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@Fogman,

I'm still waiting for your reply to my enquiry on what it would cost me to install navigation plus reverse camera on a 2006 Volks Passat. Thanks.

Fogman:
Hello boss, thanks for your interest
Please click link below to see our previous installation on Volks.
https://www.nairaland.com/1522305/car-dvd-navi-system-reverse/84
We bought on pre order for client and intact we have just ordered another for a client.

@Fogman,

I'm still waiting for your reply to my enquiry on what it would cost me to install navigation plus reverse camera on a 2006 Volks Passat. Thanks.

Fogman:
Hello boss, thanks for your interest
Please click link below to see our previous installation on Volks.
https://www.nairaland.com/1522305/car-dvd-navi-system-reverse/84
We bought on pre order for client and intact we have just ordered another for a client.

Fogman:
Hello boss, thanks for your interest
Please click link below to see our previous installation on Volks.
https://www.nairaland.com/1522305/car-dvd-navi-system-reverse/84
We bought on pre order for client and intact we have just ordered another for a client.

Thanks for the prompt reply. How much would I need to pay overall, including installation?

I have a 2006 Volks Passat. I'm wondering if this can be installed with the latest navigation facility from your stable and how much? I have attached a picture of the dashboard. Reply asap.

Can all these surveys predicting victory for Buhari be wrong? Check out this one currently on-going on Google: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IY161LbNot4Y8vzxK95WwfVuIvs-5h8LvlN7YQU1TUE/viewanalytics?usp=already_responded

A study conducted by an internationally reputed
political risk research and consulting firm, Eurasia
Group, has favoured presidential candidate of the All
Progressive Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(rtd.), to win the March 28 presidential election against
its earlier estimation.
A statement issued on Saturday by the group’s
Practice Head in Africa, Philippe de Pontet, noted that
although it had earlier expected President Goodluck
Jonathan to narrowly win the presidential election, a
number of factors had since changed thus swinging the
pendulum towards the direction of Buhari.
Eurasia, which analysed the electoral chances of the
two leading candidates in the March 28 poll, said, “We
change our election forecast from a narrow win for
incumbent Goodluck Jonathan to a victory for
opposition leader, Muhamadu Buhari (60% probability).
The electoral map is tilting towards Buhari in the swing
regions of the southwest and middle belt, while high
turnout in his core northern base will offset Jonathan’s
advantage in the Niger Delta.
“While a Buhari administration’s reliance on
technocratic, business-oriented senior officials will
lead to constructive policy initiatives, we keep our
long-term trajectory at neutral given the downside
risks to oil production and policy
implementation challenges. Buhari edges ahead. We
had long viewed Goodluck Jonathan as a favorite to
win reelection, but a number of factors now lead us to
believe the edge has swung in Buhari’s favor.”
It said, “our expectation of a narrow Jonathan win was
predicated on several factors that are losing some
saliency late in the campaign. Chief among them is the
incumbency and financial advantages of the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While this still helps
Jonathan, its impact is blunted by the intensity of
support for Buhari, lackluster grassroots campaigning
by the PDP, and new anti-rigging measures by the
electoral commission.
“New permanent voting cards and card readers will
sharply reduce the level of rigging seen in 2011, when
Jonathan beat Buhari in a landslide. Equally important
are the enthusiasm gap between the candidates and
widespread desire for change. Tepid support for
Jonathan, even within his own party, means there is no
guarantee that patronage will translate into votes,” it
noted.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/03/14/international-research-firm-favours-buhari-to-win-march-28-election/

