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Mar 14, 2021 · Various attempts have been made by Nigerian universities under different industrial unions and associations. The faculty came under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to challenge the gradual and systemic decline of the sector.
- Joseph O. IseOlorunkanmi, Joseph O. IseOlorunkanmi, Mathew E. Rotimi, Olukemi G. Adebola, Adedoyin I...
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May 31, 2021 · This study investigates Nigerian University lecturers’ perspective and response to virtual learning as an alternative to face-to-face teaching method during the pandemic.
- 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...
Jan 31, 2022 · Modupe Bosede Ake. Modupe B. Ake is Senior Lecturer and currently Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria. Her major research interests include comparative public administration, gender issues and African governance and democratisation.
Mark Blaisse is a freelance journalist, writer and researcher. He studied history and philosophy (MA) in Amsterdam, Florence and Paris (DEA). He is a fellow of NIAS doing research on international terrorism and its relation to the media.
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Dec 12, 2022 · The conditions of the first lockdown of schools that lasted for over six months have quadrupled the retrogressive situations of Nigeria's education, such as the high rate of teachers’ attrition (Alhat, 2020), school dropout percentage has risen dramatically as students do not fancy going to schools as to avoid the unknown outcome of the virus ...
