YOLA — The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Strategy, Yola, Barrister Isuwa Misali has reiterated the cardinal objective of the Ministry is to train and retrain staff for optimum productivity. Barrister Isuwa disclosed this while declaring open a two-day in-house capacity building for Administrative lower cadre staff of the ministry, Tuesday, noted that when administrative staff have the requisite knowledge of their work government documents and transactions will be safe. He stated that due...

LAGOS — Mr. Dele Ashiru, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos State (UNILAG) chapter, has stated that university education is not suited for employability. Mr. Ashiru made the claim on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily and further maintained that graduates are supposed to be employers of labour. “There is a fundamental assumption that is wrong: university education is not for employability. That one is...

ABUJA — The Nigeria Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Wednesday, expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to reach an agreement with the striking lecturers under the umbrella of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He, however, said he was surprised that the lecturers could decide to embark on industrial action when the Federal Government was addressing the issues they have raised. “ASUU, unfortunately, they have gone on strike and I am looking...

ABUJA — The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared a “comprehensive and total” strike. The strike was declared at a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Monday. He said the strike, which takes effect from Monday, February 14, 2022, would last for an initial period of four weeks. According to him, the union tried to avoid the strike but the Federal Government is unresponsive to the union’s demands....