ASUU Resolved to Put On Hold its Decision On Strike

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRpgb0THOiwc4leNrCc9mrudgKcjiId772q5PeGC4XVqEGcOASljB-fEmT7C4eswe605ihPhoS9unZXTF_KSN48yZutZwMiJZktjMEyTrcXt3QhhrGr0UrstGg9hCNNGP_EStfFB8qmLsOXos4kTp4GK4XMN2Swce_xLh0P_RVppnb9p9KCU0hlWmyTA=s294" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="294" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRpgb0THOiwc4leNrCc9mrudgKcjiId772q5PeGC4XVqEGcOASljB-fEmT7C4eswe605ihPhoS9unZXTF_KSN48yZutZwMiJZktjMEyTrcXt3QhhrGr0UrstGg9hCNNGP_EStfFB8qmLsOXos4kTp4GK4XMN2Swce_xLh0P_RVppnb9p9KCU0hlWmyTA" width="294" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday resolved to put on hold its decision on strike. The varsity teachers’ union took stand to give room for further consultations and after receiving reports from its branches.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">According to the union, the decision was taken after a December 18 meeting to review the level of government’s implementation of the FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) of December 23, last year and other related matters.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS-oHR4oSOLxWwH36x5Fjun5sWZ7TZ7CHJHJB6tHuxG6Fg05lUQvmRgbHULs79wdWC87LGRJ90PotrASvS4XeF2eYCLzQNh5lsX-LnV9fjHSVYy_v5HHGKrnFUg_zCngDKQp2Bwy5RtdbfcQmguMME1Xz8tu2XnMzC9G97CxjWllGQwo40Li7QowWVPA=s259" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS-oHR4oSOLxWwH36x5Fjun5sWZ7TZ7CHJHJB6tHuxG6Fg05lUQvmRgbHULs79wdWC87LGRJ90PotrASvS4XeF2eYCLzQNh5lsX-LnV9fjHSVYy_v5HHGKrnFUg_zCngDKQp2Bwy5RtdbfcQmguMME1Xz8tu2XnMzC9G97CxjWllGQwo40Li7QowWVPA" width="259" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In a statement issued after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Sunday, ASUU welcomed the recommendation of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) that the payment platform – University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) developed by the university lecturers be deployed in government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ASUU National President Prof Emmanuel Osodeke said areas highlighted by NITDA in its report would be addressed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Prof. Osodeke referred to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS), engineered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank as evil, stressing that the continuous use of the IPPIS had created distortions in the payment lecturers’ salaries.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He wondered why it took more than one year to get the needed feedback on the home-grown solution – UTAS – at a time Nigeria is yearning for “local content”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He said: “NEC is pleased that the end-user evaluation report overwhelmingly endorses UTAS for immediate deployment by government for Nigerian universities. On our part, ASUU is fully prepared to address all the technical observations made by NITDA in order to make this happen.</span></p>

ASUU Resolved to Put On Hold its Decision On Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday resolved to put on hold its decision on strike. The varsity teachers’ union took s...

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Zulum: Cleared off the N12Billion Naira outstanding.

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh46T8KVxGsytV9LhCRlvaH1cvXati1rndaysC9dp3DibPGBhVhBYv5qBamB31Qt_mgqofvll_h2b-jsKoDmOT2e90bIViZviEbIO3jNbIHkfPbm6YHAFeutkRv7Px-ZHOsnAjL5XnGmdxAAYR8hkAAwF36L5_Ok0G1e5k6JLe86NSf7GU6qnu3t2nDyQ=s1037" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh46T8KVxGsytV9LhCRlvaH1cvXati1rndaysC9dp3DibPGBhVhBYv5qBamB31Qt_mgqofvll_h2b-jsKoDmOT2e90bIViZviEbIO3jNbIHkfPbm6YHAFeutkRv7Px-ZHOsnAjL5XnGmdxAAYR8hkAAwF36L5_Ok0G1e5k6JLe86NSf7GU6qnu3t2nDyQ=s320" width="220" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Today I have cleared off the N12Billion Naira outstanding. This bring to an end the era of owing pensioners. It should not be recorded in history that our parents who laboured for the state for the past 35-40 years of their lives could not get means of surviving after retirement, even God will not be happy. It is expected that in the next 48hrs, every pensioner should have been credited in their accounts"</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Prof. Umara Babagana Zulum.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Borno State Governor</span></p>

Zulum: Cleared off the N12Billion Naira outstanding.

