By Adesina Wahab It is the ninth month since university lecturers across Nigeria commenced their strike on March 9, leaving undergraduates stranded at home. Issues revolve around unpaid Earned Academic Allowances, Visitation Panels not yet set up for universities as demanded by the lecturers, poor funding of the university system, and the University Transparency and […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The Federal Government has debunked the report that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, platform. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige told Sunday Vanguard that the government was quoted out of context on the matter, […]

By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo Following the dissolution of the joint ownership of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) by Osun and Oyo State Government, the former has assured its citizens that it was not shortchanged in the new terms of management spelt out by the National University Commission, (NUC). It added that indigenes of […]

The Federal Government has agreed to pay the salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) using a different mode of payment other than the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this while addressing newsmen at the end of a closed door […]

President of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Comrade Nuhu Ogirima, has disclosed that the Federal Government (FG) eventually called the academic body for a meeting to discuss the various issues for which the union has been threatening to embark on industrial action. Ogirima, who has been championing the cause for better funding for […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nsukka Zone, has condemned the alleged attempt by Prof Charles Eze, the Vice-chancellor of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), to use the military to conduct examinations in the institution. Some universities under Nsukka Zone include Benue State University (BSU), Enugu State University of Science and […]

…Exempt ASUU from IPPIS By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Federal Government, Friday, made new offer to university workers in a bid to ensure that all the workers both teaching and non teaching staff go back to work. The Government also agreed to exempt the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja Osun State Government has lost its joint ownership of Ladoke Akintola University of Science and Technology LAUTECH with Oyo State Government as the National Universities Commission, NUC, has given the latter full ownership while it stopped the former. The commission on Friday, said henceforth, Oyo State would have full ownership […]

James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta The Primate of the African Church, Nigeria and Overseas, His Eminence, Julius Olayinka Abbe has admonished the federal government to as a matter of urgency address all the demands of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) so that the 8-month old strike would be called off in the interest […]

…Condemns militarisation of ESUT by mgt By Ikechukwu Odu The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Friday, accused the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, of deliberately frustrating the efforts of the Union in resolving the issues it has with the Federal Government. The union while saying that Ngige was acting as […]