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Raufrukayat: NO ADMISSION GIVEN YET, AS SOMEONE CHECKED HIS/HER OWN AND AV BEEN ADMITTED?

PUBLIC university lecturers on Sunday insisted that they would not return to the classrooms on Monday (today).

They also accused the Federal Government of insincerity in its bid to resolve its dispute with the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

The President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, confirmed this on Sunday via a Short Message Service to an enquiry by The PUNCH.

The Federal Government had through the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, deferred its earlier ultimatum to the lecturers to resume work on Monday (today) or risk being sacked. The shift was to enable them to participate in the burial of Prof. Festus Iyayi, a former president of ASUU on Saturday.

Before this , the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, had advised the striking lecturers to return to work on or before December 4 or face dismissal.

But ASUU had in a news bulletin to its chapters after its meeting in Ekpoma, Edo State on Sunday, said the Federal Government had not met its conditions for suspending the over five months’ strike.

When asked by one of our correspondents if the members of the union would go back to work today and if they had confirmed the N200bn the Federal Government claimed to have deposited in a special account at the Central Bank of Nigeria, Fagge simply replied, “No to both questions.”

ASUU had in the bulletin insisted that the government threat to sack its members would not break the union’s resolve to pursue its action to a logical conclusion.

A source privy to the meeting, said, “No Jupiter will force us to go and teach until all the agreements are documented. The Federal Government is not sincere. If indeed the authorities have agreed, why will they be afraid to document what has been agreed upon?

“Let the vice-chancellors, who can teach, go and do so. But our members are determined not to sign any attendance register tomorrow (today). The threat does not bother us, as truth will always supercede deception, lies and any form of intimidation.”

The ASUU National Treasurer, Dr. Ademola Aremu, who also spoke with one of our correspondents, confirmed that the lecturers would not return to work
until the government met their demands.

He said, “Our position has not changed because we are still on strike. When we met President Goodluck Jonathan, we had a number of agreements but when the Presidency communicated to us, we noticed some gaps. We have written to the government on our observations but up till now, it has not responded.

“The only response from government representatives was the accusation against us that we are making new demands. This was after the letter we wrote to the government was exposed to the whole world.

“ASUU is not asking for anything new; what we are saying is that government should perfect the documentation binding the agreement we had with it. We know the agreement we had with the government and we will stand by it.”

Aremu also accused the government of inconsistency with the shift in ultimatum, noting that it was playing politics with the death of Iyayi.

He added, “The government did not play any role in the burial of Iyayi, who died in the struggle. The Federal Government would have been more responsive instead of threatening our members with sacking. The military used this system and it did not work. Why will it work in a democratic environment? I don’t think any right thinking government will use threat to achieve peace.”

On government’s claim that it was ready to pay salaries owed the striking teachers who returned to work, Aremu said the decision was a part of the ploy not to make things work in the education sector.

He added, “This government does not want things to work at all. We wrote to the government that we noticed some gaps but instead of writing us back to clear issues, it began to use threat as a weapon. I don’t think anyone who is worth the certificate he is using as a lecturer will panic because of four months’ salaries. You only treat casual workers in such way and not people with intellectual endowment. ASUU members are not casual workers so the position of Okojie will not shake us.”

The Chairman of the University of Abuja chapter, Dr. Clement Chup, also described the threat as “an empty one.”

He said, “We are still waiting for the government to respond to our letter; until that is done, the strike continues.

“When the December 4 deadline was given, I said ‘I dey laugh because I knew it would not work.’ Now that they have extended it, ‘I still dey laugh’ because it will still not work. Because you (Federal Government) are not ready to honour an agreement and you will begin to threaten people with sacking; it doesn’t work that way.”

His Nasarawa State University, Keffi, counterpart, Dr. Theophilus Lagi, said, “It is only the National Executive Council of the ASUU that could take the decision to suspend the strike.”

He said lecturers in the school would stay away from the classrooms since the NEC of ASUU had yet to suspend the strike.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe and Okojie, had last Tuesday, claimed that the Federal Government had deposited the N200bn promised as funding to universities in an account with the CBN.

The amount is for renewal of infrastructure in the nation’s public universities.

But the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of Education, Simeon Nwakaudu, expressed optimism that many lecturers would resume work today.

He said, “By tomorrow (today), we will know where we go from there. Let us wait and see what happens. Many ASUU members have contacted their respective vice-chancellors and indicated their readiness to work.”

Meanwhile, the Acting General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Chris Uyot, on Sunday, said the leadership of the NLC would hold a crucial meeting with the leaders of ASUU on Monday (today).

President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja
tomorrow evening to join other world leaders in
South Africa at events leading up to the burial of
former President Nelson Mandela.

President Jonathan who will be accompanied by the Supervising Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, will attend the Memorial Service for Dr. Mandela on Tuesday at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg.

The President will, in the company of other Heads of State and Government, also pay his last respects to Dr. Mandela at the anti-apartheid hero’s lying-in-state on Wednesday at the Union Building in Pretoria where he served as South Africa’s first
democratically-elected President.

