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Recent report on ASUU strike gathered that the union (Academic Staff Union of Universities) rejected Berekete Family radio’s intervention to end the ongoing strike. The incident reportedly occurred this morning, June 11, 2022, as the host of the radio programme, Ahmad Isah, popularly known as Ordinary president, invited ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, and his team, to explain to Nigerians the perennial problems and state why the union is still on strike. Recall that ordinary president set up a special intervention bank account domiciled in TAJ Bank to raise funds for the union, with a view to ending the strike. ♦️ Apparently to convince ASUU to buy into the idea of the intervention, Isah publicly showed the N50 million cash donated by Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State. ♦️ Immediately the money was displayed, ASUU President frowned at the development, saying they should not be associated with such. ♦️At that point, Isah threatened to discontinue the intervent...

The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has said the warning strike embarked upon by the union on February 14, would soon be truncated. The ASUU national president stated this yesterday while speaking on the Human Rights Radio, producers of the popular national radio/TV programme, Brekete Family Show. He blamed the minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, for politicising the strike which has failed to yield positive results. “When this thing started, the minister of labour took over the control of this process and politicised it, looking for press conferences but I can assure you on this issue now, presently the minister of education is handling it and we are making some good progress." “I hope it continues this way and within a short time, God helping, and if there are no third parties, we believe that this thing will be resolved very soon," he said. Meanwhile, Osodeke has pleaded with Nigerian...

According to ASUU and SSANU national presidents, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke and Mr Mohammed Ibrahim respectively, the Briggs committee has been meeting with the various unions since May 2022 to renegotiate their agreements. ASUU national presidents, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke in a recent report disclosed that ‘‘There is progress both on FG and the Briggs committee meeting but it depends on the government side. We had a fairly good meeting we are still trying to resolve the issues. Until we get the final report from the government. We are trying to work in the same direction. They are also testing UTAS.’’ Reports gathered that the committee would submit its report to the FG this week or they could be given an extension. Meanwhile FG and varsity unions’ renegotiation committee sitting will allegedly end today (if otherwise, this article will be updated). On the live Interview between ASUU National President, Osadeke, and Brekete family station this morning Around 7:30am, the VC Net...

A total of 3,135 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry examinations candidates who scored 300 and above in 2018, 2019 and 2020 did not gain admission into tertiary institutions. According to report, the figure is based on the admission statistics prepared by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for the three years. The statistics for 2018, 2019 and 2020 were made available on the board’s website. Meanwhile, the board is still working on the 2021 statistics following the conclusion of the 2021 admissions. Reports gathered that while tertiary institutions are at liberty to determine their respective cut-off marks for admission, there is a widely held belief that candidates who score higher marks have advantages over those with poor UTME scores. In 2018, JAMB noted that though a total of 4,683 candidates scored 300 and above, only 3,683 gained admission while 1,000 candidates were unable to gain admission. In 2019, a total of 2,967 candidates scored 3...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA to subject the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS and the two other proposed payment solutions proposed by University workers to integrity test. This is as the Federal Government is making efforts towards ensuring that the Consiquential Adjustment/ minimum wage arrears are paid to the striking university workers this week in order to persuade them call off the ongoing strike. In another report , the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Calabar branch has said the body is prepared to remain on strike till 2023 if necessary. Chairman of ASUU in the University of Calabar, UNICAL, Dr Edor J. Edor, said the body is prepared to remain on strike and hungry until President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government offers something concrete. Edor disclosed this while reacting to Buhari’s appeal that ASUU should call-off the lingering industrial...

