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The Federal Government has resumed negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities on the 2009 agreement.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities had called off a three month old strike it embarked upon, over revitalization of universities, academic earned allowances, issuance of universities pension management company and other issues.

The strike was called off after the federal government had agreed to honour the memorandum of understanding signed with the union.
The Chairman Federal Government re-negotiation team, Wale Babalakin addressed newsmen after a meeting that lasted for over five hours behind closed doors.

He disclosed that the Union had presented more than 20 issues that were being looked into, to ensure stability in the university system.
He expressed optimism that the meeting would yield positive results as they continue to negotiate.

https://tvcnews.tv/strike-federal-govt-resumes-negotiations-with-ASUU-labour-union/

This kind of gesture re-assures us that Nigerians are not all that bad, the big prolem is our political and religious believes

This same person will one day stand up to contest for a political position, some people will still fight themself to support him for reasons best known by only God. This Nigeria tire me.

The guy is shameless.

LordCenturion:
Oga, everyone are guilty of this,although I don't really support that of pizza importation but we Nigerians do crazy things at times just to show off, but the fact still remains that we don't appreciate our own things,this has been happening since our independent,there are two different versions of peak milk,but people love to buy the one that comes from Holland , but both are the same, what about u Mr reno,why are u in abroad,why your children are staying and studying in abroad,don't we have good schools here?, u are also having your medical check up over there, I remember one barrister songs of 1970's/early 80's that my dad use to listen to, where he said
"if a white is cooking rice for sales at higher price,and a black is also cooking the same rice at affordable reasonable price than that of white,even if it better than the white own,we will always go for the white rice"


I have been on Nairaland since 2012,this is the first time am gonna make front page apart from my previous threads that hit front pages several times,and beside March 30(Saturday) is my birthday, please show some love,your likes is a sign of wishing me happy birthday in advance,no member of Nairaland will die young,we will all live long and be a parents, grandparents and great grandparents,even we will rule this country together when this old fool thieves dies because our generation thinks wisely than them, we will rule it together till year 2090 and our wards will grow up to inherits the greatest Nigeria and they will continue the legacy and be proud of us....

I love this, i think u should follow him up on twitter and give him this reply, that guy some times thinks he is a better Nigerian than us back home.

Sunday, March 17th was Faisal Sani’s birthday. Like any swag loving young city dweller, he planned to celebrate it in a grand style with friends and loved ones in a memorable fashion. However, while making these preparations little did he know that the day was going to dawn with tiding of grief as he lost one of his bosom friends, Ahmad Tijjani in a mysterious manner amidst the splendor of the celebration.

Tijjani, a 17-year-old ambitious teenage, was drowned in a swimming pool at Royal Tropicana Hotel located along Niger Street, in Kano metropolis where he went to celebrate his friend’s birthday. He was confirmed dead on arrival at the Murtala Mohammed Specialist hospital after initial attempts to resuscitate him by security guards at the hotel proved abortive.
Narrating how the incident occurred, Sani said he entered into the swimming pool area along with his friends but was later called out by some other friends who had come to the hotel to share the joy of his birthday anniversary but before he came back his attention was drawn to the unconscious body of his friend.

“When I came back after very few minutes he had been taken out of the pool and the guards were pressing his belly, expelling water through his mouth and nostrils. They did that for some time but later resolved to take him to the hospital but on arrival at the hospital he was confirmed dead” Sani said.
Sani said since after the incident he had been in a state of trauma reflecting the mystery surrounding the dead of his dear friend. He said the incident happened within a very short moment.

“Up till today I am yet to recover from the shock of his death, because since childhood we have been very close and always together. My concern is the way his death occurred, though everyone is destined to die in a different way but I wish I was there when he started drowning maybe I could have saved him but people were there, security guards were there also but no one spotted him until it got bad. Very unfortunate and sad! All I could say is May Allah have mercy on him and grant him Janatul firdaus!” Faisal prayed.

Malam Tijjani Shehu, the deceased’s father said the family received news of the death of the teenage with great shock, “but believing in destiny we had to take solace in the will of Allah as from him we came and to him shall we all return, Innallilahi wa inallilairajun!

Malam Shehu told our reporter that the deceased had finished his secondary school and registered for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exams (JAMB) before the sad event befalls him.

He said the family was contacted by the chief security officer of the Hotel notifying them of the tragedy.
Malam Shehu noted that before he got to the hospital his son had given up the ghost.

