₦airaland Forum

By Reno Omokri.

As the desperation of opposition linked new and traditional media reaches a crescendo, they have adopted Goebbels' philosophy that a lie told often enough eventually comes to be accepted by the public as true. It is therefore imperative to expose their tactics so that impressionable members of the public are not fooled by the propaganda of failed politicians posing as journalist whose only motive is to secure from the back door what the electorate denied them.

For starters, most Nigerians saw the story carried on Premium Times on Sunday the 8th of December 2013, alleging that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was traveling on a jamboree to South Africa on Monday the 9th of December 2013 which according to them was six days before the funeral of Nelson Mandela was to begin. The headline on Premium Times read 'President Jonathan jets off to South Africa, six days ahead of Mandela’s burial'.

Of course this was a lie. As may be seen from the official programme by the South
African government (released on line here http://www.mandela.gov.za/funeral/) the funeral arrangement for the late anti-Apartheid icon began on Tuesday the 10th of December 2013. President Jonathan along with approximately 90 other world leaders including President Obama of the US, Prime Minister David Cameron of The UK and President Francoise Hollande, all left their respective nations on the same day, Monday the 9th of December 2013 in order to meet the memorial for Nelson Mandela which held on Tuesday the 10th of December 2013 at the FNB stadium.

The South African authorities coordinated with various governments and actually advised on the date of departure. So, how Premium Times came up with their lying headline, I cannot fathom.

After being caught in a lie, Premium Times, rather than apologize, simply moved on to the next lie and carried another story on Tuesday the 10th of December 2013 to the effect that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was snubbed by South Africa at the memorial for Nelson Mandela at the FNB stadium on Tuesday because the President did not have a speaking slot.

Though it only shows you the state of minds of anybody who will be willing to politicize the funeral of such a pure man, those discerning enough may want to ask if the British Prime Minister, the French President, the Canadian Prime Minister and 85 other world leaders who did not speak at the memorial were also snubbed?

In their rush to gain political mileage out of the death of Nelson Mandela, Premium Times, like a child in an ice cream shop were so giddy, they did not remember that Nelson Mandela was a man who preached unconditional love and politics without bitterness, and while the world was celebrating the historic handshake between President Obama and President Raul Castro, Premium Times was celebrating the historic lie that Nigeria was snubbed!

Perhaps they and their political sponsors ought to be educated on the etiquette for funerals. A funeral is not a place to go and shine. It is a place to go and mourn. As such, it is impossible to be snubbed at a funeral because you did not go there for yourself, you went there because of the bereaved!

For instance, some opposition politicians on social media spend a considerable amount of time insulting and defaming the president, but when they lose loved ones, the president does not mind what they have done and continue to do to him. He writes them and sends delegations to condole with them. The reason the public never finds out about it is because funerals are not for show but for sympathizing.

It is rather unfortunate that Premium Times and other opposition linked sites have shown that they will not let something as vital as the truth stand in their way in their propaganda efforts for their sponsors.

This particular medium has a history of lying.

They lied about former president Jerry Rawlings of Ghana indicting Nigeria of corruption prompting the former leader to issue a statement threatening them with a libel suit and denying their claims completely.

On June 12 2013 Premium Times ran a headline stating ‘World Bank Indicts Jonathan’s Government, says Massive Poverty Unemployment Killing Nigerians’. That headline and story was fictitious and malicious. The World Bank itself whose report Premium Times allegedly relied upon for their story released its own press release with the title ‘Nigeria Economic Update: World Bank Forecasts Rising Growth, Less Inflation, Urges Closer Federal and State Government Cooperation’. Nigerians can read the World Bank Press Release here(http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/05/13/nigeria-economic-update-world-bank-forecasts-rising-growth-less-inflation-urges-closer-federal-and-state-government-cooperation). Premium Times merely took advantage of the assumption that many Nigerians would not bother to cross check their story and so sold a lie to the Nigerian public.

Also, on the 14th of June, 2013, Premium Times carried a story titled ‘Nigeria: Exclusive – Okonjo-Iweala Opens Up, Says Nigeria Economy in Danger’ and quoted an unnamed source giving details of a meeting of the Economic Management Committee . That story was false as was evidenced when the Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, released the transcripts of the meeting at which Premium Times alleged that she made such statement which showed that the story had no basis in truth.

