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Amodu afraid of Eagles low morale

17.09.2009

WITH Nigerians still aching over the 2-2 draw recorded by the Super Eagles against Tunisia, head coach of the side, Shaibu Amodu has not ruled out another poor outing by his players in their next World Cup qualifier against Mozambique.

Amodu admitted in a chat with brilafm.net that after-effects of their disappointing form against Tunisia could dampen his players’ morale ahead of the clash against Mozambique at Abuja National Stadium.

“We still have two games. We just have to try and see how we play Mozambique. Again, it’s not going to be easy.

“I have told the players that, if they put their shoulders down, and they don’t come with a strong spirit against the Mozambicans, it can be bad.

“So, we must put this one behind us and beat Mozambique good, and hope to beat the Kenyans too. If the Tunisians slip along the line, we probably will ship in,’” Amodu said.



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2010 World Cup Qualifiers: Mozambique, Kenya 'll be difficult - Enyeama

17.09.2009


Obafemi Martins of Wolfsburg (left) and
Georgi Schennikov of CSKA Moscow battle
for the ball during their UEFA Champions
League Group B match Volkswagen Arena
on Tuesday in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Photo: Getty Images
AS optimistic Nigerians continue to make various permutations on the Super Eagles' chances of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, goaltender of the side, Vincent Enyeama may have given up hope of picking the ticket.

Enyeama confessed in an interview with brilafm.net that beating The Mambas of Mozambique and Harambee Stars of Kenya in their last two games would not be easy, insisting that both teams are no pushovers.

“It is going to be much more difficult. We should not expect an easy ride. It will be much more difficult because no country is an easy ride or a pushover.

“If God will help us, we can still make it. I believe God will help us. We must just put all our eggs in God’s basket and just hope he doesn’t let us crash,” the Hapoel Tel Aviv of Israel shot-stopper said.

The Super Eagles, it would be recalled, recorded a 2-2 draw with the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia at the National Stadium, Abuja, in their last World Cup qualifier to remain second on the table with six points, two adrift of the North African side.



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Varsity strike: UNIJOS VC expresses fear

Isaac Shobayo, Jos - 17.09.2009

THE Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, Professor Sonni Tyoden, has expressed the fear that the university might lost one academic session, if the ongoing strike embarked upon by the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) drags beyond October.

Professor Tyoden, while speaking with newsmen in Jos, Plateau State, said unless the strike was called off, it might affect the smooth running of academic programmes in the institution.

“UNIJOS was in the first semester of the 2008/2009 academic session far behind other universities when the strike started as a time when other universities were in their second semester.

“The implication of this is that candidates from the catchments states of the university, especially Plateau, who formed about 80 per cent of students, would lose an academic session,” he said.

He attributed the situation to past strikes and recent crises in the state, adding that this had forced the university to close down on several occasions.

According to him, it was in view of the peculiar circumstance of the university that the governing council recently appealed to the unions to resume work, adding that various unions spurned the appeals on the grounds that the strikes were national.

The vice-chancellor, however, expressed hope for a quick end to the strike by the ASUU, saying the institution might lose another academic session if it persisted.



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2011: Atiku, Tinubu, Kalu plan alliance

Taiwo Adisa, Abuja - 17.09.2009

A grand alliance of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor Orji Kalu of Abia State and his Lagos State counterpart, Senator Bola Tinubu, is likely ahead of the 2011 presidential contest.

If it materialises, the alliance will see the Action Congress (AC), where Atiku and Tinubu belong, enter into a political fusion with the Progressive Peoples Party (PPA) of Kalu.

Atiku had earlier nursed the idea of returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the talks went awry when elements of the PDP moved in to frustrate the bid.

It was gathered that the governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako and some PDP bigwigs in Adamawa were opposed to Atiku’s return to the PDP.

Though the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) had recently vowed to bring back all its members, including Atiku, to the PDP, not much was being heard from that front.

But giving the indication of a possible alliance that would involve Atiku, Tinubu and the PPA, former Abia State governor said the PPA had a soulmate in the AC.

In an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, he said the PPA and the AC were mutually compatible, adding that Atiku and Tinubu remained his political soulmates.



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Nobody benefited from Lagos shares in Econet - Tinubu

17.09.2009

THE former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, has again insisted that the state investment in Econet (now Zain), currrently a subject of controversy in the media, was a straightforward institutional investment, which earned the state a profit of more than N15 billion and from which no individual benefited.

Reacting to allegations that there might have been some illicit payout, now a subject of British Metropolitan Police investigation, Tinubu said the claim was not true.

He said the transaction was made by IBILE Holdings, a government-owned investment company, and that no broker was involved in the transaction. He added that the state, through IBILE, invested N4 billion, but reaped more than N19 billion when it divested.

