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President Goodluck Jonathan and members of ASUU
According to a faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the academic body plans to continue the ongoing strike till next year.
The faction reportedly said yesterday that ASUU had no plans to end the strike before January 2014.
The group, however went on to say that the plans of ASUU must not succeed as the four-month-old industrial action must be brought to an end this week.
The Tribune reports:
The world's richest man Bill Gates is in Nigeria for the Stakeholders Meeting on Polio Eradication. The billionaire businessman and Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote were received at the State House in Abuja by President Jonathan and other top government officials. See more photos after the cut...
Academic Staff Union of Universities met across the country on Thursday to consider the offer by the Federal Government.
The ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Faggae after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan which ended in the early hours of Tuesday had told reporters that the union would take back an undisclosed message to their members.
The PUNCH gathered that the striking public universities lecturers met in the nine zones of ASUU with branch chairmen to discuss the outcome of the meeting with the President.
The meetings presided over by zonal coordinators afforded them (zonal coordinators) the opportunity to brief the branch chairmen about the offer made by the Federal Government to revamp the public universities across the country.
Indicts Okonjo-Iweala, Coscharis, ex-NCAA DG
The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has recommended the removal of Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah over extra-budgetary spending including the purchase of N255 million bulletproof cars, DailyTrust can report.
The 2013 budget approved N240 million for the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for the purchase of 27 vehicles, but Oduah raised it to N643 million for 54 vehicles including two bulletproof cars
A copy of the report seen by our reporters yesterday indicted Oduah for ‘violating the law’ by approving expenditure above the ministerial threshold of N100 million.
Oduah was grilled last Thursday by the aviation committee over monetary approvals for the purchase of cars by the NCAA including two armoured cars allegedly for her use.
The minister is also to appear before the Senate committee on aviation today over the same matter.
Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday led a negotiation meeting with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end the protracted strike embarked upon by the union since July 1.
The13-hour meeting started at about 2.30 p.m. on Monday at the Presidential Villa and ended at 3.30 a.m. on Tuesday. The meeting had in attendance the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) led by their respective Chairmen Abduwaheed Omar and Bobbo Kaigama.
Powerful women in Jonathan administrationSince inception, President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has been accused of impunity, usually caused by decisions and actions of the President, including those of his ministers and close associates.
Most of the glaring cases of abuse of power including reckless spending of taxpayers’ money have been carried out by the women in Jonathan’s cabinet. These womenhave proven to be more powerful than the number one citizen of Nigeria because despite public outcries that greet some of their decisions, they go scot-free.
Those who fall in this seemingly untouchable category are the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan; the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke; the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Arunma Oteh; and the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah.
