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Members of the Non-Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities protesting the non-payment of minimum wage, welfare arrears, IPPIS and sharing
formula of the N40bn Earned Allowance in Abuja on Tuesday. Photo: Olatunji Obasa
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Non-academic unions in universities and the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday differed on the Federal Government’s N40bn earned allowance for the institutions’ workers.
While ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, in an interview with
The PUNCH, justified the amount promised lecturers out of the N40bn, non-academic unions described the Federal Government’s sharing formula as illogical and a divide and rule tactic.
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Gbenga Odogun, Lokoja
Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State, on Tuesday, embarked on a peaceful protest, to herald the three-day warning strike notice it issued the Federal Government.
As early as 8 am, the placard-carrying university workers took over the gates and other areas on the Adankolo campus of the institution.
In a statement by the chairman, SSANU/Joint Action Committee, Uche Onyedi, the workers threatened a complete shutdown of the varsity in the event of failure by the government to implement the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by the parties.
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Gbenga Odogun, Lokoja
No fewer than fourteen persons were killed on Wednesday in an accident involving an articulated truck and a commercial bus along the Obajana-Lokoja Road in Kogi State.
A statement from the state commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo, said the state government sympathised with the families of the victims.
The commissioner explained that preliminary reports showed that the accident involved a bus and a truck conveying cement from Obajana.
Men of the Federal Road Safety Corps have been alerted and bodies of the deceased have been evacuated from the scene of the accident.
Gunmen in military uniform kill Kogi’s 28-year-old pregnant woman
Gbenga Odogun, Lokoja
A 28-year-old pregnant woman, Mary Pelemo, has been shot dead by suspected military officers in Magongo, in the Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of Kogi State.
The deceased’s elder brother, Mr Idowu Pelemo, told journalists on Thursday that the incident occurred on Wednesday around 9pm, adding that the men stormed the community in three Hilus vans.
Idowu explained that while one of the vans had the number plate, Lokoja 446 KG, another was painted in army colour and tagged, 014.
He claimed that the officers chased a commercial driver from the Ibilo area to Magongo.