The ongoing strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, may only be called off if the government agrees to pay members of the two unions N20 billion as Earned Allowance.
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Nigeria is hoping to secure a $1.2 billion loan from Brazil to improve farm mechanisation. Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammdu Buhari on Agriculture, Dr. Andrew Kwasari, gives insight on how the loan would be used. He highlights other intervention programmes to assist smallholder farmers. COLLINS NNABUIFE, bring excerpts:
YOU talked about loan for Green Imperative, what is it all about?
The green imperative is an agricultural bilateral projects that has been agreed upon to be delivered in Nigeria between Nigeria and the government of Brazil. This project has been in the making for quite some time now, we have reached a point where we are completely ready for its take off and the green imperative will address two twin issues with agricultural modernization in Nigeria, provide mechanization and provide Agro-processing, and these two work hand in hand through what we call service centers and these service centers will be created in each local government across t
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Sunday school classes at our All Saints Anglican Church, Oke-Bola, Ikole Ekiti, were interesting sessions, in those days. The Sunday school teachers, mostly our “Eskis Mas”-female teachers in our primary schools- were equally fantastic. They entered the classes asking questions. “Tani Abrahamu”-who is Abraham? We would respond in a chorus: “Abramu ni ore Olorun, ohun si ni apere igbagbo”-Abramu is a friend of God and an example of faith. They taught us many stories from the Bible, and, at the end of each class, they would ask which lesson we could infer from the stories. For instance, on the story of how Jonathan saved David from being killed by Saul, Jonathan’s father and king of Israel and how, when David became king, he looked for Jonathan’s lame son, Mephibosheth, and made him to eat at the king’s table, we would be asked: “kini itan yi ko wa”-what lesson does this story teach us? Answer: “o ko wa pe ki a ma mo oore”-it teaches us to be appreciati
Feb 23, 2021
President, Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), Comrade Marwan Mustapha (left) and Prof John Oluwole Akintayo, former NBA Chairman, Oyo State and Research Professor at the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, who was the guest lecturer at JUSUN fourth National Delegates Conference, held in Ibadan, recently.
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The President of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), Comrade Marwan Mustapha, has become the National Treasurer of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
Comrade Marwan emerged as the new treasurer during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NLC held recently in Abuja, where his appointment was confirmed.
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