The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has challenged the federal government to accept the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) payment platform for it to call off the ongoing strike.

ASUU national president, Prof. Emmanuel Osedeke, who said this while speaking on Channels Television on Monday night, said the strike will continue unless government accept UTAS and honour the 2009 agreement.

It would be recalled that the ASUU strike action, which started on February 14, 2022 has entered 140th day this Monday.

ASUU has been at loggerheads with the federal government, citing the refusal of the latter to honour the 2009 agreement it entered with the Union.

Its demands in the agreements include condition of service of University lecturers to be reviewed every five years, issue of salaries and allowances, revitalisation of public universities, among other issues, University Transparency Accountability Solution and the inconsistencies in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) payment platform.

Osodeke said, “Let government tell us they have finished testing the UTAS and sign the agreement, then tomorrow we will call off the strike.

“We challenge the government, when would they sign the agreement? When would they accept UTAS? These are the two questions we should ask Nigerian government,” he stated.


NECO postpones entrance examinations into Varsity's.

The National Examination Council (NECO) has postponed the National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) entrance examination into the 104 unity colleges established and operated by the Nigerian government.

The culture of sudden postponement of the examination has been practised by the examination body in the last couple of years, as a way of encouraging “states with low registration of candidates the opportunity to register their candidates”



In a statement on Wednesday, Azeez Sani, NECO’s head of the information and public relations division, said the examination, earlier scheduled for Saturday, 23rd April has been moved to Saturday, 7th May 2022.


The statement read in parts: “The National Examinations Council (NECO) has rescheduled the 2022 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) which is conducted for admission into Federal Unity Colleges from 23rd April 2022 to 7th May 2022.


“The Examination was rescheduled to give states with low registration of candidates the opportunity to register their candidates for the examination.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has used a total of 1,423 days to go on strike since the inception of this democratic dispensation in 1999.

This means the Body(ASUU) has used almost 4 years to boycott classes to press there Demands on the Federal Government

Reports says that the strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities entered its 140th day on Monday (today), while the strike declared by the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and other Allied Institutions, which began on March 25, 2022 also entered the 68th day today.

While the National Executive Council of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics is currently meeting in Jigawa State after calling off a two-week warning strike, the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union just commenced a two-month strike.

In a statement made available to journalists on Sunday, SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, noted that the government’s failure to meet ASUU’s demands, implement the agreement it had with the union and satisfactorily resolve the issues, has kept poor Nigerian children at home while the children of the country’s politicians attend private schools.

Oluwadare said, “Inequalities in education have a rolling effect, leading to even more and continued inequalities in the future.

“Apart from being a right in itself, the right to education is also an enabling right. Education creates the voice through which rights can be claimed and protected, and without education, people lack the capacity to achieve valuable functioning as part of the living.

“If people have access to education, they can develop the skills, capacity and confidence to secure other rights. Education gives people the ability to access information detailing the range of rights that they hold together with the government’s obligations.”


The workers of the Adeyemi University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State have declared that the campus of the institution would not have peace if the Federal Government fails to appoint a vice chancellor for the institution.

The workers had earlier protested the alleged failure of the Federal Government to appoint a vice chancellor after the institution had been upgraded to a university from a College of Education status. The non-teaching staff unions of the school – the Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education of Nigeria, the National Association of Academic Technologists of Nigeria and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities Associated Institutions, vowed to continue the protest until the federal government heeds their call.

The protesters disclosed that the current Provost of the school, Dr Samuel Akintunde, had been given another term of four years to be provost instead of appointing a VC. The action, they said, was to retain the institution’s status as a college of education. One of the leaders of the protesters and leader of the Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education of Nigeria of the institution, Comrade Obeyo Cletus, said the federal government had refused to regard the institution as a university six months after it had been upgraded as the principal officers have not been appointed, particularly the vice chancellor.

He said , “We are here as teaching staff of this institution. Since January this year that the university has been upgraded and gazetted to be a university, we have not got a vice chancellor. We are telling the government that we need our university; we need our vice chancellor. Enough is enough. “The head of this institution now is a provost and a provost cannot head a university. Everything we are doing here amount to illegality, because we are not a university yet without a vice chancellor. We have written letters to all stakeholders about the matter and in one month time and nothing is being done, there would be no peace on this campus.” The three unions in a congress held after the protest accused the governing council of the Adeyemi College of Education of frustrating the process of taking off of the university despite the signing of the bill that upgraded the institution into law by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

The communique read in part, “The position of the governing council is working against the stand of the Federal Government of Nigeria as indicated in the university gazette. The governing council is hereby challenged to have negated the Federal Government of Nigeria’s position. The unions observed with dismay that the governing council concealed information from members of staff as regards the university status and used that to reappoint the College Provost and Registrar to torpedo the take-off of the University, despite that Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, is no longer in existence by law. “The act of the Governing Council was illegal and dereliction of functions. The official gazette empowers the governing council to still continue in office as the council of the university but not as Council of College of Education. Hence, such provision negates the decision of the governing council to re-appoint the provost and the registrar for a second term in office when there is no more College of Education.”

