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NEWS and REPORTS => Nigerian News => Topic started by: Shola Sholaz on Jul 16, 2013, 12:25 PM

Title: Strike: ASUU Insists FG Implement 2009 Agreements
Post by: Shola Sholaz on Jul 16, 2013, 12:25 PM
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday insisted that the Federal Government should implement the agreements reached in 2009 before it would call off its strike.
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ASUU made its position known in Abuja when it appeared before the joint National Assembly Committees on Education.
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the issues in the agreement include: funding, university autonomy, academic freedom, earned academic allowance and registration of Universities Pension Management Company.
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Other are: amendment of pension retirement age of academics at the professional cadre, federal assistance to state universities and transfer of Federal Government landed property to universities.