I was told that his friends invited him to a party at Royal Tropicana hotel’s swimming pool. There they said he removed his cloth to bath in the process nobody explained how it started but they took him out of the pool unconscious, they pressed his stomach to expel water and later decided to take him to hospital, when I came to the hospital I was told that he is no more” the deceased father narrated.

Malam Abdullahi Garba who is an uncle to late Tijjani expressed concern over the mystery surrounding the death of his nephew, blaming it on negligence on the part of the hotel’s management.

He said “It is shameful that a hotel of Royal Tropicana status does not have life-guards by its swimming pool monitoring the patrons of the facility. I can’t just believe any explanation given, Was he the only person swimming at that time, what about other people using the facility, how comes nobody took notice of him in distressful condition until it got bad” he queried.

He appealed to the management of the hotel to conduct a thorough investigation to unravel the real circumstances that led to the death of his nephew.

All attempts to contact the managing director of the hotel for explanation proved abortive as our reporter in company of other reporters was denied access by his secretary and personal assistant.

When contacted, the spokesman Kano police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa said he was not briefed about the tragedy.

“This is a very serious issue but I am not briefed about it, probably because it was not reported to the police by either the management of the hotel or the bereaved family. If it had been reported to any division I would have been briefed” the PPRO said.
He, however, said he would contact the DPO in charge of the area, stressing that failure to notify the police of such kind of tragedy is a punishable crime under the law.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/birthday-celebration-turns-to-grief-as-celebrants-friend-dies-in-swimming-pool.html

The computation of presidential election results filed before the elections petition tribunal by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, shows that all accredited votes cast in 33 states of the federation were shared between him and President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mr Buhari was declared the winner for a second term of four years with 15,191,847 votes to defeat Mr Abubakar who polled 11,262,978 votes. The two got lion share of the 27,324,583 valid votes recorded in the election.
Over 1.2 million votes were also voided in the course of the election.
However, excerpts of court filings published by PREMIUM TIMES give Mr Abubakar’s state by state breakdown of votes which, he claims, placed him ahead of Mr Buhari with 18,356,732 against the incumbent’s 16,741,430 votes. The result is exclusive of figures from Rivers State.

The Flaws
Mr Abubakar’s purported result implies that no invalid votes were recorded in the 33 states, and none of the 71 other presidential candidates obtained any score.

In three states; Abia, Bauchi and Cross River, the documents show that the two candidates collectively got votes higher than the number of accredited voters.
Mr Abubakar claims that he obtained the results from the server of the electoral commission, INEC.
The document is included in the petition filed by Mr Abubakar in a suit seeking his declaration as the validly elected president.
The purported result shows that Mr Abubakar defeated the incumbent president by a margin of 1.6 million votes.
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the alleged figures as a product of the opposition’s “hallucination.”
Mr Buhari’s campaign later accused Mr Abubakar and the PDP of gaining illegal access to the INEC server.
An analysis of the alleged INEC server result by PREMIUM TIMES show that the figures given as total accredited voters in at least 33 of the 36 states and the capital, Abuja, show a clean sweep of the entire figures between the two major candidates.
A different result
Contrary to Mr Abubakar’s computation, INEC’s official result obtained from the electoral commission’s website show that all the 73 candidates who participated in the election scored some votes.
The result showed that 71 other candidates in the election shared the remnants of 869,758 valid votes collated.
The person who came a distant third in the election, Felix Nicholas, of the Peoples Coalition Party (PCP) scored a total of 110,196 votes.
He was followed by Obadiah Mailafia of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) who polled 97.874.
Gbor Terwase of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) clinched the fifth position with 66,851 votes.
Candidates with least scores are Angela Johnson of Alliance for a United Nigeria (AUN) with 1,092, Abah Elaigwu of Change Advocacy Party (CAP) with 1,111 and Edosomwon Johnson of the Nigeria Democratic Congress Party (NDCP) with 1,192 votes.
The Atiku result
In Mr Abubakar’s home state of Adamawa, where INEC officially declared Mr Abubakar winner with 412,266 against Mr Buhari’s 377,488, Mr Abubakar claims that he got 646,080 out of the total 815,680 accredited voters with Mr Buhari scoring 161,600. The result show only the two got all the possible votes.
In Akwa Ibom, Messrs Abubakar and Buhari, according to the computation, received all the votes by the 925,370 accredited voters with Mr Abubakar polling 587,431 votes ahead of Mr Buhari’s 337,939.
It is another clean sweep in Enugu as Mr Abubakar claimed that the state’s 965,940 accredited voters gave him 698,119 as against 267,821 for Mr Buhari.
The 1,169,303 voters accredited in Sokoto State, according to the purported result, all shared their votes between Mr Abubakar (552,172) and Mr Buhari (617,131).
Mr Abubakar’s 442,380 votes allegedly polled in Taraba and Mr Buhari’s 188,389 votes put together represent 630,769 total accredited votes for the state.
Yobe’s 750,745 accredited votes, Mr Abubakar claims, were shared in total between him and Mr Buhari who got 443,904 against Mr Abubakar’s 306,841
In Zamfara, the result shows that total accredited votes of 792,796 were shared between Messrs Abubakar and Buhari with the former having 379,022 while the latter got 413,774.
Irregularities?
Aside the exactitude between summation of figures for the two candidates and the number of accredited voters, there are other issues that are either arithmetic errors or over voting.
In Abia, for example, 853,050 were recorded as “accredited voters (actual)” but the sum of the votes allotted to Messrs Abubakar and Buhari alone, outshot the accredited voters by 10,000.
Mr Abubakar, according to the result, polled 664,659 while Mr Buhari obtained 198,391.
It is a similar case in Bauchi, where the total for Messrs Abubakar and Buhari’s purported votes outnumber total accredited voters by 287 votes.
Mr Abubakar claims 187,668 votes a far cry from 854,037 the document said Mr Buhari obtained. The summation comes to 1,041,705 while the document gives the total accredited voters as 1,041,418.
In Cross River, the document shows that votes obtained by the two leading candidates amount to 691,640 which is higher than the 690,890 accredited voters’ figure by a total of 750 votes.
Tribunal Continues Sitting
The presidential election petition tribunal has continued to hear Mr Abubakar’s petition against Mr Buhari’s victory.
On Monday, the tribunal granted Mr Abubakar and the PDP the permission to serve the petition on Mr Buhari and the APC through substituted means.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/322565-several-flaws-identified-in-atikus-presidential-election-server-result.html

