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omo Igbo ode. Oponu. Typical omo Igbo, enemy of progress

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Positive news always coming from yoruba nation. I can't believe it. The tallest hotel in west africa is located in odua nation. Our brodas from the other side of river niger will go on hunger strike because of this news.. God bless the yoruba nation!!!!!!!

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God bless the state osun, God bless oyo state, God. Bless ekiti state, God bless ondo state, God bless ogun state and God in his endowed blessing bless lagos state . SW is progressing haters are talking. Our broda from d oda side of river niger no go chop 2te cus of dis news. Hhahahhhah

University teachers said yesterday that their
strike will go on - 89 days after it began.
This is in spite of the intervention by Vice President
Namadi Sambo in bringing the lecturers back to the
negotiation table.
The teachers are seeking proper funding of education
and the payment of their N87 billion earned
allowances.
These are part of the 2009 agreement between the
teachers and the government. The government has
offered N30 billion for the earned allowances and
made available N100billion for projects on the
campuses. The lecturers rejected the offer. The strike
has been on since July 1.
The latest position of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), the umbrella association of the
teachers to go on with the strike, was made known
yesterday by University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter
Chairman Dr. Karo Ogbinika, in a statement.
According to him, ASUU last month pulled out of the
negotiation with the Federal Government, which was
represented by Benue State Governor Gabriel
Suswam, based on the government's insincerity and
non-commitment.
He said the Presidency intervened, calling for another
round of meetings with Vice President Namadi Sambo
last week which, according to ASUU, also ended in a
stalemate.
The union said it was disappointed because it hoped
the Presidency's intervention would dampen the
tension the strike had generated; but, rather, the
government was re-echoing the same stance by
Suswam, which was why ASUU withdrew from the
negotiation.
ASUU said: "After the meeting on September 19 with
the Vice-President, it is clear that the Federal
Government is merely paying lip service to education
in Nigeria and deceiving the public on its commitment
to its transformation agenda.
"The Nigerian people should not be deceived. How can
there be a meaningful transformation when the
education sector is neglected and gradually taken
over by private entrepreneurs, including government
functionaries who are busy bulding private
universities with stolen funds in and outside Nigeria.
Can these universities be truly called private?
"ASUU is assuring Nigerians that it will not back out in
its struggle to ensure that the government is made to
do what is right in the education sector. This is a
commitment that all members of the union have
vowed to pursue to its logical conclusion."
The union said it had reported back to its various
zones many of which still insisted the strike must
continue."
Hundreds of students of Bayero University, Kano
(BUK) yesterday gave the Federal Government a one
week ultimatum to meet all the demands of ASUU or
face the wrath of students.
The students, who staged a peaceful protest, urged
the Federal Government to respect and implement
the 2009 ASUU/FG agreement.
Addressing the protesters at the BUK gate, the
university's Students Union President, Sani Ibrahim,
said they were forced to stage the protest, "because
we are tired of staying at home". "Our mates in other
countries are in school; why should the case of
Nigerian students be different?"
"As part of the struggle to fight for our right is being
pursued, I will like to salute our students for their
patience while receiving the negative consequences of
bad governance. We believe that the delay in
resuming lectures in our universities is not only
lamentable but also devastating. We believe even
more strongly that now is the time to let our leaders
know that enough is enough and we shall wake up
and say 'no' to injustice being meted out to Nigerian
students.
"We also call on the government to review the annual
budget for the education sector from eight per cent to
26 per cent, so as to ensure adequate rehabilitation of
infrastructure in our universities, including hostels,
laboratories, potable water and constant supply of
electricity.
"We are calling on ASUU to give government more
opportunity to dialogue so as to quickly resolve the
differences in the best interest of Nigerian students.
We are giving ASUU and the Federal Government one
week to sort things out and resume lectures;
otherwise Nigerian students will look for other
alternatives to fight for our right. Education is our
right and no one should take it away from us," Ibrahim
noted.
But for the intervention of the police, who pleaded
with the protesting students, they would have taken
to the streets.
ASUU members at the Adekunle Ajasin University,
Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) insisted yesterday that they
would not return to work, until the Federal
Government resolves the issues.
This was contrary to a report that the management
was already consulting with the striking lecturers on
the need to call back the students by end of this
month.
The union urged Vice-Chancellor Prof. Femi Mimiko to
toe the path of rule of law and refrain from any
desperate act of self-help in his attempt to reopen the
university.
In a statement by their counsel, Mr. Charles Titiloye,
the union noted with great concern the threat by the
vice-chancellor to re-open the University for academic
activities, despite of the strike.
The union warned that it would not allow contract
lecturers or newly employed graduate fellows to be
used to resume teaching in the school.

