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Nnamdi Azikiwe University has announced they are pulling out of ASUU Strike. In an official press release issued by the VC of the school, Prof. Boniface C.E. Egboka, students of UNIZIK are to resume back for academic activities on Monday, 2nd December, 2013. The full Press Release announcing UNIZIK pull-out ...

During a press briefing in Abuja this morning, the acting Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike told journalist that the Federal Government has given the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) one week ultimatum to call off the ongoing strike. Or else what? ASUU execs and President Jonathan were supposed to ...

Apparently tired of the non-progressive dialogue between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the federal government over the ongoing strike, authorities of the Ebonyi State University have decided to pull out of the protest. According a terse statement by the institution’s Registrar, Mr. Sam Egwu, the decision came ...

An anonymous tipster has confided in SaharaReporters that Festus Iyayi, a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), was actually shot by policemen in the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada, prior to the road accident in which he supposedly died last week. The ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has postponed its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, which was supposed to hold today, due to the loss of one of the prominent members of the union, Professor Festus Iyayi, who died in an auto crash on Lokoja-Abuja Expressway, on his way to ...

The former President of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), Dr. Festus Iyayi is dead. Dr Iyayi died this morning in an auto crash on his way to Kano to participate in tomorrow’s National Executive Council Meeting of Union. ASUU is expected to announce the suspension of the five-month ...

The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) will hold a referendum on Monday where lecturers will deliberate on the outcome of the meeting with President Jonathan and ASUU leadership. The lecturers are expected to vote on whether to continue with the strike action or return to lecture halls. Invitations ...

The 13-hour long meeting between the Federal Government, led by�President Goodluck �Jonathan�and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)�has finally ended with �a new wave of optimism. The meeting ended with the President of the academic body,�Nasir Isa Fagge, revealing that the members of ASUU would deliberate on the new offer ...

In a last ditch effort to resolve the ASUU strike, President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, November 4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa. This was part of the resolutions of the meeting between the ASUU leadership, Vice President Namadi Sambo and the Supervising Minister of ...

INDICATIONS emerged on Tuesday that the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may have agreed to end their face-off. The meeting between the Supervising Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike and ASUU, led by its president, Dr Nasir Isa Fagge, held behind closed-door, was said to be ...

Despite continued efforts and promises of more financing made by the Federal Government, striking lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have refused to budge. According to reports, despite a meeting to seek resolution yesterday, the lecturers insisted that the three-month-old strike would go on. ...

In an effort to end the ongoing ASUU strike, the Federal Government has said it is committed to spending N200 billion in the 2014 budget on universities in Nigeria for about three to four years until the universities are brought to world-class standard. This is in addition to the N100 ...

Oga Presido, First of all I hail ooo! I no say u no dey cary last. You be�confirm�warri pikin. But ur middle name Ebele means mercy and make u pity ur children settle their�lecturers�naa! The matter neva�tire�u? Suppose say ur pikin wey u born for belle follow us dey house, ...

Hope of an early resolution of the strike embarked on by the public universities’ lecturers rises as the Vice-President Namadi Sambo met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Abuja on Thursday.The meeting held behind closed doors had in attendance the supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom ...

House Member, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon never fails to amaze us with his grammatically inclined words. Read what he said on the current ASUU strike issue battling higher institutions in the country; �This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a maladorous ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday declared an indefinite strike nationwide.�The union adopted a resolution to go on strike after its ASUU-NEC meeting at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, from Sunday till Monday. Fifty-one of the union’s 53 branches unanimously agreed to embark on ...