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The Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has given reasons why it failed to pay full salaries to lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Naija News reports that ASUU and many Nigerians had slammed the federal government for deciding to pay lecturers half salaries for the …

A fresh war may be brewing between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government over the government’s decision to pay lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022. Naija News understands that the leadership of ASUU is said to have summoned an emergency …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Gombe State University chapter, has said it will not release students’ results if the government fails to release the withheld salaries for members of the union for the period while they were on strike.   The union also threatened to discontinue the supervision of undergraduates and …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reacted to speculations that it may have cancelled some admissions due to the academic imbalance brought about by the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The exam body stated on Wednesday that respective institutions are responsible for admitting …

Usman Abubakar-Rimi, a Medicine and Surgery final-year student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), who ventured into the food-selling business due to the prolonged ASUU strike, has died.   Shortly after the strike was declared on February 14, 2022, Abubakar-Rimi opened a food outlet and noodles joint in the Diplomat …

Barely 24 hours after the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) called off its strike, the College of Veterinary Medicine at Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, has released a revised exam timetable for its students.    The students who were writing their exam when ASUU embarked on a strike, will continue …

The striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will on Thursday, October 13, convene an emergency National Executive Council, NEC meeting, to review recent developments, especially the positive response from the federal government to its demands.   Ahead of the meeting, the leadership of the union has asked its zonal …

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, says the union is optimistic about an end to its lingering strike, adding that there is now ”light at the end of the tunnel”; Osodeke stated this at a meeting with the leadership of the House of Representatives led …

A Senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN), Femi Falana has expressed optimism that the lingering strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will be called off in days and not weeks.   Falana who is the legal counsel of ASUU stated this during an interview with …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said on Friday that it would review the ruling of the Appeal Court over its eight months old industrial action. At a sitting today, the Appeal Court ordered the academic union to revoke its action and reopen public universities across the country with …