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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Tuesday, insisted that Nigerian universities in the country are not ready to re-open at the moment. The Union

No fewer than 20,000 youths across the 20 local government areas in Ogun State are to benefit from the Federal Government Special Public Works programme.

Views: Visits 17 File photo: ASUU National President, Professor Abiodun Ogunyemi, speaks during his appearance on Sunrise Daily on November 9, 2020. The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday insisted Nigerian universities are not ready to re-open in the middle of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The National Universities Commission (NUC) had earlier directed universities to resume academic activities on January 18. But ASUU is asking the federal government to review...

ASUU insists on not returning to classes, speaks on alternative learning

ASUU has cautioned the FG against the hasty reopening of universities because of the rising cases of the  COVID-19 pandemic and concerns

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Share THE year 2020 will go down in history as recording one of the longest of all strike actions embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria. ASUU had commenced the strike on March 9, 2020 which was suspended on December 23, 2020. Accordingly, the strike is likely to be resumed in 2021 going by the trust issues between the Federal Government mediation team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige and the representatives of ASUU led by it...

Share THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday, December 23 announced that it has conditionally suspended the national strike action it commenced in March. It has been a long nine months, beating all previous strike records of six and seven months held by ASUU. Let us agree to call the just ended strike, the ASUU Coronavirus Strike or the ASUU COVID-19 Strike. It tallies well with the global realities of a year-long pandemic for which 2020 would always be associated and it w...

Share Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, has urged lecturers in public universities to show moderation and patriotism in their demands from the federal government. The umbrella body of academics in public universities, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), suspended a nine-month-old strike last week. Amongst other commitments, the federal government has promised the release of N40 billion earned academic allowances and another N30 billion revitalisat...

Humanity has never had it so gruel with Mother Nature as it did in the outgoing year 2020. Indeed, the world writhed in pains as humans, in many climes, when they were not waging a war against one of nature’s vagaries, including the novel Coronavirus pandemic, were contending with diverse sheds of catastrophe, or being battered by natural and unnatural disasters. Apart from the pandemic, which shattered plans and projections by individuals and governments, the country accelerated its descent...