Lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have received full salaries for the month of November 2022, The PUNCH can confirm. Our correspondent also gathered that the eight month arrears remained withheld by the Federal Government. A senior member of the union at the Bayero University Kano made this known […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday warned Nigerians that if the Federal Government kept withholding their pay, a new crisis in the country’s universities would transcend break out. It urged interested parties and well-meaning Nigerians to pressure the Federal Government into paying its members’ withheld eight-month salaries across the nation. The University […]
ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to skip backlog of academic sessions halted by their seven months strike if federal government persists on the no work no pay rule. ASUU members, mainly of University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) Chapter, Rivers state, after a special congress and protest rally on Monday argued that […]
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has said that the eight months strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), have very negative psychological and emotional effect on students. He added that the strike was unnecessary, unfortunate and very sad as it could have been avoided by continuous and […]
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, on Tuesday, criticised the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, over his alleged authorisation of the part-payment of salaries to members of the union, following the suspension of its seven-month strike in October. This comes after ASUU in October suspended […]
Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, has proposed a mandatory training for leaders of labour unions. According to a statement by the ministry on Monday, Ngige said this while defending the budget for his ministry before the house of representatives committee on labour. He said the mandatory training will provide the right information […]
The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said the introduction of nominal fees by the Ministry of Education through the principals is not consistent with government policy and is thus invalid. According to him, it should be rescinded with immediate effect and all monies that may have been collected be refunded forthwith. […]
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,ended its Natural Executive Committee, NEC meeting late Monday (yesterday),with a resolution not to embark on another strike, following the payment of half salaries to members by the federal government. “Rather, the union, according to Vanguard source, resolved to wait for the outcome of the intervention of speaker […]
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to stop provoking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in a dispute over wages. Mr Falana, speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said the lecturers should be paid their full salaries for months they were on a strike […]
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has described the half-salary payment to its members by the federal government following the suspension of its eight months old strike as an aberration. It regretted that after it suspended the strike, the response of government towards ASUU’s demonstration of trust was the so-called ‘pro-rata’ payment for […]
