Tag: ASUU Strike
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FG Sends Fresh Message To ASUU
Federal government has enjoined the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reconsider the plights of Nigerian students who have stayed at home for six months and suspend the industrial action . The minister of state for education, Hon Goodluck Nanah Opiah, made the call in Owerri while speaking with journalists. Opiah maintained that…
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ASUU Speaks On N52.5 Billion Released by FG, Looming Strike
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the N30bn Revitalisation Fund and N22.5bn Earned Academic Allowance totalling N52.5bn released by the Federal Government is not enough to deal with the challenges facing the university system. The ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, noted in an interview with Sunday PUNCH that there was a…
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NAAT Cautions FG Against Accepting ASUU’s Preferred Payment Platform, UTAS
The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has cautioned the federal government against accepting a salary payment platform designed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). It said the government must not allow itself to be blackmailed by any union to accept the lecturers’ platform, adding that…
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#EndASUUStrike Protest: NANS Calls for Mass Action
The leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, South West Zone has called on its members and other stakeholders in the region to troop out en masse to demand for the immediate reopening of public Varsities. The coordinator of the Zone, Kowe Odunayo Amos in a statement released on Sunday said the call to…
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ASUU Strike: How Policies Implemented By Obasanjo, Babaginda Ruin Varsity System
Leader of the Ninth Senate, Abdullahi Yahaya Abubakar has attributed the genesis of the series of strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the effects of the economic polices put in place during administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida. In this exclusive interview with Saturday Sun,…