NASU may Join ASUU Strike Next Week

As strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the nation’s tertiary institutions enters its fourth month, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has indicated its resolve to embark on its own indefinite strike next week.

Speaking at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the trade union in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Tuesday, NASU’s general secretary, Prince Peters Adeyemi, said members of the union had not been paid for two months, despite working to keep university system running during the ongoing ASUU strike.

Mourinho 'raged and cried' at Moyes getting United job

Jose Mourinho raged and screamed after being overlooked for the vacant manager's job at Manchester United, according to a new warts-and-all biography of the Portuguese manager.

Spanish journalist Diego Torres's book "Preparense Para Perder" - or "Prepare to Lose" in English - paints a portrait of Mourinho's time as Real Madrid manager.

And the book claims that the moment Mourinho discovered he found out he would not be moving from the Bernabeu to Old Trafford, "were the most miserable hours of Mourinho in his time as manager of Real Madrid."

Luis Suarez has damaged Liverpool's brand with his racist abuse and biting, says managing director Ian Ayre

Luis Suarez’s racist abuse and biting incidents damaged Liverpool’s brand, according to the club’s managing director Ian Ayre. Speaking at the Sport Industry breakfast in London this morning, Ayre said: “Any types of incident of that nature are damaging to a brand.

 “What’s important at those times is to ensure that we act respectfully and professionally as a football club. In the past we got some of that wrong and I would say more recently we got that right.

 “Luis is a footballer, a street fighter: he’s a larger than life character.
“Nobody is condoning any bad behaviour but it’s just something you have to deal with.

 “He is what he is and he’s the character that he is, and you just have to try and harness that.”

EXCLUSIVE: Obasanjo’s sister owns Apo building where squatters were killed - Premium Times

The unfinished building where security forces killed at least seven squatters Friday, September 20, in the Apo neighbourhood of Abuja, belongs to Mrs. Adunni Oluwole Salisu, believed to be the sister to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a PREMIUM TIMES investigation has revealed.

Documents from the Abuja Geographical Information Systems (AGIS) shows that the property, located at No. 8 Bamanga Tukur Street, Gudu District, near the Gudu cemetery, belongs to Mrs. Salisu.

SaharaTV Interview with Goodluck Jonathan On The Streets Of New York

The SaharaTV reporter caugth up with President Goodluck Jonathan in New York, Check out the video below

Source: Sahara Reporters

Suspected Female Boko Haram arrested with poisinous substance

The residents of Gomari and Bulunkutu wards of Maiduguri metropolis in Borno state; were gripped with “fears and pandemonium,” as members of Borno Vigilance Youths Group (BVYG) and the military Joint Task Force (JTF) Thursday, arrested a Boko Haram female terror suspect, along with a 35-year old man, suspected to be an informant of the Islamist sect who engages women in the smuggling and carrying of rifles and ammunitions.


In Borno state, our correspondent observed that ‘the fear of women is the beginning of wisdom’, as the security agencies and the vigilante youths are searching the females more than the males following series of arrest and discoveries that many of the women  arrested were in possession of firearms in the state.

According to JTF sources  in Maiduguri, the vigilance youths have already arrested five female Boko Haram terror suspects with rifles and 254 rounds of ammunitions in three wards of the metropolis, before the youths arrested this woman and a man, during their routine “stop and search” operations.

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