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Reopening universities is a suicide mission — ASUU warns FG

Ihesiulo Grace 1 September 2020 0

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday, warned the Federal Government that attempts to reopen tertiary institutions without taking concrete steps to curb the spread of COVID-19 would be suicidal. Daily Times Nigeria gathered that the Lagos Zone of ASUU said this while

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COVID-19: No plans to reopen Universities — ASUU clears

Ihesiulo Grace 22 August 2020 0

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reiterated that universities will remain closed as the ongoing strike action continues. The National President of ASUU, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, said this during a stakeholder’s meeting at the Union’s Secretariat at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Professor Ogunyemi explained that the federal government

Education

Our members not involved in UI exam malpractices – ASUU

Ihesiulo Grace 22 October 2019 0

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan chapter, on Tuesday, said no single academic staff was involved in the examination malpractices allegedly discovered at the institution’s distance learning centre (DLC). The ASUU Chairman, Prof Deji Omole, while reacting to some newspaper reports, said those arrested by the Department of State Services

Labour

Labour, civil society advocate continuous agitation for change in governance

Ihesiulo Grace 23 October 2017 0

The organised labour and members of civil society groups, have advocated peaceful agitation, centered on change, peaceful revolutions and governance overhaul as key to the much-needed change Nigerians are yearning for. The groups, comprising human rights activists, community-based organisations, students, academics, doctors, internationalists and artisans, said that it is

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Finally, ASUU suspends 6-week strike

Ihesiulo Grace 19 September 2017 0

• FG, varsity lecturers sign agreement • Suspension is conditional, ASUU insists The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday night suspended its six-weeks old strike. The suspension is, however, a conditional one, as the Universities lecturers vowed to resume the strike by October if the federal government failed to honour the agreement reached […]

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Strike: ASUU, FG meets today to thrash out “grey areas”

Ihesiulo Grace 18 September 2017 0

The Academic Staff union of Universities, ASUU, and the federal government negotiating team are meeting this afternoon to sort out what the union described as ’’grey areas’’ that arose from the offer made by government to the union last week, which has been deliberated upon at the various zonal levels and by the National Executive […]