Thursday, 17 October 2013

NECO: Moving Away From The Past

The registrar and chief executive of NECO, Prof. Promise Okpala, in this interview with KUNI TYESSI, talks about what the examination body is doing to check examination malpractices and also ensure that students are better prepared for the examination. 

APC flays First Lady for receiving award amid ASUU strike ...Read more

THE decision by the First Lady, Patience Jonathan, to receive an honorary doctorate award in far away South Korea, even as Nigeria’s public universities have remained shut for many months under the watch of her husband has elicited criticism from the All Progressives Congress (APC), which described it as the height of insensitivity.

ASUU Strike: Government Blinks, Agrees To Spend N200b Each For Four Years To Bring Nigerian Universities Up To World Standard ...Read more

By SaharaReporters, New York
Towards ending the ongoing ASUU strike, the Federal Government has committed to spending N200 billion in the 2014 budget on the universities as well as on each of the next three-four years until the universities are brought to world-class standard.  This is in addition to the N100 billion dedicated and already made available for 2013.

ASUU strike: Lamido of Adamawa calls for reconciliation between FG, lecturers ...Read more

imageThe Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), have been urged to reconcile their differences with a view to re-opening universities closed three months ago due to strike.
The Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Barkindo, made the appeal during Eid-El- Kabir Sallah Durbar in Yola on Tuesday.

ASUU Strike: After failing to resolve crisis, ex-Education Minister, Ruqayyatu Rufai, joins strike ...Read more

 
Prof Rufai says it is now unfair to ask her to speak on the strike.

ASUU STRIKE: Police disrupts varsity lecturers’ protest ...Read more

POLICENo fewer than 200 policemen stormed the campus of the Ebonyi State University (EBSU) yesterday to prevent lecturers from staging a protest to draw attention to their ongoing strike.

An Update on Ongoing ASUU Negotiations: this may be the end to Varsity Strike ...Read more

Introduction: Following two meetings (on Thursday 19th Sept 2013 and Friday 11th Oct 2013) of representatives

ASUU STRIKE: UNILORIN students urge ASUU to end strike ...Read more

Not considering the fact that they are not affected by the ongoing strike, the students of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) have appealed to both the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the plights of Nigerian students and call off the over three months’ old industrial action.

ASUU STRIKE: Different strokes as “No work, no pay” policy enters 2nd month

The Federal Government directive that salaries of striking lecturers of Nigerian Universities be witheld has been fully complied with, Tribune Education can authoritatively reveal. Even though the directive was issued to the governing Councils of Federal Government-owned universities, many state governments were also discovered to be owing a backlog of salaries similar to that of the Federal Government even

ASUU STRIKE: FG succumbed, agreement reached; strike to be call-off soon ...Read more


The hope to end the industrial action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU may have risen as a report gathered by UK Online News reporter, SAHARA REPORTERS has it that the Government Blinks, Agrees To Spend N200b Each For Four Years To Bring Nigerian Universities Up To World Standard, as part of effort to end the strike.