“I must , stress that when Lagos State sold its shares, it hired no broker, agent, or intermediary of any kind – just as it did not hire any agent when it bought the Econet shares,” he declared in a paid advert in major national dailies.

“So, the allegation that a broker called African Development Fund Inc. (ADFI) was ever used, by the Lagos State government is false. The state did not pay any commission to anybody, from whatever profit it earned from the investment.”

The former governor, however, challenged anyone who had contrary facts on that matter to come forward with them, and also called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out a speedy but thorough probe into the matter.

“I challenge anyone who claims any commission was paid, received or laundered to come forward with proof. I also call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out a speedy but thorough investigation into the matter, since some of us have families, relations and well-wishers; and these allegations are rather traumatic to them,” he said





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Oyo govt threatens to dismiss striking lecturers

By Adebayo Waheed - 17.09.2009

OYO State government has threatened to dismiss any striking staff of the state-owned tertiary institutions who failed to resume work on Friday. The state commissioner for Education, Professor Taoheed Adedoja, while briefing newsmen after the weekly executive meeting in Ibadan, on Wednesday, said that the governing councils of The Polytechnic, Ibadan and College of Education, Oyo, had been directed to take necessary measures to replace any of the staff who failed to resume for duty.

He said that the councils had also been asked to ensure that the students in these institutions resume for academic activities on September 23. The commissioner, who expressed government’s displeasure over the attitude of the striking lecturers, said that both the students and their parents were disturbed over the lingering strike.

While noting that government and other notable individuals and groups had taken various steps aimed at resolving the crisis in the education sector in the state, he said that government could not fold its arms and watch some people taking the state government to ransom.

The actions of the striking lecturers, the commissioner said, had no doubt, affected the students and the academic calendar of the schools. The commissioner, who disclosed that the staff of the state-owned tertiary institutions had embarked on strike as a result of Pay As You Earn (PAYE), said that payment of tax was a statutory responsibility of every Nigerian.

He added that failure of any individual to pay was a culpable offence. It will be recalled that the staff of the state-owned institutions embarked on strike following the introduction of what they called “obnoxious tax and non-payment of 21 months CONTISS arrears.”



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80-yr-old politician kidnapped in Benue

John Akpodovhan, Makurdi - 17.09.2009

A former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), Chief Simon Shango, was kidnapped from his Makurdi residence, Benue State, on Tuesday.

The 80-year-old politician was kidnapped around Smile Suit within Makurdi as he was driving out from the hotel by some gun-trotting men. According to the Nigeian Tribune source, the kidnappers were demanding N200 million ransom for his safety.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that Chief Shango was taken to a hideout on Gboko Makurdi highway where he was being held captive by his abductors who had spoken with the members of his family.

The state Police Commissioner, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed, said he had advised the family to play along with the abductors while every detail on their negotiations are disclosed to his men who have been instructed to trail the criminals.

Mohammed, who vowed that the abductors would be fished out soon, said his men had spread their dragnet to all the get-away areas usually patronised by criminals.

It will be recalled that an Indian national, who worked with Olam Nig Ltd in Makurdi was recently kidnapped in Anyangba, Kogi state on his way from Lagos but was rescued by the Benue State Police Command.
Another attempt to kidnap the wife and daughter of the state Commissioner

for Environment and Water Resources, Honourable John Mgbede, was foiled by the police when the criminals were cobwebbed when they went to Afribank, Anyangba, to cash the N500,000 out of the N1 million they demanded.

Chief Nkechi, a business man who also was abducted by kidnappers last week was left off the hook when his wife paid the N5 million ransom they requested for before the police could intervene.





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ASUU protests in Abuja

From Soji-Eze Fagbemi and Adebayo Waheed - 17.09.2009

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday, held a protest rally in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, over the ongoing crisis and strike in the, university system especially the Federal Government’s refusal to sign the agreement reached with the union on how to reverse the decay in the universities.

The teachers, who commenced the protest as early as 8 a.m in the morning, carrying placards and singing solidarity songs, demanded the immediate sack of the Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Julius Okojie.

ASUU stated that the strike, which had entered its third month, would not be called off under any circumstances except the Federal Government signed the agreement reached with the union, saying that the strike was for the overall interest of the Nigerian university system, the children and the nation in general.

The lecturers, dressed in academic gowns, held the rally in the sprawling town of Gwagwalada, Abuja, through all the streets in the town, with some of their placards reading: “Remove Sam Egwu to save Nigerian Education,” “Come back to negotiating table,” “Dr. Egwu, Mrs. Aisha Dukku, Professor Julius Okojie are Boko Haram,” “motivate lecturers and stop brain drain now,” “build more hostels to avoid cultism,” “better funding, better education, greater future,” “down with anarchists who abrogate agreements,” and Egwu is Boko Haram.”

