The National president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the union will meet with the federal government today to speak on the issue of the ongoing strike by university teachers. The national president of ASSU made this known while speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television’s political show. He said the union was willing to call off the strike if the Federal Government agreed to its demands at today’s meeting.“If we go into that meeting tomorrow and the government says, what you have bargained for, we are willing to sign, the strike will be called off,” he said. The president had given the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu two weeks to address the demands of ASUU, after the submission of the ASUU report by the Briggs committee. Osodeke said that the government used the university unions to commit fraudulent activities in the guise of Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system. ‘’We have been shouting all along
The US First Lady "Jill Biden" was tested positive for Covid-19 and developed the symptoms t, the white House said on Tuesday, two weeks after her husband Joe Biden contracted the virus for a second time. The wife of the president was tested negative on Monday but developed “cold-like symptoms late in the evening,” her communications director "Elizabeth Alexander" said in a statement.Alexander said a subsequent rapid antigen test was negative, but a more detailed PCR test was was confirmed positive. The first lady has been prescribed a course of the oral antiviral pill Paxlovid and will fobe isolated for atleast five days.She “is double-vaccinated, twice boosted, and only experiencing mild symptoms,” Alexander added. Jill Biden was tested positive while on holiday in South Carolina, where she stays at a private residence, and will return to the White House after two consecutive negative tests, her aide said. President Biden, who turns 80 in November, has recent