Obasanjo attacks Atiku, Tinubu, others

ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday took a swipe at the younger generation of  Nigerian leaders, saying they had poor performance record in terms of integrity and probity.

He passed the damning verdict while responding to questions on  issues bordering on  poor leadership in Africa at the 4th Annual Ibadan Sustainable Development Summit organised by the Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan, in collaboration with African Sustainable Development Network.

The former  President,  who delivered the    keynote  address  at the summit stated that the younger generation of leaders failed  Nigerians.

JTF Kill Boko Haram Second In Command; Arrest Women With Weapons

 

A key member of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, Momogu Bama, has been killed by the Joint Task Force in Borno State. He was killed along with his father, Alhaji Abatcha Flatari, who was described as one of the spiritual leaders of the sect in an operation between the sect members and the JTF operatives in Bama.
Momogu, the second-in-command to the sect’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, had a  N25m  bounty put on his head by security agencies for information that could lead to his arrest. The Director of Defence Information, Brig.- Gen Chris Olukolade, who confirmed his killing via electronic mail, described him as a vicious Boko Haram leader who took delight in personally slaughtering  the sect’s victims. He added that Momogu  was the expert  in charge of  mounting  anti-aircraft weapons for  the sect and coordinating  members  in Yobe and Adamawa  states.
Olukolade said on Wednesday that Momogu was identified by insurgents arrested during one of the recent encounters between the JTF  and the insurgents in Bama. He said, “As troops intensify pursuit of terrorists who have been unleashing mayhem in Borno and Yobe communities, the death of Momogu  Bama, said to be the Second-in-Command to  Shekau  has been confirmed by other arrested terrorists.
In another related incident, eight women have been arrested in Maiduguri by the JTF operatives for using their veils to conceal guns for insurgents. A JTF source, who made this known, did not say exactly when the women were arrested and the number of guns seized from them. He stated that the operatives were stunned when they stopped the women and found out that what they were “transporting” with their veils were guns. He said,
“The troops could not believe what they saw. A soldier just suspected the women and decided to stop them but when they were asked to unwrap what they were transporting, they hesitated, thereby making some of the soldiers to forcefully remove the veils. They saw a number of guns neatly concealed with the veils and the women were promptly arrested.”
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ASUU, others protest against poor education funding

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THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and other stakeholders on Tuesday shut down activities on the ever-busy Ikorodu Road, Lagos to protest against the poor state of public education in the country.

Others that joined the protest were the National Association of Nigerian Students, Concerned Students Against Education Commercialisation and Education Rights Campaign. The protest was organised under the aegis of the Joint Action Front.

The protesters said they were waging a war against what they described as commercialisation of education in the country, adding that the Lagos rally was a prelude to a nationwide campaign targeted at shutting down the nation.

Secretary JAF, Abiodun Aremu, said, “The goal of this protest is to shut down the nation until those in government begin to take education seriously.

“Governments in Nigeria today operate anti-poor policies and they are not bothered about public education.

“Funding of public education is not given the priority it deserves, because the children of those in government and their friends are being trained in private schools in Nigeria and foreign countries with looted funds.”

According to JAF, the march was holding simultaneously in other Nigerian cities, such as Kano, Owerri, Calabar, and Abuja.

In Lagos, the placard-bearing protesters marched from Yaba through Ikorodu Road to Ojota chanting solidarity songs.

The protesters succeeded in forcing vehicular traffic on both sides of the expressway to a standstill.

Co-ordinator of Democratic Socialist Movement at the University of Ibadan, Michael Ogundele, said there were no better ways than mass protests to put political pressure on the government.

Ogundele, said, “There is nothing to show that government would fund public education, even if ASUU suspends its strike.

“That is why we are saying that the whole rank and file of Nigerian students should come out. We will all protest to put political pressure on these Nigerian looters to make them properly fund education.”

We demanded N87bn, not N92bn – ASUU

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THE Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday faulted the statement credited to the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, that the union demanded for N92bn, describing the claim  as false.

ASUU said it never demanded such amount as earned allowances in the 2009 agreement it reached with the Federal Government.

Okonjo-Iweala had on Wednesday in Minna, said  the Federal Government couldn’t meet the N92bn allowances as demanded by ASUU.

The univerisity lecturers, in a statement by the University of Ibadan  branch chairman, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, described the amount mentioned by the minister as “a the imagination of the minister.”

Ajiboye explained that the earned allowances, the union and the governemnt calculated in the 2009 agreement, amounted to N87b, which covered allowances for three and half years for the lecturers in the nation’s universities.

He said, the N87bn was a compromise made by ASUU to scale down from N127bn.

He added that the N87bn was computed based on 15 per cent of the yearly recurrent expenditures of some nation’s universities.

The statement stated, “I want Nigerians to ask the minister where she got her figure of N92bn from. There was never a time that ASUU made a demand that is up to N92bn. I think the N92bn is just the imagination of the minister.                         “But that is not to say that this government did not enter into an agreement with us. This is a government that signed an agreement with us on January 24, 2012 to the effect that they would inject N100bn as funding into the universities in the first one  month and that before the end of 2012, they would inject another N300bn.’’

What Naija ''Runs'' Girls Do To Get Big “Aristos” And Sugar Daddiés (LOOK)

They are very “tush”…pretty and would definitely make you go wild in any way they want to.But what is their secret and who am I talking about?I am referring to the Naija “Runs Girls” of today.I have heard so many tales of what these girls do in order to make their victims cough out large sums of money…believe me,I know some of them personally and this is not from the grapevine,they told me themselves…not in the bédroom ooooo…lol.Do you want to hear some of the gist?…ok would tell you a few..but i aint mentioning names!

A particular one told me of how she used to visit a herbalist in order to have incisions(what Yorubas call “gbere”)on her private part!!!…and am like…whaaaaaat?????How does the herbalist do that?…she answered…”haba,I would spread my legs for him naaa”…i almost laughed…but its not funny oooo..

Another one said she has a special “Alfa” that does stuffs for her(she didnt elaborate)…There is this one that gisted me that she once entered the “bushes” in the dead of the night with a herbalist to perform some “rites”!!!Chei…goose pimples dey catch me as I dey write sef. But its simply clear that they all did this so that the unsuspecting “aristos” that sleép with them would dance to their tunes…abi e no dey happen???The ones I know are now happily married though…and em…em…born again!!!