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The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has asked the Professor Emmanuel Osodeke-led National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to retrace its steps “as the union has derailed and is fast losing its steam and the support of students and indeed Nigerians”. In a statement on Wednesday […]
The striking Academic Staff Union of Universities will reportedly convene an emergency National Executive Council, NEC meeting on Thursday, to review recent developments, especially the positive response from the federal government to its demands. Report Gathered informed that the meeting expected to take place at its headquarters in Abuja, even as it directed its zonal […]
Foremost Islamic organisation, The Muslim Congress (TMC), has cautioned the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) against disobedience of court order. TMC advised ASUU to call off its strike as directed by the Appeal Court on Friday. The Court of Appeal in Abuja ruled that before it could grant the appeal application of […]
Following the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, A final year student of Forestry at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Abia state, Oluomachi Nwoye has given birth to a set of five babies at the Federal Medical Centre Umuahia. According to the Oluomachi’s mother, Priscilla Nwojo, the quintuplets comprising two boys and three […]
The House of Representatives led by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila met with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday. The meeting was geared towards ending the union’s seven-month-long strike. Also in attendance were the Minister of Labour, Head of Service and the Director-General of the Budget Office, among others.One bone of contention for […]
The National Industrial Court in Abuja, has struck out a suit the National Association of Nigerian Students filed to compel the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government to call off the ongoing strike action. Justice Polycarp Hamman terminated further proceedings in the matter, after it was withdrawn by factional President of NANS, […]
A final year law student of Benue State University, Soohemba Agatha Aker, has reportedly dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, the thirty-six state governors, and others before a Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged poor handling of the dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The plaintiff is asking the […]
The National Association Of Nigerian Students NANS has expressed excitement with the decision of the National Industrial Court to order the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off the lingering Strike. Speaking after the ruling of the court, the president of the association, Usman Umar, however, called on the Federal Government to fulfil its […]
The Federal Government has described the decision by the members of the National Association Of Nigerian Students to block the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway as Illegal. It is recalled that On Tuesday, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) besieged the road to protest over the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike. Reacting to […]
Students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, today blocked the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Sagamu Interchange to protest the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by public university lecturers. In a statement issued to the press on the protest ground, signed by the Coordinator, South-West Zone, and National Public Relations Officer of NANS, […]
