The Bola Tinubu administration has taken our universities and polytechnics off the IPPIS (Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System); the Councils of these institutions of higher learning are now to be responsible for their running, including the payment of salaries and other emoluments. Enforced enrollment on IPPIS was one of the sore points of the last strike embarked upon by …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Tuesday, raised the alarm that most departments and units in Nigeria’s public universities were short-staffed due to the resignation of lecturers in search of greener pastures. ASUU’s University of Ibadan chapter chairman, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, who disclosed this in Ibadan, Oyo State, said Nigeria’s public universities were in very pitiable conditions with …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) have commended the Federal Government for cancelling the deduction of 40 per cent from the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Federal universities. In separate chats with The Guardian, both unions applauded President Bola Tinubu for toeing the path of peace. The ASUU Chairman, Nasarawa State University, …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the Federal Government’s plan to automatically deduct 40 per cent from universities’ Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) will impoverish the university system. In October, the Ministry of Finance notified academic institutions across the country of its plan to automatically deduct 40 per cent from their IGR. In a statement by its National …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities have described the plan by the Federal Government to automatically deduct 40 per cent from the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of universities in the country as an attack on the university system. In a letter dated 17th October 2023, and titled ‘Implementation of 40 …

Readers of my columns will recall that I was strident in my criticism of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in their recent eight-month strike, not because the strike action was not justified but because of what I considered as their hare-brained approach to a very important issue that could make or mar not just ASUU and their students …

Reactions have trailed Monday’s signing of the Student Loan Bill into law by President Bola Tinubu. The signing of the bill was in “fulfilment of one of his campaign promises to liberalise funding of education,” a member of the Presidential Strategic Team, Mr. Dele Alake, told State House correspondents on Monday evening. The Students Loan Act becomes Tinubu’s second piece …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has insisted that Nigeria has no subsidy. At the Alex Ekweme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo in Ebonyi State yesterday, ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke wondered why Nigeria would be exporting crude oil for the past 70 years and cannot refine the product at home. During his inauguration, President Bola Tinubu announced that “subsidy …

In the early hours of Monday, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) re-elected Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke unopposed as their National President to pilot the affairs of the union for another two years. Apart from Osodeke, who is of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, the union members also re-elected as Vice President a Consultant …

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has tasked Nigerians and non-governmental bodies in the country to rise to the occasion of standing with and defending the cause of public education, saying the sector is in the state of near collapse. He spoke at the weekend while addressing his members at the 22nd …