Nigeria’s acclaimed Premier University, the University of Ibadan, has honoured a foremost Professor of Agricultural Economics and Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Prof Igbekele Amos Ajibefun, with Lifetime Achievement Award. The historic event, which held at the Trenchard Hall of the prestigious institution, was part of the week-long Convocation and […]
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Ondo State Governor and Visitor to Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria, AAUA, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has expressed confidence in its ability to be one of the leading institutions in Africa, even as he charged the Management of the state-owned University not to rest on their oars in placing the Institution among […]
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Two lecturers of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, FUOYE, Dr. Oniyide Akingbe and Dr Gbemiga Adeyemi, who were allegedly sacked over misappropriation of TETFund grant for research, have described their sack by the institution as a contempt of court and a decision that can not stand. The former university dons said there was an injunction […]
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“Labour should insist that they want the emoluments of the workers, people who draw their income from the government till, they should negotiate their income, their salaries from the least paid to the highest paid, to the President because it is not their personal money. They would take imprest; they would corner the contracts; they […]
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FG biting more than its fair share Nigeria has slave but not minimum wages Labour should demand top-bottom negotiation of all wages including those of President, Governors States should set up cash allocation committees Buhari should take Nigeria’s security more seriously sack security chiefs, rejig security structure By Banji Ayoola Nigeria’s prevailing revenue allocation formula […]
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By Yinka Fabowale When he departed Nigeria for the United States some 20 years ago, Olalekan Oladotun Ayorinde left with memories of a country in which things – social infrastructure etc still worked and where life was comparatively abundant in regard to present realities. Hitting it big in America as head of a billion dollar […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed why he refused to visit Chibok after the abduction of about 276 girls from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno State. Jonathan in his book, ‘My Transition Hours’ said he had planned to pay an unannounced visit to the community but he had to cancel after information about the […]
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday left on a visit to “brotherly Arab countries”, state media reported his first official trip abroad since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Prince Mohammed will visit a “number of” Arab states at the request of his father, King Salman, the royal court said in a statement […]
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Historically, Nigeria is a country composed of ethnically, culturally and religiously diverse peoples who were arbitrarily lumped together by British colonialists in one country for their own interests alone and without bothering a hue about the future consequences to the peace and amity of the peoples so crudely brought together in such an uneasy union. […]
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Even as the controversy surrounding the new National minimum wage is yet to settle, the nation may be in for another round of intense pressure as Organised Labour said they may be demanding for two years arrears if the minimum wage, having lost two years to negotiation. The Organised Labour has insisted that the in […]
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