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November 15, 2021

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Military Vows To Deal With People Dragging Armed Forces Into Politics

Military Vows To Deal With People Dragging Armed Forces Into Politics.

The Military has vowed to deal decisively with any person or group that wants to tarnish its image or draw it into partisan politics.

It also said the Armed Forces of Nigeria remains apolitical, warning that all mischief-makers and their cronies and associates should not draw the military into their engagements.

Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, in a statement issued in Abuja, said this while dismissing a report that claimed Defence Headquarters warned politicians and officers against a coup.

Onyeuko stated that the publication, which surfaced online is a handiwork of mischief makers and enemies of the state, adding that it is a deliberate and calculated attempt to mislead the general public.

Military Vows To Deal With People Dragging Armed Forces Into Politics.

Buhari Condoles With Dangote Over Brother’s Death

Buhari Condoles Dangote

President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with Founder and Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, over the passing of his younger brother and Vice President of the Dangote Group, Sani Dangote on Sunday.

President Buhari in a statement by his media aide, Femi Adesina, on Monday joined the family in mourning the industrious son, who over the years played a key role in the success of the family business, dedicating his time to ensure fairness and optimum result in all endeavours.

Reputed for his gentleness, loyalty and generosity, President Buhari urged approximation of his wonderful deeds on earth, praying that the Almighty God will grant him eternal rest.

Buhari Condoles Dangote.

ASUU Threatens Fresh Strike, Gives Federal Govt 3-week Ultimatum

Threatens Fresh Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed its readiness to embark on another round of industrial action following what it called government’s unfaithfulness in the implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MoA), it signed with the union upon which the last strike action was suspended.

ASUU national president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, who stated this after the body’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the University of Abuja on November 13 and 14, 2021, said government should be held responsible, if it failed to address the issues raised within three weeks.

The union lamented that, depsite its meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, on October 14, 2021, on the major outstanding issues including funding for revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) promotion arrears, renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, and the inconsistencies in IPPIS payment, the issues remained unattended to.

Osodeke said, “ASUU is fully committed to upholding academic integrity in our universities and working to make them more globally competitive.

We are equally committed to promoting industrial harmony in the Nigerian University System for as long as all stakeholders are willing and committed to play their parts.

“We call on all Vice-Chancellors, as the main drivers of the system, to join us in this mission to safeguard the waning image of our universities.

They have no business trading honorary degrees and academic positions for personal and immediate gains; thereby smearing the collective integrity of committed scholars and other patriots who are working day and night to uplift the system that produced them.

“Our union shall not shy away from taking the fight to administrators of Nigerian universities as well as internal and external agents who are and external agents who are bent on compromising the standard ASUU has consistently laboured to protect and improve.

“Finally, we call on all patriotic Nigerians and lovers of Nigeria to prevail on the federal and state governments to act fast to prevent another round of industrial crisis in Nigeria’s public universities.

“It is painful that our Union may soon have no other way of securing the implementation of FGN-ASUU collectively bargained agreements and redressing the criminal neglect of welfare issues of our members by State Governors.

Governments of Nigerian should be held responsible should ASUU be forced to activate the strike it patriotically suspended,” he said.

Threatens Fresh Strike

Kidnapped Chief Imam And Son Regain Freedom, Three Weeks After

Kidnapped Chief Imam And Son Regain Freedom

The abducted Chief Imam of Yangoji Central Mosque in the Kwali Area Council of Abuja, Abubakar Gbedako, and his son, Ibrahim Abubakar, have regained their freedom from their abductors after spending three weeks in captivity.

It had reported that the chief imam, who is also the vice principal of the Government Junior Secondary School, Kwaita in Kwali and his two sons were abducted by kidnappers at his residence in Yangoji three weeks ago.

But one of the imam’s sons, Aliyu Abubakar, managed to escape from the kidnappers’ den and he was bitten by a snake in the bush last week.

A family member of the chief imam, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the release of the imam and his son.

He said the family struggled to source for additional N2.5 million demanded by the kidnappers before the victims were set free at a forest in the Sadauna community in Kogi Local Government Area of Kogi State.

“And it was even out of the N2.5 million they asked the person that will be bringing the ransom to them to remove N100,000 to buy foodstuffs, drinks and drugs, apart from bags of rice and drinks the family bought for them earlier,” he said.

The Chief Imam was said to have gone for a medical checkup with his son at an undisclosed hospital in Gwagwalada.

The chairman of the FCT wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Stephen Knabayi, also confirmed the release of the vice principal, even as he declined to speak further.

When contacted, the spokesperson of the FCT Police Command, DSP Adeh Josephine, requested some time to find out about the release of the victims, promising to call back later.

Kidnapped Chief Imam And Son Regain Freedom

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