“The Presidency, in the meantime, wishes to reassure the public that the President has done all, and even more than what is expected of him as Commander-in-Chief, by way of morale, material and equipment support to the military and expects nothing short of good results in the immediate.
Lol he knows he's a failure on this front. The NBS stopped publishing crime stats in 2017. If they did you'd see an official trend of crime getting worse under him just like unemployment and inflation. Even when it was published it was sloppily done not showing per 100k basis for comparison.
“The Presidency, in the meantime, wishes to reassure the public that the President has done all, and even more than what is expected of him as Commander-in-Chief, by way of morale, material and equipment support to the military and expects nothing short of good results in the immediate.
Lol he knows he's a failure on this front. The NBS stopped publishing crime stats in 2017. If they did you'd see an official trend of crime getting worse under him just like unemployment and inflation. Even when it was published it was sloppily done not showing per 100k basis for comparison.
Gips: Story story... Fake justice system in Nigeria... When did last did you hear in this country that someone was sentence to death and the said person was kill.
It doesn't because governors are weak and don't care to enforce court judgements. Their excuse ordinary to Ganduje is they feel bad when they get it wrong.
The NBS has been so lazy with releasing date. It shouldn't be 5 years since the last crime stats and 2 years since last state unemployment rates. It would be factually wrong to mix old and new data to draw conclusions about today because unemployment rates likely changed. The inflation rate certainly how for the worst.
BluntCrazeMan: They trusted their rigging mechanisms sheey?? All these things are changing very soon
Lol nothing is changing because voting patterns haven't changed in the least bit. Voters are swayed by factionalism (party A or B) or demagoguery (cult of personality). Lol most whining can't tell me key policy difference be it economic, social or foreign their preferred candidate wants to enact.
Lol top dogs don't debate because they know most of the people voting couldn't care less about the policies being discussed. I remember it on 2019 gubernatorial election in Akwa Ibom the APC and PDP candidates both skipped. PDP won the election and APC finished 2nd.
The federal government has declared the proposed Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as illegal.
Also commenting on the threat by aviation unions to shut down airports in solidarity with ASUU, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, expressed concern about the threat.
He, however, assured the public that "the threat will not be carried out because aviation authorities are already talking to the union."
Lol what are you going to do if they do strike? None of you have the balls to fire these federal workers like Ronald Reagan did to striking federal workers.
NLC has planned to embark on a nationwide protest in support of the striking members of ASUU on July 26 and 27.
The federal government has declared the proposed Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as illegal.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Lai Mohammed, stated this while briefing journalists on the decisions of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
The NLC had planned to embark on a nationwide protest in support of ASUU on July 26 and 27.
ASUU embarked on strike in February to demand the implementation of the agreement it reached with the federal government.
But Mr Mohammed said "such protests are uncalled for and illegal."
According to the minister, the NLC is not a political party and it is not in dispute with government.
"I think we should also start to interrogate what labour is doing. The NLC is not a political party. The NLC can go on strike or protest if the rights of NLC members are involved. What the NLC is planning in the next two days is about interest.
"There's no dispute whatsoever between NLC as a body with the federal government.
"Well yes, that's a dispute between some members of NLC, ASUU, and the federal government which is being looked into. And NLC itself is a party to the committee that is looking into the solution. So, calling out people on street protest you begin to wonder, what is the motive of NLC in this matter?
"But you see here, we do not interrogate what NLC is doing. NLC by its own laws cannot even give out pamphlets.
"And NLC is supposed to be completely insulated from politics. Now, if you declare dispute with us, yes you can go on strike. Even that one would depend on whether certain steps have been taken or not.
"But this particular NLC, you know, asking and mobilising people to come out on strike on July 26, and July 27, is clearly on nothing, " Mr Mohammed said.
Also commenting on the threat by aviation unions to shut down airports in solidarity with ASUU, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, expressed concern about the threat.
He, however, assured the public that "the threat will not be carried out because aviation authorities are already talking to the union."
"I'm naturally concerned about this if the aviation union will shut down in support of ASUU. I would say they have no need to.
"I will say also that we should begin to look at civil aviation as a critical national security enterprise. It has all the implications.
"We should not contemplate or think about an aviation disaster. We should also think about the general activity on the economy of Nigeria without civil aviation..
"I think it should be reconsidered. So, civil aviation workers, I think should not be part of this.
"Yes, I am concerned and yes we've spoken to them and I don't think they will join because they know that there's huge responsibility of lives on their heads."
LoveNbeloved: So can we do Christian-Christian ticket?
