Tag: strike
ASUU-LASU debunks rift within lecturers
Some lecturers at the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo on Friday defied the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic…
Rivers Police Boss Decries Overcrowded Police Cells
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Tunde Ogunshakin, has raised alarm over overcrowded police cells because of…
LASU Crisis: Assemblyman Urges Understanding
Eromosele Ebhomele The Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Technology of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Wahab…
ASUP, Senators meeting postponed
Damilare Okunola The proposed meeting between members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP and the Senate Committee on…
LASU: Senior Staff vows to continue strike
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo Chapter, on Tuesday vowed to continue its…
ASUP, Senators Meet Over 8-Month Strike
Damilare Okunola There are strong indications that the eight-month old industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP,…
ASUU Elders Move To End LASU Strike
Authorities of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, said on Thursday that discussion was ongoing with the elders of the…
Why We Will Not Back Out —OAU Students
Akintola Lukmon Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife Osun State, have made a strong declaration of no retreat no…
UNIABUJA Students Blame Lecturers For School’s Closure
Harrison Iyoha Students of the University of Abuja, UNIABUJA, Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital, have blamed the institution’s lecturers for the…
Time To End ASUP Strike
Almost one year after the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, went on strike to press home their demands for…
Students Appeal To FG On ASUP Demands
The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) on Tuesday appealed to the Federal Government to attend to the demands of…
Fashola: LASU Students Not Against Hike In School Fees
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says students of the Lagos State Univeristy, LASU, were not against the…
Striking LASU Lecturers Face Sack
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Education, Otunba Fatai Olukoga, has said that striking…
LASU Strike Cripples Academic Activities
The strike by the Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU) Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo Chapter, on Tuesday paralysed activities…
LASU Crisis: Govt, Lecturers Maintain Hardline
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has warned striking lecturers of the Lagos State University, LASU, that they cannot stampede…
Fashola Calls Striking LASU Lecturers For Dialogue
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has appealed to striking lecturers of the Lagos State University, LASU, to…
Lagos Assembly To Resolve LASU Crisis
Eromosele Ebhomele The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria, will resolve all lingering crises facing the state-owned university, LASU,…
ASUU-LASU Begins Strike
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Lagos State University Chapter, ASUU-LASU, has begun an indefinite strike action. The…
27 Days To FIFA World Cup: Protests, Strikes Rock Brazil
Brazil faced a test of its security preparations for the World Cup on Thursday as demonstrators aghast at the cost…
Strike paralyses flights in Germany
Air passengers in Germany faced delays, disruption and hundreds of flight cancellations across the country Thursday as ground staff, baggage…
UPTH Doctors Begin Strike Over Unpaid Wages
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Resident doctors at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, southsouth Nigeria, have begun an indefinite…
Doctors in Edo state on strike over pay dispute
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Doctors in Edo state have heeded the call of their association to begin an indefinite strike. The strike…
Port workers threaten to embark on strike
The Senior Staff Association of Communications, Transport and Corporation (SSACTAC) of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Wednesday threatened the…
Zamfara Sacks 400 Nurses, Midwives Over Strike
The government of the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara has sacked over 400 nurses and midwives, who went on strike…
Lingering ASUU Crisis
By Fola Lawal It is now five good months that the crisis between ASUU and the Federal Government has refused…
UNIJOS Will Reopen For Studies If ASUU Gives Orders
Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), UNIJOS, chapter said on Tuesday that classes would only resume in the institution…
FG Bows To ASUU, N200b Paid Into CBN
Barely twenty four hours to the expiration of the 4 December ultimatum Federal Government gave members of the Academic Staff…
ASUU Alleges Bribe Of Members
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the federal government of taking money round campuses to influence some…
Wike’s Threat To Close Down Universities
The current crisis plaguing university education in the country has taken a turn for the worse with the Minister of…
Strike: UCH Ejects Patients From Wards
The on-going strike of resident doctors has started to take its toll on the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, as…