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By Anthony Ogbonna: Scawrld News: The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has, Thursday, suspended the over three months-old strike it embarked upon since Sunday, 4th November, 2018. ASUU and FG in meeting The union suspended the strike after a memorandum of Action, MoA, it reached with the Federal government towards the revitalisation of public universities. The ASUU National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi who announced the suspension, however, said that the union had embarked on the strike to “stem the continued slide into rot and decay in public universities since the 1980s.” He however decried the unpatriotic attitudes of some university chancellors whom he said tried to undermine the union’s struggle towards ensuring that universities in the country are revitalised. The statement reads thus:  “ ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU), NATIONAL SECRETARIAT. TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU), ...

ON JANUARY 20, 2019   3:16AM  BY: Scawrld Activities of fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Plus, have assumed a worrisome dimension.Before now, their targets were gullible foreigners. But today, fraudsters, who would stop at nothing in their quest to get rich, have settled for female pants to achieve it.        In the last couple of months, stealing of panties for ritual purposes has gradually replaced killing of humans and harvesting of human parts which used to be the norm. Investigations reveal that the discharge from a lady’s private part on any stolen pant is believed to be vital for money ritual. Consequently, from Imo to Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Edo, Anambra, among other states in the country, stealing of pants has been on the increase. Pant thieves caught by residents, were, in many instances, lynched before the arrival of security agents.  Meanwhile, some of the perpetrators were said to have devised means such as disguisin...

ON JANUARY 21, 2019  10:55 PM BY: Scawrld President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to end the three-month-old strike by Nigerian university teachers at the ongoing meeting with the teachers. Minister of Labour and Productivity ,                   Chris Ngige                                                                               Ngige disclosed this in a statement issued during the resumed negotiation with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday.  The statement by the Assistant Director, Press at the ministry, Rhoda Illiya, said the president told the minister that the strike must be called off at the end of the meeti...

ON JANUARY 21, 2019 BY: Scawrld ✌ Following the strike embarked upon on November 4 by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Federal Government of Nigeria, has again resumed negotiations with the union in a bid to bring an end to the strike. ASUU and FG in meeting                                         Students of public universities have since the strike been at their homes, with their academic needs stalled as ASUU has maintained that the strike won’t be called off until its demands are met by the federal government. At the meeting which began on Monday evening, around 5pm had in attendance the minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige as well as a delegation of the striking lecturers. Some of the conditions which ASUU has given the Federal government to call off the strike include that FG releases N50 billion to demonstrate its commitment to...

Bottles, chemicals, office structures and furniture are reported to have been destroyed by the wild fire that engulfed parts of the Guinness Nigeria Plc, Aba Brewery in Abia on Friday.  Fire fighters battled hard to contain the fire, which started at about 11 a.m. on Friday until about 6:46 pm  Okezie Uche, Aba Fire Service Commander, told NAN that his men reached no the site at about 1 p.m. and fought hard to extinguish the fire with the help of other staff of near-by companies who volunteered.  Read also..  THE FEAR OF RITUALISTS IN DELTA “We have water challenges but today, we refilled from the NNPC.  When the fire seems to be out of control, I called the Controller of Abia Fire Service, Mr V.O Gbaruko in Umuahia office for backup and he sent men and more equipment. “We used techniques with the support of NNPC that gave us a foaming chemical which helped to extinguish the fire.  “Without that chemical, we cannot do much because...

FEAR OF RITUALISTS IN DELTA: We anoint our pants to escape Yahoo Boys – Warri girls “As a rule now in my house, we pour anointing oil and sprinkle holy water on our pants before wearing them because of Yahoo Boys”. With these words, Alero, a female resident of Ubeji area of Warri, told Sunday Vanguard her family’s strategy to escape ritualists on the prowl in Delta State.  It was gathered that undies, particularly of girls between the ages of 16 to 32, are hot cakes for use by ritualists. One pant, according to some residents, sells for as high as two hundred and fifty thousand naira. The price can be higher when the ‘boys’ confirm “ through science that the girl has not done any abortion”, Esther, another resident in the area, said. The pants are allegedly used for money ritual. “After they finish with the pants, their owners will lose their wombs which is the real ritual”, Esther added.  Read also..  11 things you didn’t know kissing does to you Ale...

Disagreements between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) now appear unending, unfortunately  ASUU strike  Virtually every administration in the current democratic dispensation has had to grapple with matters that relate to various agitations originating from the ivory tower. Not surprisingly, anytime these two “elephants” fight, the “grasses” under them, especially in the form of students, usually suffer.  Since the most recent strike by ASUU started on November 5, at least seven meetings have taken place between the two parties. While that clearly demonstrates their desire to reach common grounds, a lot more ought to have been achieved within the period.  Happily though, ASUU’s willingness to allow its members to work as ad hoc workers in the forthcoming general election, albeit in their individual capacities, indicates that it might not be belligerent after all.  Much can be learnt from...

  Enugu-- Soldiers on operation python Dance III have averted a clash between farmers and Fulani herdsmen in Anambra State, the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, has said.                                FILE: SOLDIERS The Army said it also arrested a notorious car snatcher in Umuahia, Abia state. and also intercepted a truck load of illegally bunkered oil along shell pipeline at Ohaji Egbema general area of Imo state. A statement signed yesterday by the deputy director, Army public Relations, Col sagir Musa, said that the clash lead to the death of a herder at Anam area of the same state. Anam was the news last week following the kidnap of two priests, the catholic church who said that they were kept in a farm located in the thick forest for four days before they were released to one of their superiors who traveled from Enugu to Anambra to receive them. Read also..  The ...

The fate of undergraduates and admission seekers into public universities may continue to hang as the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, vowed to continue the nine-week-old strike. ASUU strike ASUU Strike: NANS to commence mass action against FG, ASUU, ASUP Jan 7 Speaking with SUNDAY VANGUARD, ASUU National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, said universities lecturers had rejected the Federal Government offer of money to end the strike because it was far from their demands. He confirmed that the Federal Government had, last Tuesday, through the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Ministry of Finance presented to the union the evidence of the payment of N15.4 billion to universities.  Ogunyemi on telephone told Vanguard that after due consultations with its executives across the country, they have resolved to continue the ongoing strike until the Federal Governments pays at least N220 billion out of N1.1 tri...

The Nigeria Police Force has reportedly arrested some suspects in connection with the killing of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd), Punch has reported.      Read also..  FG, ASUU’s Capacity for Compromise The suspects will be paraded at the headquarters of the NPF in Abuja on Thursday. This is coming days after the former CDS was gruesomely killed in the evening of December 18, 2018 while returning from his farm along Abuja – Keffi road. The murder, which raised a lot of concern on the security situation in the country occurred after Badeh’s Toyota Tundra truck was riddled with bullets, killing only him out of the three occupants of the vehicle. According to the source, “we have made a breakthrough in the case and we have arrested suspects who will be paraded.” ⚫  CLICK TO FOLLOW AND SUBSCRIBE TO SCAWRLD UPDATE'S