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Indications have emerged that the Academic Staff Union of Universities may call off the over four-month-old strike on Thursday. Barring a last-minute change, the National Executive Committee of ASUU will meet on Wednesday night to consider the position of the congresses of the over 50 public universities on the offer made by the Federal government to revamp the institutions. The union met with a Federal Government team led by President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday in Abuja. The ASUU leadership, after briefing the zonal coordinators on the offer, had directed the local branches to organise congress meetings between Friday last week and Tuesday (tomorrow). This is to enable all the lecturers to make input into the action the union would take after its NEC meeting on Thursday. However, feelers from most universities that had organised their congresses revealed that ASUU would suspend the strike after the Thursday NEC meeting. In some universities, including the Obafemi Awolowo University and the Lagos State University that have scheduled their congress meetings for Monday (today), union leaders and lecturers expressed hope that the strike would end this week. Also, some top officials of the union in some of the nine zones of ASUU said even though they were not happy with the plan by the government to inject N220bn yearly into the public universities for the next five years, they were pleased that a commitment had been obtained by the union. Though the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Adesola, confirmed that the NEC meeting would hold on Wednesday, he did not say whether the strike would be called off or not. “Yes, the NEC will hold on Wednesday evening but ASUU has a process which we are going to follow. NEC reserves the right to call off the strike after due consultation with members and this is why congresses are being called in all the chapters of the union. Please, wait till after the congress,” he told one of our correspondents on the telephone. But another source said, “Our NEC meeting will hold between Wednesday night and Thursday. Our chapters have started holding meetings to discuss the Federal Government’s offer. This is to allow input from all the lecturers. We have to carry them along to avoid disunity since there are moves by some elements to infiltrate us.” Another source told one of our correspondents that some members had expressed mixed feelings about the Federal Government’s new offer based on its refusal to honour past agreements. “The radicals among us are sceptical about this latest offer. They do not believe that government will respect the agreement. Their view is that government only wants to deceive the union to call off the strike before it will jettison it.” A top official of the union, who confirmed the fears, told one of our correspondents that although members’ opinions at the zonal congresses were divided over the government’s offer, the majority still decided to give the government the benefit of the doubt. He also said that the majority opinion was that the review of the agreement which was supposed to hold this year should be postponed till next year in the interest of peace. The official added, “Members were persuaded because President Goodluck Jonathan personally met with the union. They felt since the President was involved in the negotiation this time around, the government would not say that it was arm-twisted to make the offer. “This is the problem we are having with the 2009 agreement. By now we should be talking about a review but we are still having troubles with implementation. “Although feelers across the zones are that we should call off the strike, we are going to put down the government offer in black and white and make it public so that nobody accuses us tomorrow of asking for too much.” Some universities are expected to hold their congresses on Monday (today) to discuss the outcome of the zonal congresses held at nine centres across the country last week. A source at the meeting between the government and ASUU told one of our correspondents that the government after a long debate agreed to inject N220bn yearly for the next five years beginning from 2014. He had said, “The meeting should be the longest that we have ever had on this crisis but I can tell you that both parties were frank all through the discussions. The parties also showed commitment towards ending the crisis. The President in particular showed that he was serious about ending the strike and that was why he offered to release over N1tn to the universities in the next five years. “The money will be released on a yearly basis at N220bn per annum beginning from 2014. For the outgoing year, the Federal Government will only release N100bn and this has been processed. “In order to show commitment to this deal, the money will be kept at the Central Bank of Nigeria and will be released on a quarterly basis to the universities. So, there won’t be any problem about funding the deal.” The source added that the National Universities Commission and the Trade Union Congress would be joint guarantors of the new agreement while the Minister of Education would be the implementation officer. He said that the government also agreed, among other things, to revamp the public universities by ensuring that all the issues that always lead to strike were dealt with once and for all.

Source:- www.punchng.com/news/ASUU-set-to-suspend-strike-this-week/

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has faulted the five-year jail term proposed for examination fraudsters. It said the law was unfair to students, who were not provided with basic learning tools.

It blamed the spate of examination frauds in the country on infrastructural deficiency in the education sector.

The Chairman, ICPC, Ekpo Nta, in an interview with our correspondent, said more examination cheats were found in schools where there was shortage of human and material resources.

He criticised proprietors of schools, both government and private, saying educational institutions should meet standards or be shut down.

He said it was time stakeholders examined the structure, which had been promoting corruption. He added that once the system was corrected, the individuals would be corrected.

Nta said the last time students accused of exam malpractices were brought to the commission, he investigated their background and the schools they came from. He noted that record of exam malpractices was very low in ‘top’ schools, including public ones.

“It is very rare. Laboratories, libraries, computers, dormitories, dining halls and highly qualified teachers are in such schools. How will a child who has gone through such schools be involved in exam malpractices?

