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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has decided to extend the ongoing strike by 8 weeks, stating that the government has refused to cooperate with the Union  Following the extension of the four week strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU, and after due consultation with the Management of the University of Benin,the Vice Chancellor, Professor Lilian Salami, on behalf of Senate, is closing down the University until further notice. The action has become expedient as there is no justifiable reason for students to continue to stay on campus when lectures and other academic activities are not going on. Consequently, students are to vacate the hostels within fourty-eight (48)hours of this notice.They are enjoined to monitor the situation closely inorder to be abreast of the school's eventual re-opening. The action taken by the Vice Chancellor of UNIBEN may hold that the ongoing strike would probably become indefinite. For more info......

        STRIKE UPDATE (as at March 8):  "There will be no resumption until FG Implement 2009 Agreement", ASUU Insists. Nigeria’s minister of education, Adamu Adamu, on Monday, gave a three-month deadline to the newly inaugurated committee saddled with the responsibility of renegotiating the 2009 agreement between the government and the university workers’ unions. The Unions include the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU), and the National Association of Academic Technologists. This comes as the leadership of ASUU insists the ongoing three-week-old nationwide strike will continue until “whatever the government wants to do with the agreement is completed and an acceptable implementation commences.” Mr. Adamu, who spoke during the inauguration of the renegotiation committee in Abuja, said he expected the exercise to be conclud...