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President of the union Professor Emmanuel Osodeke made the remark on Friday, explaining that though public varsities have been shut since February, the lecturers should be paid since they have to teach to make up for time lost during the closure. Osodeke was speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily following the government’s insistence on ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday said it would not call off its strike until the salary arrears of its members were paid. The university lecturers also said they would not teach students to make up for the six months they had been on strike if the Federal Government failed to pay for the “period of ... Read more

The Federal Government, on Thursday, said demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities to be paid salaries for the six-month strike period is stalling its negotiations with the union. This was as the FG insisted that it will not concede to ASUU’s demands to be paid the backlog of salaries withheld within the period. Minister ... Read more

ABUJA–THE Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU,has explained that its meeting with the Prof. Nimi Briggs-led committee,last Tuesday,ended in deadlock because the committee presented “award of a Recommended Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (CONUASS),prepared by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission” to it. ASUU said the ‘award ... Read more

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 committee is made up of senior officials of the union. This is as our correspondent learnt that zonal meetings will commence by the end of the week ... Read more

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Thursday, said it is the responsibility of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to compensate students for the time wasted during the six-month strike, not the Federal Government. He also said the government will not concede to the union’s demand to pay lecturers their emoluments for the ... Read more

The National Strike Coordinating Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has commenced a meeting in line with the ongoing strike in Nigerian public universities, The PUNCH can confirm. A highly reliable source confirmed the development in an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday night. ASUU had on Monday, February 14, ... Read more

The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, The PUNCH has learnt. Sources familiar with the matter told one of our correspondents that the Federal Government’s team met with the representatives of ASUU at the headquarters of the National Universities ... Read more

The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the negotiation team of the Federal Government ended in a deadlock, The PUNCH can confirm. The ASUU president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, had on Monday confirmed to Channels Television that the union would meet the Federal Government’s team. Osodeke had assured Nigerians ... Read more

The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has said the union will have a meeting with the Federal Government to address its ongoing strike action, today. The PUNCH had reported that since the end of the renegotiation meeting led by Prof. Nimi Briggs, the government had not made effort to ... Read more