Dear Hon. Minister,As a professor and mother, I have no doubt that you are aware of the fact that your ministry has a crucial role to play in how the future of this country will be. If Nigeria will remain as a going concern and team up with the rest …
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Monday, rejected the N130 billion the Federal Government disbursed into the university system, as part of efforts to persuade striking lecturers to call off the strike action they embarked on July 2.In a letter written to Head of National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy, NEEDs …
The negative reaction of the General Olusegun Obasanjo administration to the university students’ nationwide protests in April 1978 against the sudden hike in tuition by his administration marked a turning point in the decline in university education in Nigeria. University campuses were quickly occupied by the riot police as students …
It is still a long journey to ending the strike embarked upon by the nation’s university teachers, CHARLES ABAH writesEneke the bird says since men have learnt to shoot without missing, it has learnt to fly without perching. This is one of the Igbo proverbs that readers come across in …
The leadership of the National Assembly, NASS, and Federal Government, yesterday, appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the 7-week old industrial strike action they embarked upon. The NASS and FG made the plea after a meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of public universities in …
MINISTER of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’i gave hope that the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement the union entered into with the Federal Government would soon be settled once and for all.The Minister hinged her optimism on the …
Meeting ASUU’s demands would cost another N92 billion in recurrent expenditure.The Federal Government on Tuesday said it does not have the resources to meet demand by striking university lecturers that would cost an extra N92 billion.The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the opening of a two-day meeting of Commissioners …
After 10 unsuccessful meetings with the Federal Government, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday said government was not ready to end the 8-week-old strike, lamenting that government displayed dishonesty and lack of integrity during negotiations At a briefing in Lagos, ASUU’s President, Dr. Isa Faggae, claimed that government …
From the information reaching us, the Academic Staff Union of Universities announced yesterday 22nd of August, 2013 that they are no longer interested in any further negotiations with the Federal Government, over what it describes as the latter’s perceived insincerity in the 2009 agreement as well as the Memorandum of …
Secretary to the Federal Government, Anyim Pius Anyim, has stated that contrary to the claims by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Federal Government has demonstrated commitment to the implementation of the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement. In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Sam Nwaobasi, he …