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Unpaid entitlements: UNIBEN lecturers withdraw from post graduate classes
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Benin (UNIBEN) Branch, yesterday, withdrew its services from the postgraduate programme of the university to press home its demand for payment of outstanding entitlements for postgraduate teaching and supervision.
It was gathered that the withdrawal of services by the academic staff of the university was not unconnected with unpaid entitlements on the part of the university management throughout the tenure of the current administration of the university, which would end in December 2024.
This decision was taken at a congress on June 14, 2024, which resolved that all members of ASUU, UNIBEN, withdraw their involvement/participation in the postgraduate programme of the University of Benin with immediate effect.
Investigation by The Guardian revealed that the academic union vowed to sustain the strike action on all postgraduate programmes of the university to press home its demand for payment of all outstanding entitlements.
It was further gathered that the suspension of services by the lecturers, among others, is to compel the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Lilian Salami, to do the needful to forestall another incidence of interruption in the postgraduate programme, which may arise from accumulation of unpaid entitlements to members in the near or distant future.
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Obasanjo narrates how he escaped becoming drug addict
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed how he almost became a drug addict.
He spoke in Abeokuta over the weekend at the second edition of ‘Fly Above The High’ anti-drug campaign conference organised by the Recovery Advocacy Network.
Obasanjo stated that smoking during his youthful age led to chronic coughing and almost became an addiction.
The former President, while lamenting the increase in drug abuse among Nigerians and other West Africans, urged Nigerian students and young people to refrain from abusing psychoactive drugs, saying that they ruin life rather than enhance it.
“If I had persisted, I could have become addicted. Once you get involved, it is difficult to get out.
“There’s nothing drug can do for you except destruction.
“We found out that West Africa has equally been a centre for drug consumption in a very bad way. That was more than 10 years ago, so the situation has since gone worse. And whatever applies to West Africa applies to all other parts of Africa,” Obasanjo said.
He cautioned against stigmatization and urged individuals who are already addicted to psychoactive drugs to get help.
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We saved $20bn after Petrol Subsidy Removal and FX Rate Reforms, Says Finance Minister
Wale Edun, minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, says Nigeria has saved $20 billion from petrol subsidy removal and market-based pricing of the foreign exchange rate.
Edun spoke at a ceremony recently held to mark the first 100 days in office of Esther Walso-Jack, head of civil service of the federation, in Abuja.
“An amount of five per cent of GDP is what those two subsidies were costing when there was a subsidy on PMS; when there was petroleum product generally for a long time and when there was a subsidy of foreign exchange. Between them, they were costing five percent of GDP,” he said.
“If you say GDP was on average, let’s say $400 billion. We all know what five percent of that is – $20 billion of funds that could be going into infrastructure, health, social services, education.”
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