All Progressives Congress, APC
Presidential candidate spent about 57 per
cent of government allocation to the
defunct Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF
financing projects in the South-East,
South-South and South-Western parts of
the Country, the National Secretary of the
Social Democratic Party, SDP, Dr. Sadiq
Umar, claimed yesterday.
Umar made the disclosure in an exclusive
chat in his Abuja office with Sunday
Mirror. The politician, who is also the
National Secretary of the Northern
Development Caucus, said he was
disappointed that “lies were being peddled
on the achievements of Buhari” while he
served as the Chairman of the PTF.
“I am an SDP leader and I’m not in support
of the APC, but the truth must be told. The
PTF under Gen. Muhammadu Buhari,
spent about 57 per cent PTF funds in the
Southern part of the country and was part
of the government that created Bayelsa
State, where President Goodluck Jonathan
is from, so we should not ridicule that man
unduly
“Rather, I think that he deserves to be
given credit. I can tell you and you are free
to go and verify, that only 43 per cent of
the PTF was spent by Buhari in the North.
The Politician regretted that the same
could not be said about President
Jonathan, whom he accused of allocating
more than 53 per cent of the 2015 Capital
Budget to the Niger Delta area of the
country.
“President Jonathan has proposed 53
percent of the 2015 Capital Budget to
Niger Delta or the South-south, and the
most unfortunate and saddest thing is that
this is an election year. So it is very
unwise and does not show good
leadership”, he said.
Umar who accused Jonathan of being a
sectional president, said he deserved to be
impeached for multiple breaches of the
constitution and biased leadership.
“The PDP and the leadership of Jonathan,
has brought a lot of disaster to our
democracy. The issue is supposed to lead
to an administration been impeached or
called to order. Or at least the National
Assembly, if it is truly for the people,
should rejected a lopsided budget
proposal from the president”, he advised.
He said to make headway; the country
needed a disciplined party that would put
its resources to responsible and judicious
use, instead of frittering it away on
frivolity and ostentatious living.
He said his party though was not fielding
a presidential candidate for the polls; it
was for fiscal discipline and accountability
in governance.
http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/buhari-spent-57-of-ptf-funds-in-the-south-sdp/

Truth be told: the journalists deserve the insult they got. True the ASUU NEC meeting is of national interest, but it remains what it is: an ASUU NEC meeting. This is a meeting of ASUU national officers, branch chairmen and zonal coordinators; it is not for the press. Because of the sensitive nature of this meeting, what the press men would have done as civilized press men all over the world would do is wait for the deliberations to be over and then attend the press briefing where decisions reached by the NEC will be announced by the ASUU president. It is the outcome of this meeting that is of importance to the press. Certainly, the press have no role to play in the deliberations: they cannot vote, in case there is a need to vote. In Nigeria, some of our press men desperately seek to be heroes; they meddle in things that do not concern them. It is not vicariousness; it is not bravura; it is not professionalism. It is just meddlesomeness. Poke nosing in people's affair and getting a bloody nose as a consequence should not give anyone the licence to blackmail.

KSU announcing resumption date does not amount to "pulling out of ASUU strike". I wonder why some people prefer to remain uninformed! It is KSU management that is announcing resumption, not the ASUU branch in that university. Anyway, all this is now history because FG has come back to its senses and signed an MOU with ASUU - something it ought to have done three weeks ago! So take this as authoritative: the ASUU strike is now officially over as all contending issues have been resolved. ASUU NEC will meet in the next one or two days to officially suspend the strike. So all the "underground" resumptions are no longer necessary! Lol!

BADNEAT: in as much as I'm not a fan of the Jonathan administration, I must say they used a good strategy here. ..by issuing the sack ultimatum and getting students and over 70percent of lecturers back to school, ,the ultimatum has achieved its aims...
Jonathan of all people knw there was no way he could sack and recruit new lecturers just like that..it'll take several month for them to fit in...he also knw that the sack threat was going to get most lecturers back to school. ...lecturers of which 80percent of them are no longer in support of the strike action needed nothing more than a reason to go back to school. .and Jonathan gave them that...with the sack threat..the ASUU chapters cannot firmly say they've been betrayed by the lecturers. ...JONAH USED HIS HEAD

70% of lecturers are back to work and lectures are not going on in our public universities? You must be high on something! And how did you know that "80% of lecturers are no longer in support of the stike? I tell you, boy, if the FG got as much as 20% of lecturers signing the register to return to classes, the FG would not have chickened out as it has so disgracefully done! You need to do better research and be sure of the statistics you so arrogantly (and ignorantly) push out!

skipo smith007: ...signature is not just something to take for granted....nd by d way @ ASUU, so happy d money as been confirmed.....so wat next

What money has been confirmed? Does ASUU affirm confirmations from media reports of documents shown to the press? For God's sake, why can't GEJ and his hangers-on get it right for once? They are unnecessarily prolonging this strike which ought to have been suspended two weeks ago! ASUU wrote FG a letter conveying the conditions under which its members who wanted the strike suspended wanted it done. Rather than respond to the letter, Wike the tout went screaming blue murder to the public as if he owned the country. He went blackmailing ASUU that it was laying down fresh conditions when all that he needed to do was officially respond to the letter that had been officially written to the FG as ASUU's feedback. The attack rabid dog Okupe is doing the same thing again: showing bank documents to the media when they can quietly do ASUU a letter enclosing these documents! Nigeria is not run on the pages of newspapers and it's time for GEJ to call all these his mad men to order. Nigeria's educational system is in tatters; our students (the power house of our nation) have been home for over six months! Why can't these people see that this nation is bigger than any one person? Why can't these people see the national interest more than the individual egoistic interest? Having reached this point, what stops FG from calling ASUU to the negotiating table, tidy all the grey areas so that our students can go back to school? Holding out in a battle even the blind man knows you cannot win is trying to take this country and all its citizens for granted.

