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The Federal Reporting Council has commenced a process to operationalise a corporate governance code for public institutions as part of efforts to enforce the rule of law. The council’s Executive Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the council, Dr. Rabiu Olowo, disclosed this when he received a delegation from the Institute of Directors on Thursday
The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, has hailed President Bola Tinubu for intervening in the crisis in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. President Tinubu had on Wednesday ordered the Minister of Education to dissolve the governing council of the institution and remove its recently installed Vice Chancellor, Prof Benard Odoh and the registrar.
MDCAN hails Tinubu for intervening in UNIZIK VCship crisis
The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, has hailed President Bola Tinubu for intervening in the crisis in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
President Tinubu had on Wednesday ordered the Minister of Education to dissolve the governing council of the institution and remove its recently installed Vice Chancellor, Prof Benard Odoh and the registrar.
This is coming three days into a warning strike declared by the national body of the association to protest the exclusion of their members from contesting the position of Vice Chancellor.
The chairman of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital branch of the association, Dr Amaechi Nwachukwu, who spoke to journalists, praised Tinubu for harkening to the cry of the association.
He said the action taken by Tinubu shows that he is a listening leader, and ready to do the right thing.
He said: “I’m happy that President Bola Tinubu has taken decisive action over the crisis in UNIZIK.
“You remember that just three days ago, MDCAN commenced a warning strike.
“We also held a press conference where we supported our national body and quickly called for the sack of the VC, dissolution of the council, and to re-advertise the position of VC of UNIZIK to include medical professionals.
“We are happy that the president has shown that he wants things to be done right. We are also calling on him to look into other requests we tabled before him.
“We are asking too that anywhere doctors are working, be it in universities or parastatals, they should be paid with the consolidated salary structure.
“We also told him that the current review of our salary structure by the federal government, which added 35 percent of our basic to the salary, some are not paying it, while some have not paid the arrears.
“We are asking for him to look into all these,” Nwachukwu appealed.
MDCAN hails Tinubu for intervening in UNIZIK VCship crisis
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has described the N10 million bail imposed by Justice Friday Egwuatu of the Federal High Court Abuja on detained minors charged to court as judicial tyranny and cruelty to children. He called on President Bola Tinubu to order the unconditional
Frank describes N10m bail slammed on detained minors as judicial tyranny
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has described the N10 million bail imposed by Justice Friday Egwuatu of the Federal High Court Abuja on detained minors charged to court as judicial tyranny and cruelty to children.
He called on President Bola Tinubu to order the unconditional release of minors.
DAILY POST reports that the detained minors who appeared before the court last Friday were arrested over their alleged participation in the recent #EndBadGovernance protests in parts of the country.
Frank in a statement issued on Sunday condemned the detention of the minors in an adult correctional facility among hardened criminals.
He lamented that the children have spent over 90 days in detention under inhuman conditions, saying even looters in the country who contributed to impoverishing and confining these kids to the streets don’t get similar treatment because they are buoyant financially to buy freedom when arrested.
Frank noted that for Tinubu not to have ordered the release of the children since Friday but watched them sent to prison despite public outcry, shows heartlessness and lack of fatherly love and care for children.
He added that even in Western countries like the US and the UK, children who are convicted of crimes of murder are not sent to jail but rather taken to juvenile homes for psychological therapy and rehabilitation.
He said that was what Nigerians expected from the President.
Frank added: “The President must ditch bureaucracy at this time and immediately order the release of these children with a directive that they be immediately enrolled in school.
“The ruling of the judge after seeing the harrowing plight of the kids in their malnourished and fragile state shows that the judiciary has been heavily compromised to reward corruption within the system of which they are beneficiaries.
“They have sold their conscience too. That’s why a judge can post N10 million and other stiff requirements as condition for each kid to be granted bail.”
Frank describes N10m bail slammed on detained minors as judicial tyranny
The Archbishop of Owerri Province of the Catholic Church, His Grace, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, at the weekend, emerged as the first Chancellor of the first Umuahia-based Lux Mundi University. This was as the university also held its inaugural matriculation ceremony, and the foundation laying ceremony for the former governor of Imo State, Dr. Ikedi
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The Archbishop of Owerri Province of the Catholic Church, His Grace, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, at the weekend, emerged as the first Chancellor of the first Umuahia-based Lux Mundi University. This was as the university also held its inaugural matriculation ceremony, and the foundation laying ceremony for the former governor of Imo State, Dr. Ikedi