PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, to resolve the prolonged strike embarked upon by the four university-based unions and report back to him in two weeks’ time. President Buhari gave the directive on Tuesday after he received briefings from the relevant government ministries, agencies and departments involved in resolving the face-off with the university unions. President Buhari was said to have summoned the Tuesday meeting to receive briefing from the government team on why the strike has lingered for too long. After hearing from the relevant MDA’s directly involved in the negotiation, President Buhari…
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By Amos Aar PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday performed ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the permanent site of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO) at Akwete-Akpa, Otukpo LGA of Benue State. FUHSO is the first University of Health Sciences in the entire Nigeria. Represented by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, president Buhari disclosed that he had recently approved the sum of three Billion naira (N3b) as high impact intervention fund through the Tertiary Education Fund (TETFUND) for FUHSO to enhance the infrastructural and facility development that will provide enabling environment for teaching, learning, research and innovation.…
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to unveil Senator Kashim Shettima as the running mate to its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday at a ceremony schedule to take place by 1.00pm at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday morning by the APC National Organising Secretary, Suleiman Argungu. The statement reads: “The All Progressives Congress will formally unveil its Vice Presidential Candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, to the Nigerian public. “All members of the National Executive Committee, Progressives Governors’ Forum, APC Caucus in the National Assembly, Federal Executive Council,…
SOME former workers of the Police Service Commission have asked a National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja to jail the Chairman of the commission, a former Inspector General of Police, Musliu Smith, for disregarding the order of the court on the payment of their entitlements. 10 out of the 43 ex-workers had in 2014 gone to the court to seek an order to declare their termination as null and void as well as direct the commission and its chairman to reinstate and integrate their names into the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and pay them all their outstanding…
THE National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) began a four-day intensive training for members. The Bootcamp was organised for the state task force in collaboration with the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public policies (FIIAPP). FIIAPP is a Spanish Public foundation promoting the Action against Trafficking in Person and Smuggling of Migrants (A-TIPSOM) in Nigeria, a project funded by the European Union (EU). Declaring the four-day Bootcamp open, NAPTIP Director-General, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, explained that the task force was a strategic instrument that the NAPTIP adopted to harness counter-trafficking efforts at the sub-national level.…
THE Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says 57.07 per cent of electricity consumers in the country were still on estimated billing as at September 2021. NERC made this known in its Third Quarter Report 2021 obtained on Tuesday by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos from its website. The document showed that only Ikeja, Benin, Enugu and Port Harcourt electricity Distribution Companies had metered over 50 per cent of their customers as at the period. The huge metering gap for end-use customers, according to NERC, remains a key challenge in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). It added…
THE federal government is currently engaging with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) for the development of new therapeutics and a vaccine for Lassa fever, Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this at a three-day National Case Management Training on Lassa fever. Ehanire, represented by the Minister of State, Mr Joseph Nkama, said that the ministry decided to embark on the capacity building in lassa fever case management, because “we know that doing so will go a long way in reducing mortality in these patients. “It is more than 50 years since…
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THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has intensified preparation on its plan to stage a two-day nationwide protest in solidarity with the unions in public universities and others and other tertiary institutions. The NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, and NLC’s General Secretary, Comrade Emma Ugboaja, stated this in a circular they jointly signed dated July 15, 2022. The circular was addressed to the chairpersons and secretaries of NLC’s state councils. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and other trade unions in the education sector have been on strike for over five months over alleged failure of government to keep…
THE Sallah is a period of festivities. Perhaps in that spirit, President Muhammadu Buhari last week in paying a Sallah homage to the Emir of Daura, his hometown, was light-hearted. He told fairy tales. For instance, he said of his children: “They already know that I am not leaving anything for anyone to inherit.” What does he really need to leave for his children who take private rides in the presidential fleet? How much does he really need to leave for them that would be enough for them and their grandchildren? The magic of putting meat in the mouth…