A Zambian man battling an aggressive form of cancer, recently sneaked out of the hospital to drink beer and smoke cigarettes.
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According to the man identified as Derrick Tembo, doctors have already told him that the disease is incurable and his days are numbered. .
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In a post on his Facebook page, he said: “Tired of being in hospital bed. Just sneaked our to quench my thirsty. After all, whether I drink or not, I am gonna die.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvesMsaH5-5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Some people no just get chills sha, for God sake how some body go dey do that tin for 5hrs haba, na government work.

This is seriously ill.

so last last ATIKU,PDP and all their supporters still get hope say ATIKU go be president for this country..............

This FFK na clown wallahi, make him mention the nc pdp leader if he get mind.

peacettw:
I don't understand how a man can drop 2 SANs only to hire a lawyer who isn't a SAN

The reason is simple, he can not continue paying hunge amount of money to hire SAN and there is no result to show. Been a wise man he opt for a lawyer that he will pay less.

doctokwus:
Rubbish.
As a true Muslim he claims to be,why didn't the Senior special assistant resign when Ghanduje was caught receiving ghandollars,yet refused to step down as governor?
This guy just saw that Ghanduje is not likely to win the rerun and is positioning himself for possible appointment.It doesn't have anything to do with his hypocritical claim of being a true Muslim and Ghanduje being a false one.

I concor jare, politicians are the most corny set of people on earth, as if he as not been in Ghanduje's government, why is it now that he realized that Ghanduje is not behaving like a true muslim. He is indirectly looking for place in PDP

sound good

Better at last we go rest, no more we will go to court.

A military academy that Donald Trump attended as a teenager concealed his academic records in 2011 in response to pressure from Trump allies, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The New York Military Academy came under such pressure after Trump challenged former president, Barack Obama to release his own academic records, with Trump saying he was surprised such a “terrible student” got into Ivy League Schools.

Evan Jones, the headmaster of the military academy at the time, told the Post that the superintendent of the private school “came to me in a panic because he had been accosted by prominent, wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr. Trump’s friends” and wanted to keep his academic records secret.
Trump has consistently boasted he was a superb student throughout his youth.

The school’s superintendent, or director, at the time, Jeffrey Coverdale, told the paper that he rejected a request from members of the school’s board of trustees to hand over Trump’s records to them.

“I moved them elsewhere on campus where they could not be released. It’s the only time I ever moved an alumnus’s records,” Coverdale told the Post.

Trump spent five years at the military academy starting in the fall of 1959. He has said his parents concluded he needed more discipline.

Last week Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, testified to a congressional committee last week that one of his jobs was to threaten lawsuits against the schools that Trump attended so they would never release his grades.

