Also, For the 7th day, Nigerian women are staging protests at the National Assembly Complex
The Federal Government says it is awaiting further update from ASUU on the Universities Transparency Accountability Solution, also known as UTAS payment system.
Government is proposing the Integrated Personnel and Payment Information System, IPPIS but ASUU wants UTAS.
After yesterday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim said UTAS has failed integrity tests.
The university lecturers commenced a one month warning strike on February 14th following differences with the government on the preferred payment platform and other issues.
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For the 7th day, Nigerian women are staging protests at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja over the lawmakers' rejection of bills that should improve women's participation in governance.
Chanting solidarity songs, various women groups and supporters of the bills, showed up early this morning.
If you remember, the House of Representatives had announced that it rescinds on its decision to kick out the bills.
A review of three of the bills is to hold in another four weeks. But the women vow to continue protests until the bills are passed by the senate.
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FOREIGN
The UK's armed forces minister James Heappey says yesterday's bombing of a maternity and a children's ward in Mariupol, south-eastern Ukraine is a war crime.
Mr Heappey described the attack as "utterly despicable".
He said that whether it was a targeted or an indiscriminate attack, both amounted to a war crime.
Meanwhile, Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers are meeting for the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, are in Antalya, Turkey to hold talks on the invasion
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