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ASUU PRESIDENT SPEAKS: It is a wrong perception to label the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) a "nuisance" because of its agitations for an improved university system over the years. If you look carefully, you will find that our engagements with Nigerian governments (state and federal) since 1982 have always focused on four key elements: funding for qualitative university education, improved conditions of service for scholars in order to arrest "brain drain" academic freedom and university autonomy, and other matters relating to the efficient functioning of public universities such as laws and policies that hamstring the system. Cumulatively, ASUU has had six series of negotiations with successive governments in Nigeria and reached five collective bargaining agreements based on those four key elements earlier enumerated. These agreements were painstakingly undertaken between ASUU teams and government teams (with participants drawn from relevant FG...

Daily Post Nigeria NEWS Published   49 seconds ago on   May 1, 2020 By   John Owen Nwachukwu Adelaja Adeoye, the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to pay every Nigerian a sum of N200,000 as stimulus package, over the ravaging scourge codenamed COVID-19. He made the call in Lagos on Thursday during a chat with newsmen. According to him, it is necessary for the government to provide some palliatives, to support individuals and families who may no longer work during the stay at home order, over the fear of Corona Virus. He made a further called on all state governors to pay double salaries to their state work force, and pay indegenes a sum of N50,000 each. “To make the process seamless and transparent, the government can partner with banks to achieve this, since over 40 million Nigerian citizens have been connected through Bank V...

4'   NEWS Published   May 1, 2020           ‌ Sola Shittu, Benin The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday, extended by another 14 days the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed on the state 10 days ago. The governor also declared wanted, a nursing mother, Mrs Amaka Okoro, who had tested positive for COVID-19 with her baby. Speaking at a media briefing in Benin, Obaseki said, “Since my last public update about 10 days ago, I am here to inform you that we have made tremendous progress. “Working closely with public and private hospitals, we have screened about 20,000 people and tested 297 citizens. This increased screening and testing is the reason for the increased number of cases in the state. “We are aggressively pushing to screen our minimum target of about 500,000 people and test about one per cent of them, which is about 5,000 in the next few weeks.” The governor added that out of the 20,000 people scree...

WORKERS DAY: GOVERNOR LALONG SALUTES PL ATEAU WORKERS Plateau State Governor and Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum Simon Bako Lalong has congratulated Nigerian workers, particularly those in Plateau State for their sacrifices and productivity in the development of the State and Nigeria as a whole. Governor Lalong in a congratulatory message to mark this year's Workers Day described Nigerian workers as the engine room for the progress and stability of Nigeria especially in critical times. He said " I want to use this opportunity to specially appreciate workers in Plateau State who have supported our Rescue Administration by ensuring that the engine of governance continues to operate seamlessly despite challenges. They have demonstrated this severally especially now that we are facing a common enemy, Corona Virus". Lalong said the workers agreed without any hesitation or compulsion to the recommendation of Government to suspend the implementation of the new ...

COVID-19: The fight is now in your hands, FG tells Nigerians April 28, 2020   The Federal government has said the gradual easing of the restrictions imposed to curtail the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) meant that all Nigerians must begin to take personal responsibility for the fight henceforth. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 Pandemic, Mr. Boss Mustapha, said this during Tuesday’s daily media briefing by the task force in Abuja. According to Mustapha, the success of Nigeria’s national response effort against COVID-19 would now depend largely on the personal and collective responses of Nigerians, whom he said need to start taking responsibility for their actions from now on, especially as it concerned the COVID-19 fight. “It is very important that we acknowledge the fact that the next phase we are going into is a very serious one, it’s the phase of personal responsibility and...