McLuhan: What a pathetic lie by a shameless government! Why not simply admit that your resume-or-be-sacked gimmick has failed? In which university has there been a "substantial compliance"? Just thank your stars that you and your principals were born in the cesspit of a country called Nigeria, for if it were in saner climes a tout like Wike would not even qualify to be an office cleaner in the Ministry of Education, talkless of ascending to the exalted office of Minister of Education, so as to have the effrontery of ordering professors to sign a register or be sacked! Such nonsense is only possible in Nigeria.

You just nailed it bro!

Only 4 lecturers of 600 academic workers reported for duty at the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), in spite of the Federal Government's threat to university lecturers.

Reports reveal that the most of the lecturers complied with the UNIABUJA branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) decision not to resume work on December 2, 2013, Monday.

Spectacularly, only one lecturer signed the resumption register at the permanent site of the university.

The four lecturers who decided to quit strike are believed to be the loyalists of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. James Adelabu. Reportedly, they have already been expelled from the ASUU because of their "intransigence".

A few students were seen roaming around.

A professor at UNIABUJA, who spoke to newsmen on conditions of anonymity, said that the lecturers "remain resolute not to go back to work in spite of the military order from the government".

"Let them sack all of us, including those in medical colleges and let us see how far we can go.

"Our position is that the government should conclude the ongoing talks with the leadership of ASUU, which has been non-violent," ASUU member declared.

"You can see that lecture rooms are opened, no lecturers. Only four lecturers came to work out of about 600. And out of the four recalcitrant lecturers, one of them in Economic Department managed to teach less than 10 students."

"It is obvious that the government ultimatum is of no effect in UNIABUJA. Let them bring soldiers and policemen to teach our students," another lecturer said. http://m.naij.com/news/53513.html

Another failed propaganda thread! ASUU strike remains alive and well in UNIBEN. UNIBEN has not 'pulled out' of the ASUU strike. All students on this thread should prevail on FG to sign the agreement it recently reached with ASUU and honour same. No long thing: the strike can be suspended in 24 hours. All this dancing around the bush will only serve to inflict more pains on the already battered psyches of innocent students. A word is enough for the wise. I'm out of this thread for good!

ehis010: gud news..... make i go pack ma bag.... i dey rsume 2mao!

So much ignorance being displayed here! How do you "break out" of a strike? Has ASUU UNIBEN told you it is no longer prosecuting the strike? Are you not aware that VC's of federal universities (who are appointed by the FG anyway) have been directed to re-open the universities and the UNIBEN VC is only compying? Does that amount to the fact that there is no more ASUU strike in the university? You have been told countless times that it is not ASUU that opens or closes the universities. So there is nothing to be upbeat about in what is happening in UNIBEN, or any university for that matter that is announcing re-opening. The crucial question is: Will lecturers come out to teach. Lecturers are the crucial issues here. So you could go and pack your bag and run to school if you like, but be ready to receive a rude shock. The strike in UNIBEN, from available feelers, is 100 % strong. Reason: the late Prof Iyayi was from there and the greatest tribute any ASUU member in UNIBEN will pay him would be to remain faithful to the strike till the FG wakes up from its daydreaming and calls ASUU back to the negotiating table to resolve the crisis once and for all.

theoctopus: We have already passed that stage now. The schools are already resuming and any lecturer who doesnt show up will be sacked. That is what is on the table now. Good news is, many of the lecturers are going to resume because they are already pissed with the ASUU leadership. You saw that on channels TV yesterday

Prepare to have a major disappointment! Have your heart tablets ready!!!

Ugosample: Let us be objective here. If ASUU is a serious body, why didn't they give the demand of cbn gov. Aod the rest to sign DURING the .13 hour meeting. Why AFTER the meeting? @mazi answer this question.

you talk as if the negotiations with the President was FINAL. ASUU leaders were asked to take a message from the president to their members. This implies that feedback was anticipated from these members. Why would the same government that sent a message not be willing to receive a reply? It is true majority of ASUU chapters wanted the strike suspended but they also gave conditions which the ASUU leaders were expected to take back. One was that the FG should be made to show more commitment to the negotiation by paying seed money into the CBN. This by any stretch of the imagination cannot be called an "after thought" by any right-thinking person.

