The Federal Government has directed vice chancellors of striking public varsities and inter-varsity centers to enforce no-work-no-pay rule on striking lecturers.

Nigerians on Twitter have reacted to the commencement of indefinite strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday and the plan by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to followsuit  on Tuesday ASUU embarked on strike to protest the poor funding of Nigerian universities and alleged plan by the federal government to increase…

The National Labour Congress (NLC) has been threatening to go on strike due to the loggerheads with the government on meeting their demands. Many other unions affiliated with the NLC, in a recent turn of events have decided to join in the action. ASUU quickly embarked on theirs before the forewarned date given by NLC.…

The party cautioned the governor against wielding same stick used on the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) chapter of the state-owned university at Anyigba.

The strikes showed our poor capacity as a nation to hold or sustain continuity in the reins of leadership in our polity. It is also indicative of apathy to issues that concern the generality of the people.

Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President announced this at a news conference after the closed door meeting with the Federal Government on Monday in Abuja.

The plot, the unions said, would follow the pattern of the state government’s proscription of the Kogi State University (KSU) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

For ASUU, the deal comes with a pay bump, but crucially a deal which will serve as the basis for a future strike. And so, the cycle continues.

According to a statement by the Governor’s Spokesman, Mr Samuel Aruwan, the KASU branch of ASUU confirmed that the branch had joined the nation-wide strike as full members of the national union.

Also, speaking, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President, said that government and ASUU had reached an agreement on their demands with the Federal Government.

In 2016, at a Policy Meeting on Admissions, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, scrapped the Post-UTME, arguing that such exercise was not only unnecessary but placed heavy burden on students and their parents

The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has urged the Federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the ongoing impasse without further delay.