Gabitainment

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said on Friday that it had “resolved to suspend the strike action embarked upon on 14th February 2022.” Suspension suggests the temporary interruption of an activity. But it’s time to stop this annual ritual of nationwide strikes in public universities permanently. There is nowhere in the world where, like clockwork, the entire public university system of a country shuts down for nearly a year every year, or every other year, because university teachers are on strike. Not even in banana republics does this happen. ASUU has been going on strikes for as long as we all remember— to get successive governments to honor “agreements” that they signed. Governments either never honor the agreements or do so only partly just to cause the temporary cessation of strikes in the aftermath of public pressures. A famous wisecrack often attributed to Albert Einstein says, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different ...

Fellow Nigerians, I address you today, with a deep sense of gratitude to God and a high level of appreciation to all Nigerians whose tremendous goodwill gave me the opportunity to provide leadership for our great country at one of the trying times in her history. 2. Conscious that today’s address would be my last on an Independence Day as your President; I speak to the millions of Nigerians, who believed in me, propelled and stood by me in my quest to bequeath a country where all citizens have equal opportunities to achieve their lives desires in a peaceful atmosphere. 3. I am honoured to say that my story in the annals of Nigeria’s history is no household secret. My various attempts, failures and eventual success in being elected as a Democratic President in 2015 was made possible by the majority of Nigerians. 4. When you elected me, I readily acknowledged that the tasks before me were daunting but surmountable because of the growing national consensus that our chosen rout...

Fresh Facts have emerged on why the Federal Government quickly reversed its order to the various university management to reopen public universities amid the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Recall that the Federal Government had earlier ordered Vice-Chancellors to re-open schools. It had asked the Vice-Chancellors of universities “to ensure that the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resume and commence lectures immediately.” However, it later issued another directive withdrawing its earlier circular. DAILY POST gathered that the opinion leaders and other stakeholders interested in resolving the face-off between the ASUU and the government mounted pressure on government requesting that the circular, earlier sent to mandate the reopening of the universities, be withdrawn. A senior official in the Ministry of Education, who didn’t want his name mentioned, disclosed that “the circular was withdrawn t...

In a very exciting and patriotic twist, the Plateau Diaspora communities in the US, UK, Canada, German and South Africa put forward a bold offer to crowd fund the development of the Jos Main Market. The diaspora community put the offer, as a counter-offer to JAIZ bank’s offer to rebuild the market for N10 billion. Making their case at a parley organised by the project management office of the Plateau State Government, hosted by the Chief of Staff, Mr Noel Dongjur, former commissioner Mr. Jaafaru David Wuyep and the DG of the Plateau Infrastructure Promotion & Regulatory Agency (PPP Office) Mr Felix Rwang-Dung. The Plateau Diaspora community confirmed that they are ready to pool funds together (into what they tagged a “Diaspora Fund”, contributing N1 million per head in order to crowd fund the initiative). They argued that they’d rather do this, than have the equity of such a priced asset handed over to external investors –they said that the main market offers a unique o...