Femi Falana (SAN), a human rights lawyer, says the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will soon call off its nearly eight-month strike. This is coming a few days after the Court of Appeal in Abuja ordered the union to end the ongoing strike and resume academic duties. The court had given the order after dismissing ASUU’s application to challenge the 21 September ruling of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria which directed the suspension of...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its over seven months strike. The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NCIN) had last month directed the striking lecturers to return to the classroom. Justice Polycarp Hamman, in a ruling delivered on 21 September, restrained ASUU from continuing with the strike pending the determination of a suit filed by the federal government to query the legality of...

Femi Gbajabiamila, the speaker of the house of representatives, has said recommendations on ending the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari. He told journalists that the recommendations were reached after several engagements with members of ASUU. Gbajabiamila, said this when led a delegation of lawmakers to the presidential villa on Tuesday. The speaker said Buhari has accepted the recommendations, but there is yet to be...

The National Coordinator of the Congress of University Academics (CONUA), Dr Niyi Sunmonu, has assured us that the union will bring succour to public universities. Dr Sunmonu stated this in a statement on Tuesday shortly after the federal government presented a certificate of registration to the union. He described the registration of CONUA as ‘monumentally historic’, stressing that the members would devote themselves to the advancement of university education in Nigeria. Read the statement below:...

The Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA), a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has been officially registered as a trade union. Also registered is the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA). The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, presented a certificate of registration to the new unions on Tuesday. CONUA was established in 2018 at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, following a leadership crisis within the...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the union is ready to suspend its ongoing strike if the federal government shows a willingness to accept its minimum demands. Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU president, spoke on Thursday during a national town hall meeting on tertiary education tagged: ‘The Locked Gates of our Citadels – A National Emergency.’ The federal government recently filed a suit against the union at the national industrial court over the lingering...

Gombe state government has vowed to replicate the ‘no-work-no-pay’ policy of the federal government if lecturers at the Gombe State University (GSU) refused to resume classes as directed by the university management. Gombe State governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya stated this while answering a question during a town hall meeting titled “A Fada A Cika” organized by the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between the governor, electorates, and other inhabitants of the state....