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Punch Newspapers Sections Nike Popoola, Grace Edema and Daud Olatunji Yoruba activist, Mr Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has called on Nigerians, especially the Yoruba, to speak up against the atrocities being perpetuated by herdsmen. Igboho in a zoom meeting early Wednesday with some Yoruba in diaspora advised the Yoruba people to come out and stand against the criminal and destructive activities of herdsmen, adding that they had made the South-West a danger zone for the indigenes. The theme of the meeting was, ‘Update on security issues in Yoruba Land by Chief Igboho.’ He also described most of the Yoruba elders as cowards who had all gone silent over the herdsmen unjust killing of farmers, kidnapping, stealing of lands in South-West. ....
Punch Newspapers Sections Kindly share this story: Members of the Non-Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities protesting the non-payment of minimum wage, welfare arrears, IPPIS and sharing formula of the N40bn Earned Allowance in Abuja on Tuesday. Photo: Olatunji Obasa Our Reporters Non-academic unions in universities and the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday differed on the Federal Government’s N40bn earned allowance for the institutions’ workers. While ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, in an interview with The PUNCH, justified the amount promised lecturers out of the N40bn, non-academic unions described the Federal Government’s sharing formula as illogical and a divide and rule tactic. ....
Rising COVID-19 cases: NUT cautions FG against Jan 18 schools’ resumption date • Prepare for more COVID-19 patients in need of oxygen, NMA tells FG Friday Olokor, Grace Edema, Dayo Ojerinde and John Charles The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Thursday cautioned the Federal Government against the January 18 resumption date for schools across the country. The NUT Secretary-General, Dr Mike Ike-Ene, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, said there was no need to hurriedly resume, if the rate of COVID-19 infection kept increasing. Ike-Ene stated that if coronavirus infection was increasing, teachers would stay at home. Recalled that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had on December 17 said the country had entered COVID-19 second wave. ....
Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Grace Edema and Tony Okafor The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Monday, said university students would resume in January 2021. Ngige spoke in Alor, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State during the inauguration of his medical outreach for the people of the area. He said the Federal Government had met 98 per cent of the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, adding that the remaining two per cent demands holding the strike would be sorted during negotiation on Tuesday (today). He expressed optimism that after the meeting, ASUU would call off their strike and students would commence studies in January. ....