Exemption of Endowment Funds, JV cash from TSA;
4.) Payment of University Salary Scale to teachers in primary schools in universities;
5.) Release/implementation of guidelines for the retirement of Professors in line with 2009 FG-ASUU Agreement; and
6.) Waiver/ government fiat to set up Nigerian Universities Pension Management Company
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