A four story building collapsed in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Monday, killing at least four construction workers, the Red Cross said, and leaving around 50 workers trapped inside the rubble, according to witnesses.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Jonathan, ASUU meeting: Varsity teachers still undecided
The over 12 hours marathon meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ended at about 3.30am on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja without a commitment from the union members.
ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Isa Faggae, told State House correspondent that the delegation was taking back Oduah to appear before Senate tomorrow
Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, at the hearing on the N255m purchased armoured cars for the minister at National Assembly in Abuja ... on Thursday
The troubles of the embattled Minister
‘We killed policemen because we needed their guns’
The suspects
A new trend seems to be unfolding in Lagos State as robbers now kill security operatives for the sole purpose of snatching their guns which are later used in carrying out robberies.
The revelation came to the fore as the Lagos State Police Command arrested an eight-man robbery gang.
According to Police authorities, the suspects, Ife Olubaba, Saheed Wasiu, Segun Idowu, Wasiu Rafiu,
Pregnant at 18, best graduating student at 25
Aishat with her son, Damilola
Seven years after an unwanted pregnancy forced her to drop out of the University of Ilorin, Aishat Farooq emerges the best graduating student of the Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, reports Temitayo Famutimi
When Aishat Farooq gained admission into the University of Ilorin at 15, to study Zoology, little did she know that she was not going to be an alumnus of the institution. That was in 2003.
Don’t re-introduce SAP, ASUU warns FG
ASUU president, Fagge
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has raised the alarm over an alleged plan by the Federal Government to return the Structural Adjustment Programme "through the back door" 24 years after its introduction by the regime of the former dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (rtd) in 1989.
According to ASUU, government should reject "the reintroduction of SAP through the back door".
ASUU strike heats up admission in Ghanaian varsities
Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike
Ghana's public universities are facing a boom in applications, but do not have sufficient facilities to meet growing demand that has been exacerbated by an influx of students from neighbouring countries and a double cohort leaving school this year.
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