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To combat counterfeit drugs, Governor Soludo unveils a plan to establish a centralized wholesale drug center in Anambra.

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As part of his efforts to standardize the drug market and eradicate fake and counterfeit drugs, Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo has announced plans to construct a coordinated wholesale drug center in Oba, Idemili South LGA. The relocated and standardized Ogbo ogwu market, Onitsha's arguably largest open drug market, will be housed in the new center. "As a government, we are already building a coordinated wholesale drug centre in Oba, Idemili South LGA, that will accommodate the new and standardised Ogbo ogwu market. This is our own contribution to ending the current chaotic market environment where fake and counterfeit drugs thrive. "Onitsha remains the largest trading hub in Africa, we will further expand this status to a more befitting height," he said. Onitsha's Ogbo ogwu and adjoining market were visited by Soludo, who learned that the nearby plumbing materials market had been shut down because of shops selling illegal drugs. The governor ordered an ex...
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JUST IN: Strike: Nigerian govt meets ASUU, parties schedule another meeting

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 Wednesday's gathering considerably facilitated the worry of another ASUU strike, which really closes down Nigerian state funded colleges cross country at whatever point happens.

The minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, on Wednesday, met with the initiative of the Academic Staff Union Of University  (ASUU) to turn away one more round of strike the association as of late taken steps to set out on.


The minister said he has set up a sub-board of trustees to investigate the requests of the ASUU and track down an enduring answer for the requests.


Mr Mamman, a Professor, and the ASUU initiative arrived at a split the difference at Wednesday's shut entryway meeting held at the Government Service of Instruction, Abuja, the representative for the training service, Folasade Boriowo, affirmed to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday night.


Ms Boriowo likewise uncovered that the two players are to meet again on 6 September to proceed with conversations.


Wednesday's gathering significantly facilitated the fear of another ASUU strike, which actually closes down Nigerian state funded colleges at whatever point it happens.

Tending to columnists after the gathering, the ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, a Professor of soil science, communicated trust that the waiting issues would be tended to in front of the 6 September meeting. Extracts of his meeting were imparted to writers who were available.

He said, "We have met to examine every one of the issues and audit them. We have given the public authority among now and the pm meeting to see what they have done.

“We believe in the interest of the Nigerian child and to protect their interest if the issues are resolved.”

Mrs Boriowo also told PREMIUM TIMES over the phone that the minister, earlier in the day, inaugurated a 16-man committee to look into the needs assessment of Nigerian public tertiary institutions.

In 2022, ASUU presented the University Transparency and Accountability Solutions (UTAS), a payment platform it developed for domestication.

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Wednesday's gathering, PREMIUM TIMES learnt, endured somewhere around two hours at the instruction service.

The gathering, prior booked for Monday, followed a 21-day final proposal gave by the lectures' union for the government to address their exceptional requests, the majority of which line o better government assistance for the scholastics and subsidizing for the colleges.

The union believes the federal government should finish the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-Federal Government agreement and start execution of the equivalent. The association is likewise fighting the ceaseless utilization of a brought together installment stage, the Integrated Personal Payroll Information System (IPPIS), for the installment of its individuals' pay rates.

However Mr Mamman said in December that the university had been prohibited from the installment stage, ASUU demands that its individuals are as yet being paid through what it portrayed as 'News IPPIS', which it says is something similar with the stage it dismissed.

In 2022, ASUU presented the University Transparency and Accountability Solutions (UTAS), a payment platform it developed for domestication.

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