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ASUU vs FG: A solution to the university revitalization fight
By Abdelghaffar Amoka ASUU in 2008, provided pictorial documentation on the state of infrastructural decay in public universities to the Federal Government (FG). After several struggles and strikes, FG put together a Committee on the NEEDS assessment of the public universities, headed by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the then TETFund Boss. Prof Mahmood Yakubu’s committee […]
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NANS and the toothless Tiger!
By Nelson O. Fashina It is very saddening to hear in the news reports this morning that NANS is threatening to attack their Lecturers over the one month tenured warning industrial action. Maybe NANS and their leadership are delighted to find out that Chief Lecturers in Nigerian Colleges of Education and Polytechnics earn salaries […]
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The beautiful life of the Nigerian university lecturers that you do not know.
By Abdelghaffar Amoka About 2 weeks ago, a friend visited me in my office and while we were discussing, he said he will love to be a lecturer. He is currently working in a good FG establishment with a relatively OK salary. He has worked there for about 10 years. I don’t know what […]
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What many don’t know about university lecturers in Nigeria.
By Hashim Muhammad Suleiman, PhD An Assistant Lecturer with a take home N120 000 naira monthly would have to pay his PhD school fees, pay to accomplish his PhD studies, settle his family, pay to attend conference, pay to take care of his health and that of his family, pay to publish journal articles […]
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OPINION: ASUU and the Fight for us!
By Adamu Musa Kaloma It use to annoyed me whenever the news of Academic strikes looms. It makes me think ASUU are the villians and FG are the saint. I’m among majority of students that consider ASUU before as just a group of lecturers that fight for their pockets, their Earn Academic allowances and […]
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BREAKING: FG pays ASUU N52.5bn to avert the planned strike by the union
The Federal Government says N30 billion Revitalisation Fund and N22.5 billion Earned Academic Allowance have been paid to lecturers to avert the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) impending strike. Neptune Prime reports that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, made this known during an interview with THISDAY at the weekend. […]
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INSECURITY: CNG to convene mega summit on exclamation of attacks in Northern Nigeria
The Coalition of Northern Groups CNG is to organize a mega summit to mobilize critical stakeholders in the north in order to proper solutions on the ongoing excalation of bandit activities in the region. In a statement signed by the Spokesperson of the CNG Abdul’aziz Suleiman, the group said it was agitated by the […]
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FG Meets ASUU over lingering implementation of demands
The federal government is to meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) today in order to consider the progress made in the implementation of agreements reached to suspend the nine-month strike. In a statement signed by the Deputy Director Press in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr Charles Akpan, said the […]
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Troubled soul of Nigeria’s education: ASUU, FG who cares?
By Usman Abdullahi Koli Like flat tires worry a vehicle and ground it to a standstill, incessant and avoidable industrial action has crippled already the fragile Nigerian education system. When it is needed to be back on track, who then cares to fix it? Last time, I read a comment made by the Education […]
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SUSPENSION OF ASUU STRIKE: A hope or hopelessness to students
By Mahmud Yahaya Just while we were drowned in the ocean of melancholy and buried in the sands of uncertainty as a result of the 9 month old ASUU strike; there comes glad tidings: “……the strike is suspended”. This news is one that has made it to the headlines of various news medium, perhaps […]
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