Nigerians have been asked to emulate the virtues of sacrifice, selfless service and principle of late Nelson Mandela.
The call was made by Nigerians in separate interviews following the death on Thursday, of the former President of South Africa.
A Human Rights Lawyer, Jiti Ogunye, said that Mandela’s life struggle, principles, values, politics, leadership and even passage were full of lessons.
He said that Nigerian political leaders could learn from his exemplary life of commitment to the cause of liberating his people from racial subjugation; his life of service to South Africa and Africa in general.
He said, “He did not exploit his idolisation and the love of his people to build a financial empire for himself, he didn’t privatise public enterprises and sell them to himself; he didn’t rig elections; he didn’t attempt to amend the constitution in order to have a third term. He didn’t use his public life for private gains.
“But surely, Nigerian leaders will not imbibe the Mandela example. They would rather follow Robert Mugabe and Mobutu Sese Seko.”
The Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Credit Administration, Dr. Chris Onalo, said Nigerian leaders should model their lives after Mandela, who he described as a hero.
“Our leaders should draw inspiration from his life of service and his mistakes. He chose to be a man of the people. That has bought him the honour that wealth cannot acquire. The question to our leaders is ‘What would they want to be remembered for?’ Mandela was a gift from God,” he said.
The President, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, Chief Lugard Aimiuwu, said that Nigerian leaders should learn selflessness and true value from the life of Mandela.
He asked them not to only be heroes abroad and villains at home. He said that Mandela was a hero at home and abroad.
“See the encomiums being showered on him by all world leaders as an icon regardless of his colour and nationality. Nigerian leaders should learn from him to create distinctive values and never forget where they are from. They should also learn true forgiveness and love, never to be vindictive. Mandela was a hero at home and abroad,” he said.
The President, Campaign for Democracy, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, described Mandela as the greatest soul in modern Africa. She said Nigerian leaders should learn from the “rarest example of courage, a foremost apostle of freedom and a worthy elder to all humanity.”
She said that Nigerian leaders should learn his depth of sacrifice the power of his exemplary life and the sheer force of his character stand him out eternally in the affairs of humanity.
She said his contributions were the reason “the appreciative nation would not allow him to quickly depart even when it was clear that he had reached the end of his journey. They prayed, fasted and kept vigil for Madiba not to leave them.
“This is a lesson for leaders in our country whose countrymen and women rejoice when evil befalls them. They must enroll at the Madiba School of leadership to learn what leaders do to make their people to pray that they don’t die.”
Meanwhile, a former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Alhaji Maitama Sule, has told Nigerian leaders to borrow a leaf from Mandela, by shunning the urge to perpetuate themselves in office.
Sule paid glowing tribute to Mandela shortly after meeting behind closed-doors with Vice President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He condemned a situation where anybody that finds himself in office wants to perpetuate his stay “until death do us part like church marriage.”
Sule said, “Mandela became president and one would expect him as it is happening in many parts of Africa today, to perpetuate his stay in office for as many years as he spent in prison, but he decided after one term to step down and give other people a chance. A good example.
“He was a ruler who believed in serving his people, in giving them and not taking from them. He left when the ovation was loudest. His love for his country, his honesty, integrity, fearlessness, sense of justice and fair play, are things to emulate. He was a complete gentleman. Indeed Mandela was a greatest son of Africa.”
http://www.punchng.com/news/what-nigerian-leaders-should-learn-from-mandela/

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Imagine yourself sweeping the floor of your room and your kid brother is pouring more dirts on the swept part of the floor, how will you feel?

Let stop been economical with the truth and also put aside sentiment and our differences - We are one and we should be one! I love the way Nigerians live abroad - ONENESS!!!

