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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has stated that the union is ready to negotiate with government toward ending its one-week old industrial action. This was disclosed by the President of the union Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who was a guest on TVC News Breakfast show on Tuesday. He frowned at the attitude of the FG towards the demands of the lecturers.

According to him, the letters sent to the Federal Government through the ministries of education and Labour since November 5th notifying them of the strike is yet to be replied.

“We wrote to inform the ministries that we had resumed our strike. We told them that we had resumed the strike we suspended in Sept. 2017 because government failed to implement agreements we signed. “The ministries signed to acknowledge receipt of the copies we gave them, but none has written a reply to us,” he said.

Ogunyemi further stated that it is quite suprising that observed that the federal government, which had consistently allocated seven per cent to education in the last two years, suddenly woke up from slumber and announced a state of emergency in the education sector and promised to allocate 15 per cent of its budget to the sector. He said that the union finds this unbelievable and deceitful. “We feel that the `sudden’ promise has more to do with the fact that we are in an election year,” he emphasised.

He alleged that the ruling class in Nigeria had no concern for the education of the poor.

Leaders of Nigeria’s labour unions on Sunday announced the suspension of their four days national warning strike but said the face-off with government is far from over.

The unions began the warning strike on September 26.

On Sunday, they said they were suspending it in order to enable a conducive environment for a crucial meeting of the tripartite committee involving the unions and government next week October 4 and 5.

“We have received a firm and formal invitation to a reconvened meeting of the tripartite committee scheduled for 4th and 5th of October, 2018,” the unions said at press Sunday afternoon.

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, who addressed the briefing, said next week’s meeting will be the final session of the tripartite committee after which a final report will be submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Organised Labour has, after obtaining the mandate of their necessary organs, decided to suspend the strike action with effect from today, Sunday September 30, 2018,” Mr Wabba said

“We urge all our unions and state councils to maintain a high level of mobilisation and readiness until the struggle for a reasonable minimum wage is achieved,” he stated.

Speaking in the same vein, the acting president of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Sunday Salako, on Sunday afternoon stressed the unions are not calling the strike off but suspending it until their demands are met.

“The essence of the suspension is that we will go back on strike if the committee did not meet our demands,” Mr Salako said.

He said the outcome of the tripartite meeting will determine subsequent actions of the unions.

“We are also members of the committee. If we go there on Thursday and Friday and there is no seriousness or the committee is not allowed to conclude its assignment, it means our position has not been met.

“The leaders of TUC, NLC and others actually met yesterday to review the situation and it was decided that we give the tripartite committee a conducive atmosphere,” he said.

The National Minimum Wage Committee was inaugurated November 2017 but commenced work March this year and drew timelines to deliver a new national minimum wage by August/ September.

The workers are demanding between N50,000 and 65,000 as the new minimum wage. The current national minimum wage is N18,000.

Despite the insistence of organised labour, however, there is no consensus in Nigeria over a national minimum wage.

Most state governors as well as proponents of true federalism have argued that states should be allowed to set their own minimum wage, especially as many states are barely able to pay the current one.

Reports abound on how Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Wednesday said all necessary demands by the workers’ unions would have been factored in before the meeting on October 4.

“We are resuming next week, precisely on Thursday, October 4 and the meeting may split over to October 5, as we normally use two days for the meeting,” he said.

“The labour leaders have been informed about it and are expected to communicate to their members. We do not need to have any strike in the country,” Mr Ngige said following the declaration of the warning strike.

The love letter a Secondary School student wrote to her NYSC teacher has been buzzing the internet lately, the student sent the letter to a Corps member identified as Corper Jide and it has got people talking.
Read the letter below and advise corper jide on what to do.

Some students of the Central University, Ghana, were caught in the act of malpractice during their examinations, their pictures were displayed and on it was boldly written how they cheated in the exam hall. One of the students reportedly wrote answers on his bald head which has got people talking.

He left others wondering what his plan was. Was there a possibility that he was going to see what he wrote on his head? or was he planning to ask someone else to read it out? Lol

A corps member who was allegedly assaulted by some soldiers in Kaduna State NYSC Orientation Camp is currently battling for survival according to reports.

It was gathered that the corps member who is set to pass out next month was appointed to train the current corps members in the brigade band, when the parade was over, he decided to leave the premises as he is not bound to be within the camp ground.

According to information, he was on his way out when a female Soldier stopped him and told him to remain in the parade ground, he reportedly explained to her that he was not among the corps member undergoing the Orientation Camp Exercise, hence he is permitted to leave the camp ground when he is done with his duty.

The female Soldier reportedly started to harass him, and was later accompanied by a male Soldier, who started to kick him. He reportedly fell and was dealt with, It was also reported that after much torture, the corps member passed out and was rushed to the sick bay.

He reportedly broke hs neck and was later conveyed to a hospital outside the camp, rumour has it that the Corps member is currently battling for survival.