The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) University of Ilorin chapter has demanded the unconditional release and payment of their five-and-a-half-month-withheld salaries from March 2022 to August 2022. The Informant247 reports that members of the association held a peaceful protest at the University of Ilorin on Wednesday, where they declared a three-day warning strike to…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government on Sunday began payment of the withheld salaries of public university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The Informant247 gathered that Comrade Nobert Oyibo Eze, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka branch Chairman of ASUU, made the confirmation to newsmen, saying, “Yes, they have started…
Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Tuesday, lamented the shortage of Nigeria’s public universities due to the resignation of lecturers in search of greener pastures. Prof. Ayo Akinwole, the Chairman of the University of Ibadan Chapter of ASUU, while lamenting this in Ibadan, Oyo State, disclosed that public universities were in very pitiable conditions with…
Nigerian President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised that strikes by university lecturers would be a thing of the past under his administration. Tinubu, while making assuring, stated that all necessary actions would be taken to ensure that universities do not embark on strike actions again, adding his government would exhaust all avenues for dialogue…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday night, directed all zonal coordinators and chairpersons of the union to join the nationwide strike in line with the directive from the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress. According to a letter signed by ASUU’s National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said, “The Nigeria Labour Congress…
The “No Work, No Pay” order that was instituted against striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) following the commencement of their eight-month industrial action, which began on February 14, 2022, and was terminated on October 17, 2022, was on Friday, partially waived by President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Ahmed Tinubu. According to…
The chairperson of the Federal University of Technology, Minna chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Gbolahan Bolarin, has kicked against the student loan bill In an interview with Punch on Tuesday, the Professor described the law as “dead on arrival”,saying it does not represent the true situation of the country. “The problem…
Following the announcement of a nationwide strike, the Nigeria Labour Congress has written all its 43 affiliate unions to mobilise for a scheduled industrial action primed to begin on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. This is coming following the hike in the price of Premium Motor Spirit popularly known as Petrol. Some of the affiliates of…
Femi Falana (SAN), the human rights lawyer, on Wednesday, filed a lawsuit against the federal government over what he described as discriminatory, unfair and illegal treatment of members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The suit, before a Federal High Court in Abuja, joins the Minister of Labour and Employment, the Attorney-General of the…
The National Industrial Court (NIC) on Tuesday, upheld the ‘no work no pay’, implementation policy of the Federal Government against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The decision was taken by the court in a suit filed by Federal Government against the university lecturers. The Federal Government implemented the ‘no work no pay’ policy…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has cried out that the federal government has not solved most of its issues regarding the strike, including the payment of salary backlogs. This came about six months after the academic staff union called off its last industrial strike in 2022. The national president of the staff union, Emmanuel…
The federal government has told the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) not to behave like the Congress of University Academics (CONUA). This came as the federal government finalises the registration process of the breakaway faction of ASUU. The leadership of the newly emerged association on Tuesday had a closed door meeting with Chris Ngige,…
The former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi has said that lecturers of public universities in Nigeria may embark on a fresh strike in 2023. The former leader of the union made this revelation while granting a television interview. The Informant247 recalls that the last industrial action which ASUU…
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has denied committing himself to offsetting the arrears of salaries owed members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by the Federal Government. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by the Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Information, Mr Benjamin Kalu. This is…
The Federal Government on Monday revealed that the Ministry of Labour was not set up to handle only issues and crisis that have to do with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU alone. This was revealed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Kachollom Daju, in Abuja, while speaking at a one-day…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has called on Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to urgently address all outstanding issues contained in the December 2020 FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Action. In a statement signed by ASUU national president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, after a two-day National Executive Council meeting held at the University of Calabar,…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Alex-Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (AEFUNAI), Ebonyi chapter, says it will cover grounds lost to the eight-month called off in October. The union, therefore, appealed to stakeholders to prevail upon the Federal Government to “avoid engaging in any activity that could plunge the nation’s public university system into…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has reportedly received full salary for the month of November. The Federal government has reportedly the lecturers of universities full salary for this month (November). A senior member of the ASUU at the Bayero University, Kano revealed this to newsmen in Abuja, the country’s capital on Wednesday. “Some of our members have started receiving…
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Tuesday embarked on a protest to express displeasure over the ‘no work, no pay’policy of the Federal Government. It could be recalled that the federal government had said the lecturers who were on strike for eight months should be ready to forfeit their salaries in…
A university undergraduate, Usman Abubakar-Rimi, who became a food vendor during the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) industrial strike, has died. It was gathered that Abubakar-Rimi was a final year student of Medicine and Surgery Department at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS). The Informant247 recalls that Abubakar-Rimi set up a food outlet in…
