makinwa rocked the stunning back stunning dress to the broadcasters npmerit awards yesterday where she won the most outstanding presenter...congrats!Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, at the weekend renamed the Freedom Park, Osogbo, after the former South African President and freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela.
Aregbesola, while responding to his endorsement for second term in office by the local government council bosses in the state, said that he renamed the park after Nelson Mandela because Mandela represents freedom and equal opportunity.
While describing Mandela as a symbol of anything that is good, Aregbesola said that his death was a great loss to the entire African continent.
Aregbesola, while addressing the crowd at the park, expressed gratitude for the endorsement and recognition of his efforts to place the state on the global map through infrastructure development.
PUBLIC university lecturers on Sunday insisted that they would not return to the classrooms on Monday (today).
They also accused the Federal Government of insincerity in its bid to resolve its dispute with the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
The President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, confirmed this on Sunday via a Short Message Service to an enquiry by The PUNCH.
The Federal Government had through the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, deferred its earlier ultimatum to the lecturers to resume work on Monday (today) or risk being sacked. The shift was to enable them to participate in the burial of Prof. Festus Iyayi, a former president of ASUU on Saturday.
Before this , the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, had advised the striking lecturers to return to work on or before December 4 or face dismissal.
But ASUU had in a news bulletin to its chapters after its meeting in Ekpoma, Edo State on Sunday, said the Federal Government had not met its conditions for suspending the over five months’ strike.
When asked by one of our correspondents if the members of the union would go back to work today and if they had confirmed the N200bn the Federal Government claimed to have deposited in a special account at the Central Bank of Nigeria, Fagge simply replied, “No to both questions.”
ASUU had in the bulletin insisted that the government threat to sack its members would not break the union’s resolve to pursue its action to a logical conclusion.
A source privy to the meeting, said, “No Jupiter will force us to go and teach until all the agreements are documented. The Federal Government is not sincere. If indeed the authorities have agreed, why will they be afraid to document what has been agreed upon?
“Let the vice-chancellors, who can teach, go and do so. But our members are determined not to sign any attendance register tomorrow (today). The threat does not bother us, as truth will always supercede deception, lies and any form of intimidation.”
The ASUU National Treasurer, Dr. Ademola Aremu, who also spoke with one of our correspondents, confirmed that the lecturers would not return to work until the government met their demands.
He said, “Our position has not changed because we are still on strike. When we met President Goodluck Jonathan, we had a number of agreements but when the Presidency communicated to us, we noticed some gaps. We have written to the government on our observations but up till now, it has not responded.
“The only response from government representatives was the accusation against us that we are making new demands. This was after the letter we wrote to the government was exposed to the whole world.
“ASUU is not asking for anything new; what we are saying is that government should perfect the documentation binding the agreement we had with it. We know the agreement we had with the government and we will stand by it.”
Aremu also accused the government of inconsistency with the shift in ultimatum, noting that it was playing politics with the death of Iyayi.
He added, “The government did not play any role in the burial of Iyayi, who died in the struggle. The Federal Government would have been more responsive instead of threatening our members with sacking. The military used this system and it did not work. Why will it work in a democratic environment? I don’t think any right thinking government will use threat to achieve peace.”
On government’s claim that it was ready to pay salaries owed the striking teachers who returned to work, Aremu said the decision was a part of the ploy not to make things work in the education sector.
He added, “This government does not want things to work at all. We wrote to the government that we noticed some gaps but instead of writing us back to clear issues, it began to use threat as a weapon. I don’t think anyone who is worth the certificate he is using as a lecturer will panic because of four months’ salaries. You only treat casual workers in such way and not people with intellectual endowment. ASUU members are not casual workers so the position of Okojie will not shake us.”
The Chairman of the University of Abuja chapter, Dr. Clement Chup, also described the threat as “an empty one.”
He said, “We are still waiting for the government to respond to our letter; until that is done, the strike continues.
“When the December 4 deadline was given, I said ‘I dey laugh because I knew it would not work.’ Now that they have extended it, ‘I still dey laugh’ because it will still not work. Because you (Federal Government) are not ready to honour an agreement and you will begin to threaten people with sacking; it doesn’t work that way.”
His Nasarawa State University, Keffi, counterpart, Dr. Theophilus Lagi, said, “It is only the National Executive Council of the ASUU that could take the decision to suspend the strike.”
He said lecturers in the school would stay away from the classrooms since the NEC of ASUU had yet to suspend the strike.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe and Okojie , had last Tuesday, claimed that the Federal Government had deposited the N200bn promised as funding to universities in an account with the CBN.
The amount is for renewal of infrastructure in the nation’s public universities.
But the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of Education, Simeon Nwakaudu, expressed optimism that many lecturers would resume work today.
