NIMR: ASURI lied about labour ministry’s intervention –Management

The management of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) has accused the National Secretary of the Academic Staff Union of Research Institutions (ASURI), Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, of spreading false information about the Federal Government’s eight-year tenure policy for directors, insisting that claims of an intervention by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment to stop the removal of three retired directors were untrue.
The Institute also dismissed allegations that its Director-General, Prof. Oladapo Obafunwa, had acted arbitrarily in implementing the policy, maintaining that the retirement of the affected directors followed specific directives from the Federal Gover...