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The Federal University, Dutsin-Ma branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has called for a total and indefinite strike by union members nationwide if the Federal Government continues to ignore the union’s demands. The ASUU members at the institution also called on the FG to “return to the new draft agreement of 2009 ... Read more

The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action, The PUNCH has learnt. Sources among the union’s NEC members told our correspondent on Monday that the meeting will hold at the ... Read more

Members of the Joint Action Committee of Non Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities have said the executives did not inform them before it suspended the strike. On Saturday, The PUNCH reported that the JAC of NASU and SSANU embarked on a National Industrial Action on 27th March, 2022 and called it off on ... Read more

Indications emerged yesterday that the Federal Government may consider the option of proscribing the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU if it fails to call off the prolonged strike after an offer was made to it. The Federal Government has also approved an additional N100 billion for the university sector as part of the understanding in the re-negotiation of the 2009 ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has raised the alarm over the exodus of lecturers from the nation’s universities for greener pastures abroad. The union attributed the development to the Federal Government’s poor treatment of its members which it said had forced many to venture into other sources of livelihood. Speaking to ... Read more

The offer made by the Federal Government to lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities may lead to a reduction in the salaries of entry level lecturers under the graduate assistant cadre, investigations by Sunday PUNCH have revealed. Our correspondent also gathered that the Federal Government’s offer had been ... Read more

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions on Saturday announced the suspension of their ongoing strike for a period of two months, Saturday PUNCH reliably gathered. SSANU’s national president, Muhammed Ibrahim disclosed this in an interview with our ... Read more

The suspension is expected to take effect from Wednesday. According to the education minister, the Federal Government has committed N50 billion to pay earned allowances for members of SSANU, NASU and the Academic Staff Union of Universities. However, activities in public universities are expected to remain limited as ASUU remains on strike. Minister Adamu, who had hinted of SSANU and ... Read more

Fresh facts have emerged on why the Academic Staff Union of Universities rejected the proposal by the Federal Government. The PUNCH had earlier reported that ASUU had tagged the offer by the Federal Government as “miserable”. However, the union did not go into some of the details in the proposal. But the zonal coordinator, Port ... Read more

A faction of striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called for liberalisation of university academic unions to end incessant strike in the nation’s public universities. To this end, the faction operating on the platform of Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has appealed to the Federal Government through the Ministry of Labour and Employment, to immediately ... Read more