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Ongoing industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is seen by some as one of the reasons people patronise private universities, as lecturers there are not members of the union and would not go on strike. Meanwhile, another set of people not participating in the strike are lecturers in some
The federal government has stated that it has paid lecturers N30 billion Revitalisation Fund and N22.5 billion Earned Academic Allowance, stressing that it has made lot of progress in the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding reached with the university workers. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, who spoke to THISDAY at
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have threatened to embark on another industrial action following a three-week ultimatum issued by the union last month. They, however, called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to honour the agreement reached with the union. The lecturers made the call on Friday at
The Academic Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government have reached a truce after the intervention by the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. The truce was reached at a reconciliation meeting held at the National Assembly on Thursday. The speaker invited the minister of education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, the minister of finance, Zainab
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday gave the Federal Government an ultimatum of three weeks over failure to fulfill lingering demands. This is coming as the Senior Staff Association of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities met today to deliberate next moves over the failure of the Federal Government to meet
Vice-Chancellors of some federal and state universities in Nigeria have expressed readiness to reopen schools. Though the Academic Staff Union of Universities had said that varsities were not ready for reopening, the VCs said they had planned to reopen their institutions as directed by the Federal Government. One of the VCs of a federal university
Nigerian students fume as Federal Government postpones school resumption indefinitely citing Covid-19 precautionary measures. This was made public by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu. Many Nigerians have argued that the federal government and ASUU do not care about their future having noted that they had lost one full calender academic year and about to
It’s unsafe to reopen varsities now, COVID-19 guidelines absent – ASUU Branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday assessed COVID-19 protocols in the universities and said the institutions were not ready for safe reopening. The chapters of the union, in separate interviews with The PUNCH, commented on the directive of the National
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,has finally suspended its strike. The union announced the suspension of the 9-month old industrial action at a press conference held Wednesday morning in Abuja. ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, who led other National Executive Committee of the union to the event where he made the announcement, explained that
After weeks of negotiations and foot-dragging, the Federal Government on Friday accepted the demand by the Academic Staff Union of Universities that they be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. The government also shifted grounds on a number of issues, including the insistence that all the academic staff of the federal universities