‘Give N50bn budgeted for loan to students as grant’ – ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke to FG

Emmanuel Osodeke, the president of the  Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has requested that the Federal Government make available to students as grants the 50 billion naira budgeted for the student loan scheme in the 2024 budget. Emmanuel Osodeke , ASUU…

ASUU joins workers’ nationwide strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has instructed its members to participate in the nationwide strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress TUC, which commenced on midnight,13th November 2023. Emanuel Osadeke, ASUU President ASUU’s President,…

President Bola Tinubu orders release of lecturers’ withheld salaries over ASUU strike

President Bola Tinubu has invoked the Principle of the Presidential Prerogative of Mercy to authorize the partial waiver of the “No Work, No Pay” Order that had been imposed on striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. This was…

ASUU suspends strike after eight months

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has suspended its eight-month strike, at the end of the National Executive Council meeting which was held at the ASUU secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, 13th October, 2022. The academic union embarked on strike action…

“Ngige has turned ASUU strike to personal quarrel” – Former INEC Boss, Jega

Former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Attahiru Jega, has accused Labour Minister, Chris Ngige, of worsening negotiations between the striking lecturers and the federal government. Labor Minister, Chris Ngige Former INEC boss and ASUU President, Attahiru Jega Jega…

ASUU: FG approves new academic unions, CONUA & NAMDA

Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has presented registered certificates to two factions which were created out of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU– the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics, NAMDA, and the Congress of Nigerian University Academics,…

Court orders ASUU to call off ongoing strike

The National Industrial Court on Wednesday, 21st September, 2022, has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off the ongoing Strike. Delivering a ruling on the interlocutory injunction filed by the Federal government, Justice Polycarp Hamman restrained ASUU from…

Sowore joins Nigerian Students in ASUU strike protest in spite of rain, in Lagos

African Action Congress, AAC, Presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has joined some Nigerian university students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, as they blocked Lagos Airport road in protest against the ongoing seven-month Academic Staff Union of Universities,…