The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abuja Zone, on Monday called on the Federal Government for the implementation of extant agreements for the development of educational sector in the country. Prof. Theophilus Lagi, Abuja Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, made the call at a news conference on Monday in Gwagwalada, Abuja, to press home the Union’s demands. The Abuja Zone comprises of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Ibrahim Babangida University, Lapai, Federal University, Lafia, and University of Abuja. Lagi called for renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, payment and mainstreaming of earned academic allowances into salaries,…
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Kaduna Electric has announced the implementation of the revised Service Based Tariff with effect from November 1. This is contained in a statement by the Spokesperson of the comoany, Abdulazeez Abdullahi on Monday. “Prepaid customers will be the first to experience the revised tariff when they vend from Sunday, November 1, 2020, while the revised tariff will reflect in the bills for customers on the postpaid platform when they receive their bill for the month of November. “The approved revised SBT only affects customers on Bands A, B, and C. Band A customers will enjoy a 10% reduction on the…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal, has been bestowed with the award of ‘The Golden Doyen of Nigerian Youths’ by the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN). The governor, at the maiden celebration of the 2020 African National Youth Day organized by the NYCN in collaboration with the state government, which held at Sultan Institute of Qur’an and General Studies, also said that the Sokoto state government would commence youths enterpreurship programme across the state by December 2020. According to him, the programme will be executed by his office and shall run for a pilot period of three months, after which it will…
The Sokoto state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has chided the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, on comments by its Chairman, Isa Achida over governor Aminu Tambuwal’s proposed 342 housing units. AsheNews recalls that Tambuwal had, in commemoration of the number (342) that got him the coveted seat of Governor of Sokoto, proposed to build same number housing units for the people of the state. However, Achida in an article in a national daily claimed that Tambuwal has never completed any project he ever started. In a statement by the Spokesperson of the PDP, Abdullahi Hausawa and made available…
By Tina George, Minna The workers of Kabanti Private Security took on Monday, protested at the Jumai Babangida Aliyu Maternal and Newborn Hospital in Minna over unpaid salaries refusing to return to work until after they are paid. They carried different placards with inscriptions: “Pay us well, we are husbands,” “We are humans, we have children, we fall sick”, “We are hungry, we need to feed our children, pay us our salaries”, etc. The security guards claimed that they are being owed salaries of over seven months while the hospital management claims it is six months. The plight of the…
Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) says it recorded no less than 200 cases of meter bypass and 54 cases of transformer vandalism in six months. The JEDC Head, Corporate Communications, Dr Adakole Elijah, who disclosed this in an interview in Gombe on Monday, said 30 cases of transformer oil theft were also recorded during the period. Elijah said that the act of vandalism was threatening socio-economic activities in the Jos franchise, adding that energy users and JEDC were being affected negatively. “We do not have cases of meter theft in Gombe but we have lots of cases of transformer vandalism,…
The trial of 14 people over the deadly 2015 attack on France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine was suspended for at least a week after three defendants tested positive for the new coronavirus. The news agency AFP reported early on Monday. The trial had already been suspended until Tuesday after the main suspect, Ali Riza Polat, tested positive at the weekend to allow the remaining defendants being held in detention to be tested. Another two defendants tested positive while two were considered close contacts, presiding judge Regis de Jorna wrote to lawyers involved in the case on Sunday, AFP reported. “In view…
Another oil leak, the third in six months, has discharged a yet-to-be-ascertained volume of crude oil polluting the Okpoama community and its environs in Brass local government area of Bayelsa. The leak reportedly occurred on Oct. 28 on the 50-year-old Ogoda-Brass crude pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) near the oil firm’s crude export terminal. Chief Inikio Sele-D, Chairman of Okpoama Kingdom Chiefs’ Council, had earlier said that two oil leaks were reported on May 12 and on Oct 8. Mr Tarinyo Akono, former Chairman of the Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 111 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total now infections now 62,964. The NCDC made this known via its verified Website on Sunday. The centre also reported two deaths, bringing the total to 1,146 recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The agency said Lagos reported 49 new infections, 30 in the FCT, 11 in Rivers and 10 in Plateau. Others are Ogun-four, Kaduna and Oyo-three each Osun-one. The agency said out of the 62,964 confirmed cases, 58,790 have been discharged. The agency also said that since the beginning of the…
The Minister of Youth and Sport Development, Mr Sunday Dare has appealed to the youth to embrace dialogue in order to move the country forward. Dare said this on Sunday in Abuja at the maiden edition of the National Youth Day celebration with the theme ” Invest in the Youth, Secure Our Future”. He said that with what the country had witnessed in the past three weeks, there could be no better time than now to celebrate the youth and validate their contributions to national economic development. According to him, the celebration is an opportunity to reflect, take stock and…