Tag: Prof Emmanuel Osodeke

Why Nigerians Should Blame Govt, Not ASUU For Indefinite Strike – Osodeke

Abibat Babalola

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed dissatisfaction with the Nigerian Government over response its demands, and declares a “comprehensive, total and indefinite” strike. Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU President made this known in a statement issued at the end of the Union National Executive Council (NEC) emergency meeting on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the statement is entitled “ASUU strikes are to save public universities”. READ ALSO: NUPRC, NNPC’s Crude Oil Theft Figures Outrageous, Impractical – Navy Ovaries Now Begin Ageing For…

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You Won’t Resume Until Govt Meet Our Demands, ASUU To Varsity Students

Abibat Babalola

Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke says students are making sacrifices for coming generations President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has declared that the current strike by members of the union will linger and keep student at home until the Nigeria Government is ready to agree to their terms. READ ALSO: Why We proscribed ASUU, SSANU, NASU – Ekiti varsity BREAKING: ASUU Extends Strike, Shuts Varsities Till September Wike Drags Atiku, Tambuwal, PDP, INEC To Court Over Presidential Primary He added that the union’s strike is preparing…

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ASUU: Ambrose Alli Varsity Loses 10 Lecturers in 4 Months

Abibat Babalola

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ambrose Alli University chapter, Cyril Onogbosele, said the union had lost 10 of its members since it embarked on strike over unpaid salary arrears. Onogbosele disclosed this Wednesday when ASUU’s National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, led other national delegates in a solidarity protest to the Ambrose Alli University over their unpaid salaries and other sundry issues in the institution. READ ALSO: JUST IN: Boris Johnson Resigns As UK Prime Minister How I Graduated With 23 Distinctions, Female Software Developer Shares…

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Hunger Won’t Force Us To Resume, ASUU To Govt As Strike Hits 4 Months

Ganiyu Amodu

Varsity Lecturers’ union commends members for keeping faith despite the hardship imposed on their families as a result of the No-Work-No-Pay directive of the Government   The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said its members are not beggars and the stoppage of their salaries by the Nigerian government won’t force them to call off their strike. The leadership of the union also commended the members for keeping faith with the union despite the hardship imposed on their families as a result of the No-Work-No-Pay directive of the Federal Government.…

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Varsity Students To Remain At Home As ASUU Mulls Strike Extension

Abibat Babalola

  We have no choice but to roll over the strike on May 14 – ASUU president   The hope of hundreds of thousands of University students in Nigeria to return to school on May 14 has been dashed as lecturers’ union declared plans to extend the strike that has paralysed public universities in the country. Platforms Africa reports that the strike, which began on February 14, will be three months by May 14. READ ALSO: CSO calls for resolution of ASUU strike Nigerian Varsities Remain Shut Till May As…

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Nigerian Varsities Remain Shut Till May As ASUU Extends Strike For 8 Weeks

Damilola Olonade

The government-owned universities in Nigeria are to remain under lock and key till May as their lecturers’ union has extended its strike by eight more weeks. After a month warning strike,the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), elongated its ongoing strike by two months as the Nigerian Government allegedly failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-week warning strike. Professor Emmanuel Osodeke,President of the Union, made this known in a statement sent to Platforms Africa. READ ALSO: Meet Emmanuel Osodeke,…

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Strike Likely Soon Despite Govt’s N52.5bn – Nigerian Varsity Lecturers

Aliyu Aliyu

University lecturers in Nigeria under the auspuces of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have said the N30bn Revitalisation Fund and N22.5bn Earned Academic Allowance totalling N52.5bn released by the Federal Government is not enough to deal with the challenges facing the university system. Platforms  Africa reports that this was contained in a report by Sunday PUNcH. The newspaper reported the ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, to have noted in an interview that there was a possibility that the union would still go on strike, unless the government addressed its…

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