Saturday, November 16, 2019

BREAKING.... IRAN PETROL HIKE: Protest Erupt Across Cities

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Protests have erupted across Iran after the government unexpectedly announced it was rationing petrol and increasing its price. At least two people have been killed.  

Prices rose by at least 50% on Friday as subsidies on petrol were reduced.

The authorities say they want to free up money to help the poor. 

Iran is already suffering economically due to stiff sanctions imposed by the US after Washington decided to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal. 

One person was killed during protests in the central city of Sirjan. State news agency Irna said there were clashes with police when protesters attacked a fuel storage warehouse and tried to set fire to it. 

Several more people were injured. 

A protester also died in the city of Behbahan. 

Other cities were also affected including the capital, Tehran, Kermanshah, Isfahan, Tabriz, Karadj, Shiraz, Yazd, Boushehr and Sari. 

Videos posted online purportedly showed motorists in the capital, Tehran, stopping traffic on the Imam Ali Highway and chanting for the police to support them. 

Another clip shows what appeared to be a roadblock across the Tehran-Karaj motorway, hit by the season's first heavy snowfall.


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Headteacher wrongly sacked over threesome with boys, 17, awarded £700,000

Picture: Google Maps Tribunal gives gay primary school teacher ??70,000 after he was wrongly sacked for having a threesome with 17-year-olds he met on Grindr
Tribunal awarded Matthew Aplin £700,000 after he was wrongly dismissed after having a threesome (Picture: Google)
Saturday, November 16, 2019

A primary school headteacher wrongly sacked after having sex with two 17-year-old boys he met through a gay dating app, has been awarded nearly £700,000 compensation by a tribunal.

According to Metro.co.uk, Matthew Aplin, who was the head of Tywyn Primary School in Sandfields, Port Talbot in south Wales, met the teenagers at his home in August 2015.

He was suspended and disciplinary hearings, led by the school’s governors who cited concerns over safeguarding, were launched

Mr Aplin was then accused of ‘bringing the school into disrepute, conduct incompatible with the role of the headteacher both which seriously undermined the trust and confidence of the school in its headteacher.’

He has won an employment tribunal claiming unfair dismissal and sexual orientation discrimination against the school, after being sacked in May, 2016 but the decision was appealed.

Picture: Google Maps Tywyn Primary School in Sandfields Tribunal gives gay primary school teacher ??70,000 after he was wrongly sacked for having a threesome with 17-year-olds he met on Grindr
The school said his behaviour brought the school into disrepute (Picture: Google Maps)

Employment Appeals Tribunal upheld the original ruling and ordered Tywyn Primary School’s governing body to pay Mr Aplin more than £696,000.

The tribunal said: ‘His career shows the claimant to be an individual who was dedicated to working in the education sector and someone who was not only ambitious but effectively so.

‘The claimant was therefore a well-qualified and experienced school manager with extensive teaching experience.’

The school’s governors ‘acquiescence’ to the wishes of the local education authority was also singled out for criticism.

‘In short, they saw that the LEA appeared to want a dismissal and acquiesced in that’, the tribunal said, but said Mr Aplin would not have been treated any differently by the governors if he was heterosexual.

‘The decision makers did not feel competent to address matters and wanted to rely on the ‘experts’, the tribunal said.

‘Had the presentation of the case against a comparator been carried out in a similar fashion, we are of the view that the decision makers would equally have abdicated responsibility to those who they saw as having the expertise and qualifications to make the relevant decisions.’

Mr Aplin has since found new full-time employment hard to come by. Since September last year, he has been working as a teacher at a primary school in the Merthyr area on a series of temporary contracts, the tribunal said.

The ruling added: ‘We came to the conclusion that given his existing experience he would be likely to return eventually to a headteacher role and that he would do so more quickly than he did previously because of his experience.

