Precisely on the 22nd of June, 2009, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) declared a total and indefinite strike action which completely paralysed academic activities in 52 federal and state universities.

Education has to do with children, human beings. If we allow it to continue the way it is going now we will produce future leaders that will lack substance and integrity.

According to a submission available to us, entitled: Before the beginning of the end: SOS Call for Redress and Salvation of the Nigeria French Language Village,” the lecturers accused the management of inconsistency of policies saying “they saw themselves as being appointed solely to see and hear the management only.”

For almost a decade , the Nigeria Labour Congress and the federal government have been at logger heads over an issue; deregulation. Is it time for both to resolve their differences? Who pays the price? Is there a division within the labour movement as reported by some dailies? These are the issues that Labour Vanguard got the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Abdulwaheed Ibrahim Omar to speak on.

As it is in Nigeria,so it is in the United States of America. Perhaps the difference is that we have not heard so much noise about agitation of a rise in the national minimum wage but on July, 24, the federal minimum wage was raised for the “ third year in a row” according to Aaron Smith of CNN money.com.