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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.”
……“E remain small make breeze blow am away”
By Ojomah Austin.
Nigerian singer, Zinoleesky stirs a buzz online due to a recent video of him circulating on social media.
In the video, Zinoleesky dons a white shirt alongside black trousers as he brags about being worthy to be used as a Valentine’s gift.
Reacting to the video, netizens commented on his skinny appearance.
Famous musician, Oniyide Azeez, better known as Zinoleesky trends online due to a new clip serving the rounds on social media.
In the video, the ‘Element’ hitmaker is spotted wearing a white shirt and a stylish black trouser. While being filmed, Zinoleesky bragged mightily about his looks.
He reiterated that he could be used as a Valentine’s gift to any girl.
The video generated a buzz online with a large number of netizens commenting on his thin body shape. Some swiftly leveraged it to make fun of the artiste.
One @janicekate_x wrote: “E remain small make breeze blow am away 😂.”
soromotoochukwu wrote: “I like how music can take you to another place. For example, this restaurant is playing Zinoleesky so now I’m going to a different restaurant.”
dave.dexter27 wrote: “Make breeze sha no blow as we wan deliver the valentine gift😂😂😂.”
oluwatamilore_xx wrote: “Bro,drank all the whole slimming tea and nothing is left to slim down.”
isco_west_whil wrote: “Chaii dem don set this Guy up for dragging again😂😂.”
scheargoon wrote: “Try put stone for your pocket guy”
bouncequotes wrote: “My boy 😂😂😂😂 slim daddy for dem girls.”
just_eniola_olayemisi wrote: “No be your fault zino, u no just get choice that to continue to dey craze 🥺 I feel for u my bro.”
zaza_mula112 wrote: “Zino Dey enjoy, while seyi vibe Dey cry under record label 😂😂.”
jamesmike7837 wrote: “See person be like broom stick😂.”
sheis_shuga wrote: “Who Dey decive you werey 😢😢see as u slim like who get HIV 😢😔🙄🥺Dooh.”
By Mario Deepromoter
Ukraine on Friday restricted the use of Telegram for its government, military and security officials, citing “threats” to national security on the app founded by Russian-born Pavel Durov.
“The National Security and Defence Council decided to restrict the use of Telegram in government agencies, military formations and critical infrastructure facilities,” the council said in a statement on Facebook, saying it was a “matter of national security.”
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