[quote author=Mazi_Omenuko]For the interest of those listening; ASUU is not making any fresh demands after the 13 hour meeting with the president. All they are saying is that the agrrement of the meeting should be made binding by involving some important stakeholder from the finance sector to sign; datz all!

ASUU don't want to be played twice by the same govt. Sign the damn agreement and the schools will be opened; what's hard in that? If the govt is sincere, that agreement would have been signed already and the classes opened.

What GEJ expected was for ASUU to swallow his words hook, line and sinker and return to classes?

No way! Once beaten, twice shy![/quote]This is the crux of the matter!!!

Kingspin: These whole processes has become childish. Is no longer news ASUU has join politics. Since the last meeting with Mr president, ASUU categorically has not made any official statement or brief the populace or open up the issue the manner which they had been going about it before- all other things about ASUU is now in secret. Remember FG, said thing is going to be in phases and released 130billion. What is still holding ASUU to call off their strike. No doubt, they have join politics period. And as it stands now force may come in.

You appear not to have been following but are being merely conjectural! Perhaps you could name the political party ASUU has joined! You seem to have forgotten that two days after the union held its congresses it fixed a meeting for NEC; you forget too why that NEC meeting could not hold. Perhaps you are being too emotional not to realise that in the spirit of unionism the death of a union member MUST be mourned. Would it not have been irresponsible, if not irreverent, for ASUU to have gone ahead and held a NEC even when a prominent member of the union and a member of the negotiating team lost his life in the struggle? I wonder what ASUU had kept secret ever since then. Perhaps the anxiety of we Nigerians to hear that ASUU called off the strike especially when congresses had met made us blind to the fact that due process must be followed! Were the results of the decision of the congresses secret? Many of us are being fooled by FG propaganda, and it's a big shame that you are asserting here (as if you have the evidence) that FG has released 130 billion naira to ASUU. WHO TOLD YOU SO As at today, the only amount the FG has released to the universities is N30 billion and this is for earned allowances. I stand to be corrected. The other amounts are promises which ASUU has found necessary to request government to show commitment that it would keep its promises by lodging an instalmental payment in the CBN. To now begin to forcefully open universities, as if ASUU closed them in the first place suggests that FG is not only insincere but does not have the financial muscle to implement the new agreement negotiated by the president himself. People die because they lack knowledge. Try get some knowledge man before you open your mouth in things you do not know!

vislabraye: Where is ASUU getting it wrong ? I hope they don't lose both ways since they didn't accept the govt demand.

What other demand? Try and be abreast! After the 13-hour marathon meeting with the President, every grey area was adressed and agreed upon by both parties. ASUU shifted ground and FG did too. Hopes were high that the strike would be suspended in no distant time. ASUU held congresses where majority of the members voted for the strike to be suspended. BUT with conditions: that FG must show commitment that it was ready to implement the agreement reached; that agreements are good in priciple, but their non-implementation had always led to ASUU going on regular strike. That FG must show this commitment by lodging the money it said it had approved in the Central Bank; that it include an important issue agreed upon with the President at the marathon meeting: that the 2009 agreement would be negotiated in 2014 (the permanent secretary who took the briefs at the meeting had cleverly omitted it when communicating decisions reached to ASUU). ASUU also requested that the attorney general of the federation be a signatory to the agreemnt to lend more weight to the document and that in the spirit of reconciliation and no-victor-no-vanquished all the seized four months salaries of the striking workers be paid to them.

Onwe101: Hahah ebsu out,esut out,unn out,AAUA out....still counting wich uni wil b d next...ASUU loosin †ђξ battle....ROUND 2 FIGHT!!!

