The National Industrial Court on Tuesday affirmed the recognition of Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) and National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) as trade unions. The claimant in the suit, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), dragged the Minister of Labour and Employment, The...
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Unions in the universities on Thursday resolved to burry their individual differences and work together in order to rescue the education sector and improve the welfare of members. The idea was floated at the 44th National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Chairperson, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Branch, Dr. Ibrahim Inuwa has accused the Federal Government of discriminatory payment of salaries of its members during the 2022 industrial action. Dr. Inuwa said over 600 of its members...
The National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has called for the composition of a ‘Common Committee’, to resolve the controversy over the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result of Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme. Osodeke spoke in a telephone interview with the News Agency of...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has faulted the decision of the Federal Government on the dissolution of the Governing Councils of all federal universities in the country. The union said that the move was inimical and a major setback toward the growth and development of university education...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to stop misleading Nigerians on the new varsity curriculum.nu The commission in a statement by Deputy Executive Secretary, Academics, Dr Noel Saliu, on Friday in Abuja, said contrary to claims by ASUU, all universities were...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ebonyi Chapter, has said the authorities should have listened to the poor masses before the removal of Fuel Subsidy. Prof Oguguo Egwu, the state chairman of the Congress, made the remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in...
The National Industrial Court on Tuesday declared that the Federal Government position of ‘ no work no pay” against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), is legal. Delivering the judgment, Justice Benedict Kanyip declared that ASUU was not entitled to salary during the period it embarked on strike....
Prof. Tanko Ishaya, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, has described the academic staff as key stakeholders in the growth and development of public universities in the country. Ishaya said this at the 22nd National Delegates Conference of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held on Friday...
The National Industrial Court on Thursday fixed May 30 to deliver judgment in the suit filed by the Federal Government against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In the suit, the federal government dragged ASUU before the court to determine the substantive suit filed during the 2022 ASUU’s...
The Federal Government on Wednesday informed the National Industrial Court of its decision to formally react to Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)’s request for arbitration by May 11. ASUU filed the suit against the Minister of Labour and Employment and the Registrar of Trade Unions ( RTU). The...
The Federal government on Tuesday , accused the Academic staff Union of Universities (ASUU), not “showing good cause” in the pursuit of its suit before the National Industrial Court. Mr J.U.K Igwe SAN, counsel to the Minister of Labour and Employment and Minister of Education who are the claimants...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – After the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), questioned the distribution of the N320.3 billion released by the Federal Government for tertiary institutions in the country, the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono, on Thursday gave further breakdown on...
Taraba State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a total, comprehensive and indefinite strike action. The lecturers are embarking on a strike to press home its demands and the state government’s rebuttal of claims that it is not owing workers salaries. The rationale behind...
The National Industrial Court on Tuesday declared as valid the Minister of Labour and Employment’s referral to the court in the matter with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The claimants, the Federal government and the Minister of Education had dragged ASUU before the court in August 2022...
The Federal Government says it will soon make a pronouncement on salary increase for civil servants to meet up with the economic realities in the country occasioned by inflation. Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, made this known while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja...
Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Friday pledged to end incessant lecturers strikes and resultant closure of the nation’s universities, if elected. Speaking in Yenagoa, during the party’s campaign in Bayelsa, Obi also promised to clean all the environmental pollution in the state, as well as other...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has rejected the systematic disengagement of government from funding of Public Universities through the proposed introduction of education loan which has proven to be a monumental failure in Nigeria and some other countries where it was introduced....
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) lecturers have been paid full salaries for the month of November by the Federal Government. However, the lectures’ eight-month arrears remain withheld by the Federal Government. A senior member of the union at the Bayero University Kano made this known in an interview...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) chapter, on Monday protested what they called casualisation of intellectual workers in the country. Prof. Rasheed Adeoye, the former ASUU Chairman of the university, described half salaries reportedly paid by government to members of the union...