The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have signed a new agreement aimed at improving the quality of the university education system and ensuring stability. The new agreement replaces the 2009 pact that triggered several industrial actions over unresolved issues. The signing and unveiling of the agreement took place on Wednesday…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has warned that it may return to strike soon. The union says the federal government has failed to meet key agreements and accused the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Maruf Alausa, of trying to mislead Nigerians about the situation. Speaking through its University of Jos branch on Tuesday,…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced the suspension of its ongoing two-week warning strike. The National President of ASUU, Prof. Chris Piwuna, made this known in an ongoing press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. According to Piwuna, the decision stemmed from the meeting of the National Executive Council meeting which was held…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has condemned the federal government’s threat to invoke the “no work, no pay” policy against striking university lecturers, declaring that such intimidation will not resolve the crisis in the nation’s public tertiary institutions. Reacting to the two-week warning strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), NLC President…
Dr. Alausa, Minister of Education The federal government has told the Academic State of Universities (ASUU) that it would invoke the “no work no pay policy” if it proceeds on strike despite the offers made to the lecturers. The federal government said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday as the lecturers…
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a two-week warning strike. ASUU president, Chris Piwuna, announced the strike at a press conference held at the union’s national secretariat at the University of Abuja on Sunday He directed all its members across the country to withdraw their services effective midnight. The union accused the government…
Barely a week to the commencement of its planned industrial action, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has begun mobilising its members across public universities in preparation for a nationwide strike. The development follows what the union described as the federal government’s “continued silence” despite being formally notified of its grievances and demands. ASUU…
Tunji Alausa, Education Minister The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has withdrawn his earlier claim that no binding agreement existed between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, acknowledging that the 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement remains valid. In a statement issued on Friday, the minister clarified that the 2009 pact remains the only…
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has deplored a situation where some privately owned universities in Nigeria pay some of their young lecturers N25,000 per month as salary. Osodeke made the lamentation during a recent public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on TETFund and Other…
