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 The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says the Academic Activities in Nigeria Universities will resume January. He says the negotiations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government had reached 98 percent, adding that it remains only two percent to be completed He spoke Monday in Alor, Idemili South local government area of Anambra State, during the launch of Ngige free medical outreach at the Community’s Health Center. Ngige said, “We have met about 98 percent of the request of ASUU. Some 5 to 2 percent is what you can call promissory notes. “So, I am very hopeful that by midnight today, there are some works we are supposed to get on to do. They also have some work they are supposed to do on their own side with their people. Tuesday, we will meet in the afternoon and we will compare notes. We will put everything on the table and compare. I believe that we might have come to the end of the strike when we meet tomorrow. “W...

 Since March 24, federal government-owned institutions have been on strike due to a lingering dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) despite interventions by the House of Representatives led by Gbajabiamila. On Monday, before the House adjourned for the Christmas and New Year holiday, Mr Gbajabiamila listed some of the legislative interventions of the House, he, however, left out the ASUU crisis which the House had in the past intervened In October, the Speaker threatened not to sign the 2021 budget without a provision for ASUU. The 2021 appropriation was passed today without any comment from the Speaker on his promise. The news reported in March this year, a meeting between ASUU and the Speaker with a pledge from the Speaker to help end the industrial dispute. The Speaker in his speech following the passage of the 2021 appropriation bill did not state if there is a provision in the budget to address the strike which he promised h...

 Celebrating UniAbuja Vice Chancellor  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PROF. ABDUL-RASHEED NA'ALLAH About the VC The University of Abuja Vice Chancellor, Professor Abdulrasheed Na'Allah, he received a BA in 1988 from University of Ilorin, with a thesis "Dadakuada: The trends in the development of llorin traditional oral poetry. In 1999, he received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and was subsequently professor and chair of African-American Studies at Western Illinois University. He then became the Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University in Nigeria, and now The Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of University of Abuja, in the Nigerian Capital City. Happy Birthday VC