Stephania Adediran, former Registrar of Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, is dead. The announcement was made by Kayode Adebusuyi on behalf of the Director
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The President, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Com. Sunday Asefon, has warned that the incessant strike being embarked on by both the Academic and the Non-Academic Staff Unions of Universities, has pushed the university system to the verge of collapse.
Asefon told the Non -Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) that, embarking on strike less than 30 days after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspended theirs, was more of ego and muscle flexing rather than advocacy for welfare improvement.
The NANS President warned that such open and brazen display of rivalry by unions posed serious danger to the country’s ivory towers.
Ehingbeti, the Lagos Economic Summit scheduled to hold from next Tuesday to Thursday, is living-up to its repute as Africa’s most practical and result-oriented private sector-led forum for socio-economic and infrastructural development, with the quality of speakers confirmed to discuss at the virtual summit.
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Some top officials of the Budget Office of Federation (BoF), including the Director General, Mr. Ben Akabueze, are currently being questioned by an investigative panel committee (IPC) over alleged cases of corruption in the Office.
The investigation, THISDAY gathered, followed a petition by one Hajiya Sanusi Bilkisu, a grade level 14 officer, and Polytechnic Desk Expenditure Officer in the Budget Office, to the Head of Service of (HoS), Mrs. Folashade Yemi-Esan over alleged corrupt practices in the Budget Office.
Bilikisu’s petition to the Head of Service was titled “Re: Complaint on inactions by the Director General Budget Office of the Federation over corrupt practices in the Budget Office the Federation (Expenditure) Social 1A.
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The joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Health on Monday flagged off an investigation into the controversies trailing the purpose of the total sum of N10 billion released recently by Federal Government to Ministry of Health for local production of COVID-19 vaccines in the country.
Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases, Senator Chukwuka Utazi, who expressed the concern in Abuja, during an emergency meeting on the production of vaccines in the country, alleged that the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire misinformed Nigerians on the purpose of the N10 billion released which was for COVID-19 vaccine.