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Speaking on Politics Today, President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke said the meeting was to discuss one of seven issues ASUU is protesting over, “That is the issue of renegotiation,” Osodeke said, “the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement. “It is not just about wages. It has to do with the system, funding, the structure, the autonomy and other issues; and how to ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the parents of the Nigerian students should beg the federal government to fulfil the promises it had with the Union so as to put an end to the ongoing six-month long strike. ASUU said that the federal government is the employer of the universities’ lecturers and so it has no business with the parents. This was disclosed by ... Read more

Data obtained from the National Universities Commission on Friday revealed that a total of 33 private universities were approved by the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) within 16 months. The period under review is January 2021 and April 2022. Sunday PUNCH reports that while 21 of the private universities were ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the Federal Government has money to fund its demand but remains adamant to improving the education sector in the country. ASUU President, Prof.Emmanuel Osodeke, stated that the union did not tell the Federal Government to borrow to fund its demand. He said tertiary institutions in the country ... Read more

The National President, Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria, Haruna Danjuma, speaks toGODFREY GEORGEabout the lingering industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities which has gone on for almost six months Howwould you assess the response from the Federal Government as regards the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities which has made students of public varsities ... Read more

Striking Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the government has not at any time indicated that it does not have money to fund the union’s demands and university education. The union was reacting to recent comments by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo; and Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, who ... Read more

PRESIDENT of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Victor Osodeke, yesterday, disclosed that many lecturers in Nigerian Universities have left the country to pursue their careers abroad as the Federal Government fails to resolve the lingering crisis in the education sector. Fielding questions from journalists at the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, ... Read more

Following inundating calls from students and other stakeholders in education, the Senator representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, has pleaded with the Federal Government to consider paying the striking lecturers some months of salaries to save them and their families from starvation. Fielding questions from newsmen on Wednesday evening on the ... Read more

The Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum said this on Wednesday when he received a delegation from the Nigeria Police Trust Fund led by Dr. Ben Akabueze, in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi capital. “There is no way Nigeria will go and borrow N1.1tn to meet ASUU’s demand, it’s quite unreasonable. Are their demands genuine? Yes. But we can start little by little,” the ... Read more

The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has said the government’s insistence that it does not have money to fund Nigerian universities is disheartening. The PUNCH reports that the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, had in an interview, said the government had no money to meet the Academic ... Read more