Category: News
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APC Muslim Youths Reject Shettima as Tinubu’s Running Mate
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Muslim youths have rejected the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as the running mate to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the forthcoming presidential election. They want Tinubu to replace the former governor of Borno with a Christian political leader or cleric from the North without any delay to enhance the party’s…
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ASUU Strike: Buhari Orders Ngige To Hands-off Negotiation, as Planned Protest Gets Boost
The Nation Newspaper University teachers won a major battle yesterday: the government is ready to meet most of their demands. Minister of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu got marching orders from President Muhammadu Buhari to end the industrial actions by university-based unions. The President also directed the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, to…
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Strike : We Won’t Back Down – ASUU President, Osodeke
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has insisted that it will not back down on the strike by members of the union across the country, which is currently in its fifth month. ASUU National President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this on Tuesday while briefing reporters in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Lecturers in government-owned universities…
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President Buhari Orders Minister of Education To End Prolonged ASUU Strike in 2-week
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, to resolve the prolonged industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other university-based unions. The President gave the directive Tuesday after receiving briefings from the relevant government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) involved in the ongoing efforts…
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Party’s Primaries: Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, Akpabio, Others Risk Jail Terms
Some top Nigerian politicians like the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio and others who obtained more than one nomination form, risk two years’ imprisonment under the Electoral Act, 2022. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State, Mike Igini, disclosed this on Tuesday. Igini stated this while featuring…
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ASUU’s Faction, CONUA Condemns Strike Action
A faction of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, operating under the aegis of Congress of Nigerian University Academics, CONUA, has distanced itself from the ongoing strike by the nation’s public university lecturers. CONUA,which broke away from ASUU,has asked to be counted out of the ongoing strike, insisting that it was not part of the…
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FG Kicks-off Training of Unskilled Nigerians
The Federal Government has kicked off the training programme for unskilled Nigerians aimed at equipping them with employable skills that would boost their socio-economic wellbeing. According to a press release by Head, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour, Olajide Oshundun, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, who inaugurated the programme…
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ASUU NEC To Meet, Mulls Extension of Warning Strike
Punch Newspaper The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities is scheduled to hold its meeting in the first week of August, 2022, The PUNCH has reliably gathered. Our correspondent learnt that a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the strike which enters its 155th day on Tuesday (today),…
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End of ASUU Strike in Sight, as Striking Lecturers Likely To Get 100% Pay Rise
The Nation Newspaper An end to the strike by university teachers may be in sight. There were strong indications yesterday that they may get a 100 per cent pay rise. President Muhammadu Buhari has decided to wade into the protracted crisis. He may meet all those involved in the negotiation before opening talks with the…
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Suspended Polytechnic Lecturer Turns Bus Conductor in Rivers State (Video)
A former lecturer at the Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Zoe Solomon Tamunotonye, who was suspended over alleged sexual harassment has turned to commercial bus conductor, following the institution’s refusal to pay him salary for the past six months. In a video that went viral on social media, Tamunotonye was seen beckoning…