‘Doing the best that we can, we view that this would take up to 10 years. We do not consider that there is a significant prospect that the claimant would become unemployed although the current role is temporary that has been extended on a number of ‘This reflects how well the claimant is thought of and points to a continuation of employment or a very favourable reference at the least.

‘We concluded that he would progress through leadership roles to reach the position of headteacher.’




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Friday, November 15, 2019

President Buhari returns to Nigeria, After Saudi Summit and Private Visit to UK


President Muhammadu Buhari returning from Turkey
President Muhammadu Buhari returning to Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria after two weeks in London on a private visit.

According to premium times Mr Buhari arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 9:45 p.m. on board a presidential jet, Channels Television reported.

While addressing journalists at the airport, Mr Buhari said he intends to work harder and be accountable to Nigerians.

PREMIUM TIMES reported Mr Buhari’s expected arrival. The president’s flight was said to have taken off from Stansted Airport, London, at about 3:27 p.m. Nigerian time.e

The president has been on a 15–day “private visit” in the United Kingdom since November 2. He was due to return on November 17.

On Thursday, a Nigerian diplomatic car believed to have been carrying the president was booed by an angry mob in the UK.

Many of the protesters carried placards calling for freedom for the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore. Others condemned the treatment of the leader of the Shiite movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

“Buhari, Stop Poisoning Sheikh Zakzaky,” one of the placards read.

“Omoyele Sowore is not a criminal,” another placard read.





Friday, November 15, 2019

BREAKING.... CERTIFICATE FORGERY;NECO sanitices Self, Sacks 70 Staff

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Friday, November 15, 2019 The Management of National Examinations Council (NECO) has approved the dismissal of 70 staff from her...

2020 UTME THREATENED OVER RIFT BETWEEN CBT CENTRES OWNERS AND JAMB... Group Ask Professor Is-haq Oloyede To Apologise To Nigerians over failed Biometric capture, Browser

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Friday, November 15, 2019 Crisis seems to be brewing ahead of next year's unified Tertiary Matriculation Examina...

UNIVERSITY WORKERS BEGIN MOBILISATION FOR STRIKE

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University workers under the aegies of Senior staff association of Nigerian universities,SSANU and Non-academic staff union of U...

Bauchi govt orders principals, vice principals to own smartphones

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November 15 2019 Bauchi State Government has directed all public secondary school principals and vice principals to own smartphones. The Sta...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Child labour and human trafficking remain important concerns in global supply chains

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New estimates of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains are revealed in a report compiled by the ILO, OEC...

Court Dismisses Rape Suit Against COZA Pastor, Fatoyinbo...fines Bisola Dakolo N1M.

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Thursday November 14, 2019 An Abuja High Court  has dismissed the rape case instituted by a  member of Commonwealth of Zion Asse...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Interswitch, Visa seal deal

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  by  Alao Abiodun     6 hours ago By Our Reporter Interswitch Limited, a leading technology-driven company focused on the digitisation of p...

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BREAKING.... CERTIFICATE FORGERY;NECO sanitices Self, Sacks 70 Staff

Friday, November 15, 2019

The Management of National Examinations Council (NECO) has approved the dismissal of 70 staff from her services for certificate forgery. 

In a statement signed by the    Head, Information and Public Relations Division 
Azeez Sani, NECO said The dismissals are sequel to a report submitted by a Management Committee constituted to verify certificate of staff. 

FULL TEXT BELOW:

NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (NECO)

PRESS RELEASE

NECO DISMISSES 70 STAFF FOR CERTIFICATE 

FORGERY

The Management of National Examinations Council (NECO) has approved the dismissal of 70 staff from her services for certificate forgery. 

These dismissals are sequel to a report submitted by a Management Committee constituted to verify certificate of staff. 

The certificate Verification Committee carried out its assignment diligently by inviting all staff with questionable credentials to appear before it, during which some staff actually attested that their certificates were fake.

The Committee also contacted the Schools and Institutions the affected staff claimed to have attended and the Schools and Institutions denied having certificated them. On completion of their assignment, the Committee submitted its findings to NECO Management which also forwarded same to NECO Governing Board.

