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UniAbuja gate …Hint on imminent industrial action over issues By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA THE Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, in the University of Abuja, staged a peaceful protest Tuesday, to draw attention to what they referred to as federal government’s injustice to ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Professor Felix Salako, said the institution is safe for reopening for academic activities, despite the spike in the Coronavirus pandemic. He gave the hint while addressing journalists on Tuesday, that the institution had put in place all the stipulated COVID-19 protocols, ... Read more

IBADAN — Workers at The Polytechnic, Ibadan, on Monday, declared an indefinite strike over the non-implementation of the minimum wage by the state government. At a general meeting of academic and non-academic staff convened by a Joint Committee of all Staff Unions, it was reiterated that the governing council and by extension the ... Read more

Non-academic unions in universities and the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday differed on the Federal Government’s N40bn earned allowance for the institutions’ workers. While ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, in an interview with The PUNCH, justified the amount promised lecturers out of the N40bn, non-academic ... Read more

Members of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi are lamenting that they regret accepting to join the IPPIS payment platform over unexplained deduction from their salaries. They said the university unions, ... Read more

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic has said that the January 18, 2021, resumption date for schools across the country has not changed. Speaking in a television programme on Tuesday night, the PTF National Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu, said the date remains the same until the Federal Ministry of ... Read more

Say VCs have plans to put COVID-19 guidelines in place Some Vice-Chancellors of universities under Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU have said that it was wrong for ASUU to claim that there were no COVID-19 guidelines for reopening Universities. ASUU, haven called off 9-month strike insisted that Nigerian universities were not ready ... Read more

Amid the resurgence of COVID-19, the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, not to stop the resumption of academic activities. President of NANS, Sunday Asefon, said a Taskforce would be setup on COVID-19 in universities across the country. Asefon, in a statement, said ... Read more

The Abia State University, ABSU, has released schedules for admission into its degree programmes for the 2020/2021 Academic session. The University, in a release signed by its Registrar, Acho Elendu, however, announced that the school will commence its post UTME Screening Test on Monday. According to the release, Day 1; Monday 18 January ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof Lilian Salami, on Wednesday, says the school management is ready to resume academic activities in a safe and secure manner. She said the university management will enforce strict compliance to COVID-19 protocols to protect students and members of staff from being exposed to coronavirus ... Read more