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 UniAbuja Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na'Allah has been honored with the National Builders Achievers Award (NBAA) for providing remarkable leadership at the University of Abuja The Award ceremony which held at the NAF conference centre on Friday 18th, December 2020 The Award Committee described Prof. Na'Allah as a hardworking and innovative leader. Prof. Na'Allah, who thanks The National Builders Achievers Awards (NBAA) for the recognition.  "I believe Nigeria deserves to be the first in every good thing. At the UofA, we are prepared to provide good leadership to change our institution and nation for the better", he said.

 The Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Thursday, kept mum on the outcome of a closed-door meeting called to resolve the lingering strike which had grounded academic activities in the universities. The five-hour meeting, which started about 5:13 pm, and ended around 10 p.m, was re-convened by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, after it was earlier postponed twice. After the parley, the government team and ASUU did not release any statement on the agreements reached during the closed-door session. The government had during the November 27 meeting with the union pledged N40 billion as the Earned Allowance and N30bn for the revitalization of the university system bringing the total payment to N70 billion It also promised to pay the arrears of salaries to the lecturers. The union in turn pledged to present the offer to its organs and get back to the government on their decision Shortly after, the ASUU President, Prof A...

 The representatives of federal government and leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are currently in a marathon closed-door over ongoing strike that had grounded academic activities in universities. The meeting, which started at about 5:13pm was re-convened by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, after it had earlier been postponed twice and later cancelled. ASUU had earlier expressed its displeasure over statement credited to the Minister, noting that the government had handled the nine-month-old strike poorly. It would be recalled that the government had during November 27 meeting with the union, pledged to pay N40 billion as the Earned Allowance and N30bn for the revitalization of the university system bringing the total payment to N70 billion

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman, Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi, said, on Thursday, that the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities would soon resolve their ongoing crisis. Fayemi, who said he had the opportunity to be part of negotiations between government and ASUU in his capacity as NGF chairman, said that in view of the successes recorded so far, “We are nearer to the resolution of the of the crisis than people think”. The governor, who spoke during the 24th Convocation Ceremony of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, where 11,437 bagged various degrees, appealed to labour leaders in the institution to always embrace peace and give room for dialogue in resolving many of the issues that might come short of their expectations. He advised Nigerian graduates to develop capabilities to generate uncommon innovation and ideas, describing it as the best catalysts to success in a 21st-century economy Fayemi said, “This is a period when academic curricul...

 The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has released the statement below saying the Federal government had met all demands that triggered the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He therefore urged the university teacher to be patriotic and call off the strike, saying the facts on ground do no longer support the union’s industrial action READ THE FULL STATEMENT BELOW. PRESS RELEASE FACTS SPEAK AGAINST ASUU’S CONTINUED STRIKE – FG Sen. Chris Ngige Media Office has dismissed as baseless and dishonest, the statement by the University of Jos Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) led by one Dr. Maigoro, that the Hon. Minister for Labour and Employment, Sen Chris Ngige is responsible for the prolonged nationwide strike by the Union. In a statement in Abuja, the office said “ it is rather ASUU which has bluntly refused to reciprocate the Federal Government offers by refusing to either teach, conduct researches or engage in o...

 The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada Abuja has given award to 100 staff who worked tirelessly to attend to COVID-19 cases at the facility. The Chief Medical Director, UATH, Prof. Bissalla Ekele at the presentation of the award to the outstanding staff said the recognition was to boost the morale of the staff. The CMD said the first confirmed case in FCT, Abuja four weeks after the Lagos case on February 27, 2020, was admitted at UATH (the first and the only hospital then in FCT with the capacity to manage COVID-19). He also said the frontline healthcare workers as at December 1, 2020, had managed 313 cases of COVID-19 (mostly moderate to severe cases that needed oxygen support).

 An honourary doctorate degree recipient from Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, AE-FUNAI, Ebonyi state, Dr. Anayo Onwuegbu has appealed to lecturers who are members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to sheathe their sword and resume academic activities for the sake of security of the country Onwuegbu said that for the young population of Nigeria to be out of school for nine months posed serious security threat to the country, adding that the parties at the receiving end in the impasse were every Nigerian He said that he  had the opportunity of listening to both sides of the argument between the federal government and ASUU and came to a conclusion that ASUU should succumb to their pleas of Nigerians and resume academic activities in the universities for sake of not deteriorating an already bad security situation in Nigeria Onwuegbu made the appeal shortly after his conferment of Doctor of Business Administration (Honoris Causa) at 5th special convoc...