The Federal Government has released the white paper report of visitation panels to 42 higher institutions. The release of the white paper report was one of the demands laid down by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) during the union’s prolonged strike last year. Parts of the visitation panel’s term of references was to review the performance of each …

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has reserved judgment for May 30 on the substantive application brought by the Federal Government, challenging the eight-month strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The presiding judge, Hon. Justice Benedict Kanyip announced the date for judgement on Thursday after the parties in the matter adopted their written addresses in the …

My people have a saying, “when you flog a child with the right hand (and it cries), you embrace him with the left (to console and comfort him)”. If you fail to do the first (when a child errs), you are an irresponsible father or parent and should you fail also in the second, you are a wicked and thoughtless …

The Congress of University Academics (CONUA) has expressed its disappointment with the Federal Government, especially the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, over the non-payment of its members’ withheld salaries “even when the government knew that the union did not call for strike action and its members were not involved in the strike action that lasted for eight months and …

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) branch of the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) will hold a protest rally today to draw the attention of Nigerians to the Federal Government’s attempt to casualise the academia. In applying the no-work-no-pay approach, the Federal Government paid university workers from 15th October to the end of that month. ASUU’s industrial action, which commenced …

When we thought the dust had settled on the eight-month-long strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), President  Muhammadu Buhari’s fumbling and wobbling administration came up with its pro-rata as opposed to half-pay nonsensical dichotomy. In this instance, what is the difference between half-salary and the pro-rata payment the ASUU members received last October? For lecturers who had …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not resume its industrial action following salary payment dispute with the Federal Government. The union will rather engage in peaceful consultations with stakeholders to resolve the logjam. In a statement at the end of ASUU’s National Executive Council meeting, which was signed by ASUU’s President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the union said it …

University lecturers in government institutions were paid for the days of the month that they were not on strike, the Federal Government has said. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called off its eight month-old industrial action on 12th October in compliance to a court order. But there had been reports that the lecturers received less than their due …

The sore – and sour – point in relations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the government of Nigeria is the funding of the public university system. ASUU considers the funding made available by the government as paltry and inadequate – and this has been so over the years; indeed, for decades and for time immemorial. Not …

After eight months’ strike, one of the longest in the country’s history, university teachers finally returned, at gunpoint, to the classrooms on Monday. It was the 16th time university teachers would be striking in 23 years. Frustrated parents and distraught students just couldn’t wait to hear that the strike had been suspended and schools reopened. It does appear, however, that …