The Sustainable Peace Team, set up by the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has called for an executive action by the Federal Government to propose to the National Assembly its decision on improved funding to address ASUU/FG…
IPPIS, ASUU strike and fate of adjunct lecturers
The use of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, as the payment software in the university sector has been a major area of disagreement between the Federal Government and university workers, especially members of the Academic Staff Union…
Still on ASUU and the Federal Government
WHEN you have two obstinate bodies confronting each other, over issues that should normally be settled across the table, with mutual respect and understanding, what you get is the concomitant effect of what is happening in our universities today. There…
ASUU on mission to destroy varsity education, says NANS
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has carpeted the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for extending its strike indefinitely. The students’ body accused the university teachers of embarking on a mission to crumple the nation’s…
Call off sympathy strike, Diri tells NDU lecturers
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has urged lecturers at the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) on Wilberforce Island to end their seven-month-long sympathy strike with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Diri insisted that the sympathy strike by lecturers…
We are disappointed in Buhari’s ministers for telling lies – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused some members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s executive council of peddling lies against the union in the course of their negotiation. The union expressed disappointment over alleged lies told by the Minister…
ASUU: NLC protests in Lagos
Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress are protesting in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital, in solidarity with the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The protest which is currently holding is also an opportunity for the NLC…
ASUP to embark on nationwide strike May 11
Less than 12 hours after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) extended their ongoing strike action by three months, its Polytechnics counterpart, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, (ASUP) has announced its plan to commence a nationwide strike action…
*Ojodu Lagos boils as trailer rams into school children, killing 15 (NewsExpress)*Police arrest 3 Dowen College students over Sylvester Oromoni’s death (Leadership)
Ojodu Lagos boils as trailer rams into school children, killing 15 (NewsExpress) Not less than 15 students of Babsfafunwa Millenium Senior and Junior Secondary Schools in Ojodu area of Lagos have purportedly been killed others injured, by a trailer moving…
Ultimatum: You’ll hear from us in 24 hrs, ASUU tells Nigerians
As ultimatum given by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to the government to implement its demands or face another round of industrial action ended on Sunday, the former has said Nigerians will know its position within 24 hours.…