Author: Vreporters
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Tripartite Meeting With Varsity Unions Will Yield Fruits Next Week- FG
The Federal Government has expressed optimism that the decisions reached in its three-part meeting with university-based unions would yield fruits next week. The Head, Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr Olajide Oshundun, in a statement on Friday, said some agreements had been reached between the government and the unions.…
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Why 2022 Admission Processing May Be Delayed, Vice Chancellors
Punch Newspaper The Secretary, Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Prof. Yakubu Ochefu, has said the 2022 admission processes for universities may be delayed due to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Ochefu stated this in an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday. According to the scribe, the committee is also…
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ASUU, Other Unions Turn Down FG’s Plea To Reopen Varsities
Vanguard The tripartite plus meeting convened by the Federal Government with the striking university based unions last night ended without any concrete agreement for the workers to go back to work. In fact, the four university based unions that are on strike rebuffed all the government plea for them to suspend the strike while efforts…
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ASUU Strike: UI Students Write President Muhammadu Buhari
The Students’ Union of the University of Ibadan,UI, Oyo State, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari over the lingering industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU . The Union’s appeal letter to the President on Tuesday was titled ‘The Federal University System in Shambles; An Appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR’, and…
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FG To Resume Talk With Striking Varsity Lecturers Next week
Federal Government and the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will resume talks next week with a view to ending the prolonged closure of Nigerian public universities. The hint was dropped yesterday by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, while making the opening remarks at a meeting between the government side…
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Child Labour as a Sad Situation in Nigeria by Ishowo Malik Ayomide
By: Ishowo Malik Ayomide. The other day, I evidently saw some small children begging at a traffic light signal around Post office/ Unity area in llorin in Kwara state. What actually came to my mind was that; when will this dismaying and indignant situation totally stop in Africa? But unfortunately, I couldn’t envisage on when…
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Kaduna Train Attack: Son of Northern Elders’ Forum, Sadiq Regains Freedom
Abducted Train Passengers
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RURAL CASH GRANT: LIFTING WOMEN OUT OF POVERTY IN NIGERIA
The ₦20,000 rural cash grant initiative was introduced by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in 2020 as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s social inclusion and poverty alleviation agenda. The programme targeted 150,000 rural and peri-urban women in all 774 local government areas of the 36 states and the FCT.…
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FG Commits N5.9 Billion on Training, Tooling, Stipends of N-Power Beneficiaries
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq on Wednesday disclosed that the Federal Government is committing the sum of over N5.9 billion on training, tooling and monthly stipends for the Batch C beneficiaries of N-Power programme in Kano State. This was as she said about 16,629 youths were currently…
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Corps Member Who Announced Donation of N30,000 Monthly Allowance For Tinubu Makes U-turn
Barely a week after a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Gombe State, Khamis Musa, announced the donation of his monthly N30,000 allowance for the purchase of nomination form for the All Progressives Congress leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has retracted his statement. Musa with state code GM/22A/3185, trended on social media…