The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, has called for the unionisation of academic staff in private universities across the country, urging the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to initiate conversations that would bring lecturers in privately owned institutions under the same union umbrella. Ajaero made the call on Sunday …
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has dismissed the Federal Government’s last-minute appeal to suspend its proposed warning strike, describing it as “too little, too late”. Speaking on Channels Television’s breakfast show, ‘The Morning Brief’, on Thursday, ASUU President Dr Chris Piwuna criticised the government’s slow response to the union’s long-standing demands, saying officials …