JAMB has released results of the just concluded 2022 UTME Examination. The examination body, made this known in a statement signed by its Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, on Saturday in Abuja. Part of the statement read: “To check the 2022 UTME result, all a candidate needs to do is to simply send UTMERESULT to 55019 using the same phone number that he/she had used for registration and the result would be returned as a text message. This is the only process of checking the 2022 UTME results for now as the Board has not uploaded it on its website for obvious reasons." “In addition, candidates are forewarned that they would, as usual, receive all kinds of messages from desperate fraudsters on how to check their results different from the aforementioned one. Hence, the Board urges all candidates to ignore all such messages on how to check their 2022 UTME results as they are all products of deceit aimed at misleading them. “The Board, in line with its de...

Some Muslim youths are reportedly planning a protest in Sokoto State to demand the release of two suspects arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu. According to report, the youths agreed to meet at the Gawon Nama Roundabout by 9am. This was disclosed in a notice circulating online and two phone numbers were scribbled on the notice but the date of the meeting was not stated in the e-flyer written in Hausa. The translated version of the notice read, “We are calling on Muslims in Sokoto State to gather where there was a riot to save brethren in Islam that are battling the faith of Islam and upholding the respect of prophet of Allah S.A.W.” The Police Public Relations Officer in Sokoto, Sanusi Abubabar, confirmed the brewing protest in a telephone interview with News Agency Of Nigeria on Saturday. “We are on top of the situation,” he said, adding that the police authorities in Sokoto are in talks with leaders of thoughts and opinion moulders in ...

Students of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) and Bauchi State University, Gadau (BASUG) have commenced the mobilization of their female colleagues ahead of their plan to stage a half-naked street protest against the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Some of the students, who spoke to Newsmen on condition of anonymity, asked the Federal Government to resolve its problems with the Union to enable them to return to school. One of them said: “So far we’ve contacted more than 500 female students and they have agreed to participate in the protest and we’re expecting more before the final day. They slammed the Federal Government and ASUU for neglecting their responsibilities of providing a conducive and uninterrupted learning environment for the students." “As law-abiding students, we’ve been patient enough, our career future is in danger because of some unpatriotic citizens who only care and are concerned by their children and families,” ...

One of Deborah’s coursemates, identified simply as Rakia, told NAN that Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College Education, Sokoto, who was killed on Thursday for allegedly “making blasphemous statements about Prophet Muhammad (SAW) had pleaded for mercy and called out for help before she died. Narrating the incident, she said Deborah was flogged, killed, and burnt and it was the most horrible thing she has ever witnessed. Her words: “Deborah was my course mate. I just stepped into the class when the uproar on her voice note started." ”It was her own coursemates that started it. One of them said Deborah dared them by refusing to apologise when she was asked to. It all started with a debate on the upcoming examination on a general WhatsApp platform created for our coursemates. One of the students asked her how she passed the last semester’s examination and in response, she said it was ‘Jesus o.’ “Immediately, about three other chats came in from two Muslims an...

The Federal Government has reportedly 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. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, the Non-Academic Staff Union, and the Association of Academic Technologists are currently on strike. The unions embarked on strike actions while demanding improved welfare packages, better working conditions and implementation of various labour agreements signed with the Federal Government between 2009 and 2015. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige said, “We had a cordial and fruitful discussion; we looked at the issues dispassionately and reached some agreements, to the satisfaction of every...

Academic staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other University unions will continue their ongoing strike as the tripartite meeting with the Federal Government ended in deadlock. Although ASUU President refused to speak to journalists on the details of the meeting, one of the union members said that there was nothing new except that the government team wanted them to call off the strike for a period of time which they rejected. Adding that the union won't call off the strike action until it's demands are met. According to him, “There was nothing on ground for us to consider. We are not stopping the strike until something concrete is done." But the Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige who spoke to journalists after the meeting claimed the negotiations were fruitful. His words:  “We have reached some agreements and we hope that by next week, those agreements will be maturing and the different unions will have something to tell their members, so ...

