Police nab 3 cross-border robbery suspects in Yobe

Three sub-Sahara robbery suspects have been arrested by the Yobe State Police command at the Nigeria/Niger border.

The state Police Commissioner, Mallam Sanusi Rufai, who made this known at Damaturu, the state capital, said the suspects were arrested between Karasuwa and Jaji-maji in the state.



Rufai who spoke at a news conference, Wednesday, said the suspects were “sub-Sahara robbers who specialised in terrorising the neighbouring villages in Yobe using camels.

“They were apprehended by local hunters after a fierce battle between them and the robbers where  one AK-47 riffle was recovered along with the three camels they stole from the villagers.”

He, however, stressed that the identities of the suspects were yet to be established even as investigations were still going on.

Agagu’s burial holds today

LATE AGAGU-OLUSEGUN

Late Dr. Olusegun Agagu, the immediate past governor of OndoState, will be buried today as planned after the ill fated air-crash.
Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State, Ebenezer Alabi, said: “We just consulted with the family and have decided to go ahead with the burial.

“More so, the son of the former governor survived and the son-in-law survived. There was no scratch on the casket. “So while the family sympathised with those that lost their lives and their loved ones, they have decided to go ahead with the burial as was initially planned.”

Interpersonal Relationship among the School Personnel as a factor for poor accademic perfomance

    Healthy interpersonal relationship among the personnel in the school setting will help to promote conducive environment for teaching-learning situation. The healthy relationships will attract and sustain the academic interest of the learners.

ASUU strike: 7 days fasting decleared by Baraje led PDP

WORRIED by the prolonged strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, has commenced a seven-day fasting and prayer starting from today.

To make it very effective, the new PDP  has requested all  its members worldwide to embark on the exercise, adding that the spiritual intervention was as a result of the concern of the Baraje-led PDP for the plight of parents and university students due to the continued closure of public universities following the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

It added that the move was designed to protest what it described as the Federal Government’s failure to keep the agreement it signed with the union in 2009.

Meanwhile, Alhaji Baraje has set up a four-man Committee with  Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State as Chairman to advise the party on the best way to get the Federal Government’s negotiating committee and the leadership of ASUU to reach an agreement on the issues at stake and thus end this three-month-old strike.

Other members of the committee are Governor  Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, Chinwo Ike, President of UNIPORT Alumni, and Mr. Timi Frank, the nPDP National Youth Leader.

The group said: “We sincerely solicit the patience of Nigerians while appealing to the Federal Government and the leadership of ASUU to end this imbroglio so that our children may go back to school instead of engaging in acts inimical to their future.

“The need for this has become urgent as reports reaching us indicate that many of these students have out of frustration and boredom turned to prostitution, armed robbery and other vices due to the prolonged strike.

On its secretariat that was sealed by the police, Eze said: “To the glory of God, contrary to the prayers of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur’s faction of PDP, a Federal High Court in Abuja onSeptember 13, 2013, ruled that the Baraje faction of PDP should be allowed to operate without any further harassment or inhibition as it is not breaking any known law. Justice E.S. Chukwu in his ruling held that there was no evidence before the court to show any tardiness on the part of Baraje’s faction as claimed by the Tukur-led faction, which requested it to stop the Baraje-led PDP from operating.”

WICKEDNESS: Nigerian Police Inserts Iron In Woman's Private Part in delta state

This was first reported in October 2012 but people are still commenting on the video crying out for justice for this woman old enough to be a grandmother.....i am seeing this video for the first time today and i am shocked,I also checked online and i didnt see any follow up report indicating the people who did this to her were punished.This is shocking and i hope this woman is Okay?

Please lets make this go viral so that the People who did this will be called out...Its AGBARA POLICE STATION.

MINISTER OF YOUTH AND DEVELOPMENT SACKED

President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the Minister of Youth Development, Inuwa Abdulkadir.
The sack was announced in a statement from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim.

