#EndSARS: Govts’ poor response indication Nigerian youths’ future under threat — ASUU
By Joseph Erunke – ASUU Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said governments’ response over the #EndSARS protests,especially the killings of protesters at Lekki tollgate, showed that the future of Nigerian youths was under threat. The union, in a statement Friday’s night by its president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, condemned in strongest terms, the manner […]
ASUU: Only workers captured by IPPIS will receive salaries, Buhari insists
President Muhammadu Buhari says only federal workers that have been captured by the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform will continue to receive salaries. Buhari said this when he presented the 2021 budget of N13.08trillion to the joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja on Thursday. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), […]
ASUU blasts Minister over ‘farming as alternative profession’ comment
By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday described a comment credited to the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, that striking lecturers should consider farming as an alternative profession as alleged “reflection of his shallow understanding of the academic profession and low premium that the government places […]
Ojukwu varsity lecturers deny opting out of ASUU strike
The Academic Staff Union of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam campus, has denied opting out of the national strike by university lecturers. The branch Chairman of ASUU, Prof. Alphonsus Aniebo stated this at a press briefing in Awka on Thursday, while reacting to an earlier statement by a group of lecturers in the university, who […]
Until FG pays our seven months salaries, strike continues ― ASUU insists
By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it is not ready to suspend its ongoing strike until government pays outstanding three-to-seven months withheld salaries and approves University Transparency and Accountability Solutions (UTAS) among other demands. ASUU in a statement released by the Zonal Coordinator of the Ibadan Zone, […]
ASUU seeks adoption of UTAS to end strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called for the adoption of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) in the country. Mahmud Lawan, Coordinator, Kano Zonal Coordinator of the association, made the call in a statement issued in Kano on Thursday, at the end of its meeting held at the Federal University, Dutse. […]
