The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, had been dragged to the Industrial Court by the Federal government over its lingering strike action which has kept students at home for nearly seven months.
ASUU has been on strike since February 14th of 2022 to press home its numerous demands to the Federal Government, which include payment of earned allowances and salaries for lecturers, improved funding and maintenance for tertiary institutions, the adoption of the University Transparency and Accountability system, UTAS, for salary payment instead of the government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, the renegotiation of the ASUU FG 2009 agreement, among others.
However, several negotiations between the union and the government have ended in deadlock.
Sources at the federal ministry of Labour told ThisDay on Friday that the ministry’s Trade Dispute Department had filed a case before the Industrial Arbitration Court in Abuja and that the hearing would commence next Monday.
