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The World Bank has expressed interest in partnering with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) as part of its effort to reduce the increasing number of unemployed youths in the country. The Country Director of the World Bank, Ndiame Diop, made this known on Tuesday when he led a team on a courtesy visit to…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has instructed its members in states that have not yet started implementing the new minimum wage to initiate an indefinite strike, starting on December 1, 2024. The directive follows the decisions made during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NLC that took place over the weekend. The statement…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, among other academic unions, will meet the reconstituted committee on the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement with university-based unions, Saturday PUNCH can confirm. ASUU’s National President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja. Though the ASUU leader didn’t…

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Dr. Akintunde Sawyerr, has said the agency disbursed N11 billion to 90,000 students within six months. Sawyerr announced this during an oversight visit by the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, led by its chairman, Muntari Dandutse, yesterday in Abuja. The NELFUND boss said the fees 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, has announced suspension of the ongoing nationwide indefinite strike over the four months withheld salaries. The suspension according to a circular to all branches of the two university based unions…

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Osun State has disengaged 3,075 corps members from the 2023 Batch C Stream 2 service year. Also, Osun NYSC extended the service year for 45 corps members for different offences as outlined in the NYSC By-law, while 48 corps members were reported to have absconded from service during…

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have commenced an indefinite nationwide strike within campuses of public universities to demand the immediate release of their withheld salaries. On September 17, 2023, the Joint Action Committee of SSANU and NASU handed the…

ABUJA — THE Joint Action Committee, JAC, of non teaching staff unions in the universities, comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has directed its members to proceed on a nationwide indefinite strike from Monday over the non payment of the four…

The Delta State High Court in Warri has issued an order restraining the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board from implementing its recent policy requiring a minimum admissible age of 16 years for university admissions in the country pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed against the board. JAMB, in a statement on…