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Appeal court orders ASUU to call off 7-months strike
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Appeal court orders ASUU to call off 7-months strike

By Charly Agwam  The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has ordered striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resume work immediately. The appellate court gave the order today while granting leave to ASUU to appeal the interlocutory injunction of Justice Polycarp Hamman of the Abuja Division of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria on September 21, 2022, asking members of the union to resume work. Justice Hamma Barka, who presided over the court, warned that if ASUU failed to comply with the court order, it automatically losses the right to appeal against the ruling of the lower court It further struck out the application by the union for a stay of execution of the order of the Industrial Court, based on the motion by the applicant’s counsel, Femi Falan...
We’ll shutdown the country if strike is not called off, NANS tells FG, ASUU
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We’ll shutdown the country if strike is not called off, NANS tells FG, ASUU

By Charly Agwam - Bauchi  The Students Union Government (SUG)  President of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) has said that the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will shut down the country if the strike embarked on by Academic Staff Union of universities (ASUU) continues. The ATBU SUG president, Comrade Usman Abubakar was speaking at a press conference organized by NorthEast zone of NANS in Bauchi on Friday. He lamented that the strike would deny students who are close to the age of 30 from experiencing NYSC because of the law that bars graduates who are over 30 years from participating in the scheme.  "The federal government and ASUU are clearly not thinking about how this strike will have direct impact of the lives of students. Most pe...
Group lauds NEDC MD over N31 trillion master plan for NorthEast
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Group lauds NEDC MD over N31 trillion master plan for NorthEast

....urges FG to adopt, implement plan for development of subregion By Charly Agwam - Bauchi  A group under the auspices of North East Elders and Youth Peoples Forum has commended the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) Mohammed Goni Alkali for producing a 10-year North East Stabilisation and Development Master Plan (NESDMP) aimed at facilitating a transformative growth of the subregion and lifting citizens in the region out of poverty. Chairman of the group, Salihu Magaji who was flanked by his Secretary  Lawal Abdullahi, urged the federal government, on Monday, to key into the plan of NEDC in order to fast track development of the subregion.  He noted, while speaking to reporters in Bauchi that the implemen...
Strike: Federal Government fails to meet demands of ASUU again
Education

Strike: Federal Government fails to meet demands of ASUU again

Yet again, Federal Government fails to meet demands of ASUU over the ongoing strike   The Federal Government-appointed committee led by Prof. Nimi Briggs to rewrite the 2009 agreement signed by the government with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and put a stop to the union's ongoing strike has failed to meet the three-month deadline set by the FG.   The committee was granted three months to complete its task after being launched by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, on March 7 of this year. Adamu reportedly gave the committee permission to continue negotiating with the union because there appeared to be some progress, despite the fact that no firm agreement had been reached within the time limit. "We've been meeting and will continue...
Why FG is sensitising northern stakeholders on development of water resources 
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Why FG is sensitising northern stakeholders on development of water resources 

Why FG is sensitising northern stakeholders on development of water resources  By Charly Agwam - Bauchi  The Federal Ministry of Water Resources has kick-started an advocacy and sensitization workshop on the implementation of the 2013 National Water Resources Master Plan and Nigeria's Accession to the United Nations Water Convention for Stakeholders in the North-East and North-West geopolitical zones.  In the Opening remarks by the Minister, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman H. Adamu in Bauchi during the weekend, he stated that the essence of organizing the sensitization workshop for stakeholders was to sensitize people about the 2013 National Water Resources Master Plan. He also noted that it was important for stakeholders to be awar...