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There was anxiety over the state of health of a teacher at the Osogbo Grammar School, Osun State, identified simply as Mr. Olamoyegun, on Thursday as a pupil of the Government Technical College in the town attacked him with a machete
Although what led to the attack on the teacher was still sketchy, our correspondent, however, gathered that the pupil pulled a surprise attack on the teacher, making it impossible for him to defend himself.
Some pupils of the OGS told our correspondent that the attacker, whose name had yet to be identified, attacked the teacher from the back and inflicted a deep cut on his head with the cutlass.
One of the OGS pupils, whose name is withheld for security purpose, said, “I think the person that attacked Mr. Olamoyegun is a cultist. That is what everybody is saying here because he just sneaked behind our teacher and attacked him with the cutlass in his hand. He did not give Mr. Olamoyegun the chance to defend himself.
“Now, everybody is worried because nobody knows whether our teacher survived the attack.”
PUNCH Metro,however, learnt that Olamoyegun was rushed to the Government House Clinic from where he was referred to the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.
Some of his colleagues in the school said he had been responding to treatment.
But when the Principal of Osogbo Grammar School, Mr. A. O. Akinlusi, was contacted on the telephone, he declined comment.
He said, “Go to Dada Estate Police Station. Members of the group involved are in police custody.”
The Police Public Relations Officer for the state command, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, promised to find out what actually happened and call our correspondent back. She, however, had not done this as of the time of going to the press.
But the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Osun State Command, Mr. Ayo Olowe, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the telephone.
Olowe said, “The teacher has been treated and he is now okay. The situation is calm now.”
A similar incident happened at St. Mark Grammar School, Osogbo on Wednesday where a pupil was reportedly stabbed by one of his mates.
Although there was apprehension in the school over the condition of the pupil, he was said to have survived the attack.
There has been growing incidences of violent attack in secondary schools in the state following the merger of schools in the new education policy of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
There was a violent clash at Baptist Girls High School, Osogbo about three weeks ago as some suspected cult members in the school engaged in a bloody clash with a rival cult group from another secondary school.
The Principal of Baptist High School, Ejigbo, Mr. Layi Oguntola, was also attacked last week by some Muslim youths, who invaded the school over the allegation that he sent a pupil wearing Hijab, a scarf for Muslim women, away from the school.
Oguntola has debunked the claim, saying he merely caned the female pupil because she was unruly.
http://www.punchng.com/metro/anxiety-as-pupil-attacks-teacher-with-machete/

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Three days after the federal government announced that it had paid the N200billion university infrastructure renewal fund into an account in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, as demanded by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the union is yet to be formally notified of the payment.
Disclosing this on a television programme today, a Professor of Counselling and Psychology at the University of Lagos, Professor Ngozi Osaweren, said as at this morning, the federal government has not deemed it fit to formally communicate the payment of the money to ASUU.
• Dr. Fagge Isa : ASUU president
The Professor said she made phone calls to the leadership of the union to find out if the government had officially notified the union of the payment, the reply was negative.
She accused the government of not being sincere, adding that the government should formally communicate the union on the payment of the money, if it was sure.
The university lecturer accused the government of berating ASUU and taking it for granted.
The ASUU President Dr. Nasir Fagge-Issa had in an interview asked the government to formally communicate to the union that the money had been paid in the CBN as demanded by the union. He predicated the suspension of the strike on government replying a letter written by ASUU to government on 25 November.
Also commenting on the issue, the Secretary of ASUU in Lagos State University, Comrade Adeyemi Suenu, described the purported payment as a gimmick, adding that government is just buying time by trying to paint the lecturers as the problem of the universities.
“The whole payment of N200 billion into CBN account is all gimmicks which the government has not been able to prove with a documented evidence.”
“If the government paid to CBN account, it should release the account number for the populace to see. Moreover, why should two parties be involved in an agreement and one party goes ahead to fulfil its part without the knowledge of the other,” he asked.
The Secretary said it is very important for Nigerians to understand this present government and the way it builds up sentiments without doing its responsibilities.
“We need to understand this government of deceit, they threatened to sack us if we don’t resume on the 4 December. Now it has been postponed to 9th of this month, one thing is certain, if FG does not fulfil its part of the agreement in the right and acceptable manner, ASUU will not betray the educational sector by calling off the strike without achieving anything.
“We have committed more than enough to this struggle to be cowed by sentiments, our position remains that government fulfil its part of the deal,” he declared.
Chairman, University of Lagos Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr. Karo Ogbinaka, has accused the supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, of incompetence in the handling of the Ministry.
Ogbinaka, in a chat withPMNEWS, in Lagos, western Nigeria, blamed the protracted industrial disputes by federal and state-owned universities on Wike’s inability to resolve the issues. The Philosophy lecturer flayed the Education Minister for leaking a letter by ASUU leadership on its demands to President Goodluck Jonathan to the press, without the latter seeing it first.
“We sent letter to the government through Wike and instead of forwarding the letter to the President, he leaked it to the press and started making all types of comments he could make in this world. We found in Wike somebody who talks and reasons later,” he said. Short of calling Mr. Wike’s action a blackmail, Ogbinaka said he misinformed the public that ASUU had made fresh demands as conditions for stopping the strike.
“I doubt if Wike has the patience to even read the documents presented to him and that is what has landed us in the situation we are in. If it was not for him, the ASUU strike was as good as resolved. Wike is clearly incapable by every standard,” Ogbinaka stated.
The ASUU chieftain faulted Wike’s retention in the Ministry of Education after the sack of Professor Rukayyat Rufa’i Akali, former Minister of Education.
He frowned at President Jonathan’s choice of Wike. “We understand what led to the removal of the former education minister, Professor Rukayyat Rufa’i and, if in a football match, the referee sacks your goalkeeper, what a reasonable coach would do is to sacrifice a player to bring in another goalkeeper. I think the President should have reshuffled his cabinet the moment key ministers were removed, but unfortunately he left Wike as supervising Minister of Education,” Ogbinaka said.
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/12/05/n200b-ASUU-yet-to-get-payment-alert/

