The Academic Staff Union of Universities has condemned the directive of the National Universities Commissions to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities that universities should be shut to enable students to participate in the forthcoming general elections. The NUC gave the directive in a letter on Tuesday addressed to vice-chancellors …
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2023: Strike Is Inevitable – Ex ASUU President Says
A former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi has revealed that a fresh strike by lecturers of public universities in the country cannot be ruled out in 2023. Ogunyemi disclosed this on Saturday while featuring on Channels TV’s 2022: In Retrospect, an End-Of-Year special …
Read More »House Of Reps Back FG Over Refusal To Pay Lecturers During ASUU Strike
The House of Representatives says the authorities are not under any obligation to pay the salaries of members of the Academic staff union of universities (ASUU) for the duration they were on strike. Spokesperson of the House, Mr Benjamin Kalu in a statement contended that the decision was in tandem …
Read More »Intervene In FG-ASUU Rift, Union Begs Nigerians
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has called on Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to urgently address all outstanding issues contained in the December 2020 FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Action. In a statement signed by ASUU national president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, after a two-day National Executive Council meeting …
Read More »Fresh Strike Looms In Universities As ASUU Holds NEC Meeting
There is a palpable fear of a fresh round of strikes in Nigerian public universities as the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, holds its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Calabar, Cross River State. DAILY learnt that the meeting started yesterday, Saturday, November 3, and is still ongoing at …
Read More »Expect Mother Of All Strikes If Our Withheld Salaries Are Not Paid Says ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, chapter, on Tuesday, vowed to commence the “mother of all strikes,” if the Federal Government refuses to pay members of the Union their withheld eight months salary arrears. The ASUU-UNN Chairman, Comrade Christian Opata, who addressed pressmen before …
Read More »Fresh Crisis Looms In Universities Over Lecturers’ Unpaid 8 Months Salaries
Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) has hinted of a fresh crisis that would surpass all previous ones in the nation’s universities. It therefore called on the stakeholders and well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to pay its members across the country their withheld eight …
Read More »Nigerian University Students Paying Too Much For Education – ASUU President
President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has said that Nigerian university studenta were paying high tuition fees. He said it would be counterproductive and ill advised for the government to introduce new circle of fees in the system in the harsh economic realities of the times. …
Read More »Pay Withheld Salaries Or Risk Scuttled Academic Session, ASUU Warns FG
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) Ago-Iwoye, yesterday, took to the street calling on the federal government to pay the withheld salaries of their counterparts in the federal universities. The lecturers, who were led by the branch Chairman, Dr. Joel Okewale, …
Read More »FG, ASUU Begin Fresh Showdown, Minister Tackles Lecturers
The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities may be preparing for another showdown as the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has insisted the government will not pay full salaries to lecturers despite their ongoing nationwide protest. ASUU had on Monday begun protests across the country to …
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