Parents, under the aegis of the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, have said they only expect reports that...
My expectation and the expectation of other parents is that the strike be called off and that the union and the government should meet to iron out things and for progress to be made. This is not the first time the government would threaten to invoke “No work, no pay,” but it has always paid in the end. “Our expectation is that the strike be suspended.
The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will commence its meeting by 4pm Today, The PUNCH reports.
Another student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ifeoma Orji, said, “The past six to seven months have been depressing enough for me. I am in my final year, the thought of an indefinite strike alone is killing me. A student of the University of Ilorin, Tajudeen Sanusi said, “I don’t even want to think about it.
Two weeks ago, a meeting between the government and ASUU ended in a deadlock. The varsity teachers met with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee at the National ...
Two weeks ago, a meeting between the government and ASUU ended in a deadlock. The university teachers began a four-week warning strike on February 14. That meeting lasted about three hours.
They also urged Nigerians to hold Adamu Adamu, the labour and employment minister, Chris Ngige and the federal government responsible for the strike. Abubakar ...
“It has now come to bare that the minister had all along been deceiving everybody since 2017, as far as ASUU’s agitations in the tenure of this government are concerned. If it would take him six (6) months to only come up with this deceit as a solution to the strike, we then have the right to ask whether he really was serious with Education or stage-managing it. “We are now hearing stories of termites eating up documents related to the expenditure of over N17 billion in NSITF (National Insurance Trust Fund), a parastatal in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment where Ngige holds sway as minister. “For the same Adamu Adamu to now lead his colleagues, the other ministers, to misrepresent facts and mislead the good people of Nigeria against ASUU is rather unfortunate. He said the claim of the minister that ASUU had accepted the offers from Government was a blatant lie aimed at scuttling what the Prof Nimi Briggs’ Committee put to resolve the matter, thereby undermining the sincerity of the committee in resolving the issues. Speaking yesterday at the University of Jos (UNIJOS), Plateau State, ASUU zonal coordinator, Bauchi Zone, Prof Lawan Abubakar, lamented that Adamu had become the minister of education he had turned against ASUU and misleading and instigating other ministers and the public against the union.
Nigerians are awaiting the outcome of a make-or-break National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its ...
Ife Oluwole, in a statement said stakeholders in the university, met to review the situation. Following the statement credited to Prof. I was saved by an armed team of uniformed men on patrol. I was stopped by union boys and it became an issue. “I was on my way home in Ikorodu and decided to pick passengers along the road. “I have prayed over this strike and I am trusting that Allah will answer my prayers.
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has urged the Buhari led-administration to learn from former ...
“If this government can put out a strong team, if the president cannot be there, let him put a strong team together or people who are not part of those who are telling lies presently. Both sides were open, no class, no power, no sitting power, and we looked at all the issues and we resolved it within 14 hours. And in one night, we had that meeting for 14 hours.