A source close to top guns in the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) has told The Reporter Times (@ReporterTimes) the lecturers will ditch their four month old strike this weekend so students could resume on November 18 (next Monday).
Monday, 11 November 2013
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Sunday, 10 November 2013
Eaglets’ win means Nigeria youth will do better under our government – APC
For its historic and exciting victory at the 2013 edition of the Under-17 FIFA World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated the Golden Eaglets.
In a statement issued in Lagos Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the victory was “a clear indication that Nigerian youths have what it takes to be world beaters in all areas of human endeavours.”
Jonathan says electricity will be stable by November 2014, insists no compensation for Boko Haram victims
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that power generation and supply across the country would be stable by the end of November 2014. According to him, the current administration was doing all that is required to ensure that regular black out witnessed by Nigerians becomes a thing of the past. He spoke on Sunday at the 25th jubilee anniversary of the Word of Life Bible Church, Warri, the Delta State capital. The Church was founded by incumbent President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor. Jonathan, the special guest of honour at the event, observed that Nigeria’s technological development and the manufacturing sector depended on stable power supply. To this end, he expressed government’s determination to meet the November 2014 target. Speaking further,
David Did Not Kill Goliath, The Bible Is Not Infallible! - Femi Aribisala
Written by Femi Aribisala One of the myths of Christianity is the infallibility of the bible. Quoting Paul, some Christians insist every word in the bible is "God-breathed." (2Timothy 3:16). When you identify contradictions in the bible, they either refuse to acknowledge them or try to rationalise them away with highfaulthing apologetics.
ASUU may end STRIKE on or before Friday, Nov 15th 2013
The strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may end on or before 15th November,2013 if feelers from the union's zonal congresses are anything to go by. Journalists gathered from reliable sources that the national leadership had briefed the zonal chapters of the union on the outcome of the recent meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan. A source close to the leadership told journalists in Zaria yesterday that "The zonal congresses where held on Wednesday 6th November, 2013. For example, the Kano Zone meeting was held at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. "At the end of the meeting the body language of ASUU chairmen that make up the zone and attended the meeting indicated that they may accept the offer of the president, but you know this depends on the outcome of the congresses of the various universities that make up each zone.
Saturday, 9 November 2013
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has begun the sale of application forms into the nation's tertiary Institutions.
The early sale of the application forms is to enable Nigerians desirous of tertiary education have access to the forms so that they could prepare ahead for the examination slated for April, 2014.
Friday, 1 November 2013
There Is No Going Back On Our Demands – ASUU
By: Isaiah Benjamin on November 2, 2013 -
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has insisted that it will not shift ground or contemplate returning to classes until its demands are met 100 per cent by the federal government. The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria chapter Chairman of ASUU, Dr Muhammed Kabir Aliyu, stated this in an interview he granted LEADERSHIP Weekend in Zaria shortly after their congress meeting. According to Dr Aliyu, “the federal government has not shown any sign of sincerity in keeping to the agreement reached in 2009 and ASUU will only call off the strike once our demands are met by the federal government.” Aliyu said: “The issue at stakes is that the federal government is not sincere. The government is trying to re-negotiate what we have already negotiated and agreed with them. The union presented a demand in 2006, which led to the 2009 agreement. They (government) should implement what they have agreed upon. “Even the Vice President then, who is now the President of Nigeria, was involved. In fact, he read the agreement and was among those who advised the late President Yar’Adua to ask his team on the government side to sign the agreement. “So, it is that agreement again they want to change but that why ASUU is insisting on it. The strike is lingering because government is not sincere they are trying to re-negotiate or repudiate the agreement and ASUU will not agree to that.” On the statement credited to Senate President David Mark that those who signed the 2009 agreement on behalf of government were incompetent, Aliyu said: “Indirectly, the senate president is saying that the current Nigerian president is not competent and not just the Nigerian president, but all the vice chancellors that were there, all the pro-chancellors that were there, the executive secretary that was there, the minister of education’s representative that was there, ministry of finance that was there, ministry of labour that was there, National University Commission that was there. So, what he is saying is that the whole government is not competent, and perhaps doesn’t know its left from right. That is the implication of what the Senate president is saying”. On the implication of the strike on the academic standard, Aliyu said: “Our strike is trying to even improve the system. We cannot continue to pretend that we are graduating good students. People know that our students are not competent enough to call themselves graduates, that is why ASUU is trying to address it. “So, the strike is not the problem; the cause of the strike is the problem. The strike has no negative effect directly, because the strike is trying to improve the system. Now that the government said they have given N100 billion naira to build more laboratories, libraries and the rest or buy equipment, that will improve the system.”
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has insisted that it will not shift ground or contemplate returning to classes until its demands are met 100 per cent by the federal government. The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria chapter Chairman of ASUU, Dr Muhammed Kabir Aliyu, stated this in an interview he granted LEADERSHIP Weekend in Zaria shortly after their congress meeting. According to Dr Aliyu, “the federal government has not shown any sign of sincerity in keeping to the agreement reached in 2009 and ASUU will only call off the strike once our demands are met by the federal government.” Aliyu said: “The issue at stakes is that the federal government is not sincere. The government is trying to re-negotiate what we have already negotiated and agreed with them. The union presented a demand in 2006, which led to the 2009 agreement. They (government) should implement what they have agreed upon. “Even the Vice President then, who is now the President of Nigeria, was involved. In fact, he read the agreement and was among those who advised the late President Yar’Adua to ask his team on the government side to sign the agreement. “So, it is that agreement again they want to change but that why ASUU is insisting on it. The strike is lingering because government is not sincere they are trying to re-negotiate or repudiate the agreement and ASUU will not agree to that.” On the statement credited to Senate President David Mark that those who signed the 2009 agreement on behalf of government were incompetent, Aliyu said: “Indirectly, the senate president is saying that the current Nigerian president is not competent and not just the Nigerian president, but all the vice chancellors that were there, all the pro-chancellors that were there, the executive secretary that was there, the minister of education’s representative that was there, ministry of finance that was there, ministry of labour that was there, National University Commission that was there. So, what he is saying is that the whole government is not competent, and perhaps doesn’t know its left from right. That is the implication of what the Senate president is saying”. On the implication of the strike on the academic standard, Aliyu said: “Our strike is trying to even improve the system. We cannot continue to pretend that we are graduating good students. People know that our students are not competent enough to call themselves graduates, that is why ASUU is trying to address it. “So, the strike is not the problem; the cause of the strike is the problem. The strike has no negative effect directly, because the strike is trying to improve the system. Now that the government said they have given N100 billion naira to build more laboratories, libraries and the rest or buy equipment, that will improve the system.”
Breaking: New owners take over power sector
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu
Nebo, KANN Consortium Utility Company Ltd, Ambassador Shehu Malami ; the
owner of Abuja Distribution Company, the General Manager Abuja
Distribution Company; Engr. Abdulamin Umar and other stakeholders during
the handover of PHCN assets in Abuja on Friday. Photo: AKIN OLADOKUN.
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