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Education

I’m Surprised ASUU Has Gone On Strike – Malam Adamu, Education Minister
17Feb By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

I’m Surprised ASUU Has Gone On Strike – Malam Adamu, Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has said that he is surprised by the decision of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to embark on a one-month strike. He said this on Wednesday while fielding questions from State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The minister, who cleared the government of any fault over failure to reach a truce after several negotiations between ASUU and the Federal Government, said the decision of the university lecturers came abruptly amidst ongoing meetings. According to him, “ASUU, unfortunately, they have gone on strike and I am looking for them because all the issues are being addressed. The last thing that happen...
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FUTO Sues ASUU Over Pantami’s Professorship
15Feb By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria

FUTO Sues ASUU Over Pantami’s Professorship

The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Owerri (FUTO), Prof. Nnenna Oti, has said the management had gone to court over the rejection of Dr. Isah Ibrahim Pantami’s promotion to the rank as a professor of Cyber Security by the institution. This followed the threat by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to sanction FUTO management for approving Pantami as a professor while he is still in Federal Government’s active service as a minister. Oti told newsmen yesterday that the management went to court on the matter, saying any comment or discussion on it is subjudice. See Also: ASUU Declares Pantami’s Professorship Illegal, To Sanction FUTO VC, Others But a senior management worker, who spoke in confidence, claimed that ASUU has no right to dabble into...
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ASUU Declares Pantami’s Professorship Illegal, To Sanction FUTO VC, Others
14Feb By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria

ASUU Declares Pantami’s Professorship Illegal, To Sanction FUTO VC, Others

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has faulted the promotion of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, as a professor. The union after its National Executive Council meeting declared the promotion as “illegal”. This was declared at a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Monday. See Also: Pantami Not Qualified To Be A Professor – ASUU He said, “You cannot be a minister and a lecturer in a university. It is an encouragement of illegality. “Pantami has to quit as a minister and be tried for doing double jobs within the same federal system. He is not qualified. Pantami should not be treated as a professor.” In September 2021, Pantami, alongside seven academics were elevated by the council o...
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Professor Olayemi Durotimi Accused Of Sexual Impropriety, Drunkenness
12Feb By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria, Youths

Professor Olayemi Durotimi Accused Of Sexual Impropriety, Drunkenness

The Vice-Chancellor of Federal University Lokoja (FUL), Professor Olayemi Akinwumi, is in the news again, not for anything different, but he has become associated with the same sordid acts. Information on the VC hobnobbing and allegedly having intimate relationships and carnal knowledge of female students of FUL within the confines of his favorite hotel located in Ganja have overshadowed discussion. Investigations revealed the Professor of History has a reputation for hosting nocturnal drunken parties, an extravaganza held with his gang of friends in which young female University students are delivered from the Institution he leads.One of the female students, an attendee, informed newsmen that she was invited by a friend for a night out at the NUJ hangout spot in the GRA area....
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ASUU Begins Preparation For Strike, Declares Monday Lecture-free
6Feb By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria

ASUU Begins Preparation For Strike, Declares Monday Lecture-free

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has urged its chapters across the country to sensitize members of the public on the situation between the union and the Federal Government. This is as it declared Monday, February 7, 2022, as a lecture-free day in a bid to enhance sensitization. The National President of the Union, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent on Saturday evening. Sunday PUNCH reports that the directive to the chapters of ASUU comes less than a week after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.) pledged the commitment of his administration to fulfilling the agreement with the union. Buhari made the promise when members of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council visited him to discuss the lingering is...
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UNILAG Reinstates Olorunfemi Adeyeye, Rusticated Student Activist
11Jan By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria

UNILAG Reinstates Olorunfemi Adeyeye, Rusticated Student Activist

A student of the University of Lagos, Olorunfemi Adeyeye, who was suspended in 2016 by the school's authorities, has finally been reinstated. Adeyeye, a student of the Department of Building, alongside some students’ union leaders, was suspended for participating in a protest on April 6 and 8, 2016. The protests led to the school being shut and the indefinite suspension of the students’ union body. Adeyeye was also accused of criticising the leadership of the institution on their inability to manage situations as “democrats” in a Facebook article tilted: The Senate of the University of Lagos; a conglomeration of academic ignorami, which he published on social media platforms. While under suspension, the school authorities also accused Adeyeye of leading a team tagged ‘Save Unil...
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Kaduna Government Schools To Open Four Days A Week
10Jan By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria

Kaduna Government Schools To Open Four Days A Week

The Kaduna State Government has directed all public schools in the state to start operating four days a week to enable workers to focus on agriculture. Although the state is being ravaged by banditry, kidnappings and killings, the state government claimed that the new policy was aimed at enhancing productivity as it would allow workers to focus on their families, and improve work-life balance. The directive was given on Sunday by the Commissioner for Education, Halima Lawal, in a notice for school resumption for the second term of the new academic session. Read Also: I Won’t Bury My Son Even If It Takes 30 Years To Get Justice – Sylvester’s Dad Lawal also advised school administrators to be security conscious and promptly report any security threats in their schools. She stated that...
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Sylvester Oromoni: Autopsy Report Exonerates House Master, Others From Murder
3Jan By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria

Sylvester Oromoni: Autopsy Report Exonerates House Master, Others From Murder

The autopsy report conducted on the corpse of late Sylvester Oromoni, alleged victim of bullying, at the Dowen College, Lagos, is out. The report however, exonerated the school’s House Master and other students  arrested in connection with the alleged murder. Consequently, the suspects who have been in Police custody at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence  Department, Yaba, for over three weeks, were released last week Thursday, on bail. It would be recalled that the deceased, who was a Junior Secondary School 2 student of the school and a boarder, was rushed to his parents home in Warri, Delta State two months ago, owing to some injuries he sustained while playing football, according to the school. But his parents  faulted the school’s claim, disclosing  rather, tha...
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ASUU Dismisses FG’s N52.5bn, Says Strike Likely Soon
2Jan By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria

ASUU Dismisses FG’s N52.5bn, Says Strike Likely Soon

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the N30bn Revitalisation Fund and N22.5bn Earned Academic Allowance totalling N52.5bn released by the Federal Government is not enough to deal with the challenges facing the university system. The ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, noted in an interview with Sunday PUNCH that there was a possibility that the union would still go on strike, unless the government addressed its demands, including the 2009 agreement. The Federal Government had said it paid lecturers N30bn Revitalisation Fund and N22.5bn Earned Academic Allowance. It noted that it had made some progress in implementing the Memorandum of Understanding the government reached with the union. Osodeke described the fund released by the government as a token payment, addi...
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ASUU postpones decision on strike, accuses FG of blackmail
20Dec By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Education, News, Nigeria

ASUU postpones decision on strike, accuses FG of blackmail

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has postponed its decision on strike, saying that consultations are still ongoing. This was contained in a press statement issued by the union after its National Executive Council meeting. The meeting held at its Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, on Saturday, December 18, 2021 to review the level of government’s implementation of the FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Action of December 23, 2020 and other related matters. In the press statement titled, ‘Enough of blackmail’, signed by ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, the lecturers regretted that the Federal Government had turned its back on the plan to set up an inter-ministerial committee to review the draft Renegotiated 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement. Read Also: Strike’ll Be I...
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