The ongoing squabble between members of the\u00a0Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government keeps getting deeper\u00a0as union has claimed that the\u00a0Federal Government is not sincere about resolving the issues that have\u00a0led to the industrial action for\u00a0almost six-month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, during an interview on Monday, August 15, stated that instead of addressing the issue affecting Nigerian public universities, the government rather decided topersuade the striking lecturers into calling off the strike by increasing their salaries, the union president described this move as ‘‘unfortunate and a blackmail.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Osodeke\u00a0reiterated that the union is\u00a0committed to seeing the strike to the end until the right thing is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Osodeke maintained that they\u00a0haven’t\u00a0heard any serious communication from the Federal government but they have, however, been\u00a0invited\u00a0for the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement today, August 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Myschool.ng<\/p>\n\n\n\n #EduSAVINGS#EduLOANS#EduSURE#INTERNSHIP#SCHOLARSHIP#EduHEALTHMAINTAINANCE#ENTERPRENUERSHIP#PressPayNg#TERTIARY#EDUCATION#TUITION#FEES#UNIVERSITY#POLYTECHNIC#MONOTECHNIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ongoing squabble between members of the\u00a0Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government keeps getting deeper\u00a0as union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n