At its 17th Extra- ordinary meeting, the Governing Board vetted the report and approved dismissal of the affected staff.

The Council under the able leadership of the Acting Registrar/Chief Executive, Mr. Abubakar Gana has zero tolerance for corruption and is poised to sanitise the system as espoused by President Muhammadu Buhari led administration.

The dismissal of the 70 staff is the first phase in the series of the on-going staff certificate verification exercise in the Council.

Azeez Sani,

Head, Information and Public Relations Division.











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2020 UTME THREATENED OVER RIFT BETWEEN CBT CENTRES OWNERS AND JAMB... Group Ask Professor Is-haq Oloyede To Apologise To Nigerians over failed Biometric capture, Browser

Friday, November 15, 2019

Crisis seems to be brewing ahead of next year's unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME following a rift between e-test centres operators and the joint Admissions and matriculation Board, JAMB over refusal to sign memorandum of understanding with stakeholders

Spokesman of the group, Maxuel chaidikobi at a briefing in Abuja ask JAMB to apologise to Nigerians for failure of its browser and biometric capture systems  in 2019 ahead of next years examination
Thousands of candidates encountered various degrees of challenges, before during and after the 2019 unified tertiary matriculation examinations, UTME organised by JAMB

Some of these challenges include, inability to conclude biometrics capture ,failure of browsers to connect to  computers in good time and poor electricity supply and many more

The e-test centres owners who JAMB's spokesman describe as partners appear to be  playing the austrich, blaming  the challenges in the exercise on exam body 

This group is appealing to the House of representatives to allow JAMB use National identity card for 2020 UTME,  to avoid a repetation of 2019 incidence

JAMB's head of media, Fabian Benjamin insists the organisation is opened to any suggestion to succeed and as it is not unaware of minor challenges encounted in previous examination

For Now the group has asked the JAMB Registrar to extend to 21 days the 48 hours ultimatum issued to CBT Centres operators to register 


 



Find Excepts from CPAN Briefing Below.




CPAN is saying that just as NIMC has followed standard practice, but JAMB has Only used and dumped CPAN without memorandum of understanding, MOA... this has resulted in the .massive malpractices, failure of centres, ...

CBT started in 2011...and since then there was no document streamlining what the CBT centres will be continuously be engaged with until now...

CPAN President Maxuel Chiadikobi at a media briefing in Abuja said WHAT JAMB REMITS TO TREADURY is as a result of transition from paper and pencil to computer.

CPAN said JAMB pays N600 for every candidate at a centre and there is no document backing it.

CPAN has accused JAMB OF full of secracy in its dealings

The accreditation of over 700 in less than 48 hours notice is uncalled for...We demand a 21 days notice...


CPAN Acusses JAMB of sending a capenta at its headquarters as a technical staff at a centre...

CPAN says N600 per candidate is to small and is responsible for unfortunate situation where certain misgivings come about...

JAMB uses round pegs in square holes as tech staff

CPAN ask Oloyede to apologise to candidates who couldn't write the test last time.
"innocent Children who registered exams the CBT centres failed to work...

CPAN Apologise for failed centres, we ask JAMB to apologise for failed Browsers..."

"...CPAN criticises the reading text for JAMB which cost a whopping 500 naira multiplied by the number of candidates...

CPAN call for more tertiary  institutions/universities to carter for the huge number of candidates...

CPAN strongly believe that it is not possible for exam malpractices to happen at CBT centres without the cooperation of JAMB staff..."

"...There is no business in business for government... Acuses JAMB as the only agency generating money and be registering UTME...

JAMB Competes with those its invites to do business with...
CPAN Criticises JAMB for organising test for MDA as a a violation..."
The group the Urge by JAMB to use NIMC for UTME registration because The Browser system emplored has failed, says about 200,000 Persons where affected by failed Browser system








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