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Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to take charge and speed up the process of resolving the ongoing trade union dispute between Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions in tertiary institutions in the country. The vice-chancellors under the aegis of Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, (CVCNU), said their ... Read more

ABUJA–THE Federal Gocernment, Sunday, said that the meeting it convened on Thursday was only for the government team involved in the resolution of the face-off with the university-based unions that led to the ongoing strike. Recall that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige had on Wednesday while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive ... Read more

The National Examination Council has announced that the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination for school-based candidates will commence on Monday, June 27, 2022, contrary to speculations suggesting that the examination has been postponed to a later date. This was contained in a statement signed by the Head of Information and Public Relations Division of the council, Azeez Sani, and made ... Read more

The Federal Government on Wednesday said the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities would soon be called off. This was as it said there are no plans to establish an alternative payment table for all the labour unions in tertiary institutions. Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the weekly ... Read more

The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and allied institutions has extended its ongoing strike by two months. This was made known on Wednesday, in a statement signed by the National President, SSANU, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim, and General Secretary, Mr. Peter Adeyemi. The statement partly read, ... Read more

The Federal Government, on Monday, announced the release of the results of the 2022 National Common Entrance Examination into unity schools. The government said all the admission processes into class one of the Junior Secondary School (JSS 1) in the colleges would be completed on or before July 1. Lagos State had 19,518 pupils, the highest number registered for the examination. The Federal ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and allied institutions have both said they have yet to receive any message after discussing the 2009 agreements with the Federal Government renegotiation committee. The Federal Government renegotiation committee, ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the union has reached an advanced stage. The union encouraged its members to remain focused to the end “of the struggle.” The union made this known in a memo titled, “Strike bulletin number 6”, signed by its National President, Prof Emmanuel ... Read more

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union has resumed its warning strike, which was suspended in 2018, over alleged neglect of the Colleges of Education sub-sector by Federal and State governments. Its Northwest Secretary, Inuwa Ishaq-Inuwa, announced this to newsmen at a press conference on Saturday in Kano. Ishaq-Inuwa, who is also the COEASU Chairman, Sa’adatu Rimi College of ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said its members are not beggars and the stoppage of their salaries by the government won’t force them to call off their strike. The leadership of the union also commended the members for keeping faith with the union despite the hardship imposed on their families as a result of the No-Work-No-Pay directive of the Federal Government. Following ... Read more