TECHDIGEST – The National Association of Northern Nigeria Students (NANNS) has honoured the Publisher of PRNigeria, Mallam Yushau A. Shuaib with an ‘Award of Achiever Par Excellence.’

In addition, the students’ union also solicited PRNigeria’s support on sustainable collaborations for capacity building trainings and mentorship for the teeming northern youths.

The call was made by the association Director of Special Duties, Abdulazeez Ibrahim, alongside his Campuses and Mobilization counterpart, Nafiu Yushau Zugachi, when they presented an ‘Award of Excellence’ to the Publisher, at PRNigeria office in Abuja.

According to Mr. Ibrahim, the union’s decision to honour Mallam Shuaib was necessitated due to his track records of performances, qualities, excellence and behind the scene efforts in serving humanity.

Similarly, Mr. Zugachi stated that, the union had over the years been noticing the unrelenting efforts of PRNigeria in betterment of the society through its internship and mentorship programs for the youth and students aimed at enhancing their skills in the aspect of journalism and related aspects.

He therefore thanked Mr. Shuaib on behalf of the students’ body for his outstanding contributions to the society and equally seek for partnership with PRNigeria in areas of journalism and beyond.

He said; “We the Northern Nigeria Students are very appreciative, impressive and passionate about your efforts. We are also looking forward to partnering with you in conducting workshops, not only in the issue of journalism but in other entrepreneurship skills of communication that will be very beneficial to our teeming youth and the society at large.

“Our association organize symposiums, lectures and workshops aimed at sensitizing the public mindsets against drug abuse, financial misconduct, examination malpractice and how to promote girls child education and become security conscious.”

In addition, Zugachi tasked the media to act as the ‘Fourth Estate of the Realm’ in providing solutions through their editorials in solving myriad of challenges affecting the country.

“The media has a lot of roles to play especially on this issue of the ongoing ASUU Strike and the insecurity that has been bedeviling our societies,” he added.

In his remarks, Mallam Shuaib thanked the association for finding him worthy of such the award and equally pledged to support the idea of equipping youth through capacity building programmes.

Mallam Shuaib also, assured the executives of the students’ union of PRNigeria’s unwavering support and assistance in any way possible in uplifting the capacity of youth and betterment of the society in general.

By PRNigeria

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TECHDIGEST – President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA to subject the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS and the two other proposed payment solutions proposed by University workers to integrity test.

This is as the Federal Government is making efforts towards ensuring that the Consiquential Adjustment/ minimum wage arrears are paid to the striking university workers this week in order to persuade them call off the ongoing strike.

Recall that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the non teaching staff Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, have lamented that they were being shortchanged in their salary payment since the government introduced IPPIS as the official payment platform.

As an alternative, ASUU proposed to the government the University Transparency Accountability Solution, UTAS, while SSANU and NASU on their own, proposed the University Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System, U3PS.

SSANU and NASU claimed that the proposed U3PS accommodate the peculiarities in the Nigerian University system as it handles all employees’ financial records in a hassle-free, automated fashion.

The peculiarities include employees’ salaries, bonuses, deductions, net pay, generation of pay-advice and other financial reports using accounting best practices and also seek to essentially automate those micro administrative tasks performed by accountant general office and bursars of federal institutions, thereby giving the office the mental bandwidth to focus on the macro.

In a tripartite plus meeting attended by the leadership of the university-based unions including the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige and other relevant stakeholders, at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, President Buhari directed NITDA to subject the three payment solutions to integrity test.

The Tripartite Plus meeting chaired by the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, gave NITDA three weeks to carry out the integrity test and report back the results.

A source at the meeting hinted that the Chief of Staff during the closed-door session pleaded with the university unions to go back to their duty posts while discussions will be ongoing to address all their concerns but the workers were adamant insisting that the strike would only be called off when the federal government honours agreement reached.

However, a source at the meeting told Vanguard that the Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige was mounting pressure to the relevant government agencies to ensure that some of the contentious issues are addressed as soon as possible.

The source said, “we rebuffed all the plea by the Chief of Staff for us to call off the strike. There was nothing on the table for us to do so. However, we heard that the Minister of Labour is making effort to ensure that the minimum wage arrears and the consequential adjustment are paid. We are waiting.

“We know that the Minister is trying his best to conciliate but after memorandum of understanding and memorandum of action are entered into, the government will fail to implement them and will turn back to blame the unions.”

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