The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who is exercising his powers in the absence of a substantive Board for the NUC, has approved the appointment of Mr. Sam Marcel Onazi as Deputy Executive Secretary, (Management Services)
Two new academic unions addressed as CONUA and NAMDA have finally scaled through registration hurdles as the Federal Government registered them in the public university system to exist alongside the striking ASUU
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Federal Universities (CVCNU) has elected the Vice-Chancellor of University of Benin, Prof. Lilian Salami as its chairman.
Following the recent efforts of the House of Representatives, there are indications that a truce may be brokered soon as the members of the lower National Assembly commenced intervention towards ending the seven-month long strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The Federal Government has inaugurated Governing Councils for four Federal Universities of Agriculture whose membership were appointed over a year ago.
The Federal Government offered 23.5 per cent salary increase for all categories of the workforce in federal universities, except for the professorial cadre, which would enjoy a 35 per cent upward review.