President Goodluck Jonathan is currently
locked in a closed-door make-or-mar meeting with striking members of
the Academic Staff Union of Universities inside the First Lady
Conference Room, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Monday 4 November 2013
Taraba Speaker, Haruna Tsokwa, Dies This Morning
JALINGO,
TARABA STATE - Haruna Tsokwa, Speaker of the Taraba State House of
Assembly, passed away this morning at the Federal Medical Centre,
Jalingo. He died from a yet-to-be disclosed illness, having been
transferred to the medical facility last Thursday.
Nigeria Not Among World’s Top 20 Music Markets; D’banj Disagrees
Despite
the musical triumphs of her several top artistes, Nigeria has failed to
make it into the world’s top 20 biggest music markets for 2012, the
latest ranking by the International Federation of the Phonographic
Industry, IFPI, claims.
Obama turns blogger to make pitch for gay rights bill
President Obama turned blogger on Sunday night, making an impassioned plea in the Huffington Post for Congress to pass a long-delayed measure to ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The bill, called the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, is set for a Senate vote on Monday, and proponents are upbeat about its prospects for passage.
Usain Bolt says he ate a thousand chicken nuggets during the 2008 Olympics
When you're an Olympic athlete, your body is a finely tuned machine, a
precise instrument of competition dependent on exactly the correct mix
of nutritional elements to fuel optimum results. Unless you're Usain Bolt, in which case you just devour Chicken McNuggets by the truckful and outrun the entire planet anyway.
Solar eclipse viewed in Nigerian cities, Nigerians react
A
rare solar eclipse swept through parts of Africa, the Middle East and
America yesterday. It was viewed in many Nigerian cities, including
Lagos, Abuja, Jos, the Plateau State capital and Calabar, Cross River
State, among others.
ASUU STRIKE: No Amount Of Threat Of Forceful Reopening Of Universities Will End The Strike
As
leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) meet with
President Goodluck Jonathan today, the union has said the President
lacks the right to arbitrarily reopen the universities, which were shut
down following the union’s national strike. ASUU was reacting to reports that the President had directed the reopening of universities with or without ASUU.
ASUU Expects Monday (Today) Meeting With FG To Be Fruitful
Hopes are high within the ranks of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, as the union is set for a meeting with President
Goodluck Jonathan today that the two parties will arrive at a
mutually acceptable solution to the four months old strike which has
paralysed the nation’s university education.
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