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HALF SALARY: ASUU Commences Fresh Strike

On Friday, the University of Jos chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities issued a directive ordering its members to remain at home permanently while waiting for the federal government to pay back withheld salaries.

The ASUU branch announced this in a statement that was given to our correspondent and was signed by the branch’s chairman, Professor Lazarus Maigoro.

However, the union has said that its members need to refrain from going to work until the purported injustice is rectified, even though it has not yet declared a strike.

Chris Piwuna, the national vice president of ASUU, who had previously called the government’s action “humiliating, insulting, and embarrassing,” is a member of the chapter.

The UNIJOS chapter is the first to react to what Nigerian lecturers have described as mutilated salaries paid by the government for the month of October.

The statement partly reads, “One of the issues agreed at the meeting was that 50% of the backlog of eight months arrears of our withheld salaries will be paid to our members immediately but as at the time of writing this press release, only 17 days prorated October salary was paid to our members by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation.

“Having stayed for about nine months running now, our members in the University of Jos considered this an insult to them by the Accountant Gereral of the Federation.

“Is the Accountant Gencral of the Federation actually answerable to the Minister of Labour? So, if today the Minister of Agriculture directs the Accountant General of the Federation to withhold the salaries of the staff of the Agricultural Research Institutes who have been on strike for over a year, will he obey that?

“We wonder why Ngige is keen�about withholding the salaries of ASUU members because staff of some Agricultural Research Institutes have been on strike for almost a year but they have been receiving their salaries regularly. Is this policy only�for ASUU members?

“We are also aware that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, wrote a memo to the Accountant General asking him to pay our members only from the day we suspended the strike.

“By this singular act, the Minister of Labour and Employment has casualised the work of the University Lecturers unfortunately.

“This further creates doubts on our minds as to whether the understanding reached with the leadership of the House of Representatives on some of the issues will be implemented at all�by those who are saddled with the responsibility of doing so in order to avoid further needless strikes.

“From all indications, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has personalised the matter between him and our union and is on a mission for vendetta.

“It has become crystal clear now that he wasn’t happy that the House of Representatives brokered a truce on some of the issues we went on strike for and has gone behind to undermine it.

“It is also very clear to us now why he shamelessly walked out on the leadership of the House of Representatives at one of the meetings with all stakeholders to the glare of all Nigerians because he never wanted any form of resolution to be reached on the issues being discussed and is the nation.

“In view of the bottleneck placed by Ngige towards paying our members the backlog of our salaries, the congress of ASUU University of Jos met today November 4, 2022 and resolved to stay at home, though not on strike until the backlog of the withheld salaries are paid.

“For the avoidance of doubt, our participants are back to work, willing and ready to work but are unable to work. Based on the revised academic calendar for the 2020/2021 session approved by the senate of the University, lectures should have started already but the challenge of lack of payment of salaries has constrained our members from going to the classroom to teach.

“What this implies is that the students who have resumed already will have to wait indefinitely while we wait for our withheld salaries to be paid to us”.

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23-Year-Old Lady Becomes UK’s First Blind Black Barrister

A young woman has end up Britain’s first blind and Black barrister, in an achievement that has been described as ‘truly remarkable.

23-year-old Jessikah Inaba qualified last week after studying for five years at a university in London. She finished her entire course using Braille and also credits her friends as well as her tutors for helping to fill in the gaps.

Jess is absolutely blind and needed to use Braille during her time at the University of Law – London Bloomsbury. She commenced her accelerated law degree in September 2017 before starting a master’s two years later alongside a professional training course.

Braille can be read on a unique display that usually gives one line at a time, or from specially printed books. She said it took seven months for her university to obtain one of her two key study texts so she could read on her computer, and five months for the other.

And, because of pictures and tables in the books, her Braille screen missed huge chunks of material, she said.

She says she got through most of her studies by making her own Braille materials from her lecture notes, or from friends reading books to her.

On her achievement, Jess told Mirror UK: ‘It’s been crazy – I still can’t really believe I’ve done it. One day I’ll wake up and realise how amazing this is.

‘It was difficult and I often thought of giving up, however my supportive family gave me braveness and strength.

