By Biodun Busari The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has used a total of 1,404 days to go on strike since the inception of this democratic dispensation in 1999. This figure means that the universities’ lecturers have used three years and 10 months to boycott classrooms as one major means of pressing home their […]

CHAIRPERSON of Academic Staff Union of universities, ASUU, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State chapter, Dr Socrates Ebo, has stated that the arrest and detention of the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has vindicated the Union’s opposition towards the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS.

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 […]