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Recent report on ASUU strike gathered that the union (Academic Staff Union of Universities) rejected Berekete Family radio’s intervention to end the ongoing strike. The incident reportedly occurred this morning, June 11, 2022, as the host of the radio programme, Ahmad Isah, popularly known as Ordinary president, invited ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, and his team, to explain to Nigerians the perennial problems and state why the union is still on strike. Recall that ordinary president set up a special intervention bank account domiciled in TAJ Bank to raise funds for the union, with a view to ending the strike. ♦️ Apparently to convince ASUU to buy into the idea of the intervention, Isah publicly showed the N50 million cash donated by Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State. ♦️ Immediately the money was displayed, ASUU President frowned at the development, saying they should not be associated with such. ♦️At that point, Isah threatened to discontinue the intervent...

The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has said the warning strike embarked upon by the union on February 14, would soon be truncated. The ASUU national president stated this yesterday while speaking on the Human Rights Radio, producers of the popular national radio/TV programme, Brekete Family Show. He blamed the minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, for politicising the strike which has failed to yield positive results. “When this thing started, the minister of labour took over the control of this process and politicised it, looking for press conferences but I can assure you on this issue now, presently the minister of education is handling it and we are making some good progress." “I hope it continues this way and within a short time, God helping, and if there are no third parties, we believe that this thing will be resolved very soon," he said. Meanwhile, Osodeke has pleaded with Nigerian...

According to ASUU and SSANU national presidents, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke and Mr Mohammed Ibrahim respectively, the Briggs committee has been meeting with the various unions since May 2022 to renegotiate their agreements. ASUU national presidents, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke in a recent report disclosed that ‘‘There is progress both on FG and the Briggs committee meeting but it depends on the government side. We had a fairly good meeting we are still trying to resolve the issues. Until we get the final report from the government. We are trying to work in the same direction. They are also testing UTAS.’’ Reports gathered that the committee would submit its report to the FG this week or they could be given an extension. Meanwhile FG and varsity unions’ renegotiation committee sitting will allegedly end today (if otherwise, this article will be updated). On the live Interview between ASUU National President, Osadeke, and Brekete family station this morning Around 7:30am, the VC Net...

A total of 3,135 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry examinations candidates who scored 300 and above in 2018, 2019 and 2020 did not gain admission into tertiary institutions. According to report, the figure is based on the admission statistics prepared by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for the three years. The statistics for 2018, 2019 and 2020 were made available on the board’s website. Meanwhile, the board is still working on the 2021 statistics following the conclusion of the 2021 admissions. Reports gathered that while tertiary institutions are at liberty to determine their respective cut-off marks for admission, there is a widely held belief that candidates who score higher marks have advantages over those with poor UTME scores. In 2018, JAMB noted that though a total of 4,683 candidates scored 300 and above, only 3,683 gained admission while 1,000 candidates were unable to gain admission. In 2019, a total of 2,967 candidates scored 3...