Gisting Nigeria

Following what it described as the failure of the Nigerian government to react to its letter earlier issued threatening to down tools, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU) have declared a two-week warning strike. This is contained in a memo addressed to the leadership of the unions’ branches nationwide and dated Friday, March 25, 2022. The strike, which is scheduled to take effect by midnight of Sunday, March 27, will further compound the situation across the Nigerian university campuses as the teaching staff under the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are already in the second of their three-month initial strike. Also Read: University of Lagos joins ASUU strike as they chanted Protest songs The memo by JAC, which was signed by SSANU president, Mohammed Ibrahim, and NASU general secretary, Peters Adeyemi, is titled; “Commencement of Two-Week ...

An obafemi Awolowo University student has sparked a debate on social media after he defended the activities of internet fraudsters popularly called ”yahoo boys” during a seminar presentation at the school. A video trending on the social space shows the yet-to-be-identified student explaining that the flamboyant lifestyles of internet fraudsters have helped save the country from going into a recession. JAMB, TETFUND, And Others Notified Of New Universities In Lagos by The National Universities Commission (NUC) The student used southwestern states in Nigeria as a case study and stated that the fraudsters’ use of costly cars boosted the economy and raised Nigeria’s per capita income. In his words : “In a country like Nigeria, the standard living of yahoo yahoo boys has helped save the country from recession. “Because, according to findings, in most southwest cities, yahoo yahoo boys actually dominate the best estate, they use the most expensive cars, they buy luxuries and from the top-not...