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Alausa: Tinubu Has Delivered On Education Promises, No ASUU Strike

NewsDeskNgApr 24, 2026April 24, 20260

Education minister says Tinubu has avoided nationwide ASUU strikes, highlighting funding for student loans, hostels, and infrastructure upgrades. President Bola Tinubu’s 2023 campaign promise that 4-year courses will be 4-year courses has so far avoided disruption from nationwide university strikes, the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has claimed. So...

ASUU Cries Out – 84 lecturers died in 3 months over unpaid salaries

NewsDeskNgOct 7, 2024October 7, 20240

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has revealed that 84 of its members died between May and August 2024 due to economic hardship and unpaid salaries. The President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, made this disclosure on Channels Television’s socio-political programme ‘Inside Sources’ with Laolu Akande. He said,...

ASUU zonal coordinator, Prof Igbafen escapes from kidnappers’ den

NewsDeskNgSep 30, 2024September 30, 20240

The kidnapped Zonal Coordinator, Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Monday Lewis Igbafen, has escaped from his abductors barely 24-hours after the abduction. According to reports, the Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, lecturer was abducted by gunmen on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at a10:00 pm...

ASUU strike looms as lecturers give FG fresh 14-day ultimatum

NewsDeskNgSep 25, 2024September 25, 20240

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has handed the Federal Government a fresh 14-day ultimatum, to resolve pending issues. ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this clear in a statement on Wednesday. Osodeke said they were frustrated with the government’s lack of commitment and delay tactics. Hence, it has given...

ASUU issues 2 weeks ultimatum to Nigerian Govt over 2009 agreement

NewsDeskNgJun 26, 2024June 26, 20240

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Uyo branch, has issued a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to honour the 2009 renegotiated agreement it had with the union or risk industrial action. In a public sensitization protest on Wednesday at the University of Uyo town campus, the...

Fulfil your part of agreements, memoranda – ASUU tells Nigerian Govt

NewsDeskNgMay 24, 2024May 24, 20240

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Kano zone, has called on the Federal Government to address all the outstanding issues in the agreements and memoranda it signed with the union to ensure industrial harmony in Nigeria. The Zonal Coordinator, Abdulqadir Muhammad, made this call during a news briefing at...

NEC meeting: ASUU shelves drastic action on withheld salaries

NewsDeskNgDec 6, 2022December 6, 20220

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday opted to continue their nationwide protest, instead of embarking on another round of industrial action over their eight-months’ salaries being withheld by the Federal Government. The decision was arrived at after a lengthy National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in...

Smartphone Separation Anxiety: Scientists Explain Why You Feel Bad

NewsDeskNgJul 8, 2017August 24, 20220

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary...