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The Federal Government has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress to cancel its planned protest over the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other university-based unions. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, made the appeal on Thursday at a meeting with the leadership of the NLC in his ... Read more

The presidency has described as untrue media that the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, was given two weeks to resolve the lingering face-off between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the government. The government criticised the unnamed sources who fed false information to the media, saying the matter “ought to be beyond spin-doctoring and conjectures.” In a ... Read more

The Federal Government, Wednesday, announced that the planned solidarity march by the Nigeria Labour Congress with the striking members of the University-based unions is illegal. On July 17, 2022, the NLC announced that it would kick off a nationwide protest on July 26 and 27 to pressure the federal government to resolve the ... Read more

Lecturers in the Nigerian colleges of education have extended their ongoing strike by three weeks, The PUNCH reports. The lecturers, under the aegis of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, blamed their decision on the failure of the Federal Government to embrace the union’s preference for the University Transparency Accountability ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday said it has no plan to suspend its ongoing strike but to end it permanently. It however said such can only happen when all demands have been met. The union’s President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, at a press conference in Abuja. “We want to end strike. We are not suspending the ... Read more

Following the prolonged industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to proffer a solution to the challenge and report back to him in two weeks. Sources in the Presidential Villa said the President gave the directive on Tuesday during a meeting with relevant government Ministries, Agencies ... Read more

The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities is scheduled to hold its meeting in the first week of August, 2022, The PUNCH has reliably gathered. Our correspondent learnt that a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the strike which enters its 155th day on Tuesday (today), will be taken at ... Read more

The Federal Government has said it is working not only to end the current strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) but to eliminate future strikes by the union. The government stated this at the 81st Plenary Meeting of the Joint Consultative Committee in Education (JCCE) Plenary Meeting held in Yola, Adamawa State. Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, ... Read more

The Nigeria Labour Congress has announced plans to commence a two-day nationwide protest on July 26, 2022 in solidarity with the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other unions in the public universities. The congress disclosed this in a circular dated July 15, 2022 and addressed to the chairpersons and ... Read more

Abisola Kehinde, a current PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Canada, who earlier bagged first-class honours in Biochemistry at the University of Lagos, speaks to OPEYEMI ADEFEMI about her academic feats Tell us a bit about your background. I am Abisola Kehinde, born in Lagos State, Nigeria. I am 26 years old and I grew ... Read more