As strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) enters its 180th day on Friday, the the union has said the government has not at any time indicated that it does not have money to fund the union’s demands and university education. The union’s president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview with Journalists on Thursday reacted to recent comments Read More
The Senator representing Abia North and former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has urged the Federal Government to consider paying the striking lecturers some months of salaries to save them and their families from starvation. In a media chat on Wednesday evening, Kalu pleaded with the federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reconsider their stands Read More
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has registered their displeasure over government’s insistence that it does not have money to fund Nigerian universities. The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, had in an interview, said the government had no money to meet ASUU’s demands and would not go into borrowing. In an interview, on Tuesday, Read More
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is one of the strongest national bodies. It has been serially engaged in industrial actions (strikes) for over a decade. It often adopts strike as a last resort to press home its demand after all other options are exhausted. The present strike is in its sixth month; it started in February 2022. Interestingly, Read More
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano Zone, has said the Nasir El-Rufai-led administration has continued to intimidate and threaten it’s members at the Kaduna State University. The union made this known in a press statement signed by its Zonal Coordinator, Comrade Abdulkadir Muhammad, and issued to newsmen in Kaduna on Monday. The statement said the Kano Zone of Read More
Following the interview granted by the Minister of state for Labour, Festus Keyamo, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it never asked the federal government to go borrowing. Speaking in a chat on Sunday, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said it was subtle blackmail for anybody to insinuate that the union is pushing the Read More
The Kaduna State University (KASU) branch of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has failed to supervise the ongoing semester examination in the school over lingering industrial action. The lecturers have refused to resume classes despite threat by Governor Nasir El-Rufai to sack them. The Management of the school had asked students to resume classes for their examination after the governor’s Read More
The lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) worsened following the insistence of the Federal Government that its proposed agreement with the union will not be binding on state universities. The spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, in an interview with in Abuja on Wednesday, explained that the Federal Government could not dictate to Read More
The apex students body in Nigeria, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has demanded the immediate sack of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, over the ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). NANS president, Sunday Asefon, in a statement on Wednesday said, tertiary education had collapsed under Adamu’s watch. Part of the statement read, “You Read More
President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has said since the ongoing strike which started in February, the federal government has failed to pay salaries of lecturers. He disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV on Tuesday. He accused the Federal Government of using hunger as a tool to force the striking lecturers into returning Read More
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff of Union of Universities (ASUU) has failed to suspend the ongoing strike action, which has led to a shutdown of academic activities in public universities across the country. The union has reportedly extended the strike action to another one month. Sources within the NEC meeting, confirmed to Blueprint that the meeting, Read More
#EndASUUStrike protesters have launched a campaign against the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige. A banner describing the Minister as ‘Okija priest’ has been spotted at the protest ground in Abuja on Wednesday. The NLC is protesting the Federal Government’s failure to address the demands of striking university workers. The banner which featured a masquerade with Ngige’s face Read More
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has been criticised by Twitter users after he announced his return to study in a university in the United States of America amidst the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Blueprint reported that academic activities in public universities in Nigeria have been shut down for close Read More
Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to honour his agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to avoid nationwide strike. The governor spoke on Tuesday during a protest organised by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in solidarity with ASUU. Ortom who spoke through the secretary to the state government, Prof. Tony Ijohor (SAN), while receiving Read More
Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) are protesting at the Kwara state government house, Ilorin, in solidarity with the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The protesters carried placards with several inscriptions such as “Honour and implement your agreement with ASUU” among others. The protest also had members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Read More
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Lagos State chapter has issued a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to resolve the ongoing strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Speaking at protest ground, the Lagos state NLC chapter chairperson, Agnes Sessy, ordered government to act or risk another #ENDSARS protest. “If the Federal Government does not resolve the Read More
Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and youth participating in the ongoing protest which began on Tuesday morning have moved from Ikeja to the Lagos State Secretariat in Alausa. The protesters carried placards with several inscriptions such as ‘Stop importation of petrol, refine the refineries’, ‘Nigeria at 60 years of independence, more hunger in the land, etc. Another placard Read More
The leadership and members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), have begun a two-day nationwide protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as well as other maladmnistration issues in Nigeria. Already, Labour union members have trooped out in Lagos and are now on the streets with placards with different inscriptions. Some of the inscriptions reads: “Nigeria Read More
For almost six months now, public universities have been shut down due to the ongoing strike action because of trade disputes between the workers and the government. Over the years, Nigerian youths have always been at the receiving end in terms of the blame game that they throw at them when national discourse is concerned. Examination malpractice, drug abuse, rape, Read More
The Plateau State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has begun mobilisation of its members and other affiliate unions ahead of the planned nationwide solidarity protest by the organised labour in support of the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The nationwide protest is expected to come up on the July 26 and 27, 2022. Read More
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has issued a fresh warning to the federal government and the Nigerian students who are affected by the over five months old strike embarked upon by its members. The union said only the signing and implementation of a renegotiated 2009 agreement will end the strike. The Chairman, ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, Prof. Ayo Read More
As academic activities of Nigerian Universities remain suspended due to the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), student leaders under the aegis of Council of Students Union Presidents have said its members will be storming the Federal Capital Territory for a peaceful protest if the ongoing strike is not called off. The body which comprises Read More
Crisis has hit Academic staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as a breakaway faction of the union has dissociated itself from the ongoing strike in Nigerian universities. This was disclosed in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Niyi Sunmonu, and the National Publicity Secretary, Ernest Nwoke, on Tuesday. The factional group reiterated that it was not a part of the Read More
In solidarity with sister union, the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP), has called on the Federal Government to end the lingering strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) or they will shut down the Aviation sector. In a statement by its general secretary, Comrade Abdulrasaq Saidu, on Monday, the group called on President Mohammadu Buhari Read More
Someone, who I will not mention by name, forwarded memes written in the Hausa language to my WhatsApp number. The content reads: “Tunda naga level coordinator din mu yasa Shadda a status, na karaya.” This means that “I lost hope upon viewing the brocade on the status of level coordinator.” At first glance, of course, one would laugh it out. Read More
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