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They coming from cross river state doesn't mean that they got infected in cross river.

senatordave1:
Yes you are right.hes over qualified and highly competent.he almost got it in 2010 and 2015.I don't see anything stopping him this time.again being an old boy of hope waddell is another advantage.
Another competent person is prof celestine bassey

Prof Zana, has his cliques and cabals, that ultimately wants to handover the position to Prof Ayara. The same clique brought Zana on board, and Zana has already positioned Ayara to take over from him as a member of his clique. So i don't see Prof Offiong winning, even though i really want him to win.

if it is based on competence. the hat suits prof offiong the most. He performed extremely well as a commissioner of education in the state. His track record as former commissioner of education is still unbeatable

this govt is pady pady govt. no wonder the house assembly speedily apporved the borrowing of 27 billion dollars. scratch my back i scratch yours. This country will never get any better unless its citizen revolt against the govt.

corruption is an epidermic proportional to corona virus pandemic in this country

IPPIS is a mess sonce its introduction to the university 4 months. The short payment the past 4 months is really annoying. thank God NAAT has reconsidered its position and embark on strike. The four unions in the university should embark on indefinitie strike, until IPPIS is scrapped from the university.

a good one there by prof

a good one there by prof

Notice of industrial action as a result of dissatisfaction with payment of salaries of our members in federal universities and colleges of education by IPPIS and non implementation of memorandum of action of march 2018 by federal government.
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Mrgreatness:
plz are technologists entitled to called duty How much

only those under medical are entitled to it. if your department does not fall under medical, then you are not entitled to it.

chyomy:
What of hazard allowance , will it be implemented in the next salary. Plus why is NAAT as a union silent about this whole issue. Biko my hazard allowance should miss road Oooooo.

i'm just suprised with the way NAAT is keeping shut about the whole thing. Or are they working behind the scene without us knowing?

the way the unions are mute about this is disturbing. FG acting as though is non of their business.

whats FG excuse for not paying salaries

how much for toyota corolla 2007

with time, everybody will be captured.

0monnak0da:
Why does it have to be the FG??

Akwa Ibom is rich when oil was $100 their governor chose to build a stadium
Udom is building churches

That money could have built a port


What about Delta
The money Ibori stole could have built a port

for akwa ibom case, the stadium was a total monumental waste of funds. that money would have built a sea port, or a refinery in an oil producing state.

Ximenez:
It's better to get eliminated in the round of 16 that will reduce the distraction. The focus will be on the league then.

they will not even qualify for next season champions league. They should have just allowed ajax to qualify instead. watch as totenham destroys chelsea next.

can they please just remove chelsea from the draw, to save us from the embarrasment that will metted out to us in the competition going forward. Europa league is our level for now

SANs have no influence, they are always silent when they were supposed to speak whne the onslaught started on the judiciary, beginning from the CJN was suspended, now the music is getting louder and louder and our judiciary has become an irrelevant arm of the government.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has threatened that the union will begin nationwide strike if the Federal Government failed to remit the salaries of its members at the end of this month (October).
The union said that the strike would reinforce members’ rejection of the Integrated Payment Personnel Information System (IPPIS), allegedly being forced on its members by the Federal Government.
DAILY POST gathered that the union had in the last few months, had been rejecting the IPPS arrangement, which the union claimed it was imposed in it’s members by the federal government.
But, Ibadan Zone of ASUU comprises the University of Ibadan (UI), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), University of Osun (UNISON) and Kwara State University (KWASU), while reacting, insisted that its members will go on strike if the salaries of its members are not remitted at the end of October.
The union insisted on “no pay, no work” while rejecting the proposed enrolment of its members on the controversial IPPIS platform.
The union’s Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Ade Adejumo, who spoke on behalf of its members, described the IPPIS as a new and strange regime of finance about to be forced on public universities in Nigeria.
Adejumo, who addressed journalists in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, said, “The infallible reasons that our union painstakingly explained to government representatives during our interactions.
“This unfortunately appears to have fallen on deaf ears as government has not only rolled out its propaganda machines against our union, but is also planning to ambush the union and force our members into this ill-informed platform.
“These ominous signs have now made it expedient for ASUU, as a responsible union of intellectuals, to puncture the lies sold to the public by government, particularly the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation so that members of the public can better be informed about our position.
“You will agree that these are very critical ingredients to the survival of any university system that is seeking continued relevance in the highly competitive universal academic world.
“Sequel to this fact, government, conceding that the university is peculiar and different from the civil service, ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government, agreed to the autonomy of universities in Nigeria and signed into law the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment Act) in 2003.
“For emphasis, therefore, we now present detailed perspectives of our union’s rejection of the IPPIS to discerning members of the public.”
Adejumo insisted that IPPIS violated the provisions of the law and that the union was appalled that government was losing sight of the law on the power vested in the councils to dispense finances of the universities.
He stressed that circulars from Federal ministries shall be deemed invalid to the extent that they are inconsistent with the laws and regulations of universities and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
“We have painstakingly cited these laws to expose the mischief or ignorance of the Accountant General of the Federation in his reckless statement that by opposing IPPIS, our union endorses corruption.
“Ordinarily, we need not have bothered about the vituperations of the AGF because the stance of our union against corruption is in the public domain. However, the AGF needs to answer these questions: if indeed millions of naira have been recovered through the IPPIS, from where have the money been recovered, and who are the culprits that have been sanctioned for such infractions?” Adejumo queried
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IPPIS and the Stand of ASUU: update from the emergency NEC for NEC meeting that took place on the 17th (at abuja by 9pm) and end on 18th (by 5am).

