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The Ministry of Education, Adamu Adamu, alongside stakeholders such as the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede; Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed; Emeritus Professors Peter Okebukola and Nimi-Briggs; alongside all vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities have commenced a special …

As the second round of the eight-week warning strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ends today, the union is poised to go on an indefinite industrial action, Sources said the national leadership of the union would make public its decision today.It was gathered …

The President, National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Comrade Sunday Asefon, on Thursday, accused Nigerian leaders of ignoring the plights of Students who are at the receiving end of the ongoing strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Comrade Asefon who also said that the …

BENIN CITY – FOURTY-SIX years old businessman, Mr. Stanley Osifo, yesterday in Benin City declared his intention to contest for President of the country on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He said he had the capacity to reposition the country and that he was motivated because he …

ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Benin Zone, has pleaded with Nigerians to join it to rescue the nation’s university system from dying. Zonal Coordinator, ASUU-Benin Zone, Prof. Fred Esumeh, made the appeal while addressing journalists in Benin City, yesterday. He said: “ASUU is calling on all-well meaning Nigerians to …

After serious deliberations that dragged into the early hours of Monday, the National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has voted to embark on one-month warning strike to press home its demands from the government. A source at the meeting held in Lagos told Newsmen …

Over the decades threats of strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and other sister unions are the bogeys that have continued to haunt our tertiary educational system. They started in the 1970s, and yet, no regime has found a lasting solution to them. The main cause of …

The President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has said consultation is ongoing as regards the union’s response to the government offer of last Friday. On Friday, the Federal Government agreed to exempt ASUU from the IPPIS and also increased the academic earned allowance to N70bn. These and …

Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU chairman The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday, presented its own alternative payroll system tagged, ‘University Transparency and Accountability Solution’, to the Senate. The President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, addressed journalists after about a three-hour closed-door session with the leadership of the Senate. Ogunyemi …