The Federal Government, yesterday, condemned the new conditions which Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, insists must be met before the five-month old strike could be called off.
The three conditions were payment of four months salaries, which accumulated during the period of the strike; immediate implementation of the N1.2 trillion offered by the government to public universities, starting with the release of N100 billion this year and the balance of N1.1 trillion to be spread over five years from 2014.
The union also demanded that the salary arrears must not be paid in piecemeal.
These were some of the resolutions reached by members of the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union that met in Kano on Friday.
Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, condemned the new conditions but assured that he would present them before President Goodluck Jonathan.
EBSU breaks ranks, recalls students
Meanwhile, the management of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, EBSU, yesterday ordered lecturers and students of the institution to return to classes following the inability of ASUU to end its strike.
A statement by the Registrar of the institution, Mr. Sam Egwu, stressed that the institution had resolved to resume academic activities regardless of the ASUU-FG dispute, adding that academic activities would resume in all the campuses of the institution from today, Tuesday, November 26.
EBSU chapter of ASUU however, said that lecturers would not return to classes until their demands were met in line with the position of its national body.
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The Federal Government has called on states to stop the use of commercial motorcycles as means of transportation.
It said the decision to dissuade the use of commercial motorcycles in states was reached by stakeholders during the recent 13th meeting of the National Council on Transport.
A communiqué after the meeting, which was made available to our correspondent by the Federal Ministry of Transport on Monday, urged states to intensify the enforcement of existing laws on road worthiness.
Reading from the communiqué at a one day conference on the use of road and accident prevention techniques in Abuja, the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, said as states worked towards putting off commercial motorcycles, they should also encourage the use of speed-limiting devices on commercial passenger and goods only vehicles.
He said, "States should discourage the use of commercial motorcycles as means of public transportation. They are encouraged to establish functional Vehicle Inspection Offices to ensure proper road safety enforcement, driving license processing and road worthiness testing."
Umar, who was represented by the ministry's Permanent Secretary, Mr. Nebolisa Emordi, said the NCT decided to create the required awareness on the alarming rate of road crashes on the nation's highways, which had continued to claim thousands of lives yearly.
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