General Updates

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated it is has not embarked on another strike or making any fresh demands. This is coming after the union disclosed via its twitter handle yesterday that it is considering embarking on another 3 months strike while replying a question from a follower. The …

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has suspended its over two-month-old strike. The national president of the union, Usman Dutse confirmed to newsmen that the the strike had been suspended. However, the union said it would not hesitate to resume the strike if the government failed to review the memorandum of action and ensure …

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has directed its members in all chapters to hold a referendum concerning the suspension of the ongoing strike in the nation’s polytechnics. The president of ASUP Mr. Usman Dutse, told newsmen last week in Lagos that the referendum would hold between last week and this week. According …

The president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Biodun Ogunyemi while officially announcing the suspension of the strike, disclosed the list of the agreements reached with the Federal Government that led to the suspension of the over three (3) months strike action. This was contained in a Memorandum …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU are expected to once again meet with the Federal Government today towards resolving the ongoing strike action. The last emergency meeting between the two parties ended in deadlock which led to the meeting being adjourned to today. In the last meeting, FG made some …

The national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday directed the members of the union to conducted a referendum on the offers made by the Federal Government in order to determine if the 3 months old strike embarked upon by the union should continue or be suspended. At the end …

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has denied receiving shortfall of teachers’ salary and promotion arrears from the Federal Government. President of ASUP, Dr Usman Dutse, who spoke with newsmen, said the union is till waiting for concrete evidence from the Federal Government showing the details of payment of the N16.4 billion shortfall …

The minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has expressed optimism that the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP will end its ongoing strike soon following the agreement reached with the union. The minister disclosed that, arrears and shortfalls in salary were being addressed ‘across board’ and that government has released …

The emergency meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities have again failed to resolve the ongoing strike action by the union. Senator Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment while addressing newsmen after a closed-door meeting with the union on Friday in Abuja said the …

The National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, has threatened to boycott and disrupt the 2019 general elections scheduled to hold in February if the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and its Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, counterpart and the Federal Government fail to reach an agreement and call off the ongoing strike. …