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National Youth Service Corps members (NYSC) have issued out a warning strike starting from 1st September to 14th September, 2017. This is to implore the Federal Government of Nigeria to keep to it promise of increasing the Corp members allowance (Allawee) from N19,800 to N49,800, starting from August 2017. It was agreed during National Corpers Forum meeting held in Abuja, that if at the end of August, Corper’s allowance is not increased to N49,800, NYSC will embark on a two week warning strike. During this period Corps members nationwide will adhere strictly to the following: “ 1) That Corps members nationwide will not go near their PPA or carry out their primary assignment in any form. 2) That all CDS activities will be suspended indefinitely. 3) That Corps members will not put on their khaki or anything relating to NYSC kits. 4) That Corpers will no longer hid to the Clarion call. Corps members nationwide are advice to adhere strictly to this information and share ...

The Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Eyitope Ogunbodede, says teachers of the university are not taking part in the indefinite strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday. According to the vice-chancellor, the lecturers of the university have no interest in the strike and would thus continue with their academic activities. “OAU is not on strike. As at today, no lecturer has told me that they want to go on strike. We are not participating in any national strike,” Mr. Ogunbodede told PREMIUM TIMES on phone. “If they tell me they want to go on strike, then it is a different case, As such, I must have seen that all of my academic staff want to go on strike. “In OAU, we have ‘unions’; neither of the two has told me they want to go on strike so we are not joining any strike at all.” The Academic Staff Union of Universities split into two factions in OAU in 2016 after a group of the teachers announced the removal of Caleb...