"Today I have cleared off the N12Billion Naira outstanding. This bring to an end the era of owing pensioners. It should not be recorded...

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Governor Zulum: Electricity will be restored in the next 30 days in Maiduguri

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho0Iz6HAhciY7ekJZAKeZLhYOc_g_VEAmRhrCrhMuCGlAVGssp-AFYnkiOGDqmvvg5WzfclFPmHz4tjF0BHVPdIXa-aeAPd4Hu4uLcJImVq0Aok0L3nOd4z3-vE2jD0Sorb06P5ytKUZ6LKdR7FizmYFv2UTldzHzvopNm4pl-w349-Lr2Gt3T74TyXQ=s306" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="306" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho0Iz6HAhciY7ekJZAKeZLhYOc_g_VEAmRhrCrhMuCGlAVGssp-AFYnkiOGDqmvvg5WzfclFPmHz4tjF0BHVPdIXa-aeAPd4Hu4uLcJImVq0Aok0L3nOd4z3-vE2jD0Sorb06P5ytKUZ6LKdR7FizmYFv2UTldzHzvopNm4pl-w349-Lr2Gt3T74TyXQ" width="306" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, Governor of Borno has said electricity will be restored in the next 30 days in Maiduguri, capital of Borno.</p><p><br /></p><p>The governor gave these assurances on Tuesday while presenting the 2022 appropriation bill at the Borno State House of Assembly.</p><p>The capital city has been without electricity for almost a year now.</p><p>The blackout was following the destruction of electricity transmission towers along Maiduguri-Damaturu by the Boko Haram insurgents in January.</p><p>The Government of Borno tried several times to fix the light by supporting the cost of repairs with, reportedly over a hundred million, but the insurgent kept sabotaging every effort made.</p><p>YERWA EXPRESS NEWS has reported how the blackout has continued to affect residents, businesses as well as some government agencies whose works solely rely on power.</p><p>Public institutions like the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital exclusively revealed they spend over 10 million Naira on a monthly basis in fueling power generators alone.</p>

Governor Zulum: Electricity will be restored in the next 30 days in Maiduguri

Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, Governor of Borno has said electricity will be restored in the next 30 days in Maiduguri, capital of Borno. The ...

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13-year-old Chinese Hacker Sun Jisu Su Behind Whatsapp, FB, Instagram Outage

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A 6-hour long outage was observed for all popular social media sites starting with Whatsapp, followed by Facebook, and Instagram on Monday night (IST) that sparked outrage among Netizens.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimmHaJC09rwZJnsNPWyvzZF1CntVk8lOhROXCXbj_ffHeFyeTgNaP5VzgfBB_ZF89-Rib8_jh64qmTjU8IUNYrUESTpNYEXf0dZ4leC4KxSAhwPsIMRx5D31H5jS44q-NlJvtsYjGgqR6Ua2pPPm-4P0xxWWZHIKMiJKfBWhJ12hdFxTq1VaOtDa4xxQ=s720" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="720" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimmHaJC09rwZJnsNPWyvzZF1CntVk8lOhROXCXbj_ffHeFyeTgNaP5VzgfBB_ZF89-Rib8_jh64qmTjU8IUNYrUESTpNYEXf0dZ4leC4KxSAhwPsIMRx5D31H5jS44q-NlJvtsYjGgqR6Ua2pPPm-4P0xxWWZHIKMiJKfBWhJ12hdFxTq1VaOtDa4xxQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Facebook application has faced many technical and political problems recently for which the reasons are yet unknown. However, there are some rumours that Facebook has not confirmed, one of them being a 13-year old Chinese hacker responsible for the outage.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the previous period of the year, Facebook was down for 12 continuous hours with no confirmed news about the news.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The report also stated that a hack or breach of networks from outside was less likely as hacking such a large-scale Denial of Service Attack (DNS) would require powerful criminal groups to coordinate or use innovative techniques.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The question here, however, lies in the extent of our dependence on these social media sites as the outage affected millions of users across the world. Several took to Twitter to express their reactions and sparkled a mem-fest on the platform. Hashtags like FacebookDown and WhatsAppDown were trending o Twitter for many hours.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Netizens breathed a sigh of celebration when the applications were up and running from Tuesday early morning in India.</span></p>

