Renegotiation of 2009 agreement at advanced stage, says ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the union has reached an advanced stage.
The union made this known in a memo signed by its National President, Emmanuel Osodeke, and made available to all branches of the union.
Osodeke, in the memo, noted that the union had a total of five meetings with the representatives of the Federal Government, while two meetings were held with the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.
LEADERSHIP TUSSLE: ONU ACCUSED OKORIE OF FORGERY AND LOOTING PDP PARTY’S TREASURY
A STATE FACTIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP), IN EBONYI STATE SILAS ONU, HAS ACCUSED TOCHUKWU OKORIE WHO IS ALSO STATE FACTIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE PDP OF CONNIVING WITH STAFF AND MANAGEMENT OF ACCESS BANK, TO CHANGE SIGNATORIES OF THE PARTY’S ACCOUNT AND WITHDRAWING OF OVER FIFTY MILLION NAIRA FOR HIS PERSONAL USE.
ONU WHO TOLD BLAZE FM CORRESPONDENT EMMANUEL NNAJI THIS IN EBONYI STATE ALLEGED TOCHUKWU OKORIE CONNIVED WITH SOME NONE STATE WORKING COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF PDP IN EBONYI STATE TO CHANGE HIS SIGNATURE AS THE CHAIRMAN AND THE PARTY’S TREASURER TO PERPETRATE THE ACT.
ONU SAYS OKOIRE MUST RETURN ALL MONIES HE ILLEGAL WITHDREW FROM THE PARTY’S ACCOUNT WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE LAW ON FORGERY AND STEALING.
WHEN CONTACTED BY OUR CORRESPONDENT IN EBONYI STATE, OKORIE, SAID MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SHOULD DISREGARD ONU’S CLAIMS, SAYING THE WITHDRAWAL HE MADE WAS USED TO CONDUCT PDP PRIMARIES ON THE 4TH AND 5TH OF MAY 2022 IN EBONYI STATE.
OKORIE THEREFORE ACCUSED ONU, THE TWO VICE-CHAIRMEN FROM EBONYI NORTH AND CENTRAL,THE SECRETARY, AND THE PARTY’S WOMEN LEADER OF ILLEGALLY TRANSFERRING TEN MILLION NAIRA EACH TO THEIR ACCOUNTS FOR DOING NOTHING FOR PDP IN EBONYI STATE.
OKOWA’LL ADD ELECTORAL VALUE TO PDP, SAYS OHANAEZE
THE OHANAEZE NDIGBO HAS DESCRIBED GOVERNOR IFEANYI OKOWA OF DELTA STATE AS A “DETRIBALISED PATRIOT, PURVEYOR OF MORALS AND A POSTER PERSONALITY WHILE CONGRATULATING HIM ON HIS EMERGENCE AS THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
OHANEZE SAYS IT IS OPTIMISM HIS CANDIDACY WILL ADD ENORMOUS ELECTORAL VALUE TO THE PDP, AS HE HAS SERVED SKIRMISHES WITHOUT IN ALL HIS WORK.
OHANAEZE SAID THIS THIS FRIDAY IN A STATEMENT SIGNED BY ITS NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY, ALEX OGBONNIA, TITLED “OHANAEZE NDIGBO CONGRATULATES OKOWA AS VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE”.
Ekiti guber: Yakubu tasks INEC staff on oath of neutrality
Ekiti guber: Yakubu tasks INEC staff on oath of neutrality
I REMAIN THE AUTHENTIC GUBER CANDIDATE OF APC IN EBONYI STATE. NWIFURU
THE OF EBONYI STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY SPEAKER, FRANCIS NWIFURU HAS SAID HE IS OPTIMISTIC HE WILL BE SWORN IN AS THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF EBONYI STATE.
NWIFURU SAID THIS IN ABAKALIKI THE EBONYI STATE CAPITAL DURING AN INTERACTIVE SESSION WITH JOURNALISTS.
THE SPEAKER SAYS THERE IS NOTHING LIKE PARALLEL CONGRESSES CONDUCTED IN EBONYI STATE AS EBONYI STATE IS ONE OF THE STATES THAT HAD A SUCCESSFUL APC GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY ELECTION.
OUR CORRESPONDENT IN EBONYI STATE, EMMANUEL NNAJI, REPORTS THAT NWIFURU SAYS IT WAS ONLY JULIUS UCHA WHO PETITIONED THE CONGRESS, WHICH HAS BEEN TREATED.
LABOUR PARTY NOT A THREAT IN ANAMBRA — STELLA ODUAH
STELLA ODUAH WHO REPRESENTS ANAMBRA SOUTH SENATORIAL ZONE IN THE SENATE UNDER THE PLATFORM OF PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTTY HAS SAID INCURSION OF THE LABOUR PARTY INTO ANAMBRA THROUGH FORMER GOVERNOR PETER OBI AS ITS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, IS NOT A THREAT TO THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP).
