ASUU Leader: We Won’t Stop Strike Till We Discuss Jonathan’s New Offer

After 13 hours of negotiations with the Federal Government, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) got yesterday another offer towards the resolution of the crisis that has crippled the campuses for over four months. But ASUU President Dr. Nasir Isa Fagge, did not disclose the new Federal Government’s offer, insisting that its members have the final say on the issue.

ASUU Strike May End In Days

Strong indications have emerged that the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, may end in the next one week, following a 13-hour meeting than ran from Monday afternoon into the early hours of Tuesday, between the union and the federal government.

Don’t re-introduce SAP, ASUU warns FG

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has raised the alarm over an alleged plan by the Federal Government to return the Structural Adjustment Programme “through the back door” 24 years after its introduction by the regime of the former dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (rtd) in 1989. According to ASUU, government should reject “the reintroduction of SAP through the back door”.

ASUU blames IBB for decay in education sector

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has blamed former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida for the current problems bedeviling the nation’s education sector. The union believed that the former military President presided over what it described as the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and Structural Adjustment Programme, whose policies were used to “kill public schools” in the late 1980s.

ASUU strike heats up admission in Ghanaian Universities

Ghana’s public universities are facing a boom in applications, but do not have sufficient facilities to meet growing demand that has been exacerbated by an influx of students from neighbouring countries and a double cohort leaving school this year. As a result, admission to universities is no longer based on obtaining the required grades – some qualified candidates have been turned down or made to sit additional selection tests.

Jonathan, ASUU find ways of resolving four month old strike

 President Goodluck Jonathan is currently locked in a closed-door make-or-mar meeting with striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities inside the First Lady Conference Room, Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Taraba Speaker, Haruna Tsokwa, Dies This Morning

JALINGO, TARABA STATE - Haruna Tsokwa, Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, passed away this morning at the Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo. He died from a yet-to-be disclosed illness, having been transferred to the medical facility last Thursday.