The recent approval of 2022 financial disbursements to the country’s tertiary institutions by President Muhammadu Buhari is another proof that his administration accords great priority to the education sector. According to the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), this is contrary to…
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has asked students through the National Association of Nigerian Students not to disrupt political activities. Lawan made this appeal when the NANS President, Sunday Ashefon, visited his office on Tuesday. Students had begun to stage…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday extended its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks. This was disclosed in a statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke. Osodeke said this was to give the government enough time…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called for the urgent intervention of well-meaning Nigerians in the long face-off between it and the Federal Government as it relates to the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, and Integrated Payroll…
By Joshua Hussain The State Minister for education, Emeka Nwajiuba has decried the decision of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to persist in its strike action despite negotiations and pleas by Federal Government. This is coming just as…
The Conference of Alumni Associations of Nigerian Universities (CAANU) has urged the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other university-based unions. It said this would help bring an end to the ongoing…
By Joshua Hussain An education expert and National Coordinator of Concerned Parents and Educators Initiative, a two-hundred-thousand-member multinational educational intervention group, Mrs Kemi Koleowo, has expressed an entirely divergent thought about the ASUU-FG strife. In an interview with Nigerian NewsDirect, the…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Benin (UNIBEN) branch, on Saturday described the demise of Prof. Grace Alele-Williams, the first female Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria as saddening. Dr Ray Chikogu, UNIBEN chairman of the ASUU, said this while…
The Students Union body of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has given the LAUTECH chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) 72 hours to withdraw from the ongoing strike. This is contained in a statement…
Barth Ndubuwah, Port Harcourt The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) Branch, Dr Uzoma Darlington Chima has faulted the claim of the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajuba that the…