The controversy over the state of the nation's
economy continued on Thursday with the
faction of the Peoples Democratic Party known
as the New PDP accusing the Goodluck Jonathan
administration of running the economy
aground.
It said in a statement by its National Publicity
Secretary, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, on Thursday, that
officially-induced oil theft, dwindling returns from oil
and massive looting of the treasury, were pointers
that Nigeria was on the brink of economic collapse.
But the Presidency and the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP
advised Nigerians to ignore the claim because the
economy was doing well.
But the New PDP argued that despite the claims by
the Jonathan administration that the economy was on
a good footing, there were overwhelming facts that it
(economy) was "now comatose."
According to the faction, one of the facts is the
inability of the Federal Government to pay states their
share of the Federal Allocation since July. It put the
total sum owed the states at N336bn.
The statement, which was attributed to the National
Chairman of the New PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje,
reads in part, "As of today (Thursday), the states are
being owed N336bn, with the N75bn being the
balance of the July 2013 arrears, N121bn from June
augmentation and over N90bn as July augmentation.
"The implication of this unfortunate development is
that the 36 states have become impoverished and
unable to meet up with their basic obligations,
including the payment of workers' monthly salaries,
which many of the states have been unable to do due
to lack of funds.
"Chairman of the New PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, has
therefore unequivocally condemned the rape of the
country's economy by the Goodluck Jonathan
Administration."
The PDP faction, which also put the percentage of
unemployment in the country at about 80 per cent,
said because of the arrears, most states had not been
able to meet their obligations to their contractors.
It pointed out that the inability of states to pay their
workers was capable of adding to the social, economic
and political problems facing the nation.
This, the group said, was a grave danger to the
country as youth and labour restiveness could erupt.
The PDP faction added, "Nigerians should expect
further worsening of the unemployment situation and
the loss of jobs, which are inevitable should the
Federal Government continue with the present
shoddy management of the economy which leaves
much room for abuse.
While asking where the money accruing to the nation
had gone to, the New PDP said the Central Bank of
Nigeria had revealed that the country earned N1.05tn
in July. It therefore wondered why the Ministry of
Finance had not been able to pay states their due
statutory allocations.
" The truth is that Nigeria is broke. Worse days are
ahead under this inept and visionless administration.
"It is unacceptable for Nigerians to be subjected to
this grand level of suffering even when their country
is one of the world's leading oil producers," the New
PDP stated.
But the Jonathan administration, through the Minister
of State for Trade and Investment, Dr.Samuel Ortom,
said the economy was doing well.
Ortom, who was at the national headquarters of the
PDP in Abuja, where he briefed members of the
National Working Committee of the party on the
activities of his ministry, said, "the Nigerian economy
is doing well and there in no need for anyone to raise
the false alarm."
He added, "I am not surprised about the antics of
some people to run the administration of President
Jonathan down in the name that the economy is not
doing well. It is part of the grand design to run
government down, especially now that elections are
around the corner.
"The economy is doing well. It is the gimmick of our
detractors. By every standard, we can beat our chest
down and say that the economy is doing well."
He explained that the fact that Foreign Direct
Investment had gone down from $8.1bn in 2011 to
$7.1bn in 2012, did not indicate that the economy
was in a bad shape.
The minister added that the FDI of $8.1bn investment
inflow into Nigeria was the highest in Africa, saying
that the FDI in the next three years stood at N3.9tn ,
while the total investment commitment in the next
three years is N2.7tn.
He said the expectation by 2015 was that Nigeria
would be among the first five countries in Africa and
34 globally competitive ranking by 2015.
Ortom also said that cement importation reduced by
51 percent between 2011 and 2012.
Also, the PDP under the leadership of Tukur, asked
Nigerians not to take the Baraje faction seriously.
Its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Ibrahim
Jalo, told our correspondent on the telephone, that the
party and the Presidency were not against
constructive criticism.
He said, "If that allegation is made by economists, we
would say they are telling the truth. But we all know
that an angry man may not be able to reason well.
"That is why they are making sweeping allegations
without anything to back them up. It is a blanket
statement.
"We cherish criticism, but such criticism must be
constructive and must be sensible. Let them come
forward with evidence and we would debate them."

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 June, 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.

Notin to learn. Nigeria army are better in every aspect than dere Kenya counterpart. So don't ridicule den.

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don33310: Nigeria a country of negative news.

smh for Ɣøû.

God bless SW! Dis ppl are just so unique.

15m wattt? Chai! People are so wicked and heartless! Ibori God will purnish Ɣøû! And ur cursed generation! Your children nd grandchildern will pay for dis! Ɣøû will know no peace! Chai!!!!!

Rubbish

See what GEJ don turn my obodo nigeria to. I wish I could say end tym tins, but I will not cus I don't want to b banned. ## I rep team END TIME TINS##. If ure intrested in joining just clicK like

Try does Scandinavian countries. Try iceland, finland, norway or germany. Ɣøû can schl nd hustle at d same time dere. Ɣøû can contact me if Ɣøû nid more help

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Good development cuming from my state...

kettykin: The joker must a funny guy posting schools not in NUC list which are probably some computer training schools as tertiary universities

fathead I don't nid to trade words with you. As educated as Ɣøû are, y can't Ɣøû check NUC website to confirm does schl listed above. D least schl above is better dan d best in ur forest called enugu.

customized13: no be ogun state redeemers universty dey? Jesus!!! Na wa ooo

ode, dere new site and permanent site dey osun state. Ede road to b precise.

Who says enugu has more tertiary institutions dan osun state? Institutions in osun state includes obafemi awolowo university, osun state university, ladoke akintola university, bowen university, adeleke university, redemeer university, fountain university, odudua university, joseph ayodele babalola university, interlinks polytechnics, fed poly ede, iree polytechnic, ila politechnic, ife polytechnic, college of health sciences ilesha, polytechnic esa oke, forienglinks politechnics. Just to mention few......only ogun state has more institutions dan osun state in the whole nigeria. Ɣøû can check ur brochure if Ɣøû doubt me. Osun state shuld b a role model to enugu state in every aspect

Wat?

Jonathan indeed. Smh. Dis man is so disgusting! Can Ɣøû imagine a whole nigeria presido? I miss obj soo much. Next tin we go hear for news tomorrow is ' jonatan organize a dinner party to celebrate been the first nigerian to ring nyse bell' stupid man

Jonathan indeed. Smh. Dis man is so disgusting! Can Ɣøû imagine a whole nigeria presido? I miss obj soo much.

Speechless.........