BACKGROUND ISSUES.

1. Outcome of the joint meeting between the office of the AGF, Director of IPPIS, committee of Vice Chancellors and the unions (ASUU,SSANU,NAAT and NASU) which was headed by the chairman of Committee of Pro- Chancellors, Professor Munzali Jibrin.

2. Observations, Findings and Stand of the Union.

The meeting was deadlocked because of so many fundamental issues that ASUU observed after the Director of IPPIS made his presentation on how the template will capture the peculiarities of the academics. It is noteworthy that at the meeting, it was only ASUU that stood its ground to make its position and observation known to the committee, other unions who in the first instance were with the union made a U- turn suddenly and sided with the government. The vice chancellors present also could not speak ( with the exception of the Unijos DVC who stands for the VC and luckily he is an expert in ICT) because their chairman was not available as at that time.
What the union observed after the presentation were;

1. The template was designed to phase out staff who are above 60 years of Age. This fundamentally violates the new policy where professors retire at 70.

2. The component of RENT in our consolidated salary is to be removed on those who resides in the university quarters.

3. The template did not make provisions for payment of arrears of promotion, Study leave allowance, responsibility (for a new appointee) and immediate upgrade of salary of visiting lecturers in their visiting places.
4. The template was a mere spread sheet presented (based on the observation raised by the UNIJOS DVC ) which could not capture the technical and peculiarities associated with the flexibility and mobility of academics. Several questions were asked which the director of IPPIS could not provide answers to. This further created suspicion of the whole issue.

5. The template adopts a tax payment system ( Ptax 2) which charges between 48 and 78 thousand naira ( fixed according to rank) this deny us the flexibilities associated with reduced tax burden from one state to another.

The Director of IPPIS later reminded our union that they are acting on the Directive given by the president which mandates them to enroll all FG staff before the end of October 2019. Failure to do so will deny them their salaries. The statement further created confusion because the Union observed

a. We are not employees of the Federal Government rather, we were employed by our respective councils and as such, the statement has nothing to do with university staff.

b. That the statement from Mr president contradicts the laws and acts establishing and regulating universities in nigeria. The union positioned that this infringes the institutional and financial autonomy of public universities, making Governing councils to be irrelevant and less active.

3. That the FG is trying to reverse us back into the mainstream civil service which our past leaders have fought vehemently to pull us out.

OUR PROPOSAL

1. Let the governing councils of Universities take charge of the financial affairs of the universities. Where they are found wanting, the FG can dissolve, investigate and even prosecute them.

2. Give us the chance to develop and present suitable alternative that will take care of our peculiarities while the councils will ensure it's adoption and workability.

FURTHER FINDINGS

1. The IPPIS is run by a financial consulting company. Characterized by inefficient, less experienced and very young personnel who extort ( Evidence mentioned at the NEC) vulnerable enrollees who go to abuja to sort their problems out with the agency. As much as 100 to 200 thousand were charged before service is rendered.

2. That by proper procedures, it takes a minimum of 60 days for an enrollee to be paid after all the biometrics are done. This contradicts even the short notice given by the president to the civil servants.