13-year-old Chinese Hacker Sun Jisu Su Behind Whatsapp, FB, Instagram Outage

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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Goes Down Globally

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users as the social media giant faces fallout over its effect on teens and misinformation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EccoZYpRs9Q/YVt5kft7etI/AAAAAAAABeY/MbdNQ_eIO-U7kgeRLg05isMwGa1lCI9nwCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20211004_225137_552.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="720" height="207" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EccoZYpRs9Q/YVt5kft7etI/AAAAAAAABeY/MbdNQ_eIO-U7kgeRLg05isMwGa1lCI9nwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20211004_225137_552.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas like Washington and Paris, with problems being reported from around 1545 GMT.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said on Twitter.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Users trying to access Facebook in affected areas were greeted with the message: “Something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity after she leaked a trove of documents to authorities alleging the company knew its products were fueling hate and harming children’s mental health.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Frances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest but said in an interview with CBS news show “60 Minutes” that Facebook was “substantially worse” than anything she had seen before.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The world’s largest social media platform has been embroiled in a firestorm brought about by Haugen, with US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal raising sharp criticism of the network.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I think that finally now policymakers, maybe the White House, other leaders can look at someone like Frances Haugen and say… ‘It’s now incumbent upon us, Facebook will not fix itself,'” said Nora Benavidez, a Facebook accountability expert.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Facebook’s vice president of policy and global affairs, Nick Clegg, vehemently pushed back at the assertion its platforms are “toxic” for teens, days after a tense, hours-long congressional hearing in which US lawmakers grilled the company over its impact on the mental health of young users.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Haugen, the whistleblower, is herself set to testify Tuesday on Capitol Hill over Facebook and Instagram’s impact on young people.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Senators put the social media giant’s Antigone Davis through the wringer last week over damning reports that Facebook’s own research warned of potential harm.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Davis told lawmakers that a survey of teens on 12 serious issues like anxiety, sadness and eating disorders showed that Instagram was generally helpful to them.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yet, Senator Richard Blumenthal read aloud excerpts from company documents he said were leaked to lawmakers by a Facebook whistleblower that directly contradicted her.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Substantial evidence suggests that experiences on Instagram and Facebook make body dissatisfaction worse,” he said, adding the finding was not a disgruntled worker’s complaint but company research.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The enterprise has been under relentless pressure to guard against being a platform where misinformation, hate and child-harming content can spread.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Legislators have struggled to pass new rules that would update online protections in decades-old laws crafted long before social media even existed. (AFP)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Goes Down Globally

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Bayelsa: Host communities shut down NCDMB building, reject training of 100 youths

