Court Orders ASUU To Call Off Strike
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its ongoing nationwide strike. ABN TV reports that ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press home the demands for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries for lecturers, among other issues. Several meetings between ASUU and the Federal Government...
ASUU Strike: Those In Government Have No Value For Education — Sanusi
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering crisis between them. Sanusi made the call in an interview with journalists in New York on the sidelines of a three-day Transforming Education Summit. The former CBN governor spoke to Newsmen after he...
ASUU strike: Female Students Now pregnant, While Males Now Mechanics, NANS Laments
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has criticized the Federal Government for the ongoing seven-month-long strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. NANS said the strike has endangered the fundamental human right of Nigerian students, with regard to access to education. Comrade Olusesi Tolulope Samson, Lagos NANS chairman, disclosed this on Arise TV morning show on...
ASUU Strike: Strike Unshakeable As Union Dismisses Notice Of Varsities’ Resumption Order
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday dismissed resumption notices by university authorities directing students to appear for lectures amid the seven-month strike. The organization said its strike remained unshakeable as those institutions were still under lock and key. The Vice President of ASUU and its former branch chairman at the University of Jos, Dr. Chris Piwuna, said these in...
Imo State University Hasn’t Pulled Out Of Strike – ASUU
The Imo State University (IMSU) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has disclosed that it stands with the national body in the ongoing national struggle for the collective welfare and survival of public university education in Nigeria. ASUU-IMSU said it has not pulled out of the ongoing strike. Recall that Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, on Monday pulled...
ASUU Strike: Imo State University Pulls Out, Opens For Academic Session
The management of Imo State University, IMSU, Monday, pulled out from the almost seven months strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and announced that it has opened the university for academic activities. The management made this known to newsmen in Owerri, through the IMSU Public Relations Officer, Ralph Njoku. According to him, it was the decision taken by...
ASUU Strike: Reps To Meet ASUU For Solution
The House of Representatives is to meet with the Academic Staff Union of University and other stakeholders to find a lasting solution to the lingering strike embarked upon by the union. لعبه الروليت This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Yahaya Danzaria, the Clerk of the House of Representatives on Monday in Abuja. تعليم البوكر He said...
ASUU Strike: Students Block Ife-Ibadan Road, ASUU Lists Pending Demands
Students protesting the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Thursday, blocked the Ife-Ibadan road. While the action lasted, motorists and commuters were stranded for hours. The students gathered on the platform of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Zone ‘D’ South West. The group’s zonal coordinator, Olatunji Adegboye, during the protest in Gbongan, called for a...
We Are Willing To Call Off ASUU Strike – Prof Osodeke
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, says the union is willing to end its seven-month-old strike. Osodeke disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, at a National Town Hall Meeting on Tertiary Education tagged: ‘The Locked Gates of our Citadels -A National Emergency.’ Recall that the union embarked on industrial action on February 14, making...
ASUU Strike: You’re Violating The Law, FG Warns Students Blocking Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
THE Federal Government said, yesterday, that protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, who blocked the Lagos-Ibadan expressway violated the country’s law. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council...