‘I always believed in myself from the start – there’s nothing about me which means this isn’t possible.

‘I know I can do this job really well, and the more people like me who go through training the easier it will become.

‘It’s a really excellent feeling, I know I’m giving hope to others in similar situations to mine. There’s a triple-glazed glass ceiling.

I’m not the most common gender or colour, and I have a disability, but by pushing through I’m easing the burden on the next person like me.’

She added that the university organised one-on-one tuition to support her when the lack of books held her back.

Jess said: ‘I was spending more time preparing my own learning materials than I was studying.

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“Sex Is A Currency, If You Don’t Spend It At Home You’ll Spend It Elsewhere” — Pastor Odukoya-Ijogun

The mom of 3 gave this propose even as meting out six critical guidelines of marriage to married couples on microblogging platform, Twitter.

Pastor Tolu Odukoya-Ijogun, the primary daughter of past due famous clergywoman, Bimbo Odukoya, has taken to Twitter to propose married couples to have intercourse regularly.

The mom of 3 gave this advocate at the same time as allotting six critical regulations of marriage to married couples on microblogging platform, Twitter.

Sharing an admonition she obtained from her father, Tolu asserted that s*x is a forex and if one does now no longer spend it at domestic, they’ll sooner or later spend it elsewhere so couples have to prioritize sex.

She tweeted,

“When in a wedding have masses of s*x. A couple now no longer napping may be very dangerous. My father as soon as said ‘s*x is foreign money, in case you don’t spend it at domestic you’ll spend it elsewhere’ Mr and Mrs, spend your foreign money at domestic. Truth: s*x is like wine, it receives higher with time.”

She additionally suggested married couples to prevent competing with every different, and additionally exercise forgiveness due to the fact unforgiveness is a most cancers that could spoil a wedding.

Read the final policies below,

“Rule 1: When in a wedding Stop Competing! isn’t always a competition. Her achievement is your fulfillment, His achievement is your fulfillment. You’re each supposed to supplement every different now no longer compete towards every different.

Rule 2: When in a wedding your roles are fluid now no longer fixed … It’s like being in a band… Today you would possibly sing the lead vocals and the following day you is probably a backup singer… Just do your function well… Your companion is relying on you to deliver…

Rule 3: When in a wedding
you’re each there to serve every different. In this aspect of the world, girls are mandated to serve their men… Sir, it’s far each ways, as I pour into you, your pour into me.. you can’t provide what you don’t have… You are BOTH withinside the carrier industry.

Rule 4: When in a wedding, sure choose your battles however please argue; optimistic disagreements are key to knowledge every different higher… You are 2 extraordinary people with running brains, battle is certain to happen…Sometimes disagree to later agree, we want Passion.

Rule 6: When in a wedding forgive. Unforgiveness is most cancers, You want to nip it withinside the bud earlier than it kills your love. If it’s tough to permit go, virtually approach you don’t have closure… Keep speaking approximately it. My Mother as soon as said “Marriage is two forgivers dwelling together”

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What Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Exposes About Biafra

When on Thursday, September 8, 2022, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed on into ancestor-hood, I was not particularly moved. I like England. I schooled and worked there and those years were some of the best of my life. The English people are by far some of the most decent peoples on planet Earth.

However, I am rather indifferent about their monarch. I did not like or dislike Queen Elizabeth II. The only thing I can think of that I admire in her is her stoicism. Her ability to take pain and pleasure with equanimity. She is the epitome of duty and a stiff upper lip.

But I doubt that I bothered much about her and her goings on. I was just aloof.

So, while I was not one of those mourning, it was not because I had some grudge against the House of Windsor. No. It is just that the House of Ginuwa (the first Olu of Warri), mattered more to me than Buckingham Palace.

The above not withstanding, I was absolutely mortified by the hideous and historically inaccurate things that were said about the Queen and her family by a Nigerian woman living in America, whose name I will not dignify by mentioning.

I later got to find out that this woman has other issues, which made me understand her bitterness better, though I still vehemently reject her indecorous words.

She was one of the people who famously celebrated the death of TB Joshua and called him all sorts of unprintable names when he died. So it is no big surprise that she has turned her vitriol in the direction of the late Queen.

