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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ended its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting with a resolution not to embark on another industrial action, following the payment of ‘half-salaries’ to members by the federal government. The union, however, condemned the act taken by the federal government to turn the university academics to casual workers by using the “pro-rata” payment scheme. In a press statement released on Tuesday after the NEC meeting, ASUU National President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, emphasised that the university lecturers are intellectuals and not casual workers. He noted that the union called off its eight-month strike on October…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has given reasons why the Federal Government may not pay the full salary of university lecturers for the eight months that the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) was on strike. This was contained in a statement issued by the speaker on Monday which was titled, “Statement by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila on the Resolution of Outstanding Issues between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government of Nigeria.” In the statement, Gbajabiamila said President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to approve the proposal of…