Ever since Premium Times was established by the media handlers of a candidate whom president Jonathan defeated in the 2011 elections, their reportage has been so full of bile that it behoves on me to remind them that the election was in 2011 and they ought to have gotten over the sting of defeat by now.

Perhaps they think that they can gain a lot by remaining constant in their line up of false and malicious stories. But the public is becoming wise to them. Anybody can go and check on Alexa.com (the world's premier internet traffic analyzer) and find out that both Premium Times and Saharareporters have slipped in popularity. They are loud quite alright, but are they still popular?

Where they use to be amongst the top 10 sites in Nigeria two years ago, they have slipped with saharareporters,com sliding to number 39 and premiumtimesng.com in number 77.

Imagine that a young Nigerian blogger like Linda Ikeji's blog is in the top ten most visited sites in Nigeria and a site that boasts that they are ground breaking are not even in the top 30. Why the huge drop in visitor traffic? You see, no matter how far and fast falsehood travels, it must eventually be overtaken by truth.

Reno Omokri is Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New Media.


Regards,

Reno,

Hypocrisy is not just a Nigerian thing, it has a world wide spread .

The Mandela the Americans are celebrating today was on the United States terror list, with travelling restrictions Until 1998,

See Full Details Below
During his trip to South Africa, President
Obama graciously and reverentially praised
Nelson Mandela as a leader who inspired
people around the world and that included
himself. This was more than just praise for
one of the planet’s most respected leaders,
the man Obama called by his traditional
tribal (and affectionate) name Madiba. He
also accurately noted that Mandela was a
driving force in the freedom struggle
against apartheid and the post-apartheid
struggle for democratic, non-racial rule in
South Africa. Obama’s heartfelt remarks
about Mandela have been part of the
consistent U.S. government’s narrative
about Mandela since the official dumping of
apartheid in 1990 and black majority rule in
1993.
But the embrace of Mandela and the reality
of black majority rule in South Africa have
come at a steep price. The price was the U.S.
government’s decades old assault on
Mandela’s character and leadership. The
malign treatment by the U.S. of Mandela
didn’t end with his release from prison in
1990, the official unbanning of his African
National Congress, or even his becoming the
first democratically elected President of
South Africa in 1993. It didn’t end when he
took the rare, tactful and universally
praised step of stepping down from the
presidency in 1999 after one term. It didn’t
even end as then Democratic presidential
candidate Obama in 2008 inched close to his
election as America’s first African-American
president.
The U.S. government still continued to
brand Mandela a terrorist and the ANC a
terrorist organization. This ridiculous tag
on Mandela as a terrorist chilled U.S.
relations with Mandela and the South
African government even after the power
takeover. The chill began with the Reagan
administration’s well-documented fierce
resistance to the demand that corporations
and non-profits divest their financial
investments in South Africa, and the
administration’s refusal to support UN and
international trade sanctions and an arms
embargo against South Africa. The Reagan
administration’s line was that the ANC was
Cuban backed and posed a communist
threat to South Africa and by extension U.S.
investments. Mandela by then was well into
his second decade in prison on Robbins
Island, posed no threat to the South African
government, and had no direct say in the
political or military operations of the ANC.
Yet he was still regarded by the Reagan
administration as a dangerous subversive.
Mandela’s release from prison, the
recognition by the apartheid government of
the ANC, and his subsequent presidential
election changed little, except the
terminology of how Mandela was tagged.
This dovetailed with the U.S.’s shift to the
global fight against terrorism. Mandela
instead of being a communist and a
subversive simply had the terrorist label
slapped on him. Though Regan had dumped
him and the organization on the terrorist
watch list in the 1980s and it stood
unchallenged during those years. It took a
concerted effort by civil rights activists and
many congressional Democrats to end the
political targeting of Mandela. But it was
not a slam dunk. As late as 2007, ANC
officials, and that included Mandela, who
sought to travel to the U.S. still had to get a
State Department waiver or special
certification in order to enter the country.
Mandela had to get that even for his White
House visit with George W. Bush in 2005.
The issue finally came to a head that year
when Barbara Masekela, the former South
African ambassador to the United States,
was denied a visa to visit a dying cousin in
the United States. A chagrined Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice called it
“embarrassing.” In April, 2008, she urged
Congress to remove Mandela and the
organization from the terrorist watch list
With a big prod from the Congressional
Black Caucus, Congress finally voted to
remove the now 90 year old (and Nobel
Prize winner in 1993) Mandela and ANC
from the U.S. government’s official terrorist
watch list. But even the language of the bill
that removed him from the list was hardly a
full throated, ringing praise of the ANC and
Mandela, or a disavowal of the disgraceful
history of his treatment. It did not
acknowledge the towering role and stature
of Mandela in the fight for justice. It simply
said that it would add the ANC to a list of
groups that should not be considered
terrorist organizations. The closest
Congress came to repudiating the official
maltreatment of Mandela was then
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry’s retort
that it was “a great shame” that his name
was on the watch list. Rice, for her part,
followed this and called Mandela “a great
leader.”
Bush promptly signed the bill in July, 2008
after Senate passage. This seemingly closed
the book on not a 20 year but the forty year
branding of Mandela as a political pariah by
the US government. This vicious legacy left
a deep scar of suspicion and doubt, and
distance from South Africa’s government
leaders, and colored relations between the
governments that hasn’t ended even today
as the U.S. and the world publicly celebrate
Madiba’s colossal place in history.




