₦airaland Forum

Jakumo: Our feathered friends are not always so friendly. That stork definitely looks suspicious and shifty-eyed, if you ask me. Lock him up, or serve him up as Stork-McNuggets, to serve as an example to others.

On a serious note, since goats have been detained for criminal investigations, and subsequently eaten by Nigerian police officers on many occasions, so it is high time that the long arm of the law reaches into the animal world to apprehend culprits, wherever they may reside in Africa.

DAMATURU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Fighter jets have bombed camps belonging to suspected Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria in response to a massacre of students at an agricultural college, an army spokesman said on Thursday.

The Islamist sect Boko Haram is suspected of carrying out the night-time raid on a college in Yobe state on Sunday, in which students were dragged out of their beds and shot. Forty-one were killed.

Boko Haram, which has not claimed responsibility for the attack, is fighting to impose an Islamic state in religiously-mixed Nigeria. It has become the biggest security threat to a country that is Africa's second largest economy and top oil exporter.

"We used jet fighters to drop bombs on terrorist camps, where many of the insurgents were killed," said Captain Eli Lazarus, military spokesman in Yobe state.

He said the strikes were carried out on Monday near Majari village on the border between Yobe and Borno, the two states worst hit by Boko Haram's four-year-old insurgency.

Soldiers have arrested 15 people suspected of involvement in the college attack and patrols along main roads in Borno and Yobe have been reinforced, Lazarus said.

Nigeria's army has in the past exaggerated its capabilities and successes and played down casualties among soldiers and civilians, security and diplomatic sources say.

Authorities have ordered greater security around schools since Sunday's attacks to help restore confidence in the Western-style education system that Boko Haram wants banished, government sources told Reuters this week.

Thousands have been killed since Boko Haram launched its uprising in 2009. As it has grown bolder and more deadly, it has also forged links with Islamists in the Sahara, including al Qaeda's north African branch.

Western governments are increasingly worried about the threat posed by Islamist groups across Africa, from Mali and Algeria in the Sahara to Kenya in the east, where fighters from the Somali al-Shabaab group killed at least 67 people in an attack on a Nairobi shopping mall last month.

(Writing by Joe Brock; Editing by Tim Cocks and Kevin Liffey)

[/quote]The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Nasir Fagge, has accused the federal government of not telling Nigerians the truth about the demand of the union as regards the government’s statement that the union's demand has been met.
According to Fagge, ASUU had a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the federal government for it to spend over N3 trillion to turn around the fortune of all federal and state universities and also to better the lot of the educational sector in the country.[quote]

sunniest: Idi Amin of Benue State orders the re-
opening of BSU,Threatens To Sack
Lecturers
Benue State governor, Mr Gabriel Suswam,
yesterday directed the management of the
Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi to
reopen the institution and announced the
decisions of the state government to
suspend payment of salaries to lecturers
and sack lecturers that failed to comply.
The BSU lecturers joined their counterparts
across the country to observe the
nationwide strike action declared by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) which commenced since July, 2013.
They have refused to go back to work
despite several pleas by the governor.
However, Suswam said that members of
the union in the BSU have deliberately
refused to call off the strike even as the
state government has made several
appeals for the lecturers to consider the
interest of the students. He directed the
management of the university to reopen
the institution with immediate effect or
risk being sacked.
Suswam made this declaration at
Government House, Makurdi during an
urgent meeting with the management of
the university led by the vice chancellor,
Prof. Charity Angya.The VC was
represented by the deputy vice chancellor,
administration, Prof Nicholas Ada.
According to Suswam, “it is important that
you as management come because you
have refused to reopen the university. I
am going to call the Governing Council and
insist that they open the university but the
first thing I am going to do is that you will
not have your salaries paid beginning from
this month and any staff who refuses to
come back to work would have his or her
appointment terminated and nobody is
going to collect salary arrears. And so I
needed you people to know before you
hear it announced on the radio”.
“I am also aware that there was a court
case that was instituted against the
university by the state government over
strike and we are going to take that case
up and make you face it because we have
completely run out of patience and there is
no basis while the children will continue to
be on strike,” Suswam said