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Strike: Reps To Meet Buhari, After Reaching Agreement With ASUU

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September 21, 2022

The leadership of the house of representatives says it will meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Femi Gbajabiamila, the speaker of the house of representatives, said this on Tuesday after about five hours of a closed-door meeting with the leadership of ASUU and Goodluck Opiah, minister of state for education, at the national assembly.

The legislators will meet with the president when he returns to Nigeria, although a date has not yet been set for the meeting.

Buhari is currently in New York, United States, attending the 77th session of the United Nations general assembly (UNGA).

Meanwhile, the lawmakers have invited the accountant-general of the federation, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), auditor-general of the federation, and the National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) to “finalise” on the meeting held with ASUU.

The invited government officials are to appear before the leadership of the house on Thursday.

Speaking after the meeting on Tuesday, Gbajabiamila said some resolutions have been reached with ASUU.

“There are seven areas that ASUU has presented what we consider to be requisition to go back to class,” he said.

“We have looked at these seven areas and we have more or less agreed on certain things.

“Pursuant to finalising the meeting of our minds, we have asked that NITDA, accountant-general, auditor-general, and the National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) will be invited.

“Unfortunately, it’s too late to invite them tomorrow because the letters will only go out tomorrow. They will be invited to meet with the leadership on Thursday so that we can dot the ‘i’ and ‘t’.

“We will meet with Mr. President and lay before him the agreement made by this arm of government — the legislature and leadership of this house. We are hopeful and believe that Mr. President will buy into the agreement and with that, I believe that this matter will be speedily brought to a close.

“In the meantime, between now and when Mr. President comes, ASUU itself will go back to its members with the resolutions that we have come up with today.”

In his remarks, Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU president, said the resolutions reached with the lawmakers will be discussed with members of the union.

“In the very near future, the issue (strike) will be resolved,” he said.

ASUU had embarked on strike in February, halting academic activities in public universities for over seven months.

The federal government had also recently filed a suit against the union at the national industrial court over the lingering strike.

The court is scheduled to rule on the matter on Wednesday.

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The national oil firm said the limited availability of petrol in certain regions of the nation is a result of logistical problems.

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“The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) wishes to clarify that the tightness in the supply of Premium Motor Spirit currently being experienced in some areas across the country is as a result of logistics issues and that they have been resolved,” the statement reads.

“It also wishes to reiterate that the prices of petroleum products are not changing.

“It urges Nigerians to avoid panic buying as there is a sufficiency of products in the country.”

On March 24, the NNPC denied adjusting the pump price of petrol across its retail outlets.

This came after the organisation had promised Nigerians that there would not be any increase in the cost of petrol on February 9.

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Former Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi Wins Ondo PDP Gubernatorial Primary

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A former deputy governor of Ondo, Agboola Ajayi, has emerge winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primary election in the state.

Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, the deputy governor of Bayelsa, who chaired the electoral committee that supervised the poll, announced the results on Thursday in Akure, the state capital.

Ewhrudjakpo said Ajayi scored 264 votes to defeat other aspirants.

“By virtue of the results, Ajayi Alfred Agboola having scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner of this primary and hereby declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the November 2024 election and is hereby returned as the candidate,” he said.

Ajayi was the deputy governor of Ondo state from 2017 to 2021.

Kolade Akinjo, who came second in the election scored 157 votes while Olusola Ebiseni polled 99 votes to clinch the third position.

On June 21, 2020, Ajayi, a lawyer and businessman, resigned his membership from the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) and joined the PDP.

He cited irreconcilable differences between him and his principal, the late Rotimi Akeredolu, the former governor of Ondo.

He then joined the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) after losing the PDP gubernatorial primary to Eyitayo Jegede and became the candidate of the party in 2020.

Ajayi had served as a councillor, chairman of Ese-Odo LGA, and house of representatives member before he was nominated by the late Akeredolu as his deputy in 2016.

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Former Senate Spokesperson Ayogu Eze Dies At 66

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Ayogu Eze, a former spokesperson for the Senate, passed away at the age of 66.

Eze, the senator from Enugu North Senatorial District from 2007 to 2015, died on Thursday in a hospital in Abuja following an undisclosed illness.

In May 2023, the Senate confirmed Eze as a federal Commissioner for Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission. Eze is also among the founding members of the Peoples Democratic Party.

In his years at the Senate, he also served as the chairman of the Senate Committee of Works and a member of committees on Constitutional Amendment, Police Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.

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