Many of the best singers will be evicted because of the process of voting which is going to be determined by their individual fans/followers votes and not their performance. So sad!
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has issued a one month ultimatum to government for resumption of strike action.
The union had suspended its industrial action which ran for 61 days in June 2021 after reaching an agreement with the government. Addressing journalists in Yola at the end of its 102nd National Executive Council meeting, ASUP’s national president, Anderson Uzeibe, said the decision became necessary after the government failed to implement important aspects of the memorandum of action signed with the union nine months ago.
According to Uzeibe, the government was yet to release the sum of N15 billion as the first tranche of the N800 billion revitalisation fund nine months after the approval by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Other issues include non payment of outstanding arrears of minimum wage, non release of reviewed normative instrument for institutions, management and accreditation, breach of the provisions of the Federal Polytechnic Act as amended in 2019 and delay in the appointment of rectors.
Uzeibe warned that so long as the government and other proprietors in the polytechnic system continue to violate laws and signed agreements, the union would not hesitate to down tool, saying industrial action had become the most potent way for workers to pressurise government.
“Following exhaustive deliberation, the union’s National Executive Council has resolved to give the government a further one month as an ultimatum to address the outstanding issues as listed or face a review of the suspended industrial action by our union,” he stated.
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have been on strike for over a month.
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have also joined last Monday, grounding academic activities in public universities as a result.
The unions have been at loggerheads with the federal government, accusing the government of failing to fulfil most of their demands.
sugarcoatted: Same way they picked her for top 12 when she messed up her song and dropped the likes of Ochiora and other people that did way better than her.
I don't if Nigerians are voting for talent or for preferred candidates. I don't know if the organizers of this show are handpicking them. Precious performance last week was not bad compared to some members of the current 10 top. I don't trust the votes results at all. Please watch Precious last performance after her eviction. Behind the stage.
An independent body should test this UTAS. Government will continue to find faults in UTAS via NITDA. It will take a massive miracle for NITDA to accept UTAS. IPPIS never passed through any form of integrity test before it was implemented. Fear government.
The National Information Technology Development Agency has said that the University Transparency and Accountability Solution proposed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities has failed to fully pass certain testing and quality assurance requirements.
The agency said this in a statement issued on Saturday in response to media reports on its role in the assessment of UTAS.
In the statement, NITDA affirmed its mandate, which involves creating a framework for evaluation and regulation of information technology practices in Nigeria.
The statement read in part, “In line with its mandate, the agency has been registering indigenous software solutions. Part of the registration process requires that solutions are subjected to tests in line with the requirements of the Software Testing and Quality Assurance Framework and Guideline and the Guidelines for Nigerian Content Development in ICT.”
ASUU has been engaging the Federal Government on some issues, such as payment of promotion arrears, earned academic allowance, funding for revitalisation of public Universities, and adoption of UTAS as a payment platform for universities.
NITDA was invited on October 14, 2020, to participate in an interactive session between ASUU, Federal Government and the Legislature.
For the UTAS to be accepted as a payment platform, NITDA was directed to carry out an integrity test on the software.
Phaantom22: Joke aside ghana should have won that match by at least 2goals margin, Nigeria is not a serious team. Today they'll play well tomorrow they can't even pass the ball talkless of making goal attempt. Their presence at the world cup is jus a formality so it doesn't matter if they qualify.
With how many shot attempts? Ghana couldn't pressure our goal keeper all through the ematch. Two goals with those wasted long balls abi
Following what it described as the failure of the Nigerian government to react to its letter earlier issued threatening to down tools, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU) have declared a two-week warning strike.
This is contained in a memo addressed to the leadership of the unions’ branches nationwide and dated Friday, March 25, 2022.
The strike, which is scheduled to take effect by midnight of Sunday, March 27, will further compound the situation across the Nigerian university campuses as the teaching staff under the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are already in the second of their three-month initial strike.
The memo by JAC, which was signed by SSANU president, Mohammed Ibrahim, and NASU general secretary, Peters Adeyemi, is titled; “Commencement of Two-Week Warning Strike.”
