Tinubu Invokes Presidential Prerogative of Mercy, Okays Partial Waiver of 'No Work, No Pay' for ASUU Members Directs release of 4 out of 8 months withheld salaries Striking resident doctors also get pay waiver Deji Elumoye in Abuja President
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yesterday invoked the principle of presidential prerogative of mercy by approving the partial
waiver of the "No Work, No Pay" order instituted against members of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU) in federal universities following their eight-month industrial
action that began on February 14, 2022, before its suspension on October 17, 2022.
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S'Court Set to Hear PDP, APP's Appeals Seeking to Remove Uzodinma Alex Enumah in Abuja The Supreme Court has indicated that it will on October 31 sit in two separate appeals seeking to nullify the eligibility of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) in the 2019 governorship election in Imo State and to remove Hope Uzodinma as governor. The apex court made the disclosure last Monday through a notice of hearing served
on all parties in the appeal, marked SC/1384/2019 between Uche Nwosu and People's Democratic Party (PDP)/ Action People's Party (APP). The notice dated October 16, was signed by one of the
Registrars of the apex court, A. Bature. The PDP appeal was filed on July 9, 2020, but the Supreme Court did not give the PDP a hearing date, until this week, over three years after.
Although, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the candidate of the PDP, Emeka Ihedioha winner of the 2019 governorship election in Imo State, the apex court, however,
in a judgement in 2020, sacked Ihedioha and declared the candidate of the APC, Hope Uzodinma as lawful winner of the poll. Continued on page 5
Anyaoku: Nigeria Needs New Constitution to Move Forward ދ ދ I call on the Presidency in consultation with the National Assembly, instead of continuing to tinker with the 1999 Constitution, to acknowledge the urgent necessity of a new Constitution… we need a system of government that not only addresses our diversity but is also based on a Constitution that can correctly be described as a Nigerian people’s Constitution
Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti
Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku yesterday declared that the way forward for Nigeria is a new constitution if the country truly desires to end the “unprecedented level of divisiveness and declining sense of national unity” among its people. The former Commonwealth scribe made the call in Ekiti State while delivering the 2023 Convocation Lecture of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, titled, “Management of Diversity: A Major Challenge to Governance in Pluralistic Countries”. Continued on page 5
RETREAT FOR SENATORS… L-R: Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila; former president of the Senate, Ken Nnamani; President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio; former presidents of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and Adolphus Wabara, at a two-day retreat for Senators of the 10th National Assembly in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State...yesterday