You display such ignorance! That university managements are announcing resumption datess does not mean ASUU's rank is being broken! Note that it is not ASUU branches that are calling students back; some university managements are re-opening the universities in line with the directives of the FG. They are only complying. Whether the lecturers will teach remains to be seen, but I doubt if this whole scheme will work. This is not the first time FG is re-opening the universities by force or threatening to sack lecturers. Remember: university academics are skilled labourers. You cannot sack them just like that and expect that there will be others who will immediately fill their shoes. It is IMPOSSIBLE! So for students who are feeling upbeat about the unfolding scenario, the drama has only just begun. It is going to be a long haul: read my lips. Filling academic vacancies is not like picking cotton. You need all course lecturerers to do their work for a student to graduate. Even if half the population of a department resumes work on December 4th (which I very much doubt) you will need the others. To recruit qualified staff to fill vacancies takes weeks and months. You are not recruiting motor park touts. FG should know that you do not need desperate actions to solve the problem such as we have. Time and money spent on wasteful procedures such as this and in militarising our campuses would have been spent patiently in considering the views contained in ASUU's latest memo to the FG, which to me was clearly the last stage in the resolution of the five-month old strike. Aterall the FG gave them a message to their members which the ASUU NEC summarised as feedback to the FG and the FG has not said it did not originally ask for that feedback during negotiations with the President. Methinks FG is being misinformed by a few misguided elements in the corridors of power, and it is sad that our educational system (and by implication our youths) will be the mice meat. I advise students to watch the unfolding scenario critically before risking their lives and rushing to the campuses to go and waste their time. The drama has only just begun, and from the feelers I get, this is not all going to be rosy!

By JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU & JOSEPH ERUNKE
ABUJA — THE Senate ad-hoc Committee on Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, yesterday, raised alarm that N500 billion realised from the subsidy programme of the Federal Government was missing.
The committee said the amount was part of the N800 billion said to have been realised between January 2012 and September 2013 from the 25 billion litres of petroleum sold by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, within the period.
Infuriated by the development, the Senate Special Committee threatened that it may recommend the scra-pping of SURE-P, which it noted, had become a drain pipe.
It further frowned at the alleged lack of transparency and accountability in the management of the programme, a development, it said, was contrary to the original concept of SURE-P.
The Senator Abdul Ningi-led Senate Ad-hoc Committee on SURE-P, decried alleged nonchalant attitude and lack of respect for constituted authority by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke; Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, for snubbing its invitation to appear before it and explain certain issues.
The committee equally stated that going by available records, about N300 billion had been released to SURE-P, while only N207 billion was spent without proper accounting for the balance of N 93 billion.
Chairman of the committee, Senator Ningi, said: “Today, again, we sat here glued to our sits for over one hour, awaiting the arrival of the officials of NNPC or their agents and the Central Bank or their agents.
“As we speak, we sent letters of invitation to both agencies, which were duly acknowledged.
“I have been a member of the National Assembly right from inception and I have never seen this kind of impunity and disregard for constituted authority".http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/n500bn-subsidy-proceeds-missing-senate/

Mubby4luv: Abeg go sleep. Who ask u self ITK

Childish and imbecillic people like you are not interested in facts. That is why you remain moronic, dim-witted and vile-tempered like a 16th century Eskimo goat!

ajasa4link: Abeg make dem call dis thing off o, Na beg we dey beg o

ASUU strikes don't get called off just like that. If an acceptable compromise is reached tonight, ASUU leaders will still have to take advice from their principals after thse leaders have briefed them. ASUU Presdent and the ASUU negotiating team have no powers to suspend this strike. So let's not be too upbeat that everything will be over tonight and students will return to scool tomorrow. We will still have some waiting to do!

The Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, Mr. Haruna Tsokwa, is dead. He was said to have passed on in the early hours of Monday at the Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo.

Tsokwa, 47, took over as the Speaker after the former speaker, Mr. Isa Ajiya, was impeached.

The speaker, a known loyalist of Taraba acting Governor, Umar Garba, is engaged in a legal tussle with the ailing Governor Danbaba Suntai, over his refusal to accept a letter transmitted by the governor signifying his intention to resume duties after a 10-month absence on medical treatment abroad.

It was not immediately ascertained how he died, but our correspondent gathered that he suddenly took ill on Sunday and was rushed to the hospital where he gave up early Monday.http://www.punchng.com/news/taraba-speaker-is-dead/

snoopy: Wait....if they forcefully re-open the universities disregarding ASUU should it refuse their newest offer, who exactly are those who gon' teach us?

Between, I like this new found vibe by the FG to put an end to this madness but question is: did they have to wait this long to get serious about this issue? The president himself was the one who told us on a live media chat that government has done all it can that Nigerians should direct their concerns to ASUU while we remain at home as if it was ASUU we all voted for? It is when the strike has clocked exactly 4 months he now realises he wields enough power as the commander in chief to finally put an end to this. Only shows the kind of leaders we have.

