By Abdul Babajide The Ondo State Government has stated that it is now an offence for public school teachers to enroll their children and wards in private schools.Victor Olabimtan, the Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, in the State claimed that the development had led to the ...

By Ifreke Inyang  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to emulate former President Goodluck Jonathan in resolving the ongoing strike.Lecturers embarked on the industrial action on February 14, 2022, over the government’s inability to ...

By Francis Ezediuno Some parents in Osun State have decried the low ranking of the state in the recently released ranking for the 2021 West African Examination Council (WAEC).A 2021 poll ranked Osun State number 36 out of 37 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.A parent, Seyi ...

By Peter Dada  The Ondo State Government has approved that serving primary school teachers can henceforth reach the status of Permanent Secretaries like other civil servants.The Chairman, Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board, Mr Victor Olabimtan, disclosed this during his interactive meeting ...

By Don Silas The Kwara State University (KWASU) on Friday said the institution is founded on the vision of advancing the frontiers of knowledge for the good of society and not a quack university.The KWASU Director, University Relations, Dr Saeedat Aliyu, disclosed this in a statement in ...

By Sikiru Obarayese The Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Professor Odunayo Clement Adebooye has described the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Emmanuel Osodeke as a careless talker by saying universities that are not on strike are ‘quacks’.Professor ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has described state-owned universities as quacks.Professor Osodeke, who appeared on Arise Television on Friday morning, was reacting to the resolve of some of the state universities to call ...

By Fikayo OlowolagbaMusic producer JJC Skillz has given reason he wished the actress cum politician, Funke Akindele a happy birthday despite their separation.JJC, hours ago, caused stirs online after he posted a video of Funke while wishing her happy birthday.Speaking with TVC in a recent ...

By Amos Tauna The Parents Teachers’ Association of Nigeria has debunked the statement that it will contribute 10, 000 naira each for Nigerian students, for the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the 6 months strike.Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, the National President of the association, in ...

By Ifeanyi Nwannah The government of Zamfara State has announced that 75 secondary schools have not been reopened in the State due to insecurity.This was disclosed by the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Education, Alhaji Kabiru Attahi, during a two-day State-level meeting to domesticate ...

By Deborah Tolu-Kolawole  The President, National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Ashefon, on Thursday, described strike actions in the tertiary education sector in Nigeria as a challenge that administrations of the student body will not be able to resolve.Ashefon disclosed this during the ...

By Williams Anuku The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has suspended its nationwide strike for three months.This action follows the earlier suspension of strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of University and ...

By Seun Opejobi The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Thursday said the Federal Government could resolve the ongoing strike in one day.National President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, said the Federal Government could resolve the strike if they prioritized the demands of the ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has rejected the proposal by the National Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria to pay the union a minimum of N10,000 per parent in every academic section in an effort to end the lingering industrial action.DAILY POST recalls that ...

By Grace Edema and Daniel Ayantoye Members of the Joint Action Committee of Non-Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, University of Lagos, branch, booed and threw sachets of pure water at their leaders who addressed them during a protest on Wednesday.The PUNCH ...

By Don Silas Dachung Musa Bagos, a member of the House of Representatives, has urged the Federal Government to use part of the recently returned $23,439,724million Abacha loot to settle the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).Recall that Nigeria and the United States of America (USA) on ...

By Don Silas The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch, has told Nigerians that the ongoing strike will continue because the Federal Government is yet to call the union for discussion.The ASUU’s branch chairman, Dr Kassim Umaru, disclosed this in an interview with ...

By Gbenga Oloniniran  The Socialist Workers & Youth League has knocked the Federal Government over what it described as the failure of the government to prioritise the funding of education and causing the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to linger on.The PUNCH reports ...

By Wale Odunsi The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been accused of attempting to hold the nation and citizens to ransom.The leadership already declared that their industrial action would continue until the federal government commits to the payment of salaries from February till ...

By Grace Edema,Stephen Angbulu, Deborah Tolu-KolawoleThe Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday said it would not call off its strike until the salary arrears of its members were paid.The university lecturers also said they would not teach students to make up for the six months they had ...

By Grace Edema The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it rejected the Federal Government’s offer because it is “miserable”.ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said this in a statement on Thursday and made available to The PUNCH. The statement was titled, ‘Why ASUU rejects ...

By Ifreke Inyang The meeting between the federal government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Tuesday ended without an agreement.As a result of this, the six-month old strike embarked on by public university lecturers is set to continue.The lecturers met with ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to meet with the Prof. Nimi Briggs-led Committee on negotiation, following his latest ‘enough is enough’ comments. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osekede, said this in an interview with the News Agency of ...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA THE Federal Government has started processing the withheld salaries of some medical lecturers in various federal universities who opted out of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The development is sequel to a letter by the medical ...

A member of the Governing Council of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, LAUTECH, Mrs. Titilayomi Ahmadu, yesterday, urged multinational companies operating in Nigeria to put substantial funds into public education to develop the sector, instead of showbiz. Mrs. Ahmadu said this ...

No fewer than 701 students in Kaduna State have been prevented from writing the ongoing 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WAEC, after paying N12.61million WAEC fees. It was gathered that the students, from nine secondary schools in the state, five government and four ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said that he will not release the subvention of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, if the lecturers in the institution fail to pull out of the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike. Makinde made this ...

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has extended the registration deadline for the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). It can now be applied for until the midnight of Monday, June 20. Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani issued a statement on Monday. ...

FOLLOWING the expiration of its two-week warning strike which it had embarked on to press home its demands from the federal government, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, has directed its members to resume work on Monday, May 30, 2022.The umbrella body of lecturers of the nation’s ...

  Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH)Despite the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has announced the continuation of academic activities for the 2021/2022 academic ...

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• Says infrastructure face-lift, grants products of struggle • End strike or we shut down airports, S’West NANS, NAUS tell FGThe Ibadan Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday, in Ogbomoso, said that Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso, remained steadfast and ...

A Higher National Diploma, HND I, student of Civil Engineering Department of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Igunu Oromidayo Daniel, has died during a marathon sex with his lover, simply identified as Aramide, a National Dipolma, ND II, student of Business Administration of the institution at Apete in ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the arrest of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has buttressed its notion that IPPIS is fraud.The union said this while reacting to Idris’s ...

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has explained why the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government are yet to reach an agreement regarding the lingering industrial action.ASUU on Monday resolved to continue its ongoing ...

Former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has insisted that his two children are affected by the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).Nwajiuba said this while apologizing to Nigerians, adding that he takes responsibility for the lingering strike ...

Barring any unforeseen circumstance, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) will on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, embark on a nationwide strike action in protest against the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action reached with the Federal Government in May 2021The Zonal Coordinator ...

As the second round of the eight-week warning strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ends on Monday, the union is poised to go on an indefinite industrial action.Sources said the national leadership of the union would make public its decision on ...

SOME Nigerians, on Thursday, expressed anger over alleged plan by the wives of Vice-Chancellors across Nigerian universities to travel to Istanbul, Turkey, for a five-day leadership course while country’s universities are shut down by the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ...

By Maryam Ahmadu-Suka, KadunaFri, 06 May 2022 06:17:27 GMTThe Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has extended the ultimatum given to the federal government to address their outstanding issues by another 30 days. ...