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As a way to end the strike imbroglio, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has recommended what it calls Universities Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) to Federal Government. However, ASUU still opposes the migration of its members to Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform. IPPIS, according to Federal Government, is a centralized payroll platform introduced to help it in monitoring and blocking leakages in the payment of salaries and wages. The UTAS position was affirmed by ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi in his reaction to earlier reports that President Buhari has declared that lecturers not captured on the…

After swimming in $53 million debt, Kanye West has netted $5 billion in four years. The rapper, 43, took to Twitter on Thursday October 8, to celebrate his finances after Ok! Magazine published an article that claimed his net worth is $5 billion. Reacting on Twitter, he wrote: “From $53 million in debt to a net worth of $5 billion in 4 years,” he tweeted. “Thank you, Jesus. I know I fall short, but I repent. I am fully in service to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. “We are building schools of the future. Thank God for providing the…

A Catholic priest has been arrested for desecrating the altar of Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Pearl River, Louisiana. The priest known as Rev. Travis Clark was arrested for allegedly filming himself having carnal knowledge of two dominatrices on the altar at his Catholic church. The dominatrices were identified as adult film actress Mindy Dixon, 41, and 23-year-old Melissa Cheng. They were nabbed after a passersby saw the lights on later than usual on September 30. The unidentified witness saw the half-naked priest having inappropriate relationship with the two women who were dressed in corsets and high-heeled boots. The witness took video footage…

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-rufai has punctured a news report making rounds that Hisbah has prohibited ladies from using mobile phones and sunglasses in Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The report by an online news platform also says that the youths are punished for keeping afro hair. “Hisbah is punishing youths for keeping afro hair and sometimes it is accompanied with beating. They have also prevented women and girls from using smartphones, claiming that it is used to spread unIslamic behaviours. They are just terrorising us,” one source told the platform. Reacting to the report, El-rufai said that…

Akwa Ibom State is one of the 15 Nigerian states that are classified fairly miserable. The Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited (FDC), Mr. Bismarck Rewane, further mentioned Katsina, Kebbi, Kaduna, FCT, Nasarawa, Kogi, Benue, Enugu, Delta, Imo, Bayelsa, Rivers and Ebonyi, the remaining fairly miserable. Rewane who made this known in a paper entitled NIGERIA: Resource Rich & Cash Poor; Plenty Potential …Little Actual he presented to mark the 60th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria listed nine states in the country could be classified as fairly prosperous. These states, according to him, are Kwara, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Ogun,…

The bulk of budgetary allocation for education sector will be spent on payment of salaries and other entitlements to 10,500 professors in the country, the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has said. Nwajiuba who said this in an interview with The Punch, slammed the  Academic Staff Union  of Universities and further told them that no sector in the country was getting enough money. He accused the union of using strikes to drive public school students abroad and to private universities. Nwajiuba said “Actually, there have been a lot of people asking me as minister what I think is the…

Hoffenheim centre-back Kevin Akpoguma has stated why he decided to commit his international future to the West Africans. The 25-year-old defender explained that the potential in the Nigeria national team swayed him to switch his allegiance away from Germany. The defender, born to a German mother and a Nigerian father, has featured in a number of games for Germany at youth level. His recent form in the Bundesliga has also been a talking point, making 18 league appearances for the Kraichgauer last season to help his side finish sixth in the campaign. Despite starring for German youth teams, the 25-year-old confirmed…

Despite Federal Government’s directive for tertiary institutions to reopen in the country, members of Association of Staff Union of Universities may not call off their months-old industrial action due to continued implementation of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). IPPIS is said to be an information Communications Technology (ICT) project initiated by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of payroll administration for its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). This is as President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the Federal Government’s position on payment of salaries of University lecturers, insisting that those lecturers who were…

Bayelsa State Government has not hidden its odium for the proposed National Water Resources Bill 2020, pledging to join other progressive forces to resist it at all cost. Arriving at this decision at the weekly meeting of the State Executive Council Wednedsay in Yenagoa, the council presided over by Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, the state deputy vowed to resist the law seen as another draconian Land Use Decree in disguise. The National Water Resources Bill 2020 that has passed its second reading on the floor of the Senate was returned by House of Representatives for re-gazetting. It has attracted a wide-ranging…

The Nigerian Government has budgeted N13 trillion for the 2021 financial year. President Muahmmadu Buhari presented the budget proposal to National Assembly on Thursday. Compared to budget presentations done in previous years, Buhari was only accompanied by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and a few ministers, while the others participated virtually. The 2021 budget is tagged Budget of economic recovery and resilience. According to the president, “the main thrust of the 2021 budget is to complete as many ongoing projects as possible”, while giving priority to the ones that most affect the people. “Personnel costs remain the largest single item of…