In a decisive move to prevent a looming strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Nigerian government has re-established a seven-member renegotiation committee. This committee is tasked with addressing the 2009 agreements with university-based unions, including ASUU, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic Staff of Educational and Associated Read More…
It has been seven seasons now since banner headlines, “OAU TO GENERATE 8.03 MW OF ELECTRICITY”, announced to the world that Obafemi Awolowo University was poised to become the first university in Nigeria to generate its own power and, in addition, cater to the needs of its immediate neighbour, the Ile-Ife community. In the beginning Read More…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has temporarily called off the eight-month-long strike, LM is now able to confirm. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who used to be the president of the union, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday. ”The union will issue a statement to Read More…
It appears that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called a halt to its eight-month strike. Even though the union has yet to make an official statement, media reports say that the decision was made at the end of the National Executive Council meeting on Thursday at the ASUU secretariat in Abuja. “Yes, Read More…
Once the Muhammadu Buhari government had failed to get striking lecturers in our public universities back to class, I knew it would head for the National Industrial Court, NIC, shopping for an injunction. Tragically that is what governments in the country and rich employers have turned the NIC into: a fishing pond for injunctions against Read More…
The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has directed its members across the country to remain calm and resolute over the judgment delivered on Wednesday by the Industrial Court ordering its members to call off the strike and return to work. The university lecturers, who have been on strike for up to seven months Read More…
The industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) is officially over. The National Industrial Court has ordered members of the union to return to work. The Federal Government in a suit prayed for the order for ASUU to call off its seven months strike. The Minister of Labour and Read More…
As students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) stormed the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in protest against the continued nationwide lecturers’ strike on Monday morning, the ruling has been set for Wednesday on whether lecturers should return to the classrooms. The National Industrial Court will deliver its ruling in an Read More…
All efforts to resolve their differences outside of a court action having come to nought between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU), both parties are now in court. On Monday the Federal government urged the National Industrial Court to order the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call Read More…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says its members have remained unyielding to get what public universities need from the Federal Government to survive and compete globally. Prof. Ayo Akinwole, the Chairman of ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, made the avowals on Monday in Ibadan. Akinwole said that lecturers in public universities in Nigeria have Read More…
