FG/NUC Begins Mass Replacement Of Over 60,000 Lecturers
The Federal Government on friday met with The National UniversitiesCommission, NUCas well as the association of Nigerian Vice Chancellors on a fully set out action after the 4th December deadline given to Varsity Lecturers to resume activities or Loose their Jobs.
The meeting,Saturday PUNCH further learnt, also discussed other modalities for calling off the bluff of ASUUwhose members have been on strike for over five months.
The Friday meeting began at 9am and lasted for two hours. Part of the meeting's deliberations,Saturday PUNCH gathered, also centred on how to recruit new lecturers to fill the space of ASUUmembers who might refuse to obey government's directive. Also, the vice-chancellors were directed to call students back to campus on Sunday in preparation for academic activities which should start on Monday.
Wike, had on Thursday ordered lecturers to resume duties on or before December 4 or face being sacked summarily by the Federal Government.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that already Okojie had been mandated to start the process of recruiting new lecturers by placing vacancy adverts in international journals and media.
Also, the vice-chancellors were directed to open registers in their institutions where ASUUmembers that resume work would sign so that those who failed to resume could be sacked.
Saturday PUNCH further learnt that the Federal Government was planning to adopt the Ghanaian method where lecturers were asked to re-apply for their jobs after two years of strike.
"Not all lecturers are members of ASUU. Most professors don't belong to the union, people think every lecturer in public Universityis a member of ASUU, which is not true. Government means business this time around and it is going to call off the bluff of ASUU,'' the source explained.
Nigerian Universitiesare currently in need of at least 30,000 lecturers because of acute shortage of lecturers in the Universitysystem..
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The meeting,Saturday PUNCH further learnt, also discussed other modalities for calling off the bluff of ASUUwhose members have been on strike for over five months.
The Friday meeting began at 9am and lasted for two hours. Part of the meeting's deliberations,Saturday PUNCH gathered, also centred on how to recruit new lecturers to fill the space of ASUUmembers who might refuse to obey government's directive. Also, the vice-chancellors were directed to call students back to campus on Sunday in preparation for academic activities which should start on Monday.
Wike, had on Thursday ordered lecturers to resume duties on or before December 4 or face being sacked summarily by the Federal Government.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that already Okojie had been mandated to start the process of recruiting new lecturers by placing vacancy adverts in international journals and media.
Also, the vice-chancellors were directed to open registers in their institutions where ASUUmembers that resume work would sign so that those who failed to resume could be sacked.
Saturday PUNCH further learnt that the Federal Government was planning to adopt the Ghanaian method where lecturers were asked to re-apply for their jobs after two years of strike.
"Not all lecturers are members of ASUU. Most professors don't belong to the union, people think every lecturer in public Universityis a member of ASUU, which is not true. Government means business this time around and it is going to call off the bluff of ASUU,'' the source explained.
Nigerian Universitiesare currently in need of at least 30,000 lecturers because of acute shortage of lecturers in the Universitysystem..
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