At the conclusion of the event in Pretoria on
Wednesday, President Jonathan will leave for Nairobi to honour a long-standing invitation to be a guest of honour at Kenya’s 50th Independence Anniversary
celebrations.

President Jonathan will return to Abuja on Thursday,
December 12, 2013.

Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger on Sunday ordered the enforcement of the traffic law banning the operations of commercial motorcyclists in Minna from Jan.2, 2014.

This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Danladi Ndayebo, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna.

The statement said adequate arrangements had been made to cushion the effect of the ban. It added that the Ministry of Transportation had
received 1,000 tricycles in addition to eight units of 18-seater buses.

It stated that another 12 units of 100 capacity Bus Rapid Transport buses were already operating in the state to ease transportation problems.

The statement pointed out that the traffic law had come to stay and would be strictly enforced
beginning from the first week of next year.

It dismissed fears that motorcycle operators would be out of jobs as a consequence of the ban.

http://www.punchng.com/news/niger-bans-commercial-motorcycles-january/

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Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United 1st December 2013 Kick Off – 1:00pm

Predicted Line-ups: Manchester United - De Gea, Smalling, Evans, Ferdinand, Evra, Valencia, Jones, Fellaini, Nani, Kagawa, Rooney

Tottenham Hotspur - Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Kaboul, Vertonghen, Lennon, Sandro, Paulinho, Dembele, Lamela, Defoe

Well, well, well. Who would have had AVB as a man under the cosh by Advent at the start of the season?
Probably not me to be honest. Spurs go into this game with their manager under considerable pressure and on a two game league losing streak having had their pocket’s picked by Newcastle and getting humped 6-0 by Man City.

Considering he spent ALL OF THE MONEY in the
summer, AVB’s signings have offered a whole heap of sod all so far and the headline stat going into this one is that only Sunderland and Crystal Palace (two woefully inept sides) have scored less than them this season.

Spurs need goals and a convincing performance
ASAP, meaning it’s a crying shame for them that they’ve got to face a United side coming off the back of one of their most impressive Champions League performances ever - the Red Devils spanked Germany’s second best team 0-5 away from home.

Tough titties lads. You can read more on why United’s performance was so good right here but this is a major test of AVB’s stuttering side as United have a stonking record at White Hart Lane – they've not lost there since 2001 and, despite drawing with Cardiff last weekend, are now six games unbeaten in the PL.

Even Spurs’ midweek jaunt to Norway failed to bring much joy as they laboured to a 0-2 win over Tromso in the Europa League. That may sound like an alright result but when put in the context of the fact that Tromso, only in Europe due to the fair play award, got relegated from Norway’s top division three weeks ago, you can understand the frustration at such a uninspiring win from a side that featured a lot of big money signings.

On the team news front, Spurs’ quest for goals is hampered further by the fact that Manu Adebayor is unavailable due to a groin problem and creative hub, Christian Eriksen, will be out with a foot knack till late December.

This leaves the struggling Roberto Soldado and Toronto bound Jermain Defoe as the only CF options. Danny Rose is still recovering from an ankle problem meaning Jan Vertonghen will continue in his unflavoured left back slot.

The potential make up of Spurs’ midfield is anyone’s guess. I genuinely
don't think Villas Boas has a clue of his best line up so your word is as good as mine.

The good/bad news for United is that Robin Van
Persie should be fit and in contention for a place
following a groin strain. Manchester United looked their most fluent all season with Rooney ahead of Kagawa the other night and it must be tempting for Moyes to leave the Dutchman on the bench for this one.

Former Spurs man, Michael Carrick, remains a doubt whilst Rafael and Nemanja Vidic could be in line for returns here. Moyes’ major headache lies in the make up of his centre midfield – Giggs was superb in
Leverkusen but very much played the full 90 minutes and it's unlikely his 746 year old legs will manage a second run out in the space of a week.

That leaves dumb and dumber (Fellaini and Cleverly) to scrap it out
for a spot with Phil Jones, another who excelled in Germany. Score prediction – I think we’ll see a tight game here exacerbated by Spurs’ desperate need to not lose a third game on the bounce and David Moyes’ natural cautiousness.

Prior to their battering at City last week Spurs did have the PL’s second best defence and I
think that result can be marked down as a bit of a freak result owing to a world class attack really hitting their stride. I’m going to go for a 1-1 draw here with goals from Lennon and Rooney.

Gareth Bale scored his first hat-trick in a Real Madrid
shirt as the Spanish giants comfortably beat Real
Valladolid to move within three points of La Liga
leaders Barcelona.

Cristiano Ronaldo missed the game with injury, giving Bale the chance to take centre stage.

The 24-year-old did so in style as he nodded in the opener before setting up Karim Benzema to head in a second.

Bale sidefooted in Real's third before finishing from eight yards late on. The Wales international takes his tally to nine goals in
13 appearances for Real since his £85m move from Tottenham in September.

"Gareth Bale has fully adapted to the team. He has a lot of confidence and is very important for us," said coach Carlo Ancelotti. "I don't know if this was our best match so far, but we
have to continue playing like this."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25150974

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