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Oct 14, 2022 · Lecturers in Nigeria say they will go back to work on Monday after a strike that closed most of the country's universities for eight months, leaving hundreds of thousands of students angry and...
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The futures of more than a million Nigerian university...
- Nigeria Universities
Apr 14, 2022 · Why is government reluctant in implementing an agreement that has to do with the welfare of lecturers for this long? Honestly, what Nigeria pays its lecturers is an insult to the profession!
6 days ago · The academic ranks for lecturers in Nigerian universities are as follows: Graduate Assistant. Assistant Lecturer. Lecturer II. Lecturer I. Senior Lecturer. Associate Professor. Professor. Each rank has its own set of requirements and responsibilities.
- What’s Behind The Incessant Strike Action?
- How Have The Strikes Benefited The Universities?
- Are There Other Ways You Could Get Your Demands Met?
- What Conditions Must Be Met For The Strike to Be called Off?
- Are You Justified in Asking That Lecturers Be Paid While on Strike?
There are so many reasons. The bottom line is underfunding of the system and the failure of the government to implement an agreement it reached with our union in 2009. Infrastructural, teaching, learning and research facilities are grossly inadequate in our universities. That’s why we, the Academic Staff Union of Universities – the umbrella body fo...
I will say that the first benefit is that public universities are still standing. Otherwise most would have gone into extinction. Secondly, if it were not for the strikes, some of the interventions to uplift the institutions’ facilities would not have been set up by the government. For instance, our strikes led to the establishment of the Tertiary ...
The government is the one that always pushes us into taking strike action. If you enter into an agreement, you have to honour it. But that is not in the character of the Nigerian government. Before the Academic Staff Union of Universities calls a strike, we would have consulted top officials of government to prevail on their bosses to meet our dema...
We have declared this action as indefinite because we want it to be the last time our universities will be shut. The government has options. Most of their children are in good schools abroad while some are in well-funded private universities. But the children of the poor are made to face the consequences of their irresponsible and insensitive actio...
The excuse the government is advancing for the no-work no-pay rule is that it doesn’t have money. That is not true. The truth is that there is unbridled corruption. And, might I ask, where do they get money to send their children to foreign universities? Nigeria has the resources to fund university education. It should block leakages in public fina...
Feb 21, 2020 · A Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, Thursday sentenced a lecturer at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Afeez Baruwa, to 21- year imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old girl admission seeker.
Feb 21, 2023 · The appointment of Bidemi Lafiaji-Okuneye as the first substantive vice chancellor of the newly established Lagos State University of Education (LASUED), Ijanikin and Epe campuses brings the number of current female vice-chancellors in public universities to eight. This is the first ever in the history of Africa’s largest economy that eight ...
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