Man Born With His Heart In His Abdomen

A man who has lived his entire life with a heart protruding from his abdomen is finally able to walk upright without getting out of breath or turning blue. Huang Rongming, from Henan province in China, underwent life-changing surgery to correct heart a defect and move the organ away from his abdomen and into his ribcage.
He had lived with the rare condition for 24 years until a doctor told him his condition was rapidly deteriorating and that he required urgent surgery.


Congenital heart displacement is incredibly rare and occurs in just five babies out of every million born. Most patients die soon after birth.
Mr Rongming could not afford the procedure that would place his heart in his chest as it should be, but media coverage of his condition enabled him to undergo to life-changing operation.
'It's a dream come true. I'm going to lead a normal life like everyone else,' he told ChinaDaily.
Before surgery, Mr Rongming's heart could clearly be seen pumping underneath a thin layer of skin and bulging out from his upper belly.
When Mr Rongming was born, doctors did not think he would survive, as his protruding heart had defects and was vulnerable to injury. His parents admitted they were anxious when he was a boy and said that he was not allowed to play with other children for fear that he would die.

Federal Government Pleads on ASUU to call off strike

The NASS and FG made the plea after a meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of public universities in Abuja.

They pleaded that  the FG has made offers and commitment to necessitate the resumption of academic activities in the nation’s public universities.

According to Senate Chairman on Education, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, “The Senate Committee has always sought the required fund for our nation’s universities.

We plead with ASUU for immediate end of the strike.   We want to plead with lecturers to be more sensitive to their  scale of priorities especially in the area of education and timely implementations of agreements. The present ASUU strike must end. It is time  for  the nation to take the bull by the horn”.

Chairman House Committee on Education, Honourable Aminu Suleiman said, “I want to commend all those who have fought for the proper funding of our universities in the country.     The Federal Government have also taken position to identify the needs of all our Federal Polytechnics and Colleges of Education to stop this problem once and for all.

“It is gratifying to know that government has shifted grounds and it is also in our position to passionately appeal to the aggrieved members of ASUU in the interest of the system to also make concession so  that students can resume school”.

He noted, “We always agree to disagree we can always disagree without disrupting the system. We must appreciate that by prolonging this strike we are doing more harm to the system and causing more problems for the country in general.

What government has done is quite in line with the legislative agenda which we set out for ourselves as members of House of Representatives. No sacrifice is too much in ensuring the development of the sector”.

The SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said the FG has already demonstrated sufficient commitment to the implementation of 2009 FG/ASUU agreement.

He said President Goodluck Jonathan has set N100 billion to develop infrastructure in 61 universities and N30 billion to support the university councils in settling the earned allowances.

First international commercial flight to land in Enugu today, (History Record)

Who will be the first to fly the Enugu international airport?

 All is now set for the arrival of the first international commercial passenger flight at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, today.

The historic flight will be made by the Ethiopian Airlines which will now be the first international carrier to operate from Enugu.

The Enugu State Government has assured that adequate preparations have been made to ensure that the event described as a significant milestone in the economic life of the State and the entire South East, was successfully conducted.

Governor Sullivan Chime and his colleagues from the other states in the region as well as many important dignitaries from within and outside the country, will be on hand to receive the historic flight.
As expected, an atmosphere of excitement and jubilation now pervades Enugu and other States in the South East region as residents eagerly await the arrival of the aircraft.

An Enugu-based billionaire businessman, Prince Engr. Arthur Eze, had on Tuesday flown into the Enugu airport in a private jet direct from Senegal, creating history as the first international flight that touched down at the upgraded airport.

President Goodluck Jonathan gave approval for the upgrading of the Akanu Ibiam Airport to an international status two years ago and laid the foundation for the construction of the international wing early this year.   The project is now on course while other existing structures within the airport including the old terminal complex had been renovated.

The runway was expanded and extended to accommodate bigger passenger and cargo aircrafts that would patronize the airport.
Governor Sullivan Chime and his colleagues from the other states in the region as well as many important dignitaries from within and outside the country, will be on hand to receive the historic flight.
As expected, an atmosphere of excitement and jubilation now pervades Enugu and other States in the South East region as residents eagerly await the arrival of the aircraft.

