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Fed Govt moves to avert shutdown of varsities
The Federal Government moved yesterday to avert another round of strikes by university teachers by setting up a committee to address ‘’unresolved’’ demands of their umbrella body, the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
The constitution of the committee which has two to four weeks to turn in its report came barely 48 hours after ASUU appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to wade into the“unresolved issues which are not new.”
Minister of State for Education Tanko Sununu told The Nation that the panel was set up after a two-hour meeting between a Federal Government team and ASUU leadership in Abuja yesterday.
Education Minister Tahir Mamman and Sununu led other top federal government officials to the meeting while ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke headed the union’s team.
Sununu said: “We have reached a certain understanding with ASUU; we agreed to set up a committee with a timeline of two- to four weeks within which we are going to reconvene and look at all the issues.
“ASUU also agreed to go and brief their members on the outcome (of the meeting) while the committee commenced work.
“ASUU is going to forward some documents to the ministry so we are going to take a look at them.”
Education Minister Mamman said he was optimistic that the problems bedeviling the education sector would be overcome.
He said: “We had a very good meeting, a very productive one. We’ve discussed progress on how to ensure that the system works well and lots of the issues we talked about are those that we inherited and some on-going.
“We discussed them all without exception and we have a consensus on the way forward.
“A lot of consultations will still continue on some information we don’t have, which is beyond the scope of the ministry and which will require us to connect with our colleagues in other ministries.
“But, the most important thing is that we had a very good meeting and agreed to continue with the consultations to overcome the problems bedeviling education in Nigeria,”
Attempts by The Nation to get Osodeke’s reaction to the announcement by Sununu on the setting up of the committee were futile. He first picked up his call when contacted and asked our reporters to call him back. As of press time yesterday, he had yet to do so.
Osodeke had told reporters after the meeting that he was hopeful that the government would follow up on what had been agreed on.
“We have discussions on all the issues and we have given assignments to some people to look at, and agree on the way forward.”
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Protests erupted in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Monday morning over the continued killings of indigenous residents by gunmen suspected to be Fulani militants.
The demonstrations, led by Christian leaders including the state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Polycarp Lubo, commenced on Monday morning at the Fawvwei Junction community road, causing a heavy gridlock and stranding commuters.
The latest protest comes amid a surge in violent attacks by gunmen in various communities, with over 100 people killed in Bokkos and Bassa LGAS in the past two weeks.
“We are not happy over the continuous attacks and killings by gunmen in our communities. That’s why we have come out again to protest these happenings,” said Gyang Dalyop, one of the protesters.
Another protester, Hannatu Philip, called on the government to intervene before it spirals out of control.
The protesters brandishing placards with different inscriptions were seen marching towards the Rayfield Government House.
The Presidency has said the former Labour Party, LP, presidential running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is no match for President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare was reacting to Datti’s remark that he (Tinubu) would not run for the presidency in 2027.
The former LP running mate insisted that Tinubu’s time is up, adding that everything is there for the president and the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, to see that they lose in 2027.
Dismissing such remark, Dare likened Datti’s comment to the new year predictions of charlatan ‘prophets’ which never come through.
In a statement he signed, Dare said the likes of Peter Obi and Datti would have been president left for the latter’s theories.
According to Dare, Datti has chosen to venture into an unfamiliar terrain.
The statement reads partly: “Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed’s “illogical logic” was all over the place in his recent interview with a television channel.
“Listening to Yusuf Datti Baba- Ahmed spurn his postulations about the political future of Nigeria and that of the incumbent President is like listening to the new year predictions of charlatan ‘prophets’ which never come through. Yusuf Baba Ahmed and his co-traveller Peter Obi are indeed a “double whammy“ in the Nigerian political space.
“He chose to base his political calculations on President Bola Tinubu not winning a second term given his antecedents and because Nigerians will decide at the polls among other things. He conveniently avoided the substance of performance and capacity.
“Unfortunately, he chose to walk into a lane he was unfamiliar with and chose to confront a politician he is no match for.”
Similarly, the Presidency had also stressed that Tinubu will reveal his plans for a second term at the right time.
It said the APC 2027 presidential campaign billboards had no links to Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima.
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