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The  Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)  has announced that it will continue to embark on its indefinite strike action. Punch  reports that this was stated after the union met with the Federal Government at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. The president of the union  Biodun Ogunyemi  told reporters that the strike hasn’t been suspended. He said: We have not suspended the strike, the discussion will continue at a later date. We are going back to our members for further consultation. FG gave us reaction to our proposals but there were still grey areas that we are trying to sort out. Before the strike can be suspended, the most critical area that FG must address is revitalization. It is central to our academic work, unless that area is addressed, our members will still have issues. We are not demanding for ₦50bn, we are saying that the minimum that FG can release to reactivate revitalization fund is ₦50bn. The Minister of ...

President Buhari Friday in Abuja called on Nigerian youths to prepare themselves for political leadership as his generation will eventually quit the scene for the younger ones to takeover. Receiving the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing led by the Acting National Leader, Kingsley Dozie Lawrence, President Buhari described Nigerian youths as very active and critically important in the Nigerian project. ‘‘Youths are very virile and active. A greater part of the Nigerian population is made up of youths. They must always be a factor at all times. Youths must begin to groom themselves for the leadership of Nigeria. I said this to the leaders of the National Association of Nigerian Students yesterday (Thursday) - sooner than later we will leave the stage and you will takeover. You have to equip yourselves properly,’’ he said President Buhari welcomed the group for appreciating his administration’s effort in providing the much-needed infrastructure across the country and for e...

The impending ASUU Strike  which has lingered for some month might come to an end soonest as with the Federal Government making concessions to the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Nupekakaki  learnt that the concessions will be tabled before the union’s leaders on Monday at a meeting to be convened by Labour and Employment Minister Chris Ngige. The Minister has reached out to the ASUU leadership for the “robust feedback session” with the hope that the union will return to the negotiation table. Recall that the aggrieved university lecturers on November 4, last year, began a strike to push the implementation of the 2017 Memorandum of Action. The Memorandum was a follow-up to the 2009 FG-ASUU Agreement. ASUU National President Biodun Ogunyemi attributed the strike to “ the insincerity of government in meeting our demands”. The demands are: payment of shortfall in salaries of universities; waiver/ government fiat to set up Nigerian Un...