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The National Strike Organising Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has met to decide on the way forward concerning the ongoing strike by the union, The PUNCH reports. The committee is made up of senior officials of the union. This is as our correspondent learnt that zonal meetings will commence by the end of the week ... Read more

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Thursday, said it is the responsibility of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to compensate students for the time wasted during the six-month strike, not the Federal Government. He also said the government will not concede to the union’s demand to pay lecturers their emoluments for the ... Read more

The National Strike Coordinating Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has commenced a meeting in line with the ongoing strike in Nigerian public universities, The PUNCH can confirm. A highly reliable source confirmed the development in an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday night. ASUU had on Monday, February 14, ... Read more

The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, The PUNCH has learnt. Sources familiar with the matter told one of our correspondents that the Federal Government’s team met with the representatives of ASUU at the headquarters of the National Universities ... Read more

Following the announcement of the cut-off marks for the 2022/2023 academic session admission exercise by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the management of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) announced the cut-off mark that would be required for admission into its various degree programmes. All candidates who scored 140 and above in the Joint Admissions Matriculation ... Read more

The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the negotiation team of the Federal Government ended in a deadlock, The PUNCH can confirm. The ASUU president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, had on Monday confirmed to Channels Television that the union would meet the Federal Government’s team. Osodeke had assured Nigerians ... Read more

This is to inform the General Public that the Management of Delta State University, Abraka DELSU has officially announced the release of the 2022/2023 Admission cut-off mark DELSU Cut Off Mark Candidates who chose Delta State University (DELSU) Abraka as their first choice of University in 2022/2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and scored150and above are eligible to ... Read more

The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has said the union will have a meeting with the Federal Government to address its ongoing strike action, today. The PUNCH had reported that since the end of the renegotiation meeting led by Prof. Nimi Briggs, the government had not made effort to ... Read more

Speaking on Politics Today, President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke said the meeting was to discuss one of seven issues ASUU is protesting over, “That is the issue of renegotiation,” Osodeke said, “the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement. “It is not just about wages. It has to do with the system, funding, the structure, the autonomy and other issues; and how to ... Read more

The management of the Abia State University has released the cut-off mark for the 2022/2023 academic session admission exercise. Candidates who scored 140 and above in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) are eligible for ABSU Post UTME Exercise.