THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige said on Sunday that the “no work no pay” clause regarding strikes and industrial actions has been invoked by the Federal Government on the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) since June, this year. Ngige gave this explanation while insisting that the members of ASUU had not been exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) platform; as the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) an alternative platform designed by ASUU was undergoing usability test until declared usable and operable by all relevant government agencies.…
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As civil servants in Ondo State are calling on the government to hold a meeting with them over alleged unpaid salaries and deductions, the state government has agreed to meet organised labour unions in the state on Monday (today). The unions last week issued an eight-day ultimatum to the government to meet with them to resolve the issue of the workers’ accumulated salaries and deductions, failing which they threatened to embark on an industrial action. In the letter to the government, the organised labour unions, including the Nigerian Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress and the Joint Negotiating Council, called…
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged security agencies in the country to do more to check the check the growing rate of violence in the country. The President gave the charge on Sunday while reacting to the murder of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State, Chief Philip Shekwo. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President condemned the killing of the party leader, whose contributions to the strengthening of the APC in his state he acknowledged. The President, however, welcomed the decision of the Inspector General of…
House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila on Sunday met with members of the Abuja Newspapers Distributors Association (ANDA) and the Newspapers Vendors Association in Abuja (NVAA) to condole with them over the death of their colleague, Ifeanyi Okereke. Gbajabiamila, who visited the newspapers’ distribution centre at Area 1 in Abuja, said Ifeanyi, who died from a bullet fired by one of the security aides attached to his convoy, would get justice. He said: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it always bends towards justice.” The Speaker, who expressed grief over the incident, said the House would honour…
The 2023 election permutations may consume the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Some governors, ex-governors and influential leaders have started the search for a successor to National Chairman Uche Secondus. It was learnt that some PDP governors and leaders, who are under pressure from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to defect, are bidding time over the expected leadership change before making up their minds on what steps to take. But Secondus has told the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party tbat his team improved the electoral fortunes of the PDP in the last three…
Labour union representatives yesterday staged a walk-out from a meeting with the Nigerian Government. The labour union walked out of the meeting barely five minutes after it started. The president of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Quadri Olaleye, told Channels Television that the hike in the price of fuel and electricity tariffs were top on the meeting agenda and not issues of palliatives. He accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of dishonesty and painting the organised labour in a bad light before the general public. Olaleye said, “This meeting is not going to be as usual. Why, because we have…
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has mandated the concessionaire at the Lekki deep seaport to ensure completion in 2022. Amaechi gave the directive during an inspection tour of the facility to ascertain the level of work done so far. The Lekki deep seaport is the first of four deep seaports being constructed by the federal government to improve on what obtains at the other ports across the country. During the tour, it was disclosed that the seaport would have a draught of 16.5 meters, the first if its kind in Nigeria, which would take very big ships and serve…
A Sunday report by an online media, claiming there was another attack by Boko Haram on the convoy of Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, is false. There was neither an attack on the governor directly nor on any component of his convoy. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement issued on Sunday, said Zulum traveled to Baga, spent a day supervising the distribution of food and other relief to thousands of residents and returned to Maiduguri safely with no hitch whatsoever. “For the record, we write to quickly clarify that contrary to a “breaking news” by an online…
The Commission said the collaboration has become imperative because it would no longer be able to achieve its mandate without strengthening collaboration with citadels of knowledge The Chairman, Board of Commissioners of NCC, Prof. Adeolu Akande, stated this during a courtesy visit by NCC Board members to Bayero University, Kano (BUK) at the weekend as part of activities lined up for the 2020 NCC Board retreat held in Kano State. According to Akande, who praised the university for producing Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, the NCC superintends a sector that is knowledge-driven and therefore,…
Fashola urged the contractors whose section spanned from Ojota in Lagos to Sagamu Interchange to make the construction wear a ‘human face’ that addressed hardship of road users. “Understand that you do it for people and we want a sense of compassion. Plan with the controllers of Lagos and Ogun,” he said. In their presentation the Managing Director, Julius Berger, Mr Lars Richters alongside his project manager, Mr Thomas Christl took turns to explain efforts to speed up construction in spite of reckless driving and high traffic volume. The duo also explained progress recorded on bridges and other construction on…