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Education Minister Pleads With Lecturers To Suspend Strike

The Minister of Education, Professor Ruquayyatu Rufai has appealed to members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) to call off its industrial action in the interest of Nigerian student








Speaking at a meeting with Vice-Chancellors of Universities in Abuja on Monday, Professor Rufai expressed optimism that issues of non-implementation of policies between the federal government and members of the union will be resolved amicably when both parties meet with members of the Senate committee on education on Tuesday.

The lecturers embarked on an indefinite strike a week ago over the failure of the federal government’s agreement reached years ago.

The Minister also warned Vice-Chancellors to desist from awarding honorary degrees to people who do not deserve it noting that the situation has become embarrassing.

Soldiers Kill Over 100 Insurgents After Village Attack In Jos

The Special Task Force (STF) operation Safe Haven, in Plateau state, said more than 100 rebels that recently attacked some villages in Langtang south local government area of the state, were killed in a gun duel with officers of the task force.

Commander of the STF, Major General Henry Ayoola, while speaking in Jos on the situation of the incident explained that the issue was not a case of ethnic crisis as insinuated, but rather a situation where some gunmen came to attack residents of three communities.

According to the Army General, as soon as STF got the alert on the attack, the task force troop moved into the communities to bring the situation under control but they were attacked by the insurgents.

This led to a cross fire in which over a hundred of the attackers were killed, he explained

Commander of the STF assured that the affected communities are under surveillance as more troops have been deployed for intensive patrol of the areas to forestall any attack.

 About 28 villagers were killed in the pre-dawn attack by suspected Fulani gunmen on Magama, Bongon and Karkashi villages of Langtang south local government area of Plateau state, north central Nigeria.

The Fulani herdsmen are alleged to have carried out the attack on the Taroh after hundreds of their cattle were stolen. Two villages in a nearby Fulani and Hausa community were subsequently burnt and the residents fled.

5-Man Medical Team Perform First Successful Heart Surgery In Nigeria

The first ever cardiovascular surgery in a public facility in Nigeria was done successfully in the University College Hospital Ibadan.
A call for the solicitation of funds has however been made to the Federal Government to support this facility to enable it delivery health care services  in an affordable rate and most importantly to death from complicated heart ailments among Nigerians.

The 5-man team led by head of cardiology Tri State Cardiovascular Institute in Delaware were the 1st set of experts to use the Catheterisation lab ( cath lab) which was installed through a Public Private Partnership  arrangement at the UCH precisely a year ago.


The defining moment finally arrived and 9 patients were slated for the heart procedure known as intervention cardiology where operations were done without opening up the patients.

In record time, complex heart problems were corrected with all the patients leaving the operating table alive, well and ready to go back home in hours.

Some of the lucky patients who spoke exclusively to Channels Television hours after their procedure could not hide their astonishment at the speed and recover rate of the procedure, hence a nod of appreciation at signs of healthcare improvement in the country.


The leader of the team of cardiac surgeons who came to the University College Hospital from Tri State Cardiovascular Centre, Delaware in the United States; Dr. Kamal Adeleke confirmed that his team will be back in August for another set of surgery and commence training for relevant surgeons and other personnel to handle the state of the art equipment at the UCH lab.

The CMD of the University College Hospital; Professor Temitope Alonge told newsmen that it is a dream come true as Nigerians do not need to travel abroad for complicated heart malfunctions any longer.

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BREAKING NEWS:ASUU STRIKE BEGIN'S TODAY "JOINS ASUP"

Academic activities may be paralyzed on university campuses nationwide as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared indefinite strike action to compel the Federal Government to implement the agreement reached with the union in October 2009.

Indications to this emerged at the University of Ibadan when the academic staff of the university received a text message which reads “Good morning, this is to officially inform you that ASUU has declared a total, comprehensive and indefinite STRIKE from Monday, July 1, 2013. Await further briefing.
ASUU UI.”

Immediately the text was received, academic staff who had been expectant, praised the decision of the National Executive Council (NEC) on the decision to proceed on strike to improve the condition of the nation’s universities and improve quality of service delivery.

