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Following the threat by the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) to proceed on industrial action over unresolved issues with the Federal Government, the National Association of Non-Teaching Staff of Nigerian Universities (NANTS) has distanced itself from the planned warning strike. SSANU and NASU had ... Read more

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said it is yet to get approval for the reopening of orientation camps across the country. It was reacting to a news release being circulated on the social media, which states that; “arising from a purported meeting, Orientation Course shall resume 27th October 2020, with Batch “A” ... Read more

University lecturers under the umbrella of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have accused the federal government of Nigeria of non-remittance of five months due of the union to the union’s purse. ASUU said that the federal government deducted check-off dues on behalf of the Union and refused to remit same to the Union. The ... Read more

A former Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) at the Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, Professor Timothy Adebayo has emerged as the forth Vice Chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo. DAILY POST gathered that Adebayo succeeded Professor Dapo Asaju, a former Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Lagos State ... Read more

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, have said they are rejecting the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, the payment system introduced by the Federal Government because their expectations about it are not met. ... Read more

Vice Chancellor of the Kwara State University, Professor Mohammed Mustapha Akanbi has approved the resumption of academic activities effective from October 12, 2020. A statement by the Acting Registrar, Mohammed A. Shuaib, said resumption of 100 and 200 level students and other students with carry overs in the 100 and 200 level courses, has ... Read more

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities has directed its members to proceed on a 14-day warning strike from today (Monday) over alleged inconsistencies in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, non-payment of the arrears of the national minimum wage and the failure of the government to pay the earned allowances. Daily Times Nigeria gathered that the union also ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the alleged lies and propaganda employed by the Federal Government against the union will not force it to suspend the strike action. The union denied the claim by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, that it had suspended the six-month-old strike, saying such lies by the ... Read more

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a special salary scale for teachers in the Nigeria, in commemoration of the World Teachers Day on October 5. Daily Times understands that Buhari said this in Abuja on Tuesday during the celebration of the 2020 World Teachers Day. The education minister, Adamu Adamu, who represented President Buhari, said the implementation of the new salary scheme is ... Read more

INVESTIGATION has revealed that both the federal and state governments which are proprietors of public universities in Nigeria may have lost a huge sum of N1.5 trillion to the incessant strikes embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) since the nation’s return to democracy in 1999. Nigerian universities have also ... Read more