{"id":65608,"date":"2025-05-12T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65608"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:46:09","slug":"piwuna-takes-charge-as-asuu-faces-fresh-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/12\/piwuna-takes-charge-as-asuu-faces-fresh-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Piwuna Takes Charge as ASUU Faces Fresh Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor Chris Piwuna has been elected as the new national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at a time when Nigeria\u2019s ivory towers stand on shaky ground.<\/p>\n<p>A consultant psychiatrist and Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Jos, Piwuna emerged winner at the union\u2019s 23rd National Delegates Congress held in Benin City on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>He succeeds Professor Victor Osodeke and edged out Prof. Adamu Babayo in a closely contested election.<\/p>\n<p>His emergence comes amid rising tensions over unresolved issues with the Federal Government, especially the sharing formula of \u20a650 billion in earned academic allowances.<\/p>\n<p>Though released by the Tinubu-led administration, the disbursement has sparked fresh anger among members.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the funds, festering issues such as poor working conditions and mass academic departures continue to rattle the university system.<\/p>\n<p>Piwuna now inherits a union at a crossroads, with a potential strike looming and confidence in government promises wearing thin.<\/p>\n<p>All eyes are now on ASUU\u2019s new leader to steer negotiations, calm unrest, and restore stability to Nigeria\u2019s public universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Professor Chris Piwuna has been elected as the new national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at a time when Nigeria\u2019s ivory towers stand on shaky ground. A consultant psychiatrist and Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Jos, Piwuna emerged winner at the union\u2019s 23rd National Delegates Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65610,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65608\/revisions\/65610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}