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By NAN. The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has said that the union will soon call off its eight-month-old strike. Osodeke said this at a meeting with the leadership of the House of Representatives on Monday in Abuja. He said that from what the union had seen at…
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The Federal Government has withdrawn its circular which directed vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open Federal Universities for students to resume academic activities. It was reported earlier that a circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135 was addressed to all vice-chancellors; Pro-Chancellors and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities ordering them to re-open federal universities. But in…
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Following the recent court order and moved by the federal government, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have declared that not even the Federal Government, can cajole them to return to the classrooms when their reasons for the seven-months old nationwide strike have not been met. ASUU reactions was in response to…
The National Industrial Court (NIC) in Abuja yesterday refused the prayers of the Federal Government to order the striking Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) to resume classes pending the determination of a suit challenging the strike. At the resumed sitting, James Igwe (SAN), Counsel to the Federal Government requested the court to order ASUU…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has extended the prolonged industrial action embarked upon over five months ago by another four weeks. Recall that the striking lecturers shut down public universities on February 14, 2022, following the inability of the Federal Government to implement a Memorandum of Action (MoA) entered by the two parties…
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has issued directives to its affiliate bodies to mobilise for a one-day strike next week in solidarity with the lingering strike by university-based unions, including the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU). This came hours after the vice-chancellors of universities called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently end the strike by…
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The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Chapter, has urged Governor Seyi Makinde to direct the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Mojeed Olaide Liasu and Chairman of the Governing Council, Prof. Deji Omole, to pay seven years of Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) arrears owed academic members of staff of the institution. Among other…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the promotion of Ali Isa Pantami, the minister of communications and digital economy, to a professor as “illegal.” Last year, the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) had named the minister as a professor in cybersecurity during its council’s 186th meeting. Pantami’s promotion had elicited intense…
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Information reaching Rextun City Updates have further indicated that the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Nigeria might be embarking on a one month warning strike. ThIs was disclosed by a source on condition of anonymity. The decision was taken at a NEC meeting in the early hours of Monday 14th February. According to the…
Dr Sunday Soyemi, the pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), who conducted an autopsy on the body of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, yesterday said the pupil of Dowen College, Lagos died of Septicemia (Sepsis). Dr. Soyemi said this while being led in evidence by Director of Public Prosecution, Dr Jide Martins. The physician…
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