The Joint Action Force (JAF) Thursday urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress, (TUC) to declare 48 hour general strike to save public education in the country. JAF in a statement jointly signed by its deputy chairperson, Comrade Achike Chude and secretary, Comrade Abiodun, made available to journalists in Ibadan also tasked the NLC and TUC Read More
Ebonyi state Governor David Umahi has called on the federal government to come to an understanding with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to put an end to six months of industrial action embarked upon by the lecturers. The governor also said the N1.1trillion demand by the union was genuine, especially as it is meant to better the academic situations of the Read More
My esteemed readers, I crave your indulgence to recall my first sentence on the above topic last week, I wrote “Except for insecurity, the ASUU strike is the most burning issue of the moment”. The strike is still ongoing, and there seems no hope in sight as Minister for State, Labour, and Employment, Festus Keyamo, perhaps woke up from slumber Read More
The strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff of University nationwide and the internal bureaucracy of the current administration have affected the activity, especially the research components of Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) activities. Speaking on the challenge of EOA in Nigeria while presenting a report of the state of EOA with a topic the Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) Initiative Implementation Read More
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Monday directed its members to continue with the ongoing industrial action for another four weeks. ASUU National President Professor Emmanuel Osodeke disclosed this at the end of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja. He told journalists that the union’s NEC empowered the members to forge ahead with the strike, saying their patience was Read More
Students Movement of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has backed Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s APC presidential candidate decision to address the issues surrounding the protracted strike. The group said our political leaders should emulate the steps Asiwaju is taking to put an end to this lingering crisis between the government and ASUU. If this strike continues to linger, that Read More
The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU )Tuesday asked the federal goverment to treat the issue of striking university lecturers with human face, saying its members were not robots. This is just as the organised labour threathened to embark on a three-day warning strike if the federal government fails to accede to the demands of the striking lecturers. ASUU Read More
National Coordinator of All Workers Convergence (AWC), Comrade Andrew Emelieze Thursday kicked against the position of the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on planned nationwide protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). Comrade Emelieze in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan described the minister’s views on the planned protest as “illegitimate and antisocial” The Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu to resolve the prolonged strike embarked upon by the four university-based unions and report back to him in two weeks time. President Buhari gave the directive on Tuesday after he received briefings from the relevant government Ministries, Agencies and Departments involved in resolving the face-off with the university Read More
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