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I was in wamakkos office in the height of his political battle with Bafarawa, the man was reduced to almost nothing , he was completely a shadow of who he used to be, I felt a lot of Pity for him as I felt Bafarawa did not have to be so mean .
As student Union leaders we left that office and headed for the state. Assembly , even the clerks office was by far a more organised place than the deputy Govs .
When Wammako became Gov I expected a lot from him because of what he had passed thru but I was shocked when he started flogging PHCN staffs and from no where started dictating what he wanted from the PDP after been helped by the PDP to a great extent to become Gov.
The greatest beneficiary of the PDP machinery today (legal and Illegal) is wamakko ) from the supreme court abrakadabra that kept him as Gov to the merger that helped him win the governorship Election. People will come and go but an institution will remain . Wamakko made the wrong choice this time

oshyno: Whoever think that there wont be crisis, cross carpeting as a result of the G5 governos moves is deluding himself. U dont expect the founding members of the party to be happy being relegated. And u dont also expect PDP not to cash in on that to garner strong political heavyweights from that.

Its a chess game real politics have began

ckkris: . . . and take over the madam!

You make me laugh well well ,but on a serious Note I think ,The APC leadership is been very Unfair to their loyalist,Bafarawa, Marwa ,Belgore et al have laboured consistently for their parties and were also instrumental to APC formation.
This people in their right are also founding Members of the APC.
Not consulting them in this romance with G7 may finally consume the broom and completely destroy their party .

A chieftain of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and former military
administrator of Lagos and Borno states,
General Buba Marwa has dismissed claims
that Governor Murtala Nyako is the
leader of the APC in Adamawa State.
Speaking in Yola at a press conference, he
said the claims by Nyako and his
supporters that any sitting governor is
automatically the leader of APC which
makes Nyako the leader of the party in
the state is completely wrong as only the
11 governors who contested on the
platform of the legacy parties were given
that privilege by virtue of their
contributions to the party.
“Our party is built on the principles of
fairness, equity and rule of law and we
should not expect the party to treat its
original members who were responsible
for its success unjustly,” he said.
“We welcome Nyako into our fold as the
more the number, the merrier it is,
especially looking at the significance of
Nyako. But we are not happy with the way
and manner of his entry.
“When you go to a new house, you have to
knock and wait for the door to be opened
and introduce yourself, but Nyako did not
do that; instead, he went directly into the
bedroom. But it is not too late to take the
necessary corrective steps”.
When contacted, APC’s North-east
national vice chairman, Alhaji Umar Duhu
noted that the APC laws are unwavering
and unambiguous.
He explained that ‘’The law states that all
privileges accorded to APC governors will
be extended to the entire gallant five
progressive governors who joined the
APC recently. All governors are to drive
the party activities in their respective
states.”
Meanwhile, the Director of Press and
Public Affairs to Gov Nyako, Mohammed
Sajoh has described as untrue the
insinuation by Gen. Muhammadu Buba
Marwa that Gov Nyako is not the leader of
the party in Adamawa, saying the
statement was made in bad faith.
“The statement made by Marwa to the
effect that Nyako is not the leader of the
party is unfortunate. As one of the
aspiring members of APC, Marwa ought to
go back and learn the agreement made by
the founding fathers of the APC, so that he
could be better informed,” he said.


