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FG Yet To Fulfill Agreement —ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has revealed that it is yet to receive allocations which were agreed upon last year with the Federal Government. This was disclosed by the National President of the union, Dr. Nasir Fagge on Monday. Fagge explained that the Minister for Education, Nyesom Wike, who is the head of […]

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ASUU Latest: FG Paid Five-month Salary Arrears to Lecturers

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Ibadan chapter, Dr. Segun Ajiboye, applauded the Federal Government for payment lecturers’ five-month salary arrears, called this move “encouraging”. Dr. Ajiboye said in an interview in Ibadan on January 2, 2013, Thursday that the Federal Government had with this started implementing the Memorandum of […]

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ASUU strike: Parents threaten to embark on hunger strike

Parents of university students in the country under the aegis of the National Association of Parent Teacher Association, South West chapter have threatened to embark on hunger strike should the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) fail to reconcile their differences soonest. The Chairman of the association, Chief John Oluribigbe, who spoke […]

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For failure to return to classroom, FUTO sacks all academic staff

The Senate of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) has sacked all academic staff on its payroll with immediate effect on December 2, 2013, Monday, for failure to return to classrooms. The sack order was made known by the Public Relations Officers (PRO) of the institution, Mr Chike Ezenwa, while speaking with the Nigerian […]

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ASUU to parents: Keep your children at home

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday  advised   parents  not to endanger the lives of their children and wards by sending  them to their  university campuses. ASUU which also  told  its members not to sign attendance registers in their institutions, lashed out at the Federal Government for lack of consistency in its statements on  […]

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ASUU LATEST: UNN, ESUT To Resume Activities On Monday, Dec. 2

Representatives of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), declared in separate statements that educational activities there are scheduled to resume on December 2, Monday. In his statement, the Registrar of the UNN, Mr Anthony Okonta, asured that “normal academic activities would resume immediately.” Students who had […]

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ASUU Responds To FG Ultimatum…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday described the threat by the federal government to sack lecturers if they don’t return to classroom as empty threat that could not hold water. The union said it is vindicated that the Federal government was not ready to implement resolutions reached with the union. ASUU said […]

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ASUU To End Strike Next Year, UNILAG Faction Insist It Must End This Week

A faction of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter on Monday alleged that the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) is planning to end the ongoing five-month strike mid-January next year. Leader of the faction, Dr Adeyemi Daramola, a lecturer in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts accused the body of assuming oracular […]

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How ex-ASUU boss, Iyayi, died – Doctor

The Sole Administrator of Specialist Hospital in Lokoja, Kogi Sttae, Dr. Paul Amodu, has revealed how former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)  and activist, Prof. Festus Iyayi, died in a road accident involving the convoy of Governor Wada Idris. The ex-union leader died at about noon on Tuesday along Banda village […]

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ASUU Strike: FG, ASUU shift grounds

President Goodluck Jonathan (left); ASUU Vice President, Mr. Biodun Ogunyemi Onabanjo (2nd right); Vice President Namadi Sambo (2nd left) and ASUU President, Nasir Faggae (right) during the meeting. THERE are strong indications that the protracted strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, that has crippled academic activities for over four months may end in […]

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ASUU Strike: Police Use Tear Gas Against Protesting UniAbuja Lecturers

The Nigerian Police Force used tear gas against the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch, as they mobilise for their protest into the streets of the Federal Capital City, Abuja. Eyewitnesses said that the lecturers had gathered at the mini-campus of the university at Gwagwalada for the protest […]

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ASUU Strike: Students Offer To Pay Lecturers

After pleading with the Federal Government and the striking lecturers, all to no avail, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), have vowed to go on a fund raising mission to pay the lecturers of the University of Abuja Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). […]

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