{"id":41442,"date":"2022-08-31T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/?p=41442"},"modified":"2022-08-31T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:06:38","slug":"uniben-still-part-of-asuu-strike-chapter-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/08\/31\/uniben-still-part-of-asuu-strike-chapter-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIBEN still part of ASUU strike \u2013 Chapter chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/07\/11\/health-workers-union-threatens-to-embark-on-strike-in-solidarity-with-asuu-others\/\">Academic Staff Union of Universities, University<\/a> of Benin (UNIBEN) Branch, has urged the public to disregard a speculation that it has pulled out of the ongoing national strike.<\/p>\n<p>This is contained in a statement on Wednesday in Benin, by Dr. Ray Chikogu, branch chairman of the union.<\/p>\n<p>Chikogu stressed that the branch was irrevocably committed to execute the industrial action to a logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leadership of the University of Benin Branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has read with amusement, a piece of information purporting that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/04\/19\/beninese-university-honours-nigerian-pharmacist-onyechi\/\">University of Benin<\/a> has backed out of the ongoing ASUU strike and that the university will resume normal activities on Sept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe branch is more than aware that the intelligentsia have a moral obligation to rescue public tertiary education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, it is no retreat, no surrender. We have no doubts whatsoever that the verdict of history will be on the side of ASUU,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Benin (UNIBEN) Branch, has urged the public to disregard a speculation that it has pulled out of the ongoing national strike. This is contained in a statement on Wednesday in Benin, by Dr. Ray Chikogu, branch chairman of the union. 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