Following the lingering industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of the Nigerian Universities, ASUU, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to hand off negotiations. ASUU has consistently blamed Mr. Ngige for constituting a clog in the wheel of the progress of the negotiation towards addressing the crisis. Minister for Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu received the matching order against Mr. Ngige from Buhari to ensure that the negotiation with the academician has a headway.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it would meet with institutions and relevant agencies on Thursday, July 21, 2022, to set the 2022/2023 admissions cut-off mark, amongst others. This was disclosed in the Board’s weekly bulletin which was released on Monday, stating that the meeting would be chaired by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced that it stands with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and will embark on a nationwide protest on July 26th and 27th, 2022 in solidarity with the Union. This development was disclosed in a circular signed by the National President, Ayuba Wabba, to all NLC state chairmen.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has disclosed that the Federal Government is committed to ending the industrial action soon as talks with the Academic Staff Union of the Nigerian Universities (ASUU) resume today. The Minister has dismissed that contrary to insinuations that the Federal Government was playing lackadaisical attitude by not engaging the ASUU was not true as a series of meetings have been ongoing and they are almost near agreement with the academicians. The minister made these remarks while engaging the newsmen at the State House shortly after the meeting with Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday.

The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB) has revealed via its spokesperson, Hauwa Mohammed, in a statement on 19th June 2022 that the board had conducted a competency test for over thirty thousand (30,000) teachers in December 2021, and out of the total number, two thousand one hundred and ninety-two (2,192) primary school teachers has been relieved from their work including the National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Audu Amba for refusal to sit for the test.

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has announced that it has “extended the registration period of the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for school-based candidates to midnight of Monday 20th June 2022”. This was announced on Monday in a statement signed by NECO’s, Head of Information and Public Relations, Azeez Sani.