He said, “By tomorrow (today), we will know where we go from there. Let us wait and see what happens. Many ASUU members have contacted their respective vice-chancellors and indicated their readiness to work.”
Meanwhile, the Acting General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Chris Uyot, on Sunday, said the leadership of the NLC would hold a crucial meeting with the leaders of ASUU on Monday (today).
Rythym FM Famous presenter and fashionista , time makinwa has been announced to be the winner of the most outstanding presenter at the 2013 Nigeria broadcasters merit awards....congratulations to time!
Famous Nigerian rapper naeto c has decided to turn to a Dj , this happened at a child's christening which also have in attendance the likes of D'Banj, kayswitch ikechukwu and others......tho it was just for the party, lol
Yea! She,s got it......check it out! Tania went on instagram to show of the bag which cost about 370k.....
The photo below shows tonto way back when she was so young , as a teenager and finally now when she's grown up to the ooko you now know.....check it out!
She is the President of Actor’s Guild Nigeria, and he is an actor from a dynasty of theatrical artistes,that they both have a child together doesn’t mean that they are still together or still lovers.
They were both present at the Nollywood Grand Awards that held only recently in Lagos. Ibinabo got the venue, few minutes before Fred Amata, and they were both exchanging pleasantries with friends and colleagues alike, but they completely ignored each other.
After that, Ibinabo Fiberesima got busy as the President of Actor’s Guild presenting the awards for the night but she bluntly refused to acknowledge Fred’s presence, whose Instagram page filled with congratulatory messages from Fans and celebs, but Fred stay outside through out the greater part awards night.
Hahahahaha, that should be some under P's
The crisis between the embattled members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities [ASUU], Adekunle Ajasin University [AAUA], Ondo state and their management is now deepened as new lecturers have been employment to replace the striking lecturers.
Recall that when DailyPost visited the campus last Monday, some old lecturers were seen in various lecture rooms teaching , thinking the AAUA authorities and the striking workers have agreed to end the five months old strike.
However, with a statement later issued by the AAUA ASUU’s Chairman, Dr. Meruyi Mekusi, insisting that they will not call off the strike until their national body orders them to do so might have forced the management to recruit new lecturers.
Relatively, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Femi Mimiko, has charged the newly recruited lecturers to key into the work ethics of the Institution and always observe the values of the teaching profession.
Prof. Mimiko, who also enjoined the academics to be loyal to the University at all times, gave the charge on Monday last week at the Opening Ceremony of a two-day orientation programme organized by the Institution for the new academics.
The VC said, “Our expectations from you on the job are to be in constant search for knowledge and devise the innovative way of dissemination. There must not be mention of you in anything that is not worthy. Be role models to students and enhance their moral standard. You must be like counselors to them at all times. Be shapers of opinions. Engage in constructive criticism of society. Be solution generators. Be focused and play a big role in national development.
“AAUA is a public trust that is dedicated to building leaders. You must, therefore, be loyal to the system. We expect you to give to this University an undiluted loyalty. We just launched AAUA ALWAYS as a new campaign. The message is that you must think about this University at all times.”
While the VC commended them for being found worthy of employment after rigorous interviews, he said that the orientation became necessary to expose them to AAUA culture.
He said, “This induction is to expose you to our own peculiar form of pedagogy that we want you to imbibe and to continue to sustain.”
The VC was one of the four resource persons at the orientation programme and he spoke on “Who is an Academic?” He said the new intakes were supposed to teach, engage in research and community service.
Prof. Mimiko urged those among them who were yet to earn Ph. D. to pursue it vigorously, saying, “For us, Ph. D. is a must have. Those who are yet to possess the Ph. D. should know that the most important thing that we will ask when you get here is, ‘How far you are going in the pursuit of knowledge, leading to the award of the Ph. D?”
He promised that the University would give them support to undertake Ph.D. Programme in any University of their choice.
Other speakers were the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof. Rotimi Ajayi, who spoke on “Academic Profession in the 21st Century”; Prof. Francis Oyebade, who examined “AAUA Academic Culture”; and Prof. Niyi Akinnaso, who spoke on “21st Century Teaching”.
Former House of Representative member and current Chief of Staff to Edo State Governor, Patrick Obahiagbon has commiserated the with the people of South Africa over the death of its former president, Nelson Madiba Mandela.
Igodomigodo, as he is fondly called took to his twitter page Thursday evening to mourn Mandela’s death.
Hear him, “Alas the last of the great Titans… The great one who pricked himself on a senticous bush as he pushed for the freedom of his people from oppression… An epitome of sophronization…
“We shall not cry, rather we will celebrate a life truly well lived…
Rest in peace Madiba…
Entrepreneur and actress, Empress Njamah surely proved she had a heart of gold when she hosted 1000 kids and also pampered disabled women recently as she celebrated her birthday at City Park, Wuse 2, Abuja, FCT, recently.
