The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), an NGO, on Tuesday appealed to the Federal Government to implement all the agreements it entered into with various unions in the education sector.The National Coordinator of ERC, Mr Hassan Taiwo, made the appeal while speaking with newsmen in Abuja.Taiwo described the refusal of government …
Police Humiliate Protesting ASUP, COEASU, NLC Members Over Protest:The Nigeria police, yesterday humiliated protesting lecturers and students of the nations polytechnics and colleges of education with teargas and watergun.The protest which held at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, was disrupted when police officers fired tear-gas at the protesters who vowed not …
No work, No pay: ASUP, COEASU Vow to Continue Strike Action:Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union on Sunday vowed to continue with their strike action.The unions said they will not succumb to blackmail of the Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike who had continued …
The third COEASU South South Conference scheduled for 15th – 18th April, 2014 was officially declared opened by Prof. Hope Eghagha, Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education at a ceremony held in the school of Science Education auditorium at the permanent site of Federal College of Education Technical, Asaba on …
No respite yet for striking lecturers of polytechnics and colleges of education as their industrial action continues indefinitely, CHARLES ABAH writesTHE National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Mr. Chibuzor Asomugha, while commenting on the ongoing strike by the members of the union, laments, “Each day this strike …
Federal Government Ready to Pay ASUP, COEASU – Wike:Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, on Friday said Federal Government was committed to paying the striking Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, their arrears.He stated this at a meeting with the Provosts of Colleges of …
AFTER polytechnic students have lost an entire academic session to the 171 day strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, and Colleges of Education have been shut for nearly four months, President Goodluck Jonathan is reported to have intervened into the situation. While some stakeholders observe …
COEASU strike: Senator Pleads With Teachers to go Back to Classroom:As the strike embarked upon by the Collages of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, enters the fourth month, Chairman of Chairmen, Governing Councils of Federal Collages of Education, Senator Emmanuel Anosike, has pleaded with the striking lecturers to return to …
President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Mr. Yinka Gbadebo, has called on delegates at the ongoing National Conference to intervene in the 8-month lingering crisis which has led to the closure of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education across the country.Mr. Gbadebo, who is also a delegate representing …
Jonathan to Meet ASUP, COEASU Leaders Today:President Jonathan will meet officials of ASUP, COEASU on Monday 31st March to finalise payment structure for the striking staff.Meeting being facilitated by Supervising Minister of Education after COEASU and ASUP rejected the two installmental payment option.In a move to finally resolve the prolonged …