Eight Months After, ASUU To Call Off Strike

At long last, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to call of the strike action, which started some eight months ago. The leadership of the union, we gathered, reached the consensus during a meeting with the government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, in Abuja, on Friday. At the meeting too, the government pledged to pay N40 billion as the Earned Allowance and N30bn for the revitalisation of the university system bringing the total payment to N70 billion. It was also…

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#EndSARS: We Won’t Allow Violent Protests In Nigeria Again – Police Boss

Following the mismanagement of the peaceful #ENDSARS protests, which was then highjacked by hoodlums to wreak havoc across the country, Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu, has said the police would not again allow violent protests in the country. The IGP who is currently battling with a Nigerian police that is low in motivation and remuneration however claimed that the police were ready to combat any group attempting to cause a breakdown of law and order in the country. Recent reports have it that thousands of police officers…

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UK: Over 1,300 People Wrongly Diagnosed With COVID-19 And Told To Self-Isolate

In United Kingdom, more than 1,300 people were wrongly told they had coronavirus (COVID-19) due to a lab error with NHS Test and Trace. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said 1,311 people who took a test between November 19-23 across the UK were incorrectly told they received a positive result. It said there was an issue with a batch of testing chemicals, which meant their results were void. A DHSC spokesman said: ‘Swift action is being taken to notify those affected and they are being asked to…

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