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13Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

ASUU Meets Today, May Extend Strike

The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet today (Sunday). The meeting will hold in Abuja to review the ongoing strike, one of the NEC members told our correspondent. “Yes, we are meeting today on the ongoing strike and other matters,” he said. Asked if the strike could be called off after the meeting, he replied, “Not likely. There is no positive development that I know of.” The president of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, also confirmed the meeting without giving details. The meeting is coming one day to the expiration of the warning strike by ASUU. The union had on Monday, February 14, 2022, declared a total and comprehensive four-week warning strike. The strike, according to the union, was due to the failure of the g...

FG Not Showing Interest In Public Varsities – ASUU

12Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

FG Not Showing Interest In Public Varsities – ASUU

Two days to the expiration of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the National President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke says “nothing tangible has been done”. ASUU had on Monday, February 14, 2022, declared a total and comprehensive four-week warning strike. The strike, according to the union, was due to the failure of the government to implement the agreement the Federal Government signed with the union in 2009. ASUU had also accused the Federal Government of working against the deployment of the UTAS, a payment platform designed by ASUU in lieu of the IPPIS payment system. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, had summoned meetings with the union and other ministries and agencies in a bid to change the mind of the striking l...

Gov Okowa Clarifies ASUU’s Claims On Proliferation Of Varsities In Delta

12Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Gov Okowa Clarifies ASUU’s Claims On Proliferation Of Varsities In Delta

ASUU Logo The Delta State government on Friday described as false the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) allegation on the proliferation of universities in the state. The state’s Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, stated this during the inauguration of chairmen and members of the Governing Councils of the three new universities at the Government House in Asaba. The three Universities are the University of Delta, Agbor; Dennis Osadebey University, Asaba; and the Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro. Okowa stressed that the universities were established to increase access to educational facilities for the teeming number of students from the state. He said: “Let me respectfully disagree with the position of ASUU that there is an unhealthy proliferation of sta...

FG: Evacuation Of Nigerian Students Trapped In Ukraine Begins Monday

7Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

FG: Evacuation Of Nigerian Students Trapped In Ukraine Begins Monday

Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, says the evacuation of the stranded Nigerian students in Sumy State University (SumDU), Ukraine, will start on Monday, March 7. Recall that some Nigerians in the university staged a protest on Saturday, appealing for immediate evacuation from the country. Several SumDU students have been unable to leave the city due to the blockade of the access routes. Ukraine-Russia war: FG to Airlift 2,000 Nigerians A male student had said he and his friend decided to use their private car to get out of the city but ran into Russian soldiers who shot at them. He said the Russian troops were advancing towards Sumy. The foreign affairs minister had responded to their appeal, noting that Nigeria had requested the immediate implementation of ...

ASUU Strike: 2009 Pact Renegotiation Panel’s Report To Be Ready April

6Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Finance, News, Nigeria

ASUU Strike: 2009 Pact Renegotiation Panel’s Report To Be Ready April

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, is set to inaugurate a committee to renegotiate the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities tomorrow (Monday). The committee is expected to turn in its report in six weeks from the time of inauguration. It was reported that the 2009 agreement has become a bone of contention between the two parties. ASUU had on several occasions accused the Federal Government of failing to implement some of the agreements reached. In 2009, the government agreed with ASUU that the condition of service of university lecturers would be reviewed every five years. Read Also: Strike: ASUU’s Demand Mustn’t Violate Wages Commission Procedure –Ngige The condition of service includes the issue of sa...

Buhari Appoints New Executive Secretary For TETFund

4Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Buhari Appoints New Executive Secretary For TETFund

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Sunny Echono, the immediate past Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Education as the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by Ben Goong, Director, Press and Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Education. Read Also: Buhari Writes Senate, Seeks Amendment Of Section 84 In Newly Signed Electoral Act Echono will take over from Prof. Sulaiman Elias Bogoro, whose five-year tenure will end on March 18, 2022. Sonny Echono The statement reads, “President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Arc Sunday S. T. Echono as the new Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). He takes over from Prof. Sulaiman E...

Reps Reject Bills To Stop Children Of Public Officers From Schooling Abroad

4Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, Legislature, News, Nigeria

Reps Reject Bills To Stop Children Of Public Officers From Schooling Abroad

A bill seeking to regulate international studies for the children of public officials and strengthen educational institutions in Nigeria has been rejected by members of the House of Representatives. The members said the bill was an affront to their fundamental human rights. But the bill sponsored by Hon. Serguis Ogun representing Esan North-East federal constituency of Edo was ultimately seeking to stop public officials from diverting public funds to their children’s education abroad. Titled “A Bill for an Act to Regulate International Studies for Wards and Children of Nigerians Public Officers, So as to Strengthen Indigenous Institutions to Provide Efficient Educational Service for National Development”, it was roundly debated although it was eventually rejected when put to ...

Strike: ASUU’s Demand Mustn’t Violate Wages Commission Procedure –Ngige

2Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Finance, Labour, News, Nigeria

Strike: ASUU’s Demand Mustn’t Violate Wages Commission Procedure –Ngige

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Tuesday in Abuja said that the Federal Government was committed to enhancing the remuneration package of university lecturers. Ngige spoke to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja after briefing the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on the status of FG’s current engagement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Read Also: ASUU To FG: You Are Slave Merchants to IMF The minister said, “Yes, our university lecturers deserve good pay. A worker deserves his wages. So, if we compare with what obtains in other climes, and they are not adequately remunerated, there is nothing that stops the government within the lean resources we have to do some compensation raise and make them happy...

ASUU Demands ₦1 Trillion From FG To Suspend Ongoing Strike

28Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Youths

ASUU Demands ₦1 Trillion From FG To Suspend Ongoing Strike

Ongoing industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is seen by some as one of the reasons people patronize private universities, as lecturers there are not members of the union and would not go on strike. Meanwhile, another set of people not participating in the strike are lecturers in some state universities and those in universities not yet unionised. On their part, newly-established public universities are given observer status for some years before being admitted into ASUU. Nigeria has 49 federal universities, 54 owned by state governments and 109 private ones. Federal universities are currently on strike while some state-owned are not part of the strike, the reason being that some major demands by ASUU are peculiar only to feder...

ASUU To FG: You Are Slave Merchants to IMF

21Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Economy, Education, Finance, News, Nigeria

ASUU To FG: You Are Slave Merchants to IMF

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the federal government of Nigeria and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration as slave merchants. The union said the federal government led by Buhari only listens and implements destructive policy recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank against the interest of the citizens. The union maintained that the government treats lecturers like slaves because of poor policies formulated and implemented in the education sector. ASUU Chairman at the University of Ibadan, Professor Ayo Akinwole made these disclosures in a statement made available to DAILY POST in Ibadan on Sunday. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had last week commenced a one-month warning strike. ...