The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday finally agreed to call off its strike which has lasted for 8 months. The union leadership reached the consensus during a meeting with the government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Friday, Nov 27, in Abuja. The FG also
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The Federal Government says it will not rescind its decision to regulate social media. It said this was necessary to checkmate the surge of fake news, which it said almost plunged the nation into disintegration during the recent #ENDSARS protests. Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed said social media was used to guide arsonists
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The Federal Government said on Saturday only professionally qualified teachers with first-class degrees would be employed as teachers starting from next year. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Arc. Sonny Echonu made this known during a monitoring exercise of the Professional Qualifying Examination,PQE, organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN. The government which said
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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has resolved to organise a nationwide mass protest to press home its demand for the immediate reopening of all universities across the country. This is part of resolutions reached in a communiqué issued on Wednesday in Enugu after NANS Students’ Leaders Emergency Virtual Meeting held on Nov. 9.
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday disclosed that the Federal Government has employed blackmail strategy in order to send lecturers back to classroom because they are engrossed with the fear that youths might take to the streets in protest against the ongoing industrial action. This was disclosed by the union at the campus
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United Nations (UN) human rights experts have demanded a probe of the Lekki shooting by soldiers. Their statement on Tuesday said the federal government must set up a credible, independent inquiry into “the recent illegal killings of at least 12 peaceful protestors by soldiers”. United Nations (UN) human rights experts have demanded a probe of
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The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19, on Tuesday said 34 states across the country had received N50 billion each from the federal government to support the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, explaining that the federal government has laid out procedures on how such funds should be spent., The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task
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The Federal Government on Tuesday explained why it decided to approach the Brazil for a $1.2bn external loan request to finance agricultural programmes in the 2021 budget. A request for approval has also been transmitted to the National Assembly, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, who appeared before the House of
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The Federal Government on Tuesday assured that the perennial crisis in the nation’s university system, which has resulted in the on-going strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would soon be permanently laid to rest as they expressed their hope for university lectures to go back to lecture room on Wednesday. The Minister
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The Federal Government on Thursday announced a two-day total closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State for a concrete work on some sections. The Federal Controller of Works in the state, Mr Olukayode Popoola, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the closure would begin from midnight of Oct. 30
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The Federal Government last night said that it will commence the distribution of free meters with the target of getting 30 million consumers. The National Mass Metering Programme, NMMP, is expected to commence today, Friday, October 30, 2020, and to be simultaneously launched in Kano, Kaduna, Eko and Ikeja DISCO franchise areas. The free meter
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The Presidency has accused the Amnesty International (AI) of projecting misleading and inaccurate details about recent events both the shooting of unarmed, peaceful EndSARS protesters by soldiers in Lekki, Lagos State and other attending chaos in the country that amnesty international feels is against human rights. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,
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As the world awaits the outcome of the final consensus decision on the next World Trade Organisation, WTO, there are indications that Nigerian government may have started diplomatic actions to head-off opposition from the United States of America, USA, against the emergence of Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala for the job. A source at the Ministry of Trade
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The Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) meets again to discuss and reach an agreement to end the eight-month-old strike by the university lecturers on Monday. They had adjourned their meeting till Monday after the meeting last Wednesday ended in a deadlock.The Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, announced the
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The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, said on Monday that the Nigerian government will instate one million electricity metres by the end of this year. Mamman, who made the declaration in a series of Twitter statements via the Office of the Minister of Power Twitter handle, @PowerMinNigeria, said President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a mass
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