Read my lips: brute force will not bring ASUU back to work; it will only aggravate the crisis. We have seen this happen before: FG using the governing councils to open universities by force! Who will teach? Perhaps those they successsfully coerce, and these will be a few blacklegs! Rather shocking to contemplate FG degerating to brutish force when they signed an agreement in 2009 that they have not had the honour to implement. And ASUU just informed us that not a kobo of the billions the FG said they had sent to the varsities had been seen! Thought we had left the military era!

From AKIN ALOFETEKUN, Minna

Tragedy struck in far away Turkey on Wednesday as a Bishop of the Anglican Church and  Christian pilgrim from Niger State, Bishop Peter Olukayode, died while on transit to Israel for this year’s Christian pilgrimage to the Holy land.

News of the incident emerged yesterday as the spokesman of the Niger State  Committee on 2013 Christian Pilgrimage, Mr. Ilya Garba, informed journalists  in an interview in Minna,  that the late bishop  was a leading motivator for the pilgrims, hours to  their departure.

“The clergyman had been motivating other pilgrims in his bus from Minna to Abuja for their flight and continued doing so, until their departure for the first leg of the flight.

“The  bishop was said to have slumped  on their arrival at Ankara Airport inTurkey and the medical team administered first aid treatment before he was taken to the hospital.

“Unfortunately, he was confirmed dead at the hospital while treatment was being administered to him and his corpse has been deposited at the hospital,’’ he said.

Garba stated that the head of the medical team, Dr Joseph Kolo, informed the committee that the late  bishop  had undergone rigorous medical examination and declared fit for the trip.

He said the remains  of the deceased clergyman would be returned to Nigeria at the weekend and released to the family members  for burial.

He said also that the head of the delegation, Mr Abraham Yisa, had condoled with the family over the bishop’s death and prayed  that God grants the departed soul  eternal rest.

Garba said 286 pilgrims from the state left the country for Israel on Altas Desk Airlines from Abuja via Ankara to Tel Aviv in Israel for this year’s pilgrimage.

He said the second batch of the pilgrims would depart Nigeria on Saturday October 26,  2013.http://sunnewsonline.com/new/national/bishop-slumps-dies-way-israel/

BY SUZAN EDEH
BAUCHI — The Bauchi State Police Command has rescued a middle aged man found with a human leg from being lynched by a mob in Gudun village, Bauchi Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Haruna Mohammed, who disclosed this yesterday in Bauchi, said that Police initially arrested a man (names withheld) with a human leg in Bauchi.
He added that after investigation, it was discovered that the leg belonged to his father, which was amputated in the hospital because of an illness.
Mohammed said: “The hospital gave him the amputated leg to go and bury. As a stranger, he pleaded with an Okada rider to take him to the outskirt of the town where he will dispose of it.
“Unfortunately for him, the motorcycle rider took him to Gudun village and alerted the public. The enraged mob took laws in their hands and started beating him before he was rescued by the police.”
He added that after he was rescued, the Police took his statement and paid a visit to the hospital, where they met his father whose leg was amputated.
He said: “The father of the man gave us the same story and we feel there is nothing incriminating against the suspect.
“We released him and he was admitted in the hospital because of the beating the villagers gave him.” http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/villagers-beat-man-found-fathers-amputated-leg/

A 13-year-old boy carrying a replica assault rifle has been shot dead by police in the US state of California, the BBC reports.

Officers in the city of Santa Rosa say they opened fire after the boy refused orders to drop the rifle, which they believed to be real.

The shooting on Tuesday is now being investigated.

It comes a day after a 12-year-old boy in Nevada shot dead a maths teacher at his school and wounded two fellow pupils before taking his own life.

In the latest incident, two sheriff’s deputies saw the teenager “with what appeared to be some type of rifle”, a news release from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s office said.

The deputies called for backup and repeatedly ordered the boy to drop the gun before firing several rounds from their handguns, police said.

The boy, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was later identified by his family as Andy Lopez.

“He was holding the weapon in his left hand. He began to turn toward his right in the direction of the deputy, and in so doing he moved the gun toward the deputy, and the deputy’s mindset was that he was fearful he would be shot,” Lt Paul Henry of Santa Rosa police said.

But the boy’s father, Rodrigo Lopez said the shooting made no sense. “My son lost his life. He’s not alive any more just because of the mistake of somebody.”

The replica gun had belonged to a friend, he said.

