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ASUU strike: Lecturers list their expectations ahead of Monday’s meeting with Jonathan

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on November 4, 2013 at 4:35 AM Comments comments (0)

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), are hopeful ahead of their meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday and expressed optimism that the four-month old strike, will be called off soon.

The union say they expect the meeting to be mutually beneficial, as they seek to find a lasting solution to the context of the implementation of the 2009 agreement, the 2012 MOU and the recommendations of the Needs Assessment Report. However, ASU...

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ASUU Strike 2013 Update: President Jonathan Will Re-open Universities, With or Without Agreement

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on November 4, 2013 at 4:30 AM Comments comments (0)

The ASUU strike 2013 continues, and the latest update is a confirmation that President Goodluck Jonathan will re-open the universities, with or without an agreement with the union.

A union leader told This Day Live that it has received information confirming a report by Scan News that the president will open the universities regardless of whether an agreement is reached.

The president and the union are meeting today to try to come to an agreem...

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ASUU STRIKE called off

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on November 4, 2013 at 4:20 AM Comments comments (0)

  There is high expectation that the 4 Months old ASUU strike will be history follow the readyness of our president and the senate president agreeing to meet with the agrived union members. lets wait and see the out come of todays meeting with Mr President

2 arraigned for raping 13-yr-old girl

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on November 4, 2013 at 4:20 AM Comments comments (0)

OSOGBO — Two middle aged men have been arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate’s court for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in Ikirun, headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State.

The men, Azeez kehinde, 20, Adeyanju Ismaila, 23, were alleged to have defiled and assaulted the girl simply identified as Pepeye at Igbo-Ile area of Ikirun, mid night.

The police prosecutor, Mirette Wilson, a Police Inspector told the c...

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Poison gas: Doctors battle to save pupil

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on November 4, 2013 at 4:15 AM Comments comments (0)

At least two of the 25 students of Ogba Junior Grammar School hospitalised last Thursday for inhaling poisonous fumes from a photo laboratory close to their school are said to be battling for life at the emergency ward of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja.

According to reliable hospital sources, the students — Gbolahan Lawal and another, a female — are however said to be under close watch by doctors who believe they have good chances of recovering.

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ASUU: How NLC can help

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on November 4, 2013 at 4:10 AM Comments comments (0)

THE latest round of strikes by the Academic Union of Universities (ASUU), has once again reached a dead end. After protracted negotiations, which ended with the Federal Government offering a concession that totalled N130 billion, which the union rejected insisting on full implementation of the 2009 agreement it signed, no further positive progress has been recorded towards ending the stand-off.

Rather, both sides are pitched in guerrilla warfare. Wh...

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Education crisis: Is the police victimizing unionists?

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on November 4, 2013 at 4:10 AM Comments comments (0)

Recent Police interference in peaceful protests by education unions has become a cause for concern by stakeholders in the sector. Just last weekend, protesting primary school teachers and pupils in Makurdi, Benue State, were dispersed with teargas by the state police. In the past week alone, police authorities in Bayelsa, Rivers and Cross River ordered the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, (ASUU) not to go on with their planned peaceful prote...

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latest news on ASUU strike 2013

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on October 28, 2013 at 11:50 AM Comments comments (0)
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ASUU STRIKE 2013

Posted by IMADU DESTINY OLUHEYINMI on October 28, 2013 at 2:45 AM Comments comments (0)

IT SEEMS THAT THE INDEFINATE STRIKE EMBARK ON BY THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION ON UNIVERSITY WILL NEVER BE CALLED OFF. THIS FOLLOWS THE LATEST NEWWS OF NEGLECT AND LACK OF CARE SHOWN BY THE PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF EDUCATION OF NIGERIA. RECENTLY THEY SEEMS TO BE NO DISBURSMENT OF ANY FUNDS TO SETTLE THE ONGOING AGREEMENT.


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