ASUU strike: Omotola urges students to take action ...Read more

 

Award winning Nigerian actress, Omotola Ekeinde, has berated the Federal Government over the lingering industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

CBT’ll Eliminate Exam Malpractice – UNILORIN VC ...Read more

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, says the computer-based test will help reduce examination malpractice in tertiary institutions.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: UNN joint action committee calls for probe of VC

The Joint Action Committee on Trade Unions University of Nigeria Nsukka made up of Academic Staff Union (ASUU) and Non Academic Staff Union of the University and Inter centres (NASU) have called for probe and immediate removal of Batho Okolo, the vice chancellor for maladministration.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: Group Warns ASUU to End Strike ...Read more

A group Eduwatch Consults and Research Centre has urged university lecturers to end their strike, now in its fourth month, in the interest of students whose interest they claim to be safeguarding.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: ASUU's Unyielding Stance, a 'Right' Taken Too Far ...Read more

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The legitimacy of whatever industrial action considered by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, must be within the bound of reasonability, sensibility, human conscience and decorum if a worthwhile struggle is truly or genuinely meant. For the third month running or thereabout, ASUU has embarked on an industrial action to drive home its demand for some allowances. You may call it earned allowances, expectedly accruing to its members and not even an issue bordering on salary.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: Group Welcomes NUT, NUPENG Decision To Join ASUU Strike ...Read more

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has fully backed the decision of three trade unions, the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE)  to embark on solidarity strike actions to compel the Federal Government to honour agreement signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: ‘Varsities need more than triple their current funding levels’ ...Read more

Going by the current situation bedevilling our tertiary education system, Peter Okebukola, a professor at the Lagos State University (LASU) in this interview with Kelechi Ewuzie gives answers to some of the pressing issue facing this key level of education. Excerpt:

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: Adamawa University to Stop Lecturers' Pay ...Read more

Authorities of Adamawa State University, Mubi, have threatened to stop paying the salaries of its striking lecturers, as the ongoing nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, enters the third month.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: Group Accuse ASUU, NLC of Politicising Strike ...Read more

A group, known as the Unity Project Nigeria (UPN) on Monday accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Nigeria Labour Congress of engaging in clandestine meetings with leading opposition groups in the country in order to frustrate the efforts of government to suspend the strike even as hundreds of angry market women Monday in Abuja protested the continued strike.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: ASUU Embarks on Protest to Sensitize Public on Strike

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka chapter, have embarked on a protest to sensitise the public to the union’s resolve to continue with the ongoing strike.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: National Youth Council of Nigeria warns government against mass uprising

The National President, Youth Council of Nigeria, Comrade Abdulahi Abdulmajeed has said that the ongoing ASUU strike was a threat to national development as well as peace and security.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: ASUU strike cripples UNIPORT, UOE, as RSUST kicks

While the current indefinite strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) has had no visible effect on the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), as lecturers are busy teaching in all the lecture halls available in the institution, the strike has however crippled academic activities in nearby universities like the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) and the newly established Rivers State University of Education (UOE).

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: ASUU strike: Women protesters storm education ministry • Strike will end soon —FG ...Read more

AS the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) entered the 106th  day,  some women protesters stormed the Federal Ministry of  Education, Abuja, on Monday, demanding immediate resolution of the impasse.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: FG and the future of university education ...Read more

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depend on the education of youths. Aristotle who made the above declaration would be sad indeed, if he were to observe the lackadaisical attitude to all levels of education by the Nigerian State. And nothing evidences this attitude than the fact that the ASUU has been on strike-off and on- since 2007 over the same set of issues.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: How to break the deadlock

NOW that the indefinite strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has entered its fourth month (one full semester is lost), the two parties involved in the debacle – government and the ASUU – appear to have reached a point of no return. No party appears to be in the mood to shift ground. There is total deadlock. It has become a do-or-die battle while the students languish at home.

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: Market Women Protest ASUU Strike At National Assembly ...Read more

Abuja — PROTESTING traders, under the aegis of National Market Women Association, Monday, stormed the National Assembly, demanding that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, call off its more than three months old strike.