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May 11, (THEWILL) - The Minister for Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, would on Thursday, host a meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), as well as all other registered Trade Unions in...

May 10, (THEWILL) - Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday said that the Senate would intervene in the lingering dispute between the Federal Government and ASUU by bringing back the two parties to the negotiation table. Lawan made the promise to...

May 09, (THEWILL) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has further extended  its ongoing strike by 12 weeks. The decision was taken at an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) held at ASUU Secretariat in Abuja. The emergency meeting, which...

May 05, (THEWILL) - A University lecturer, Dr Clement Obadimu, has blamed the Federal Government's inability to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on misplaced priorities. Obadimu, a lecturer offering voluntary services at the Institute...

May 04, (THEWILL) - Students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), in their numbers on Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest at the Ugbowo campus gate on Benin-Lagos expressway to protest the ongoing strike action of the Academic Staff Union...

April 27, (THEWILL) - Nigeria's Minister of Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, on Wednesday, purchased the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC’s) nomination and declaration of interest forms for the 2023 presidential election. Nwajiuba obtained both forms after a group, Project Nigeria, reportedly pooled...

April 27, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government has resolved to stop the salaries of protesting universities lecturers over the ongoing strike of its Academic body, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Some members of the union confirmed the “no...

April 17, (THEWILL) – A Non-governmental Organisation, Imo State University Alumni Association, IMSUAA, on Saturday, called on the Federal Government to show honour and integrity by honouring the agreements it reached with Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), concerning...

I have always had this lingering suspicion that apart from representing the deep-seated contempt that has come to define government's attitude to the welfare of public sector workers, its shoddy, often, disdainful, treatment of the Academic Staff...

Days of rage are definitely back with us as there seems to be no end to the annual ritual of the Federal Government tussle with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over unresolved differences. The students of public...