Barring a last-minute change of plans, President Bola Tinubu will dissolve the Governing Council of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, popularly known as UNIZIK, over the controversial appointment of Bernard Odoh as the new vice-chancellor of the university, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively report. Mr Odoh, a professor, emerged as the seventh substantive vice-chancellor of the … Read more
The Nigerian government on Tuesday inaugurated another committee to renegotiate the contentious 2009 agreement between it and workers’ unions in the public universities. The committee was inaugurated by the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, a professor, in Abuja. The event was witnessed by the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, and the Acting … Read more
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has appealed to the National Peace Committee to wade into the lingering issues between it and the Nigerian government to avert the impending strike planned to commence in October. The Lagos Zone of the union made the appeal on Sunday in a statement signed by the Coordinator, Adelaja … Read more
A committee set up by Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, will meet on Wednesday with the representatives of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the issues fuelling the union’s threat of another strike. The planned meeting is part of the government’s efforts to avert lecturers’ strike in public universities. ASUU Vice President, … Read more
The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, on Wednesday, met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union (ASUU) to avert another round of strike the union recently threatened to embark on. The minister said he has set up a sub-committee to look into the demands of the ASUU and find a lasting solution to the … Read more
Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Tahir Maman, a professor, will on Thursday inaugurate the newly appointed members of the governing council of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. The Acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) disclosed this in a letter addressed to heads of the federal government-owned institutions on Friday. The acting spokesperson … Read more
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed frustration with the Nigerian government over unresolved issues, which it claimed had at different times in the past led to industrial actions. The union accused President Bola Tinubu of ignoring issues affecting the nation’s university system. Speaking at a press conference held at Olabisi Onabanjo University, … Read more
A lecturer at the Abia State University, Uturu, has finally married a female student he proposed to in a classroom during the last Valentine’s Day. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the lecturer stunned many students on 14 February when he proposed to his fiancée, identified as Novella Grace, in her classroom. The lecturer, Wisdom Anucha, could … Read more
The Congress of University Academics (CONUA) has asked the Nigerian government to pay its members the remaining part of their withheld salaries. The academic union, a breakaway from the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), asked the government to stop lumping up its members’ issues with those of ASUU members, saying its members had consistently … Read more
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declined to be part of the management of the student loan scheme introduced by the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Ahead of the rollout of the scheme scheduled to commence on Monday, 26 February, the 11-member special committee chaired by Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, … Read more