The letter reads in part; “In view of the nonchalant attitude of the government to our demands, this is to direct our members in all universities and inter-university centres throughout the country to commence a two-week strike by midnight of Sunday, 27 March, 2022, in the first instance as earlier conveyed to the federal government in our letter.
“Please note that the two-week warning strike should be comprehensive and total as no concession should be given under any guise.
“Your strict compliance and adherence to this directive is mandatory for all branches of NASU and SSANU in the universities and inter-university centres.”
Background In a letter addressed to the office of the minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, and dated March 16, 2022, JAC of SSANU and NASU, had accused the government of insincerity in its implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Memorandum of Action (MoA) reached with the government in October 2020 and February 2021 respectively.
The letter, written at the end of a meeting to review the situation and signed by both Messrs Adeyemi and Ibrahim, gave the Nigerian government up till March 27 to address its demands or face an initial two-weeks strike.
JAC had given two weeks ultimatum to the government to implement the said demands, while it issued ‘red alerts’ to its members, asking them to prepare for a possible showdown with the government.
Demands In a separate interview with PREMIUM TIMES, SSANU national vice president, Abdussobur Salaam, had listed the items in the JAC’s agreement with the Nigerian government to include the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, payment of earned allowances, usurpation of non-academic career positions by vice-chancellors, the inclusion of university staff school into the university community, non-payment of minimum wage arrears, and funding of state universities.
He said university vice-chancellors have continued to defy a court order declaring that the teachers of universities’ staff schools are integral members of the university community.
He added that the government has only paid less than N8 billion of the N30 billion it agreed upon.
“The memorandum of understanding we had was that the renegotiation will be concluded within six weeks. And that was as far back as February 2021. And if you count six weeks from that time we will be talking about sometime in May or maybe April. But here we are, a year later, we have not even been invited for one meeting despite our reminders.” he had said in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES.
Officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service have threatened to embark on strike over what they described as meagre salaries and poor working conditions.
It was gathered that some aggrieved officials complained over their alleged neglect by the Federal Government despite the hazardous nature of their work.
In a document obtained by journalists on Tuesday in Uyo, the aggrieved workers accused the Federal Government of paying more attention to inmates and the correctional facilities across the country without consideration for the welfare of those manning the inmates and the facilities.
They urged President Muhammadu Buhari to set up a welfare committee that will look into their welfare saying they do not have a service commission or effective representation in the National Assembly.
The document stated, “Now the big question is, why (is) all the attention of the Federal Government focusing on the inmates, buildings and others, then neglecting the welfare of the officers employed to take care and correct the inmates in line with the Mandela’s rule?
“In line with the United Nations standard minimum rules (Mandela’s rules), the correctional officers are well paid and taken care of in all capacities to enable them carry out their legitimate responsibilities for the betterment of the inmates and the nation. But here in Nigeria, the reverse is the case.
“Our salaries and allowances are very poor, both senior and junior officers. We are traumatized to the extent that recently some staff commited suicide due to neglect and poor welfare. If this issue is not addressed, we are left with no option but to go on strike.
“We want to draw the attention of the Federal Government that the modus operandi of the NCS must be changed to be commensurate with the new nomenclature. Officers and men should experience the correction firstly in different areas of their livelihood. They should be trained overseas to be able to adapt to system of operation for better productivity and to reduce cases of recidivism.
“Accommodations of the NCS officers both senior and junior are eyesores except those officers who are very lucky to work in Akwa Ibom Command and Ikot Ekpene custodial centre. Thatch/mud houses are still used as accommodation by the NCS officers in different parts of the country. No befitting barracks.
“The Nigerian Correctional Officers and men did not receive a diem and palliative from the Federal Government throughout the Covid-19 lockdown, but we are still committed to our duties, caring for the inmates, providing guards and security to all the correctional centres to avoid any unusual occurrences to the facilities in Nigeria.”
However, the NCS Public Relations Officer, H.U Chukwuedo, denied knowledge of any strike threat by the officers.
“Well I’m not aware of any threat by our officers to go on strike and I’ve not even got the lead from any quarter that any of our staff is protesting over anything,” he said.
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