Lol your question is very telling. They do what they want you do what you can. They didn't ask for permission since they don’t believe it would cost them the election. I hope they did they own internal polling to figure this out before acting. Its makes things interesting at least.
WATCHOVER: That of Kogi shocked me like lightning, that Kogi governor Bello is a tyrant, and you wonder as he believed to be a Youth.
Bello a bad example of a Youth The guy is the worst thing that can happen to Kogi state
Lol I was impressed he managed to keep the state university up and running. The only thing that made me chuckle is the students at the federal school protesting that their school is closed while the state one is open. They should transfer their credits now asap and hope their excepted into the school.
During a protest against the unending strike, the students of federal University Lokoja chanted with placards about the delays caused by the disagreement between the Federal Government and ASUU. They complained that while their colleagues at Kogi State University, now known as Prince Audu Abubakar University, are attending classes without obstruction, they have been out of schools for months now with no end in sight.
According to reports, no state-owned institution in Kogi has gone on strike in the last five years. On July 18, 2017, Bello proscribed the Kogi State chapter of ASUU after the government was unable to force academic staff to return to class despite several appeals.
Lol maybe the federal government should leave the education business. Let the states take over and just keep their military colleges. Some people will get cold sweats knowing how bad the public schools are in their state. It would mean there's no national strikes at least since its becomes a state issue.
The FG can learn something from the states if they can stay open multiple years without a hitch. The big issue the FG won't make any tough choice in letting the school charge what they need to fund the school, raise taxes to fund it or cut anything to fund it. At least if the school charge what they want they have to face their customers the students.
In the past, it was the practice for some labour unions affiliated to the Nigeria Labour Congress to embark on strike in solidarity with particular aggrieved unions in certain situations.
This has not played out in the chapters of ASUU in state-owned universities, which have essentially left the national ASUU to carry its cross. Apart from one or two state universities which have local axes to grind with their state governments, the ASUU strike in federal universities has not received solidarity endorsement from state ASUU chapters as reports from across the country indicated.
ANAMBRA
In Anambra, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (formerly Anambra State University), Igbariam is in session. In fact, the students completed their 2021/2022 first semester examination on Friday.
Public Relations Officer of the state university, Harrison Madubueze, who told Sunday Sun that the examination started on March 22, also affirmed that the institution was not part of the ongoing industrial action by ASUU.
Asked about the report that some lecturers joined the strike, he said: “For me as part of the management of the university, the school is in session.”
A lecturer in the university who preferred anonymity told Sunday Sun that he was supervising an examination when the reporter called in. He said that over 95 per cent of the lecturers were working and had no plans to join the strike.
RIVERS
Lecturers of the Rivers State-owned universities declared outrightly that they have nothing to do with the ongoing strike by the ASUU. The two tertiary institutions are Rivers State University (RSU) and Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt.
Some of the lecturers, who spoke to Sunday Sun on condition of anonymity, said that the things being agitated for by ASUU are fully enjoyed by lecturers in the two state-owned higher institutions.
They insisted that the administration of Governor Nyesom Wike has addressed issues that would have caused agitations by lecturers in the two state-owned universities.
According to a very reliable source, lecturers working with the two universities enjoy remunerations far higher than their counterparts at federal universities.
Sunday Sun gathered that lecturers at the Rivers State University (RSU) held meeting on Wednesday, March 23, where the ongoing ASUU strike was mentioned. But, the lecturers in unison dismissed their participation.
Further interactions with the lecturers revealed that RSU and Ignatius Ajuru University lecturers are enjoying harmonized salary scheme and other welfare packages.
Godwin (surname withheld) told Sunday Sun: “If we are enjoying all these things which ASUU members are demanding, why must we go on strike? What can we give as a reason or reasons to partake in ASUU strike? We are paid by Rivers State government, not the Federal Government. We are paid higher than our colleagues in federal universities. So, what is the moral justification to join in the strike? Is it for solidarity? Nobody can do that.
“Is it infrastructure and learning environment? You have visited RSU and you can give your assessment of the institution. We have several buildings and faculties – all credits go to Governor Wike’s administration. So, lecturers of the two state-owned universities have no reason whatsoever, to go on strike because it would amount to being ungrateful to the commitment of the Rivers State,” Godwin said.
OSUN
There are also no indications that lecturers in the Osun State University (UNIOSUN) will join the strike, as Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) chapter in the university, Dr. Wende Olaosebikan, revealed that no meeting had yet been held to deliberate on the ASUU strike.
