The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) National Strike has been suspended for 60 Days, ABN TV reports.
This comes amidst several futile efforts to have the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU to resolve its five months strike.
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Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has described himself as the father of frustrated youths in Nigeria.
During a chat with a veteran singer, the ex-president stated that the solution to Nigeria’s problems is in the youths’ hands.
In a video posted by the singer-turned-actor, Obasanjo stated that for Nigeria to be a better country, the youths need to change the nation’s leadership.
He said in parts, “I am the father of frustrated youths in Nigeria. That we are poor and frustrated is not the fault of God. It is the choice of our leaders and if we are going to change that situation, the youths have to change leadership. Pure and simple. There is nobody who will do it other than the youths.”
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Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello is of the opinion that the strike involving members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has lingered on because the Nigerian elite are toying with the future of the country.
Bello disclosed this on Friday while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
The governor who said he has been closely monitoring the protracted face-off between ASUU and the Federal Government, said it is sad that the nation’s tomorrow is not being taken seriously.
When asked who are those toying with the country’s future, “Nigeria’s elites,” Governor Bello replied emphatically, adding that “elite cuts across board – both those in government and ASUU themselves.”
Governor Bello argued that if all involved are serious about the nation’s progress, then the ASUU issue would have been resolved within the twinkling of an eye.
While stating that his heart goes out to Nigerian students and their parents, the governor asserted that its not all for the Federal Government alone to handle, and as such, Nigerians must stop playing politics with the future of the country.
According to him, those who have been given the responsibility to fix the ASUU issue have not shown sufficient good fate.
While pointing out that the government must be decisive in dealing with the now malignant matter, the governor said the leadership of ASUU must also show good fate in solving the problem by looking deep at the human impact of their actions.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government would soon reveal the identities of important personalities behind oil theft in the country.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu who spoke on the president’s behalf said that as part of efforts to rid the country’s economy from sabotage of greedy few, security operatives had raided locations where illegal oil bunkering thrive.
Speaking on Trust TV’s Politics Today, Shehu hinted that there might be cases of some law enforcement agents engaging in the illegal act, but said that new measures were being taken to put a stop to it.
“Oil theft is being tackled. The big problem we have in this country is that we ought to see more commitment from communities in assisting law enforcement agents. In some cases, where some actors in the law enforcement are complicit, it becomes bad,” he said.
He added that it was embarrassing for Nigeria not to meet up with the quota given to it by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
“We used to fight the OPEC for more quotas; now, they have given us and we are not able to meet up. This is embarrassing. Security agencies are fully involved in stopping this act. I am hopeful that in the next few days, the office of the National Security Adviser will be presenting to the country, big men who are promoters of this kind of business as they are being caught and illegal refineries are being bombed out.
“The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited is also installing a monitoring capacity to detect or advise immediately when sabotage of oil pipelines happen,” he said.
On insecurity, Shehu said that ending the insurgency in the North East was the president’s priority when he came into office and a lot of efforts had been put in to curtail the menace. He added that terrorists no longer laid claim to any territory due to the might of the Nigerian Army.
He, however, said cases of banditry and kidnapping were as a result of the previous administration’s failure to tackle the root cause, as well as negligence of military personnel in the area of adequate training.
“The fight against banditry and kidnapping and the results have begun to reach an important turning point. A momentum has been generated, and we are hoping there would be no turning back. These days, all we hear is that the military is being frontal in its activity of attacking bandits’ enclaves; freeing hostages and all of that. We hope there would be no turning back,” he said.
He said the victory recorded by the army had justified the money spent on the military, saying, “Public expenditure is justified because if we didn’t fight Boko Haram to what we have today, they would have probably taken over many more cities. Before now, they were active, up to Abuja, bombing the United Nations’ headquarters and other places. Is it 100 per cent success? Clearly no, but substantially, they are degraded.”
He added that the military would soon get more equipment to aid the fight.
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo shared one of the jokes he made with the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, when he visited him in his Abeokuta residence on Wednesday
It would be recalled that Tinubu, on Wednesday visited the ex-president at his Penthouse, located within the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, One Mosan, Abeokuta.
Tinubu was accompanied by two former governors of the state, Chief Olusegun Osoba and Otunba Gbenga Daniel, billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, and former interim national chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, among others.
Both Obasanjo and Tinubu refused to address the media after their closed-door meeting.
Obasanjo, while speaking at the inauguration of a 300-man planning committee on the installation of the new Olowu of Owu, Oba Saka Matemilola, said he told Tinubu that he had added two phrases to Yoruba vocabularies.
He said: “We now have two vocabularies in the Yoruba dictionary, ‘Emilokan’ and ‘Olule’. These two vocabularies are now popularly used”.
“I asked Bola and he laughed. I said whether the vocabularies are good or bad, we have started using them.”
Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has appealed for calm following the disturbances that erupted in Ohafia, Ohafia L. مراهنات سباق الخيل G.A of the state, promising immediate action, ABN TV reports. موقع كازينو 888
The Governor also expressed shocked by this reckless display of disregard for human lives, his chief press secretary, Onyebuchi Ememanka said in a statement on Friday. اربح المال
The release added, “First, the Governor is deeply saddened by reports of loss of lives in the incident and sends his sincere condolences and those of the Government and People of Abia State to the families of the deceased persons.