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MAY GOD BLESS THE WOMB THAT CARRIED YOU

YOU ARE ON POINT

mercylicious: This is the problem with Nigerian. Why some are complaining, some are strategising how to hit it big with fish farming.
Always look for ways to profit from change of govt policies instead of complaining.

Set up your fish farm now. It doesn't cost much to start.
If you feel, ppl need salt water fish and can't afford trawlers, research it as a business. Team up with some friends and buy one and rent/hire it out. Or employ fishermen to fish for you and pay them salaries. This is the way to think.

I remember earlier this year, one guy saw the prospects in fish farming and resigned from his workplace (shell abroad).
He did not just set up farm but a fish processing plant, they dry , produce oil and other bye products. The guy is an Anambrarian and he setup his farm in his village sumwhere in Anambra, providing employment for some unemployed in his town. This story was on news and even on frontpage here in nairaland.

We need to change the way we think. Its not enough to be be a graduate. We just have to put our brains to work to profit from every change in policy

J Nairalanders will you skip or disregard any statement issued the APC spokesperson ?
If yes
Any reason Why

ifyalways: Story.

It will still be in the mkt only thing is that it will become expensive. Who wanna eat fishes from Nigerian mammy water infested waters ?

Nne the fresh Catfish you used to chop enjoy is also from the mammywater infested waters o , you need to also stop that suya and kilishi. The blood of those animals is also contaminated by the Witches coven ,

Seriously I used to think it was a bad Idea but not anymore ,

1 with the No of Titus Gesha etc that Nigerian Students alone consume any right thinking Company would have thought of establishing a processing plant in Nigeria but No! For several Decades this Guys prefer to create Jobs for their people and ship the Fish for us to CONSUME

2. When the Obasanjo administration banned chicken I was a student at that time , I screamed to the heavens that it was suicidal as we lacked capacity to produce the quantity of chicken needed . I was completely wrong , I underestimated the entrepreneurial powers of the average Nigerian , today we are producing More chicken and eggs than we can consume . I could not believe we were importing eggs at a point in this country

3. We are not a land locked country ,our vast stretch of atlantic ocean could be used for something better than kidnapping ,piracy and Oil Bunkering

4 I know several families that produce and supply Chickens to Cold rooms, and this has created another stream of Good Income for several Household

We must Believe in ourselves ,we must stop this consuming Mentality , I grew up know Derica Tin tomatoes, Gesha ,Titus etc its time we stop wasting our harvests and start creating our own brands .

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

The federal government may have made good its plan to ban importation of fish and other food products into the country.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the federal government has stopped importation of fish into the country since October 31 this year.

A concessionaire of a leading fish terminal in Apapa Port told our correspondent in an exclusive interview that the terminal and other terminals have stopped receiving fish product cargoes, which Bill of Laden were dated later than October 31, as they have been directed to do so by the federal government.

The General Manager, Port Operations, ENL Consortium, Mr Mark Walsh, said the new fish policy had now added to such others as the ban on cement and rice, which had seen the terminal losing up to 800,000 tons of rice in about 10 months.

He said: “The government banned fish importation since October 31 this year. Before we were doing 20,000 tons of fish every month, but now, that is gone. Any bill of laden after that date cannot be brought to Nigeria. What we have coming in now are those imports with earlier bills of laden dated before October 31.

“I talked to a lot of the fish association and they have said that by the end of December, there will not be fish in the cold rooms. So it is a serious situation because it will affect everybody in the country.”

The ban on fish came barely three months after the Agriculture Minister, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, disclosed at the inauguration of the Special Growth Enhancement Support Scheme for fisheries and the aquaculture value chain in Ado-Ekiti on August 6, that the federal government would soon place a total ban on the importation of fish and other aquatic consumables.