He said: “Nobody who is not a member of ASUU or who does not form leadership of our union can say whether we can join strike or not. If ASUU decides that this is the way we are going nobody has the right to stop us from going.”
He, however, declined to comment on the issues of welfare package, remuneration and infrastructural facilities. Some lecturers who spoke to Sunday Sun said that the remuneration and welfare package of lecturers in the school had improved especially since the government started payment of N30,000 minimum wage.
One of the lecturers who pleaded anonymity said: “I can tell you that I now earn more than my colleague in the Federal University with about N35,000 to N45,000 since governor Adegboyega Oyetola started payment of minimum wage.
“When Oyetola introduced the minimum wage, we didn’t know it would be extended to us. He directed the then Vice Chancellor, Prof Labo Popoola, to pay the arrears the governor was paying to civil servants and Popoola paid arrears of three months. An assistant lecturer collected about N130,000 then.
“The state government is trying because it was least expected that the N30,000 minimum wage would be extended to UNIOSUN. A professor that has reached the maximum bar in UNIOSUN must earn more than his counterpart in some of the federal universities.”
KOGI
Students and lecturers at the Kogi State University, Ayingba, are not affected by the ongoing ASUU strike as the Governor Yahaya Bello administration banned all union activities in all the state tertiary institutions in 2017.
The ban of union activities was due to a prolonged face-off between the state university’s ASUU chapter and the state government over non-payment of salaries and other entitlements.
This led to mass exit of lecturers from the university, especially professors and senior academic staff who moved to other universities in the country, a situation that caused serious academic disruption to the students.
Speaking with our correspondent, a lecturer, Dr Mohammed, said that teaching and learning activities for the current second semester which began on January 30, this year, were going on without impediments.
He said that the second semester would likely end by July this year while another session would commence by the end of October.
On the welfare of the lecturers, a source disclosed that the lecturers are just suffering in silence as the state government is just doing whatever it likes since they have no union to agitate or speak for them.
“My brother, we are suffering in silence hence as the government is just treating us just as it treats it’s civil servants, there are many unpaid allowances and the foreign trainings we used to enjoy are no longer available.
“As you are aware, the February salary of civil servants in the state was not fully paid so also we lecturers were paid in percentages and we dare not complain , we only resign our fate to God,” the source added
KADUNA
When Sunday Sun visited the main campus of the Kaduna State University, along Tafawa Balewa Way, Angwan Rimi, Kaduna, earlier in the week, the classrooms were shut while some offices were open to attend to other students’ needs except lectures.
According to the Chairman of ASUU in Kaduna State University (KASU), Dr Peter Adamu, the branch has been active in all industrial actions directed by the union at the national level.
The chairman, who declined to give further details on certain agitations of the union which include welfare package, remuneration and payment platform and the infrastructural facilities for learning told Sunday Sun that, the branch had written to KASU Management and awaiting a response.
“The strike has been on in KASU from the four weeks rollover strike to the current eight weeks strike,” he said in a text message.
But, a senior lecturer who spoke in confidence said that it may be difficult for the strike to be strong at KASU as seen in other branches because the state government was not indebted to them.
“For now, strike here will only be in solidarity with the national body because the state government is paying our salaries. Talking about the payment platform, I’m aware the union has been working on a payment platform different from the controversial IPPIS and will make it public when done.
“As we speak, the newly admitted students have been coming around to do their registration for the academic year. As you may be aware, even when ASUU is on strike, the management is not which means the school is still running.
“However, we hope the Federal Government would be sincere enough to honour the agreement it entered into with ASUU a few years ago in the interest of the students and their parents who could not afford to send them to the private schools within or outside the country and the country at a whole,” he said.
BENUE
At the Benue State University, Chairman ASUU BSU Chapter, Comrade Gwafan Tarnonogo, said that his chapter is solidly behind the national body of ASUU.
“ASUU BSU is fully with the national body, we are not pulling out. Those state universities that are pulling out have their own reasons and for us, we also have our own reasons for not pulling out. We are still there,” Tarnonogo told Sunday Sun.
He hinged the reason for ASUU BSU not pulling out from the strike on the fact that state universities also benefit from the proceeds of any strike embarked upon by the national body.
“Our reason for not pulling out from the strike is because whenever the national body embarks on strike, the local branches also benefit from what happens at the national. Issues like the revitalization, Needs Assessment Tour and this renegotiation too. We expect that when all these issues are tackled, even though we are a state university, we will also benefit from it. I cannot speak for other state universities because there are different states with different problems, so also different state universities with their different problems. But for us here, we are still with the national,” Tarnonogo said.