It's no longer news that the students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Ogun State Joint Campus Committee, stormed the Obada axis of the highway with placards, chanting anti-government songs. However, speaking on behalf of the students, the NANS Chairman in Ogun State, Kehinde Simeon, said the extension of the strike would worsen the insecurity in the country. He added that FG and members of ASUU must agree and reach a comprise to end the strike before students take to anarchy. His words: “It is so unfortunate that the Federal Government is playing politics with the lives of Nigerian students. We have been clamouring ever since the commencement of this ASUU strike that something should be done with immediate effect, but it is obvious that both the Federal Government and ASUU have decided to turn deaf ears to our agitations." “It is so evident that none of the children of these politicians, government officials and by extension...

Former President Goodluck Ebelechukwu Jonathan has reportedly decided to run for president in 2023, barely 48 hours after disowning a nomination form procured for him by a northern group. Recall that the former President had on May 9, 2022 rejected presidential expression of interest and nomination forms of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) bought for him by a Fulani group. He later visited APC chairman Abdullahi Adamu, a shuttle his aides said was to distance himself from the purchase. According to a credible source in Mr Jonathan’s camp, state-run newswire, News Agency of Nigeria, “Mr Jonathan has finally made up his mind to vie for the top post he lost to the incumbent in 2015." The source, pleading anonymity, told NAN that the former president has also joined the APC formally, having registered at his Otuoke Ward in Bayelsa. Meanwhile, Mr Jonathan is expected to submit the duly filled forms bought on his behalf on Thursday, the source offered further. Ac...

The young lady, simply identified as Mirabel who trended in a viral video having carnal knowledge with a dog in the Lekki area of Lagos has reportedly died of infection at a private hospital in Yaba. According Daily Independent online edition, and several other News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN) she died of canine brucellosis on Monday. Reports gathered that the lady had been on admission since Sunday last week after she collapsed and went into a coma. It was also added that the deceased confessed to the doctor when the test result showed that she was suffering from what looks like canine brucellosis, and which can only be contracted from a dog. According to the medic, canine brucellosis is a contagious bacterial infection caused by the bacterium, BrucellaCanis (B. canis). She said bacterial infection is highly contagious among dogs. Infected dogs usually develop an infection of the reproductive system or a sexually transmitted disease. The doctor in charge of the hospital said, ...

Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba has reportedly tendered his resignation. This was according to reports, confirmed as President Muhammadu Buhari ordered all cabinet members interested in contesting the 2023 general elections quit his government. The development made Buhari excited, as he also singled the minister out for braving the odds to quit.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has declared Asuu strike as illegal, adding that labour workers who are agitating for an increment in salaries are at work. Why will university workers be different from other workers? He disclosed this in Abuja while speaking on the National Productivity Day, which will be hosted by President Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Thursday. “When issues are being resolved and employees refuse to go back to work, it is a breach of the labour law," he added. The labour minister maintained that “the ministry has successfully resolved 1,683 cases since he assumed office, and University workers are not the only workers in Nigeria. The issue of revision of salaries and emoluments is not strictly a concern of the workers alone. There are other strata of workers that are agitating for salary increment as well.” “The workers that are agitating for an increment in salaries are at work. Why will university workers be different...

Boubini Miyensinte Jones-Wonni, a 22-Year-old Nigerian Girl has emerged as the best graduating student in all three levels of education in USA. She graduated on the 6th of May 2022 as the best graduating student in the Howard University Medical School class of 2022, and happens to be the youngest in the class and has now been admitted into Harvard University for Postgraduate Training. About Miss Jones-Wonni: Boubini Miyensinte Jones-Wonni was born in Ido-ani, a town in Ondo State, Nigeria, on the 23rd of October 1999 to the family of Dr and Mrs Jones-Wonni. She hails from Arogbo Ese- Odo local government area of Ondo State. While in High school, she continued on the path of hard work and diligence. As such, she was made the library Prefect, was awarded a full tuition fee waiver in her final year by the management of the school, and subsequently graduated as the best graduating student and valedictorian for the graduating class of 2014 at the age of Fourteen (14) in the year...

The Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has reportedly withdrawn the accreditation given to Abia State University school of medical sciences for the study of medicine and surgery. The regulatory body withdrew the approval following a long trail of inadequacies at the Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba (ABSUTH) which is the training environment for Clinical Medical Students and forms part of the teaching facilities. According to a statement by the Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Abia State chapter, Dr. Chimezie Okwuonu, the School will no longer admit new students to study Medicine and Surgery.

An elder statesman and senior lawyer, Robert Clarke, SAN, has on Monday said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), should be granted an extension of tenure to curb the issues of insecurity in the country. According to him, the president should serve for an extra six months to give him enough time to address the country’s security woes. He added that with less than a year to the 2023 elections there was not enough time to address the insecurity to ensure a safe exercise. Clarke’s assertion came barely three weeks after legal luminary, Afe Babalola, suggested that the country should suspend its 2023 elections instead and institute an interim government after Buhari’s tenure elapses. He also noted that the Constitution provided the President to extend his tenure for six months in the first instance if conditions were not ripe for an election. His words: “The Constitution provides that the President can stay longer than eight years. I’ve always said it. It is i...

The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities in Nigeria has expressed total displeasure over the extension of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by another 12 weeks, saying the development would further slow down Nigeria’s progress. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the committee, Prof Sulyman Age Abudulkareem, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), when his reaction to the 3 months strike extension was sought. According to him, “ASUU had originally been on a one-month warning strike and rolled the action over in the month of March for another two months before it is now announced additional three months, all because the Federal Government did not yield to its demands, which all bother on the money." Prof Abdulkareem added that students staying at home when they suppose to be in class studying even for a day let alone for many months as the current case in Nigerian public universities...

The federal government had reportedly disclosed that it was looking into the report that was recently submitted by the committee on renegotiation of the 2009 FG-ASUU agreement and pleaded with the university teachers to call off the ongoing indefinite strike and resume work while it continues to address their demands. It equally accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), of breaching labour laws by extending the ongoing strike for another three months. This was disclosed by the Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige, while reacting to the union’s extension of strike by 12 weeks (3 months). According to him, the Ministry of Education had already written him to submit the interim report of the Prof. Mimi Brigg- led renegotiation committee and that they are working on the interim report. He added that as far as government was concerned, the demands of the lecturers are being addressed because discussion on the issues they raised is ongoing. A...

Figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria have revealed that NIGERIA’S monthly debt service rose by $31.46m in one month to $101.29m in January. This indicates a 45 per cent increase month-on-month. The CBN reportedly disclosed in its data on debt service repayment that the government spent $69.83m on debt service repayment in December. The data also showed that the government spent $148.57m and $85.23 on debt service repayment in November and October 2021 respectively. The Debt Management Office in its statement revealed that Nigeria’s outstanding debt stood at N39.57tn or $95.78bn as of the end of December 2021. It added that total external debt gulped 40.08 per cent, totalling N15.86tn or $38.39bn in the period under review. The total public debt rose from N27.4tn or $80.05bn as of the end of December 2019 to N32.92tn or $86.4bn as of the end of December 2021. Meanwhile, the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise had said Nigeria’s debt, including that of...

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) will on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, embark on a nationwide strike action in protest against the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action reached with the Federal Government in May 2021. This comes after Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) rolled over it's industrial action to 3 more months. Mr Precious Nwakodo, the Zonal Coordinator of Zone D which comprises of South-South and South-East, disclosed this at a press briefing held in Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, on Monday. According to him, the planned strike was hinged on the yet to be met demands among which are the non-release of the N15 billion Revitalisation Fund approved over a year for the sector to address infrastructural deficit as contained in the 2014 Needs Assessment Report. His words: “Following the discouraging response of the federal government to the one month notice of ultimatum which ended five days ago, May 4 the NEC of the union will be...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reportedly disclosed that it would not yield to the decision by the federal government to “starve” its members over the ongoing prolonged strike. The Union described the decision as ill-advised, and said rather than forcing its members to back down, it would complicate matters. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Monday 9th May, 2022, by ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, to announce the extension of the three-month-old strike by additional three months.  Part of the statement reads: “The Federal Government’s resort to the use of starvation as a weapon for breaking the collective resolve of ASUU members and undermine our patriotic struggle to reposition public universities in Nigeria is ill-advised and may prove counterproductive” Osadeke also decried the failure of the government to accede to its request, and accused the elected and appointed government officials of showing no concern because their children and...

