FG Gives Committee Three Months To Renegotiate 2009 Agreement With ASUU
The Federal Government has given its seven-person committee a deadline to conclude renegotiations of the 2009 Agreements reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The committee which is chaired by Emeritus Professor Nimi Briggs, pro-Chancellor, Alex Ekweme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, has three months to conclude the renegotiation with ASUU. Other members are Pro-Chancellor, Federal University, Wukari, Arc. Lawrence Patrick...
OPM Founder, Apostle Chinyere Receives ‘Happie Boys’, States Reason For Awarding Them Overseas Scholarship [VIDEO]
Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, Founder and General Overseer, Omega Power Ministry International (OPM), Port Harcourt, on Monday received the two private guards, popularly known as 'Happie Boys' who went viral in a video showing them dancing while performing their duties. Following the development, they were said to have been fired by their employers. As fate may have it however, Apostle Chinyere announced...
After COVID-19 Disruption In Education System, Strike Needless, NANS Tells FG, ASUU (Video)
National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS Abia State Axis has called on the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU to reach a compromise to ensure that the ongoing one month warning strike by ASUU is quickly brought to an end to enable the students go back to school, noting that the COVID-19 disruption in educational...
FG Has No Funds To Meet ASUU’s Demands – Chris Ngige
The Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, has stated that the Federal Government does not have the funds to meet its obligations in the agreement signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Ngige said the government was considering a renegotiation of the terms of the agreement with ASUU, in the effort to end the ongoing...
Keep Off Registration Process If You Are Not A Participant, JAMB Registrar Warns
Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has appealed to non-participants of its examinations to keep off the registration process. Oloyede made the appeal after monitoring registration process of the board’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE), on Thursday in Abuja. He observed that most of the challenges faced by candidates at the point of...
We’re Working To End ASUU Strike Soon, Ngige Assures
The Federal Government, yesterday, expressed the hope that the one-month warning strike embarked upon by Academic State Union of Universities, ASUU, on February 14, 2022, would soon end. Recall that ASUU called its members out on the warning strike to compel the Federal Government to address their demands, some of which had been lingering since 2009. Minister of Labour and Employment,...
Senate Passes Bills To Establish Federal Varsities In FCT, Rivers
The Senate has passed two bills to establish Federal Universities in the Federal Capital Territory and Rivers State. They are the FCT University of Science and Technology Abaji (Establishment) Bill, 2022, and Federal University of Environmental Technology, Koroma/Saakperwa Tai Ogoni, Rivers State (Establishment) Bill, 2022. The bills were passed after the consideration of two separate reports presented by the Committee on...
Obasanjo Decries Bad State Of Education System, Calls For Overhaul
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented the extent of decay in Nigeria’s education system and called for all-inclusive reforms to effectively rescue the sector. Obasanjo who expressed this worry when the leadership of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) paid him a courtesy visit at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, said unless the entire system...
Again, ASUU-FG Meeting Ends In Deadlock
A stakeholders meeting called on Tuesday evening by the Ministry of Labour and Employment failed to persuade the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the ongoing strike, despite the special appeal made to them by top government officials. ABN TV reports that ASUU had embarked on a one-month warning strike on February 14, 2022, to press...
Parents Rejoice As Hon. Onyejeocha Offsets WAEC Fees For Students In Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency
It was a big relief for parents and guardians in Isuikwuato- Umunneochi federal constituency whose wards are registering for the 2022 West African Examination Council WAEC, as Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha representing the constituency has paid the exam fee of all WAEC candidates in public schools in the area. The Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Representatives also extended the...
