Category: Education

A Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) member of staff of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) in Benin, Edo State, Prince Carter Oshodin has committed suicide over unpaid salaries and inability to pay his two young daughters’ school fees. Oshodin, a data entry officer at the Federal Government-owned higher institution, took his life on Friday at Umelu […]

Mr Usman Abubakar-Rimi, a Medicine and Surgery final year student in the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), has turned to street food vendor due prolonged industrial action by University lecturers. In an interview on Friday in Sokoto, he said he conceived the initiative in order to engage in productive living as the strike forced students […]

‘Strike a national embarrassment’ President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to end the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike, by emulating the strategy adopted by former Predident Goodluck Jonathan in November 2013, during which he personally presided over a meeting with the aggrieved lecturers and had the knotty issues resolved. Convener of the […]

The strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, which has paralysed almost all public universities in the country, has entered its 200th day. Students and parents, who lamented the effects of the industrial action in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Thursday, condemned the failure of the Federal Government and the union […]

• Urge govt to hands off varsity education, empower governing councils • Students count losses of ASUU strike, call for PPP option • ASUU monopoly responsible for incessant strikes- CONUA With the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) still on strike after six months of industrial action, concerned Nigerians have called for an alternative resolution […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the union is open to the Progressives Governors Forum’s offer to take over negotiation aimed at ending the ongoing strike if it will be sincere. The union’s National Vice-President, Dr Christopher Piwuna, disclosed this in an interview on Wednesday. PGF Chairman, who also is the Kebbi State […]

Okowa tasks FG on Delta education model to end the stalemate FG has done enough for varsities, minister insists Govt to meet VCs, and councils on September 6 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, received some governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in his office, where he called for urgent action to address dwindling […]

The Federal Government through the National Universities Commission has convened a meeting with the vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and management of Federal universities in line with the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The meeting is expected to hold on September 6, 2022, at the NUC secretariat in Abuja. This was convened in […]