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There is a strong indication that the Federal Government may soon place total ban on importation of rice, fish and other food items into the country.
Giving the hint in Lagos,the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development; Dr Niyi Odunlami, said that government was desirous of stopping the importation of rice, fish, wheat and tomatoes.
Odunlami spoke as a member of the supervision team visiting staple crops processing zones of the World Bank-assisted Commercial Agriculture Development (CADP) project in Lagos.
He said that the Federal Government was working in partnership with state and local governments as well as Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) to bring infrastructural development to rural farming areas.
”The Federal Government cannot do it alone; it needs the collaboration of states and local governments as well as LCDAs.
”The rural farming areas need to be developed in terms of infrastructure, so as to reduce or possibly eradicate the importation of what can be produced here, such as wheat, vegetable, rice and fish.
“The fish we import is not different from what we can find in the Nigerian waters,” Odunlami said, adding that there is absolute need to develop staple crop processing zones.
Some primary processing zones in the country had been selected as models.
They include Kogi, Kano, Niger, Lagos and Rivers states. The supervisory mission commenced work on Nov. 28, with a visit to the Lagos State Integrated Rice Processing Factory, Imota.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/fg-eradicate-importation-rice-food-items/

Striking lecturers at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria on Wednesday received relief materials, including food and money to enable them to cushion the effect of the ongoing industrial action.
The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities of the institution, Dr. Mohammed Kabir-Aliyu, who confirmed this to one of our correspondents, said the offer would help the beneficiaries to survive the hardship occasioned by the non-payment of their salaries.
According to him, lecturers in the university have not earned their salaries in the last four months.
Among items distributed to the lecturers were rice, semovita, vegetable oil and cash ranging from N20, 000 to N50, 000.
Kabir-Aliyu said they were ready to call the Federal Government’s bluff concerning the sack threat.
University teachers nationwide embarked on strike on July 1 to force the Federal Government to honour an agreement it had with them since 2009.
The Supervisory Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, had last Thursday threatened the striking lecturers to return to work on or before December 4 or face dismissal.
However, the resumption deadline was on Tuesday extended to December 9 to enable the striking teachers to honour Prof. Festus Iyayi, who died on his way to attend ASUU NEC meeting in Kano.
As of Wednesday, there were no signs that the striking lecturers would comply with the government directives to return to the classroom on Monday. Also, the university authorities had yet to issue a circular directing students to return for lectures.
Meanwhile, the National Parent-Teacher-Association of Nigeria has asked the striking teachers to see the extension of the resumption deadline as a sign of goodwill from the Federal Government.
In an interview with theNews Agency of Nigeriaon Wednesday, the NAPTAN North Central Coordinator, Alhaji Danladi Aliyu, said the extension showed that the government was committed to ending the strike.
Aliyu said, “I am pleading with both parties not to see this issue as a war that must be won or lost as both are working in the interest of moving the nation forward.
“ASUU should use this deadline extension to resume duties, while we also urge the Federal Government not to come down hard on them.”
In a related development, Nnamdi Azikiwe University branch of ASUU has ordered its members that signed the attendance register to delete their names from the book.
Also, the management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has directed its students to resume on Sunday.
A statement by the Public Relations Officer of OAU, Mr. Biodun Olarewaju on Wednesday said, “The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, have announced Sunday, December 8, as the resumption date for the 2012/ 2013 rain semester.
“Accordingly, students of the university are expected to come into residence on the above date as lectures will commence immediately.”
http://www.punchng.com/news/strike-ASUU-distributes-food-money-to-members/