Recent reports had it that Former President Goodluck Ebelechukwu Jonathan has picked the APC presidential form, but News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN) confirmed that he only picked the expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to report, a northern group picked the forms on behalf of Jonathan at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja, on Monday evening. Meanwhile, Jonathan is yet to announce his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC. This is a developing story, as more update is made available, this article will be updated.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has on Monday 9th May, 2022, vowed to block all federal roads and airports in the country to protest the 12-week extension of the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. This was disclosed by the Association's President, Sunday Asefon, in a statement made available to newsmen. Comr. Sunday also condemned the inaction of the regime of the Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) administration over the industrial action which started on February 14, 2022. He further affirmed that students of public universities would disrupt primary elections and conventions by political parties scheduled for May ending. Recall that the Academic Staff Union of Universities in a statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke on Monday, 9th May, 2022, rolled over its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks.

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, of Rivers state has responded to the 48-hour ultimatum given to him by members of the socio,-cultural organization of the Ijaw nation to release House of Representatives member, Hon Farah Dagogo. Recall that, a federal lawmaker representing Degema/Bonny in the House of Representatives, Dagogo was allegedly arrested on Governor Wike’s order last week for allegedly disrupting the screening of governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt. He was said to have been arrested alongside others and ordered to be remanded in police custody by a magistrate’s court in the state. Reports gathered that Governor Wike had earlier declared Dagogo wanted “for hiring cultists to attack the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Port Harcourt”. However, the Ijaw National Congress through its President, Professor Benjamin Okaba, in a statement titled “Arrest of Hon Farah Dagogo: Political Persecution of An Ijaw Son” and releas...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja over the alleged plan to disqualify him from the 2023 presidential primaries slated for the end of this month. Reports gathered that, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given political parties a deadline of June 3 to submit their candidates for the 2023 elections. Meanwhile, Lawyers and critics had argued that Emefiele was unfit to run going by Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act. The section states that no political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the Convention or Congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election. But Emefiele in a document, through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, argued that he is more or less a civil servant and by provision of the constitution, he is expected to resign a month before the February 25, 2023, presidential election. He ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reportedly extended its industrial action by 12 weeks (3 Months). This was disclosed in a statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke on Monday, 9th May, 2022. "This is to give the government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues."   the statement reads partly. It also stated that the roll-over strike was effective from 12.01 am, May 8, 2021. The decision was according to the Union, taken after its National Executive Council meeting which started on Sunday night at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja. They further accused the Federal Government of being unserious. Note that, the union is demanding the release of revitalization funds for universities, renegotiation and implementation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement amongst other demands. STICK AROUND FOR MORE UPDATES.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, has reportedly disclosed that the union did not receive any notice of meeting from the Ministry of Labour and Employment over its ongoing strike. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, had during a meeting with the striking National Association of Academic Technologists on Friday, promised to meet with ASUU this week. But the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, told newsmen on Sunday that the union had yet to receive any notice of a meeting from any Federal Government ministry. His words: “We have not received any notice of meeting from them. They didn’t call us. We are not begging them to meet with us and we will not go to them if they do not invite us. It is part of his (Ngige’s) political campaign, we didn’t receive any invite." On what would be ASUU’s decision at the end of its two-month rollover strike which ends on Friday , Osodeke said, “My people will decide. No meeting, if we do not hear...