“We are currently working on the 2023 Appropriations Bill, which includes the sum of N170,000,000,000 to provide a level of increment in the welfare package of university lecturers. The bill also includes additional N300,000,000,000 in revitalization funds to improve the infrastructure and operations of federal universities” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 8, 2022 Rt Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker ...
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ASUU NEC And Congresses Nationwide, Meet Today; May Call-Off Strike!
“With this development, Governing Councils of affected universities are expected to call for the reopening of the schools from next week. However, students’ resumption of classes may not be immediate, as hostels and other facilities not used for about eight months would have to be put in shape” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 13, 2022 The National Executive Council, ...
Read More »ASUU Strike: Pledging Allegiance To The Academia Should Be The New Goal
“It’s ludicrous and appalling that an Institution will pay salaries, give grants, award promotions and opportunities for international learning, to her academic members of staff, and all the academics do is abandon academia for another university on the privileges, given, by the initial Institutions” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 5, 2022 In this week’s essay, our guest columnist/contributor and ...
Read More »Un-Audited Accounts: Registrar of Trade Unions Query ASUU; Risks De-Registration
“The Registrar of Trade Unions has written to them to show why we should not withdraw their certificate of registration. They have not responded to the letter. Rather, I learned that they came last Friday with bundles of papers and said they are the audited accounts” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 The saying that those who live ...
Read More »ASUU Strike: “Register Online For Courses”, AYGF Advises Nigerian Students
“He said the ASUU strike which had lasted for seven months, has crippled the education sector, especially in the areas of engineering, research and development… Students are going to be rushed through their courses, overburdened, and the entire system will be crowded with mediocrity” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Africa Youth Growth Foundation (AYGF), an NGO, has ...
Read More »ASUU Strike: “We Have Done The Best That We Can In The Circumstance” – Adamu Adamu
“The Minister said that government representatives to the negotiations are under instruction of President Muhammadu Buhari to not accept any demand that is not feasible” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 In a statement that spells resignation to fate by the federal government, it says it has done all it can to end the ongoing industrial action embarked ...
Read More »💥BREAKING: ASUU Is Crumbling As Varsities & Lecturers Desert!
Pegasus Reporters’ online sources indicated that there are uncertainties as to whether the strike should continue or not. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 30, 2022 Hours after Prof Mohammed Aliyu, the Vice-Chancellor of IBB University withdrew from membership Of ASUU, lecturers of both UNILAG, OAU and some Universities are also resigning from ASUU. Prof Mohammed Aliyu has called on ...
Read More »ASUU STRIKE: COPSUN Hits Back At ASUU’s Vituperations On Arise TV
COPSUN berated ASUU and its president for what it termed: “loquacious vituperations and obsolete, Stalinist centralised, unpopular approach to the issue of funding of tertiary education in a modern globalised world, as archaic, antiquated and impractical anywhere in the world” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 28, 2022 The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State-Owned Universities, COPSUN, has responded to the ...
Read More »Strike: Federal Government Dares ASUU With Registering CONUA
Asked if he was not burdened that the recognition of CONUA will affect the struggle by ASUU, he retorted: “If registering them will affect our demands, they will soon find out that we are all in the bad state of educational neglect together” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 24, 2022 The Federal government has referred an application from a ...
Read More »EDUCATION: Still On ASUU-FG Impasse – By Bola Bolawole
“Ogunbodede had hinted that Buhari’s two-week ultimatum would elapse without the crisis being resolved not because resolving the crisis was rocket science but because the parties involved would continue to be economical with the truth. They would act the ostrich and play the blame game instead of facing up to and speaking the truth” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JULY ...
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