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Academic activities in the Imo state University was on Monday put to a holt following the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, nationwide strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trumpeta<\/em> observed that the students of the state owned University who were still writing their first semester exams were apparently distrusted by the development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ASUU as this paper gathered, after prolonged deliberations, declared a nationwide strike following the Federal Government\u2019s inability to implement previous agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The strike was declared on Monday during a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to ASUU National President, the strike will be \u201ccomprehensive and total\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He, however, said the industrial action would last for the period of four weeks to enable the Federal Government to make changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ASUU President vowed that the union would embark on an indefinite strike if their demands are not met within one month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recall that ASUU had last week, sensitized and mobilized lecturers and students across all universities on the reason the union is deciding to down tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a related development, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has concluded plans to sanction its members in the Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO, and the university\u2019s Vice-Chancellor over what it termed \u201cillegal\u201d promotion of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The union, which made this known during a press conference by its National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke held in Lagos on Monday, said promoting the minister to a professor was illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to ASUU, it is impossible to be a minister and a lecturer at the same time, describing the promotion as encouragement of illegality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The union however gave Pantami the option of quitting his job as a minister, saying he is currently not qualified to be treated as a professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said, \u201cYou cannot be a minister and a lecturer in a university. It is an encouragement of illegality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPantami has to quit as a minister and be tried for doing double jobs within the same federal system. He is not qualified. Pantami should not be treated as a professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have resolved to sanction ASUU members involved in his promotion and the VC of FUTO.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Academic activities in the Imo state University was on Monday put to a holt following<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1.gif",1200,699,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1-300x175.gif",300,175,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1-768x447.gif",640,373,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1-1024x596.gif",640,373,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1.gif",1200,699,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1.gif",1200,699,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1.gif",1024,596,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1.gif",652,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1.gif",300,175,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/assu1.gif",50,29,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35247,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245\/revisions\/35247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}