Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodinma is insisting that workers in the state’s civil service are not being owed salaries.
The governor who has been re-elected into office stated this when he played host to the Imo Council of Elders.
He also apologized for the treatment the NLC President; Joe Ajaero got when he visited the state but maintained that the state government will never be intimated by the blackmails of the union.
Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has responded to the federal government’s unwillingness to meet its requests.
Previous regimes, especially the military, were more sensitive to the predicament of professors, according to Osodeke.
On Thursday, January 5, Osodeke revealed some of their experiences under military regimes while speaking at the launching of 50 tertiary textbooks written by Nigerian writers under the sponsorship of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in Abuja.
He said;
“Thank you very much for this honourable minister and all of us who are present here today. I want to thank my colleagues for raising the issues and I think it is very important. I will just say a little thing about what is TETFUND and how did it originate?
“In 1992, the union was on strike and negotiating; how we used to do then few years ago with Obafemi and co, and when we finished, the government said how can we fund it and we said challenge us, we will tell you how to fund this agreement. And they challenged ASUU, it didn’t take three days and we came up with this idea of TETFUND, which was accepted by government, then military.
“I have seen that the military are even more sympathetic. Then TETFUND came into place. The decree was signed 1993. ASUU had to go on strike the third time to ensure that TETFUND board is funded and the money was released.”
The Senate has postponed the passage of the 2023 budget as well as the Finance Bill, until Wednesday, December 28th, 2022.
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, while making this known during plenary, explained that the Upper Chamber is postponing the budget passage because of some challenges in receiving the report on the 2023 budget from the appropriations committee.
Lawan added that the Senate Appropriations Committee kickstarted a process of cleaning up the 2023 budget first and they engaged the executive in the cleanup exercise.
According to him, the process was concluded on Wednesday, December 21st and the Committee couldn’t conclude putting together the report for submission.
A federal high court sitting in Abuja has declined an application by the Department of State Services (DSS) to arrest and detain the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.
In declining the motion ex parte — filed by an applicant in the absence of the respondent — the chief judge, Justice John Tsoho, said the secret police did not provide any concrete evidence to substantiate its claims that Emefiele was involved in terrorism financing and economic crimes.
The court said such an application should have been accompanied with the presidential approval because of the grave implications for the Nigerian economy if the CBN governor is arrested and detained.
There are suggestions that the bid to arrest Emefiele might be political given the impact the redesign of the naira and limit on cash withdrawals might have on vote-buying in the 2023 elections.
Earlier on Monday, a group of civil society organizations had raised the alarm that there was a plot to frame Emefiele for terrorism and remove him from office.
Meanwhile, DSS has warned Nigerians against being used to undermine its investigations.
In a statement, DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, said the service will not be distracted by those seeking to use “propaganda” to undermine its lawful investigations.
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