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By Opeyemi Babalola It seems that the institutions under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will undergo another industrial action once more. Nobody knows how long this very own will take but another strike seems looming.  The strike has become a cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabric of the Nigerian University education. Last year December, Members of the ASUU agreed to end a 9-month old strike after a resolution between the union and the federal government was reached.  Last two weeks, the President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed that there was every possibility to embark on another strike as the federal government had not met their demands agreed on in December 2020. Osodeke, in an interview with The PUNCH, accused the federal government of playing on lecturers. He reiterated the union's motive on opposing the use of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). He had alleged that the use of IPPIS made it p

 By Opeyemi Babalola About three weeks ago, the Nigerian government announced the starting of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic which has killed over 2,000 people in the country. Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, had put FCT and other six states which were Lagos, Oyo, Rivers, Kaduna, Kano and Plateau on red alert as part of efforts to halt the spread of the deadly pandemic. The deadly disease was pronounced pandemic in March 2020 after it had killed over millions of people in the world. Two years ago, the name COVID-19 first came into the limelight after the disease was first reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China at the end of December 2019. As of the time of this report, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed 176,577 cases of the pandemic while 2,178 deaths have been recorded since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announ