And so now, let me tackle what the death of Queen Elizabeth II reveals about Biafra. It shows us as a people not aware of our history, and because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo history has been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it, and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.

That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation, or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and for some strange reason decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.

But of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, there are millions of people who believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.

One fellow named Uche Nnaya even tweeted at me that the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria had a right to rail against the British monarch and the rest of Nigeria, because “you can’t push people to the wall and dictate how they react.”

Really? But do those who hold such views not know that some other persons were FIRST pushed to the wall? Uche’s response will also justify how those who were first pushed to the wall reacted.

We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own grudges that they have let go for the peace and unity of this country called Nigeria.

My great uncle, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, was shot and killed in the street by Major Chris Anuforo on January 15, 1966. Ironically, I went to school with Anuforo’s son. Should my people carry that grudge forever?

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was shot on the street like a common criminal by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna tried to deny it, and claimed that Alhaji Balewa died from an asthma attack, until his body was taken to LUTH and examined by the then minister for health, Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. It was established that the body was riddled with bullets in a front page story in Daily Times, written by Segun Osoba, who later became the Governor of Ogun. He is still alive.

This was an incorruptible gentleman. He lived a very ascetic life. Materialism was FAR from him. He was an author. His book, Shaihu Umar, was the first novel written in Hausa. He surrounded himself with Southerners (in hindsight, was that a mistake?). His best friend was Matthew Mbu. Should the Tafawa-Balewa family and the people of Bauchi, where he was from, hold a grudge forever?

I could go on and on and list the people killed on January 15, 1966, and the identities of their killers, but that would just be reopening old wounds. These are historical facts, which some people deny and pretend as if the Civil War happened in a vacuum.

So, please let us stop pretending as if the late Queen Elizabeth II came to Nigeria and ignited a war. The Nigerian Civil War was ignited by a series of unfortunate events that began with the cold blooded murder of 22 people from the Northern, Western, and Mid Western regions by people of mostly Eastern region origin, which led to a counter coup by Northern Nigerian military officers on July 29, 1966, and the unfortunate pogrom of 66-67.

Many people now spewing vitriol against the late Queen Elizabeth II for her alleged role in the Nigerian Civil War conveniently forget that between August 9, 1967 and September 20, 1967, Biafran forces invaded and occupied the Midwest region, and named Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, as military Governor of the Midwest. A number of non Igbo speaking Mid-Westerners lost their lives during the Biafran occupation of the Midwest.

After the Midwest was liberated by forces led by colonels Murtala Muhammed and Benjamin Adekunle, more Mid-Westerners, this time those linguistically linked to the Igbo (especially in the Asaba axis), were killed. Please research it before you insult me.

I need to add that the killings by the liberating forces were worse than the killings of the Biafrans, and should truly have been declared war crimes.

Yet, in that same Midwest, we accepted Nigerians of Southeast origin back after the war. We did not seize their properties in the abandoned property saga that occurred in the Port Harcourt area and its environs. We let bygones be bygones.

The truth of the matter is that If the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria are still suffering from today!

There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after that coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but NOBODY from the East was killed, whereas the vast majority of those who carried out the coup were from the East.

That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War. We will remember it. We will also teach it to our children, so that it does not reoccur.

So, to just keep nursing grudges and reopening old wounds will do no one any good. You can bully others into submission, but you cannot do it to Reno Omokri. I know history and I am a meticulous record keeper!

It is only those who are ignorant about how the British government works that will blame the late Queen for the actions of the British government. She was a titular and ceremonial head of state, whose actions were limited to appointing the candidate who has won election directly or indirectly as prime minister, and declaring open the parliament. She was a symbol. She was not the initiator of the policies of the British government.

And even the British government are not to blame for the Nigerian Civil War. We must learn to take responsibility for our own actions. That war was the result of the ill advised January 15, 1966 coup.

