The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said the Federal Government, and not its members, are responsible for the union’s prolonged strike which began in February this year.
It, therefore, called on Nigerians to ask the government when it will sign the agreement reached at the just concluded renegotiation meeting.
Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had on Monday told striking lecturers to consider the future generation and resume work, saying “enough is enough for keeping students at home.”
However, ASUU’s National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview with …
Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na-Allah, who is the Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, has reiterated that the institution has gone tough on lecturers sexually harassing students, as two professors were handed sack letters for the offence.
Na’Allah on Monday in New York that the university had introduced a policy on sex abuse on campus, which had been published.
Na-Allah, who was on a two–day visit to the U.S., to meet with the University of Abuja Alumni Association, USA chapter, to solicit support for the institution, said, “female students needed to be protected.”
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Lecturers under the aegis of Congress of University Academics (CONUA) have informed the Federal Government of their readiness to resume academic activities.
The lecturers expressed their willingness to resume in a press statement released on Wednesday after CONUA’s National Executive Council meeting in Abuja.
In the statement, the lecturers urged FG to reopen universities as soon as possible.
…The statement said, “The meeting called on the government to reopen universities as soon as possible as CONUA members are ready to resume work.
“It however added that everything necessary in terms of
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has blamed the poor attention students get from lecturers to the poor learning environment across universities.
Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, National President of the association, made this known when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Forum in Abuja on Sunday.
Ogunyemi said that the learning environment in the 1980s and 1990s was quite different from what was currently obtained, stressing that the environment in most universities was no longer conducive for effective learning.
“First, I do not agree with you that they do not pay attention to their students, but, again,
Two lecturers have been kidnapped by gunmen in Mahuta community of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The two lecturers whose names were given as Dr. Adamu Chinoko and Dr. Umar Chinoko are said to be biological brothers, teaching at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria and Kaduna Polytechnic, respectively.
It was learnt that Adamu was abducted on Thursday night and the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N2 million and a new motorcycle.
Umar who was said to have gone to deliver the ransom on Sunday was also abducted by the bandits after collecting the ransom .
The two …
The president’s terse threat of full sanctions on the offenders, though belated, has brought an official stamp of disavowal of the heinous acts, which have seized the nation by the jugular in recent times. Also,
The Akwa Ibom State University yesterday said it had terminated the appointments of eight lecturers for alleged involvement in sexual harassment and extortion.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Eno Ibanga, said this while briefing journalists on the activities lined up for the 4th and 5th combined convocation at the institution’s main campus in the Mkpat Enin Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.
He said however that some of the cases were in court, adding that 10 students involved in cultism were also caught by the management of the institution.
Ibanga alleged that the affected students were caught with …
Lecturers and the management of Ondo State-owned Polytechnic have been at loggerheads over the week. Alleging high handedness, corruption and acts contrary to laid down rules, lecturers under the umbrella of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) at the weekend asked Ondo State Government to remove the Chairman of Governing Council of the state-owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic in Owo (RUGIPO), Mr. Banji Alabi.
RUGIPO ASUP Chairman, Mr. Oluwadare Ijawoye, yesterday said the call became necessary to save the institution from total collapse, adding that the institution was already on life support.
Ijawoye, who was supported by other ASUP executives …
Jega, who spoke as chairman of the 15th yearly conference of the Fulbright Alumni Association of
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