As University Strike Continues, ASUP Threaten To Shut Down All Polytechnics
As the warning strike embarked upon by Academic Staff Union of Universities enters second month, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Thursday threatened to shut down all Polytechnics across the country if the Federal Government fails to meet up with its demands within the next one month. The ASUP President Comrade Anderson Ezeibe made the threat while addressing...
Ikpeazu Promises Teachers, Other Workers Regular Payment Of Salaries, Improved Welfare
The Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has promised the regular payment of salaries and wages to teachers and other workers in the state. He made this assurance on Thursday when he played host to the National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Dr Nasiru Idris and the General Secretary of the Union, Dr. Mike Ike Ene at Government...
ASUU Strike Enters The Sixth Month As There Is No Deal Yet To Call It Off
As the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike enters the sixth month in the night of July 14, the Federal Government says there is no deal yet. ASUU has been on an industrial action since February 14, with tens of thousands of undergradua...
ASUU To Appeal Court Ruling Asking Lectures To End Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, says it will appeal the order by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) asking its members to call off the seven-month-long strike. The University of Abuja chapter chairman of ASUU, Dr Kasim Umar, stated this while reacting to the order by court in Abuja. Umar said the national executive Council of ASUU will...
We Can’t Resume On Empty Stomach – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has disclosed that they cannot go back to the classroom on an empty stomach insisting that the Federal Government should adopt its recently invented payment system for Universities, “University Transparency and Accountability Solution”, UTAS as an alternative to IPPIS. ASUU also maintained that the Federal government payment system IPPIS, which was made...
FG Agrees To Release N30 Billion To ASUU
The Federal Government has agreed to release N30 billion earned academic allowance to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The Government will pay the money in tranches between May 2021 and January 2022. As part of the concession to end the seven-month strike, the government also pledged to spend N20bn on the revitalisation of the education sector. These agreements were reached...
Public & Private Schools In Abia To Reopen November 2nd
The Abia State Government has disclosed that 2020/2021 Academic session will officially begin on Monday, November 2, 2020, for all public and private nursery, primary and secondary schools in the State. This was contained in a release signed by the State Commissioner for Education, D. KCK Nwangwa and made available to DAILY POST on Thursday morning. According to the statement, all...
Ray Nkemdirim Foundation Kicks Off Second Edition Of Abia Schools Quiz Competition
The Second Edition of Abia State Schools Quiz Competition organised by Ray Nkemdirim Foundation in Collaboration with Abia State Ministry of Education, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, Flo 94.9 FM and other partners kick...
UK Schools To Hold Exhibition In Abuja, Lagos
This month, a number of British award-winning schools will host UK Boarding Schools Week in Abuja and Lagos. The exhibition, organised by Mark Brooks Education in collaboration with the UK’s Department for Business and Trade, will take place at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja and The Wheatbaker Hotel in Ikoyi, Lagos, from Thursday, January 16, to Sunday, January 19. According to a...
Only University Lecturers On IPPIS Will Be Paid – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that members of the Association of Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will get salaries. He stated this on Thursday in his annual speech to the joint session of the two chambers of the National Assembly which is currently ongoing. In the highlight of the 2021 Appropriation budget being presented to the National Assembly, he explained that...
