The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has disclosed plans to fight the Federal Government due to economic challenges faced by Nigerians. Prof Nanmwa Voncir, the acting Zonal Coordinator of ASUU’s Bauchi Branch, made the declaration during a press briefing at the union’s secretariat in Jos, the capital of Plateau State. Voncir believed the current […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has announced the death of no fewer than 46 professors and lecturers across tertiary institutions in Abuja. This was revealed by the ASUU Abuja zone, citing the current spate of hardship being experienced in Nigeria as the cause of their deaths. As reported by The Punch, the academic […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has told its members throughout Nigeria to prepare for an indefinite strike action. ASUU urged its members to prepare for the industrial action over the failure of the present administration of President Bola Tinubu to honour the agreement it made with the union. The academic body also decried […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has donated food items worth N50 million to 500 women at selected Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps in Kaduna State. ASUU’s gesture was aimed at identifying with the poor and the downtrodden in line with the union’s constitution. The National President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, announced the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to address the issue of funding and autonomy in universities. ASUU’s Owerri Zonal Coordinator, Prof Ike Odimegwu, lamented that the government had withdrawn from the agreement signed with the union in 2009, which included the funding of universities, universities’ autonomy, conditions of […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it will join the Nigeria Labour Congress’ nationwide strike action as an affiliate members of the congress. Daily Report Nigeria reports that the NLC had scheduled September 6, 2023 for it’s two-day warning strike action against the federal government. The Academic body demanded ease in the fuel […]
Dipo Fasina, a former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, who was declared missing has been found. Daily Report Nigeria reports that Fasina, popularly known as ‘Jingo’ was found in Turkey. He was declared missing on Saturday, 1 July, 2023. He declared found on Sunday by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM. […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the National Universities Council’s (NUC) redesigned Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) for undergraduate courses. ASUU maintained that the curriculum was a nightmare, a threat to quality university education, and a weakening of the powers of the Nigerian university senate. In a statement signed by the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has demanded that the just-signed Students’ Loan Bill be renamed. ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke made the demand on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme. Osodeke requested that President Bola Tinubu make amendments to the bill and call it a grant for indigent students. While the law provided for […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) have opposed the recent signing of the Students’ Loan Bill by President Bola Tinubu. Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, the national president of ASUU, described the loan bill as discriminatory between the children of the rich and the poor. Osodeke explained that […]
President Bola Tinubu has been told to pay the eight months’ salary arrears of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that were withheld by the previous administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari. In 2022, ASUU embarked on an eight-month strike due to the non-implementation of their demands by the federal government. The government had […]
Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN has sued the Federal Government over its No Work, No Pay policy against members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Falana described FG’s action as discriminatory, unfair and illegal. In the suit number NICN/ABJ/152/2023 filed on May 30 with Defendants including Minister of Labour and Employment; Attorney-General […]