Strike: Labour appeals to ASUU to shift ground
The Trade Union Congress (Tuc) Has Appealed To The Academic Staff Union Of Universities (Asuu), To Shift Ground In Their Demands By Making Some Concessions, So That Students Can Return To School After Being Forced To Stay At Home Since February.
The Chairman Of The Cross River State Chapter Of The Union, Monday Ogbodum, Made The Appeal On Tuesday In An Interview With News Men In Calabar, The State Capital.
Ogbodum Said Asuu Had “Clearly” Made Their Points Known To The World With The Prolonged Strike And Advised The Government Not To Always Allow Issues To Degenerate To Strikes Before Taking Necessary Actions.
The Labour Leader Further Added That The Government Should Always Put A Human Face To Its Action Or Inaction In Dealing With Labour Unions To Avoid Prolonged Industrial Action In The Country.
The Tuc Chairman Said It Would Be Difficult To Regain The Lost Ground In Nigeria’s Tertiary Education System Because Of The Industrial Action By The University Lecturers In The Last Two Years.
We are in talks to sign Lukaku and Dybala, says Inter Milan
INTER MILAN CHIEF EXECUTIVE GIUSEPPE MAROTTA, HAS SAID THEY ARE IN TALKS TO SIGN CHELSEA STRIKER ROMELU LUKAKU AND JUVENTUS FORWARD PAULO DYBALA.
LUKAKU WOULD TAKE A PAY CUT TO REJOIN INTER ON LOAN AFTER HIS £97.5M MOVE LAST SUMMER.
INTER PRESIDENT STEVEN ZHANG HAS STEPPED IN TO TRY TO SORT OUT LUKAKU’S RETURN TO THE CLUB, AS
THE SERIE A SIDE DO NOT HAVE THE FINANCES TO ENGINEER A PERMANENT DEAL, AND HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO MEET THE LOAN FEE CHELSEA WANT FOR THE 29-YEAR-OLD.
ZHANG HAS BEEN MEETING WITH COACH SIMONE INZAGHI TO PUT TOGETHER A DEAL CHELSEA WOULD FIND ACCEPTABLE.
BELGIUM INTERNATIONAL LUKAKU SCORED 15 GOALS IN ALL COMPETITIONS FOR THE BLUES LAST SEASON, WITH EIGHT IN 26 PREMIER LEAGUE APPEARANCES.
HE APOLOGISED FOR AN INTERVIEW DURING THE SEASON WHERE HE SAID HE WAS NOT HAPPY WITH HIS ROLE UNDER MANAGER THOMAS TUCHEL AND WANTED TO RETURN TO INTER IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
Assam: India floods destroy millions of homes and dreams
UNPRECEDENTED RAINFALL AND FLOODING HAS LEFT BEHIND A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION IN ASSAM, A REMOTE VILLAGE IN NORTH-EASTERN INDIA, SUBMERGING VILLAGES, DESTROYING CROPS, AND WRECKING HOMES. AUTHORITIES SAY THAT 32 OF ITS 35 DISTRICTS HAVE BEEN AFFECTED, KILLING AT LEAST 45 PEOPLE AND DISPLACING MORE THAN 4.7 MILLION OVER THE LAST WEEK.
HEAVY RAINS HAVE ALSO LASHED NEIGHBOURING MEGHA-LAYA STATE, WHERE 18 PEOPLE HAVE DIED OVER THE LAST WEEK. IN ASSAM, THE GOVERNMENT HAS OPENED 1,425 RELIEF CAMPS FOR THE DISPLACED, BUT AUTHORITIES SAY THEIR JOB HAS BEEN COMPLICATED BY THE SHEER INTENSITY OF THE DISASTER. EVEN THE RESCUE CAMPS ARE IN A DISMAL STATE.
Tinubu: If My VP Nominee Decides to Step Down Within Timeframe, That’ll Be No Breach
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC), ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU, LAST NIGHT, CLEARED THE AIR ABOUT THE STATUS OF HIS CHOICE RUNNING MATE, A FORMER NATIONAL WELFARE SECRETARY OF THE APC, KABIRU IBRAHIM MASARI, WHOM HE INSISTED WAS DULY NOMINATED, BUT COULD CHOOSE TO STEP DOWN WITHIN STIPULATED TIME, AND WOULD NOT HAVE BREACHED ANY KNOWN LAWS, RULES OR REGULATIONS.