“The Governor strongly assures that measures have been put in place to ensure that the situation will be arrested immediately and appeals to the youths of the area and indeed, all law abiding citizens of Ohafia LGA to remain calm as Government implements measures to bring the situation to a complete stop.”
Halimatu Atta, a 90-year-old woman, who was abducted from the Kaduna-bound train in March, has regained freedom.
She was released alongside her daughter and two other victims, according to Kaduna-based Publisher, Tukur Mamu, who negotiated the release of some of the victims.
“I can confirm that earlier on Friday, four additional victims of the train attack were released by their abductors. كيف تفوز في روليت ”
“Amongst those that were released on Friday are the oldest victim, a grandmother, Mama Halimatu Atta. She is 90 years old. Also released is her daughter, 53 year old married woman, Adama Atta Aliyu, (the woman that was bravely shown in the last video protesting and challenging her captors and lamenting failure to secure their release). قوانين بلاك جاك
“The four released victims just left my office. They said they came collectively to thank me for the past efforts I made to mediate on their behalf and for convincing their abductors to drop the threats of executing them and to plead for all stakeholders especially the federal government to intensify efforts as the condition of the remaining 23 victims they left at the forest is pathetic,” he told journalists.
The other two victims are Mohammed Sani Abdulmaji (M.S Ustaz) and Alhaji Modin Modi Bodinga. كيف تفوز في روليت
Twenty-one-year-old Hanna Bennis has been charged to court for stabbing her mother, Aziza Bennis, 58, more than 30 times in their West London house on Monday.
Hanna filmed a blood-stained knife and the ‘murder’ scene on her phone after the incident, Daily Mail reports.
Hanna is charged with murder of her mother, Aziza, a 58-year-old dinner lady at a house in West London.
Daily Mail reports that police forced their way into the property which is located at Boddington Gardens, Ealing, following reports of screaming at about 3:40pm Monday.
Aziza was found lying on the floor having sustained multiple stab wounds, with fatal injury to her right thigh, according to a post-mortem examination confirming cause of her death as multiple stab injuries.
Hanna was arrested and charged with murder on Wednesday, according to Daily Mail.
She appeared in court via videolink from HMP Bronzefield Friday confirming her identity before Judge Philip Katz set a timetable for the case.
Prosecution counsel, Joel Smith, said Hanna was involved in a “volatile relationship” with her mother.
The trial judge set a plea hearing for November 4. Judge Katz remanded Hanna in custody ahead of the plea hearing and fixed her trial for July 31, 2023, reports Daily Mail.
Following news report on some online and print platforms that former governor of Abia State and the Senator representing Abia North, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu had an encounter with gunmen during his ongoing ward to ward assessment/accountability tour, his campaign council has said there is no truth in such rumour, urging the people of the constituency to ignore such.
The council through its spokesman, Sunny Idika on Friday warned those peddling rumours of the alleged attack to desist, saying Sen. Kalu never had any hitch during his visit to Ohafia local government.
According to Idika, Sen. Kalu, the Senate Chief Whip is doing everything possible within his constitutional rights to bring the unfortunate security crisis in Ohafia under control.
The statement reads in part: “Distinguished Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and his team never had any armed confrontation with any group during his ward-to-ward tour in Ohafia Local Government Area as peddled by some people.
“Senator Kalu met and interacted with his constituents from Okamu, Ohafor and Ania wards where he admonished them to be peaceful and law abiding.
“Let it be on record that Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and his team never encountered any armed group at the communities he visited.
“Therefore, those peddling such rumour against the Chief Whip of the Senate, should desist from the mischievous act.
“Senator Orji Uzor Kalu is doing everything possible within his constitutional rights to bring the unfortunate security crisis in Ohafia Local Government Area under control.”
Electorates of Isuikwuato, Abia North on Friday passed a vote of confidence on their legislative representative at the National Senator Orji Uzor Kalu over what they described as a satisfactory leadership.
Senator Kalu , Chief Whip of the Senate got the reaffirmation of the masses during a Town Hall engagement where he met with various groups drawn from the various wards of the community.
At the various wards visited the Abia-North Senator, arrived to Solidarity chants emanating from jubilant community members who swarmed at the various wards touched by Orji Kalu.
In reinforced magnitude of his Mid-Term Constituency report tour, Kalu and his team proceeded to the following wards on Friday; Umunnkwu-Agbo ward 6, Ekenwama ward 5, Isuamawu Ward 4 , Isiala ward 3 and Ezere /Ovim ward 2.
Taking his time Senator Kalu elucidated the importance of the 51 bills and 30 motions which he sponsored at the Senate. Kalu expressed that the reason behind his coming is to entertain their needs in preparation for the forthcoming 2023 budget which is expected to be Presented by President Buhari in September.
During the interactive session, the Abia-North Senator highlighted the projects executed in their communities he mentioned the Enuama – Umuobiala road,distribution of school books and bags to students amongst others. Kalu noted that his visit has a personal account on the state of the welfare and community needs.
Speaking on behalf of the women groups, Mrs. Bridget Omenka, a retired Teacher , reminisced about Kalu’s achievements as Governor, recalling how he empowered civil servants with Livestock and Agriculture seedlings. In addition to the prompt payment of salaries and pensions to retirees.
Stakeholders of other communities include; Chief Obi Chima representing ; Hon. Mgbo Uchechukwu and Royal O.M. Okereke in a joint statement passed a vote of confidence on Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.