IMO
Lecturers at the Imo State University (IMSU), located in Owerri, the state capital, are highly charged with the angst they feel towards the state government.
The tertiary institution is beset with massive infrastructural deficits, and the situation drives the lecturers to clamour for better facilities for learning and enhanced remuneration, explains Dr Alphonsus Agbakwuru, who heads the Department of Computer Science, IMSU, noting the foregoing as the primary reasons lecturers of the institution joined in the ASUU strike.
Just like their counterparts in the federal universities the paltry remuneration which he and his colleagues receive are as so poor you want to weep for lecturers in the Ivory Tower.
“The welfare package (if it should be gloried by such description) is nothing to write home about. But that is not much why we are on strike. We are talking of the 2009 agreement with the Federal Government, which agreed and signed a written document pledging to provide facilities for public schools for learning. The facilities on ground are absolutely nothing, that is what we need to give our students proper learning,” Agbakwuru said.
EBONYI
Just like several other state universities, the Ebonyi State University (EBSU) Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not participating in the ongoing strike.
Sunday Sun gathered that all campuses of the university in Abakaliki are in session with lectures and other academic activities going on unhindered.
Chairman, Caretaker Committee of EBSU-ASUU, Dr. Chinedu Nwambeke, said that the chapter refused to honour the strike as ordered by the national body because the national leadership of ASUU had repeatedly failed to address some of the salient issues concerning the chapter.
He insisted that the chapter would continue to hold lectures and other academic activities, adding that necessary security arrangements had been made to prevent breakdown of law and order.
“We equally call on our students to remain on campus as lectures and other academic activities will continue to go on uninterrupted,” he said.
Commenting on the welfare of lecturers in the school, he explained that the government was doing its best to ensure that the welfare of lecturers and indeed all workers in the school are well met.
Subsidywise20: At the end of the day, the alternative is to
1.Make the 70% of economically active Nigerians that do not pay tax, pay it to the federal and state governments
2.Tax every working adult...including workers and farmers and herdsmen and fishermen...tax everyone
3.Use part of the money to pay for education funding.
Countries that have free education have tax to gdp ratios of 45-50%. Nigeria is at 8.1% . But anytime anyone mentions tax, people start crying and treating you like you are The Dark and Infernal One.
I will give you a counter arguments since the liberals you're arguing with won't. You don't need a tax to GDP ratio that high to pay for it. Those countries also provide universal health care. Second if you look around Nigeria not ever public university is closed only the ASUU owns are. State university like Kogi and rivers and few others remain open. The big issue is the federal government won't make a tough choice in either cutting fat, taxing the populace or allowing schools to set their tuition rates. Lol they along the rest of the populace is fine with rampant disfunction since they want everything for free like kids and don't want to foot the bill on front or back end.
In the past, it was the practice for some labour unions affiliated to the Nigeria Labour Congress to embark on strike in solidarity with particular aggrieved unions in certain situations.
This has not played out in the chapters of ASUU in state-owned universities, which have essentially left the national ASUU to carry its cross. Apart from one or two state universities which have local axes to grind with their state governments, the ASUU strike in federal universities has not received solidarity endorsement from state ASUU chapters as reports from across the country indicated.
Make universities autonomous...so that they can do two things.
1.Set up their payment system, eg UTAS
2. Raise fees for extra funding.
But the government and ASUU are scared of doing that...meanwhile, unless someone can find about 1 trillion naira in extra funding (my estimate) for education alone this year, government cannot find money to fund ASUU.
Lol everyone is scared of market forces. They will have to face their customer the students instead of shaking down the tax payers every year. Meanwhile everyone saying government pay dont want a tax increase and won't tell you where to make cuts in the budget.
Simple there's two moral ways to acquire land for an individual. 1 you settle it according to common law if there's no previous owner. The second way is purchasing it from the owner of said land.
sophy17: Investigation and Prosecution are done by Federal Agencies. ie Police. And sometimes by the State AG. No State Police in Nigeria. States also need to enact State Anti corruption laws first and create the necessary bodies. Lagos State did sometime ago but you know Lagos is inside the pocket of one man, Tinubu. How many have they prosecuted? None. Convicts still have right of Appeals up to Supreme Court which is beyond the States. And under the control of FG
It's the excesses of the State Actors or inaction that prompted the Federal govt.