abuja—Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has threatened to sanction telecommunication service providers in the country over poor quality of service, drop calls and unsolicited text messages sent to subscribers.
The commission issued the warning yesterday at the Fourth Quarter meeting of the industry Consumer Advisory Forum, ICAF, in Abuja.
The Executive Commissioner in charge of Stakeholder Management, in the commission, Mr. Okechukwu Itanyi, who addressed the press called on all service providers to tackle the lingering and nagging issues of poor quality of service across the country, drop calls and unsolicited short message service, SMS, usually sent to their subscribers or face sanctions.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/ncc-sanction-operators-quality-service/

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday said a coroner’s inquest should be conducted into the death of a former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi, before his burial.
Soyinka in a statement said failure to conduct the inquest to ascertain the cause of Iyayi’s death would “make all of us accessories to a possible crime.”
He enjoined other citizens to demand the inquest along with him as a means of seeking a “collective shield” and also in the service of truth and patriotism.
There have been controversies surrounding Iyayi’s death after he was killed in a car crash on his way to Kano to participate in the National Executive Council meeting of ASUU.
Soyinka’s call for a coroner’s inquest appeared to have arisen from the publication of the mortuary photos of Iyayi’s body inThe NEWSmagazine.
The poet and playwright said tributes to the late Iyayi were meaningless if doubts surrounding his death were “silenced.”
He said, “The world is watching. With the mortuary photos of the late Festus Iyayi just published inTHE NEWS, the world is waiting and watching if the corpse shown in that image will be interred without a coroner’s inquest.
“To allow this to happen is to make all of us accessories to a possible crime. It means we are now attuned to the culture of impunity and forfeited all claims to elementary citizen security. Tributes ring hollow if doubts are silenced.”
According to Soyinka, the nation has to know, beyond all doubts, all the circumstances about Iyayi’s death.
He said, “‘Beyond all doubt’ is a protective armour for each one of us, no matter where and how. So let the nation be placed in knowledge beyond all doubt over the circumstances of Festus Iyayi’s death. That is the minimum any self-respecting society must demand, not merely as a collective shield, but in the service of truth, and for all posterity.
“We remain haunted by the far too frequent, unexplained decimation in the ranks of the committed.
“A coroner’s inquest – that is where to begin.”
Meanwhile, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Abdulwaheed Omar, has criticised the Federal Government over its inability to fix the Lokoja-Abuja road.
Speaking on Tuesday, in Benin, Edo State, while on a condolence visit to Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the family of the late Iyayi, the NLC President said the state of the road “unwittingly” led to Iyayi’s death.
Omar described the late Iyayi as a committed activist, who added value to the labour movement in the country.
http://www.punchng.com/news/soyinka-seeks-coroners-inquest-into-iyayis-death/