Also, in the communique, the congress gave the FG 30 days ultimatum to ensure “immediate take-off of the university as established by the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (the university should have taken off since December 23, 2021 when accented into Law by President Muhammadu Buhari).” They also called for the ” immediate reversal of the reappointment of the provost and the college registrar for a second term. The official gazette should be fully implemented with immediate effect. The Federal Government of Nigeria should honour her laws and act accordingly.”

CREDIT: THE PUNCH


 



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NEW MUSIC - JHEFFO - ALONE


Erhun-Osunbor Jefferson (born 19 SEPTEMBER 2001) aka JHEFFO who was formerly known as stoneblinz, is an Afro- singer, song writer and performing artiste is set to storm the Nigerian music industry with his new debut single titled “ALONE”.

Erhun-Osunbor Jefferson formerly known as Stoneblinkz now known as JHEFFO was born in ketu Lagos State, and hails from Edo State Nigeria. He is the last born from the family of 5.

Jheffo is set drop his single titled (Alone) and will be released on the 12th of March 2022.
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The Nigerian Police Confirm DCP Abba Kyari and Four others and hand them over to NDLEA
Over the Involvement in an alleged case of Criminal conspiracy. Other listed offences Listed against them are discreditable, unethical and unprofessional conduct with corruption and Many others, In a case involving Prepetual transnational drug cartel.

The arrest of the officers was a sequel to pieces of information received from the leadership of the NDLEA on the 10 of February

Acting spokesman of the Forces, Muyiwa Adejobi confirmed this statement on Monday afternoon. They were arrested in the early hours on Monday. Mr Femi Babafemi, Spokesman of the NDLEA said that they were declared wanted because they Refused to honour the invitation sent to them.

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A Lady couldn't hold her tears as she found out her Boyfriend of 4 years used her for money Rituals 

A Video and screenshot of her crying and her Whatsapp text with him........ Were discovered. The Boyfriend who had supposedly used her Underwear for money Making Rituals.

Reacting to such unfortunate situations, I advise Ladies  to be more vigilant amid the rising killings in the country

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Dr. Soyemi, a consultant pathologist, Dr. Sunday Soyemi at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital presented a report of postmortem of the deceased  Sylvester Oromini on Tuesday. 
Dr. Soyemi said,"Before I started the autopsy the doctor who conducted the first autopsy was present. So I observed the autopsy wasn't properly done. For example at the first autopsy, the pathologist never opened the oesophagus (which is the food pipe). 

He also did not open the trachea (which is the air pipe through which we breath). This are vital things that he shouldn't have missed out. He also refered to his report claming chemical intoxication, for one to be intoxicated with chemical that chemical has to pass through the oesophagus.

Dr. Soyemi affirms that it could never had been any chemical intoxication if it didn't near the oesophagus. 

He also stated that the first pathologist didn't detached the lungs from the heart. He said," If he had done that the weight alone will tell you something is wrong with the lungs. I would say he did a botched autopsy".

Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, faulted the evidence of the pathologist. He said, "His autopsy is self explanatory. Your Lordship has allowed the witness speak authoritatively of a document that have not been tendered. We therefore urge your honour to stop the witness move by the DPP".

The Coroner, Mr. Kadiri disagreed with objection of Mr Falana, however requested that the documents be served to the counsel. 

However, some of the counsel insisted that they don't want to be part of any potential and sensitive document.

Mr. Falana queried some observations in the evidence report done by the pathologist. 

He asked "Don't you think the blackish substance in the intestine of the deceased should have been taken to a toxicology laboratory in view that the deceased was poisoned?" 

He responded that the blackish substance was not poison but could be anything.

Dr. Soyemi claims that if there was any harmful chemical substance in the body there would have been a form of bruise and a lining.

However, several examination where done by the counsel. 

The Coroner Magistrate Kadiri adjourned the case to 14th of February 2022 for further investigation. 
Canadian rapper Drake unfollowed Rihanna on Instagram after she announced she was pregnant.⁣
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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are expecting their first child together.⁣
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According to several reports, Drake unfollowed both A$AP Rocky and Rihanna following the pregnancy announcement.⁣
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There have always been unconfirmed reports that Drake and Rihanna were at some point an item.⁣
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However, the music stars have always denied the rumours that they once dated.⁣
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Interestingly, Drake later re-followed A$AP Rocky on Instagram.⁣
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Rihanna only recently took to her Instagram page where she shared more of her pregnancy photos.⁣
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The Barbadian singer and A$AP Rocky have been dating for a while.⁣
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A$AP Rocky confirmed that they were an item during an interview with GQ Magazine in 2021.⁣
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"So much better. So much better when you got the One. She amounts to probably, like, a million of the other ones. I think when you know, you know. She's the One," he said during the interview.⁣
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The rapper has previously dated celebrities such as Kendall Jenner in 2017 and Brazilian model Daiane Sodré in 2019⁣.