Babcock assures journalists of postgraduate sponsorship, canvasses life insurance Babcock assures journalists of postgraduate sponsorship, canvasses life insurance
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President and Vice-Chancellor of Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Professor Tayo Ademola, has urged the Federal Government and other relevant authorities to make and implement policies that would ensure media practitioners are not only paid salaries and allowances commensurate with what he called hard nature and risks involved in the performance of their jobs but also to be provided with life insurance.
He reaffirmed commitment to ensuring the postgraduate scholarship offered by the university to education correspondents was reviewed and sustained in favour of beneficiaries.
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By Funmi Ogundare
The Vice-Chancellor, Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Professor Ademola Tayo has appealed to the government and relevant authorities to see to the needs and conditions of journalists in the country, especially through the formulation of policies which will guarantee them life insurance while in practice.
Tayo, who said this during the 2020 media launcheon, affirmed that since the media plays a critical role in a nation’s development as a strong facilitator of socio-economic growth and political stability, they have remained a key component of the community.
“Your constructive ideas and views have not only welded together our nation as an indivisible entity, they have sustained our democracy, enhanced good governance and they have served for us, as elixir for improved academic products and services to our teeming stakeholders and shareholders.”
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Not a few Nigerians were surprised and thrilled at the news of the acquisition of Paystack by an American IT firm, Stripe in October, this. It’s probably true also that it may be about the same time that many people, most especially non players in the IT- payment space became aware of the feat and height that the duo of Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, founders of Paystack, have attained in the fintech sub-sector.
Paystack Payment Limited came into existence in 2015. Although incorporated in Delaware, USA, it is the pioneer Application Programming Interface (API) – based payments service provider in Nigeria. The software allows two applications to interface, or talk to one another, or put differently, it allows users to set up online payment gateways to enable their businesses accept credit and debit card payments online from customers.