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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that the Federal Government’s proposal to exempt members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System is a temporary measure pending the conclusion of integrity test on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution. Ngige, who clarified the position of the government team on the negotiation with ASUU said that it was not true that the government had abandoned the IPPIS or that ASUU should not be on the platform. Making the clarification on Saturday, the minister said, “I think it is…

The Periscope Reporter No one talks about 2023 in Borno State. It is a long way to go and the politics is rehabitation, reconstruction and recovery with transparency, accountability and integrity, efficiency and effectiveness. People ask where is Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum getting his monthly allocation and whether or not it is the same amount received by the governors if not anywhere, at least in the northeast? Some people will say that raising edifice and personalising same in UK, US or UAE, Abuja or Lagos using public funds as a governor, where there are hospitals and schools…

By Adetola Bademosi and Ebenezer Adurokiya Condemnations have followed the announcement by the Federal Government that it has decided to start importing petroleum products from Niger Republic. The Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, had, through his media aide, Garba Deen Muhammad, disclosed that the Federal Government had formalised a trade agreement with Niger as Nigeria would soon begin to import Niger’s excess petrol of 15,000bpd. Groups in oil-rich Niger Delta and pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, described the decision as embarrassing and ridiculous, given the preeminence of Nigeria in the subregion. Afenifere’s spokesman, Mr Yinka Odumakin, in a statement sent…

A female restauranteur in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State has been arrested for selling to the public food prepared with water used in bathing corpses. Mrs Gloria Edet a.k.a.Madam Honey Food, who owns a restaurant along Itam road Uyo,was arrested on Wednesday after she was exposed by a mortuary attendant who claimed she was owing him money for three months. The morgue attendant further claimed that Edet visits him daily to buy the water he used in bathing corpses. On interrogation, Edet confessed that she uses the water she buys from the mortuary to make the charms she uses in preparing…

The Periscope Reporter One would have thought that 2023 is a long way to go and enough to build bridges, to mend fences and to cement cracked walls enough to usher in politics without bitterness for the electioneering atmosphere. While some politicians who decamped to the ruling party, the PDP in Adamawa state disclosed that their decisions were informed by the unprecedented achievements of governor Ahmadu Umar Fintiri but before the celebration of the teeming defection could get to be over, a letter from the former media aid to the then acting governor who is the present governor Fintiri, Mohammed…

The Periscope Reporter One wouldhave thought that 2023 is a long way to go and enough to build bridges, to mend fences and to cement cracked walls enough to usher in politics without bitterness for the electioneering atmosphere. While some politicians who decamped to the ruling party, the PDP in Adamawa state disclosed that their decisions were informed by the unprecedented achievements of governor Ahmadu Umar Fintiri but before the celebration of the teeming defection could get to be over, a letter from the former media aid to the then acting governor who is the present governor Fintiri, Mohammed Mayas…

The Periscope Reporter * To train academic and non academic staffs of UNIMAID both within and outside the country * Urges the ASUU to consider Borno’s peculiar situation Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has on Friday commissioned 50 housing units constructed by Borno State Government to address shelter needs of junior staff at the University of Maiduguri. The project, which started in December 2019 was part of the Governor Zulum’s intervention to UNIMAID whose major beneficiaries are indigenes of Borno State. The project is the second housing intervention for UNIMAID. Zulum had in December last year, delivered 20 units of 2…

War-torn Yemen is in imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen in decades, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned Friday. “In the absence of immediate action, millions of lives may be lost,” Guterres said of the country that has endured a five year war between Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and government forces. The government in Yemen is supported by a Saudi-led coalition, assisted by Western powers including the US. Outgoing President Donald Trump’s administration has made isolating its arch foe Tehran a centerpiece of US regional policy. The warning from Guterres, the latest in a series from the…

Two days after police took him into custody, presidential contender Bobi Wine resurfaced on Friday in court where he was charged with flouting coronavirus rules and released. Bobi Wine walking to court on Thursday in Iganga, Uganda.Credit…Badru Katumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Share on FacebookPost on TwitterMail Ugandan authorities on Friday charged an opposition leader and presidential contender with breaching coronavirus rules and then released him from jail, two days after his arrest sparked protests nationwide that led to the deaths of at least 28 people and almost 600 arrests. The candidate, Bobi Wine, arrived in court on Friday in…

Two days after police took him into custody, presidential contender Bobi Wine resurfaced on Friday in court where he was charged with flouting coronavirus rules and released. Bobi Wine walking to court on Thursday in Iganga, Uganda.Credit…Badru Katumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Share on FacebookPost on TwitterMail Ugandan authorities on Friday charged an opposition leader and presidential contender with breaching coronavirus rules and then released him from jail, two days after his arrest sparked protests nationwide that led to the deaths of at least 28 people and almost 600 arrests. The candidate, Bobi Wine, arrived in court on Friday in…