Shortly after his resignation from the membership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday, Prof. Mohammed Aliyu Paiko has proposed the creation of another association to be charged with the administration of state universities. Paiko, who is of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai (IBBUL), tendered his resignation earlier today. In alternative to ASUU, he proposed the creation of “Academic Staff Union of State Universities (ASUSU). Read his reasons below: 1. Each State University should take up their local issues with their Council and Visitor. 2. National Body of ASUSU…
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The Kano state chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has distanced itself from ongoing plot to destabilise the party by sponsored agents of the ADC Presidential Candidate, Dumebi Kachikwu. Kachikwu, believed to be uncomfortable with national leadership if the paarty, has last week openly arranged for the dissolution of the National Working Committee of the party using few state chairmen. The plot was aborted and the NWC led by Chief Ralph Nwosu survived the onslaught when a majority of the members of the National Executive Council voted in favour of extension of tenure for the NWC in the presence…
The Police command in Lagos State on Monday, confirmed the killing of one Sulaimon Onaolapo, popularly known as Akiru, who was the leader of Mile-12 Lagos Parks and Garages. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the killing on Monday. “One Alhaji Sule was killed following the incident at Mile 12. No arrest made yet. Normalcy returned. Police officers are on ground to prevent reprisals,” he said. There was pandemonium at the Mile-12 area in Kosofe local government area of Lagos state, following the killing of a member of the parks and garages, Mr Sulaimon Onaolapo. His lifeless body was seen on…
About 28 people died and 48 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours in Pakistan. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said at least 11 children and three women were among those who lost their lives in different rain-related accidents across the country. The country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was the worst-hit region with 16 killed and 25 others injured. The total death toll in Pakistan from this season’s monsoon rains since mid-June has risen to 1,061 along with 1,575 others injured, the NDMA said. It said additionally, 992,871 houses,…
China’s software industry has reported a 10.3 per cent increase in business revenues in the first seven months of 2022, according to official data. A data from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology revealed on Monday that the revenues amounted to 5.46 trillion yuan (about $796.66 billion) from January to July 2022. The report said that companies in the sector raked in 569.8 billion yuan in combined profits during the period, up 6.6 per cent year on year. According to the report, during the period, China’s software exports amounted to $29.8 billion, up 4.3 per cent year on…
After heated discussions, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the early hours of Monday, extended its ongoing strike. The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the headquarters of the Union in the University of Abuja. ASUU had declared the commencement of a strike on Monday, February 14, 2022, at the University of Lagos. Reacting in an interview with newsmen, the spokesperson for the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong said the government had taken all possible steps to end the strike. “As regards the next steps, the government has already inaugurated a committee to…
Some Nigerians have expressed concern over the continued grant of amnesty by the Federal Government to some bandits and terrorists, saying the policy rather worsens the country’s insecurity. The people, in a survey in the South South region, are of the opinion that pardoning bandits/terrorists questions the nation’s sincerity in fighting the heinous crimes. They said that bandits were involved in kidnapping, maiming and killing of innocent citizens and should be prosecuted and punished after arrest, and not pardoned. They said pardoning the perpetrators would continue to encourage the committing of the evils and lead to increase in deaths of…
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has said that no fewer than 100 households were affected by flood in Makurdi, the state capital, following recent rainfalls. Dr Emmanuel Shior, the Executive Secretary of the Agency disclosed this in an interview on Monday in Makurdi. He said that the agency had over time, advised people residing on floodplains to relocate in order to avert disaster. Flood had become a yearly routine in Makurdi in the last decade, destroying property worth millions and loss of lives in some cases. The affects areas were among the worst hit in the 2017 flood…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, refused to grant the extradition application filed by the Federal Government for permission to extradite the suspended DCP Abba Kyari to the United States (US). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, described the extradition request as “an abuse of court process,” on the grounds that Kyari was already standing a criminal trial before another court. The federal government, through the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), had filed the extradition suit, praying the court to grant the plea for Kyari to face a criminal charge leveled against him by the U.S.…
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday visited Abdulsalami Abubakar, also a former military head of state, who recently came back from medical trip to London. The former president who had a 30 minutes closed-door meeting, told newsmen thereafter that he was at the Uphill to see Abubakar who had been indisposed. “I have come to see my brother who was a bit indisposed and when he was abroad I had wanted to visit him, and the day I arrived in London to visit him was the day he left,” he said. On the 2023 general elections, Obasanjo said he had…