<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eS5NZ_PKrfg/YVXgIIHq-QI/AAAAAAAABdc/gvR1m-0eMcsWlUj5uwzZPBAG6LPeW9qoQCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/IMG_20210930_165339_655.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="720" height="238" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eS5NZ_PKrfg/YVXgIIHq-QI/AAAAAAAABdc/gvR1m-0eMcsWlUj5uwzZPBAG6LPeW9qoQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210930_165339_655.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hundreds of protesters on Wednesday, again, besieged and shut down activities at the headquarters building of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The aggrieved youths said they rejected the offer of training just one hundred youths from the earlier agreed and approved 1000 youths from over 850 communities in the eight local government areas of the state.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The angry protesters at the early hours of Wednesday stormed and barricaded the main entrance to the content tower, preventing visitors and workers from gaining entrance into the building.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PZpsm1sLAxQ/YVXgx-cBesI/AAAAAAAABdk/WEXFJB1puxg4YxhLH4Api6QfQaZNtqe-ACNcBGAsYHQ/s651/IMG_20210930_170616_237.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="651" height="237" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PZpsm1sLAxQ/YVXgx-cBesI/AAAAAAAABdk/WEXFJB1puxg4YxhLH4Api6QfQaZNtqe-ACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210930_170616_237.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Recall that DAILY POST, had on Monday reported that the protesters besieged and shut down activities at the headquarters building of the NCDMB, over the expiration of agreement and non-commencement of trainings for youths of the Oil and Gas communities.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The protesting youths who chanted solidarity songs to press home their demands, vowed never to accept anything less than 1000 youths for the first phrase of the training.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZlyMxltAlk/YVXhDDY_VuI/AAAAAAAABds/w7993tr7YQUBGKbL4c58xzz-5Df6V3K4wCNcBGAsYHQ/s645/IMG_20210930_170559_168.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="645" height="245" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZlyMxltAlk/YVXhDDY_VuI/AAAAAAAABds/w7993tr7YQUBGKbL4c58xzz-5Df6V3K4wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210930_170559_168.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Speaking to DAILY POST, state chapter Chairman Host Community of Nigeria producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM), HRH Boma Kerekebina, said they were embarking on this peaceful protest based on their earlier agreement signed and approved by all stakeholders.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He stated that they will only accept the number of persons approved by the Bureau for Public Prosecution in a document which is 1000 youths in the first phrase in Bayelsa, adding that any other manipulation by the board will be totally rejected.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Chairman, who was represented by the Sagbama Local Government coordinator, Mr. Safa Perekebina, disclosed that even after the board took away hundred slots from their approved 1000 and promised to train 900, they have resorted to playing tricks with the agreement.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5nuxLwdt4U/YVXhMpNleqI/AAAAAAAABdw/Kaw1QdASfUkzIDtwK2NXPSKBWUNjoEe6wCNcBGAsYHQ/s649/IMG_20210930_170646_371.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="649" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5nuxLwdt4U/YVXhMpNleqI/AAAAAAAABdw/Kaw1QdASfUkzIDtwK2NXPSKBWUNjoEe6wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210930_170646_371.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He said, “Till now no date or venue have been communicated to the youths for the training after all documentation but rather officials of the NCDMB keep making flimsy excuses.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to the Executive Secretary HOSTCOM, Mr. Ofoni Ebimobowei, after several meetings, the board resorted to delay tactics.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“They told us that they can only train 100 youths because they have only N105 million naira, which we told them is unacceptable. The budget has been done and approved since 2019, and they delayed till now and they are telling us another lies, we will not accept it,” he said.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In his brief, Chief Dogibara Allison, said all they want is to make peace and the only way to go is to abide by the earlier agreement, noting that the small way for the NCDMB to give back to the society is to train youths from the host communities in Bayelsa State.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When reached on the board’s reaction, the media officer to NCDMB, Mr. Obinna Ezeobi, said the board is not an agency responsible for training of youths in the state, but are for the oil and gas industry.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He added that the board will respond officially to any other claims.</span></p>

Bayelsa: Host communities shut down NCDMB building, reject training of 100 youths

Hundreds of protesters on Wednesday, again, besieged and shut down activities at the headquarters building of the Nigerian Content Developme...

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