FG gives ASUU one-week ultimatum to end strike

Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike

The Federal Government has directed all federal university vice-chancellors   to reopen their institutions  for academic and allied activities.

The government also declared that lecturers who fail to resume on or before December 4, would lose their jobs.

The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, stated this at a news conference  in Abuja on Thursday.

The development which elicited mixed reactions, has consequently put the President Goodluck Jonathan-ASUU leaders truce meeting in  jeopardy.

 The meeting had raised the hopes of students and parents on the  resolution of the crisis but an accident on November 12,  in which a former President of ASUU, Prof Festus  Iyayi, lost his life, cast  gloom on the calling off of the strike.

Iyayi and some   members of the University of Benin chapter of the union were on their way  to the  Bayero University,  Kano for  a meeting where the outcome of the meeting with Jonathan was to be tabled before the NEC members’ for consideration.

Due to Iyayi’s death, ASUU  called off  the meeting  but  reconvened penultimate Thursday in Kano   where it harmonised its members’ position on the   offer by government

Peter Okoye slams Emmy 

Collins for writing about his 

wedding

Peter Okoye is presently angry at Fashion designer Emmy Collins – he is known for always criticizing celebrities.

Three days ago, Emmy Collins in his usual critiquing style wrote a post about Peter and his pals’ wedding outfit.

And according to Emmy, he just couldn’t understand why Peter and his friends decided to deck themselves in hideous polyester kaftans.

Emmy had written:

If you guys don`t offer accolades to me for restraining myself from critiquing Lola and
Peter Okoye during their wedding, I will claim it in Jesus name, Amen.

Yes, there were enough talking points from that wedding yet I refused to touch them even to the extent that a few comments insinuated that I was playing what someone described as “Pasha”.

Well, I must say that Peter and the dudes on this image were totally off the mark when they decided to deck themselves in this hideous polyester kaftans.

“Go and die” Governor

 Adams Oshiomole tells

 crying widow (VIDEO)

Edo state Governor, Adams Oshiomole did the unthinkable today by telling a crying widow to go and die.

Gov. Oshiomole’s task officers confiscated the weeping woman’s items because they ‘caught’ her selling by the roadside.

The lady started pleading that she wasn’t selling, she claimed that she was only waiting for a vehicle, lamenting that she’s a widow.

But the Governor insisted she was lying.

‘You are a widow! Go and DIE!!’ he said.

The woman, broke the law by selling her wares in a prohibited area but the statement from Gov Oshiomole, that’s not good at all.

Watch video below:

Security operatives stop APC’s protests to INEC office in Abuja

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APC protest to INEC office today (Thursday) failed as Soldiers, riot policemen and other security agencies stationed at various strategic locations in Abuja frustrated the efforts of the party leaders to march to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

Recall that APC had earlier written to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar over its planned protests. The police in response, had asked the party to address the press within its secretariat and avoid any form of protest along the streets of Abuja. Even with the police order, restraining them from elaborate protest, the party said it was going ahead with the protest.

A strategic meeting was initially held at the APC’s new secretariat in Wuse 2, Abuja this morning, before the protest took off. The meeting lasted for about three hours. The party leaders after then took to the streets and began a solidarity march to INEC’s office in Maitama District.

The protest was however halted by some security personnel comprising the Police, soldiers, SSS and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.

The entrance to the Commission’s office was blocked with an Armoured Personnel Carrier, with registration number NPF 6359 C.

However, in an attempt to break into the office, the APC youth engaged the driver of the truck and the police in a sachet water missile match.

While addressing newsmen separately, the APC National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; National Leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; former Chairman of ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; and ex-Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), requested that, the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, be sacked immediate due to the poor handling of the failed Anambra election as well as the recent Delta state Senatorial bye-election.

Agatu killings: Idomas storm Och’Idoma’s palace

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The Idoma people of Benue State, Tuesday staged a peaceful protest in Otukpo, the ancestral home of the community to condemn ceaseless attacks and killings of Agatu people by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

The angry protesters, who converged at the Och’Idoma’s palace in Otukpo, discussed possible solutions that could end the endless war between cattle rearers and the Agatu people.

PDP congratulates APC over merger with G7 Governors

The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday congratulated the All Progressives Congress on the purported defection of five PDP governors to its fold.

Mr Olisa Metuh, National Publicity Secretary of the party, in a statement in Abuja, said that the PDP was not perturbed by the development.

“As for the All Progressive Congress, we congratulate them on their new entrants.

“We also like to recommend to them that a man who brings home ant-infested maggots should not complain if he is visited by lizards.

“The PDP is losing no sleep with this cross carpeting because disloyalty is a habit.

“It’s only a matter of time before men who are disloyal to their mother would become disloyal to their step mother. ” Metuh said.

He said that the Baraje-led PDP splinter group, which the defected governors belonged, was not recognised by law and could not merge with the APC as was being reported.

Sack threats: You will only worsen the situation – ASUU reply

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has replied the federal government over its threat to sack university lecturers if they fail to call off its ongoing strike.

According to the striking lecturers, the threat would not only fail but will worsen the situation, hence “another long path to making the strike linger more than necessary.”

The ASUU National Treasurer, Dr. Ademola Aremu, while responding to the government’s directive, said the threat does not hold waters as it has confirmed the fears that the federal government cannot be trusted.