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ASUU lauds Uba Sani over land allocation

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 Aminu Imam

The Kaduna State University branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has expressed gratitude to Governor Uba Sani for approving land for its Academia Mass Housing Estate Project. A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Ibraheem Musa yesterday, quoted ASUU, in a letter dated January 23, 2025, that the project will ‘’enhance staff welfare and provide civil servants with an opportunity to own homes through a rent-to-own/mortgage financing scheme’’. The letter which was signed by the president of KASU-ASUU Multi-purpose Cooperative Society Limited, Professor…

“Reject FG’s plan to abolish TETFund” – ASUU urges students

January 12, 2025January 12, 2025 Aminu Imam

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Owerri zone, has called on Nigerians, particularly vulnerable students, to voice out against the Federal Government’s proposed policy to abolish the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) across public institutions in the country. The call, which was made by the Owerri zonal coordinator of ASUU, Prof Dennis Aribodor, on behalf of the zone during a press conference held in Awka, alleged that the proposed policy is a plot to kill public tertiary education in favour of private schools largely owned by political leaders. Prof.…

FG, ASUU�set to meet,�as workers�protest today, Tuesday

July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 Aminu Imam

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has said it will be meeting with the Federal Government on July 25, 2024 over its unmet demands. This was as non-academic staff of universities declared on Sunday that they were set for a one-day protest today, (Tuesday), on campuses over their withheld four-month salaries. The one-day protest would be a prelude to a nationwide protest planned for July 18. ASUU National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, who disclosed this in a phone interview with our correspondent at the weekend. said July 25 was…

ASUU threatens fresh�nationwide strike, issues 3 weeks ultimatum�to FG

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 Aminu Imam

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has issued a three-weeks ultimatum to Federal Government to respond to its demands, to avoid industrial action. ?Chairperson ASUU Federal University Dutse, FUD, Branch in Jigawa State, Comrade Salim Ahmed gave the warning at an emergency press conference held at FUD, ASUU Secretariat in Dutse. According to him, �the Members of the Expanded Executive Officers of the ASUU Federal University Dutse met today, Wednesday, 19th June 2024, to consider and take a look at the patriotic engagements of the Union with the Federal…

Tinubu orders review of Governing Board days after ASUU�s rejection

May 24, 2024May 24, 2024 Aminu Imam

President Bola Tinubu has directed a total and comprehensive review of the recently announced Governing Boards of tertiary institutions in Nigeria before the inauguration and retreat being planned for the nominees. Recall that the Ministry of Education had on Saturday released a list of Governing Councils for 111 federal tertiary institutions in the country. In a statement issued yesterday, Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Tinubu said the review is necessary because of the public reaction trailing the constitution of the Boards by the Ministry…

Nationwide strike imminent � ASUU

May 22, 2024May 22, 2024 Aminu Imam

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it would declare a nationwide strike anytime soon following the federal government�s refusal to meet its demands despite consistent appeals. Addressing reporters yestetday, during a news conference at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the coordinator of the Lagos zone of the union, Prof. Adelaja Odukoya, said the union was fast losing patience over the government�s �insensitivity� to the plight of its members and that of the public universities. The conference was held at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka, with all…

??ASUU UniAbuja beguns indefinite strike

May 3, 2024May 3, 2024 Aminu Imam

The University of Abuja branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has begun an indefinite strike to draw attention to developments bordering the union. The union announced its decision to embark on the strike yesterday, at the end of its congress, held at the permanent site of the institution. Members of the UniAbuja ASUU have been at loggerheads with the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na�allah and the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman over the processes for the appointment of a new VC. An advertorial that surfaced in…

Cotonou Degree: Don’t be sad, they just helping us

January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Professor Abdulmalek Amoka. I was reflecting on this Cotonou 6-week to 1-year degree program and I began to wonder why we are making so much noise about it. The good thing about the degree is that you need not travel there or write any examination. You just register and it will be couriered to you. Nigerians said degrees are useless and that “who e help”. They said we should go and learn welding and carpentry instead of going for a degree (skills rather than a degree).� Now, we are…

Cotonou Degree Saga: The truth we shy away from

January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Hashim Muhammad Suleiman In all this Cotonou degree saga, like all crises, truth is the first casualty.� We are all up in the furore of few days degree certificates from Nigerian neigbours. Yet, we’ve all decided to shy away from the one and only truth that made those degree mills a reality. Successive governments in Nigeria have failed to fund university education in Nigeria. If we are true to our pains, then we should all address the genesis of the problem: failure of governments in Nigeria to strengthen our…

New-Liberalism and Cotonou Degree Alternative

January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Dr Kabiru Danladi Lawanti The whole Cotonou degree is criminal and all those involved need to be fished out and punished. Some people might see us as harsh or maybe insensitive for saying this.� There are things we cannot say in public, but one needs not to be a prophet of doom to predict that Nigeria cannot withstand this onslaught and will eventually crash. Our desperate quest for certification through whatever means led us to this situation. Parents are desperate to have their kids in the university, some even…