The NEC of ASUU, which concluded its meeting at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, was said to have considered the state of implementation at the universities and concluded that the Federal Government had not been faithful in implementing the agreements substantially.

Although, ASUU is to officially address a world press conference today, sources at the NEC said the decision to proceed on strike included failure of the Federal Government to meet the funding requirements for revitalisation of Nigerian universities; progressive increase of annual budgetary allocation to education to 26 per cent between 2009 and 2020, earned allowances, and setting up of research and development units by companies operating in Nigeria and teaching and research equipment provision to laboratories and classrooms.

According to the source, ASUU took the decision after “observing all possible means of making government to implement the agreement yielded no results.”

Meanwhile, immediately the text message circulated, some lecturers at the Premier University who were slated for lectures did not go while students waited in vain.

The University of Ibadan undergraduate resumed the second semester last week leaving the students to groan with the latest development.

Nigerians to start paying £3, 000 to enter the UK from November

According to a report by UK Daily Mail, visitors from 'high risk' countries in Africa and Asia will have to put up a £3,000 cash bond to enter Britain.
The money will be kept by the Government if visitors do not return home by the time their visas expire.
A pilot scheme, introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May, will target hundreds of people coming to Britain on six-month visit visas from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The countries have been picked for their high number of visa applications and what the Government sees as relatively high levels of immigration abuse and fraud, reports the Sunday Times.


The bonds, to be introduced from November, will only apply to non-EU migrants, otherwise they would fall foul of European rights to free movement. 

'This is the next step in making sure our immigration system is more selective, bringing down net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands while still welcoming the brightest and the best to Britain,' Mrs May told the Sunday Times.

'In the long run we’re interested in a system of bonds that deters overstaying and recovers costs if a foreign national has used our public services.'

A second scheme will cover countries such as Kenya, the newspaper reports, which are considered to be lower-risk because immigration officials have fewer doubts about migrants' plans to return home.

About 2.2million people are granted visas to enter Britain every year. Last year 296,000 people from India were granted six-month visas, as were 101,000 from Nigeria, 53,000 from Pakistan and 14,000 apiece from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The Home Secretary plans to reduce annual net migration to under 100,000 by 2015

South Africa Now Visa-Free For Nigerian Passport Holders

Nigeria and South Africa on Tuesday signed an agreement aimed at ending visa acquisition by holders of official and diplomatic passports.
Ministers from both countries have been charged to ensure the effective implementation of the newly signed instruments and the conclusion of outstanding agreements.

Both Presidents, Jacob Zuma and Goodluck Jonathan met in Cape Town, South Africa where various issues were discussed on how to improve on relationship between both countries as they agreed on so many issues aimed at boosting development in the continent.
Beside the visas waiver agreement both countries also signed eight other bilateral agreements which include, cooperation in legal field, oil and gas sectors, power sector development, environment,defence cooperation, women development and empowerment as well as child development.

The bilateral agreements also cover geology, mining, mineral processing and metallurgy and fields of information and communication technology.

For both presidents, stronger ties between both countries is necessary if the continent’s fortune is to be improved.

In his view, President Zuma said, ”we have a duty to take this historic relationship further. Our two countries have already grown very warm bilateral relations structured through the bi-national commission that was officially inaugurated in 1999,”.

The meeting also afforded President Zuma the opportunity to express his joy also the number of South African companies doing businesses in Nigeria, the biggest investment being in the telecommunication sector.

He further noted that it is the intention of South Africa to expand to other sectors such as engineering, construction, banking, oil and the media.

He also advocated for both countries to promote people to people relationship especially through tourism which he said has generated huge Foreign Direct Investment for the country.

“Last year alone, South Africa received a total of 73,282 Nigerian tourists which is an 13.8percent increase from 2011 contributing about 720million Rands to the South African economy within the period.”

In his responding, President Jonathan, described the signing of nine bilateral agreements between the two countries is a major achievement that would enhance the critical role of Nigeria and South Africa in transforming the continent,

The President later addressed joined session of the South African parliament where he re-echoed the need for the two countries to strengthen partnership in growing the continent’s economy.