Ebola: Teachers Slam FG's decision to reopen schools, threathen to go on strike

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The Nigerian Union of Teachers has threatened to go on strike if the Federal Government fails to put in place measures to protect its members and pupils from contracting the deadly Ebola Virus Disease before the   resumption of schools.But the Federal Government says there is no going back on the date since there is no scientific basis for schools to remain shut beyond the September 22 resumption date announced by the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau.

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We are still on strike, Nigerian Doctors Insist (New Tweets)

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 Despite pleas by various governments'officials for the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to call off their strike action in the face area of the Ebola virus outbreak, the doctors have stuck with their guns, insisting the one month old strike continues. The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Kayode Obembe, had on Friday resigned and then rescinded his resignation. Tweets continue following the break.

Israel Air Strike On UN School ‘Criminal’ – UN

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The UN has expressed outrage after another deadly strike on one of its schools as Israel begins pulling some troops from Gaza in a widely-acknowledged step towards unilateral withdrawal.

The strike killed 10 people at a school in the southern city of Rafah on Sunday where about 3000 Palestinians made homeless by the violence had been sheltering. It was the third such incident in 10 days.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the shelling, calling it “a moral outrage and a criminal act”.

“This madness must stop,” he said.
The strike came as Palestinian factions gathered for truce talks with Egypt in Cairo and world powers voiced increasingly urgent calls for the laying down of weapons.

ASUU Strike: Full list of Varsities That Voted To End/Continue Strike

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Some Nigerian universities have on Monday voted to end the over 4-month old strike.

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ASUU Strike Called Off! Students To Resume On Nov. 18

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A source close to top guns in the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that lecturers will ditch their four month old strike this weekend so students could resume on November 18 (next Monday).

ASUU Strike Update: ASUU Wants Watertight Deal From FG

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Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have given the Federal Government certain conditions to be met before the union could call off its four-month old strike.
Part of this condition, Saturday PUNCH learnt, is that all federal parastatals in charge of fund, labour, and education must sign the agreement purportedly reached between its leadership and the Federal Government on Tuesday.

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ASUU Strike: Rejecting ₦ 220 Billion Over Five Years to End Strike Will Have Grave Consequences.

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After getting an annual payment offer of N220 billion for the next five years, from the federal government, following a marathon meeting that ended Tuesday, indications have emerged that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may lose the sympathy of several and might make the  government wield the big stick if it rejects the recent offer by the government, with the full blown implementation of the ‘no work, no pay'policy likely to break the ranks of the union and cause disaffection on the list of members who'd have the pinch of the salaries being withheld.

FG To ASUU: FG to give varsities N1.1tn in five years.

Jonathan Ignores Boko Haram victims, rules out Compensation

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday ruled out payment of compensation to victims of terrorists attacks carried out by the Boko Haram sect and other groups in the country.

Receiving report from the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North at the Presidential Villa, the President said the government will only look at ways to help the victims get back to their businesses.

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ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: Nigeria Universities may Re-Open Next Week With Or Without ASUU

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In a last ditch effort to solve the ASUU strike, President GEJ will on Monday, November 4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa.  This is part of the resolutions of the meeting involving the ASUU leadership, Vice President Namadi Sambo and the Supervising Minister of Education on Tuesday as was first reported by this medium.

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Lagos Passengers Stranded As BRT Employees Join ASUU Strike

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Commuters in Lagos, western Nigeria, were stranded, Saturday morning, when workers with the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT scheme refused to act as they protested their unpaid salaries. The commuters, who expected to board the bus after the monthly sanitation, were left to bemuse their fate once the boarding points at Ketu and Ojota bus stops were  empty.  It was revealed that the ticketers and drivers refused to act as their salary for last month hadn't been paid-a situation which they're not used to.

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ASUU Strike: Chika Ike Talks about it.

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Atiku, 215 others sign petition to end ASUU strike

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Two hundred and sixteen Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora have signed an online petition asking the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to end the industrial dispute which has kept public universities shut for four months.

The petition launched on change.org, a go-to site for web protests, is asking President Goodluck Jonathan and the National President of ASUU, Dr. Nassir Faggae, to reach an “amicable consensus.”

