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NASU/SSANU receives only one month out of four-month withheld salaries

Fadiran Ifeloluwa November 3, 2024

The Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) received only one month’s salary out of the four months withheld during previous industrial actions, contrary to the Federal Government’s announcement that all outstanding salaries had

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Talks Between FG, Striking University Workers End in Deadlock

Fadiran Ifeloluwa November 1, 2024

Negotiations between the Federal Government and the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) reached an impasse on Thursday. The meeting, held at the Federal Ministry of Education and led by former Minister of State for Education, Dr. […]

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SSANU and NASU threaten indefinite strike, issue three-week ultimatum

Fadiran Ifeloluwa September 19, 2024

The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) have threatened an indefinite strike over outstanding salaries. On Wednesday, SSANU President Mohammed Ibrahim and NASU General Secretary Prince Peters Adeyemi issued a joint statement. The unions gave the federal government a

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Tinubu orders payment of SSANU, NASU’s withheld salaries 

Fadiran Ifeloluwa July 19, 2024

President Bola Tinubu has directed the Ministers of Finance, Wale Edun, and Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, to look into ways to pay the four months’ salaries withheld from university non-teaching staff, which include the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU). Joe

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FCT security tightened as SSANU, NASU converge for protest

Angel Ojonugwa July 18, 2024

ABUJA (Sundiata Scholar) – There is heightened security in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and those of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) gathered for a protest on Thursday. Reports that a few of the demonstrators were on the premises of the Unity […]

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Strike: NAAT asks NASS, NANS, other stakeholders to intervene over withheld salaries

Fadiran Ifeloluwa July 14, 2024

The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has urged the National Assembly, religious and traditional leaders, parents, and student representatives to engage with the Federal Government regarding the delayed payment of five and a half months’ salaries as a result of the 2022 strike. The proposal followed a prospective walkout by the Joint Action

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OAU SSANU joins nationwide protest over withheld salaries

Angel Ojonugwa July 11, 2024

ILE IFE (Sundiata Scholar) – Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) branch, on Tuesday staged a protest over non-payment of their four months withheld salaries. The Chairman of the branch, Dr Taiwo Arobadi, while addressing members during a one-day protest at the university Campus in Ile-Ife, said

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Withheld salaries: SSANU members protest at Nigeria French Language Village Badagry

Angel Ojonugwa July 10, 2024

BADAGRY (Sundiata Scholar) – Language Village, Badagry, Lagos State chapter of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), on Tuesday staged a protest against non-payment of withheld salaries by the Federal Government. reports that the protesters carried placards with different inscriptions such as, “Pay us our arrears of 25 to 35 per cent salary

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Withheld salaries: SSANU, NASU holds protest in Lokoja varsity

Angel Ojonugwa July 10, 2024

LOKOJA (Sundiata Scholar) – Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), Federal University Lokoja (FUL), on Tuesday, staged a protest in demand for withheld four months salaries. reports that the protest staged by the two unions at FUL’d Felele New Campus, was in solidarity with […]

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SSANU, NASU protest: Fed. varsity Gusau seeks FG’s intervention

Angel Ojonugwa July 10, 2024

GUSAU (Sundiata Scholar) – The Management of the Federal University Gusau has appealed to the Federal Government for an urgent intervention concerning the demands of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU). The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, (Administration) of the uUniversity, Prof. Ahmed

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Unilorin SSANU, NASU members stage protest over withheld salariesStrike

Angel Ojonugwa July 10, 2024

ILLORIN (Sundiata Scholar) – A Members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), University of Ilorin chapter, on Tuesday, staged a protest over non-payment of their withheld salaries. reports that the protest was in response to the directive of the national leadership

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Withheld Salaries: SSANU, NASU hold protest in UNN

Angel Ojonugwa July 10, 2024

NSUKA (Sundiata Scholar) – (Enugu State) Members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) have staged a protest over four months withheld salaries by the Federal Government. They said the warning protest on Tuesday had become necessary as all appeals and meetings with government to pay their […]

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Ondo varsity joins NASU, SSANU nationwide protest

Angel Ojonugwa July 9, 2024

OKITIPUPA (Sundiata Scholar) – (Ondo State), Members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) chapters of the Olusegun Agagau University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, in Ondo State, joined in the nationwide protest declared by their national bodies on Tuesday. reports that

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ASUU strike: We will decide after two weeks – Osodeke

Angel Ojonugwa July 8, 2024

ABUJA (Sundiata Scholar) – The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke has stated that the union will decide their next action in two weeks if the federal government fails to implement agreements reached. Amid the planned protests by the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the […]

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SSANU, NASU to begin nationwide protest tomorrow

Fadiran Ifeloluwa July 8, 2024

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions (NASU) have mobilised their members to stage a national protest on July 18, 2024. The Joint Action Committee of NASU and SSA­NU has already asked each chapter of both unions to hold local protests on their campuses tomorrow, July […]

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Strike: FG to meet with SSANU, NASU today

Fadiran Ifeloluwa July 4, 2024

The Federal Government has scheduled a meeting with the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) for today at the Office of the Minister of Education. The meeting comes after the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of SSANU and NASU issued a two-week ultimatum to […]

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SSANU and NASU threaten to begin strike tomorrow over withheld 4 months salaries

Fadiran Ifeloluwa July 3, 2024

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and its sister union, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institution (NASU), plan to hold a nationwide industrial action tomorrow, Thursday, July 4, if the government fails to pay members’ four-month salaries. In a communique issued at the conclusion of the 48th Regular National

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SSANU, NASU issue 2 weeks ultimatum to FG over withheld salaries

Fadiran Ifeloluwa June 21, 2024

The Joint Action Committee of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities has given the Federal Government two weeks to pay the four months of withheld payments. The JAC has also threatened to close universities and inter-university centres if the government fails to pay the […]

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Strike grounds academic activities at ABU, Yola varsityBy Mustapha Yauri/Ibrahim Kado

Angel Ojonugwa April 24, 2024

ZARIA (Sundiata Post) – Kaduna State, The industrial action embarked by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), has grounded academic activities at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. A correspondent who monitored the strike reports that theatres, lecture halls, libraries and laboratories were

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OAU, FUTA SSANU, NASU branches comply with nationwide warning strike

Angel Ojonugwa April 23, 2024

Ile-Ife (Osun), Activities at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife in Osun, and Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), were on Monday paralysed as workers complied with the directive to embark on seven-day warning strike.reports that the seven-day nationwide warning strike was declared by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and