{"id":33597,"date":"2020-12-18T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33597"},"modified":"2020-12-18T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:14:46","slug":"asuu-im-not-responsible-ngige-identifies-those-behind-nine-months-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/asuu-im-not-responsible-ngige-identifies-those-behind-nine-months-strike","title":{"rendered":"ASUU: I\u2019m not responsible \u2013 Ngige identifies those behind nine months strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian government, on Thursday, blamed the prolonged university strike on the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment made the remark while faulting claims by the University of Jos chapter of ASUU that he was responsible for the current industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>Ngige maintained that ASUU has refused to reciprocate federal government\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by his Media Office, the Minister insisted that the government has met ASUU\u2019s conditions.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt is rather ASUU which has bluntly refused to reciprocate the Federal Government offers by refusing to either teach, conduct researches or engage in other academic values for which they are paid, that should be held responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrangely, ASUU claims \u2018patriotism\u2019 as the basis for this prolonged industrial action, forcing every patriot to raise concern over this weird definition of patriotism by ASUU officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiving by its words, the Federal Government has fulfilled all the demands over which ASUU went on strike on March 9, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is therefore preposterous for the University of Jos chapter of ASUU under Dr. Maigoro to refer to these concrete steps taken by the Federal Government as a \u201cpromissory note\u201d with which Nigerians shouldn\u2019t expect ASUU to call off the strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASUU has been on strike for about nine months due to the federal government\u2019s alleged inability to meet the 2009 agreement reached.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the federal government also promised to pay all outstanding allowances owed the union.<\/p>\n<p>Ngige had disclosed that the government will release N75billion for the revitalisation of universities and the payment of Earned Academic Allowances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian government, on Thursday, blamed the prolonged university strike on the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment made the remark while faulting claims by the University of Jos chapter of ASUU that he was responsible for the current industrial action. Ngige maintained that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28,26],"tags":[1570,738,940,254,1615],"class_list":["post-33597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-asuu","tag-ngige","tag-nigeria","tag-strike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ASUU: I\u2019m not responsible \u2013 Ngige identifies those behind nine months strike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/asuu-im-not-responsible-ngige-identifies-those-behind-nine-months-strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASUU: I\u2019m not responsible \u2013 Ngige identifies those behind nine months strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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