The Nation Newspaper ASUU threatens showdown over absence of Governing Councils
University teachers have given a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to reconstitute the governing councils of universities and address other outstanding issues affecting the ivory towers.
President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, who read the text of the NEC resolutions, asked Nigerians to hold the federal and state governments responsible if its demand for the reconstitution of the governing councils was allowed to snowball into an industrial crisis.Osodeke said: “We hereby restate our demand for reinstating the governing councils whose tenures are yet to elapse and reconstitute those whose tenures had elapsed so that our universities can run in accordance with their laws.
NUC’s action was based on a directive by President Tinubu for the dissolution of the boards of all government parastatals, agencies, and companies.The governing councils, among others, are in charge of the universities’ overall management and direction, approve their annual budgets, supervise staff recruitment and promotion, and ensure that they function in accordance with their goals and objectives.
‘’The platform, with all its encumbrances, is used to pay our members under the disguise of the “New IPPIS” contrary to the understanding reached at the 11th January 2024 stakeholders’ meeting held at the National Universities Commission ,” it said.
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