3. The IPPIS which is an initiative of Mrs Okonjo Iwela has its roots in the world bank political tools used to further subjugate less Developed countries. This further generate crises into the various sectors of our nation.
4. The IPPIS by its structure has 7 modules in which only one is implementable. This is characterized by gross incompetence exhibited by the staff of the IPPIS during the meeting. They seems not to be abreast with the technicalities and cumbersome nature of the template.

The chairman of the meeting professor munzali jibrin having listened to the ASUU's presentation summoned courage and told the participants that the meeting could not be concluded becouse the union has raised a very fundamental and legal issue which requires a deeper analysis and investigation. He then called off the meeting with a promise to get back to the union.

It is obvious that the AGF and the IPPIS office were not happy with the outcome and as such, devised a more sinister plan to enroll us through the back door. What they did was;

a. To demand for the personnel payroll from all the federal universities where almost all the universities complied. Some even used the opportunity to update their payroll by taking additional staff and converting some casual staff to main staff so that they will get enough manpower. This is because the template does not provide for additional staffing.

b. Send the IPPIS forms to selected universities and encouraged vice chancellors to do every thing possible to ensure compliance.

The union further observed;

1. Some universities collected the form and some members filled and returned. It further observed that majority of those who complied in filling the IPPIS forms in those universities where forms were given are those from college of Medicine.
2. Other universities collected the form and refused to distribute.

3. The rest did not receive the forms at all.

OUR OPTIONS

The union was very worried and saddened at the attitude of some of our members who became jittery and are ready to compromise the future of our universities by a mere threat of stoppage of Salary. This calls for a more reorientation of our members on the principles and ideology of the union. The emergence of a supposed break away faction of the union and the amplification of the sex for grade and all other antics are grand plan to quash the union and give a bad public image about all academicians. The following are the options of the union;

1. Write a strong letter to the president through the minister of Education and demand audience with him.

2. Write a letter to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives and also have audience with them to brief them correctly on the situation.

3. Consider a court action seeking an injunction restraining the FG from violating the law by imposing IPPIS on our members.

4. Strong press releases, media briefings and campaigns against the planned imposition of the system on our members.

5. National and Zonal visitations to all our branches, sensitising and mobilising our members for an action in case our salaries are stopped.

My dear comrades, this is the brief I was able to gather at the NEC meeting. You may wish to digest it and make further input when we call for a Congress meeting pls. Thank you

Strawberryg:
Okorocha is advocating a move that will make him the emperor of imo state, judging from the fact that the national assembly have no tenure restriction. I will support this idea if he is also advocating for two term tenures for senators....

Not even two terms, one term of three years only should be enough.

Fortune109:
Nigeria is still the largest economy in Africa

Nigeria has the largest oil reserve in Africa

Nigeria has the largest population in Africa


With those three factors Nigeria has more leverage over South Africa...

Largest economy means more international businesses will have more presence in Nigeria than South africa. Which gives Nigeria more ability to influence those businesses and their home governments over an issue between Nigeria and South Africa.

Largest oil reserve in Africa means Nigeria still has a very important bargaining power than South Africa in the international Arena. As a member of Opec, Nigeria would be taken more seriously internationally as whatever action an Opec member takes affects the price of Oil all over the world. This makes Nigeria more important than South Africa in Africa.

Largest Population means more market for any product. Whatever the western nations produce has more market in Nigeria's 200 million population then a smaller 40 million South African population. China for instance will listen to Nigeria first in Africa before any nation. Compare the amount Nigerians spend in importing goods all over the world with how much South Africa spend doing same. Businesses simply take consumers with more purchasing power more seriously.


There are other areas but with these three major aspects, Nigeria still comfortably calls the shot in Africa...

its not just about having the largest population, but how many percentage of this population is educated for higher productivity. if you have a large population but non productive, then its a huge liability and a drain on our resources. If the population of nigeria was just 20 million, then even if it is 2 million that respresents 10percent of this population is productive, then we will have a vibrant economy couple with our huge natural resources. But you can agree with me that out of over 200 million people in this country, less than 10 percent are truly productive, as a result of bad governace over the years. Then how can that small percentage couple with our resources that have been endless looted by wicked leaders support our population hence our economy. So a higher population with a portion being productive translates into lower standards of living. I'm afraid south africa has the upper hand and bragging rights here. we should just hide in shame, instead of trying to justify or rationalize or argue.

they want to kukuma finish us abi. So what is the citizen really really benefiting from the government?

