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The University of Ibadan has promised to admit students who scored less than 200 marks in the recently concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The Director of the UI Distance Learning Centre, Prof. Emmanuel Omobowale, said this on Tuesday at a press conference held at the university in Ibadan. Omobowale said students with low ... Read more

Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, has revealed that voluntary conciliation was adopted to ensure a quick resolution of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Ngige disclosed this on Tuesday at a three-day capacity-building workshop on International Labour Standards and Dispute Resolution in ... Read more

Prof. Wushishi gave the assurance in Lagos while monitoring the ongoing 2022 SSCE in some schools. He was accompanied on the tour by senior management staff of NECO. He disclosed that 1, 209 million candidates nationwide and in five countries, Togo, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Niger and Cote d’ivoire are participating in the exam. On release of results, Wushishi said as soon the ... Read more

The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has announced a four-week extension of the ongoing strike in public universities, The PUNCH reports. A statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja partly confirmed the development. It partly read, “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of ... Read more

The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff of Union of Universities has failed to suspend the ongoing strike action, which has led to a shutdown of academic activities in public universities across the country. The PUNCH had exclusively reported that the NEC would meet on August 1, 2022. Sources within the NEC confirmed to our ... Read more

The industrial action by members of the Academic Sftaff Union of Universities, ASUU, will continue as members of the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union did not consider the option of suspending the action at its meeting which ended in the early hours of Monday in Abuja. Checks by Vanguard showed that the national leadership of the union only briefed the meeting on their ... Read more

Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah, has reassured Nigerians that the Federal Government was committed to ending the strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The minister stated that given the charge by President Muhammadu Buhari concerning ending the industrial dispute, all relevant stakeholders involved in the negotiation have moved into action ... Read more

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has threatened to sack lecturers of the Kaduna State University (KASU) and declare their positions vacant if they don’t return to the classrooms. The lecturers are part of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).El-Rufai who spoke during a live Hausa programme on local radio stations in Kaduna on Wednesday ... Read more

The National Association of Academic Technologists has warned the Prof Nimi Briggs-led Committee against any action that negates the principles of collective bargaining as it relates to salaries and allowances in the ongoing industrial action by university unions. The union said awarding any percentage increase in salary or allowances to NAAT ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have called for a bill to regulate how children of public officers enroll in schools outside the shores of Nigeria. Prof. Kingdom Tombra, Chairman of the University of Niger Delta University Wilberforce Island chapter of the union, made this known at the solidarity protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday in ... Read more