ASUU
5 Mar
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma Chapter, yesterday, expressed worry over the continuous withholding of salaries of staff over ASUU’s national strike action between February 14, 2022, and October 16, 2022
4 Mar
There is tension in Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi, as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) insists that the Vice Chancellor, Prof Tor Iorapuu, must be sacked.
3 Mar
As I wrote here on Sunday May 10, 2020, the report of the 2012 Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies also known as the Oronsaye Panel Report..
1 Mar
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, yesterday, attributed the deaths of scores of its members to the non-payment of salaries for 26 months to many academic staff of the Edo State owned university since January 2022 by the state government. The union said the sordid reality of pains,…
27 Feb
Failed agreements, claims and counter-claims by university teachers and the Federal Government, incessant strikes, and lately, threats of industrial action, form the odious sequence that has characterised the nation’s public university system for several years.
24 Feb
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Benin Zone, on Thursday, urged the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to work harder and provide effective measures that would cushion the effect of its anti-poor policies that has pushed Nigerians and the Nigerian academics down the intolerable abyss of abject poverty and hardship.
22 Feb
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has blamed the Nigerian government, World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the severe economic hardship in Nigeria.
20 Feb
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has demanded the full payment of all entitlements of its members, while reminding the Federal Government that its ‘no work, no pay’ policy remains a breach of international labour laws.
19 Feb
The Federal Government has begun paying the withheld salaries of academics under the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
15 Feb
The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has again, urged the Federal Government to yield to the last agreement reached with university teachers to avert another round of industrial crisis in tertiary institutions.
15 Feb
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has renewed its call for the reconstitution of the long dissolved governing councils of universities ahead of the expiration of their statutory tenure.
12 Feb
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he expects scholars in the universities to advise the government on how best the students’ loan scheme could be managed in their respective institutions rather than casting aspersions on the motive.
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