A former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi says fresh industrial action by lecturers of public universities cannot be ruled out in 2023. Ogunyemi made this known on Saturday during a live appearance on Channels TV’s 2022 In Retrospect, an End-Of-Year special. The academic labelled the Federal […]
The education sector was mostly on news in the better part of the year – 2022 following the long strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in February 14 due to failure of the federal government to implement the 2009 agreement with the union and other demands bordering on welfare, infrastructures […]
Felix Nnalue, senate president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), says money launderers and narcotics traders are those opposing the cash withdrawal policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Recently, the apex bank announced fixed weekly cash withdrawals for individuals at N100, 000 and corporate bodies at N500,000. Maximum cash withdrawal […]
THE Federal Government has directed polytechnics, monotechnics and other allied institutions to stop awarding degrees. The National Board for Technical Education conveyed the government’s decision to heads of the affected institutions in a circular marked TEB/PRO/E/12/Vol.11/132 dated December 1, 2022. A copy of the document signed by the board’s Director, Polytechnic Programmes Department, Ogoh […]
The Management of Auchi Polytechnic, Edo, says it had expelled 40 students over result falsification and deficiency at the point of entry into some programmes at the institution. A news bulletin of the Information and Public Relations Unit of the institution on Wednesday, signed by Adebola Ogunboyowa, said the students were expelled following the […]
The Congress of University Academics has expressed its disappointment with the Federal Government, especially the Ministry of Labour and Employment, over the non-payment of its members’ withheld salaries “even when the government knew that the union did not call for strike action and its members were not involved in the strike action that lasted […]
In the light of recent agitations by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said the Federal Government is planning to review the university autonomy laws. This comes weeks after ASUU called off an eight-month strike, which saw its members demanding improved welfare, revitalisation of public universities, and academic autonomy, […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, chapter, on Tuesday, vowed to commence the “mother of all strikes,” if the Federal Government refuses to pay members of the Union their withheld eight months salary arrears. The ASUU-UNN Chairman, Comrade Christian Opata, who addressed pressmen before members of the Union […]
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, may embark on ‘no pay, no work’ policy if the Federal Government continues to insist on not paying them their withheld eight months salaries, the National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has said. Speaking in a chat with Vanguard on Wednesday, he said the union might […]
THE management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, yesterday, banned hugging, indecent dressing, use of tinted vehicles and other forms of immoral conduct by students of the institution, while on campus. Violation of the new rules, according to the management of the institution, will attract stiff sanctions ranging from a semester suspension, rejection from […]
