ASUU elects new president

ASUU elects new president

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has elected Prof. Chris Piwuna, a representative psychiatrist on the University of Jos Teaching Hospital, as its new president.

The election, held on the twenty third National Delegates Congress in Benin on Sunday, marks a brand new bankruptcy for the union.

Prof. Piwuna, who’s additionally the Dean of Student Affairs on the University of Jos, succeeds Victor Osodeke, a Professor of Soil Science on the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State.

The election noticed Prof. Piwuna contesting towards Prof. Adamu Babayo from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, with Piwuna rising victorious.

This management transition happens amid issues over capacity commercial motion in the union.

Issues associated with the sharing method of the Earned Academic Allowances currently launched with the aid of using the Federal Government, ongoing mind drain, and different urgent subjects in the schooling zone had been reassets of tension.