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Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) protest over Staff Schools’ Funding (Photos)

LIB exclusively gathered that the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities are protesting over moves by the Federal Govt to exit salaries of university staff primary schools from the payroll of the nation’s tertiary institutions. The Federal Government, through the National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), said recently that it would no longer allocate monies from the Federation Account to the various universities for salaries of their staff schools’ teachers. (more…)

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REVEALED: Aliko Dangote and 61 other people who are richer than half of the world

Aliko Dangote, the president of Dangote group and 61 other billionaires are richer than over 3.5 billion people around the world. In a report recently released by Oxfam, an international confederation against poverty, ahead of the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, it was also revealed that the richest 75 million people are richer than the rest of the world. The organisation, working in approximately 94 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty, said the total wealth of the poorest half of the world fell by N200 trillion since 2010. Meanwhile, the wealth