The federal government has withdrawn its earlier directive to vice-chancellors, chairmen of governing councils and pro-chancellors of public universities to reopen the schools for academic activities.

ASUU: Seven months after, FG orders VC’s to reopen schools

The decision to adopt legal means to resolve the face-off between members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the Federal Government has been described as a recipe for a long-drawn battle that will further waste the time of students that have been at home for over seven months.

By Lawson A. Omokhodion The judgment by the Nigerian Industrial Court asking the Academic Student Union of Universities (ASUU) to reopen the universities while the matter between the union and the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) is being heard in court is a welcome development. It is still too early in the day to get […]

. By Charly Agwam – Bauchi The Students Union Government (SUG) President of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) has said that the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will shut down the country if the strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) continues. The ATBU SUG president, Comrade Usman Abubakar […]

By UGOCHUKWU EJINKEONYE Now, let’s face it:  There can only be one reason why the industrial action embarked upon by the teachers of Nigeria’s public universities since February 14 has been allowed to waste a whole seven months of the academic pursuit of many youths, and, indeed, their very lives. Truth is, it is very […]

THE Federal Government said, yesterday, that protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, who blocked the Lagos-Ibadan expressway violated the country’s law.

THE rising profile of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan certainly went up another notch, at least on a high moral ground, when he boldly dropped hints on how the Muhammadu Buhari administration can solve the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, protracted strike. At the 70th birthday anniversary of one of the voices of conscience […]

Many members of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, including professors, are among those seeking employment in the yet-to-be-opened Maduka University, Ekwegbe-Nsukka in Enugu State.

Some stakeholders have expressed concern over the possible resolution of the Federal Government and ASUU impasse even as some state universities are pulling out of the strike.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has said that the Federal Government has done all it can to end the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Education is on the Concurrent List in the 1999 Constitution and it means federal and state governments can legislate on it.

By Francis Ewherido Many hearts—parents, students and other concerned Nigerians—sank when the Academic Staff Union of Universities “after a heated meeting” of the national executive council of the ASUU, decided to extend the ongoing strike by the union. From extension, it has become an indefinite strike. Government has been talking, ASUU has also been talking, […]

THE National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has faulted the decision of state universities to join ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will tonight/tomorrow morning decide on whether the union would continue its over six months strike that has left most public universities in the country shut down.