The federal government in recent times appears to have intensified its zeal to discourage importation of certain goods that can be produced locally, including food products such as rice, chicken and fish; and automobiles such as cars and buses in order to improve local production of the products.

According to figures provided by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, between 2010 and 2012 Nigeria imported an average of 780,000 metric tonnes of frozen fish annually from Europe, Latin America and Eastern countries, worth about N100 billion.

With annual fish demand estimated at 2.66 million metric tons (MMT), Nigeria currently produces about 0.78MMT leaving a demand-supply gap of about 1.8MMT.

Regrettably, the shortfall of fish supply in the country had led to a low annual per capita fish consumption rate of only 7.5 kilogrammes as against 15 kilogrammes per annum recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

It is expected that increase in national fish production would not only diversify the country’s resources base, but also complement efforts aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The government also expects production of 4.0MMT annually from its fish production programme, which could conveniently meet the national demand of 2.66MMT, as well as generate considerable export earnings, provided adequate and effective policies were put in place to drive the industry.

But most Nigerians are of the opinion that the steps are good ones taken before the right time.

“It may not be totally ideal to stop fish for now, but placing a ban on some kinds of fish such as Croaker will be fine because Croaker is a tropical fish and we have enough of them in our waters,” said a fish vessel controller at Blueseas Marine, who preferred not to be mentioned.

“From the ban on cement to the increase in the tariffs on rice and now fish is no longer coming in, it has been very difficult. We have lost up to 800,000 tons since January this year. But you see rice in the market. All the vessels bringing rice are going to Cotonou and the rice is somehow making its way across the border.

“So, you can still go the market whether in Apapa or any other place anywhere in Nigeria and still find rice, why? So you can see there is a problem. Cotonou does not make rice. They are Thai rice, Indian rice getting into Nigeria somehow. So the government increasing the duty only affect the government itself because all the duty on that rice is going to the government of the Benin Republic,” Walsh said.

But the Chairman of Nigeria Ship Owners Association (NISA), Dr Isaac Jolopamo said the new fish policy would help save a large chunk of about N2 trillion which the country loses in freight as capital flight to other countries from where Nigeria import fish.

The minister had said that the ban would be imposed only if arrangements being put in place by the government to that effect worked as planned.

Represented by the Federal Director of Fisheries, Mrs. Foluke Areola, the Agric minister had stressed that the country had no business importing fish, given its huge natural and renewable resources.

“The value chains are to create an enabling environment for increased and sustainable production of over one million tonnes of fish within the next four years, generate employment and pursue gradual reduction of fish imports,” the minister said.

http://leadership.ng/news/091213/fg-bans-fish-importation

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LOOK AT WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DOING. SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO IMPORT AND BECOME PERPETUAL SLAVES ?

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East Africa Turns to Aquaculture to Increase Fish Production - The ...
www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/.../east-africa-turns-to-aquaculture-to-incre

allAfrica.com: South Africa: Fish Farming in a Shipping Container
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Commercial fishing and maritime industries ... - TradeInvest Africa
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(CNN) -- Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner will
be sentenced Monday for kissing or grabbing
three women at campaign events or City Hall,
once with enough force to qualify as a felony.
Filner, 71, will not serve prison time under a deal
with prosecutors announced when he pleaded
guilty in October.
The plea deal calls for three months of home
confinement, three years of probation and
mandatory mental health treatment. Fines, court
fees and restitution are to be added Monday.
The deal includes a felony false imprisonment
charge and two misdemeanor battery charges.
The felony charge said Filner used force to
restrain a woman at a fund-raising
event March 6. The misdemeanor
charges say he kissed a woman on the
lips without her consent at City Hall on
April 6 and grabbed a woman's
buttock after she asked to take to have
her picture taken with him at a rally
May 25.
Filner was elected mayor in November
2012 after serving in Congress for 20
years.
This year, 19 women accused him of
offensive behavior during his tenure
as mayor and as a congressman.
After veering between contrition and
defiance, he resigned August 30. He
offered a "deep apology" but also said
he was the victim of the "hysteria of a
lynch mob."
Under the deal announced in October,
Filner would be prohibited from ever
seeking or holding public office again,
the attorney general's office said.
Filner also would not be able to vote,
serve on a jury or own a firearm while
on probation.
Filner also will have to give up pension credit for
his time in the mayor's office after March 6, the
date of the first offense



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Right from Day, the president has insisted that this strike was political ,
Why will state Universities established by state govt keep students at home over Fed Univ issues.

