Osun Assembly Approve 65 Years As Retirement Age

The State of Osun House of Assembly has passed the bill seeking the extension of the retirement age of teaching and non-teaching staff of the state-owned tertiary institutions from 60 to 65 years.
The bill was passed sequel to a motion moved by the leader of House, Honourable Timothy Owoeye on Thursday shortly after it passed through the committee of whole and necessary ammendment were made from clauses one to four.

The teaching and non-teaching teaching staff of the institutions have been on strike since February over their demand for the extension of the retirement age among other agitations.

The Speaker, Honourable Najeem Salaam was optimistic that the passage of the bill would resolve the crisis between the staff of the tertiary institutions and the government.

"By the passage of this bill, I think we have resolved the issue of the retirement age that has been a contention in our tertiary institutions.

"I believe with this exercise that we have done, the teaching and non-teaching staff would return to work. "If there is any other agitation, I think that can be resolved when they resume work, at least, for the sake of our children who have been at home and wasted time on their academic pursuit", he said.

The speaker said the house gave the bill the required accelerated hearing because the government was not comfortable with the strike action.

Comments

FBI: Clinton's New Emails Prompt Further Investigation

The FBI on Friday informed Congress it has reopened its review of White House frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server when she was secretary of state and to know whether there is classified information in new emails that have emerged in its prob. The FBI had said in July its investigation was finished but reopened the investigation after discovering new mails “that appear to be pertinent.” The disclosure raises the possibility of the FBI reopening the criminal investigation involving the Democratic presidential nominee just days before the election, although it is not clear if that will happen.

How Ilorin Rose Against Saraki With Stones And Chants Of Thief! Thief!!, By Jogbojogbo Abdulrahman

Today, the Muslim Ummah celebrated. Today, in Ilorin, the Eid organisers disappointed and displayed colossal incompetence. Today, Mr. Saraki was humiliated. All around the world, Muslims celebrated and gathered at several Eid grounds to worship. It was no different in Ilorin, home to great Islamic scholars. What was different however, was that for the first time in recent history, the organisation was so bad that many people left without praying. People far off from the Imam could not link up to him as a result of bad/insufficient speakers. The disappointment I felt is the same the man beside me must have felt when shortly before the prayers he was lamenting: “First, they said, we were uneducated, so we went to school. Now that we’ve gone to school, there are no jobs for us. The few that have jobs have not been paid for monthsShortly after the prayers, I noticed commotion. There were water sachets and stones flying in the air – all directed at the direction whe...

The Beginnig Of Education In Nigeria

Over the past centuries, education has been a means of transmitting our culture from one generation to another, it has been a medium through which newborns acquire a sense of belonging in a particular culture, it is the process of bringing about a relatively permanent change in human behavior. Indigenous education is the ability of a newborn to know the norms of the society which he was born into and the willingness to acquire such norms as away of life. As the oldest industry, it the instrument used by society to preserve, maintain and upgrade its social equilibrium. A society’s future depends largely on the quality of its citizen’s education. Education has been view to extent to which an individual can stretch his intellectual by learning the culture of his society. In all human societies, education is meant to pass on to the new generation the existing knowledge of their physical environment, to introduce individuals to the organization of the society, given t...

Seyi9ja

Search This Blog