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On March 26, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it was mandatory for every candidate to supply their National Identification Number before registering for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. GRACE EDEMA writes about the challenges and stress prospective candidates go through to register for the NIN
Last Thursday afternoon, the National Identification Number registration centre at the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, was overcrowded as applicants pressed on each other to get their registration done.
The applicants, many of whom were students and some in their school uniforms, were sweating profusely under the scorching sun hoping to be called or given a number when next to come back to check if it was yet their turn.
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Yoruba activist, Mr Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has called on Nigerians, especially the Yoruba, to speak up against the atrocities being perpetuated by herdsmen.
Igboho in a zoom meeting early Wednesday with some Yoruba in diaspora advised the Yoruba people to come out and stand against the criminal and destructive activities of herdsmen, adding that they had made the South-West a danger zone for the indigenes.
The theme of the meeting was, ‘Update on security issues in Yoruba Land by Chief Igboho.’
He also described most of the Yoruba elders as cowards who had all gone silent over the herdsmen unjust killing of farmers, kidnapping, stealing of lands in South-West.
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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.
Rising COVID-19 cases: NUT cautions FG against Jan 18 schools’ resumption date
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The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Thursday cautioned the Federal Government against the January 18 resumption date for schools across the country.
The NUT Secretary-General, Dr Mike Ike-Ene, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, said there was no need to hurriedly resume, if the rate of COVID-19 infection kept increasing.
Ike-Ene stated that if coronavirus infection was increasing, teachers would stay at home.
Recalled that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had on December 17 said the country had entered COVID-19 second wave.