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The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Tuesday said the government could only afford 23.5 percent salary increase for lecturers, while a 35% increment will be enjoyed by professors. The minister also noted that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) warned against signing agreements which the government will not be able to meet. Adamu disclosed this while speaking during …

Last month, the CBN monetary policy committee unanimously voted to increase the benchmark interest rate from 13 percent to 14 percent, to address the nation’s rising inflation. Members of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) have expressed worry over the country’s high inflation rate. The officials expressed their concerns in their personal statements as contained in the communique …

The Ministry of Education, Adamu Adamu, alongside stakeholders such as the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede; Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed; Emeritus Professors Peter Okebukola and Nimi-Briggs; alongside all vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities have commenced a special closed-door session over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff …

*Says govt’s ‘No work, No Pay’ policy holds no water as lecturers work 24 hours besides teaching *Explains why lecturers work in other varsities The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has warned the federal government against hearkening to prescription that could jeopardize the deadlock of its previous meetings with the government to address its demands. It also warned that, …

Catholic Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese, Rev. Peter Chukwu, yesterday, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to prosecute those allegedly using him to Islamise Nigeria. According to him, “that is why the government is helpless to combat the problems.” Addressing journalists after the inauguration of the Catholic Media Practitioners Association, CAMPAN, Ebonyi State branch, the bishop added that rational people …

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The minister of education, Adamu Adamu, on Tuesday said he had been in a dark period of personal anguish and internal turmoil following the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. This was made known during the meeting with vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities at the National Universities Commission in Abuja on Tuesday. “For me, the past …

The Coalition of Southern and Middle Belt Youth Leaders, COSMBYLA, yesterday, faulted the plot by the Miyetti Allah cattle breeders to establish vigilante security in all the states in the country. The umbrella body of all the youth groups in the South-East, South-South, South-West and Middle-Belt regions said that the move “confirms a plot to Fulanize the country under the …

• To recover 0.8mbpd from shut wells• Nigeria, others explore options for cheaper energy, inflation Contrary to the present practice where Nigeria depends on operators for production data to determine daily volume and oil earnings, the Federal Government, through the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), yesterday, said it would commence the installation of its own flow meters on oil …

Since the commencement of the industrial action, now indefinite, some columnists and commentators have accused ASUU of insensitivity and applauded the government’s “No Work, No Pay” stance. In a mass response approach, the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has taken on its critics, including Jide Osuntokun, an emeritus professor and Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Germany, and a columnist with ThisDay …