TINUBU, WHO MAINTAINED THAT MASARI REMAINED HIS CHOICE AS RUNNING MATE AND ALSO DENIED SENDING HIS NAME IN AS A PLACE HOLDER, HOWEVER, SAID CONSULTATIONS WITH PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS OF THE RULING APC WERE STILL ONGOING.
THIS IS COMING AT A TIME WHEN THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), HAS FIRED WARNING SHOTS AT POLITICIANS, SAYING THEIR NEW INVENTION – THE USE OF PLACE HOLDER – TO SIDESTEP ITS DEADLINE WAS NOT ONLY UNKNOWN TO LAW, BUT ALIEN TO DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE.
Fuel scarcity gets messier as depot run out of stock
FUEL QUEUES ON MONDAY PERSISTED IN PARTS OF LAGOS STATE FOLLOWING THE DECISION OF SOME MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM MARKETERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (IPMAN), TO SHUTDOWN THEIR OPERATIONS.
, CHAIRMAN, IPMAN, LAGOS SATELLITE DEPOT, EJIGBO, AKIN AKINRINADE WHO CONFIRMED THE DEVELOPMENT TO NEWSMEN IN LAGOS SAID THEY TOOK THE DECISION BECAUSE THEY COULD NO LONGER CONTINUE TO OPERATE AT A LOSS.
HE SAID WHILE THE GOVERNMENT HAD FIXED N165 PER LITRE AS THE PUMP PRICE OF PREMIUM MOTOR SPIRIT (PMS), CURRENT REALITIES IN THE MARKET SHOWED THAT THE MINIMUM PRODUCT RETAIL PRICE SHOULD BE AT N180 PER LITRE.
ACCORDING TO HIM, THE CURRENT SCARCITY BEING WITNESSED IN LAGOS IS BECAUSE MAJORITY OF PETROL STATIONS IN THE STATE ARE OWNED BY IPMAN MEMBERS WHO ARE FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO OPERATE IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT
Gunmen bomb Imo market, scores injured, vehicles burnt
GUNMEN ENFORCING THE SIT-AT-HOME ORDER OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB) YESTERDAY BOMBED THE POPULAR IZOMBE MARKET IN OGUTA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF IMO STATE.
THE GUNMEN WERE SAID TO HAVE STORMED THE MARKET AND WARNED THE TRADERS OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF COMING OUT ON A MONDAY FOR THEIR BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
ANGERED BY THEIR DEFIANCE, THE GUNMEN SET TWO VEHICLES ABLAZE IN THE MARKET, WHICH CAUSED SERIOUS PANDEMONIUM BEFORE BOMBING THE MARKET.
Chelsea Target City’s Sterling this Summer Transfer Window
CHELSEA ARE TARGETING MANCHESTER CITY WINGER RAHEEM STERLING AS THEIR MAJOR SUMMER SIGNING.
STERLING’S MANCHESTER CITY FUTURE IS IN DOUBT AS HE ENTERS THE FINAL 12 MONTHS OF HIS CONTRACT.
THE ENGLAND FORWARD, HAS ATTRACTED INTEREST FROM MAJOR CLUBS OVERSEAS, BUT CHELSEA BELIEVE THEY CAN PERSUADE HIM TO REMAIN IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE.
THE BLUES HAVE THE OBVIOUS ATTRACTION OF BEING IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FOR THE LONDON-BORN PLAYER.
STERLING SCORED 13 GOALS IN 30 PREMIER LEAGUE APPEARANCES AS HE WON HIS FOURTH TITLE LAST TERM.
Ukraine war: Russia becomes China’s biggest oil supplier
RUSSIA HAS BECOME CHINA’S BIGGEST SUPPLIER OF OIL AS THE COUNTRY SOLD DISCOUNTED CRUDE TO BEIJING AMID SANCTIONS OVER THE UKRAINE WAR.
IMPORTS OF RUSSIAN OIL ROSE BY 55% FROM A YEAR EARLIER TO A RECORD LEVEL IN MAY, DISPLACING SAUDI ARABIA AS CHINA’S BIGGEST PROVIDER.
CHINA HAS RAMPED UP PURCHASES OF RUSSIAN OIL DESPITE DEMAND DAMPENED BY COVID CURBS AND A SLOWING ECONOMY.
IN FEBRUARY, CHINA AND RUSSIA DECLARED THEIR FRIENDSHIP HAD “NO LIMITS”.
