The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has urged the EFCC to extend its searchlight on the administration of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, managed by the embattled Accountant General of the federation, Ahmed Idris.. This followed the arrest of the Accountant General of the Federation, AGF, by the Economic and Financial Crimes […]
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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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Following extension of the strike action embarked upon by the lecturers of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, students of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko, AAUA, on Friday staged a peaceful protest over the situation. The students, who were sighted holding placards of various inscriptions, stormed the major highway at the main entrance of the […]
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Scores of students on Friday protested the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The union had in February this year declared a warning strike due to the non-implementation of the agreement reached by the Federal Government and the union in 2009. The union, after the expiration of the […]
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The Federal Government and the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council on Thursday failed to convince the striking lecturers of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to calloff their industrial action during a meeting called by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Agboola Gambari, and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige. The meeting […]
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The Oodua Youth Coalition, OYC, have lampooned the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan, over his position on the lingering crisis between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government, describing his statement as faulty. Lawan
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The President, Muhammadu Buhari has pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the lingering strike. He urged ASUU to consider the plight of the students and called off the industrial action. Buhari had made the appeal at the 19th National Productivity Day Celebration and Conferment of National Productivity Order of Merit […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) has said there is no going back on its decision to continue with its ongoing strike following Federal Government’s failure to honour the 2009 agreement. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osedeke, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. Osedeke said the […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has rolled over its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks (3 months) A statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this was to give the government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues. It also stated that the roll-over strike was effective from 12.01 […]
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