THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally, a member of the union’s National Executive Committee told Channels TV early Friday. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday. The Court […]
AS members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, failed to call off their 196-day-old strike, yesterday, indications have emerged that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has written the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, to get the situation report on the negotiation between the leadership of the union and […]
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday said that the purpose of its strike action is to “save public universities.” Channels Television had earlier reported the union’s decision to extend its six-month long strike after its National Executive Council (NEC) met on Sunday in Abuja. In a statement signed by ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel […]
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. […]