News as it breaks
In a bid to find a lasting solution to the lingering crisis with university-based unions, the Federal government has inaugurated its newly constituted renegotiation committee on the 2009 Agreements with the Unions. At the event in Abuja, The Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman charged members to renegotiate realistic and…
The Nigeria Union of Teachers has condemned the Federal Government’snn decision to ban under-18 candidates from sitting for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination and the National Examination Council, even as the Academic Staff Union of Universities backed the policy, The PUNCH reports. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities said it will be meeting with the Federal Government on July 25, 2024 over its unmet demands. This was as non-academic staff of universities declared on Sunday that they were set for a one-day protest on Tuesday on campuses over their withheld four-month salaries.…
The Federal Government has yet to release the withheld salaries of university lecturers, workers, and other employees of federal polytechnics and colleges of education despite the waiver granted by the President, Bola Tinubu, checks by Sunday PUNCH have revealed. Tinubu in October approved a partial waiver of the no-work-no-pay order…
Though the Federal Government had commenced the process of paying members of CONUA the withheld salaries since they refused to join the strike, the president of the newly-registered union, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, however, appealed that all lecturers should be paid.
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