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ADVERTISEMENT …he responded that history shows that ASUU demands have not been just for the welfare of members but also for a general improvement of conditions in the universities in the interests of the students and beyond. He noted that ASUU also frequently addresses the conditions of underdevelopment in the country…  Tough questions were posed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) president, Professor Abiodun Ogunyemi, during the Toyin Falola Interview Series held on April 25. The hard grilling started with Professor Labode Popoola, Vice Chancellor of the Osun State Unive...

Share The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said more than 500 of its members in federal universities nationwide are currently being punished by the Federal Government for not enrolling into the newly introduced Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The body said the punishment is in form of non-payment of their salaries since February last year despite the presidency’s waiver to the contrary. The National President of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, gave this hint in an exclusive interview with Nigerian Tribune. He said the Federal Government through the Of...

Abiodun Ogunyemi and the Politics of Higher Education in Nigeria, By Toyin Falola Abiodun Ogunyemi stands out as one of the union leaders whose contributions, no matter how heavily criticised, deserve a high level of attention. Having received his education when Nigeria was test-running its political competence in terms of how it can bring about maximum transformation to the lives of the people who were governed, Ogunyemi unquestionably developed a critical sense of responsibility to his professional career and society. The socio-political conditions of the time helped shape his ideological c...

Punch Newspapers Sections Grace Edema Grace Edema Published 1:58 am The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said Nigerian politicians are proposing the establishment of more tertiary institutions to impress their constituents. This remark was made by the president of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in reaction to the recently proposed 235 new tertiary institutions by the National Assembly. Ogunyemi in an interview with The PUNCH said the government usually go to sleep after these universities had been established, saying they always replaced the statutory funding of tertiary education th...

Abiodun Ogunyemi: Brainpower and Political Activism, By Toyin Falola This productive professor has shown that quality education is not negotiable. Teachers like Ogunyemi are undeniably seers, and their projections into the future are not based on conjecture but valid conclusions aided by the accumulation of facts and an objective process of interrogation. For an educationist, two things occupy the cardinal position of their intellectual campaign: advocacy for a vibrant social environment and the development of fertile minds to enhance it. Among the arrays of intellectual gifts for which Afric...