Why should APC insist that our brothers and sisters remain at home wasting just to spite the govt

GEJ intervened in Fasholas dispute with Resident Doctors helping an APC govt reach an amicable settlement .

Despite spending 13 hours negotiating with ASSU and reaching an understanding , ASSU excos still want to continue lavishing the Dues they collected from Members junketing from one five star hotel to the other

As Nigerians we have our own issues with ASSU The copy copy handout they sell for outrageous fees ,The sex for grades decrees and their anti students behaviour.

This strike has never been about the students,or Education it has always been about politics and lecturers pocket

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

President Jonathan on arrival at the Emir of
Gombe's palace earlier today. pic.twitter.com/
OBTOb3EPBI

Academic activities resuming at more schools

www.punchng.com/news/academic-activities-resume-at-ebonyi-varsity/

UNIBEN IS STARTING EXAMS ON 6th

www.nairaland.com/1540058/uniben-pulls-out-ASUU-strike

The crumbling resolve within the ranks of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
has been evidenced by the resumption of
academic activities in three more schools in
the country.
Seven academic institutions had previously
withdrawn from the strike with the reported
ultimatum from the Federal Government
leading to the resumption of activities in the
Enugu State University of Science and
Technology (ESUT), the University of Jos in
Plateau and the Federal University of
Technology Owerri in Imo.
The academic body has however insisted that
it would continue the strike until its demands
were met and it also urged its members not to
give in to the Federal Government’s tactics
Leadership reports:
The government had, through the acting
minister of education, Nyesom Wike, ordered
universities to reopen and threatened to sack
any lecturer that failed to report to work.
LEADERSHIP checks showed that the
authorities of the University of Jos have
directed lecturers to resume work
immediately. The university’s registrar, Jilli
Dandam, issued a statement, which reads in
part: “The Pro Chancellor and Chairman of
Council on behalf of the Governing Council has
directed that all academic staff of the
University of Jos should return to their
various departments, units and commence
work immediately. Every head of department
should publish lecture time-table for all
academic programmes immediately.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported
that students and lecturers of the Enugu State
University of Science and Technology (ESUT)
on Monday returned to school following a
directive by the school authorities.
The NAN correspondent who monitored the
situation at the Enugu and Agbani campuses of
the university reported that the students were
in their various departments exchanging
pleasantries and checking the notice boards
while the lecturers held a meeting with the
governing council of the university at the
Agbani campus.
Similarly, when our correspondent visited the
Federal University of Technology Owerri, Imo
State, the university had issued a directive for
lecturers and students to return to classes.
The directive was contained in a press
statement issued to journalists yesterday and
signed by the registrar and secretary to the
council of the school, Orje Ishghnor. According
to the statement, the school had called off the
strike based on the directive of the federal
government.
Meanwhile the FUTO chapter of ASUU told the
students to disregard the resumption notice by
the school management, stating that its
members would not go back to the class until
their agreement between the federal
government is met. This was contained in a
communiqué issued to journalists and signed
by the state chairman, Dr Ikenna Nwachukwu,
and secretary, Dr F.M. Dike, yesterday in
Owerri.
Also, lecturers of the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife, and Osun State University
have refused to report at their duty posts
despite the FG’s directive that they should go
back to work.
The chairman of the OAU chapter of ASUU,
Professor Akinola Adegbola, told our
correspondent at Ile-Ife that the threat by the
federal government to sack lecturers who
refused to resume for work was not new.
According to him, such threat was experienced
during the regime of the late General Sani
Abacha and the resultant effect is still fresh in
the mind of Nigerians.

