NIGERIAN Small and Medium Enterprises, SME, recently received a boost with the establishment of an annual SME Academy by Procter & Gamble, P&G, Nigeria in partnership with the Bank of Industry and the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment, FMIT. The programme is also the continuation of the agreement made with the Federal Government […]
THE Akwa Ibom State Government has debunked a recent report circulating on the social media claiming that govermment is not oblivious of its poor record on Out-of-School children. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Idongesit Etiebet in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Uyo, also debunked the media report that the performance of […]
THE National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has suspended its nationwide strike for three months. The action was premised on the earlier suspension of the strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of University and Allied Institutions (NASU). Ibeji Nwokoma, the NAAT national president revealed this while […]
AMID unresolved issues between the federal government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Minister of education, Adamu Adamu has jetted out of Nigeria, Vanguard reliably gathered. According to reports, Adamu is expected back on 2 September. Adamu is said to have been mandated by President Muhammadu Buhari to lead talks with […]
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, MOUAU, chapter, has disowned its members that visited Senator Orji Kalu recently at his Igbere country home. The union, in a statement issued yesterday, in Umuahia, dissociated itself from the said visit, which it said it was not privy to and never […]
THE Nnamdi Azikiwe University branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has announced that the ongoing strike embarked upon by the lecturers has officially been made indefinite. After a Congress in Awka, the chairman of the union, Comrade Stephen Ufoaroh said UNIZIK is fully in support of the national, zonal and branch leaderships […]
A cross section of students have appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to suspend its seven months old strike. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews on Thursday that it was time for the union to suspend the strike and move for amicable settlement with the Federal Government. […]
THE Kebbi State University of science and technology Alieru, (KSUSTA) on Wednesday denied suspending or calling off the ongoing National strike. In a statement issued by the state chairman of ASUU, Comrade Yale Ibrahim denied suspending the current National strike embarked upon by ASUU. According to him, the union before the commencement of the National […]
LEADERS of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have been complaining and protesting against the seizure of members salaries by the Federal Government since May over their ongoing industrial unrest that has shut the nation’s university system for close to seven months. But ASUU’s outburst over the withheld salaries, is seen as out of […]
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Abuja branch, has challenged the Federal Government to mention any of the things done to bring to an end the ongoing strike embarked upon by the union, declaring that the strike will be sustained. The Union’s branch chairman, Dr Kassim Umaru, stated this in an interview with […]