Drawn from various charity homes in Abuja and its environs, the actress gave the kids a treat as she showered her guests with gifts while the disabled women got household equipment.
Commenting on why she usually celebrates her birthday with less privileged children and the physically challenged, Empress said it’s all about passion, adding that she was moved by their plight.
Empress has shot over 50 movies. She now lives in Abuja, FCT, where she owns fashion outlet, House of Empress. Also present to celebrate with her were brothers, Aquila and John Njama. And of course, comedians and musicians treated guests to rib cracking jokes and good music.
Ghanian actress, Juliet Ibrahim when asked about her kind f style in a recent interview with punch, below is her response........
I used to wear anything and walk around with my flip flops. Now, I am conscious of the fact that style matters and anything I do as a celebrity is a part of me. I always have to look my best always. Style, for me, is wearing what I am comfortable in. I try my best to always play with my shape and make sure my figure comes out. I can try any kind of dress. I am very dramatic with my dressing.
A bride has narrowly escaped death in an auto crash while on her way home from her wedding. The accident involving a NNPC tanker with number plate XG 321 MKA, a cargo truck and two saloon cars happened at about 4: 45pm on Saturday, close to the Otedola bridge, Alausa, on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.
People who witnessed the accident said the NNPC truck, while descending the slop from Alausa at top speed, could not hold its break. It then ran into the first car and squashed the second one against the cargo truck.
The bride and her husband were said to have jumped out of their car.
When our reporter got to the scene of the accident, the groom was no where in sight. The groom’s elder sister who spoke to our repoter while cuddling her baby explained that they were just coming from the wedding reception of the couple.
She was seen kneeling down and thanking God for their escape but refused to give the name of the couple.
The fire coming out of the truck was put out by sympathisers as the tanker was carrying petroleum product. The accident also resulted in gridlock which was controlled by men of the Federal Road Safety Corps.
The Chairman, ASUU, University of Benin, Dr. Tony Monye-Emina said, “The strike has not been called off. The authority (of the institution) is following government’s directive; we are not shifting our stand. It is not a local strike.
“It is not true we are calling off the strike. How can we be holding a meeting tonight? The burial is going on and it continues tomorrow (today).”
Also, ASUU in Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, vowed not to obey government’s order that lecturers should return to classroom on Monday.
The Chairman, ASUU, OOU chapter, Dr. Nasir Adesola said the lecturers would not succumb to threats by government to sack them.
Adesola, who is also the South-West Coordinator, ASUU, stressed that since the lecturers did not go on strike in the first instance because of government, they would not return to work by coercion from government.
He stated that the lecturers would only go back to the classroom when the government had met their demands.
“We didn’t go on strike because of government order. The reasons for which we embarked on the strike have not been discharged by the government. Those orders of government are just part of executive recklessness. We are not returning to work on Monday,” Adesola said.
Similarly, the ASUU Chairman in Enugu State University of Technology, Prof. Gab Agu, said lecturers would not resume on Monday. He said it was a rumour that the union would call of the strike.
He stated that the National Executive Council of ASUU would meet and agree before the strike could be called off.
Same with ASUU in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where the Chairman, Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, said only the ASUU NEC could announce the suspension of the strike.
It was uncertain on Saturday whether the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities would call off its five-month-old strike, despite the Federal Government’s Monday ultimatum.
There were speculations that the university lecturers would suspend the strike after the burial ceremony for an ex-ASUU President, Prof. Festus Iyayi, who was killed in an accident involving the Kogi State governor’s convoy.
However, sources in the union who spoke to our correspondents on Saturday insisted that the strike continues.
The Chairman, ASUU, University of Benin, Dr. Tony Monye-Emina said, “The strike has not been called off. The authority (of the institution) is following government’s directive; we are not shifting our stand. It is not a local strike.
“It is not true we are calling off the strike. How can we be holding a meeting tonight? The burial is going on and it continues tomorrow (today).”
Also, ASUU in Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, vowed not to obey government’s order that lecturers should return to classroom on Monday.
The Chairman, ASUU, OOU chapter, Dr. Nasir Adesola said the lecturers would not succumb to threats by government to sack them.
Adesola, who is also the South-West Coordinator, ASUU, stressed that since the lecturers did not go on strike in the first instance because of government, they would not return to work by coercion from government.
He stated that the lecturers would only go back to the classroom when the government had met their demands.
“We didn’t go on strike because of government order. The reasons for which we embarked on the strike have not been discharged by the government. Those orders of government are just part of executive recklessness. We are not returning to work on Monday,” Adesola said.
Similarly, the ASUU Chairman in Enugu State University of Technology, Prof. Gab Agu, said lecturers would not resume on Monday. He said it was a rumour that the union would call of the strike.
