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The House of Representatives is to meet with the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) and other stakeholders to find lasting solution to the lingering strike embarked by the union. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Yahaya Danzaria, the Clerk of the House of Representatives on Monday in Abuja. He said the meeting would take place on Tuesday at the National Assembly, the House of Reps wing. He said the meeting with…

No fewer than 11 state universities are not participating in the strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Our correspondents reported on Monday that academic activities were going on in universities owned by Osun, Rivers, Delta, Borno, Anambra, Kwara and Akwa Ibom states as well as the three universities owned by Lagos State. Also ahead of the National Universities Commission meeting with vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities today (Tuesday), the Federal Government…

ASUU describes FG as blackmailers, set to meet today, August 169 The ongoing rift between members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government keeps getting deeper as the former has claimed that the Federal Government is not sincere about resolving the issues that have led to the closure of tertiary institutions for almost six-month. ASUU president, Emmanuel Osodeke, during an interview on Monday, August 15, stated that instead of addressing…

The industrial action by members of the Academic Sftaff Union of Universities, ASUU, will continue as members of the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union did not consider the option of suspending the action at its meeting which ended in the early hours of Monday in Abuja. Checks by Vanguard showed that the national leadership of the union only briefed the meeting on their interactions and submissions made to the Prof. Nimi Briggs Committee…