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The Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU), Lapai, Niger State may have pulled out of the strike.

The university management directed that the institution be re-opened on Monday.

It was gathered that IBBU Senate debated the outcome of the congress of the local chapter of ASUU, which was said to favour the calling off of the strike and resolving to re-open the campus for academic activities.

A member of IBBU ASUU chapter, who spoke to our reporter on the telephone, said the union members voted that the strike be called off, but with the promise that their decision would not override the NEC’s resolution.

He said the management relied on the congress decision and ordered resumption.

Another member of the union said: “Yes, we have been asked to resume on Monday and the campus is being prepared for re-opening. The university management took the decision in line with agreement of members that were present at the ASUU congress we held on Monday.”

Asked if the local ASUU was consulted before the decision was reached, the source responded: “I cannot confirm this but what I am sure of is that lectures will start on Monday.”

However, IBBU ASUU Chairman Dr Aliyu Badeggi described the directive by Vice Chancellor Prof Ibrahim Kolo as mischievous. He said there was no decision on the strike from the national executive, adding that there was no way IBBU would pull out of the action it was a party to.

He said: “How can IBBU pull out of the strike when the NEC has not ordered it should be called off? You should have known that the Vice Chancellor is being mischievous and playing to the gallery. There is no final decision on resumption because we voted to be part of the strike and we will remain a party to the action, until NEC meeting decides we should resume. So, don’t believe what the management has said; IBBU is in full strike.”

Contacted last night, the university’s Director of Information, Alhaji Sule Shehu, said the resumption directive was the decision of the institution’s Senate and not the VC’s.

He said: “It is true that students have been asked to resume by the Senate of the university, which is made up of lecturers, Heads of Departments, Deans of faculties, professors and directors of units. All these people took the decision in a majority vote and not the personal decision of the vice chancellor.”

Asked if the local ASUU chapter was contacted, Shehu said there was no way the wishes of a few would override the agreement of the majority, dismissing Badeggi’s opinion as “minority view”.

The university also released an adjusted calendar to make up for the lost period so as to complete the second semester.

youngprofdguru: But sir am not d one dat closed ur thread, make such complains to richiez not here ok....

odizeey: dat is wicked from richiez

odizeey: which was opened first?

youngprofdguru: Sorry sir i dont get u.....

jmaine: Keep your tears and emotions in check dude. It's useless here.

Any insult directed at me will get the same results.

Hope am very lucid here.

jmaine: Compete with you. brother you need to slow down on that front cos you will get burnt. Moreover, there are various ways of skinning a pig, and modiying your post to pack more self inflicting insults does the trick.

You get what you give in a more equal fashion.

Sorry dude. You cant help it.

By Henry Umoru


ABUJA – CHAIRMAN, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF and Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi will today lead other governors to Sokoto State for a two- day retreat.

The governors who will arrive Sokoto State today under the auspices of Amaechi led Nigeria Governors’ Forum is expected to have in attendance all the thirty- Six governors, just as Governors Jonah Jang of Plateau State, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta; Henry Seriake of Bayelsa State; Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo; Godswill Akpabio; Peter Obi of Anambra; Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of Edo; Babatunde Fashola of Lagos; Isa Yuguda of Bauchi; Ibrahim Shema of Katsina; the chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum, NSGF, and governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu; Rabiu Kwakwanso of Kano; Sule Lamido of Jigawa; Murtala Nyako of Adamawa ; Aliyu Wamakko and Abdulfattah Ahmed of Kwara, among others.

The letter of Invitation to the Governors which was signed by the Director-General, Asishana Okauru read, ” Re: Retreat for Nigerian Governors

“You are kindly invited to attend a 2-day Retreat for the 36 Governors to be hosted by the Sokoto State Governor scheduled as follows: Venue: Government House, Sokoto, Date: Friday 15th & Saturday 16th November, 2013. ”

According to him, the retreat will focus on Forensic examination of NNPC & FAAC; Leaving a sustainable legacy; Deepening democracy & federalism; Insecurity at the sub-national level; Constitutionalism, Rule of law &human rights. We have lined up a number of very excellent professionals to guide this process.”

Meanwhile, Governor Jang factional NGF has condoled with governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State over the death of his father.

According to the statement, “The chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum and governor of Plateau state, Jonah Jang has extended his condolences to the governor of Katsina state, Ibrahim Shema over the loss of his father, Alhaji Shehu Shema.

“Governor Jang praised the community leadership of the late Shema and called on the Shema family to be proud of their Patriach’s legacy.

He further said members of the forum will have the Shema family in their prayers as they mourn their loss.”

jmaine: Yes i did with no remorse or apologies, infact i will do it again if any of your personal insults warrants it.

You broke the rules insulting me, yet got annoyed when the insults were redirected at your person.

