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ASUU Extends Six Months’ Old Strike

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike
ASUU embarked on strike on February 14, 2022, over the government’s failure to meet its demands including improved university funding. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its industrial action which is in its sixth month. The union extended the ongoing strike on Monday morning after its National Executive Council meeting at its headquarters at the University of Abuja. ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, earlier confirmed that the union’s NEC would meet on Monday to decide on whether to call off the strike based on the Nigerian government’s offer or declare an indefinite strike. Ahead of Monday’s NECRead More

FG, ASUU Talks Fruitful, Says Ngige

Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige and ASUU president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi
The Federal Government has said that its negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has yielded fruitful results. Addressing journalists shortly after their parley held in Abuja yesterday,Read More

NGO Offers Scholarship To 5,000 African Students

Africa Skills Centre
Africa Skills Centre (ASC), a non-governmental organisation, has announced the award of scholarship and other incentives to 5,000 students of African descent, drawn from the three sub-regions where it isRead More

Exclusion Of ASUU From IPPIS Not Permanent – FG

Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige
The Federal Government says it has not permanently exempted members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) from Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Minister of Labour and Employment,Read More

ASUU Set To Call Off Strike As FG Exempts Lecturers From IPPIS

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige shakes hands with the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
Raises earned allowances, revitalisation fund to N60bn, promises clearing salary arrears After over nine months strike, the doors of Nigeria’s universities look set for opening latest Friday next week. ThisRead More

FG, ASUU Meet Friday To Consider End To Strike

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
As rival group meet Ngige today High-powered Federal Government negotiating team will be meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday in a bid to secure anRead More

We Can’t Ask ASUU To Call Off Strike – NLC

The Nigerian Labour Congress and the Academic Staff Union of Universities
The Nigerian Labour Congress on Tuesday said it could not advise the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off its strike. ASUU has been on strike for the pastRead More

FG, ASUU’s Feud Deepens, No Date For Resumption Of Negotiations

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
Ngige rejects multiple payment platforms for university workers The feud between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has worsened as no date has been fixedRead More

FG Sets First Class, Second Class Upper Degrees As Benchmark For Teaching

Permanent Secretary to the Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echonu
For quality teaching in the nations basic education, the Federal Government has revealed that starting from next year, 2021, only candidates with first class and second class upper will beRead More

FG Forcing Lecturers, students Back To School To Avert Fresh #EndSARS Protest – ASUU

IPPIS and ASUU strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday said the Federal Government was afraid youths might take to the streets in protest against the ongoing industrial action by its members,Read More

IPPIS: Some Lecturers Received Excess Salaries And Should Refund – Nwajiuba

Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba
Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, has once again weighed in on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) which is the bane of the strike decision ofRead More