By Nwafor Sunday President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the plight of students and call off the ongoing strike. Disclosing this in a statement Femi Adesina quoted Buhari as urging students in Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions to exercise patience as the government strives to address […]

SOMETIMES, people at the helm of affairs portray Nigeria as an unserious and funny country. How else would one describe the ongoing political and impending Turkey jamborees while our children rust away at home due to the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU? Shockingly, ministers who should be engaged in finding a […]

By OBOH SYLVESTER STRIKE or industrial action, in whatever  perspective it is defined, foretells the existence of a depressing relationship between and among employers, employees and beneficiaries of whatever utility, goods or service designed to be provided or delivered. Therefore, industrial action is basically an open display of dissatisfaction by employees against bad and discouraging […]

By Henry Umoru, Abuja CHAIRMAN, Senate  Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa/ NEPAD, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Enugu East has called on Federal  Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU to as a matter of urgency resolve the lingering impasse between them in the interest of the Education sector. […]

As the second round of the eight-week warning strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ends on Monday, the union is poised to go on an indefinite industrial action, Vanguard has gathered.

By Elizabeth Osayande THE saying that “when two elephants fight, the grass suffers” is apt in describing the pains, and frustrations of students in Nigerian universities and their parents over the ongoing dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government that has paralysed academic activities in the institutions. Recall that […]

By James Ogunnaike ABEOKUTA—THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, berated the National Information Technology and Development Agency, NITDA, over what it described as ‘deliberate misinformation and disinformation of the public on the integrity test conducted on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, by the agency. The Lagos Zonal Coordinator of the Union, […]

By Adesina Wahab As a meeting of the national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, with the federal government delegation led by the Labour and Productivity Minister, Dr Chris Ngige is scheduled for late Monday in Abuja, the issue of Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS, and the release of N200 billion […]

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency on the education sector in the country.

A Lagos lawmaker, Mr Rasheed Makinde, has advised the Federal Government and striking workers’ unions in Nigerian universities to resolve disagreements for students to return to school for academic activities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association […]

Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has disclosed that children of the masses bear the grunt of incessant industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), in the country.Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has disclosed that children of the masses bear the grunt of incessant industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), in the country.

By Adesina Wahab THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has described the agitations by some individuals and groups that indigenes of towns where universities are sited be made the vice chancellors of such universities as reducing the institutions to local entities. The union, through the National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in a chat with […]

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Against the backdrop of the looming Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has sternly condemned federal government’s approach and silence in the matter.

By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Middle Belt Movement for Justice and Peace, MBMJP, has urged the Federal Government to quickly resolve its dispute with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, warning that the masses might be forced to join the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, in its scheduled March 28, 2022 nationwide protest […]