Jones said he did not know if the original request to obtain Trump’s records at the military academy came from Cohen.

Jones said he found the records in a filing cabinet in the basement of a building on the campus, which is about an hour’s drive north of New York City.
“I don’t know if we should be doing this,” Jones recalled telling his boss.

“He told me that several wealthy alumni, including a close friend of Mr. Trump, were putting a lot of pressure on the administration to put the record in their custody for safekeeping.”

https://punchng.com/military-school-attended-by-trump-conceals-his-grades-report/

Both of them just dey try their best to still dey relevant, time don catch up with them already.

men and women wey sabi

Things are not working under PMB, at least today we are proud that our railways is working, agricultural sector has picked up, some few graduate can manage 30k every month better than nothing, hopeful if things continue like this we will get there.

Hedonisst:
The Supreme Court would get it's own pound of flesh from Buhari. It would avenge the many acts of terror and intimidation against its judges by the Buhari government. And if you're thinking Tanko is all powerful, then wait and see if the idiot survives the NJC.

The Supreme Court wouldn't merely cancel the election and order a rerun. They would overreach themselves via judicial activism and actually declare Atiku as the rightful winner of the election.

I am sure u guys were more confident of wining the election than this, i wish Atiku and his supporters good luck at the tribunal.

unite4real:
The Judge will ask Atiku.

1. did you campaign in Borno State?
2. did you campaign in Yobe state?
3. When you went there, was there insurgency/crisis preventing your campaign
4. Was your campaign and that of your opponents peaceful in those state?
5. Why do you now question the voter turn out from these states?

your head correct die.

As congratulatory messages continued to pour in from within and outside the country over the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has kept mum over the development.

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in the early hours of Wednesday declared Buhari winner of the Saturday’s presidential polls.
Prominent and well-meaning Nigerians as well as international leaders have since been commending and congratulating Buhari over his victory in the election, widely adjudged as peaceful and credible.

Obasanjo,who had been quite vocal in the build-p to the election has, however, appears to have suddenly gone into hiding by keeping silent since the result was announced.
Telephone calls made to Obasanjo’s Media Aide, Mr Kehinde Akinyemi, by the correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) were not picked while text messages sent to him for reaction were neither acknowledged nor replied.

NAN recalls that Obasanjo, had severally castigated Buhari, and openly campaigned against him few months to the election.

The former president also endorsed and adopted Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whom he had once accused and condemned over corruption claims.

He had also told Nigerians that God would not forgive him (Obasanjo) if he ever supported Atiku to be president.
He, however, later changed political gear to ensure that Buhari was not re-elected.

The presidency has however repeatedly asked Nigerians to ignore Mr Obasanjo, saying Mr Buhari’s performance in office was enough to earn him re-election.

From the results announced by INEC, Buhari had defeated Atiku in Obasanjo’s polling unit in Abeokuta and also scored a total of 15,191,847 to defeat Atiku, his closest rival who scored 11,262,978.

www.dailytrust.com.ng/obasanjo-keeps-mum-over-buharis-reelection.html

stan111:
Use ur brain for once, u were not a victim of election violence doesn't mean u should say trash... Must u bring political Parties into everything.. Mumu

I be mumu agreed but u are a bigger mumu, which election in the history of Nigeria without violence i am sure this the first election u grow to understand.

Atikulators will not like this, only PDP has been discrediting INEC and the security agents just because they refused to be compromised.

MZEE01:
When Obi introduced VAR analysis as used in football into politics, was when I realized that he was never serious for the task.

It will take him another four years to be relevant, only if he will be given the chance again by any party.

Modified;

I am still looking for that prophet who predicted that the next Nigeria's president in 2019, has a Surname which begins with letter "S" I have a strong bet of my left hand middle finger on the prophecy.

Exactly my thought too, how can u be using serious issue to compare football and some people were busy applauding him that he is digital vice president to be.

Atiku supporters will still not believe this.

That is why i said Atiku will be wasting his time going to tribunal, what ever they are accusing APC of doing PDP did worst.

The question is which case him get, he complain of rigging which i know both party did but the best rigger won. Make him just go tribunal sha so that those his SAN go collect small from his pocket.

davit:
This is a very good question and observation. Where is the man?
Is he hiding?

Honestly i really want to know, i feel he not been happy with the part.

I was just wondering where is the former national chairman APC John Odigie Oyegun, he has been silent ever since Admas Oshiomole took over from him.

APC is the game master now, dey already know all ur moves, that was why they moved faster than PDP by suspending the corrupt CJN because they knew it will definitely come to this level.