School Reporters

  The influence of social media (SM) technology is wild and far reaching. It's vast and globalistic attributes is one that have brought both joy and pain, love and acrimony, a facade of peace and a backdrop of anarchy and many more to the world.  While it has been all fun, free and full with varieties - SM has shown over time that the magnitude of its potential to be effectively weaponised (or used as a tool of influence) is exponentially inundating.  No matter the jurisdiction of application, the factor to exploit and influence are embedded.  Social media for all its benefits tend to have pushed us farther apart from reality.  We became interconnected across the globe ; yet we are more distant than ever in human history.  People fancy taking a picture than saving a life that's in danger.  We have had more evidences to show yet little justice.  We have more opinions but are more divided than ever before in history.  Yes we have made work eas...

  President Muhammadu Buhari will soon take a decision on the controversial University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) and the condition of service for varsity teachers, Labour and Employment Minister Chris Ngige hinted yesterday. To guide the President in taking a decision, the inter-ministerial departments and agencies committees of the Federal Government will turn in their reports on Wednesday. The reports of the committees could bring an end to the four-month old strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Dr. Ngige dropped the hint in a statement yesterday by his ministry’s spokesman Olajide Oshundun. The striking lectures are at war over which payment platform to be adopted in public varsities between the government-approved Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and ASUU-preferred UTAS. Yesterday, Ngige said last Thursday’s meeting was with the government side and not with ASUU members as assumed by their leader...

THE Federal Government through the Ministry of Labour and employment, Sunday gave insight into why no unions in the nation's university system education were invited to last Thursday's meeting. FG stated that the meeting was to assess the progress made so far on addressing the few outstanding demands of the striking university workers, such as the contentious payment platform and the renegotiation of their conditions of service. In a statement by Head, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Olajide Oshundun, lamented that the combative and several unfounded allegations by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU against the government, particularly, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, saying, "all insinuations that the Ministry of Labour does not sympathise with the students, unions and parents, of which the Minister is one, should be disabused It noted that "ASUU should know that we arbitrators and concili...