The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, of deception by asking the union to call off its eight-month-old strike in October with a written promise that the government would, without delay, offset in full the arrears of salaries members were owed. President of the […]
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The Academic Staff Union Of Universities ASUU have revealed that they will do anything possible to ensure the release of their withheld eight months salaries. Recall that ASUU suspended their eight month old strike not long ago. However the federal government has refused to pay the striking lecturers over the period of strike based on
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The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has warned the Vice-Chancellors of public universities of any attempt to run six weeks Semester crash programme in a bid to make up for the lost period of the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He gave the
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Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has called for more investment in the education sector. The presidential hopeful said this while sharing his agenda for the education sector if elected in the 2023 election at a town hall meeting organised for presidential candidates by Arise TV, The Punch reported. Peter Obi spoke alongside other
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Monday called on Nigerians to prevail on the federal government to pay its members their withheld eight-month salaries to avert a fresh crisis in the nation’s universities. The union alerted that the looming crisis would surpass previous one experienced in the nation’s university if the federal government failed to heed their
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ASUU president also spoke against Nigerian universities partaking student loan programmes. President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has alleged that some presidential candidates in the 2023 election are planning to sell federal universities and initiate student loans across the country. ASUU President Raises Alarm Osodeke spoke in Makurdi at the special
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Lawmaker, Senator Ali Ndume had urged the Federal Government to reduce salaries of Lawmakers to enable them pay up the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. He said this reacting to the alleged half-pay to the ASUU members in Maiduguri on Thursday. According to Ndume, lawmakers only meet twice a week and shouldn’t get as
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) National Executive Committee (NEC) has concluded its meeting held in the Federal Capital Territory. Naturenex reports that following the half October salaries paid to members of ASUU by the federal government, the Union held an emergency NEC meeting to discuss the way forward. According to some ASUU leaders, members were advocating for
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Not up to a month after the Academic Staff Union of Staff Universities, ASUU suspended their 8 month strike, the union and the Federal Government are back on a warpath. ASUU has already set up a meeting on Monday to decide whether they will go back to another strike or not. Owning to the October
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and the acting Accountant General of the Federation, Sylva Okolieaboh to immediately reverse the apparently illegal deductions from the salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for October 2022.” SERAP
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The Federal Government has denied the accusation that it paid members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria (ASUU) half salaries in October. Mr Olajide Oshundun, Head of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, said this in a statement he signed on Saturday in Abuja. Oshundun said the ministry was reacting
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The Federal Government on Saturday explained why it failed to pay full salaries to lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. This statement is coming after the union threatened another strike over the half salaries. In a statement, by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the government noted that members
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The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have confirmed the payment of their half salary. Best News Network had earlier reported that the Federal Government on Thursday paid members of the union half of their October salary. The lecturers who had resumed on the 14th of October after months of the strike were paid for the
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