Pathology is a distinct and different field from medical laboratory science. Why not focus on your field and try to head yourselves in pathology? Why try to annex Medical laboratory science by trying to assume headship, when it is a very distinct and different field from pathology? Mean while Medical laboratory science has produced numerous professors, doctors(PhD), specialists etc.
A national industrial court has even ruled in this matter that the two professions are distinct hence professionals in those fields should head themselves without overlapping but yet a medical doctor will claim he knows the field of medical laboratory science more than the medical laboratory scientist themselves who have numerous professors, doctors(PhD) and specialist, and have spent many years studying and carrying out research in this field? That you know how to use hammer and nail doesn't make you more knowledgeable than a train carpenter. Doctors better focus on patient care and stop making themselves an object of ridicule, even an illiterate knows the difference between both fields

Pathology is a distinct and different field from medical laboratory science. Why not focus on your field and try to head yourselves in pathology? Why try to annex Medical laboratory science by trying to assume headship, when it is a very distinct and different field from pathology? Mean while Medical laboratory science has produced numerous professors, doctors(PhD), specialists etc.
A national industrial court has even ruled in this matter that the two professions are distinct hence professionals in those fields should head themselves without overlapping but yet a medical doctor will claim he knows the field of medical laboratory science more than the medical laboratory scientist themselves who have numerous professors, doctors(PhD) and specialist, and have spent many years studying and carrying out research in this field? That you know how to use hammer and nail doesn't make you more knowledgeable than a train carpenter. Doctors better focus on patient care and stop making themselves an object of ridicule, even an illiterate knows the difference between both fields.

Enough money for the looters to keep looting

mrblessed:
This question of yours is not properly framed. You clearly don't have substantiative evidence that nurses are promiscuous, why ask as if you are cocksure about the promiscuity of nurses? A better rendering of the question -- since you aren't sure about the versimiltude of the topic -- should read, "Why does the stereotype of female nurses' promiscuity endure, even when evidence, as your case study reveals, is widely incoherent and nakedly paltry?"

i like your use of words. Making it look academic.

suprise seeing how some teams are ranked.

Manchester United have been rated the 34th best team in the world behind the likes of Young Boys, PAOK and Eibar.

Football analysts at FiveThirtyEight came up with a system that saw Everton, who finished 12 points behind the Red Devils last season, eight places ahead in the table rankings.

The football researchers produced a Soccer Power Index (SPI) that ranks teams by giving them an offensive and defensive rating.
GLOBAL CLUB SOCCER TOP 40 RANKINGS BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
1 - Manchester City

2 - Bayern Munich

3 - Liverpool

4 - Barcelona

5 - Chelsea

6 - PSG

7- Real Madrid

8 - Atletico Madrid

9 - Olympiacos

10- Ajax

11 - Atalanta

12 - Tottenham

13 - Leverkusen

14 - Inter Milan

15 - Juventus

16 - Valencia

17 - Porto

18 - Napoli

19 - Eibar

20 - RB Leipzig

21 - Getafe

22 - PAOK

23 - Sevilla

24 - RB Salzburg

25 - Borussia Dortmund

26 - Everton

27 - Athletic Bilbao

28 - Arsenal

29 - Real Sociedad

30 - Benfica

31 - Leganes

32 - Hoffenheim

33 - Young Boys

34 - Manchester United

35 - Lyon

36 - Krasnodar

37 - PSV

38 - Villarreal

39 - Real Betis

40 - Leicester City
The ratings refer to the number of goals the team would be expected to score against an average team on a neutral field and a defensive rating that represents the number of goals they would be expected to concede.

These ratings produce an SPI rating which gives a percentage of available points - a win is worth three, a draw worth one, and a loss worth none.

Manchester City were ranked first with Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Barcelona and Chelsea making up the top five.

PSG were ranked sixth, Real Madrid seventh, Tottenham 12th, Juventus 15th and Arsenal 28th.

Tacoma Defiance, who are in the USA's second division, were ranked the worst team in the world.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7248285/Manchester-City-rated-best-team-world-rivals-United-come-34th.html#

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long over due. Instead of the place to lie moribund. It should be sold and put into better use by the private sector

something ambode was too scared to do