The sheriff’s office said a plastic handgun had also been found in the boy’s waistband.http://www.punchng.com/news/boy-carrying-toy-gun-shot-dead-by-police/

The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress  has threatened to call a nationwide industrial action if the Federal Government failed to stop the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

The NLC in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting in Kaduna, on Wednesday, said that it was unfortunate that the government had not taken the expected steps to stop the ongoing strike that had crippled academic activities in public universities.

The President of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar and the Acting General Secretary of the Congress, Mr. Chris Uyot, accused the Federal Government of sponsoring protests against ASUU instead of resolving the lingering crisis.

They warned that the NLC would not hesitate to call out Nigerian workers to protest across the country if the present situation was not changed by the Federal Government.

Omar and Uyot also stated that the NLC had taken a decision to intervene in the crisis rocking the university system in order to save Nigerian students from needless pains.

“NEC-In-Session expresses its deep concern for the near total collapse of the education sector. It is a sad commentary that government has allowed the strike by ASUU  to drag on for so long with incalculable consequences.

“Rather than resolve these issues, government is busy sponsoring protest groups against ASUU.

“NEC cautions that if government persists with this line of action, it will mobilize its members to stage counter protests across the country. It has the will and the capacity and it advises that government should not test that will.”

Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor, The Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, Prof. Adebayo Adeyemi, has described the lingering ASUU strike as a national problem, and not a blessing to the private universities.

Adeyemi while briefing the press on Wednesday on its 5th forthcoming convocation, said both the Federal Government and ASUU should meet and reach an implementable agreement, so that the strike could be called off. http://www.punchng.com/news/nlc-threatens-strike-over-asuufg-crisis/

The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress  has threatened to call a nationwide industrial action if the Federal Government failed to stop the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

The NLC in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting in Kaduna, on Wednesday, said that it was unfortunate that the government had not taken the expected steps to stop the ongoing strike that had crippled academic activities in public universities.

The President of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar and the Acting General Secretary of the Congress, Mr. Chris Uyot, accused the Federal Government of sponsoring protests against ASUU instead of resolving the lingering crisis.

They warned that the NLC would not hesitate to call out Nigerian workers to protest across the country if the present situation was not changed by the Federal Government.

Omar and Uyot also stated that the NLC had taken a decision to intervene in the crisis rocking the university system in order to save Nigerian students from needless pains.

“NEC-In-Session expresses its deep concern for the near total collapse of the education sector. It is a sad commentary that government has allowed the strike by ASUU  to drag on for so long with incalculable consequences.

“Rather than resolve these issues, government is busy sponsoring protest groups against ASUU.

“NEC cautions that if government persists with this line of action, it will mobilize its members to stage counter protests across the country. It has the will and the capacity and it advises that government should not test that will.”

Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor, The Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, Prof. Adebayo Adeyemi, has described the lingering ASUU strike as a national problem, and not a blessing to the private universities.

Adeyemi while briefing the press on Wednesday on its 5th forthcoming convocation, said both the Federal Government and ASUU should meet and reach an implementable agreement, so that the strike could be called off. http://www.punchng.com/news/nlc-threatens-strike-over-asuufg-crisis/

Many graves have been reportedly dismantled and their corpses exhumed in Ijoko, Ifo Local Government, Ogun State, in the ongoing demolition exercise of the state government.

Residents told PUNCH Metro that the number was expected to rise as the state continued to take down houses in its road expansion project.

PUNCH Metro had, on Tuesday, reported the demolition of several buildings and structures along the Yakoyo/Alagbole road and the Ijoko/Sango areas by the Ogun State Government. The demolition was said to be have been carried out in preparation for the expansion of the said roads.

Our correspondent gathered that while some of the corpses had been interred for as long as 30 years, a few were said to have been in the graves for about eight years or less.

PUNCH Metro counted three of such exhumed graves when our correspondent visited Ijoko.

The families of the deceased were said to have taken the exhumed corpses to unknown destinations.

A commercial motorcyclist, who identified himself as Ahmed Samora, said he was paid to lift the corpses of a couple from their grave.

He said, “I was called to bring out the corpses. They were still fresh and they were husband and wife. The two were buried within an orthodox church that was affected by the demolition exercise. I saw their family members take them to the family house.”

He said there were so many corpses within the area because it was the habit of residents to bury their dead in their compound.

The relative of another deceased woman, Mrs. Modupe Ogundele, said her grandmother had been buried for eight years. Ogundele said the family arranged for some rites before doing a second burial.

A youth in the area, Abiodun Olawore, said the demolition brought joy and sorrow to Ijoko.

