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ASUU Reveals Only Solution To End Strike----NIGERIA
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, during meeting with the leadership of the Senate on Monday presented an alternative to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS.ASUU President stated this while speaking with newsmen after the meeting which lasted for three hours.Ogunyemi noted that the meeting between leadership of ASUU and Senate is a follow up to the one earlier held in October 2019.He added that the meetings is targeted at finding a way out of the IPPIS crisis.The Union in October 2019, assured the leadership of Senate that it would design an alternative to the IPPIS, which would accommodate the peculiarity of the university system.Ogunyemi said the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, was a home-grown system that would end the eight-month industrial action by ASUU if embraced by the Federal Government.He said, “We had a positive meeting which was cordial and we are going to continue from there. We will still meet again to continue from where we stopped.â€â€œWe have developed what we call University Transparency and Accountability Solution. We have presented it to the Senate today and the Senate President commended it.â€â€œWe are going to present the platform to other stakeholders. UTAS is home grown while IPPIS is foreign.â€â€œWe have shown that we are inventors, we are creators of software and we are also capable of doing what our colleagues are doing in other parts of the world.â€
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PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP To Deploy Peacekeepers To Azerbaijan To Monitor A Cease-fire Deal Between Azerbaijan And Armenia
In a show of hands, legislators voted in favor of a one-year mandate allowing the government to send troops to Azerbaijan, where they would observe possible violations of the truce from a joint Turkish-Russian monitoring center. The cease-fire ended six weeks of intense fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.Erdogan's government would determine the number of troops to be sent and it wasn't immediately clear how many the country planned to deploy. The motion states that civilian personnel could also be deployed as part of the peacekeeping mission.Last week, the defense ministers of Russia and Turkey signed a memorandum to create a joint monitoring center in Azerbaijan, although technical details of the mission are still being worked out.Azerbaijan has been pressing for its ally Turkey, which has supported Baku in the conflict, to take an active role in the peace talks and was the first to announce its involvement in the monitoring of the cease-fire agreement.Russian officials have said that Ankara's involvement will be limited to the work of the monitoring center on Azerbaijani soil, and Turkish peacekeepers wouldn't go to Nagorno-Karabakh. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said the center will operate remotely, using drones and other technical means to monitor possible violations.The mandate further extends Turkey's military engagements stretching from the Middle East to Africa. The country, which has been trying to craft itself a role as a regional power, has sent troops to Iraq and Syria to battle Kurdish militants and to Libya where its presence helped change the balance of a conflict there in favor of the Tripoli-based government. Ankara also maintains a military presence in Qatar, Somalia and on Cyprus and has peacekeepers in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Africa and the Balkans.The motion for the deployment in Azerbaijan was backed by four out of five parties in Turkey's parliament. Erdogan's government said the Turkish peacekeepers were crucial for the region's peace and welfare and for Turkey's national interests."Turkey and Azerbaijan who regard themselves as one state and two people, will continue to struggle together for their independence and future," said Ismet Yilmaz, who heads the parliamentary defense committee. "It is our historic and strategic responsibility to ensure that (Turkish troops) take up duty at the joint center to maintain the cease-fire and prevent violations."
