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Mr Osodeke, a professor, will feature in the first series of PREMIUM TIMES' Education Twitter Spaces titled “Lingering ASUU Strike, Revitalisation of ...

Good journalism costs a lot of money. Many Nigerians had thought the union would call off the strike on Tuesday. The Briggs-led committee has submitted a draft agreement to the government but the Ministry of Labour and Employment accused ASUU of fixing its salaries and entitlements in the draft, an allegation ASUU has denied.

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, Wednesday, has stated that Nigerian students should not vote for ...

Anybody who will not look at their interests, who, in his campaign, will not show that he’s going to improve the Nigerian educational system, they should vote them out.” I will repeat it, the Nigerian students should hold their PVC. [ASUU’s meeting with the FG ended in deadlock](https://punchng.com/asuu-fg-meeting-deadlocked-lecturers-stage-walk-out/), Tuesday.

The National Strike Organising Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has met to decide on the way forward concerning the ongoing strike by ...

A meeting the union had with the Federal Government ended in a deadlock on Tuesday. The PUNCH reports that the ASUU has been on strike since February 14, 2022, The National Strike Organising Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has met to decide on the way forward concerning the ongoing strike by the union, The PUNCH reports.

The industrial action declared by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on February 14, 2022 began like a feeble spark gradually turns to a flickering ...

Dante Alighieri postulated that the “darkest places in hell should be reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis” This is indeed a time of moral crisis when stakeholders should stand to be counted. And this is the kernel of the incessant strike. Some observers have argued that the reason for this lackadaisical attitude of the political leaders is because their children are not in Nigerian university system. What stops President Buhari from inviting ASUU leadership and leaders of other unions to a meeting, state what government can offer and plead for their understanding? A time Boko Haram activists are celebrating that they have succeeded in banning and proscribing scholarship in Nigeria is a time of moral crisis when those who have been sleeping are not expected to go back to sound snoring. Campus-based unions may appear to be making a deluge of requests, but what is government willing to offer? Government has stopped their salaries in the last six months in a misguided belief that the striking workers will back down when they have no money to eat. But after the expiration of the deadline, it is still all cloud without rain. Before the commencement of this strike, however, ASUU and other campus-based unions had been driven hither and thither in the course of demanding their legitimate rights from government. Chris Ngige soon lost the confidence of ASUU leadership in the half-hearted attempt to resolve the crisis, just as his junior in the Ministry, Mr. Sadly, with the Federal Government’s cavalier attitude towards containing the flame, the simmering blaze has now become a huge conflagration; burning different interests and destroying not a few life’s ambitions, with no end in sight as at the time of writing this piece. Indeed, the strike has become a national embarrassment with beleaguered parents and their distraught children scratching their heads in puzzlement!

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it does not see Tuesday's encounter with the Federal Government's team over the lingering strike by ...

“The government is carrying about a bag of deceit and we will not fall for that. What are they going to incorporate? “Moreover, their claim that they are going to incorporate our demands in next year’s budget if frivolous.

From Adannna Nnamani, Abuja. The marathon meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the federal government on ...

ASUU has been on strike since february 14 this year, over issues surrounding the lack of funding for public universities, disagreement over salaries payment platforms, and unpaid earned allowances, as contained in the agreement with the federal government in 2009. Members of ASUU had again, met with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee at the National University Commission in Abuja, with the aim of resolving the issues that led to the ongoing strike. The marathon meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the federal government on Tuesday reached deadlock as both parties failed to reach an agreement that will end the six months old strike by public university lecturers.

Maybe, like a friend suggested, we should write letters of petition to these universities abroad providing uninterrupted education to our leaders' children to ...

And even if we don’t, by being civil and marshalling our points, we might convince others of the superiority of our thoughts and bring them round to our side. The diatribes, the resorting to ethnic slurs, the ad hominem attacks are so depressing that one wonders what sort of education, if any these young men and women are getting. Maybe that will bring about a change in attitude, and incentivize them to work for change and steer our nation away from the path of destruction it’s roller-coasting on at the moment. Hurling of insults, personal attacks and so on are not the sole preserve of the youth. But I wish you didn’t have to struggle at all just to have an academic year that runs seamlessly. It is a terrible thing to be without a conscience, it is infinitely worse to be without both conscience and shame. And the students take this blessing for granted, this certainty that the academic will start on the day the school calendar says it will, and end on the day it says it will, and they will graduate – as long as they pass- when they expect to. Or is it compounded by the realities of a hard economy? My syllabi are ready, the weekly schedule is done, and my students and I know that we can expect to fairly stick to it. Shebi Enugu State chair of NLC, Virginus Nwobodo, recently noted to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, that “Keeping our children out of school is dangerous. This year, it’s going to six months and counting, because of “the alleged failure of the government to keep to an agreement reached with the union on better welfare for its members and more funding for universities.” And while the strike is ongoing, some of our leaders aren’t embarrassed to be posting pictures of themselves in classrooms abroad or of their children graduating from universities abroad. They know when assignments are due, when the final portfolio is due and when the semester will end.

The Special Assistant on Social Media to President Buhari, Onochie Lauretta, has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is blackmailing the ...

The National Assembly should enact a law that mandates ASUU to pay the salaries of striking members. Onochie urged the National Assembly to enact laws that would mandate ASUU to pay the salaries of striking members. The lingering strike is also a result of the government’s refusal to accept the UTAS software developed by the union for payment of lecturers’ salaries.