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A major crack has appeared in the ranks of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife branch, at the weekend, decided to pull out of the national body to form a new union. The decision to pull out of ASUU national by OAU branch was taken at a congress held on February 12, when it rejected the resolutions of ASUU’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on the face-off between it and the parent body over an internal crisis. Other reasons given by OAU branch to form a new union are the unilateral removal of the elected treasurer by ASUU national president and the alleged transfer of N11 million from OAU branch account to ASUU national account. The congress noted that the removal of the duly elected treasurer and transfer of N11 million prompted majority of members to request that their check off dues usually remitted to ASUU national be stopped. The OAU branch also cited the decision of ASUU NEC to accept the suspended result of the...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has said the comments credited to the representative of the supervising minister of education, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Education on the welfare of the striking lecturers of polytechnics and colleges of education in the country is an indication that the minister has a secret agenda

POLYTECHNIC students under the auspices of the National Association of Polytechnic Students, have renewed their call on the feuding Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) to resolve the lingering dispute in the interest of the students. The students also condemned in totality the discrimination against polytechnics graduates in public service and urged the Federal Government to remove the obnoxious ceiling against Higher