ASUU Threatens Fresh Strike, Charges FG To Meet Demands

JAMB Requests Autonomy, Increment Of Registration Fees

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has prayed on a House of Representatives committee to exclude it from annual budgetary allocation. Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, made the request on Wednesday when he appeared before the House of Representatives committee on finance at the interactive session on the 2023-2025 medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF). Oloyede said the board should be allowed to make an upward review of its examination fee as a “condition” for JAMB to be excluded from budgetary allocation. The committee is currently holding a public hearing on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) ahead of the 2023 budget presentation by the executive arm. “There is nowhere that the government funds this type of examination,” Oloyede said.

Education: Bulletproof Cars Won’t Save You – Reps To Governors

The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on Basic Education and Services on Tuesday warned governors in the country to prioritize basic education or be ready to face the consequences. The chairman of the committee, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, who spoke in Ilorin, Kwara state, at the conclusion of a two-day oversight visit to inspect completed and ongoing Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) projects in the state said bulletproof cars won’t save the governors. Prof. Ihonvbere advised state governments to take basic education very seriously in their own interest. Stressing that bulletproof cars, dogs and barbed wire cannot save them from the anger of uneducated, abused and marginalised children in the consequences”.
According to him, no efforts will be spared to sanction the states found to have diverted the UBEC grants.

NAAT Suspends Nationwide Strike

The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has suspended its nationwide strike which commenced on March 21, 2022, with the view of pressurizing the Federal Government (FG) to concede to some of the Association’s demands. The nationwide strike by NAAT would be suspended for three months and is coming on the heels of the suspension of the strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of University and Allied Institutions (NASU).

Students Hope Dashed As ASUU Extends Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian University, ASUU has extended its ongoing industrial action for another time. The decision to extend the strike action came after the National Executive Council of the academicians voted for the industrial to continue at the ASUU headquarters this morning in Abuja. After a series of debates and discussions by the ASUU for and against whether the industrial action should be extended until the federal government concedes to their demand, ASUU finally voted for the strike to continue.

ASUU: I Will Hand Over All Federal Universities To State Government – Atiku

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar has hinted that when elected as president in 2023, he will hand over all federal Universities to their respective state of residence. Atiku made this statement while delivering a speech at the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and annual General conference organized in Lagos for the year 2022. The former vice president disclosed, that it has always been his wish to provide an enabling environment for both foreign and local investors so that people can grow naturally.