Following the proposed reform in the teaching profession that is being proposed by the Buhari administration, the Federal Government has vowed to only henceforth engage the first class and second class upper graduates to teach. The government said teachers without requisite qualifications would not be considered for teaching jobs.
The minister of labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has expressed optimism that the prolonged strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities will be resolved by next week when the Federal Government team meets the union leaders again. The minister however said the Nigerian government will consider “options” if ASUU fails to resolve its issues by then and continues strike. Ngige complained that the union was not considering the challenges their demands would create. The minister said even if countries go to war, they eventually meet at the negotiation table. He said “There are so many options left. We have the labour laws and I have options left to me in the labour laws. I have other channels.”
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has concluded plans to embark on a nationwide mass protest to demand the immediate reopening of all universities across the country. This is part of resolutions reached in a communiqué issued on Wednesday in Enugu after NANS Students' Leaders Emergency Virtual Meeting held on November 9. The students' leaders lamented that the continued strike was an organized crime against students' career and educational pursuits. It said that NANS with no hesitation declares 14-day Ultimatum for both parties (ASUU and FG) to resolve their impasse for campuses to re-open or risk Mass Protest tagged #EndASUUStrike which will have an economic shut down as the major target.
The West African Examinations Council, on Monday, announced the postponement of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for private candidates in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement issued by the Head of Public Affairs, WAEC Nigeria, Mr Demianus Ojijeogu. According to Ojijeogu the examination would now commence on Monday, November 30, 2020.
The Academic Staff Union of the Nigerian universities (ASUU) has today claimed that the Federal Government is playing a deception and manipulation game with the university industrial action. The claim was made today by the ASUU President, Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi while speaking with Channel Television programme “Sunrise Daily.
The Federal Government has on Thursday announced the reopening of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camps across the country with effect from November 10, 2020. In a statement issued by the Crops' Director, Press and Public Relations, Adenike Adeyemi during the Batch ‘B’ Pre-Orientation Workshop in Jos; with the theme: ‘Evolving a dynamic operational strategy in the management of camps in the context of COVID-19’. Adeyemi said the NYSC is committed to enforcing full compliance of all COVID-19 guidelines as approved by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) across its Orientation Camps nationwide.
