Ekwunife Congratulates Governor Adeleke On Successful Inauguration

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The Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Uche Ekwunife, PhD, has congratulated Senator Ademola Adeleke on his historic inauguration as Governor of Osun State, yesterday, November 27, 2022.

Ekwunife described the emergence of Senator Adeleke as the absolute will of God which was manifested through the ballots by the good people of Osun State, noting that the state will witness transformation on all fronts through the people-centered agenda of the governor.

The federal lawmaker stated that the feat achieved by Adeleke is evidence that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is very strong in every part of the country and remains the best choice for Nigerians, adding that Adeleke is well prepared for the job.

While urging Adeleke to build upon the gains and avoid the mistakes recorded by the previous administrations, Ekwunife stated that the governor would assemble the best brains capable of driving the state on the path of shared economic prosperity.

Ekwunife charged the stakeholders and residents to rally round Senator Adeleke, irrespective of political leaning and assured that with their collective support there is no limit to what the state would achieve in the newly inaugurated administration.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation on behalf of her family and the good people of Anambra Central Senatorial District congratulated Governor Adeleke, his deputy governor, Kola Adewusi, and the good people of Osun on the seamless transition of power.

Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) has alerted Nigerians about a fresh crisis it claimed would surpass all previous ones in Nigerian universities.

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Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) has alerted Nigerians about a fresh crisis it claimed would surpass all previous ones in Nigerian universities.

To this end, ASUU sought intervention of stakeholders and well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the federal government to pay members across the country their withheld eight months salaries.

The chairman of ASUU, University of Ilorin branch, Prof Moyosore Ajao, raised the alarm at a special congress of the local branch held at the university’s main auditorium.

The university’s lecturers had staged a solidarity rally within the campus before retiring to the auditorium where they addressed the newsmen on: “Casualisation of Intellectual Workers In Nigeria: Prelude To Our Response”.

He said, “Though we have resumed work in our university, government’s ignoble stance of withholding our eight months’ salaries based on its ill-advised policy of ‘No work, No Pay’ is set to trigger fresh crisis.

“In the coming days, the union would respond by considering to invoke the ‘No Pay, No work’ policy and would abandon the works that have accumulated for those period which government has falsely claimed, through Chris Ngige, that our members have not worked.”

He said members of the public are “put on notice again that a fresh crisis, which would surpass all previous ones, is looming in Nigerian universities, saying the union members would not continue to do free work.

He added, “Our union and its members should not be held responsible for the consequences that its actions, in response to the crude wickedness of the Nigerian state, would have on all stakeholders.

“As a law-abiding union, we have heeded the directive of the court which directed that we resume to our duty posts while the substantive matter is being heard. However, after resumption from strike and to our utmost dismay, government decided, that half salaries be paid to our members for the month of October, 2022. This development is unacceptable and would be resisted by our union.

“The fact is that academics are not casual workers. Only casual workers receive pay prorate”