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Plateau Workers Commences Indefinite Strike As APC and PDP Chairmen Resume Office

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The Plateau State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has initiated an indefinite strike action as a preemptive measure to prevent a potential clash between supporters of reinstated Local Government (LG) chairmen and recently inaugurated caretaker chairmen appointed by Governor Caleb Mutfwang.

The strike, which commenced on Monday, comes in response to a directive from the State Police Commissioner reinstating the 17 suspended LG chairmen in the state.

Arondon who addressed a press conference in Jos on Sunday evening while announcing the strike, said the statement by the CP that the reinstated chairmen would be led by DPOs of their various LGAs to their offices on Monday has sent a wrong signal.

He added that the strike is borne out of fear that there could be a possible clash between supporters of the APC and PDP at the various secretariats.

“We’re at variance with the earlier directive whereupon the press release is asking for the suspended local government chairmen and councillors to resume office on Monday 28/08/2023,” the union said in a communique released at the end of the press conference.

“While as a union, we are not concerned with the political tussle over the matter, our concern is for the safety of our members (workers) whose safety and welfare is uncertain as the situation is unpredictable.

“We have therefore called this press conference in order to let Nigerians and concerned authorities know our predicament.

“Accordingly, as a union whose members salary is the Ieast in the state, we shall not further risk the lives of our members as result of this tussle, hence the union has resolved at an emergency state executive council meeting held today, Sunday, 27/08/2023 for a total strike action effective 12.00 midnight until this matter is resolved.

“This decision has become necessary in order not for innocent members of the union to be caught in the web of the police release,” the communique stated.

The genesis of the crisis came after Governor Mutfwang suspended the LG chairmen who were elected on the platform of APC for alleged misappropriation of funds.

The governor had, following the suspension of the chairmen, appointed caretaker chairmen to take charge of the councils, a development that led the embattled chairmen to drag the governor to court.

In early August, an appeal court sitting in Jos had ordered that the suspended chairmen should be reinstated in office, a directive that the police has decided to follow.

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Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why

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Chef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria likes to tell people—correctly—that his industry is a veritable startup graveyard. Whether you’re talking about Chowbotics, a salad-making startup that was acquired and later shut down by DoorDash, or Zume, a $400 million attempt to “disrupt” pizza delivery that collapsed in 2023, the effort to automate a process that has heretofore required opposable thumbs and a sentient brain has not always gone so smoothly.

Bhageria thinks he’s figured out the workaround. The premise is simple, even if the execution isn’t: use AI-powered robot arms to take the labor out of large-scale food production. Originally, Chef sought to do that in fast casual restaurants, the kind that litter America’s cities. But the company pivoted early, finding success instead in food manufacturing, where it now serves enterprise customers like Amy’s Kitchen and Chef Bombay, and works with one of the largest school lunch providers in the country.

Now, the company says that it has passed an important milestone: 100 million servings. What’s a “serving,” exactly? A company spokesperson defines it as “a portion of food that our robots deposit into a meal tray.” So it’s not a meal, per se, but instead it represents “one component” of a full meal, the rep says. The takeaway: having ditched more traditional dining venues and instead courted larger, institutional-scale customers, Chef is busier than ever.

Bhageria says that the company’s next move is to expand into what it calls “smaller kitchens.” As for what those kitchens look like, the definition might surprise you. He tells me that one of Chef’s recently signed smaller customers is “one of the largest airline catering companies in the world.”

Other types of venues are also being pursued. The company said it has plans to expand into “ghost kitchens”—operations without any actual restaurant that supply meals for the likes of DoorDash. Eventually, the company would like to expand further into fast casual restaurants, stadiums, and prisons, Bhageria adds.

Bhageria also says that the data being generated from its 100 million servings is being fed into its AI models for food handling and packaging, which help those models to become smarter and more capable. The “inherent nature of food”—a slippery and malleable product without predictable proportions—makes it difficult for robots to handle it, he offers. With its models, Chef hopes to continue to improve the technology so that the robots get progressively better at their job, which will help the business to scale.

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NEWSAN Advocates Water, Sanitation Funding, Partnerships In Plateau

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