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Nigeria:
Fed Govt to Break Off Negotiations With ASUU
This Day, 27 August 2013
With no end in sight to the debilitating strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the federal government, which has been holding negotiations with the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Uniosun Workers Protest Management Threat to Implement No Work, No Pay Policy
Daily Trust, 26 August 2013
Staff of the Osun State University, Osogbo today protested against the threat by the management of the university to implement no work, no pay policy on its workers who are… Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU Dismisses FG's 'No Work No Pay' Threat
Daily Trust, 26 August 2013
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the threat of the federal government to implement its 'No work No pay' policy cannot break the ongoing nationwide… Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU Strike and Faltering University Education
Vanguard, 25 August 2013
According to (Enrinco Fermi, 1901-1954) an Italian theoretical physicist, "It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge". Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU, Government, and Dialoguing With the Deaf
Daily Trust, 22 August 2013
That the Nigerian education system is in severe crisis is self-evident. If the increasing trend of our university graduates being unable to read and write is not enough evidence,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Group Appeals to ASUU to Call Off Strike
Vanguard, 21 August 2013
Having remained adamant over the ongoing strike, and with the open threat to continue with its strike over the non-implementation of the agreement it arrived with the federal… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Govt, Striking Lecturers Fail to Reach Deal
Premium Times, 20 August 2013
The Monday meeting between striking university lecturers and the federal government ended without a resolution of the crisis. Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU/ASUP Crisis - Varsities Turn Ghost Towns - Poly Students Fear Fresh Strike
Vanguard, 22 August 2013
By September 1, the Face-off between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will be exactly in its third month. Unlike previous strikes, this… Read more »
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Nigeria:
We Want Implementation, Not Palliatives - ASUU
Vanguard, 22 August 2013
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, said that the only thing that would make its striking members go back to the classrooms is the full implementation of the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU and Abuja - 'No Agreement Today - No Agreement Tomorrow' (I)
Vanguard, 21 August 2013
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has two designations. She is Nigeria's Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy. Without intending to be perverse, I wonder what the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU, FG Negotiation Ends in Deadlock
Vanguard, 20 August 2013
Negotiations between the Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) over the on-going strike by members of the union ended in… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Doubtful Future for Education
Vanguard, 20 August 2013
THERE is a paradox governments have built around education - they are spending billions of Naira on education, yet the financial issues around education are not being resolved. The… Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU Strike - FG Should Involve Past Leaders, Traditional Rulers-Sen Maccido
Daily Trust, 20 August 2013
The federal government has been called upon to involve former leaders and traditional rulers in the ongoing talks to resolve the strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities… Read more »
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Nigeria:
FG, ASUU Negotiations End in Deadlock
This Day, 20 August 2013
The protracted negotiations between the federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the ongoing industrial action by the latter has again reached… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Strike - Again, FG, ASUU Refuse to Shift Ground
Leadership, 20 August 2013
Again negotiations between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday was deadlocked following refusal by the union to shift its ground,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
NANS Declares State of Emergency On Education
Leadership, 19 August 2013
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has declared a state of emergency on the education sector, saying the present deterioration in the sector is worrisome and calls… Read more »
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Nigeria:
FG Approves N400 Billion for Universities
This Day, 19 August 2013
As part of efforts to transform the nation's universities to meet the international standard, the federal government has earmarked the sum of N400 billion to be expended on… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Youths Give FG 7 Days to Resolve Dispute With ASUU
Daily Trust, 19 August 2013
The federal government has been given a seven-day ultimatum to resolve the impasse with striking universities lecturers or face the wrath of Nigerian youth. Read more »
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Nigeria:
ASUU's Demands Will Ensure Quality Graduates - Don
Vanguard, 16 August 2013
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will sustain its ongoing strike until the Federal Government gets the money to meet its demands, an ex-officio member has said. Read more »