President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the plight of students and call off the ongoing strike. He made the appeal on Thursday at the 19th National Productivity Day and the conferment of the National Productivity Order of Merit Award (NPOM) on 48 eminent Nigerians and organisations…
By Olutayo Irantiola Growing up in this country some years ago was full of fun and pleasant memories; from your classmates, to your teachers, the school authority, and everyone around. It was a grand community wherein all the misdemeanor of children were corrected by neighbours and children still plead not to be reported to their…
After staying away from academic works for almost a year due to the lingering issues between ASUU and the Federal Government, the hope of Nigerian students resuming on Monday 18th of January despite calling off strike after an agreement was reached with the government is being threatened by a second wave. Even though states across…
The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has appealed to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend their ongoing strike. He urged the union to look at the hardship the students and their parents are going through in view of the strike that has kept the students at home for…
The federal government on Tuesday finally agreed to consider the adoption of the University Transparency Account System (UTAS) presented by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), as an alternative to its Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The UTAS is software developed by ASUU for payment of salaries to university teachers as against the…
The accused persons Justice Ayo Emmanuel of a Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has remanded the Director-General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Ibadan, Professor Benjamin Adefemi Ogunbodede, and three others in Agodi prison in Ibadan. The quartet were arraigned on Thursday, October 30, 2014 by the Economic and Financial…
Applies ‘No Work, No Pay’ Rule Lagos State Government has threatened to apply the ‘no work no pay’ rule on the striking workers of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Lagos State University chapter. Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Education, Otunba Fatai Olukoga, said the law, approved by the governor, would be applied…
Barely two months after the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ended its nearly six months old industrial action, there are strong indications that students of the nation’s public tertiary institutions may spend another long period at home again. The Union has accused the Federal Government of insincerity, which has mostly been the reason for…