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gramci: Chris Tunde Ngige will win

payless: They are scared that with Buhari at the helm, status-quo will be a thing of the past. They are scared of pay-as-you-go. They are scared of adjusting to doing things in the right way or be fired.


Meanwhile, it's been two weeks over the deadline given to committee who investigated Stella Oduah, yet we haven't heard anything from Janadaft. There have been 100s of committees in the last four years without anything to show for it.

Elliotwiz1: interesting, i said if You're an Idi ot quote me and you did, own, lemme try something now, if You're the son of a retard quote me again.

sexkillz: [color=#000030]Could you be a little more coherent, pls? [/color]

sexkillz: [color=#000030]This comment would have been relevant if someone reported eggheaders going around a ban. If you are to report, post the links to the report.

Stop being sentimental. I ban more igbos than any other tribe on these boards, if you must know. The logs are there. The difference is that they choose not to broadcast the bans and create threads about them.

I cannot be everywhere at the same time, so if you notice anyone going around a ban, post the links here and then, if nothing is done, you'll have a valid case.

Cheers.[/color]

luckygirl02: I swear to God it is nt funi.

onimcee1: DD nd BB

chimex38: They have been in adamawa all dese while as well as Borno...they did not just invade d state...na normal tin.

AKUNWATA1: I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN YOU AS AN UNREPENTANT JIHADIST. YOU REALLY NEED TO AMEND YA WAYS MAN

Elliotwiz1: which part of the forest do you live?? You're so thick in the skull, an airhead, bimbo and dork of the highest order, you need to be castrated to help save earth from more stupid creatures like you.

ZackiGp: I'm a NEC member, which meeting are you guys talking about. We jt finish mourning Iyayi, i guess any of such meeting will be next week.

Elliotwiz1: dumbo, am i the reason You're so dumb? You're just a mass of genetic waste, nothing more. I repeat for the last time, he was not talking about the effect of buhari on the northern problem! He was talking of the negatives of the north in general! Use your head! Thick skull.

Elliotwiz1: dumbo, am i the reason You're so dumb? You're just a mass of genetic waste, nothing more.

mi xpressive: ASUU strike callapsing ke? Osun defenders will not kill me with laff abeg!

https://www.osundefender.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Varsity-students-on-campus.jpegMore schools are set to dump the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in the ongoing strike action embarked upon by the union for almost five months now.

This is as the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union meets today to decide on the sustained industrial action which many Nigerians have come to condemn.

The leadership of ASUU had postponed the scheduled NEC meeting at the Bayero University, Kano, following the demise of Festus Iyayi, a former president of the union, who died Tuesday last week in a motor accident along the Abuja-Lokoja highway.

The postponement of the NEC meeting to January 15, 2014, had caused widespread outcry as not a few Nigerians – students, parents and other stakeholders – condemned the decision of the union, saying it was evident of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerian students who are worst hit.

Following the development, several universities were said to have begun to hold talks on how to dump the national body and call off the ongoing strike in their respective institutions.

Regardless of the ongoing strike, some universities scheduled dates for their post-Universities Matriculation Examination, UME, exercises.

For instance, Lagos State University, LASU; the University of Lagos, UNILAG; and the University of Jos, UNIJOS, all scheduled to conduct the post UME examinations, although the national body frowned at their decision and stalled the examinations in most schools.

The Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, AAUA, in Ondo State has already pulled out of the strike.

In a statement issued and signed by its registrar, R.B Olotu, the school had ordered its students to resume for the second semester on November 25, thereby boycotting the nationwide strike.

“All students of AAUA are hereby informed that academic activities of the second semester of 2012/2013 session truncated as a result of the ASUU national strike are to resume on Monday, November 25, 2013 with the continuation of registration on the university portal, while lectures are to start on Monday, December 2, 2013,” the statement read.

At the Niger State-owned Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL), some academic staff have already commenced teaching.

This has caused some rancour among ASUU as some lecturers and students have returned to the classrooms since Monday following the re-opening of the institution by the management. But the branch ASUU Chairman, Dr. Aliyu Badeggi, insisted that the strike was still in force in the institution.

Investigations by showed that lectures have resumed only in three departments – English and Linguistics, Mathematics and Physics, while Mass Communication, Business Administration and other Sciences were yet to resume lectures.

The Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Kolo, had last Friday directed students to resume lectures on Monday, after an emergency Senate meeting approved the re-opening of the institution.

Investigations reveal that several other institutions, especially those who voted for the suspension of the strike, are set to dump the union if it decides to continue with the ongoing strike after today’s meeting.

It was therefore no surprise when news filtered in that UNILAG and LASU were set to conduct degree and matriculation examinations outside their campuses.

Also, sources say the Enugu State University of Technology, ESUT, is set to call off the strike if at the end of today’s meeting ASUU still decides to go on with the strike.

The Adamawa State University was also reported to have pulled out of the strike.

Worried by this development, president of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge has warned vice chancellors to desist from conducting off-campus examinations or other academic activities, as such moves could jeopardise the stand of the union.

“We appeal to our VCs to cease from further eroding the credibility of the academic profession which the iconic status of their offices represents. They should remember that they are destroying themselves and their professional calling by desecrating the sacred ethos of university degree and selection examination,” Fagge said.

It would be recalled that the 61 chapters of the association met on Monday last week to vote in their various institutions for or against the suspension of the strike.

Not a few Nigerians had expected that the personal intervention of the president would pacify the striking lecturers and persuade them to suspend the strike action; but instead, the industrial action had continued.

ASUU had however directed that all its 61 chapters hold their congresses on Monday, November 11.

BY UMAR YUSUF


YOLA - Hell was let loose in Yola, the Adamawa State Capital Thursday night as suspected Boko Haram insurgents unleashed terror in the state capital.

During the attack which lasted several hours, at least six people were reported killed, while many others sustained injuries.

Eyewitness account told Vanguard that the suspected insurgents in their large number stormed the popular Kasuwar Gwari market along Mubi Bye Pass, fingered their victims and shot them at close range.

The eyewitness added that serious stampede ensued in the area and spread to other parts of the state capital like wild fire.

In the ensuing confusion, several people sustained injuries as people ran for their lives following sporadic shooting.

The military enforcing the state of emergency in the state have launched a man haunt for the fleeing suspected Boko Haram members.

The man haunt has led to the closure of all roads leading to and from the state capital thereby creating long queues along the major roads.

As at the time of this report, all the major markets in the state capital have remained closed and shut, even as other shop owners operate at low level.

Anxious Journalists who visited the Brigade Commander of the 23 Armoured Brigade, Yola, Brigadier General Fattai Alli went away in disappointment as he said he was too busy to talk to the press.

Adamawa alongside Borno and Yobe states have their state of emergency extended by another six months following unending activities of Boko Haram insurgents.