Strike: We’ve Met All ASUU Demands – FG
The Federal government urges ASUU to be patriotic, saying facts on the ground do no longer support its strike. The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has released the statement below saying the Federal government had met all demands that triggered the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He, therefore, urged the university teacher to be patriotic...
Michael Okpara University Gets New VC
A new Vice Chancellor for Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU) has been unveiled, ABN TV reports. Prof. Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe has emerged as the Vice-Chancellor of Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU) in Abia State. ABN TV reports that he was on Wednesday unveiled as the 6th Vice-Chancellor of the University. READ ALSO: FG To Block All Sim Cards...
Michael Okpara University Shops For New VC
Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State is currently searching for a replacement for its Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Francis Ogbonnaya Otunta. ABN TV learnt that Prof. Otunta's tenure will expire in February 2021. He was appointed as the varsity's VC December 2015. READ ALSO: Abia Govt To Collaborate With Gregory University On Entrepreneurship Studies He currently serves as the fifth Vice-Chancellor of...
Many Nigerian Graduates Can’t Read Or Write – Minister
MINISTER of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has decried continuous fall in the standard of education in the country. Adamu, who spoke in Yola, the Adamawa State capital during the official commissioning of completed projects in the college, lamented a situation in which graduates can neither read nor write in a tolerable manner. He said the situation was a cause for...
We Never Agreed With FG To End Strike – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the union has not reached any agreement yet with Federal Government to suspend its industrial action. ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday, said there is nothing in the government’s offer on November 27 to suggest the end of the over eight-month strike. “Therefore, the ASUU leadership...
Gregory University Holds 5th Convocation, Announces Programmes
A leading private university in Nigeria, Gregory University Uturu has announced programmes for its 5th Convocation commencing Thursday 10th December 2020. In a statement signed by the acting Registrar of the institution, Rosemary Igboekwe, the ceremony will commence with the formal flag-off of the university mass transit scheme by 10am. This will be followed by a special Thanksgiving Praise Fiesta. The statement...
ASUU Strike: We’ll Shut Down All Private Varsities, says NANS President
The new President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Asefon, has vowed to shut down all private universities in the country should the nine-month strike embarked on by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities continue. The NANS president said this while speaking on a PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable. He lamented that the ongoing strike is the longest industrial...
Poor Management: Handover Abia College Of Education To FG Now, Sen. Kalu Tells Ikpeazu
*Concentrate on bad federal roads in your constituency — Abia govt fires back Senator representing Abia North, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu has appealed to the state governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu to handover the State College of Education located in Arochukwu to the federal government, citing poor management. Kalu, a former governor of the state made this call last week shortly after...
ASUU Agreed To End Strike Today – FG
The Federal Government says it has delivered on offers made to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. This was in reaction to the claim by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, that the government had failed to deliver on offers made to the union. Ogunyemi had blamed the FG for union’s failure to call...
No Resumption Until FG Pays Withheld Salaries – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU on Sunday said it would not end the strike it embarked on until government paid all the salaries of its members it withheld. The President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in a telephone interview with our correspondent in Lagos, said the government should not expect the lecturers to resume without paying the withheld...
