National Economic Council is working towards declaring a state of emergency
Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the monthly meeting of the council presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
All the 36 state governors are members of the council.
Shaibu said a finally decision of the matter would be taken at the next council meeting holding in November.
He said the council at its Thursday meeting received interim report from its ad-hoc committee on the revival of education in Nigeria.
The deputy governor said the committee recommended that all state governors should declare a state of emergency on education.
AfDB, CU to create 9m jobs
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Aderemi Atayero, disclosed this during its 17th matriculation ceremony held on the campus in Its last Friday. The V-C, while speaking to the 1,525 undergraduate and 135 post-graduate matriculating students, said, “According to The Nigerian Graduate Report, graduates of this university are highly employed and this is because Covenant equips her students with entrepreneurial skills that ensure self-employment. This is also validated by the Excellence in Quality Entrepreneurship Education Award received recently.
Atayero also said the programme would equip youths across Africa with skills needed to secure ICT related employment and businesses.
COEASU threatens strike, condemns FG’s ‘No-work-no-pay’ rule
The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union has said that its members will not be intimidated by the Federal Government’s no-work-no-pay rule of the Federal Government.
The union, in a statement addressed to lecturers in federal colleges of education across the country, claimed that its members had been receiving “fractional and mutilated salaries” for some years.
It described the government’s decision not to pay striking lecturers as a sign of insensitivity to the labour force of the country.
The COEASU National President, Mr NuhuOgirima, in the release obtained by our correspondent, called on all the members of the Union across the country to prepare for a prolonged battle.