ASUU CONGRESS: UNIJOS lecturers voted for continuation of strike

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Lecturers at the University of Jos have voted for continuation of the on-going strike by the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) in the country. Chairman of the chapter, Dr. David Jankam who made this known on Monday while speaking with THE NATION shortly after the congress of the chapter said members did not see any substance in the dialogue with the federal government to warrant calling off the strike.

BBA Update: Beverly battles tears at diary session

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The Chase Housemates’ first Diary sessions were filled with a mix of emotions ranging from joy, to guilt to indifference.

Ruby Head of House, Nigeria’s Beverly was the most visibly emotional Housemate of all the Rubies. She got choked up when Biggie asked about her decision to save Bassey from the Eviction gallows and replace him with Natasha. “It’s not that I don’t like her, I have nothing against her,” the Nigerian dame insisted.

Bassey, who has no idea that he has been replaced in the list of Eviction Nominees by Natasha, dished to Biggie about how he feels about the Malawian. “Natasha is a control freak. She is most likely to have clashes in the House,” he declared. But he was quick to clarify to Biggie that despite her mother hen ways, he has bears no ill feelings towards her and that he does get along with her and all of the other Housemates.

LATEST: Farouk Lawan & Boniface Enemalo Remanded in Prison

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Farouk Lawan, the lawmaker and former Chairman of the House of Representatives Adhoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy andBoniface Enemalo, former Secretary of the committee have been remanded in prison by an Abuja High Court.

They were arraigned on a seven count charge for allegedly soliciting for and collecting a bribe of $620, 000 from Femi Otedola, Chairman of Zenon Oil.

At the trial which began today, both men pleaded not guilty to the charges. However,Vanguard reports that they were both remanded to Kuje Prison pending the court’s ruling on their bail application.

The court subsequently adjourned till February 8th, 2013 to rule on the bail application moved by their lawyers led by Rickey Tarfa and Mike Ozhekome, both senior advocates of Nigeria.

Gen. Yakubu Gowon, described Prof. Chinua Achebe’s latest book, There Was A Country, As “A Propaganda”.

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Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has described Prof. Chinua Achebe’s Nigerian Civil War memoir in his latest book, There was a Country, as “a propaganda”.

Achebe in the book, accused the Federal Government under Gowon and the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who was then the Minister of Finance, of using hunger as a weapon of war against the Republic of Biafra.

But Gowon, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday, said though many books had been written about the civil war, none had been as controversial as that of Achebe.

He said the book was “written to whip up unnecessary sentiments”.