ABUJA – THE presidency Tuesday said that
the Federal Government has met with
demands of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU and there was no need to
maintain the strike, just as it stressed that
the agreement was reached sequel to the
last meeting held between Federal
Government and ASUU.
According to the Presidency, the
administration believes that with the
agreement and the result of the votes across
the campuses, ASUU has no reason for
further sustenance of the strike, even as it
called on the Union to comply with the call
on them to resume work without further
delay.
This is coming as the ultimatum issued to
ASUU lapses today.
Speaking in Abuja during an interactive
session with leaders of the National
Association of Nigerian Students, NANS,
Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Youth and Students’ Matters, Comrade Jude
Imagwe who noted that a larger
membership of ASUU campus chapters had
voted for the immediate call-off of the strike,
stressed that the directive given by the
government was not targeted to threaten
the ASUU leadership, but designed to show
government’s commitment towards
ensuring that all university students return
to school.
According to him, ASUU leaders must work
in line with the directives by ensuring that
all students get back to the campus as the
government would ensure a water-tight
security on the campuses, adding, “The
Nigerian public should be informed that the
government has met all the promises they
made on this ASUU issue. If they have not
agreed, there was no reason for them to
have said they would meet their members
and get back . It means there was an
agreement that was reached.
“The Minister of Education announced that
lecturers should resume, it was not in
anyway targeted at threatening or
compelling the leadership of ASUU to go
back to school.”
In his remarks, NANS president, Comrade
Yinka who maintained that its association
was neutral, said that it supports a just
cause, adding that the association was
standing by the government because it was
working in line with its desire which was
for all schools to reopen.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/met-ASUU-demands-fg/

Labour and human rights activists from across the country are expected to gather in Benin City, Edo State on Wednesday, for a Solidarity March in honour of their departed colleague and former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Festus Iyayi, who was killed by the Kogi State Governor’s convoy three weeks ago.
The march would kick start the burial rites for the 66-year old renowned writer and Commonwealth Award Winner for Literature.
Organisers of the programme said it would begin at 9 a.m. from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Benin and would terminate at his residence on 11, Bello Street, Off Benin-Lagos Road, Isihor where tributes would paid to him at a lecture titled “Festus Iyayi: Hero of the Revolution”.
Other highlights of the programme would include cultural performances, literary rendition, dances and video documentary on the life and times of the departed activist.
A candle light procession is also slated for the deceased at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Benin, later in the evening at 7 p.m.
The burial programme by the family also showed that a Vigil Mass/Service of Songs would hold on Thursday at his residence between 4 and 6 p.m., to be followed by a Night of Readings and Tributes also at his residence from 7 to 9 p.m.
A lying in state would hold at his residence from 8am on Friday, while a Commendation Service is scheduled for Akin Deko (Main) Auditorium, University of Benin, Ugbowo Campus, Benin City at 10 a.m.
The corpse is expected to depart Benin at 12 noon for Ugbegun, Esan Central Local Government Area where another lying in state has been planned for 2 p.m. A vigil that would also feature readings and tributes is scheduled for the country home from 8 p.m.
A funeral mass is slated for 8 a.m. on Saturday, to be followed by internment. The burial events would be rounded off on Sunday, with a Thanksgiving Mass at St Michael’s Catholic Church, Ugbegun.
Late Iyayi was a first class graduate of Economics, a distinguished professor of Business Administration and a writer. He was also a former president, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR,
He was the winner of the Commonwealth Literary Prize for his novel ‘Heroes’ in 1988 and Winner, Silver Gong for Literature, National Festival of Arts, for his novel ‘Violence’ in 1983. The acclaimed radical activist also won the ANA Book of the Year Award in 1997 and the Pius Okigbo Prize for Literature in 1997 for his collection of short stories ‘Awaiting Court Martial.’
He was also winner, Kennedy National Essay Competition in 1968.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/150764-activists-set-heroic-march-festus-iyayi-begins-journey-home.html

