NANS plans to engage the presidential candidates in Abuja and endorse one of them at the end of the townhall meeting on Thursday. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) is set to announce its preferred presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 general election.
Read More »APC Governors never visited Buhari over ASUU strike and salaries owed to civil servants but are now visiting over Naira redesign – Ben Bruce
Former Senator and media mogul, Ben Bruce has questioned why Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress are visiting President Muhammadu Buhari over Naira redesign. In a tweet he shared, Ben Bruce wondered why these Governors who he claimed never visited Buhari over ASUU strikes and …
Read More »Do politicians truly care about you? – Media personality Rufai Oseni asks, after governors visited President Buhari over new Naira notes and not during ASUU strike
Rufai Oseni, has asked if politicians truly care about the populace. The media personality asked the question following last Friday’s visit to President Buhari by some state governors over the crisis concerning the newly redesigned Naira notes. In a tweet posted on his handle, Rufai wrote;ASUU was on strike for 8 …
Read More »FG to pay withheld salaries of ASUU breakaway faction, CONUA
Lecturers under the Congress of University Academics (CONUA), a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), are set to receive their withheld salaries from the federal government. TheCable reported that this was conveyed in a letter dated January 13, and addressed to Niyi Sunmonu, national coordinator of …
Read More »Military government was more sympathetic to plight of lecturers – ASUU
Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that past governments were more sympathetic to the plight of lecturers. Speaking at the unveiling of 50 tertiary textbooks published by Nigerian authors under the sponsorship of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in Abuja on Thursday, January …
Read More »ASUU Holds Crucial NEC Meeting On Saturday
Advertisement The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will on Saturday hold a crucial meeting. Naija News learnt that governing body of the union would meet to take decisions affecting members’ welfare. A member of NEC who spoke with Daily Sun said the meeting …
Read More »Unilorin ASUU: Fresh crisis looms in public varsities
What happened: Following the resumption of duty after their eight months of strike action, the federal government implemented the ‘No Work, No Pay’ policy with half salaries reflected in their October pay packet. What you should know about the No Work, No Pay policy: The Federal Government had maintained its …
Read More »Unpaid salary arrears: ASUU threatens to skip academic sessions missed during strike over ?no-work, no-pay? FG stance
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to skip the backlog of academic sessions halted by their seven months strike if the federal government persists on its ‘no work no pay’ stance. ASUU members, mainly lecturers from the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) Chapter, Rivers state, made …
Read More »We are not going to pay anyone for work not done – FG tells ASUU
The federal government has said that lecturers who just resumed academic activities after an 8-month strike, should not expect complete payment of their salaries as they cannot be paid for work not done. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, expressed Federal Government’s position on the renewed face-off with ASUU …
Read More »Ngige can no longer mediate amid industrial court case ? ASUU President
National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke has lashed out at the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, over his alleged authorization of the part-payment of salaries to members of the union, following the suspension of its eight-month strike in October. Osodeke who spoke in …
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