The Federal Government on Sunday warned that it would enforce the no work, no pay policy as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) commenced a two-week nationwide warning strike following the expiration of its 14-day ultimatum over unresolved demands. Announcing the commencement of the strike during an emergency press conference in Abuja, the ASUU […]
THE Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Opiah, has given the assurance that he would deploy all needed resources to join President Muhammadu Buhari in ensuring that the ongoing strike embarked upon by the four university-based unions is called off. Oprah, who was a former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly and also […]
The meeting rescheduled for December 14, 2020 with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been canceled by federal government. The meeting was supposed to discuss over the on-going strike embarked upon by the university lecturers. The meeting, convened by the Chris Ngige, Minister of Labor and Employment – to iron […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday said it would not end the strike it embarked on until government paid all the salaries of its members it withheld. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, The President of ASUU, in an interview with in Lagos, said government should not expect the lecturers to resume without paying the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday, advised lecturers to immediately seek alternative means of survival. The Abuja zone of the union, which expressed anger over the non-payment of salaries to its members by the Federal Government at a press conference held Tuesday morning at the University of Abuja campus, asked students and […]
The Federal government has debunked claims by university lecturers that they are yet to be paid for eight months, Daily Times gathered. Emeka Nwajiuba, the Minister of State for Education, made this statement on Channels Television’s Politics Today that the claim was false, adding that some lecturers got excess salaries and had to refund it […]
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has said the previous administration is to blame for the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Daily Times gathered. Although Adamu was not specific on which administration he was referring to, he said the government shouldn’t have entered into agreement with ASUU to pay them […]
With the lifting of the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown, the trouble with the Nigerian university system is now in full public glare. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) commenced its latest industrial strike on 16th of March, 2020, about two weeks ahead of the lockdown. With the lockdown affecting virtually all of society, it was […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has requested that the Federal Government pay outstanding salaries of their members as part of conditions to suspend its ongoing strike, Daily Times reports. The National President of ASUU, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, made this statement at the unveiling of the union’s Universities Transparency and Accountability Solution at the […]
Some stakeholders in the education sector on Wednesday called for an amicable resolution of the impasse between the federal government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that has resulted in a national strike by university teachers. ASUU had on Monday directed its members to embark on a two- week warning strike […]
Students in tertiary institutions in Calabar, the Cross River state capital, have refused to return to lecture rooms even as the Academic Staff Union of the University (ASUU) called off the one week warning strike embarked upon by the Union. Our correspondent who visited some Institutions on Wednesday observed that the students who left the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated that the Federal Government was not prepared to improve on the quality of education, hence it allowed the agreement it willingly entered with the body in 2009 to linger till date. Chairman, ASUU UNN chapter, Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Abada, told Daily Times in an interview yesterday that […]
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