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The fifth convocation of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Oyo State held on Saturday with the highlight of the event being the elevation of female graduating students to the institution’s roll call of academic excellence.
The best of them all, Temitope Olayiwola, who graduated from the Department of Accounting and Finance, with a first class degree, started her academic journey in Ajegunle, a slum in Lagos State.
Five hundred and fifty-two students obtained their degrees at the event. Fourteen of them obtained first class degrees; 131, second class upper division and 300, Second Class Lower Division, while 104 graduated with Third Class. The list brought the total number of students that have graduated from the school since inception to 2,500.
While Olayiwola emerged best from the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, another female, Eniola Adeoye, emerged the best from the Faculty of Humanities. There was also applause for Aderonke Fashiku, who came top in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. The three girls graduated with first class degrees.
Beyond emerging best at the faculty level, the trio also led the pack in the departmental prize award. Interestingly, Adetoun Olajumoke, Rainat Adepoju, Oluwatoyin Adeleye and Salimot Olaifa – all females – also picked the departmental prize awards.
Even as the ladies took the shine of the day, there were glimpses of brilliance from Charles Sanusi, Olaitan Olukowade, Chimezie Uguzo and Adedamola Adenuga, who gave the menfolk a cause for celebration.
Olayiwola, a product of Dorcas Memorial Nursery and Primary School, Ajegunle, and Lagos State Model College in Ikorodu, who also won Bolanle Awe Prize for the Best Female Student, said she drew inspiration after attending the university’s third convocation.
“I feel so excited and happy. I give glory to God for this success. It was not easy in any way because there were distractions. But I thank God I came out with success despite all the challenges.
“When I entered the school, I never thought I would be the best among my colleagues. I just wanted to do my part and come out with a good grade that my parents would be proud of. I was encouraged after watching the third graduation ceremony held in the school. I was overwhelmed with emotion when I listened to the speech delivered by the best graduating student at the time. I set a target for myself that if someone could do it, why not me. I was determined to be the best so that I could also deliver a valedictory speech on behalf of my colleagues. Determination and focus saw me through it. I did not join any society in the school but I took part in church activities regularly.”
On the standard of academic in the school, Olayiwola said she had an erroneous impression about the standard of education offered by private universities, having spent a short period at the Kwara Polytechnic, Ilorin, before proceeding to Ajayi Crowther University.
She said, “Before coming to the school, I was at Kwara Polytechnic briefly and the impression I had was that private universities could never offer quality academic work. But I was wrong because when I came here, I realised that the standard is high and very competitive. You have to be at your best to succeed here. The infrastructure to succeed is also coming up because the school management continues to improve on the standard every day, which is encouraging to any serious student.”
The 25-year-old also said she would like to return to the institution one day to inspire students to academic excellence, choosing teaching profession over other jobs.
“I will like to earn further academic certificates and return to this school as a lecturer one day,” she said.
The Vice-Chancellor of the school, Prof. Kolawole Jaiyeoba, said graduands of the institution were always successful in their life endeavours.
“I want to say that our students have been found worthy of character and learning. The feat of producing well-rounded graduates has been made possible by the university’s adherence to its vision and mission,” he said.
http://www.punchng.com/education/females-outclass-males-at-ajayi-crowther-convocation/

As from now on, here are the NEW
UNIVERSITIES LECTURES
* Nyesom Wike to teach (Political Science)
* Goodluck Jonathan to teach (Zoology)
* Anyim Pius Anyim to teach (Local Govt Studies)
* Patience Jonathan to teach (English/Maths)
* Ngozi Iweala to teach (Economics)
* Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to teach (Accounting)
* Julius Okojie(NUC) to teach (Edu Admin/ Mgt)
* Reuben Abati to teach (Mass Communications)
* Deizani Alison-Madueke to teach (Chemical
Engineering/ Petroleum Studies)
* Stella Oduah to teach (Transport Studies)
* David Mark to teach (Military Studies)
* Labaran Maku to teach (Public Administration)
* Ekweremadu to teach (Sociology)
More Lecturers are still coming
All Students are to resume at EAGLE SQUARE
on December 4, 2013.
Exam will commence by December 25th, 2013
Signed by APC leader Tinubu
Announcer NTA news

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Okupe described the strike as an evil programme motivated by selfish political interest.
He said, “The ASUU leadership refused to accede to the wishes of 42 of its 61 chapters nationwide, who voted in favour of the agreement with the President and the calling off of the strike; but in a surprise volte face presented government again with a new set of demands and considerations outside the terms agreed at the presidential intervention.
“From all indications therefore and other information available to government, it has become obvious that this is no longer an altruistic strike borne out of good intentions and aimed at improving the welfare of students and staff of the universities and the standard of our educational institutions.
“Rather it is an evil programme motivated by selfish political interests and motivations within the polity. These are, quoting late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, ‘the enemies of state operating from within’”.
While Okupe was talking tough in Abuja, the All Progressives Congress slammed the government for issuing the sack threat against the university teachers.
In a statement in Lagos, the APC said the resort to military tactics reflected government’s poverty of ideas in resolving the prolonged strike.
The statement by the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also criticised Wike for the way he talked down on the striking teachers, while issuing the threat.
APC stated, ‘’Wike’s language was crude, his presentation was rude and his threat was demeaning and counter-productive. We believe his lack of finesse and the inability to think out of the box in handling the whole strike issue will not bode well for a quick resolution of the crisis.”
Meanwhile, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress will on Monday(today) meet with the ASUU leadership as part of its efforts to resolve the crisis between the union and the Federal Government.
http://www.punchng.com/news/ASUU-to-parents-keep-your-children-at-home/

