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TENSION AS STUDENTS FORCED MINISTER OF EDUCATION TO LEAVE THE ONGOING ASUU MEETING

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  Education Minister Adamu Adamu meeting with NANS officials in Abuja yesterday in an effort to ease tension over the ongoing ASUU strike. The process is expected to lead to the resumption of academic activities on our campuses. According to Adamu he said that "I walked out from the impromptu meeting with NANS today because the students were shouting, accusing me of putting the education sector to mess and asking me to step down from office" According a twitter user HumpheryOkey @ okey_humphery who commended those that protested yesterday, he wrote " For the love of what NANS did yesterday and how they congratulated Adamu Adamu on the graduation of his kid in UK, I will follow anyone that likes this tweet and do follow back 😁 Let's reform Nigeria by fire by force"

UKRAINE'S SECOND LARGEST CITY BOMBED ON THE 6TH DAY OF WAR BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA

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   Russian strike hits Centre of Ukraine's largest second City.  60km Russian convoy forces head towards Kyiv City Ukrainian emergency service personnel seen carrying dead bodies of victims killed in a shelling blast that hit the city Hall building in Kharkiv,  Ukraine on Tuesday,  as Russia continues to step up is military actions in Ukraine's second largest city.   Surveillance  footage captured  the moments a projectile hit the government headquarters.      A 40-Mile convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles continues toward Ukraines capital of Kyiv,  where footage shows television tower exploding Tuesday,  in what is now Europe's largest ground war in generations. Source:  https:// www.facebook. com/100064516643245/posts/327365969423955/?app=fbl

ASUU to FG: Our Demand is 1trillion naira before strike will be suspended.

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 After meeting on 22nd,   ASUU and FG to hold another Meeting On Monday Nigeria's Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige who chaired Tuesday's meeting with ASUU has revealed the meeting has been adjourned till Monday this week when the government hopes to get back to the lecturers on some of the issues raised. The conciliatory meeting between the minister of Labour and the leadership of ASUU on Tuesday evening has come to an end with both parties refusing to brief the press on the issues that were discussed. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it will not shift ground until its demands are met by the federal government. Speaking at the meeting with the leadership of ASUU, Chris Ngige, the labour and employment minister, said the government would do “everything possible” to resolve the strike. The union had lamented the government’s failure to fulfill some of the agreements it reached with varsity lecturers to suspend its last strike in 2020. Meanwhile, as we...

What SWIFT does and why it matters to Russia

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  What SWIFT does and why it matters to Russia SWIFT has become a hotly debated topic in the conversation about Russian sanctions. Cutting Russian banks' access would further isolate the country from the global financial community, and put more economic pressure on the Kremlin. SWIFT, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, is a secure messaging service that more than 11k banks around the world use to communicate. "Essentially, the Gmail of global banking," as Bloomberg explained yesterday. Cutting Russian banks' access would isolate the country from the global financial community, and put more economic pressure on the Kremlin. The U.S. and its European counterparts have so far held back from cutting off SWIFT, but it's not off the table. European countries use SWIFT to pay Russian companies for oil and gas. Regular folks overseas are also familiar with the system, using it to conduct cross-country money transfers — to pay bills, s...