Yes the investigation are handled by federal police but so what? You are aware state prosecutors and police work together to convict people everyday. I do agree decentralizes police, new laws and state agencies agencies would be nice. These guys appeals everyday including the clown Buhari pardoned. I agree the FG stepped in because the state legislatures are lazy and corrupt. They will have to step up because the federal government can't clean this mess by themselves.
sophy17: We rather need strong and independent institutions. Judiciary cannot do it alone. PMB only recently pardoned high profile treasury looters prosecuted by Efcc, convicted by the Judiciary,
There's nothing stopping state government from prosecuting him again. Its always weird how people expect the federal government to clean up the local issues. If the state government prosecute him with the same evidence he goes to jail and no federal pardon can save him. You'll just have to worry about the next weirdo pardoning him.
nazicartel: Wasn't he declared wanted before?. Like I don't understand, so Police will need to declare somebody doing crimes wanted before the person will be arrested. Una deh shock me for here wella.... Besides, I saw a Police guy at the back when he was being turbaned
Its a good question. I always assumed the courts would issue a warrant for an arrest. Personally I think its just the Nigerian culture of making everything a spectacle. Lol we even have to declare public holidays even when they fall on the same calendar day of the year like the can't simply write it into the law.
Wish their was a history tab but here it is a well made documentary of the civil war, that involves the details frequently glossed over in other documentaries, the key feature is troop positions/movements and an analysis of their aims.
You're right this documentary is very good. I love how he through in little fun facts in between. The music and visuals were good. This would be a very good video for a history class. Thanks for sharing it with us.
DOTian: 2) It lasted for 30 months and culminated into the killing of close to 5 million people from a population of 15 million people or thereabout in eastern Nigeria..
3) It was no cakewalk for The Nigerian forces, since both the arming, the fighting and the embargoes, were all done by foreign forces. Infact the embargo by The British Navy actually led to the deaths of over ten thousand babies deu to starvation, EVERYDAY..
2. Hmm the number been revised up again?Most accounts have it 2 million death most due to starvation at most. Do you care to cite your source on the 5 million casualties.
3. The British Navy didn't lead the blockade. I've seen no historical source outside nairaland claim such. The Nigerian Navy enforced the blockade and lead the amphibious assaults.
Ojukwu refused to allow a land corridor because he feared the Nigerian government would poison the population. His actions thus exacerbated the problem. Gowon would not have poison them due to international pressure. Ojukwu opted for air lifted material from Sao Tome with Portuguese support. The supplies came to Portharcourt then Uli village in Owerri. The Nigerian airforce was never able to stop opperations from the Uli airstrip due their ineffectiveness.
Cited sources:
Naval Military Operations in Bonny during the Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970
By Chukwuma C. C. Osakwe, Lawrence Okechukwu Udeagbala
Nature and Impact of Involvement of the Navy in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Great2017: At least, we have agreed that the APC and the PDP are useless without a popular candidate.
Every party is useless without a popular candidate hence why so much money is spend on campaigning, seeking endorsements and holding primary elections. Exceptions can happen but thats the general trend. Yes we agree on the obvious facts.
Great2017: Please, I do not understand you. Could you be more explicit?
95% of people can't be tired of APC and PDP if their candidates are the leading front Runners. Its already been proven a false statement by the results of the Osun election.
Great2017: Tell us what you think you know about political party structure. One thing on the street is Nigerians who make up more than 95% of the electorates are tired of the PDP and the APC.
95% are tired if the two parties but they're leading front runners? By this logic Osun is the 5%. Did you do this polling yourself.
orisa37: CANDIDATES BETTER. IT REFLECTS CHARACTER, QUALITIES, QUANTITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS.
JASONjnr: That way, we're going to vote for competence and not party were corrupt people run or decamp to, to get political appointments and continue looting.
Or whatever demoguage sways the hearts of masses. Both are equally possible considering most people couldn't care less about policies. Its won't be much different from tribal sports culture of political parties.
Pacesetterz: I am deeply concerned to ask this question on a forum like this to read the reactions and feelings of Nigerians concerning basic infrastructure needs like water in a state.
How many states can boast of portable water running through their houses(I’m not talking about boreholes)...I mean tap water provided by the state govt.
In Akwa Ibom definate no. There's not one state can even say they supply everyone in an LG water. Compare the water budget to church construction budget in Akwa Ibom.
AsabaPropertyAg: Rauf Aregbesola should be sacked as a federal minister for abandoning his party and travel to U.S a day to the Osun State Governorship election, this means he worked against a party he is serving as a minister, this is not acceptable and it shows that he is not a good partyman
Lol APC can kick him out the party if they please. I don't understand the argument for him losing his job in government.
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