{"id":73229,"date":"2022-09-28T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/10-lecturers-have-died-in-unical-since-we-embarked-on-strike-asuu-chairman-edor"},"modified":"2022-09-28T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:46:28","slug":"10-lecturers-have-died-in-unical-since-we-embarked-on-strike-asuu-chairman-edor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10-lecturers-have-died-in-unical-since-we-embarked-on-strike-asuu-chairman-edor","title":{"rendered":"10 lecturers have died in UNICAL since we embarked on strike \u2013 ASUU Chairman, Edor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which started on 14 February 2022 has claimed 10 University of Calabar lecturers, including some Professors.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of ASUU at UNICAL, John Edor gave this confirmation Wednesday in a statement, denying social media speculation that the number should be as high as 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not correct that 21 members of our Union in the University of Calabar have lost their lives as a result of the ongoing national industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that we have lost about 10 of our members but not all are Professors. The Professors are Gabriel U. Ntamu, Judith Otu, Udosen, Kate Agbor, Obia and other academics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He drew attention to what he describes as wholesome neglect and intimidation by the federal government and vowed that they will not give up on their demands before calling off the strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven as the government have refused to listen to our plights and provide conducive avenue devoid of all impediments, we will continue to cope with all losses we have had regardless. We are aware of the hunger, intimidation or court order. We are not given up on this fight. We will take it to a logical conclusion where necessary things government ought to do are done\u201d. He added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which started on 14 February 2022 has claimed 10 University of Calabar lecturers, including some Professors. Chairman of ASUU at UNICAL, John Edor gave this confirmation Wednesday in a statement, denying social media speculation that the number should be as high as 21. \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":73228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,738,8746,254,4800],"class_list":["post-73229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-asuu","tag-edor","tag-nigeria","tag-unical"],"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>10 lecturers have died in UNICAL since we embarked on strike \u2013 ASUU Chairman, Edor - 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