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  The National Association of Nigerian Students has said its members would embark on a mass protest should the Academic Staff Union of Universities resume its just suspended strike.     He said it is embarrassing and ridiculous for ASUU to threaten fresh strike after wasting the academic time of Nigerian students for nine months.   Asefon said, “It is a slap on us for ASUU to say they are calling off the strike conditionally. If they call it off conditionally, we will also put on hold our plan to engage the Federal Government and ASUU on mass action. But if they also resume their strike...

Experts observed that in the event the non-academic members of the university community decide to go on strike, they would make the agreement between ASUU and the government a wasted effort. ASUU had since the return of democracy in 1999 expended four years on strike, an equivalent of one term for an elected president or governor. Prof Biodun Ogunyemi Under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the union had ‘wasted’ 58 weeks on strike, meaning they had been at home for about 15 months. The union had spent four weeks in 2017 and 13 weeks in 2018; while 2020 witnessed the longe...

Share THE newly elected senate president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Innocent Okafor, has promised to provide quality leadership to Nigerian youths to renew their hope as major stakeholders in nation building. Okafor, who hails from Anambra State, emerged victorious during the election held in Abuja, last week. In a statement in Awka, Okafor urged the youths to look at the future with great optimism, adding that the new leadership of NANS would ensure peaceful coexistence and uninterrupted academic activities in all tertiary institutions in the country. Okafor, a ...

Share LET me take a moment to point out that there is no authority in scripture to criticise  government but there is an obligation to pray for it. Why do Christians in Nigeria find it so hard to believe that so much depends on our praying? We believe that what goes on is beyond our control. There is nothing we can do about the government or prejudice or hatred or whatever ills we see around us. We shrug our shoulders; we criticise, we complain but we fail to pray. This is why we see moral and ethical decline, both in leadership and in national culture.

Union ends strike, commits to virtual teaching, doing extra work By Onyebuchi Ezigbo Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, yesterday gave insight into the deal between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that led the union to suspend its nine-month industrial action. Ngige told THISDAY that part of the agreement between the two parties during the final round of negotiations on Tuesday that preceded the suspension of the strike yesterday, was that the lecturers will conduct virtual teaching and restart academic activities before the Janu...