Newspaper review for Thursday, December 12: Senate to FG, states - Declare emergency on unemployment now
The Nigerian newspaper headlines for Thursday, December 12, lead with the letter written by Nigeria's First Lady Aisha Buhari against Garba Shehu and Mamman Daura; the Senate call to the federal government and states over unemployment, among other top stories.
The Nation reports that the government has moved to prevent a nationwide blackout as electricity workers strike enters the second day.
The strike began midnight on Tuesday, December 11, following expiration of the 21-day notice issued by the workers.
Employees of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Osogbo, the Osun state capital, said they had shut down the facility.
They said this is in compliance with the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) directive.
Source: UGC
The Guardian reports that indications of a fresh split in the presidency emerged yesterday with the first lady accusing senior presidential media aide, Garba Shehu, of taking instructions from some people in government rather than from President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement personally signed by Aisha and made available to reporters, Mrs Buhari critically upbraided Shehu of sundry professional misdemeanours, accusing the spokesman of working against the First Family.
Source: UGC
The Punch reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities has threatened to mobilise its members for a nationwide strike if the federal government stopped the salaries of lecturers for resisting enrolment on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
The union noted that its experts had designed a “unique prototype of the IPPIS for the university system named, University Transparency and Accountability Solution, which it urged the federal government to implement in universities instead of the IPPIS.
Source: UGC
Vanguard reports that the Senate has raised the alarm over rising rate of unemployment in the country and called on the federal, state, and local governments to urgently declare a state of emergency on the problem.
With the state of emergency, the upper chamber said the three tiers of government would provide jobs for the teeming youth of Nigeria.
Source: UGC
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