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Seven-month strike: FG ambushes ASUU, hauls it before Industrial Arbitration Court

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may have boxed itself to a corner over the current intractable labour crisis as the Federal...

ASUU strike: FG’s negotiation team barred from signing “unimplementable” agreement — Minister

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned the Federal Government’s negotiation team with ASUU not to sign any agreement that is not feasible, so says...

Just in:  ASUU dares FG, rolls over 6-month-old strike again

Hopes of Nigerian students and parents for the re-opening of the nation’s public universities shut about six months ago were dashed on Monday...

ASUU, Inflation, Monkey Pox and Other Problems

By Reuben Abati   “Ko ko Ko.  Pon Pon, Pon. . Helloo oh” “Who be dat?” “Na me oh?” “Who be na me?...

ASUU to FG: You must return to New Draft Agreement of 2009 FGN/ASUU Renegotiation Committee

As the shutting down of the nation’s public universities enters 186th day, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stuck to its...

185-day-old strike: Again, FG, ASUU meeting ends in deadlock

The much-publicized meeting between the Federal Government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held on Tuesday has ended in...

Nigeria: More Universities Where?

by Reuben Abati I stumbled on a story in the Nigerian media which says that the National Assembly is planning to consider no...

FG’s forlorn attempt at resolving five-month-old ASUU strike forces another four-week rollover

Following Federal Government officials’ failure to resolve the lingering ASUU crisis within two weeks as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, the university teachers...

ASUU strike: NLC, ASUU, others storm National Assembly, threaten to commence national strike

The organized labour on Wednesday held a mega rally in Abuja where it threatened to resume another protest match and indefinite strike if...

Five-month ASUU strike: Nigerians jeer at Speaker Gbajabiamila for flaunting enrolment at Havard varsity

Jeering Nigerians took to the social media on Tuesday, calling out the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, who amid five-month...

ASUU-NLC nationwide protest march: Falana, others join action, slam FG’s refusal to end strike

Human rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, and other Nigerians on Tuesday in Lagos joined the nationwide protest...

CONUA slams ASUU over five-month strike, says we are not on strike

"Perennial strikes over the years had done a systematic destruction of the local and global image of university education in Nigeria"

140-day-old ASUU strike: Civil Society groups, others berate FG

For its apparent incapacity and failure to end the 140-day-old strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Federal Government has...

Prolonged ASUU strike: NLC mobilizes for national warning strike

After about five months of federal government’s inability to resolve the dispute between it and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the...

ASUU strike: FG denies introducing different payment platform for varsities, says end of strike in sight

The Federal Government has denied planning to create a different payment platform for all the trade unions in the nation’s tertiary institutions. This...

Protracted ASUU strike: Issue with unions not as simple as many think, says FG

The issues surrounding the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and three other university-based unions are not as simple...