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Lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have received full salaries for the month of November 2022, The PUNCH can confirm. Our correspondent also gathered that the eight month arrears remained withheld by the Federal Government. A senior member of the union at the Bayero University Kano made this known in an ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities have called on the Federal Government to meet their demands and also pay its members their salary arrears. ASUU and other university union had embarked on strike at different times, demanding improved working condition and development of the ... Read more

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities may be preparing for another showdown as the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has insisted the government will not pay full salaries to lecturers despite their ongoing nationwide protest. ASUU had on Monday begun protests across the country to press home their demand for ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to embark on a one-day nationwide protest rally over the implementation by the Federal Government of a “no-work, no-pay” policy for lecturers in the country. The protest will be organised at the branch levels of the union across public university campuses nationwide and it will take ... Read more

Barely one week after ordering its members to sit at home following the payment of half salaries to members by the Federal Government, the University of Jos branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday, reversed the sit-at-home decision. The Chairman of ASUU in the University of Jos, Professor Lazarus Maigoro, disclosed ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday asked for the cooperation of Nigerians as it “continues to pursue positive resolution of this avoidable crisis within the ambit of legality without compromising the interests and welfare of Nigerian intellectuals.” The union made this known in a statement made available to our ... Read more

The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has commenced its meeting, The PUNCH reliably confirmed. The meeting started around 12:40 pm on Monday afternoon. A member of NEC made this known in an interview with our correspondent under anonymity. “The meeting just started”, the source said. The PUNCH ... Read more

The Federal Government on Saturday explained why it failed to pay full salaries to lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. In a statement, by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the government noted that members of ASUU were paid their October salary pro-rata. According to the ministry, pro-rata was ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Jos chapter on Friday ordered its members to stay at home indefinitely, pending the payment of withheld salaries by the federal government. The ASUU branch made this known in a statement made available to our correspondent and signed by the branch chairperson, Professor Lazarus ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to summon an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council following the decision of the Federal Government to pay the lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022, The PUNCH reliably gathered. Though no date has been fixed yet, our correspondent gathered that the decision to ... Read more