SOME students have appealed to the federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve their differences, as they suggest Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to fund the university system. The students, who recounted losses caused by the six months strike by ASSU, continued to express serious concern about the situation, saying the long stay at home had inflicted permanent injury on them and damage to the education system. They made the appeal in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. Ms Philemon Kojo, a clinical student in the University of Abuja (UniAbuja), said…
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THE National Chairman, Donkey Dealers Association, Mr Dike Ifeanyi, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent steps towards safeguarding their N60 billion investment in donkey business through proper regulation. Ifeanyi made the call at news conference organised by a Coalition of Civil Society Organisations on Monday in Abuja. He said the activities of the Chinese in the nation’s forest had continued to impact negatively on the accruable benefits of the business to Nigeria’s economy. Ifeanyi said the activities of Chinese smugglers had been on without hindrance because of inadequate regulation of the business, adding that the demand for…
Mrs Ibiene Roberts, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, says the Federal Government is working to digitise public service before the end of first quarter of 2023. Roberts stated this when she formally presented the Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) to the Minister, Sen. George Akume, on Monday in Abuja, She said the procedure was in line with the directives of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF) to Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDA). Roberts said that all MDAs were to formally document and present the SOPs developed in their respective MDAs in hardcopies for…
THE news went round. The Federal Government and striking lecturers in the country’s public universities organised under the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), were meeting on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Not a few hoped that the six-month strike by the lecturers would be resolved. But the outcome was as disappointing as the cavalier way the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, presented the report of the meeting to the nation. Also, it does not appear that the Buhari government is dealing honestly with the country on this issue. Let us examine two contradictory claims made at a press conference…
THE National Broadcasting Commission on Friday directed 52 broadcast stations in the country to shut down their operations. On the list include the African Independent Television/Raypower FM, Silverbird Television/Rhythm FM stations and broadcasting corporations run by various state governments. NBC said the directive became necessary following debts incurred by the broadcasting organisations amounting to at least N2.6bn. The Director-General of the NBC, Balarabe Ilelah, disclosed this to journalists at the NBC headquarters in Abuja. He said all the television and radio stations affected must halt operations in the next 24 hours. Silverbird TV (Silverbird Communications Co. Ltd) Rhythm FM (Silverbird…
THE Amnesty International which is 61 years having been established in 1961 is up for lunch in hungry and angry Ukraine. If you must know, its ‘sins’ are very grave. Somehow, those who run the West assume they have Amnesty eating from their hands. On the other hand, those outside the Western ruling class circles like India, China and Syria see the organisation as the propaganda arm of the West. So much heat was turned on Amnesty in India that the organisation in September 2020 decided to throw in the towel. Sometimes, Amnesty’s wounds are self-inflicted such as when the…
The most useful old-age benefit in social security is life pension. Pension is a retirement plan that provides monthly income in retirement. In Nigeria, pension has received significant attention since the establishment of the first public sector pension scheme, the Pension Ordinance of 1951, which had a retrospective effect from January 1, 1946. In 2004 Nigeria carried out a pension reform, which introduced the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) in order to address the myriad of problems bedevilling the pension system in the country and to provide stable, predictable and adequate source of retirement income for each pensioner in the…
THE members of staff of Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) on Wednesday said they would embark on an indefinite strike over the non-implementation of a new salary structure. The workers under auspices of Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), had on Tuesday commenced a 3-days warning strike over their demands The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workers vowed never to return to work until their demands were met. The Secretary of the union, Mr Udeme Umanah, who spoke on behalf of the union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the…
THE Association of Catholic Medical Practitioners of Nigeria has urged the Federal Government to deploy technology to strengthen the war against insecurity in the country. Th group made the call in a statement on Thursday by Dr Emmanuel Pius-Ngatida, Public Relations Officer of the association, after its 16th National Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting held in Abuja. The event has the theme: “Strategies for improving Health Worker Status in a Changing World.” The conference condemned the state of insecurity nationwide, including attacks on worship places, and recent kidnap and murder of some Catholic priests. It therefore urged government at…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has tasked motor dealers to ensure compliance with regulations requiring registration and certification of their businesses by the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering (SCUML). Its Ilorin Zonal Commander, Mr Michael Nzekwe, said this when members of Kwara Motor Dealers Association, led by its President, Alhaji Ahmed Abdul, visited the office on Wednesday in Ilorin. Nzekwe said apart from enforcing compliance with SCUML regulations, the EFCC under the new Money Laundering Act (MLA), had legal responsibility in safeguarding the investment of stakeholders in the Non-Designated Financial Institutions (NDFI) from the activities of fraudsters.…