The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on has disclosed it would hold a one-day national protest to force the Federal Government to meet the demands of university-based unions. The NLC noted that reports from a meeting of its Central Working Committee (CWC) showed a lack of progress in the negotiations with the leadership of the Academic […]
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Nigeria’s Federal Government through the Ministry of Labour and employment, Sunday gave insight into why no unions in the nation’s university system education were invited to last Thursday’s meeting. The federal government said the meeting was to assess the progress made so far on addressing the few outstanding demands of the striking university workers, such […]
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Wednesday, criticised the President Muhammadu Buhari led government for allegedly compounding the security challenges of the country by allowing the strike by lecturers in public universities to linger for over four months since it started on February 14, 2022. HURIWA, in a statement by its National […]
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The Edo State Government has suspended all union activities in state tertiary institutions following protest by students of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The AAU chapter of ASUU has, however, described as illegal the state government’s action. The decision to suspend the activities of the […]
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Leaders of the National Association of Nigerian Students from all the universities across the South-East region on Friday protested the over three-month strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, in Enugu State. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, had on 14th February, 2022, declared a four-week national strike to, among other […]
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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has pleaded with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other presidential aspirants to raise money in order to meet the demands of the striking university lecturers. The students’ body made the call in a statement signed by the Chairman of Ogun State Joint Campus Committee […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has debunked reports of error in the scoring of candidates in the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board warned the public especially candidates of the last UTME to be wary of the guile and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who were making false claims […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has issued fourteen-day ultimatum to the federal government of Nigeria over its plans to embark on an indefinite strike if its demands are not met. ASUP warned that it will be compelled to tread the path of its University counterpart if urgent action is not taken on its […]
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Military personnel have dispersed students of various universities in Ondo State who are protesting the lingered strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. According to reports, the soldiers have opened fire to chase the students away from the Ilesha/Akure highway on Tuesday. The students who were drawn from the Federal University of Technology, […]
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The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Suleyman Age Abdulkareem, has expressed total displeasure over the 12-week extension of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in Nigeria’s public universities Professor Abdulkareem, who also doubles as the Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigeria’s Federal Universities, said the development […]
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