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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board have urged the House of Representatives Committee on Finance to grant it financial autonomy by removing it from the list of Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the annual budget of the Federal Government. This ...

The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of state universities on Tuesday said state governments would not implement any agreement between the Federal Government and the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities. The committee’s Chairman, Yusuf Ali (SAN), disclosed this to one of ...

The Prelate of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church Worldwide, David Bob-Manuel, has urged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to resolve the lingering strike with urgency. Bob-Manuel made the call on ...

The principal of Hassanat Islamic College, identified simply as Prosper, has gone into hiding after allegedly defiling seven female pupils of the school around Tanke, in the Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Prosper, ...

The Federal Government has constituted another committee to look into the recommendations of Emeritus Professor Nimi Briggs’ committee in charge of the renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement between the government and the university-based staff unions. The unions include the Academic ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has asked Nigerians to disregard the claims of the Federal Government that it had met the demands of the union. The ASUU Chairman, University of Ibadan, Prof. Akinwole Ayoola, said on Monday that the ...

…As FG Threatens Unions No fewer than 11 state universities are not participating in the strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Our correspondents reported on Monday that academic activities were going on in universities owned by Osun, ...

The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has said stakeholders in the education sector across the country are succumbing to the missions of the terrorist organisation, Boko Haram, for not resolving the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of ...

The ban on employment imposed by the Federal Government has led to a shortage of professors and other academic staff members in federal universities, investigation by Sunday PUNCH has revealed. Findings showed that some universities, which depend on professors on ...

The Federal Government has been advised to introduce the payment of tuition fees in federal universities to meet the demands of the striking lecturers and end the ongoing strike embarked on by members of the Academic Staff Union of University. ...