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday advised parents not to endanger the lives of their children and wards by sending them to their university campuses.
ASUU which also told its members not to sign attendance registers in their institutions, lashed out at the Federal Government for lack of consistency in its statements on the ongoing strike.
The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, had at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday, warned that any ASUU member that failed to resume on or before Wednesday would be sacked.
Wike also directed vice-chancellors to advertise vacancies (internal and external) in their institutions.
He told the vice-chancellors to open attendance registers for lecturers that resumed in their universities.
The Federal Government then directed the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, to deploy policemen in all the federal universities.
On Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan, who described the strike by the university teachers as a “subversive action,” added that ASUU had ceased to be a trade union.
But the Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Dr. Segun Ajiboye, said parents should keep their children and wards at home as no academic activity would resume until the five-month-old strike was called off.
Ajiboye added, “Don’t risk the lives of your children and wards. Keep them at home because ASUU will not teach. Soldiers and the police deployed by the Federal Government will not teach. Wike can come and teach in the universities. It is a huge joke to sack lecturers. Our strike must not be in vain. Our students must see the results.
“It is funny. We thought we are in a democracy. I assure Nigerians that we know what the law says about the strike. Our job is statue backed. We are not threatened. “We do not trust the government. The record of the government is clear. This government is dishonouring agreements. Our members are resolved to pursue this to a logical conclusion.”
Ajiboye also said that the Federal Government’s stance was from a script that was played out by the military administration of Ibrahim Babangida in the 1990s.
He stated, “Dear members, stay calm and remain resolute. There is nothing wrong in asking government to do what it says it will do immediately. ASUU is not making any new demands as the supervising minister is propagating. Government is only repeating a ‘one act play’ scripted by the IBB dictatorship in early 90s. It didn’t work then, and, it won’t work now. All branches are intact. We cannot be intimidated.
“If ASUU could withstand Babangida, this government cannot threaten us. We have worked this road before, the only thing that will work is peaceful resolution. It is sad that government wants to sack us because we are asking for the resolutions. We are ready to be sacked but government should learn from the University of Ilorin experience. We are going to stay the course.”
ASUU President, Dr. Nassir Fagge, urged university teachers on Sunday not to sign any attendance register.
Fagge, in a message to the UI chapter , urged the lecturers to be resolute in their demands despite the threat of insecurity to their jobs.
He said, “Comrades, can you see the unfolding drama? Now Jonathan says they didn’t give ultimatum. That the vice -chancellors did and Wike became their trumpet. But NUC’s (National Universities Commission) ultimatum is by the Federal Government to us to resume or get sacked.
“Wike’s press address says ‘FG has directed’ not ‘VCs have directed.’ Be calm, stay resolute. By God’s grace, we are on course.”
The Chairman, University of Lagos chapter of the union, Dr. Karol Ogbinaka, said Jonathan’s description of the strike as a “subversive action,” was unfortunate.
“How can our action be subversive when we do not have arms and ammunition? We take exception to that. We are academics not coup plotters. I have a feeling he was misquoted. I wish to deny this on his behalf because it is an extreme statement,” Ogbinaka said.
He also faulted the buck passing on the directive to reopen universities, saying it pointed to the fact that the government was “somersaulting.”
According to him, the Federal Government is now shifting the blame among the pro-chancellors, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Wike.
But the Presidency on Sunday insisted that those behind the strike were enemies of the state.
It said this could be the reason why the ASUU leadership refused to call off the strike even when 42 out of its 61 chapters voted against its continuation.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, stated these at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday.
He wondered why the leadership of the union also refused to call off the strike even after its 13-hour meeting with the President.

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