Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, has invited Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, and Adamu Adamu, minister of education, over the strike notice issued by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU had issued a three-week ultimatum to the federal government to implement the agreement it reached with the union. Emmanuel Osodeke, […]
Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa (aka Captain Walz) of the Department of Microbiology, University of Ilorin (Unilorin) has been found guilty of beating to coma, a female lecturer of Faculty of Life Sciences, Mrs Rahmat Zakariyyah, by the school management. In a statement by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, the school reached the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has distanced itself from the appointment of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, as a Professor at the Federal University of Technology, FUTO, Owerri. The union said it was not convinced that the minister deserved the appointment. Recall that the ASUU chapter of FUTO had […]
An Imo State-born human rights activist and author, Comrade Paul Ikechukwu Njoku, has gone emotional, praising Dr. Uzoaku Odinakachukwu Amadi, over her overall best and excellent academic performance in medical school. The Ikeduru-born civil rights crusader also charged the governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, to contact Miss Uzoaku and financially reward her with state-sponsored […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has issued a three-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to address all issues in the December 2020 Agreement. ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this on Monday while addressing reporters in Abuja. He warned that the union might be compelled to embark on another nationwide strike should the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi branch, says it is not convinced of the uprightness in the appointment of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, as a Professor at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo state The ASUU Chairperson, ATBU branch, Ibrahim Inuwa, while speaking to […]
The Vice Chancellor, Abia State University Uturu (ABSU), Professor Onyemachi Ogbolu, has hinted of possible upward review of school fees in the institution to reflect the current economic realities. Professor Ogbolu who gave the hint at a pre-convocation press briefing said that the current fees were no longer sustainable as the cost of running the […]
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, at the weekend, said it would take Nigeria 120 years to attain medical doctors’ sufficiency if all practitioners remain in the country. Adamu also said that the Federal University of Health Sciences (FUHSO) Otukpo in Benue State would bridge the huge gap in Nigeria’s need for medical doctors. […]
(ASUU) has again cautioned both the federal and state governments to stop establishing new public universities in the country, saying there is no need for such at both the present time and the near future. The president of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, made this assertion in an interview with Tribune Online. He said government […]
The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has decried growing security challenges in the country, claiming the union has lost at least 800 of its members to the insurgency which has been ravaging the Northeast zone of the country. It also threatened to withdraw teachers from some local government areas in some states in the Northwest […]
