Author: Vreporters
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Withheld salaries: Why FG should handle matter with caution — Osodeke
Vanguard News WITH 17 months lost to industrial actions in the public university system in the country in the last two years, the seeming quietness in the ivory towers may be ruptured again, as various workers unions in the sector take on the Federal Government over their withheld salaries and union dues. After the end…
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3 Suspected ESN Members Killed, as Police Foil Attempt Attack on Station
The firepower of operative of Imo State Police Command subdued wild exuberance of three members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday when some of them led by the armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN) attempted to attack Agwa police station in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo state. The hoodlums had…
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World’s Oldest Woman, Sister André is Dead
The world’s oldest known person, French nun Sister André, has died at age 118 in the southern French city of Toulon, the city’s mayor Hubert Falco said on Wednesday. Born in the southern French town of Ales on Feb. 11, 1904, as Lucile Randon, Sister André was listed as the oldest person alive by the…
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Delta Woman Narrates How Lagos Governor, Sanwo-olu Allegedly Impregnate Her in 1995
A Delta-based woman, Grace Moses, has narrated how Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu impregnated her when the former appeared before a Delta State High Court 2 sitting in Effurun, Delta State, on Tuesday, urging governor to come for his alleged biological child. Addressing journalists shortly after the court adjourned the case involving the governor…
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FG Gives CONUA, NAMDA Full Power To Operate
Tribune Online The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment on Tuesday empowered the Congress of University Academics (CONUA) and the National Association of Medical Doctors in Academics (NAMDA) with copies of their certificate of registration, charging them to fully operate as trade unions in the education sector. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige,…
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Why Registration of CONUA, NAMDA Shouldn’t be Recognized – ASUU President, Osodeke
Vanguard News The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has again, dismissed the registration of the Congress of University Academics, CONUA and the National Association of Medical Doctors in Academics, NAMDA, saying they were inconsequential and of no effect in the Nigerian university system. He described the presence of…
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Just In: FG Meets CONUA Leadership
The Federal government and the leadership of Congress of University Academics (CONUA) are reportedly currently in a closed-door meeting over the withheld eight months’ salaries of the academic workers. According to Daily Trust, the agenda of the meeting was not disclosed but it was gathered that the government and the union were deliberating on the…
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Recruitment: 12 Things To Know Before Applying For Immigration Job
Punch Newspaper The Nigeria Immigration Service, on Monday, opened its portal for the 2023 recruitment for interested applicants across the country. The recruitment is open to applicants who want to apply for the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board. The PUNCH carefully observed the application processes on the website and highlights 12 major…
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Withheld Salaries: ASUU May Sue FG
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities may drag the Federal Government over its members’ eight months’ withheld salaries, The PUNCH has learnt. ASUU will resort to the court, it was learnt, once the government goes ahead to pay members of the parallel union, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics. Counsel for ASUU, Femi…
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Why Bolanle’s Family Car Was Flagged Down – Police Witness
Channels TV The first prosecution witness, Inspector Matthew Ameh, a member of the patrol team led by ASP Drambi Vandi has told the Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square that the police were conducting a stop and search on Christmas Day when Lagos-based lawyer, Bolanle Raheem was shot. Led in his testimony…