The coup itself was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna. It was executed by the following persons:

1. Kaduna Nzeogwu
2. Emmanuel Ifeajuna
3. Timothy Onwuatuegwu
4. Adewale Ademoyega
5. Chris Anuforo
6. Humphrey Chukwuka
7. Donatus Okafor

Of these seven people, only one, Adewale Ademoyega, was non Igbo. The rest were all Igbo, although Major Nzeogwu was what was referred to at that time as Midwest Igbo (later colloquially referred to as Bendel Igbo and now as Delta Igbo). Major Donatus Okafor’s mother was Tiv. However, his father was Igbo.

Incidentally, some Igbos unwisely try to deny that Nzeogwu was Igbo, and call him ‘your South-South’ brother. Unknown to them, the more they do this, the more they make non Igbos feel that those specific Igbos who say they have learned very little since the civil war.

22 people were killed during the coup, including

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
2. Ahmadu Bello
3. Ahmed Ben Musa
4. Hafsatu Bello
5. Ahmed Pategi
6. Samuel Ladoke Akintola
7. Festus Okotie-Eboh
8. Brig. Samuel Ademulegun
9. Brig. Zakariya Maimalari
10. Col. Ralph Shodeinde
11. Col. Kur Mohammed
12. Lt. Col. Abogo Largema
13. Lt. Col. James Pam
14. Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe
15. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke
16. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun
17. Zarumi Sardauna
18. PC Yohana Garkawa
19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo
20. PC Akpan Anduka
21. PC Hagai Lai
22. Philip Lewande

As is clear from the list above, none of them were from the then Eastern Nigeria.

After the coup, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over. Rightly, or wrongly, the rest of the nation felt that a coup carried out by overwhelmingly Eastern officers, and of which the victims were entirely non Easterners, and which supplanted a Northern minority leader (Tafawa-Balewa), with an Igbo leader, (Aguiyi-Ironsi) was a set up.

However, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s promise to try the coup plotters placated the rest of the country. Sadly, the plotters were jailed, but were never tried. And the immediate cause of the July 29, 1966 counter coup was when rumours circulated that the coup plotters had been receiving full salaries in jail and were to be promoted.

These are facts that we all should address, rather than blaming the late Queen Elizabeth II for a war she did not cause, nor had anyway of stopping. And if we do not learn from our history, there is every possibility that another war might erupt in Nigeria.

The Biafrans inflicted a very harsh occupation on present day Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as well as present day Delta and Edo before they were flushed out by federal forces. The Bayelsa area escaped the brunt of Biafran occupation due to the fight back from Isaac Adaka Boro. They invaded Ore and hundreds of soldiers and civilians died. There is still a Yoruba proverb about the amount of people that died in Ore. Ask a Yoruba person to tell you the meaning of ‘o le ku ija Ore.

We have all forgiven and moved on. Yet, you want to reopen these old wounds and make them cancerous by blaming Queen Elizabeth II 50 years after the war?

And when you point this out, the very same people castigating the late Queen will accuse you of creating ethnic tension? Do you want to be victims and victors at the same time? Leave the woman and her family to grieve in peace. By celebrating the Queen’s death, you are giving Nigeria a very nasty reputation that will affect all of us and not only you. We cannot afford to be seen as a nation with anti British and American sentiments, when we are not able to get a better deal from China and Russia.

© RenoOmokri

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Kwara Police Allegedly Dump Student In front Of His Hostel After He Became Unconscious In Their Custody

Speaking from his clinic bed, the victim who is an international student, said he was with two of his friends when some police officers accosted them and ordered them to enter their vehicle.

He said the officers identified one of them and asked him to go while they told him and his other friend to enter their vehicle.

The victim went further,  said the officers asked for their phones and they surrendered them to the officers.

According to some of his statement,

“after searching their phones and not finding anything incriminating, the officers turned to his friend and asked him why he wasn’t into “Yahoo Yahoo” He stated.

He said he mentioned one of his friend not to answer the question which lead to the officers who then started beating him.

When speaking, said the officers took them to the station, collected their phones and then threw them into the cell, He said he started becoming unconscious inside the cell and the officers then brought him out and took him to his hostel where they dumped him.

The caretaker of the hostel confirmed the incident and said the officers did not move as they saw him rushing the victim to the hospital.

