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Several unions in Nigeria have shut their workplaces to comply with the directive of the two labour unions, Nigeria Labour Union (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the Labour union has shut down the national grid, resulting in […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked President Bola Tinubu to change the new Students Loans Act to an education grant for indigent students. ASUU National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke stated this on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. According to the ASUU President, more than 90% of students won’t meet the “stringent requirements” to […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, the mainstream union of public University teachers in Nigeria, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month old strike. The academic union embarked on strike action on Monday, February 14, 2022 to protest the non-implementation of the 2009 Memorandum of Understanding reached with it by the Nigerian Government. The […]
Continue ReadingIt is well-known history in the continent of Africa that there was an evil practice called the slave trade. This involved the moving of African slaves to other countries. It has been estimated that about 500 million Africans were taken away as slaves. And our forefathers did it. Sometimes purely out of envy and as […]
Continue ReadingWhile standing before a judge, any judge, you are a ‘petty man’ even if you are a professor of law. I am not being rude. You shouldn’t have any problem getting my drift if you go back and read William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Act I, Scene II). You meet Cassius telling nobleman Brutus how imperial […]
Continue ReadingPreliminary media analyses of the Federal Government’s formal recognition of other university trade unions are forecasting the end of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Since the ongoing strike began on February 14, the Federal Government has tried different tactics to end it. From obtaining a court order asking lecturers to resume duties, to issuing […]
Continue ReadingFormer chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has accused Chris Ngige, Nigerian minister of labour and employment, of taking the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) personal and turning it into a private dispute. Jega in an interview on Arise TV, alleged that Ngige is having […]
Continue ReadingYesterday would be remembered for long in history even by generations yet unborn, as a historic moment in the 21stcentury, the day, Elizabeth II, embarked on a journey to the Eternal Realm, after 70 years of reign as Monarch of Great Britain and leader of the Commonwealth, the grandmother of many across the world and […]
Continue ReadingA thought-provoking piece is going round on WhatsApp. Credited to Professor Hamman Tukur Sa’ad, it concerns the current Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike and the tertiary education crisis in Nigeria. The author not only accuses ASUU leadership and those who manage education in Nigeria of lacking critical thinking, but also indicts them for […]
Continue Reading“Ko ko Ko. Pon Pon, Pon. . Helloo oh” “Who be dat?” “Na me oh?” “Who be na me? You don’t know your own name? I say who dey there? ” “Na me, FEDECO” “FEDECO? Which FEDECO? Where you from come?” “Open door my friend…Or I break down this door now. You drink, you no […]
Continue ReadingNigerian lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has appealed to chief executive officers (CEOs) of banks and Nigerian billionaire businessmen including Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and Mike Adenuga to pay off the N1.1 trillion being demanded by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Olajengbesi said the Federal Government of Nigeria has displayed irresponsibility and […]
Continue ReadingAs Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is extending its strike to the month of May, the Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria (PTAN) has appealed to the Federal Government and the ASUU to as a matter of urgency resolve the issues leading to ASUU’s strike so that students can go back to school. The National […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has faulted the promotion of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, as a professor. After its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, the union declared Pantami’s professorship promotion as ‘illegal’. This was declared at a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked the House of Representatives to drop the Student’s Loan Bill, being sponsored by the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, and currently before it, saying the bill is totally unnecessary. The President of the union, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, gave this position in an exclusive interview with […]
Continue ReadingNational President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has said that Nigerians would soon begin to pelt senators with stones for being insensitive to their plights as demonstrated by their plan to acquire exotic cars despite the harsh economic situation in the country. Ogunyemi stated this on Monday in an […]
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