UPDATE: Ekiti university lecturers call off three-month-old strike

Current report as the Ekiti State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday called of its three-month-old strike.
Members of the union in the university embarked on the strike since January over unresolved staff welfare issues and unpaid salaries.

At a marathon ASUU meeting held on Thursday, 53 per cent of members voted for strike call-off, if management could pay at least one month salary and one month deduction.
However, 43 per cent voted for the continuation of the strike.
The ASUU decision came as management of the institution also announced plans to pay one month salary and one month deduction, while negotiation continues on other aspects of the

ASUU Strike: Update from Presidency as FG Might Not Be Able To Meet Lecturers Demands

It is gathered that the office of the presidency has described the strike action embarked upon by ASUU is totally unnecessary.

This was disclosed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in an interview on Channels Television’s programme, Sunrise Daily yesterday..

According to him, the amount of money being demanded by the union was unrealizable.

He mentioned that the leaders of ASUU were aware of the fact that the

Today Lecture Free Day - UNIZIK Declares

The latest update as Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK  has declared today Monday 12th June 2017 lecture free day.

Information revealed that the management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka has declared today Monday, 12th June, 2017 as

UNIABUJA Lecturers Drag Instituton to Court Over the Appointment of New VC

Lecturers of the University of Abuja have dragged the Governing Council of the university to court over the appointment of the new VC.

According to the lecturers the Candidate appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of the institution happens to be the third best among the candidates that were considered as professor Umar Danbatta scored 87%. Professor AbdulRaheem Adebayo Lawal scored 73% while the appointed VC, Prof Michale Adikwu scored 64%.

Dr Raji Rasheed, Dr Muktar Muhammad and Dr Nkoli Ifenyi remarked that the appointment of professor Adikwu, a professor of pharmacy from University if Nigeria Nsukka didn’t only ignore merit, but the newly appointed VC also happens to be professor of Pharmacy a course which is not currently offered by the institution.

OAU Students Lament Death Of Lecturer, Colleague

Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Monday lamented the death of one of their lecturers in the Philosophy Department, Moses Oke, and another student in Foreign Languages, Titilayo Orogbemi.

Oke, an Associate Professor of Philosophy, died last Wednesday in an auto crash along the Ife-Ibadan Expressway.

It was learnt that he was heading for the University of Ibadan to supervise a Ph.D examination when he had the accident.

Also, Orogbemi died last Thursday in Akure, Ondo State capital.

Orogbemi had called her friends two days before her death to inform them that she was sick, but did not say the nature of the sickness.

A professor of Nuclear Physics in OAU, James Alomo, has been declared missing and

Lecturers Set To Monitor Strike-End Agreement

As students trooped back to class following the end of the six-month academic strike at public universities in Nigeria, lecturers put monitoring and implementation committees in place to ensure the disbursement and judicious use of special intervention funds aimed at gradually erasing infrastructural decay on campuses.

They are also investigating ways to best implement other clauses in the strike-busting agreement reached between Nigeria’s federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, or ASUU, on 12 December 2013.

There are indications that university authorities are willing to cooperate and abide by guidelines on ways the agreement could improve living and teaching conditions on campuses.

While students are eager to resume studies, academics have two main objectives on their minds – to resume teaching, and to keep an eagle eye on implementation of the memorandum of

Internal Crises Loom As Lectures Begin In Varsities - Charles Abah

The Academic Staff Union of Universities’ strike has ended but other unresolved issues may frustrate proper resumption of academic activities in some of the nation’s public universities.

The human and vehicular traffic at the University of Lagos main gate on Sunday and Monday points to one fact: life is returning to the ivory tower after a long spell of inactivity. There was also verve at the institution’s hostels, classrooms and business centres. In fact, some departments in the university started lectures on Monday.

As it was at UNILAG, so it was also at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, University of Ibadan, Lagos State University, Ojo and the Niger Delta University, Amassoma, Bayelsa State, among other public universities in the country. Life is gradually coming back to these institutions after the over five months of industrial action embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

The lecturers embarked on the strike on July 1, 2013, to protest against the non-implementation of an agreement they reached with the Federal Government in 2009. The action, suspended on December 17, lasted for 169 days.