He stated that the National Executive Council of ASUU would meet and agree before the strike could be called off.
Same with ASUU in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where the Chairman, Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, said only the ASUU NEC could announce the suspension of the strike.
The Governing Council of the University of Ibadan had on Friday, based on the directives of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities and the National Universities Commission, said the institution would be re-opened on January 4, 2014.
In the official bulletin of the university, which was signed by its Registrar and Secretary to the Council, Mr. Olujimi Olukoya, the council explained that the re-opening became necessary in view of the consideration of all matters relating to the on-going ASUU strike, at its recent meeting.
Credit: PUNCH.
The Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State has also toed the path of some universities who have shunned the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities. In a statement published in the school’s bulletin according to EDIFICATION an online education media , the school has been billed to resume as directed by the federal government on the the 9th December 2013.
READ REPORT AS POSTED BY EDIFICATION
Following the directives from the federal government that all striking lecturers of public universities in the country resume to the classrooms on or before 9/12/13, This inclusive all state universities in the country. Hence the management of Olabisi Onabanjo University has decided to commence all normal school activities, to this effect all registrations for the new and previous semester continues, we hereby implore our students to resume,complete their registrations for 2012/201313 session.
Adjustments and detailed directives will come from the school management in respect of the suspended 12/13 harmattan semester examinations soonest, that will be communicated to all students in their respective faculties.
In respect of the striking lecturers we have had a series of meetings and encouraging outcomes, We plead with Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU OOU Chapter to resume as our students are resuming and as the Rain semester starts soon.
Toni Payne has decided to come to time makinwa rescue by defending her action and shuting her critics....below is her expression on her blog
Let me start by saying, we sometimes avoid those touchy
subjects because we wish to avoid “drama” but Cyber Bullying is
one concept it seems we are yet to get a full grasp on its
consequences.
We have seen cases of young ones committing suicide because
they couldn’t handle the bullying. I pray and hope things don’t
get this far in my motherland, although I suspect it may have
and we just don’t document it as much.
There is this ”trend” of making vicious comments about others
that has become popularized by certain blogs.
I have seen it happen to celebrities and non celebrities alike,
some notable names being Tonto Dikeh, Dbanj, and most
especially Karen Igho, just to name a few. Its like the general
mentality has become, if you ever become the topic on certain
blogs, get ready to either grow thick skin or have a mini heart
attack.
Anyways lets fast forward to why we are here. Today, I saw
tweets to the effect that Toke Makinwa was being attacked on a
certain blog. One of the retweets took me to the source and my
heart was like, something has to be said. If it changes
something, fine. If it doesn’t, that’s fine too.
Toke may not say anything because she wishes to appear strong
and non chalant, but damn, she isn’t made of steel and has
blood in her veins and emotions like we all do. Last time I
checked, most people that have been a victim of cyber bullying
such as this are human too. Also, there is no age restriction on
these blogs so your kids are reading and learning. To those who
make these comments its “fun”, but when does fun turn into
torment and emotional abuse?
Toke and I are not close friends so I have nothing to gain from
defending her except calling a spade a spade.
If someone is having personal issues, offer words of support and
move on, if she likes going to parties, free her because she is
using her legs and not yours. If she wants to vlog about her life,
take what you can from it and keep it moving. Try and distinct
constructive comments from vicious ones. Try to distinct funny
from wicked.
From the little I know about her, Toke Makinwa is a sweet lady.
She is friendly, funny and down to earth so it leaves me
wondering, what all these people raining hurtful abuses about
her stand to gain. Even if she is not all these things, if they
don’t know her personally, what do they stand to gain? You
want to know the answer? Absolutely NOTHING!. They comment,
laugh, and move on. To them its entertainment but to the person
who is being picked on, its not close to funny. When it becomes
a family member, its not close to funny. If it is your child
someday, it will not be close to funny.
With that said, I hope people search their conscience before they
comment. If not, no problem. We can’t see you as anonymous
but God knows how its going down.
I have had some deep discussions about this with a few big
name celebrities and hopefully, as the years progress, something
can be done to see a big reduction in cyber bullying. Lets aspire
to love more and hate less.
Veteran producer, OJB Jezreel has landed in Nigeria months after undergoing a successful kidney transplant in India. Jezreel, who was earlier expected to return on Saturday, 7th December 2013, according to what I just learnt, actually breezed in on Thursday, 5th December 2013.
His return at an earlier date was arranged to make it a surprise for everyone.
Sources say Jezreel is being lodged now in a hotel at an undisclosed, secret location, not far from his Surulere, Lagos residence. This also was to allow him have enough rest as he recuperates, to avoid him being disturbed by fans who anxiously looked forward to receive him.
The music producer returned with his wife, Mabel Okungbowa, who donated one of her kidneys to save him.
Can you see what I'm seeing!......trendy or trashy?
