ASUU Strike Update Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Please find below the most recent information regarding the ASUU strike, including the most recent news on resumption and ASUU strike news for today, November 9th, 2022.
The most recent information regarding the restart of the ASUU strike
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You may get the most recent information about the ASUU strike, which began today, November 9, 2022, by clicking on the link below.

Activist for human rights Femi Falana (SAN) has called on the Federal Government to desist from inciting members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to strike over pay by continuing to provoke them.

This was disclosed by Falana during an appearance on Politics Today, which airs on Channels Television on Tuesdays.

According to him, the lecturers should be paid their full salary for the months that they were on strike. This should apply to the time that they were absent from work.

You may remember that members of ASUU were on strike from February to October of this year, effectively paralyzing academic operations in public universities located all over Nigeria.

After the National Industrial Court (NIC) ordered academics to return to work, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called off their eight-month strike on October 14.

ASUU members were made unhappy by the fact that their full salaries were only paid out for half of the month of October by the Federal Government.

It had been told to the lecturers by the Federal Government that their pay was determined by the number of days that they worked in the given month.

However, Falana, a counsel for ASUU, stated on Tuesday that the principle of “no work, no pay” does not apply at all to members of ASUU. He was commenting on the recent development.

“We are asking all Nigerians who put pressure on ASUU to call off the strike… we all have a duty to insist on the government to stop agitating the lecturers,” the statement read, “We are urging all Nigerians who mounted pressure on ASUU to call off the strike.”

It Is Illegal to Pay ASUU Half Their Salaries Because They Are Exercising Their Human Right, Writes SERAP to Buhari.
SERAP has issued a call to action to President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting that he “order Chris Ngige, and Sylva Okolie Aboh to immediately restore the illegal deductions from the salary of members of ASUU for October 2022.”

According to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, also known as SEPAP, it is against the law for the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and the acting Accountant General of the Federation, Sylva Okolieaboh, to have paid members of ASUU a half-salary for the month of October 2022. These individuals are being held accountable for their actions.

In addition to this, it urged President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and the acting Accountant General of the Federation, Sylva Okolieaboh, to immediately reverse the apparent illegal deductions that were made from the salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities for the month of October 2022.

In addition to this, SERAP is requesting that the President “order Ngige and Mr. Okolieaboh to pay ASUU members their full salary for the length of their strike action.”

There have been new reports that the Federal Government has paid members of ASUU only half of their pay for the month of October 2022. According to the reports, the salary of some academics for the month of October ranged from N71,000 to N121,000.

The ASUU Has Made the Decision To Close Down Universities Once More
Because the federal government has only paid colleges in Nigeria half of their salaries, ASUU may opt to strike again.

According to IDOMA VOICE, the conflict between the Academic Staff Union of Staff Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government has resumed with little more than a month having passed since the union called a halt to the eight-month-long industrial action it had been undertaking.

According to this online news article, the National Executive Council of the ASUU is scheduled to meet on Monday (tomorrow) to decide whether or not to go on another strike. This meeting will take place to make this decision.

The members of the union were given a pay cut in October, and this meeting is taking place just a few short weeks after the protracted industrial action was temporarily suspended. It is anticipated that the gathering would take place on the campus of the University of Abuja.

You may recall that the ASUU had closed down universities that were owned by the State and Federal governments on February 14, 2023 due to earlier agreements that had not yet been followed by the government.

The Federal Government Explains Why It Paid University Lecturers and ASUU Half Their Regular Salaries
The Federal Government has explained why it only paid half wages to ASUU and university lecturers.

On Saturday, the Federal Government provided an explanation as to why it did not pay the full salary that were owed to professors working under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The government highlighted in a statement that members of ASUU were paid their October salaries on a pro-rata basis. This information was made available to NewsOnline Nigeria by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.

According to the ministry, they cannot be paid for work that has not been completed, so the pro-rata method was used instead.

In addition, the statement made it clear that the Honorable Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, had never given the Accountant General of the Federation the instruction to pay university lecturers only half of their wages.

Following the ruling of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the order of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, asking ASUU to go back to work, the leadership of the union wrote to the Minister, informing him that they have suspended the strike. The statement reads in part as follows: “Following the ruling of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the order of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, asking ASUU to go back to work.” In a same spirit, the Federal Ministry of Education wrote to him informing him that they have resumed work, and our labor inspectors in several states certified that they have done so as well.

“Therefore, the Minister issued a letter to the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning, directing that they should be paid their back salary immediately. They resumed their normal work schedules on the day that their strike was called off, and they began accruing pay for the amount of days that they really put in during the month of October according to the pro-rata method. This was done on a pro-rata basis since you cannot pay somebody for work that has not been completed. Everyone’s options are extremely limited.”

ASUU Kicks, Will Hold National Executive Committee Meeting Over Half-Salary
There is a possibility that the ASUU may engage in another standoff with the Federal Government over the issue of paying half salaries to its members in October 2022.

Following the alleged payment of half salaries to the lecturers for the month of October 2022 by the Federal Government, there are signs that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, also known as ASUU, may go on another strike. This would be in response to the alleged action of the Federal Government.

As a consequence of this, the union is going to call an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council, which means that the resumption of academic activity in the nation’s institutions may be interrupted once again (NEC).

Recent interventions from the Court of Appeal, which confirmed an earlier ruling from the National Industrial Court, NIC, led to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspending its eight months of industrial action.

There is currently no set date for the meeting to take place, but sources have stated that the decision to do so was made in response to the shock that was felt by members of the union when they discovered that their pay for the month of October 2022 had been reduced by one-half.

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