LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened embark on another strike concerning the deliberate refusal of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, to pay the salaries and remittance of check-off dues of over 1,000 staff for 13 months. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, the ASUU chairman, University of Jos, stated this…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its nine months old strike. ASUU National President Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, announced the suspension early hours of Wednesday during a news conference at the end of the union’s emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting Wednesday in Abuja. Prof. Ogunyemi, stressed that ASUU NEC…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Law Students Association of Nigeria has dragged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), before the Federal High Court Abuja, challenging what it described as the incessant strikes of the union. In the suit which was filed at the court on Friday, the association is seeking an order to compel ASUU to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Proprietors of Private Polytechnics in Nigeria on Thursday disagreed with lecturers that tertiary institutions should remain closed to activities due to COVID – 19 pandemic, saying they were not sincere. They called on the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, to announce date within the current phase of COVID – 19 lockdown…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos chapter, says there is no going back in its rejection of the removal of the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the institution’s Governing Council headed by Dr Wale Babalakin had on Wednesday removed Ogundipe…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday blasted the federal government over proposed plan to establish a private university to be named after President Muhammadu Buhari. The Union described the proposed university by the wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari as a disaster. ASUU further said the plan of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday suspended its three-month strike following an agreement it reached with the Federal Government. It, however, warned that “this is a suspension, not an outright call-off. If government reneges on our memorandum of agreement, we will embark on another industrial action with full force.” According…
LAGOS JANUARY 8H (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has reached an agreement with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Addressing journalists on Monday evening after the meeting with the striking lecturers in Abuja, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said the majority of their demands have been met including the release of…