Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Euromaidan may cost Ukraine a default
Against a wave of social unrest in Kiev the cost of default isurance on Ukrainian national debt has significantly grown. According to Bloomberg, default swaps on Ukrainian government securities in the next five years have risen by 100 points reaching 1071.
Russia understands Syrian conflict a lot better than many Western states - expert
The Syrian opposition has turned
into a criminal group whose leaders are interested only in profit from
the ongoing war. That's according to Sunday Telegraph newpaper
which published a report citing many rebel fighters saying that the FSA
leaders don’t want to make the regime fall because they love the
conflict.
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#ASUU Update: FG reveals it has now paid ₦200 Billion to ASUU
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| President Jonathan meeting with the ASUU leadership (Photo: PM News) |
The money was paid into an account with the CBN and is meant for renewal of infrastructure facilities in public universities in the country, Okupe explained.
ASUU: We are not aware of any N200 billion
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Dr. Nasir Fagge Issa, this morning disclosed that his union was not aware of the payment of N200b into an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, by the Federal Government, as demanded by the striking lecturers.
Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs had on a television programme this morning declared that government had paid the N200b demanded by ASUU into an account with the CBN and asked why ASUU has not deemed it fit to call off the six-month old strike.
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Stop Romancing Corruption, Buhari Supporter Tells Jonathan
The Buhari supporters under the umbrella body of “Buhari Vanguard” said
“President Jonathan must stop romancing corruption or else Nigerians will tag him the first enemy of the Nigerian Project.”
Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) sacks all academic staff
In accordance with him, the senate of the university had declared most of the positions of academic staff in the institution, adding that they would be advertised beginning Monday, December 2.
The senate council, he explained, had already compiled the set of vacant positions in the college, adding that who were ready to resume would be adequately protected..
Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki Resumes Academic Activities
One day before the FG's ultimatum to ASUU expires, academic activities have resumed at the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki
Recommencement of activities have followed a directive requesting the lecturers to the return to work issued the authorities of the university. Lecturers of the university as members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had participated in the strike.
ASUU: University of Port Harcourt To Resume Activities, Date Announced
Deputy Registrar, Information, of the University, Dr. William Wordi told DailyPost that the management of the institution found it reasonable to end the 5-month old strike in the interest of the students.
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Ann Njemanze Talks About Her New Hubby, Says- 'I Am Older Than Him'
And in a new interview with Leadership Newspaper, she talked about him, her new marriage and ex-husband Segun Arinze.
Just in: On Boko Haram, President Jonathan Performance and Power Returning To The North. - Col Abubakar Umar.
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Iyayi: Murder Or Accident? (Photos)
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Iyayi: Chest showing a big hole
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Along with grief, anger will be the dominant emotion when Professor Festus Iyayi is buried this week in his hometown, Ugbegun in Edo State. The two feelings have mixed, predictably with unsavoury outcomes, since the former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, died on 12 November in an auto accident on the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway.
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REVEALED: How Nigerian Businessman, Taiwo Jamani, Was Killed Over doing it With Married Women (Pic)
Late Taiwo Jamani, the Ireland base Nigerian had been in the news for weeks now. Jamani died soon after spending sometime in the hospital following serious injuries he sustained when he was attacked by an irate countryman in Dublin in Ireland. The brain behind his predicament was said to be a certain woman who is allegedly said to be dating him and another friend of him, Jooda Akanbi, his assailant.
The woman, simply identified as Biola, was described as a mother of three who had lost her husband because of certain suspicion which he (the husband) had about Biola’s ways of life. He moved out to a different location.
BENUE: Student Drowns In Swimming Pool (R.I.P)
The deceased, identified as Victor, was a final year student of the Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi (UAM). He went for a swim at Symbols Plaza, located opposite the BSU College of Medicine, before the unfortunate incident occurred at the weekend.
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Pics: Oluwaseyi Tinubu, Son Of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Called To Bar
Nabbed on CCTV: Woman Intentionally pushes her own child to her death.
A mother faces life imprisonment after confessing she drowned her 15-month-old daughter in the English Channel because the child was 'incompatible' with her love life.
"I have no plans to re-marry' Ex Most beautiful Woman in Nigeria Omasan Buwa says in new interview.
When asked about plans to re-marry, the 48 year old ex-queen replied;
Protect your computers, Isreali Internet Spy organization reportedly set up in Nigeria
Premium Times reports that the internet monitoring company was contracted by the Federal Govt in April this year to install a comprehensive spying facility that will help them monitor its citizens.
The installation will go ahead despite public outcry and an ongoing legislative probe of the project that followed the leak of the contract by this newspaper. The installation is also taking place in complete disregard of the National Assembly which ordered the government to suspend all actions on the contract pending the outcome of a planned investigation." Premium Times reports
‘President Jonathan is like a mad man with a lighter at the fuel station’ – Lamido
The governor spoke to journalists from Leadership Newspapers before the meeting.
” To us we are on a rescue mission, because what we are seeing today is a mad man inside petrol filling station with lighter in his hand, the threat he poses is very lethal and would not spare anyone,” he said.
ASUU Vows to Continue with the ongoing strike
In a
media briefing which were only available in Abuja in the evening of
December 2, 2013, the Leader of ASUU, Nasir Fagge, declared the union "shall never be cowed."
"We shall bow only to what we as academics are convinced will serve the interest of Nigeria and its people, no matter their ethnic, religious or class origins. This is where we stand. We shall never be cowed," the leader of ASUU said.
Toke Makinwa Lookalike or not ??
This lovely woman tweeted at Toke that people say she looks like her. Toke answered saying she appears actually hotter...
Do you agree ?
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