Author: Vreporters
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Empower Polytechnic To Award Degree, Masters, Doctorates – ASUP Urges FG
Mr Anderson Ezeibe, the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), has urged the Federal Government to empower polytechnics to award their bachelors of technology to end the BSc and Higher National Diploma (HND) dichotomy. Ezeibe made the call in Kaduna at an award presentation and farewell ceremony organised by ASUP, Makarfi…
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Six Abducted Undergraduates Recount Ordeal After Amotekun Rescue Operation
SIX abducted undergraduates have recounted their ordeals after they were rescued by corps of the Ondo State Security outfit, codenamed Amotekun, at Ikaramu in Akoko North West Local Council of the state. They were kidnapped and held for four days in a thick forest until Amotekun personnel rescued them. The victims, three males and three…
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BREAKING: Wike, Ortom Others Arrive Bauchi To Woo Bala Mohammed
The Nation Newspaper The G-5 comprising Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Samuel Ortom (Benue); Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) has arrived Bauchi, the state capital to lure Governor Bala Mohammed to their camp. The Nation reports the G5 is trying to capitalise on the perceived rift between Mohammed and the presidential candidate of the…
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Half-payment: ASUU awaits court ruling
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has decided that it will not embark on another strike over its salary cut but instead engage in peaceful consultation. In a statement made available to The PUNCH on Tuesday after the National Executive Council meeting and signed by ASUU’s President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the union…
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Contempt of Court: EFCC Chair, Bawa Reacts To Judgement
Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFFC, Abdurasheed Bawa, Monday said he has appealed the contempt of court ruling by an FCT court on him. It would be recalled that Justice Chizoba Oji, of the FCT High Court in a ruling held that Bawa disobeyed court order made on November 21, 2018, where it directed…
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Naira Gains at Parallel Market, Exchanges N800 Per Dollar
Peoples Gazette The naira has recovered some of its losses as it strengthened against the United States greenback, trading at N800 per dollar on Tuesday afternoon. Checks by Peoples Gazette with black market platform Aboki Forex indicated that the naira, which last weekend plunged to as low as N890 per dollar at the parallel market,…
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Half-salary: Paying ASUU Members on ‘Pro-rata’ Basis Unprecedented in History
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the decision of the government to pay members of the union on ‘pro-rata’ basis isis unprecedented in the history of university-oriented labour relations. The union, in a statement titled: “We Are Intellectuals, Not Casual Workers”, also said government’s action was in contravention of all known rules…
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Half-salary: ASUU Ends NEC Meeting
Vanguard News THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,ended its National Executive Committee, NEC meeting late Monday (yesterday), with a resolution not to embark on another strike action following the payment of half salaries to members by the federal government. Rather,the union, according to Vanguard source, resolved to wait for the outcome of the intervention…
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ASUU Strike: FG Inaugurates Joint Committee To Address IPPIS Peculiarities in Varsities
Federal Government has inaugurated a joint committee to address the peculiarities of Nigerian universities in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). The joint committee comprises representatives of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and has three months to complete its assignment…
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Finally, U.S. Court Sentences Hushpuppi, Orders Him To Pay $1.7 million To Two Victims (Full Report)
After months of adjournment , a United States court in Los Angeles, California, on Monday, sentenced popular internet fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi to over 135 months – over 11 years — in federal prison. The US District Judge Otis D. Wright II ordered the 40-year-old convict to pay $1,732,841 in restitution…