Federal Government’s team and the National Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at one of their meetings As court moves suit hearing to Friday SERAP seeks to join suit Falana: FG employing delay tactics Drop charges against ASUU, groups tell FG Amid breakdown in talks, efforts to reopen public universities in the […]
Continue Reading
Passes vote of no confidence on Ngige, Adamu The National Association of Nigerian Students, South-West zone, on Monday, announced the commencement of a protest on the Lagos-Shagamu Expressway. According to the association, the protest was organised as a result of the lingering strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The body also noted […]
Continue Reading
Insists on no bio-metric, no examination policy The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will no longer conduct mop-up examination for candidates of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) who are not bio-metrically verified. The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the office of the Registrar on Monday in Abuja. It […]
Continue Reading
Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, has commended the Nigerian authors, especially those from the northern part of the country, for their foresight in organising the summit of indigenous writers across the 19 northern states. He stated this during the Northern Nigerian Indegenous Literatures and Languages, Arewa Writers’ Summit, Awards and Annual Congress […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
‘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 […]
Continue Reading
Education Commissioner Lagos State Government has directed all schools to begin the 2022/2023 academic year on September 5, 2022. This was contained in a statement issued by the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance of the state, Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, on Saturday. It noted that this was as approved by the Commissioner for Education in the […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
• 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 […]
Continue Reading
