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The Federal Government only paid lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities for 18 working days in the month of October, The PUNCH has exclusively gathered. Lecturers and senior members of ASUU, who spoke to our correspondent under strict confidence noted that the government only paid half salaries. The PUNCH had ... Read more

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to release the withheld salaries of the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The NLC made this known in a communique made available at the National Executive Council meeting which was held in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State. The PUNCH had earlier reported how ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has again filed an appeal against the judgment of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria which ordered the striking lecturers to return back to work, Sunday PUNCH has gathered. It was also gathered that the court had yet to fix a date for the official hearing of the suit. The counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana, SAN, made this known in an exclusive ... Read more

This is to inform the General Public that the Management of Yaba College of Technology YABATECH has officially announced the release of the 2022/2023 Admission cut-off mark Yaba College of Technology YABATECH Cut Off mark The admission screening is open to candidates who chose Yaba College of Technology as their 1st or 2nd Choice of Institution and scored 150 and above for National Diploma ... Read more

The Federal Government, Tuesday, appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress to rescind its opposition to the registration of two new academic unions in the Nigerian public university system. The PUNCH reports that the new unions- the Congress for Nigerian University Academics and the Nigeria Association of Medical and Dental Academics -received ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday called off its eight-month-old strike. However, the union in a press statement made available to The PUNCH noted that the issues in its disputes with the Federal Government were not well addressed. The press release, which was signed by the National President of the union, Professor Emmanuel ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally, a member of the union’s National Executive Committee told Channels TV early Friday. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday. The meeting was called by the union to ... Read more

The meeting of the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will hold overnight in Abuja, The PUNCH has reliably learnt. The meeting which is a meeting of the leadership of the union was convened to allow the leadership of the union take the final decision on the protracted strike. Speaking with our ... Read more

Barring a last-minute change, the Academic Staff Union of Universities may call off its indefinite strike on Thursday (today). The Court of Appeal had last Friday, ordered the union to call off its strike. The House of Representatives also intervened in the matter, raising the hope that the union may call off the strike soon. The PUNCH gathered that most of the over 123 branches of the ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities is still awaiting the decision of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on the no-work-no-pay rule invoked by the Federal Government since its strike began eight months ago, The PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent learnt that the President’s decision on the matter is key to a ... Read more