Kindly go and check Rule 2 of nairaland constitution. How can you report one for replaying your insults back to you .

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Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Thursday, inaugurated the Lagos Liveable City Conference 2013, declaring that in grappling with challenges of managing the mega city that Lagos has become, the well-being of the people, including the man on the street, remained the central focus of the government.

The governor, who spoke at the opening of the conference on the theme, ‘Preparing for the mental and social health needs of the Lagos mega city,’ held at the Oriental Hotels, Lekki, explained that the project of governance in a mega city “is firstly and lastly for the people and about the people, including the man on the street who must be able to live in it. He must be able to breathe in it. He must be able to dream in it – dream for himself, for his family, for his succeeding generations. He must be safe in it.”

According to the governor, doing so, however, required that “he must know the rules of engagement in the defining transactions of his city – including his interactions with the law enforcement agents, his financial institutions, his moral and religious institutions.”

Governor Fashola challenged the participants to, in the course of the conference, come up with ideas and implementable suggestions on the listed matters, adding that he was already thinking about the structures that could be put in place to carry the inter-ministerial, cross-territorial project forward, beyond the deliberations of the conference.

He recalled the experience of a particular person who migrated to Lagos some years ago with no possessions, but just a beautiful voice and who had succeeded in living a respectable life, describing his experience as a symptom of the liveability in Lagos.

“The essence of this conference will be partly how we can multiply these opportunities in such a way that other people’s journeys to Lagos do not end in slavery, destitution, crime, drug abuse, mental illness or sudden and avoidable death,” he said.

The other main objective of the conference, according to the governor, would be the exposition of the responsibilities that come with rights and opportunities which constitutes responsibilities that emphasise the nature of the commonwealth from which the successes of liveable cities derive.

He identified the responsibilities to include prompt and voluntary payment of taxes by those who earned incomes, compliance with laws, rules and regulations, such as public health laws, sanitation laws, traffic laws, building and planning laws and so much more.

“Indeed they will also be defined by responsibilities driven by codes of morality and compassion for humanity that drives us to support the physically challenged, the elderly, the vulnerable and those with special needs,” he reiterated.

The governor said he was concerned and sometime obsessively so, about that man on the street as he was often nameless and faceless, but in reality had a name, a face and a story.

He stated that statistically, the man on the street was only one out of the over 21 million residents in Lagos and might be forgiven if he got lost in the crowd, just as he might be also be forgiven if he himself did not believe he mattered in the scheme of things.

“We may forgive him when he keeps his demands and expectations from the superstructure of the state minimal, with little faith in the likelihood of their fulfilment, and absolutely no sense that he has any power to demand or enforce their actualisation.

“The leader, the city planner, the dreamer of great city concepts, the builder of great iconic monuments may also be forgiven if, in the lofty scale of his vision, he has failed to take the little man on board,” the governor stated.

Governor Fashola recalled that during the last general elections, he had to request that the physically challenged people be allowed to vote first, adding that though all the people in his polling station agreed, the question he had asked himself is whether the same thing happened in all other polling stations and if it did not what can be done to ensure that it happens at the next election?

“How can we make it a way of life for us to create special queues for people with special needs in our airports, supermarkets and other public places? What must be our common strategy for responding to and supporting people with mental infirmity?”

“How do we evolve a strategy of re-integration for prisoners who have served out their punishment with demonstrable contrition and penitence, so that they can have a new beginning?” he asked.

jmaine: Were all your posts a direct insultive to me, No ?.


Let the Mods go to that thread and excavate all our exchanges. Una never begin cry yet.

jmaine: You shouldn't lie here. nairaland rules says do not abuse,provoke or wish harm to a nairalander.

When your abusive words like ==> {You are a big fool} get fixed by {I am a very big fool}. you all go whining.

Una go whine tire .



Na you wan do am ? **smh**

Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, South-South zone, Archbishop God-Dowell Avwomakpa, who also doubles as the head of bishops in the Niger Delta region, has suspended some bishops in the region, who he claimed initiated dialogue and mediation between the Presidency and the aggrieved seven governors of People Democratic Party, PDP.

Avwomakpa disclosed this yesterday through his media adviser, Ovie Edomi after a meeting with Bishops from the zone.

Avwomakpa said: “There is nothing wrong with clergymen initiating or brokering peace between factions, but for some bishops to do so in the name of a body that I head and other executive members were not consulted gives a wrong signal and suggests a dangerous trend in the body of Christ.

“It means that there are people with political interest or ambition in our fold. It also means that we have clergymen that join different Christian groups or fora with selfish interest.”

Avwomakpa noted that as the Chairman of CAN in the South-South, he remains the leader of Christians in the zone and that any peace move by church leaders from the zone must have his blessing, just like any move at the natio-nal level must have the consent of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor.