Education
Ambrose Ali varsity clears air, says it is up-to-date on salaries
The Management of the Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo, has said that it was up-to-date in the payment of salaries for all staff in the institution.
This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Ambrose Odiase, its Acting Registrar.
The university said that 2,260 regular staff and pensioners had received their February 2023 salary.
“Management considers it strange that with all the efforts it has made over the months in the payment of salaries, a group of politicians’ poster boys would still come out and describe the payment as “rumour”, “selective”, etc.
“The latest payment of February, 2023 salaries is a case in point.
“It is certainly beyond rumour that over 2,260 regular staff and pensioners have received their February 2023 salaries as at Thursday, including some of the academics making all the loud unintellectual noises in defense of falsehood.
“The records are there for everyone to see and management may be compelled to publish the list of those who have so far been paid,” he said.
The registrar noted that the management had been paying gross salaries since december 2021; hence, he said the claim that it owed 27-month checkoff to welfare union was untrue.
He noted, however, that only staff members who refused to be captured in the Edo government’s directed verification and biometric enrollment were not paid.
These set of staff, he said had been removed from the payroll and declared ghost workers and therefore had no claim to any salary.
“Again, all staff members of the University who were verified to have returned to work at the time the Edo State Government directed them to do so, have received their salaries to date.
“All staff (members), who failed to return to work on the directive of the government and were away on strike for eight months have not received salaries for those months they did not work.
“This is in line with the no-work-no-pay policy directed by government.
‘It is absurd that these self-serving agitators still add up these eight months as salaries due them, when they knew they did not work for them.
“And when they can see that even their counterparts in Federal Universities have been unable to convince the government at the centre to pay them for work not done.”
He stated that management remained committed to its set goal of repositioning Ambrose Alli University in line with the vision of the state government.
According to him, management will not be cowed or intimidated by the fusillade of sponsored attacks on it.
Education
Chioma Blessing Obidigbo Emerges Top Performing Student In 2022 WASSCE

Chioma Blessing Obidigbo, an 18-year-old girl, has emerged as the top performer in the 2022 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), organised by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
The announcement was made at the opening ceremony of the WAEC 61st Annual Meeting of the Nigeria National Committee, held in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
The young girl could not attend the ceremony due to her ongoing university studies in the United Kingdom. However, her parents, Mr and Mrs Matthew Obidigbo, accepted the award on her behalf.
Education
Tinubu Okays Staggered Start Of Six Varsities Approved By Buhari

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, approved the staggered takeoff of six out of 14 public universities established in the twilight of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, who revealed this to State House Correspondents, said the choice of the universities — two colleges of agriculture, education and medicine each—was strategic to the skills-empowerment goals of the Tinubu-led administration.
The Buhari administration approved the establishment of no fewer than 75 universities, encompassing federal, state and private institutions within seven years.
However, Mamman said the Federal Government lacked the funds and qualified staffing to kick start all institutions at once as they are capital intensive.
He added that the Tinubu administration will be “conservative” in doling out approvals for the establishment of new universities.
“And then there are quite a number of universities and institutions which were approved in the last days of the last administration, which because of issues of funding, and even staff it may not be prudent to get these institutions to take off altogether at once.
“So Mr. President has directed we stagger their commencement, their takeoff so that the government can properly support them,” the Former Baze University Vice Chancellor said, after he briefed Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa.
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