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ASUU Strike Protest: Market Women Wants Lecturers To Call Off Strike [Photo]
Protesting traders, under the aegis of National Market Women Association, Monday, stormed the National Assembly, demanding that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, call off its more than three months old strike. The protesters, who had been at the…
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Asari Dokubo Founds New University Named King Amachree African University (KAAU)
The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Muhajid Asari-Dokubo has joined the swelling rank of private university proprietors with his establishment of a university in the neighbouring Republic of Benin. Mr. Asari-Dokubo, who already owns a soccer…
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ASUU Members Device Strategies to Survive FG’s ‘No Work No Pay’ Policy
We informed you when FG invoked the ‘No Work No Pay’ Policy against the striking lecturers (ASUU) and the reply from ASUU that the ‘No Work No Pay’ policy would not deter them from continuing with the strike. They have…
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ASUU Strike: Don’t Force Nigerian Youths To Revolt – Bishop Warns FG
The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Rt. Rev. Godfrey Onah, at the weekend,warned politicians to retrace their steps, as it would not be possible to quench the anger of Nigerian youth who may soon run out of patience over the…
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ASUU Strike: Union Leaders Allege Threat To Life
The latest news update on ASUU Strike currently embarked upon by Universities lecturers in the country is that ASUU memebers, especially the leaders are now receiving death threats over their roles in the ongoing strike. Full Details: Leaders of the…
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Student Group Gives Federal Govt One Month To End ASUU Strike
The Coalition of Students’ Activists (COSA) has given the Federal Government a month’s ultimatum to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as laid out in its 2009 agreement with the union. The students urged labour…
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ASUU Strike: Stakeholders Divided Over NUT Solidarity Strike
Education stakeholders are divided on the decision taken by the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, to commence a solidarity strike in support of striking university lecturers. While those in support of the solidarity strike are of the view that it…
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ASUU Strike: Lecturers Vow To Continue Strike As FG Stops Salaries
The latest on ASUU Strike is that ASUU has vowed to continue the strike they embarked upon in July even as the Federal Government invokes the “No work, no pay” policy. We informed you when we got information that Federal…
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ASUU Strike: Electricity Workers Threaten Nationwide Blackout In Solidarity
The latest update on ASUU Strike is that the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has threatened to go on a solidarity strike with ASUU. They have issues the Federal Government a 7-day ultimatum to resolve the ongoing ASUU Strike…
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Enugu Sacks 138 School Principals Over Age Falsification
Enugu State Government has sacked 138 School Principals over age falsification – One hundred and thirty-eight Chief Supervising Principals, CSPs, recently appointed by Enugu State Government for various schools in the 17 local government areas of the state have been…
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ASUU Strike Not Politically Motivated, NLC Tells Jonathan
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has made it clear to President Goodluck Jonathan that the ongoing ASUU Strike is not politically motivated. This is in reaction to the claim by the president that the strike was a political action against his…
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ASUU Strike Will End Soon – President Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said that because of the importance his administration attached to the medical and educational sectors, he was determined to do all within his powers to resolve all issues that currently lead to labour disputes and…
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