Addressing the rally, which started and terminated at the University of Abuja campus, Chairman, University of Abuja chapter of ASUU, Dr. Abu Mallam, who led the protest, said: “The minister of education is certainly the man who is at the head of everything and if universities have been closed down, let us say, even if a university is closed for a day, the minister should show concern, but the minister has, of recent, demonstrated the fact that he are not ready for this universities to be opened.

“So, if you have a minister for education that doesn’t care that universities are closed down, then that minister of education has no business being there. Here, we are saying that the government has to sack this man and bring in someone who is more serious.

“Remember what Gani’s son said, that his father’s wishes were that the minister of education should be sacked. So, we stand by that statement.” Dr. Mallam said the negotiations with the Federal Government which lasted for years, centered on funding, improved conditions of service, autonomy and academic freedom, adding that the objectives were to stem brain-drain, address the rot in the university system and to improve teaching and learning conditions so as to enhance the quality of graduates to meet international standards.

He emphasised that at the end of a exercise, “which took over two years, the Federal Government has frantically abandoned the agreements it willingly and freely entered into with the staff unions of universities.”

Dr. Mallam said that the intervention of the Vice-President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, would have been fruitful but that it was again bungled by the government team which walked out on ASUU. He described this as a violation of the principle of collective bargaining and Nigerian Labour Law.

The ASUU chairman said: “The Minister of Education went ahead to further confuse the president by infusing into him, the idea of a skewed federalism; that the Federal Government cannot negotiate on behalf of state governments.





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North will rule for 8 years - Saraki
Yekini Jimoh, Ilorin - 14.09.2009

SENATE leader in the Second Republic, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, has said that it is the right of the North to govern the country for eight years, based on an agreement reached before power could be shifted to another part of the country.


He said this at the weekend, while briefing newsmen shortly after the formal acceptance of the governorship candidate of the Accord Party (AP), in the 2007 election, Theophilus Bamigboye, into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).


According to him, ruling the country by the North should not be an issue of controversy, adding that political leaders should always endeavour to live by their words.


He called on the federal and the state governments to proffer solutions to the high rate of poverty, stressing that that it was the responsibility of the Federal Government, to alleviate the sufferings of the Nigerian masses.


“Nigeria has a vast land which could be cultivated to produce more food for the people. It is, therefore, necessary to work out ways of tackling the problems once and for all,” he said.


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We are not mourning Gani - Ondo govt
From Yinka Oladoyinbo, Adewale Ajayi and Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare - 14.09.2009

AS the remains of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi begin final journey to mother earth, the Ondo State government has said the human rights crusader would be celebrated instead of being mourned.

To this end, the state government, on Sunday, said it had packaged a befitting ceremony to celebrate the life of Fawehinmi to be graced by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole, state governors, legislators, diplomats and presidency.


The state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Ranti Akerele, told newsmen that the body of the late legal icon would be received by a cabinet committee already put in place by Governor Olusegun Mimiko at Ipetu-Ijesha.


The committee, under the leadership of the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, would lead the remains to the Akure Township Stadium for the celebration.


Akerele, however, said the programme would not be an ordinary lying-in-state and rendering of tributes, saying that glamour and colour would be added to reflect the mood.


The commissioner explained that musicians, particularly Ondo State artistes like Chief Sunday Adegeye, known as King Sunny Ade, Lord of Ajasa, Cliff Sama, Olu Maintain and others, would be on hand to add glamour to the event.


“We want to put in place one of its kind sendforth for the late legal icon, Chief Fawehinmi. He has fought a good fight and he has gone to be with his maker, we are not going to mourn him, we are going to celebrate because he lived a meaningful life.


“He epitomises the things that are good about Ondo State. Our people are known to be courageous and forthright, an average Ondo man is known to stand for what is good and what he believes in; the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi was this and more, he totally represent the best in Ondo State, therefore, we want to celebrate him.


He stated that the state government and the law enforcement agents had concluded arrangements that would ensure adequate security at the venue.
Governor Mimiko had, on Saturday, visited the family house of Fawehinmi in Ondo town and his uncle, Justice Rasheed Fawehinmi, to commiserate with them.


The governor urged the family not to mourn the deceased but to celebrate him. Meanwhile, Akure, the state capital, has been wearing a new look preparatory to the commencement of the burial programme in the state.


Besides, the Akure Township Stadium, venue of the event, has also been given a facelift by the government. The body of Chief Fawehinmi will depart Lagos today for his home town, Ondo, where he would be buried tomorrow, just as the government had declared today a public holiday to honour him.




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