AND CHINESE COMPANIES, INCLUDING STATE REFINING GIANT SINOPEC AND STATE-RUN ZHENHUA OIL, HAVE INCREASED THEIR PURCHASES OF RUSSIAN CRUDE IN RECENT MONTHS AFTER BEING OFFERED HEAVY DISCOUNTS AS BUYERS IN EUROPE AND THE US SHUNNED RUSSIAN ENERGY IN LINE WITH SANCTIONS OVER ITS WAR ON UKRAINE.
Three Killed, Others Injured As Gunmen Attack Imo Community
AT LEAST THREE PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED WITH SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED IN AN ATTACK IN ORLU, IMO STATE.
THE POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER IN THE STATE, MICHEAL ABATTAM, CONFIRMED THE ATTACK ON SUNDAY, SAYING THAT THE COMMAND RECEIVED A DISTRESS CALL THAT GUNMEN, WHO WERE OPERATING IN A RED TOYOTA SIENNA VEHICLE WITHOUT A REGISTRATION NUMBER, SPED OFF TO UMUEBELE OKPORO COMMUNITY IN ORLU.
ABATTAM SAYS THE GUNMEN STORMED THE AREA, SHOT AT SOME RESIDENTS WHO WERE HAVING A MEETING IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE, KILLING THREE PERSONS ON THE SPOT WHILE TWO OTHERS SUSTAINED VARIOUS DEGREES OF BULLET WOUNDS AND WERE RUSHED TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.
THE POLICE SPOKESMAN HOWEVER ASSURED THAT THE COMMAND IS WORKING WITH OTHER SECURITY AGENCIES TO ENSURE THAT THE PERPETRATORS OF THE DASTARDLY ACT ARE ARRESTED AND MADE TO FACE THE FULL WRATH OF THE LAW.
ON HIS PART, THE STATE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MOHAMMED BARDE, APPEALED TO IMO RESIDENTS TO GO ABOUT THEIR LAWFUL BUSINESSES WITHOUT FEAR OR MOLESTATION AS CALM HAS BEEN RESTORED IN THE COMMUNITY.
MBAKA’S PROTEST: Police barricades entrances of Enugu Catholic cathedral, residence of Bishop
SECURITY OPERATIVES HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ENTRANCES OF HOLY GHOST CATHEDRAL, ENUGU AND RESIDENCE OF BISHOP CALLISTUS ONAGA AT INDEPENDENCE LAYOUT, ENUGU OVER PROTEST BY SUPPORTERS OF REV FR EJIKE MBAKA.
THE PROTEST FOLLOWED THE BAN ON CATHOLIC FAITHFUL FROM WORSHIPPING AT THE ADORATION MINISTRY OF MBAKA IN ENUGU.
THE DEPLOYMENT OF SECURITY OPERATIVES TO THE TWO PREMISES WAS TO AVOID A REPEAT OF LAST YEAR’S INCIDENT.
HUNDREDS OF THE FOLLOWERS OF FR MBAKA LAST YEAR STORMED THE HOLY GHOST CATHEDRAL, ENUGU AND DESTROYED VALUABLES WORTH MILLIONS.
PRESENTLY THREE PATROL VANS FULLY LOADED WITH POLICE OPERATIVES BARRICADED THE TWO ENTRANCES TO THE STREET.
AT THE OLD MARKET ROAD, ENUGU WHERE HOLY GHOST CATHEDRAL IS SITUATED, SECURITY OPERATIVES WERE STATIONED AT VARIOUS ENTRANCES TO THE CHURCH.
THEY ARE AT THE VENUE TO FORESTALL ANY BREAKDOWN OF LAW AND ORDER
AS MEMBERS OF MBAKA’S ADORATION MINISTRY ON SUNDAY HAD TROOPED TO THE STREETS OF UMUCHIGBO TO PROTEST THE BAN ON THE ADORATION MINISTRY ENUGU, HEADED BY THE PRIEST.
THE BISHOP OF ENUGU CATHOLIC DIOCESE, MOST. REV. CALLISTUS ONAGA ON SATURDAY BANNED ALL PRIESTS AND CATHOLIC FAITHFUL FROM ATTENDING MBAKA’S ADORATION MINISTRY, FOLLOWING THE PRIEST’S SCATHING REMARKS ON LABOUR PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, PETER OBI.