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Lecturers, Vice Chancellors, Minister meet Behind Closed-door over ASUU Strike

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, alongside stakeholders such as the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede; Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed; Emeritus Professors Peter Okebukola and Nimi-Briggs; alongside all vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities have commenced a special closed-door session over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

“I will like to ask respectfully that the gentlemen of the press excuse us so that we can start our deliberations,” Adamu Adamu had said.

Earlier, the minister had lamented the failure of ASUU to call off its strike despite interventions by the government.

ASUU had embarked on a strike on Monday, February 14,2022 following what the union tagged as failure of the government to meet lingering demands.

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Give Me My Money, I Am Suffering:LAUTECH Graduate Returns Certificate, Demands Refund Of School Fees Due To Unemployment

A yet-to-be-identified man has been captured on camera visiting the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, to return his certificate, while demanding a refund of the money he spent during his studentship.

The man said he wanted a refund of his school fees because he had been suffering since the time he graduated from school and the certificate had not yielded him any financial gain since he acquired it.

“Give me my money, I am suffering,” the man lamented repeatedly in a video circulating online

His case is not strange in Nigeria.

At the beginning of the year, Statista released a report forecasting the unemployment rate in Nigeria for 2022. The report estimated the unemployment rate in the year at nearly 33%, a 0.5 increase from the previous year at 32.5%.

Also, in 2020, Nigeria’s statistics bureau, NBS, said in its unemployment report that about half of the nation’s 76,562 doctorate degree holders within the labour force were either jobless or underemployed. This report means that having a school certificate, up to a doctorate level, does not guarantee employment in Nigeria.

This data has been recycled in other reports on unemployment in Nigeria even though the recent massive migration of young talents to well-developed countries to seek gainful employment points to the escalating unemployment crisis in the country.

Since 2014, Nigeria’s working-age population’s unemployment rate has spiked drastically, leading to a massive efflux of skilled workers and migrants from Nigeria over the last few years.

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Writers, Artists and Musicians are Essentially Messengers for the Soul, the Light – Sarah Anntoinette

First thing that came to mind when I woke up just now.

Writers, artists and musicians are essentially messengers for the soul, the light. Writers communicate what the soul wants to say. Artists show us what the soul can see. Musicians convey what the soul is feeling.

Like people, the world has a soul (light) and an ego (dark). The writer’s, artist’s and musician’s job is to act as a messenger for the world’s soul which is done through honouring their own soul.

The problem is that, like humans, the world has an ego (darkness) too. And the ego also has messages it wants to send.

The world has slowly become more ego-driven and darker over the years. The messengers now think they are kings. We see it with the writers, the journalists, the media, the scriptwriters who don’t write for the soul, but who write for their ego. We see it with the artists whose art is used in an entertainment industry that has been politicised. We see it with the musicians whose music is used for an industry that is over-sexualised and where you are hard-pressed to hear soul messages among the rampant ego messages.

They are the majority which means the world has become a darker place, even though we are the most advanced we have ever been.

Creativity is a gift from the soul, not a tool to elevate one’s ego. It is not there to serve the ego. It is there to serve the soul. No money, fame or glory is ever worth sacrificing the soul. No amount of trauma, heartbreak or misery is a good enough excuse to hand the ego all the power. A dark world will try to destroy the light in everyone and the only thing strong enough to stop it is the soul. That’s why it’s essential to acknowledge the difference between the two.

Everyone has got both inside them. Only the individual knows for certain which is which and it’s up to them to protect their soul from their ego which is always thirsting for power.

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ASUU On Mission To Destroy Varsity Education, Says NANS

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has carpeted the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for extending its strike indefinitely.

The students’ body accused the university teachers of embarking on a mission to crumple the nation’s university education system and systematically promote private universities where many of them have their children.

In a statement yesterday, NANS President Adedayo Sunday Asefon said: “We have taken the time to review the decision of ASUU to declare an indefinite strike after the ongoing six-month strike. We consider the decision not only unpatriotic, unnecessary but wicked and definitely not in the interest of our nation or the tertiary education system in Nigeria.

“Such a decision was easy for ASUU because many of their leaders do not have their wards in public universities and still keep employment at various private universities around the country. As such, they are not affected by their attempt to collapse the sector for their selfish and inconsiderate gains.

