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RSITIE VE S C NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION NI O U M L M A I S N S O I I I O O T T N N A A N N T H C E OU VI GHT AND SER MONDAY AA PUBLICA PUBLICATIONTION OF OF THE THE OFFICE OFFICE OF OF THE THE EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE SECRET SECRETARARYY www.nuc.edu.ng Bulletin th 0795-3089 4 January 2021 Vol. 16 No. 01 Tertiary Institutions to Access N500bn from TETFund in 2021 education stakeholders in the universities, adding that the he management of the North-central Zone of the BoT under him is determined Tertiary Education Trust country, in Ilorin. to prove that “public agencies TFund (TETFund) has disclosed that about 226 tertiary institutions in the country would access N500 billion from the fund in 2021. It said the fund set that target of N500 billion as education tax for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in 2021 “considering the magnitude of challenges facing tertiary education in Nigeria.” The Chairman, Board of Trustees of TETFund, Alhaji Kashim Imam disclosed this in Ilorin, Kwara State, during an inspection tour of all the TETFund projects executed at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Kwara State University, Malete and Nigeria Army School of Education, Sobi Barrack, Ilorin. Alh. Kashim Imam Chairman BoT, TETFund The inspection tour was on the Imam said the fund was must, should work and must sidelines of the joint interactive committed to improving the work to get results.” session, organised by the fund, quality and standard of in conjunction with the FIRS for education of the nation’s The synergy between the FIRS in this edition Schools To Schools Closure: ASUU Remain Closed Varsities Must Suspends Until Jan. 18 Comply 9-month-old — FG — NUC Strike Pg. 2 Pg. 3 Pg. 4 EDITORIAL BOARD: Ibrahim Usman Yakasai (Chairman), Mal. Haruna Lawal Ajo (Editor), Ogbonnaya Okoronkwo, Udey Felix, Muhammad Bukhari Musa, Aja-Nwachukwu Samuel, Sadiq Abubakar Enquiries: [email protected] 4th January, 2021 Vol. 16 No. 01 and TETFund is vital to the commitment and cooperation steps to put the nation on a transformation that is evident in by the leadership of both revolutionary path of a our public tertiary institutions organisations and our zeal to knowledge-based economy. nationwide. improve Nigerian education nationwide. He said the agency is This was achieved as a result of committed to impact on the joint delivery of complementary In his remarks, the Executive nation’s tertiary institutions services by providing amiable Secretary of TETfund, Prof. comprising 226 federal and and lasting solutions to our Suleiman Bogoro, represented state universities, federal and beneficiaries. In addition, the by the Director of Finance, state polytechnics and successful strategic partnership Idris Saidu, said the fund is colleges of education for over the years can be attributed striving to change the improved infrastructure to the strong, relentless narratives by taking practical components. Schools To Remain Closed Until Jan. 18 — FG he Federal Government has w e d d i n g s , c o n f e r e n c e s , capacity at all times and as well said schools in the country congresses, office parties, as ensure strict compliance to Twill remain shut till concerts, seminars, sporting Covid-19 protocols at all January 18, 2021. The government also issued new restrictions, which include the closure of all bars, nightclubs, pubs and event centres, as well as recreational venues in all states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for the next five weeks. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja last Monday. He said that the directives were advisories issued to state authorities for implementation in the next five weeks. All restaurants were also directed to close, except those providing Boss Mustapha services to hotel residents, Secretary to the Government of the Federation takeaways, home deliveries, and drive-ins. activities, end of year events, gatherings. have been restricted to not more Also, all informal and formal than 50 people. According to him, the festivity events, including measures were important to He further urged religious curb the spread of the centres to maintain 50 per cent MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary Page 02 4th January, 2021 Vol. 16 No. 01 coronavirus disease as the country frequent spot checks. 6 0 y r s a n d / o r w i t h battled the second wave of the comorbidities are to be pandemic which has also affected “The PTF on the advice of the encouraged to stay at home and other parts of the world. Federal Ministry of Education, avoid crowds. expects that schools would have He said, “All government staff on vacated from the 18th December “All non-essential travels – Grade Level 12 and below are to 2020 and remain closed till at b o t h d o m e s t i c a n d stay at home for the next 5 weeks; least the 18th of January, 2021 to international during the Permanent Secretaries and Chief enable the measures introduced holiday season are seriously Executives are to be held to take effect. discouraged.” accountable for enforcing NPI rules in their domains with “All persons above the age of Schools Closure: Varsities Must Comply — NUC On Friday, 25 December, 2020, recorded, 712 new cases were resolved last week. The N a t i o n a l U n i v e r s i t i e s recorded, more 5000 case we're university students are Commission (NUC), through recorded last week. Chris Maiyaki, (the Deputy Executive Secretary of NUC) has directed all the universities within the country to suspend all academic activities due to the spread of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. This directive has affected all universities in Nigeria, i n c l u d i n g t h e p r i v a t e universities. According to the ASUU president Prof Biodun, that university lecturers are ready to resume to work if government provide everything necessary for maintaining the safety of the students and the lecturers. "We insist that the covid-19 protocols should be maintained" Prof Biodun said. universities Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed were directed not to allow any Executive Secretaryvery, NUC happy right now and are kind of academic activities with in the mid of preparation for large gathering. Public universities were closed resuming back to school for over 9 months due to strike immediately after the The rate at which Covid-19 embarked by Academic Staff christmas holidays. pandemic spread now is Union of Universities (ASUU). worrisome. On Thursday, 24/12/2020, 1041 new cases were The differences between the ASUU and federal government MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary which lead to the strike were Page 03 4th January, 2021 Vol. 16 No. 01 ASUU Suspends 9-month-old Strike The Academic Staff Union of resolution of their dispute with some of the esolutions Universities (ASUU) has government. reached by ASUU NEC at its suspended its industrial action meeting held on Tuesday that has disrupted academic The closure of the universities night to review reports of activities for nine months. engendered by the indefinite agreement with the federal strike snowballed into further government said that the Addressing a press conference shut down of schools by the union resolved to give recently at the University of Abuja, ASUU president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said the decision to go back to the classroom was made based on agreement reached with the Federal Government at a meeting held on Tuesday, which addressed most of the demands of the union. He said that an implementation committee had been set up to monitor the implementation of the agreements. “On the basis of the foregoing, the NEC resolved that the current strike by the union Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi ASUU President s h o u l d b e s u s p e n d e d government following the another chance to federal conditionally with effect from outbreak of COVID-19 government to prove that it 12.01 a.m Thursday, December pandemic. can be trusted. 24, 2020. However, should government fail to fullfil its own S t u d e n t s o f N i g e r i a n He said the NEC agreed to part of the agreement, ASUU will government-owned universities accept agreements reached resume its suspended strike as have lost the entire academic between ASUU and the deemed necessary,” he said. year to the long dispute federal government on between government and Tuesday December, 2020 and The current ASUU strike began lecturers. resolved to consciously and on March 23 after its two-week diligently monitor its warning strike ended without ASUU president who read out implementation. MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary Page 04 4th January, 2021 Vol. 16 No. 01 When asked if the federal demands of ASUU for which laboratories to do our best for government had been able keep agreement was reached to our students and our country. to keep its promise to start include, the immediate release payment of salary arrears of o f E a r n e d A c a d e m i c *We are going back to rekindle ASUU members, Ogunyemi said Allowances and mainstreaming t h e m o t i v a t i o n a n d that it had started though not of the EAA into the annual aspirations in our members to completed yet.