Exactly eight months after it started, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its industrial action that has shut down federal universities and many of their state counterparts. ASUU is expected to make a formal pronouncement later on Friday about the “conditional” suspension of the action. The union’s National Executive Council took the decision at the end of …

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Victor Osodeke has given hope that the eight-month old strike action by his members may soon come to an end – whether gloriously or ingloriously, I must add! The intervention of the House of Representatives, led by its speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila must have broken the ice so much so …

Sometime in May when the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) extended its three-month old strike by another three months, I weighed in on the matter, describing the move as unconscionable, considering the fact that the union was “dealing with people who are either stone deaf or genuinely unreasonable”. Of course, my appeal to both feuding parties to see reason …

Ten academic staff of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) – six of them Professors – died between 14th February and now, according to the university branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU commenced its now protracted industrial action on 14th February, demanding Federal Government’s implementation of the Memorandum of Action on funding for revitalisation of public universities, which …

The Federal Government has reversed itself on the earlier directive through the National Universities Commission that its universities should be re-opened despite the seven-month strike action by the Academic Union of University Staff (ASUU). Earlier in the day, the government – also through the NUC – had directed Vice-Chancellors, Pro-Chancellors and Governing Councils to re-open federal universities. Withdrawing his own …

As a unionist myself, it’s painful that union leaders often fail to see the banana peels right before them until they fall. Now that the Federal Government has ordered all Vice Chancellors to reopen all universities with immediate effect and proscription looms on the Academic Union of University Staff (ASUU), who wins? Even if the union is not proscribed, for …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will today file an appeal against the ruling of the National Industrial Court (NIC), which directed its members to resume work after being on strike for over seven months. Counsel for ASUU, Mr Femi Falana told The PUNCH in Abuja that the union got the certified true copy of the judgment on Thursday. …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will appeal Wednesday’s ruling of the National Industrial Court which ordered the union to suspend its seven-month-old strike. In his ruling, Justice Polycarp Hamman had observed that the strike action has had impacts on the lives of the students, and that it was obvious that the legal adviser of the Federal Ministry of Labour …

The National Industrial Court has ordered the suspension of the seven-month-old strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). This follows the granting of the motion on notice filed by the Federal Government on Wednesday. On Monday, counsel to the Federal Government, Mr James Igwe had urged the court to grant the interlocutory application because of its urgency …

Notwithstanding the mediation planned for Tuesday by the House of Representatives, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) continued its protest against the prolonged dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by threatening to shut down the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Security forces were deployed to the airport on Tuesday  to pre-empt the …