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The Federal Government is owing the university workers, under the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Union of Universities and Associated Institutions (NASU), over N150 billion earned allowances. The money spans over nine years of unpaid ... Read more

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has opened a study centre in Asaga-Ohafia community in Abia to expand access to higher education in the area through the open and distance learning programme. A statement by Mr Ambrose Gowong, Communications Officer, Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning (ACETEL), NOUN, said ... Read more

ADO-EKITI- The President, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Sunday Asefon has appealed to the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) to suspend its ongoing industrial action in the interest of innocent students. The Students’ Leader who also made similar appeal to the Senior Staff Union of ... Read more

ABUJA—Unity schools in the country have been asked to change their methods of teaching with a view to impacting quality education on school children. The federal government which said this, Monday, insisted that the nation’s 110 unity colleges must put all necessary measures ... Read more

Though the ongoing strike by members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, is limited to federal universities, their colleagues at the state-owned Lagos State University, LASU, on Monday shut down the institution over the failure of the ... Read more

Non-academic activities were grounded on Monday at both the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka and the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo, as non-academic staffers of both institutions stayed off duties to join their colleagues in other public universities in the country to commence an indefinite, total and comprehensive strike. The industrial ... Read more

Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), yesterday, vowed to sustain its ongoing nationwide strike despite the Federal Government declaring it illegal. Reports from various campuses indicated that the workers stayed away from their offices in compliance with the directive of the Joint ... Read more

The federal government has announced the conclusion of its plans to build state-of-the-art digital schools and facilities for learning across the country. The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed this during the inauguration ceremony of basic education projects at the Federal ... Read more

The National Association of Non-Teaching Staff of Nigerian Universities (NANTS) has distanced its members in the Nigerian Universities from the ongoing strike embarked upon by The Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU). The union urged the federal government to disregard any ... Read more

The Academic staff of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), under the aegis of NOUN Academic Staff Forum, has resolved to join the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Dr. Chuks Enwerem, the NOUN academic staff forum in its first meeting, discussed modalities for getting ... Read more