The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has expressed optimism that the lingering lecturers’ strike would soon end, saying they see “light at the end of the tunnel.” The fallout of the back-and-forth negotiations with the Federal Government has seen universities shut across the countries since February. Read Also: Peter Obi’s endorsement: Afenifere doesn’t speak […]

Breaking: ASUU reacts, says FG’s registration of CONUA, NAMDA inconsequential

Facts have emerged on why the Federal Government reversed itself on the decision to reopen public universities despite the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

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

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday warned against reported moves by the Federal Government to withdraw the registration license of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, over non-submission of its audited financial returns  for over five year.

The National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja, yesterday, ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its seven-month-old strike.

Enugu-based Progressive Students Movement (PSM) has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to be responsible in its negotiations to resolve the ongoing strike and consider the suffering of Nigerian students.

Every so often, our ears are jarred with the hackneyed ASUU claims about the failure of the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay university dons in federal universities salaries they refer to as “African Average”. They usually cite wonderful “examples” of salaries paid to university lecturers in African countries such as South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, and our neighbour Ghana.

By OLUDAYO TADE After giving the Federal Government of Nigeria 14-month strike notice (December 2020 – February 14, 2022), the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, asked her members to stop teaching to force government to fund public universities and sign a renegotiated agreement. The six months roll-over strike changed to total and indefinite strike […]

I yield this space today to readers of this column who felt strongly about my position on the ASUU strike and reacted. Follow their minds. Dear Sir, Your article missed out many facts — ETF which later became TETFUND came into being as an outcome of the FGN/ASUU Agreement of 1992. In response to government […]

By Sunny Ikhioya 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 is the African partnership with Japan, expressed through TICAD (Tokyo International Conference […]

The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, Tuesday, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari warned the government team involved in the negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, against signing an agreement that government would be unable to implement.

By Adekunle Adekoya “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”  THE quote above is usually attributed to renowned physicist, Albert Einstein, famous worldwide for his Theory of Relativity. But Einstein never said those words, just as “who will guard the guards”, a question frequently attributed to Plato was never […]

By INNOCENT OHIAMBE  Following the recent press briefing by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu that agreement has been reached with all staff unions in our universities, polytechnics and colleges of education except the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, public attention has been focused on ASUU and its annual ritual of strikes. It […]

… calls meeting of pro-chancellors, vice-chancellors  By Adesina Wahab There are indications that despite the insistence of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to continue its lingering strike, the Federal Government is set to reopen universities. According to sources in the Federal Ministry of Education, the academic staff are not the only set of […]