In the petition entitled, “Mr. President and the Academic Staff Union of Universities: Please End the ASUU Strike now,” the petitioners said the Presidency should stop playing politics with education of the Nigerian youth.

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'ASUU Strike Will Be Over ‘In A Few Months’, Says Federal Government.

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Nigerian students were yesterday assured by the Federal Government that the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be over in a few months.

Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike stated this at the anniversary lecture of National Universities Commission, NUC, in Abuja.

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The Truth about FG’s position On ASUU Strike Revealed by Finance Ministry, says Iweala is not the Problem

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This is a press statement from the Federal Ministry of Finance concerning the ongoing ASUU strike. It's been four long months (Quite shameful I must add) without any apparent resolution to the conflict in sight...and some folks are blaming the Minister of finance Dr Okonjo Iweala for what's going on. following the break. Some people in ASUU have been distributing flyers with abusive messages against Dr Okonjo-Iweala and now the ministry is issuing a statement about it, saying the minister isn't the problem. I'd rather read about when ASUU is calling off this strike to be honest.

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Nigerian Police Threaten Strike

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Some police inspectors and rank and file from the Imo State Police Command have threatened to take strike over their redeployment for some violence-prone states in the North. The aggrieved policemen who met in Benin, the Edo State capital, said they would start the strike in November.

However the Force headquarters has said that the   redeployment won't be revisited or changed and warned the affected officers against blackmailing law enforcement authorities.

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Activist Comrade Onwubiko On A 2-Days Hunger Strike-. See why!!!

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A frontline Nigerian rights activist, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, is placed  on a hunger strike, next week Tuesday & Wednesday, as his contribution towards ending industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which includes crippled the country's public universities since July 1.

Writing on his Facebook wall, Onwubiko, National Coordinator of the Abuja-based Human Rights Writers'Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), said:
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ASUU Strike: "Youths May Be Forced To Revolt",says Rt. Rev Onah

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The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Rt. Rev. Professor Godfrey Onah, at the weekend, condemned the attitude of politicians and public office holders who are not concerned about the plight of youths and the generality of the masses.
Speaking during the funeral mass for Lolo Josephine Oyima Abba, mother of the Enugu State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Engr. Vita Abba at Ede-Oballa, in Nsukka Council Area of Enugu State, Onah warned that such neglect could force the youths to revolt against the leaders.

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ASUU Strike Made Me Take Part In Project Fame- Olawale Ojo, Winner Of MTN PF

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So who says ASUU Strike is not helping? LMAO...The fact is that the strike affected some people positively and some people negatively.

Olawale Ayodele Ojo, winner of the MTN Project Fame (Season 6), tells BAYO ADETU about his experience in the competition and other issues

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9 members of a family, 13 the others killed in fresh strike in Plateau by cattle rustlers

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A man and eight members of his family were attacked and killed in the early hours of today Thursday October 10th by men suspected to be cattle rustlers. The man identified as Tsok Gwom, who's a cattle rearer, lived in a residential area in the Bajin Kogi area District of Barkinladi LGA of Plateau State, was killed alongside his wife, his sister, an added woman, five children andthe man's neighbour. Eyewitnesses said armed men numbering over 30 stormed the region around 2.00am and massacred the family. The gunshots they fire during the attack alerted vigilante members in the neighborhood who launched a reprisal attack, killing about 12 of the attackers. Confirming the incident, Police Public Relations officer in Plateau, Felicia Anslem, said policemen have been deployed to the area.

Sefiu Alao's Partner Dies: Fuji Musician losses wife To Heart Strike

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Fuji musician Sefiu Alao Adekunle popularly called JJC is bereaved. Sefiu Alao lost his wife of many years, Alhaja Nimota Adekunle on Monday at a private hospital in Lagos state. According to doctors report, Alhaja Nimota Adekunle died of heart attack in the early hours of October 7, 2013 after all medical efforts to resuscitate her proved abortive. Popularly called Iya Rafiat, the late wife of the Egba-born Fuji musician was laid to rest in Abeokuta Ogun state around 10:35 am on Tuesday in accordance to Islamic rites.
May her soul rest in perfect peace. Ase !!