Month: September 2022
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ASUU Strike: What FG Should Do With Lecturers’ Seven-month Arrears – APC Chieftain
National vice chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Moh Lukman, has urged the federal government to convert the seven-month arrears of university lecturers to scholarship and compensation for students for the time lost out of school. Lukman’s call followed the order issued by Justice Polycap Hamman of the National Industrial Court…
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ASUU Strike: FG Reacts To Court Judgement
The Federal Government has declared that nobody won or lost in the Wednesday ruling of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), ordering members of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to return to work. The government also said that it would order the Vice Chancellors to reopen public universities in compliance with…
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I Can’t Force PDP Chairman To Resign – Atiku Reacts
Former vice president and the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday reinstated his position that Senator Iyioricha Ayu cannot be forced to resign as the party’s National Chairman. Atiku made the remarks while reacting to the decision of the camp of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to pull out…
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ASUU Strike: What To Expect After Court Order
Vanguard News After a series of failed negotiations, the National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its seven months strike and go back to work. The court ruling came after the Federal Government, in a suit, had filed for an application for an order…
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ASUU Strike: We Won’t Allow Political Parties To Hold Campaign – NANS Blows Hot
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has threatened not to allow any political campaign hold across the country till students of public universities return to classrooms. Chairman, NANS National Taskforce, Ojo Olumide, announced this at a press conference in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Wednesday, some days to September 28, the official date…
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Flash: Court Orders ASUU To Call Off Strike
Channels TV The National Industrial Court has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to call off the ongoing Strike. This order comes a few hours after the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) threatened not to allow any political campaign hold across the country till students of public universities return to classrooms. More…
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Strike: Gbajabiamila to meet ASUU, Account General, Others Critical Stakeholders
Vanguard News The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has invited some top government functionaries to a meeting with a view to resolving the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Gbajabiamila made this known after five hours closed-door meeting between the leadership of the house and ASUU on Tuesday in Abuja.…
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Updated: Wike’s Camp Pulls Out of Atiku’s Campaign Council
The Nation Newspaper The team of the Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has pulled out of the campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. Rising from their stormy meeting in Port Harcourt early morning on Wednesday, members of the team vowed not to partake in Atiku’s campaign activities…
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Students To Block Abuja Airport, Kaduna Road Today
The Punch The National Association of Nigerian Students has said its members will block the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja and Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Wednesday (today) as part of its protest against the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The PUNCH had reported that students, on Monday, blocked the access roads…
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INEC Clears Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, 15 others for 2023 Poll
The Nation Newspaper The coast is clear for 18 presidential candidates to contest in next year’s election. Eminent politician Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (All Progressives Congress), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party), Peter Obi (Labour Party), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso (New Nigeria Peoples Party) and Adebayo Adewole (Social Democratic Party) were among standard bearers cleared…