LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has reacted to reports that the federal government has increased salary of lecturers by 35 percent. ASUU said it has not been informed of any pay rise given lecturers in federal institutions by the federal government. The National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this in…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked President Bola Tinubu to change the newly assented Students Loans Act to grant for indigent students. “This would have been better if we are giving it to those set of students who are very poor, it should be called a grant, not a…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU said the Student Loan Bill, which President Bola Tinubu signed into law has the potential of sending many students out of school. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke stated this while speaking with newsmen on Wednesday. Recall that, on Monday, the President signed the bill, describing…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally, a member of the union’s National Executive Committee told Channels TV early Friday. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Court of Appeal on Friday ordered public university lecturers to end their strike for better working conditions in the next seven days before it will hear their appeal against a ruling by a lower court. The lecturers, who have been striking since February, last month appealed a lower court ruling ordering…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Lecturers from Nigerian public universities who have been striking since February appealed a court ruling ordering them to suspend their action, which has kept students away from class for the past seven months. ASUU lawyer Femi Falana filed papers at the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday seeking to set…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For almost seven months, students in federal government-owned universities in Nigeria have been stuck at home, forced out of class by a protracted strike by staff. The protest over pay, welfare and crumbling facilities by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has shut down universities since February 14 in the latest…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, The PUNCH has learnt. Sources familiar with the matter told one of our correspondents that the Federal Government’s team met with the representatives of ASUU at the headquarters of the National Universities Commission….