MEMBERS of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnic, SSANIP, across the country have embarked on an indefinite strike pending the Federal Government honouring the agreement it entered with the union in 2009. The union said it embarked on the strike following its rejection of the report of a technical committee set up by the Federal Government on the implementation of the Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Scale (CONTISS 15) which the union alleged was approved by the Federal Government and was been implemented in some institutions before it was stopped.

You are who you are, what you are, where you are today because of the daily decisions you made in the past. Moreover, the quality of your future hinges on the quality of your daily decisions you make in the present. But although we are bombarded with choices every moment of our lives, there still remains a few decisions of which we have no control.

Green house of the De-Yet group of schools has won 2nd the inter-house sports events. The competition that was keenly contested by the Blue, Pink , Yellow and Green houses which held last week saw Green house carting away with 17 gold, 17 silver and 17 bronze medals to come out as the over best in the game.

Diamond Bank Plc has carried the message of financial awareness and planning to the classrooms of Secondary Schools. This time it was Henry Alex-Duduyemi Memorial College, HAMEC, Ile-Ife, Osun State. The initiative is part of activities to commemorate the Global Money Week and boost financial literacy among youths. According to the Bank, the awareness campaign is in-line with the policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria aimed at sharpening financial understanding and teaching the students how to get increased value for money through savings and investment.

The School of Environmental studies, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State, has organized its first international environmental conference themed ‘Sustainability of land, shelter, urban development and management in developing countries’. The conference, organized to proffer solutions for the sustainability of land, shelter and urban development as required by developing countries to aid continuous and proper development, gave room for the public to be enlighten on topics such as buildings, planning and management, urban and environmental development among others.