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The Court of Appeal in Abuja will on Tuesday (today) hear the appeal of the Academic Staff Union of Universities against the ruling by the National Industrial Court, The PUNCH has learnt. This is as negotiations and talks have continued between the House of Representatives led by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila and the union. The PUNCH ... Read more

The leadership of the House of Representatives will meet the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday over the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, The PUNCH has learnt. A top Presidency source, who did not want his name in print because he was not authorised to speak to journalists on ... Read more

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has advised the Academic Staff Union of Universities to stop directing its members to continue with the 8-month-old strike in defiance of the interlocutory injunction by the National Industrial Court which restrained the union from further action. This was contained in a statement signed ... Read more

The House of Representatives, on Thursday, concluded its meetings with stakeholders over the lingering crisis between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, saying its recommendations would soon be presented to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). At the third of the series of marathon meetings ... Read more

The National Examinations Council has revealed that the Niger State Government owes the examination body N500m as debt from unpaid examination fees of students. Registrar of the examination body, Dantani Wushishi, disclosed this during the release of the results of the 2022 Internal Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations on Thursday in ... Read more

The House of Representatives led by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila met with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday. The meeting is geared towards ending the union’s seven-month-long strike. Also in attendance were the Minister of Labour, Head of Service and the Director-General of the Budget Office, among others. ASUU has been on strike since February 14. In ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Calabar Branch, has revealed that ten of its academic staff members had died since the ASUU strike began on February 14, 2022. This was disclosed by ASUU UNICAL Branch Chairman, Dr John Edor, on Thursday, while speaking with our correspondent in Calabar. Although, Edor did not disclose ... Read more

The National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out a suit the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, filed to compel the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government to call off the ongoing strike action. Justice Polycarp Hamman terminated further proceedings in the matter, after it was withdrawn by factional President of NANS, Umar ... Read more

The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission, Monday afternoon, withdrew its circular which ordered vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open federal universities, The PUNCH reports. The PUNCH had exclusively reported earlier that a circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135 was addressed to all ... Read more

The Federal Government through the National Universities Commission has ordered vice-chancellors to re-open schools and allow students resume lectures. This was made known in a letter signed by the Director, Finance and Accounts of the NUC, Sam Onazi, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed. The ... Read more