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Immigration Service To Recruit 5000 Personnel into NIS
The acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Idris Jere, has said plans are underway to recruit additional 5,000 personnel into the service. Mr Jere, who stated this while fielding questions from journalists in Dutse on Saturday, said the gesture was aimed at addressing manpower deficit in the NIS. “With regards to inadequate personnel…
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Just In: SSANU, NASU Suspend Strike
The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions (NASU) on Saturday suspended their strike actions after a brief meeting with the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu in Abuja. The suspension is expected to take effect from Wednesday. According to the education minister, the Federal Government…
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Strike:Nigerian Varsities Suspend Admission Of 461,745 Candidates
A total of 36,947 candidates of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations processed their admissions in private institutions. The suspension of admissions in Nigerian universities has led to the failure of the universities to process a total of 461,745 admissions, PUNCH reports. The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board in the statistics provided, however, blamed the…
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Strike: Lawyers Back FG’s ‘No-Work, No-Pay’ For ASUU Members
Some legal practitioners have backed the no-work-no-pay stance of the federal government against striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Thursday, during the deadlocked federal government and ASUU meeting, said workers would lose their salaries for the period they were on strike. But reacting in…
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How Buhari rejected ASUU’s demand for six months salaries
The Nation Newspaper President Muhammadu Buhari opted to invoke the no work, no pay policy against striking university lecturers on Thursday after receiving the status report on the negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) from Education Minister Adamu Adamu. The President was shocked that the lecturers have reduced their demands to only…
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FG promised N60,000 increment in professor’s salaries – ASUU
Punch Newspaper Fresh facts have emerged on why the Academic Staff Union of Universities rejected the proposal by the Federal Government. The PUNCH had earlier reported that ASUU had tagged the offer by the Federal Government as “miserable”. However, the union did not go into some of the details in the proposal. But the zonal…
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Strike: No Arrears, No Resumption, ASUU dares FG
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday said it would not call off its strike until the salary arrears of its members were paid. The university lecturers also said they would not teach students to make up for the six months they had been on strike if the Federal Government failed to…
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Strike: FG Urges Students To Sue ASUU
The Federal Government has asked students to take the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to drag the union to court for compensation over the time lost since the varsity teachers began their latest round of strike. Education Minister Adamu Adamu said this on Thursday while fielding questions from reporters at the 47th Session of…
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Varsity Union Strike: FG Insists on ‘No-Work, No-Pay’
ABUJA – THE Federal Government on Thursday insisted that it will not succumb to the demand by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, for their members to be paid the six months salaries withheld over the ongoing strike, saying it is meant to be the penalty for their needless action. The Minister of Education,…
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Wike Sends Message To Loyalists, Supporters On Who To Vote For in 2023 General Elections
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has told his supporters and loyalists across the state that their votes should be reserved for candidates that have developmental agenda for the state. The governor stated this at the inauguration of the remodeled Waterlines House in Port Harcourt yesterday, adding that, he would at the appropriate time tell them…
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