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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced a nationwide protest to hold on 26th<\/sup> and 27th<\/sup> July 2022, to demand the re-opening of public tertiary institutions that have been closed for over five months due to the strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The NLC\u2019s planned strike is an expression of solidarity for ASUU and other trade unions within the education sector that have been on strike due to the Federal Government\u2019s failure to meet their demands. It will be recalled that a one-month warning strike by ASUU commenced in February 2022 but has since metamorphosed into a full blown strike, lasting for several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recall that the National Executive Council (NEC) of\nthe NLC met in Abuja on 30th<\/sup> June 2022, threatened to embark on a\nnationwide protest to compel the Federal Government to conclude and implement\nits negotiations with university trade unions. It issued a 21-day ultimatum to\nthe Federal Government, which will end on 26th<\/sup> July. It appears the\nNLC is about to make good on its word to embark on a nationwide protest at the\nend of the 21-day ultimatum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industrial action by ASUU is not new and some of the\nunion\u2019s demands have to do with the release of revitalisation funds for\npublic universities, deployment of the University Transparency and\nAccountability Solution (UTAS) system as its salary payment system instead of the\ngovernment proposed Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), timely payment of\nacademic\nstaff salaries and allowances, and addressing the issue of proliferation\nof State universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sadly, Nigeria\u2019s public tertiary education system is\nnot the only sector suffering challenges at this time. There are issues of insecurity and economic instability. Prices of\nmarket commodities have increased, including petroleum products. In the past\nfew days, it appears that queues at filling stations have reduced, especially\nwithin the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). However, this may be connected to\nincreased supply of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) following upward price review\nof the product by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited. Petrol\nwhich was formerly priced at N165 per litre now goes for between N169 and N189\nper litre. The price of diesel rose from N300 to over N800 per litre over the\ncourse of the last few months. These price increases have in turn amplified the\ncost of living for households and businesses, without a commensurate increase\nin revenue. Education, health and other sectors of the economy are in dire need\nof interventions to make life bearable for the average Nigerian. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced a nationwide protest to hold on 26th and 27th July 2022, to demand the re-opening of public tertiary institutions that have been closed for over five months due to the strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The NLC\u2019s planned strike is an expression of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}