Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Colleges Of Education lecturers begin nationwide strike today

Barely two weeks after the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, called off its five-months-old
strike, lecturers in the Colleges of Education are set
to begin a nationwide strike today.

This was made known in a letter to the Supervising
Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike in Abuja.
The letter, which was delivered by the General
Secretary of the Colleges of Education Academic
Staff Union, Mr. Nuhu Ogirima, lamented that the
Federal Government had failed to address issues
raised by the Union.
The union’s complaints are infrastructural decay,
poor funding, non-implementation of the 2010 FG-
COEASU agreement, poor conditions of service, brain
drain and illegal imposition of the Integrated
Personnel and Payroll Information System.
In the letter signed by the COEASU National President, Asagha Nkoro and Ogirima, the union accused the
government of directing the National Commission for
Colleges of Education to impose the IPPIS on colleges without recourse to earlier meetings by the parties.
In compliance with the resolution of its expanded National
Executive Council Meeting, COEASU said its members had been directed to resume a full scale strike action
suspended earlier this year, “unless and until
government meets the demands”.

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