“ASUU had succeeded, initially, to masquerade their strike as an action in the interest of the tertiary education system in Nigeria and in the interest of the teeming Nigerian students.

“But events of recent weeks have made it abundantly clear that ASUU has an ulterior motive, which is to collapse university education system in Nigeria and systematically promote private universities where many of them have their children, stakes and perhaps where they receive payment for the job of collapsing public universities in Nigeria.

“We, therefore, call on the Federal Government to investigate the leadership of ASUU with the aim of unraveling their motivation for their insistence on collapsing the public university system in Nigeria.”

But the Chairman of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) chapter of ASUU, Dr. Ray Chikogu, has said there would be no going back on the comprehensive, total and indefinite strike by the union.

In a statement yesterday in Benin, the Edo State capital, Chikogu said: “We urge the general public to disregard the laughable piece of deliberate misinformation and state unequivocally that ASUU UNIBEN is irrevocably committed to executing the current strike to its logical conclusion or until such a time that the National Executive Council (NEC) of our union deems it fit to direct otherwise.

“The branch is more than aware that the intelligentsia has a moral obligation to rescue public tertiary education from the grips of retrogressive forces in the corridors of power who insist on imposing forced labour, paying slave wages, and pricing access to quality education out of the reach of the ordinary Nigerian child.”

Also, Nasarawa State University in Keffi will soon resume academic activities, Governor Abdullahi Sule has said.

The governor said his administration had agreed to pay the salaries of the university’s workers, which he said was one of the key demands of ASUU.

Sule announced this while addressing members of the State Executive Council (Exco) at their fifth meeting at the Government House yesterday in Lafia, the state capital.

The governor said the management of the university as well as the non-teaching unions, namely the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), had agreed to resume work.

Also, Vice Chancellor of Osun State University (UniOsun) , Prof. Professor Clement Adebooye, has said the varsity would not overshoot its admission quota, despite the pressure mounted on it by admissions seekers due to the ongoing ASUU strike.

Adebooye, who addressed  reporters yesterday in Osogbo, the state capital, said: “There is pressure on us over the numbers of candidates applying for our school because of the ongoing ASUU strike. Despite the pressure, we will not overshoot our quota. We have that reputation that we don’t break the law. We will not go beyond our capacity.”

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NANS Election: Tinubu’s Alleged N300m Bribe Scattered Nigerian Students Association Election

An inner tussle has engulfed the management of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) over allegations of N300 million bribes from the All Progressives Congress to advantage manage of the affiliation in advance of the 2023 popular elections.

A petition submitted to the State Security Services (SSS) through Joshua Danladi and visible with the aid of using Peoples Gazette alleged APC has resorted to large economic inducement to stable the NANS presidential price tag and different positions for his or her anointed applicants, who might in flip paintings for the ruling birthday celebration’s election victory on the 2023 polls.

“We additionally have it on accurate authority that the CPC (Convention Planning Committee) is being hijacked via way of means of outside political forces withinside the All Progressives Congress (APC) who’re hellbent on enforcing their stooges to steer the college students’ motion as we inch towards the 2023 trendy elections,” reads the petition addressed to the SSS director-fashionable Yusuf Bichi on August 31.

Mr Danladi, a scholar of Federal University Dutsin-Ma and one of the applicants withinside the NANS presidential election, stated the APC budgeted a million naira bribe in step with delegate for the 2022 NANS election scheduled to were held among August twenty fifth to 29th, the petition claimed the affiliation’s election has been intentionally and indefinitely behind schedule as a ploy for the ruling birthday birthday celebration to ideal its vote-shopping for fraud.

“Furthermore, we accumulated that the CPC in lively connivance with a few politically uncovered applicants have reached an settlement to lengthen the conference as lengthy because it takes from frontline APC and from the presidential villa.”

The indefinite extension of the NANS election has “rendered homeless” loads of college students who travelled to Abuja and feature now exhausted their resort finances following the unanticipated development.

“One of the politically uncovered applicants has up to now cashed out over N50m from the APC,” the petition stressed.

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