But many of the universities too did not immediately resume for classes after the suspension of the strike because of the closeness of the Christmas and New Year festivities. Perhaps, this explains the joyous mood and celebrations on campuses in the last few days, particularly among the

We Are Prepared To Make Sacrifices – Lecturers

As life returns to many universities after the New Year break, some lecturers have pledged to put in extra efforts to make up for the time lost during the recent protracted strike.

Life returned to many of the nation’s public universities on Monday.

Besides, resumption of normal academic work, business activities also picked up in many of the institutions.

Lecturers in public universities embarked on an indefinite strike under the aegis of ASUU on July 1, 2013.

The strike suspended on December 17, lasted for 169 days.

The University of Lagos-ASUU Chairman, Dr. Oghenekaro Ogbinaka, promised that members of the union would make sacrifices to make up for lost time. He spoke to News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.

Ogbinaka said the union was satisfied with steps the government recently took to ensure that the country’s university system was on the same pedestal with those of many other countries.

He said UNILAG lecturers would ensure that areas that suffered during the strike were covered qualitatively.

He urged students to work hard to make up for

ESUT Lecturers Shun Classrooms As Students Return

Students of the Enugu State University of Technology started returning for lectures on Monday, four days after the official resumption date of January 2.

Our correspondent, however, observed that the commencement of lectures in most faculties were skeletal, as most of the lecturers were not seen within the school premises.

More so, some students wondered if the internal wrangling between the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Cyprian Onyeji, and members of the local chapter of Academic Staff Union of Universities wouldn’t affect academic activities.

The vice chancellor and ESUT-ASUU had in December 2013 clashed over the appointment of deans of faculties in the institution and non-payment of salary arrears.

But the institution’s management dismissed such, saying there was no more wrangling between the union and Onyeji.

“The university was opened shortly before the yuletide, just after the

Bleak Xmas For Varsity Lecturers…As FG Fails To Pay Salaries

LECTURERS in the nation’s public universities may face bleak Christmas and New Year celebrations, as they did not receive their salaries in the last five months.

The teachers only last Tuesday ended their 169-day strike.

They embarked on the strike on July 1 to demand the implementation of an agreement their umbrella body, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, reached with the Federal Government in 2009.

The ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, who announced the suspension of the strike last Tuesday, said the union had accepted the resolutions it signed with the government on December 11.

The resolutions include immediate commencement of the revitalisation processes as contained in a letter with reference number FME/PS/398/C.1/Vol i.1/110, dated December 12, 2013, entitled, “Opening of Dedicated Account for Revitalisation of Nigerian Universities.”

But barely one week after the strike ended and 24 hours to Christmas, findings by our correspondents showed that the teachers had yet to collect their salaries.

A lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, noted that they did not receive their August, September, October, November and

Lecturers Urge Amosun To Return College To Ijebu-Ode

Lecturers of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State have called on Governor Ibikunle Amosu to return the institution to its former site at Ijagun in Ijebu-Ode.

This, they said, would help “restore the lost glory of the college.”

TASCE was in 2008 relocated from Ijebu Ode to Omu-Ijebu.

The lecturers under the aegis Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union said the relocation, among other things, had impacted negatively on the fortunes of the school.

They noted, for instance, that the student population had reduced drastically just as the environment had yet to be conducive for learning.

Alleging that the relocation was in bad faith, they urged the governor to revisit the decision.

In a statement by the Chairman and

UNIJOS SUG Ask Lecturers To Disregard Ministe’s Sack Threat

President of the Students’ Union Government
(SUG) at the University of Jos, Ajik Magaji, yesterday appealed to striking lecturers to disregard threats of mass sack attributed to the supervising Minister of Education, Nyesome Wike, and call off its five months strike in the interest of parents and students.

Magaji in an interview with newsmen in Jos
described the minister’s threat as unnecessary, saying it was capable of escalating the issue but appealed to lecturers to have faith in the agreement reached with the president and end the strike.

“We understand that at the end of the meeting between the leadership of ASUU and the president, there was an agreement between both parties.

Having come this far, we wonder why the supervising minister of education would come out threatening the striking lecturers with mass sack if the strike is not called off. We believe it is time we all come together once again as major stakeholders in the affairs of the education sector to chart a new course for advancing the sector and improving the standard of our institutions’ he said.

He appealed to