An Enugu-based billionaire businessman, Prince Engr. Arthur Eze, had on Tuesday flown into the Enugu airport in a private jet direct from Senegal, creating history as the first international flight that touched down at the upgraded airport.

President Goodluck Jonathan gave approval for the upgrading of the Akanu Ibiam Airport to an international status two years ago and laid the foundation for the construction of the international wing early this year.   The project is now on course while other existing structures within the airport including the old terminal complex had been renovated.

The runway was expanded and extended to accommodate bigger passenger and cargo aircrafts that would patronize the airport.

Group appeals to ASUU to call off strike

Having remained adamant over the ongoing strike, and with the open threat to continue with its strike over the non-implementation of the agreement it arrived with the federal government in 2001, Nigerians at all quarters have continued to appeal to ASUU and the Federal government to apply the principle of effective dialogue in order to put an end to the protracted face-off.


Adding his words to the ongoing strike that has kept students at home for this long, the Director of Youth and Students Affairs of the Goodluck Support Group (GSG), Prince Eka Williams has appealed to ASUU to consider the effort of the Federal Government so far and call off its strike which he said was devastating and demoralising. Eka said that even though ASUU was fighting a just course, it must consider that the government of Jonathan has accepted to bear responsible of the burden transferred to his government from another administration. He appealed to the University body to also consider the plight of Nigerian  students and call off the strike.

The Directorate of Youth and Students Affairs of the Goodluck Support Group (GSG),hereby appeals to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call-off its lingering strike action,in consideration of the teeming university students of Nigeria who are the greatest losers in the face-off.

We are not in doubt that ASUU’s strike action is altruistic and intended to improve the general quality of education in the country. But there is need for the union to reconsider its rigid stance, in view of the counterproductive effect it could have on the educational sector due to the gross distortions in the academic calendars of universities and its demoralizing effects on the students.

Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram Leader is Dead

Nigeria's militant Islamist leader Abubakar Shekau have been killed by the security forces during a shoot-out.

An "intelligence report" showed that Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram group,  died between 25 July and 3 August, Lt-Col Sagir Musa said.

Boko Haram, which has waged an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009, has not commented on the statement.

The US had put a bounty of $7m (£4.6m) on Shekau's head.

The intelligence report suggested that Shekau was shot on 30 June, when soldiers raided a Boko Haram base at Sambisa Forest in north-eastern Nigeria.

"Shekau was mortally wounded in the encounter and was sneaked into Amitchide - a border community in Cameroon for treatment... It is greatly believed that Shekau might have died between 25 July to 3 August 2013," Col Musa said.

A video of Shekau, released on 13 August, was "dramatised by an imposter to hoodwink the sect members to continue with the terrorism", he added.

On 14 August, the military said it had killed Boko Haram's second-in-command, Momodu Bama, also known by his alias "Abu Saad".

Correspondents say there is no independent confirmation of Shekau's or Bama's death.

Thousands of people have died since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009.

A claim in 2009 that Shekau had been killed turned out to be untrue, they add.

He became leader of Boko Haram after its founder, Muhammad Yusuf, died in police custody in the same year.

The insurgency became far more brutal under Shekau's leadership, with Boko Haram carrying out a wave of bombings and abductions, including that of foreigners, in its campaign to create an Islamic state across Nigeria, correspondents say.

In May, President Goodluck Jonathan declared an emergency in three north-eastern states, saying the group threatened Nigeria's existence.

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Update: WAEC releases SSSCE May/June 2013 results

The African Examination Council, WAEC, on Wednesday released the its May/June 2013 Result. A total of 1,689,188 candidates sat for this Secondary School Certificate Examination. And out of this number, 91.38 per cent were released (1,543,683) and 8.972 were withheld due to Examination misconduct.

Candidates who sat for this Exam can now check their result at www.waecdirect.org

WAEC RELEASES MAY/JUNE RESULT

The West African Examination Council have on Wednesday 7th August released the 2013 MAY/JUNE Examination. From the Report, 100543 results were fully released , 8890000  Scored Six Credits and Above. To Check Your Result :

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