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JAMB UPDATE

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- The sale of the 2019 UTME form will commence on January 10 - The sale will take place within six weeks while the examination is expected to hold in March The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Thursday, December 20, announced that the sale of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) form will commence on January 10, 2019. The sales of form, according to the examination body, will take place within six weeks while the examination will hold in March. The New Telegraph reports that speaking at a stakholders’ forum currently ongoing at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Isiaq Oloyede, thanked the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for releasing its timetable on time, saying doing so has helped the examination body to plan the conduct of its examination in the new year. Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that a former education minister, Professor Chinwe Obaji, on Thursday, November 29, lau
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Nigeria Labour Congress Reject New Minimum Wage

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The  Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)   has turned down the N27,000 new National Minimum Wage adopted by the  National Council of State  on Tuesday. The General Secretary of the congress,  Dr Peter Ozo-Eson , made the mind of the congress known to the press ) on Tuesday in Abuja. The congress stated that since the Tripartite Committee has submitted its initial report, the council has no power to override the amount initially agreed upon. “It is abysmal of government to be delaying the submission of an Executive Bill to the National Assembly and by wrongfully adopting N27,000 through the council of states,” he said.  An emergency meeting has been called by the congress to deliberate on the deadline the congress gave to the federal government to submit the executive bill on the matter to the legislative. Ozo-Eson warned that an economic shut down is eminent if the government does not act as promptly as required. “This is because workers should not b
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CONDITIONS TO END THE STRIKE #ASUU

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has put down conditions that the Federal Government has to meet before the ongoing strike by the union will be called off. According to the union, the ongoing strike action will likely continue except the Federal Government is able to meet these conditions. The union said to end the strike, the Federal Government must urgently release additional N50 billion to the N20 billion released earlier for revitalisation fund and show evidence of mainstreaming the Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) into the 2019 budget and evidence of the payment of shortfall in salaries. President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said this to newsmen in an interview. He added that the unions conditions would be communicated to the Federal Government today at the inauguration of the platform for addressing matters relating to state universities. “There are basically two or three major areas; one is on the revitalisation fund. We presented to them that govern
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