He said, “As you can see, some of us are happy because we believe the road expansion project will bring development to Ogun State. Some others are sad because they have lost their property. We need companies to come and invest here and give us jobs. We also want banks in Ijoko, which we presently lack. I believe if these will happen, then we cannot rule out things like this.”

When PUNCH Metro visited the area, all manner of activities were going on around the rubble of demolished buildings. A group of men were seen scavenging through the rubble for iron rods, as some other women sorted wooden materials.

A man brought a van in which he loaded some items from a broken plaza.

PUNCH Metro gathered that some of the owners of other buildings that had been marked for demolition, had emptied them of their contents and abandoned them, in preparation for the exercise.

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has asked owners of structures affected by the ongoing reconstruction of the 32-kilometer Sango-Ijoko-Akute-Alagbole road to come to Abeokuta, the state capital, to collect their compensation.

A statement to PUNCH Metro on Tuesday said the governor said this at the inauguration of a poultry pen, built by the Chairman, Ifo Local Government, Chief Oluwole Enilolobo, in Ifo Town.  Amosun said the fund for the payment was already at the Bureau of Land awaiting collection.

Amosun said, “We gave residents of Ijoko-Agbado-Akute-Ojodu areas two years notice of our readiness to construct the 32km highway. The compensation has been ready before now but our people need to go pick their cheques up at the state secretariat (in Abeokuta).

“And we have paid the Central South Construction Company, who we awarded the project to, for the past two months and we were waiting for our people to be ready.

“I had to go to those areas on Sunday to sensitise the people myself and let them know that manpower and equipment had been mobilised to site for the commencement of the all-important road the following day.

“A light rail would be constructed between the six-lane road. All roads linking us with our neighboring states would be put in good condition for economic development.” http://www.punchng.com/metro/ogun-exhumes-corpses-during-demolition-exercise/

The Federal Government did not calculate the cost implication of the agreement it signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities in 2009, Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, has said.

Maku, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, also alleged that ASUU too was unaware of the cost implication before the representatives of both parties signed the agreement.

He also disclosed that the government had offered additional N10bn for the payment of the allowances of the striking teachers which they turned down.

 Maku added that the Federal Government spent more than half of its monthly income on salaries of public servants.

The minister said, “One of the things that have tormented all of us is the ASUU strike that has lasted for over three months. The strike arose out of a disagreement on the payment of allowances to our university teachers.

“There was an agreement in 2009 or so and sitting allowance was listed under the agreement. As at the time they were listed, neither the government nor ASUU was aware of the exact figures it was going to take to pay those allowances because the allowances were not calculated.

“In the course of this period, the allowances were calculated and the gross began to emerge. ASUU made a demand for the payment and government did not say no. The agreement was supposed to be implemented by the various university governing councils. They were also supposed to come largely from Internally Generated Revenue.”

Maku said in spite of these, when ASUU threatened to go on strike, government entered into negotiation with the lecturers in order to avert the action.

He said, “We also received a report on infrastructure requirement in the universities. President Goodluck Jonathan  promised to deal with both problems as our finances would permit. We agreed there was the need to intervene seriously in the universities.

“What happened under this period is that government then went into negotiation with ASUU, put N30bn on the ground to enable the university councils to pay the allowances to the teachers and promised to pay the rest as time goes on. ASUU said no. They needed about N90bn at the same time.

“We negotiated with them until negotiation broke down. In spite of the breakdown of negotiation, the Federal Government convened a meeting chaired by the Vice President of the country in our continued determination to end the strike. Government again promised another N10bn for the payment of the allowances. That brings it to N40bn for the payment of the allowances.”

Maku urged parents and Nigerians to appeal to the striking teachers to call off the strike. He also called on the lecturers to put away politics from the struggle and consider the impact of the long industrial action on the development of their students.

Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, has called on the Federal Government and the lecturers to resolve their differences amicably.

Speaking during the 29th convocation of the university in Ilorin on Tuesday, he said both parties should consider the interest of the students and use dialogue to resolve the contentious areas.

Also, President, Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, Mr. Shehu Sani, on Tuesday, condemned critics of the current strike by university teachers,  describing them as ‘lackeys in government’.

Sani, in  statement in Abuja, noted that the ASUU strike was “a patriotic act of resistance against bad and visionless leadership in the country.”

He said the strike was also “a genuine struggle to save the education sector from total collapse.” http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-ASUU-didnt-know-agreements-cost-implication-maku/