Update from Kogi state University
ASUU /Mgt has ended , lecturers set to return to class on wednesday after congress tomorrow by 10 am

More from Uni Abuja

www.nairaland.com/1539817/uniabuja-lecturers-signing-register-infront

Can anyone confirm the resumption of academic activities at ESUT?

Just IN
Kogi state university management in crucial Meeting with members of ASUU about resumption will keep you posted .

lipsyliscious: nna u just expose dis guy n his fake gist

Yeah I posted it but it was from VNTI website u could check it up .
I never meant to miss inform any one .

Kind regards

kavey10: It is ASUU not ASSU! Na wa o! U dey pay attention to news at all? @OP.

Correct man ! I go correct am straight up

@vanguardngrnews: Re-opening of varsities: OAU students desert campus, lecturers show up http:///L2y5zzdr6Y

Vanguard tweets

Popularly Known as the University Of No
Nonsense(UNN), the Nigerian Pioneer
institution has lived up to expectation, and in
response to the order by the Proprietor(The
Federal Govt) has commenced academic
activities today as promised, hereby, breaking
the hearts of the Union(ASUU), as its battle with
the Federal Government rages on.
Only real students of the Institution could rightly
guess the first department to commence lectures.
#vnti
And if you did, you guessed right, “The
Chemistry Department” according to VNTI
reporters from within has commenced lectures at
the time of publishing this.

Univerity of Abuja
My younger brother has just been informed of a meeting between students of the faculty of Medicine and lectures scheduled for 1Pm today .

Pls keep students,relatives,parents and Guardians posted by posting what's happening in your location (University )
Update
The crumbling resolve within the ranks of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
has been evidenced by the resumption of
academic activities in three more schools in
the country.
Seven academic institutions had previously
withdrawn from the strike with the reported
ultimatum from the Federal Government
leading to the resumption of activities in the
Enugu State University of Science and
Technology (ESUT), the University of Jos in
Plateau and the Federal University of
Technology Owerri in Imo.
The academic body has however insisted that
it would continue the strike until its demands
were met and it also urged its members not to
give in to the Federal Government’s tactics
Leadership reports:
The government had, through the acting
minister of education, Nyesom Wike, ordered
universities to reopen and threatened to sack
any lecturer that failed to report to work.
LEADERSHIP checks showed that the
authorities of the University of Jos have
directed lecturers to resume work
immediately. The university’s registrar, Jilli
Dandam, issued a statement, which reads in
part: “The Pro Chancellor and Chairman of
Council on behalf of the Governing Council has
directed that all academic staff of the
University of Jos should return to their
various departments, units and commence
work immediately. Every head of department
should publish lecture time-table for all
academic programmes immediately.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported
that students and lecturers of the Enugu State
University of Science and Technology (ESUT)
on Monday returned to school following a
directive by the school authorities.
The NAN correspondent who monitored the
situation at the Enugu and Agbani campuses of
the university reported that the students were
in their various departments exchanging
pleasantries and checking the notice boards
while the lecturers held a meeting with the
governing council of the university at the
Agbani campus.
Similarly, when our correspondent visited the
Federal University of Technology Owerri, Imo
State, the university had issued a directive for
lecturers and students to return to classes.
The directive was contained in a press
statement issued to journalists yesterday and
signed by the registrar and secretary to the
council of the school, Orje Ishghnor. According
to the statement, the school had called off the
strike based on the directive of the federal
government.
Meanwhile the FUTO chapter of ASUU told the
students to disregard the resumption notice by
the school management, stating that its
members would not go back to the class until
their agreement between the federal
government is met. This was contained in a
communiqué issued to journalists and signed
by the state chairman, Dr Ikenna Nwachukwu,
and secretary, Dr F.M. Dike, yesterday in
Owerri.
Also, lecturers of the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife, and Osun State University
have refused to report at their duty posts
despite the FG’s directive that they should go
back to work.
The chairman of the OAU chapter of ASUU,
Professor Akinola Adegbola, told our
correspondent at Ile-Ife that the threat by the
federal government to sack lecturers who
refused to resume for work was not new.
According to him, such threat was experienced
during the regime of the late General Sani
Abacha and the resultant effect is still fresh in
the mind of Nigerians.

Correct me if am wrong ,does that mean there is No Political party with anything worth aligning with ?