ODUAH SAID THIS AT A NEWS CONFERENCE DURING THE PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES OF RETURN TO 30 PDP CANDIDATES WHO WON THE PARTY PRIMARIES FOR BOTH THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON THURSDAY IN ABUJA.
20 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PDP CANDIDATES AND 10 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CANDIDATES FROM ANAMBRA NORTH AND SOUTH WERE PRESENTED WITH CERTIFICATES OF RETURN.
ODUAH SAYS IGBOS SHOULD WORK WITH A PARTY AND CANDIDATE WHICH WOULD WIN THE PRESIDENCY AND A PARTY THAT WOULD TAKE THEM TO THE NATIONAL LEVEL.
THE SENATOR SAYS IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME A NEW PARTY WOULD COME INTO ANAMBRA, BUT THE PDP HAD ALWAYS DEFEATED THEM.
Extend voter registration, Reps urge INEC
The House of Representatives has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to extend the June 30, 2022, deadline for voter registration by 60 days, to enable more eligible Nigerians to register, get their Permanent Voter Card and participate in the 2023 general elections.
Also, the House has mandated its Committee on Electoral Matters to engage with INEC to “examine and proffer solutions to the shortage of registration machines and manpower.”
The engagement is to also see to the deployment of an additional 30 voter registration machines in each of the 774 local government areas, train and deploy ad hoc staff to improve the shortage of manpower at registration centres and provide security for the ad hoc staff.
The committee is to report back within two weeks for further legislative action.
PDP Committee To Screen Atiku’s Running Mate On Thursday
THE PEOPLES’ DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) HAS SET UP A COMMITTEE TO SCREEN ITS VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS.
THE PARTY’S SPOKESMAN, DEBO OLOGUN-AGBA ANNOUNCED THIS, SAYING MEMBERS OF THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SCREENING COMMITTEE WERE NOMINATED BY THE PDP NATIONAL WORKING COMMITTEE (NWC) IN LINE WITH THE ELECTORAL GUIDELINES OF THE PARTY.
HE SAID THE SCREENING EXERCISE WILL HOLD BY 10 AM ON THURSDAY INSIDE THE NWC HALL AT THE PDP NATIONAL SECRETARIAT IN ABUJA, THE NATION’S CAPITAL.
MEANWHILE, REPORTS HAVE IT THAT THE ADVISORY COUNCIL CONSTITUTED BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE PDP, CONDUCTED A MOCK ELECTION YESTERDAY, FOR THE THREE CONTENDERS FOR THE SLOT OF THE VICE PRESIDENT.
RIVERS STATE GOVERNOR, NYESOM WIKE, REPORTEDLY WON THE MOCK POLL HELD AT THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE PDP IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY.
I Want To Defeat Idu Igariwey On Merit – Barr Eni
THE CHAIRMAN OF AFIKPO SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EBONYI STATE AND THE ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE CANDIDATE IN THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTION ENI UDUMA HAS SAID HIS
OPPONENT AND MEMBER REPRESENTING AFIKPO NORTH AND AFIKPO SOUTH, IDUMA IGARIWEY HAS NO MORAL REASON TO CONTEST THE POSITION AGAIN
UDUMA MADE THIS KNOWN WHILE SPEAKING WITH JOURNALISTS IN ABAKALIKI THE EBONYI STATE CAPITAL
HE CALLED ON IGARIWEY TO RESPECT AND ABIDE BY THE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THEY ENTERED AND EXECUTED AT THE PALACE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS EZEGO ARCHITECT EWA ELECHI IN 2019. SAYING THAT THE POSITION IS
SHARED BETWEEN AFIKPO SOUTH AND AFIKPO NORTH.
BUT IN A SWIFT REACTION, HONOURABLE IDUMA IGARIWEY DESCRIBED ENI UDUMA’S CLAIM AS A SPURIOUS CLAIM, SAYING ENI APPEARS DELUSIONAL AND PANICKY.
IGARIWEY SAID HE WILL RESIST EVERY TEMPTATION OR INVITATION TO JOIN ISSUES WITH HIM. ACCORDING TO HIM, ENI SHOULD KEEP HIS POWDER DRY AS CAMPAIGNS WILL START IN SEPTEMBER.
OUR CORRESPONDENT IN EBONYI STATE, EMMANUEL NNAJI, REPORTS THAT IGARIWEY SAID HIS PARTY THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN EBONYI STATE HAS ZONED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES POSITION TO AFIKPO NORTH, AND THE SENATE POSITION TO AFIKPO SOUTH (EDDA).
PDP to screen Vice Presidential Candidate Thursday
THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) HAS SET UP A COMMITTEE AND FIXED THURSDAY TO SCREEN ITS VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.