Students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Akoko, Ondo State (AAUA), have accused their lecturers of demanding specific wraps of pounded yam with assorted soups, crates of soft drinks, bitter kola, packets of biscuits and sweets, before agreeing to supervise postgraduate students who want to defend their Ph.D thesis. The AAUA Alumni Association made the
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A meeting between the Government by led by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) fixed to hold today (Wednesday) over the ASUU strike has been postponed. The postponement of the meeting to resolve the lingering ASUU strike was announced in a message made available to newsmen on Wednesday by Charles
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The Federal Government says it has delivered on offers made to the Academic Staff Union of Universities and ASUU accepted to put an end to the ongoing strike today. This was in reaction to the claim by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, that the government had failed to
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Members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have again asked for the salary payment platform, Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information (IPPIS) to be stopped. At a press briefing in Abuja, the varsity workers disclosed that majority of them had enrolled on the platform in the interest of the
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Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has lamented the over 14 million out of school children in Nigeria, warning that millions of children without formal education poses danger to a nation. Obasanjo identified lack of formal education and stagnated development as some of the biggest problems plaguing the country. Obasanjo made this known at the weekend
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to call of its eight-month industrial action which has distrupted academic activities in the public universities. The union leadership reached the consensus during a meeting with the government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, in Abuja, on Friday. The government
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday finally agreed to call off its strike which has lasted for 8 months. The union leadership reached the consensus during a meeting with the government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Friday, Nov 27, in Abuja. The FG also
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has condemned the alleged attempt to use the military in the conduct of students’ examinations in the school by management of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT). The ASUU Coordinator in Nsukka Zone, Dr. Igbana Ajir, who bared his mind on the alleged move by the
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The Federal Government on Friday gave an additional sum of N15 billion to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), making it a cumulative sum of N65 billion for the revitalization of the university system and settlement of the controversial Earned Allowances. This was disclosed after several hours of deliberations between the Federal Government team,
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the federal government of feeding the Nigerian populace with lies over its non implementation of 2009 FG-ASUU agreement which has led to the lingering strike by the union. The Union accused the federal government of claiming to have reached an agreement with it on virtually all
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has approved Monday, November 23, as date for the reopening of Nursery and Primary Schools in the state. This was contained in a statement signed and issued on Monday by Sir Chidi Adiele on behalf of the Commissioner of Education, Prof. Kaniye Ebeku, which advised Head Teachers, Proprietors and
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2020 National Common Entrance Examination Results pegging the national cut off marks at 142. Presenting the results to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, the Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Godswill Obioma, said a total of 70,580 candidates sat for the examination nationwide, out of which
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The Federal Government has said that it might consider adopting the University General Peculiar Payroll Payment System (UGPPPS) presented by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) in order to take a definite position on the crisis in the university system. This was disclosed by the
Read moreThe Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) branch has raised the alarm over possible collapse of the institution due to underfunding under Governor of Oluwarotimi Akeredolu . According to them, the budgetary allocation to the institution the academic staff increased from 382 in the 2015/2016 academic session to 456 with
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The chairman of the federal government’s special Visitation Panel to probe the leadership crisis at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has on Thursday faulted the government’s decision to reinstate the embattled vice chancellor of the university, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. It could be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari reinstated the embattled Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos
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