“By the time you begin to check those arrested for exam malpractices, they are from community schools, where there is a math teacher for the whole school; no science teacher. And then, you turn around to arrest a child who is a victim (of the inadequacies).

“If you prosecute such a child and jail them for five years, when you never gave them an opportunity, you will only make them toughened criminals when they are out. You didn’t give them a chance in the first instance, then, you jailed them in addition,” the ICPC boss observed.

President Goodluck Jonathan, through the immediate past Education Minister, Prof. Ruqquayat Rufa’i, had introduced a fine of N200, 000 or five-year jail term or both for examination cheats.

Rufa’i had tabled a memo before the Federal Executive Council, seeking approval for the enactment of an Act to amend the WAEC Act, CAP W4, Laws of 2004 to give effect to the revised convention of WAEC, 2003 in Nigeria.

The FEC had approved the amendment, with the office of the Attorney-General reportedly fine-tuning it, before it was taken to the National Assembly for passage.

Source:- www.punchng.com/news/five-year-jail-term-for-exam-cheats-unfair-icpc/

A convoy of Wasiu Alabi Pasuma has crushed a teenage fan
of the fuji star to death.
The fan simply identified as Bidemi was killed by the artiste’s
convoy at Idimu where Pasuma performed at an event at St.
Augustine Events Hall along Lisau Road in Alimosho Area of
Lagos on the 24th of October 2013. The deceased who lived around Council Area of Idimu within
the Isheri/Idimu LCDA had no knowledge that death was
lurking around the corner when he sighted the music star
and joined the cheering crowd who cheered the artiste after
the event.
Pasuma had finished performing live and had wriggled his way through the crowd.
Eyewitnesses said that when Bidemi moved near to Pasuma,
who had already taken his seats in his newly acquired Range
Rover and was behind the wheel, the fuji artiste rammed
into the teenage fan with his car and knocked him down
while he was about to leave the venue in the midst of the cheering crowd.
It was said that Bidemi was writhing in discomfort on the
spot following the accident when Pasuma’s security vehicle
that was coming behind smashed the teenager’s head, and
he died immediately.
According to eyewitnesses neither Pasuma nor his team spared a second to rescue the victim when they were told of
the incident some few metres away. Instead they drove off
amidst jeering cries from sympathizers.

typogrphycal error i mean i cant die becuz of a gal.

Harbosede02: Well,itz simple,get a bottle of petrol,a box of matches,make sure d babe is dere,pour d petrol on ur body,hold d match box and tel ur babe sey lyf don tire u,bt if d babe burst into tears and hold ur leg saying "My love don't go,don't go,don't die,wu wud pay 4 my Bis,wu wud by d new fone i requested 4,wu wud pay my aus rent??"then u wud pick race,bt if she holds u saying "if u go,then am cuming wif u"then u wud knw she loves u..hehehehehehehehe

Lolz, but the person in questioning is ur name sake and more so i can die becuz of a gal.

Am so grateful for ur contributions pals.

tpacalipse: Refuse to spend a dime of ur cash on her, with time you will know.

Thanks for ur advice but she is not fund of collecting moeny from me plz is there anyoda thing to test her to knw if she really love me.

Saecula: Basically, love initially comes as tingles, thats why you may love a person without actually knowing the reason in particular. But as things unfold love may now have to be a choice.
Again, sometimes love, lust and infatuation are inextricably linked.

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You can know if she can sacrifice for you. It doesnt have to be money but time, pleasure, comfort etc. If she can do these and also wants your happiness and success, then I wonder what else is involved if not love.

Am so grateful but is there anyway i can pretend to test her love for me.

How can i know that a girl that am really in love with love me back.

plz i will be grateful if u can send d information to me on my emain abimbs4all@yahoo.com

Tadon200: smh

plz meaning of SMH

I beg front page
www.nairaland.com/1504778/ladoke-akintola-university-technology-lautech

i prayed dis meeting work out for gud o

A meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the
academic staff Union of Universities went underway Monday
in Abuja to find a way of resolving the four month old strike
by University Lecturers. The Meeting which kicked off at about 2:30pm had in
attendance, the President, the Vice President, the secretary
to the government of the federation, ministers of education
and Labour The ASUU delegation was made up of the Chairman of ASUU,
Dr Fagge and other members of the executive of the Union. The President of Nigerian Labour Congress, Mallam
Abdulwaheed Omar was also in attendance. While exchanging pleasantries with the ASUU delegation,
President said ‘ I hope this strike will end today. Our children
have suffered enough. We must find a solution’.
Details later.

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Greatest ladokites. This thread is strictly for ladokites only.

amen

d weather is dull here in portharcout

everyday: From my personal view I think Islam is better.I like their views about homosexualism which is a bad practice while churches on the other hand wed gays openly in churches.
Muslims have managed to stay united and have one voice for centuries

what is d name of d church. Can u tell nigeria

am a serious guy can i find serious gal here

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dis match na draw match. Take it or leave it