GABI TAINMENT

1. The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held an emergency meeting at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, Abuja on Sunday, 28th August, 2022. The meeting was called mainly to review developments since its last resolution that rolled over the nationwide strike action for another four weeks starting from 1st August, 2022. 2. NEC observed with regret that the Union had experienced a lot of deceit of the highest level in the last five and half years as the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) engaged ASUU in fruitless and unending negotiation without a display of utmost fidelity. In 2017, the Federal Government constituted a committee to renegotiate the 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement under the chairmanship of Dr. Wale Babalakin. After three years of fruitless negotiation, Dr. Babalakin was replaced in December 2020 with Professor Emeritus Munzali Jibril. The Renegotiation Committee produced and submitte...

Details have surfaced that actually Dr Patrick Sunday Dakum, the Chief Executive Officer of the reverred Institute of Human Virology, Abuja Nigeria, picked the Plateau State Labour Party governorship ticket through a clean and the most democratic process seamlessly. This revelation was given in a chat with Dr Dakum by a select media executives including Arise TV, Emerald Magazine, Jat HotNews Newspaper, the NewsGate Magazine, PRTVC, the Newscrest Newspaper and Trust News Online in his Jos residence on Sunday 7th August, 2020.  In his usual relaxed mood and quoting the holy scripture, Dr Dakum said the Labour Party Headquarters invited him to pick the party's governorship ticket, despite the fact that five other serious contenders had approached the Labour Party for weeks to fly the flag of their party but the LP settled for Dakum after the assurance that they have written the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the vacancy existing. The letter was shown ...

In a very exciting and patriotic twist, the Plateau Diaspora communities in the US, UK, Canada, German and South Africa put forward a bold offer to crowd fund the development of the Jos Main Market. The diaspora community put the offer, as a counter-offer to JAIZ bank’s offer to rebuild the market for N10 billion. Making their case at a parley organised by the project management office of the Plateau State Government, hosted by the Chief of Staff, Mr Noel Dongjur, former commissioner Mr. Jaafaru David Wuyep and the DG of the Plateau Infrastructure Promotion & Regulatory Agency (PPP Office) Mr Felix Rwang-Dung. The Plateau Diaspora community confirmed that they are ready to pool funds together (into what they tagged a “Diaspora Fund”, contributing N1 million per head in order to crowd fund the initiative). They argued that they’d rather do this, than have the equity of such a priced asset handed over to external investors –they said that the main market offers a unique o...

As part of measures to protect local industries and save the country’s economy from further collapse, the Nigerian Government, on, Monday, announced the banning of the importation of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, made the statement in Lagos at the Nigerian Telecommunications Indigenous Content Expo (NTICE) organized by the Nigeria Office for Developing Indigenous Telecoms Sector (NODITS) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Terrorists hiding in Osun, Ogun forests, planning massive attacks in Southwest – Gani Adams Pantami said Africa’s biggest country should not be importing things that could be produced within. “Let me make it clear that the federal government will no longer tolerate the importation of sim cards. We are now producing them in Nigeria. “Our aim is to increase indigenous content in the ICT sector so that by 2025, we will be self-reliant by at least 80 percent”, the minister not...

1. An emergency metting of the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, Abuja, on Sunday, 31th July, 2022. The meeting was called to review developments since NEC's resolution to extend its roll-over strike action by another 12 weeks with effect from 9th May, 2022. 2. The NEC meeting took place against the backdrop of government's obligations as spelt out in the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with ASUU on 23rd December 2020. Specifically, NEC recalled that government's failure to conclude the process of renegotiating the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, deploy the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), pay outstanding arrears of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA), release agreed sum of money for the revitalization of public universities (Federal and States), address proliferation and governance issues in State Universities, settle pro...