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  • ATBU shut down over students’ protest

    ATBU shut down over students’ protest

    The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi has been shut down following students’ protest, Mr Zailani Bappa, Director, Directorate of Information and Public Relations, announced on Monday.

    Bappa, who announced the closure at a news conference in Bauchi, said that the school would be closed for one week.

    According to him, the students’ protest followed the alleged murder of one Joseph Baidu, a 500 level student of Geology, outside the campus on Saturday night.

    “We are closing down the school because students decided to hold a demonstration while the Police were still investigating the matter.

    “The murder took place outside the campus and the record we have revealed that the student lived outside the university campus, in spite of the fact that he is a final year student.

    “The duty of the university security is to report the issue to the Police for proper investigation and this is exactly what happened; so, the Police are currently investigating the issue.”

    Bappa regretted that the students’ agitation caused a general disorder within the university community.

    “With the closure of the school, the students have been directed to vacate all campuses immediately. Any student found on any of the campuses willi face the wrath of the law,” he said.

    He restated management’s readiness to address and redress the act of brigandage among students to ensure a smooth environment for teaching and learning.

     

  • Gov. Matawalle warns absentee civil servants, risk losing pay

    Gov. Matawalle warns absentee civil servants, risk losing pay

    • Civil servants and political appointees who are absent at work in Zamfara state risk losing their pay, Gov. Bello Matawalle has warned.

    The governor already directed the Ministry of Finance to withhold salaries of staff until respective Commissioners and Permanent Secretaries in each ministry endorsed the exact number of staff who report to work regularly.

    He observed that the state’s civil service was full of anomalies that had rendered it a resource guzzler without commensurate returns.

    He added that the civil service was bloated with absentee staff that had become a burden on government resources.

    The governor admonished civil servants to adhere to their work ethics or have their salaries stopped.

    Matawalle also noted that political appointees were not contributing to efforts at addressing security challenges in the state.

    “I wonder how a political appointee will shun his people at the grassroots by being incommunicado while bandits have informants all around and are having the upper hand against us.

    “I employed you to have your telephones accessible to all your people so that we can effectively monitor what is happening at the grassroots as it happens or even before it happens.

    “We must listen to the people at the grassroots at all times, especially on issues that border on security,’’ Matawalle stressed.

    The governor’s charges were contained in a statement issued by Zailani Bappa, his Special Adviser on Public Enlightenment, Media and Communications in Gusau on Tuesday.

    Matawalle spoke when he hosted members of the state’s Executive Council, Special Advisers, Chairmen of Boards and Parastatals to break the Ramadan fast.