Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 Experts tasked with dismantling Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal headed out for their first mission on Friday since their organisation was named winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) members left their Damascus hotel in six vehicles for an unknown location to pursue their mission begun when they arrived in war-torn Syria on October 1

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 As the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, enters the fourth month, there are strong indications that the Federal Government has commenced the implementation of the “No Work, No Pay” rule. Vanguard  gathered from a reliable source at the National Universities Commission, NUC, that the government has passed a directive to the various universities governing councils to stop payment of salaries of the striking lecturers. The ASUU Zonal Chairman in Abuja, Mr Clement Chup confirmed this yesterday after a zonal conference of ASUU, University of Abuja chapter, which took place at the Gwagwalada campus to review the nationwide strike. He said his colleagues were yet to receive their September salaries. According to him, “we have resorted to other welfare strategies to cope with the effect of the strike, particularly to contain the various attempts by government to break the resolve of the union. The Federal Governm...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 Nuella Njubigbo, Nollywood actress Today is the Passing Out Parade (POP) of the 2012 Batch ‘C’ members of the National Youth Service Corps. Nollywood actress, Nuella Njubigbo, who served in Delta state is one of the corps members that have just completed the mandatory one year scheme.Pictured above is her posing with her NYSC certificate CONGRATULATIONS  NUELLA!!!

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 Teenage rights activist Malala Yousafzai told an audience in New York Thursday that she would like to become prime minister of Pakistan to “save” the country. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a sold-out public event, she also said winning Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize would be a “great honor.” Asked about her conflicting dreams of becoming a doctor or a politician, and whether she would like to become premier, Malala said she wanted to help her homeland. “I want to become a prime minister of Pakistan,” she told Amanpour to cheers from the audience. “I think it’s really good because through politics I can save my whole country,” she added. “I can spend much of the budget on education and I can also concentrate on foreign affairs.” Malala was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban on October 9, 2012, for speaking out against them, demanding that girls have the right to go to school. She was flown to Britain for special...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 No fewer than 17 people, all adult males,  reported died following multiple auto-crashes on the Ilorin-New Jebba Road on Friday. The accident was said to have occurred about 3.30am at Peke Village which is about 16 kilometres from Ilorin, Kwara State. It involved a tanker with Registration No. CD 762 KMT and two Toyota buses, registration numbers: TAK 113 XA and  XD 762 KMT. The tanker was said to be heading to Lagos and had two occupants; while the two buses were coming from Lagos to Katsina and were conveying 38 people, each having 19 occupants. The tanker was said to have ran onto the two vehicles killing 17 people, injuring 10 while 13 people were said to have survived without injuries. The Kwara State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Mrs. Mary Wakawa confirmed the accident and the data in an interview with journalists in Ilorin. She stated that the 17 deceased had ...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 nPDP chair, Kawu Baraje The Independent National Electoral Commission has refused to recognize the Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party.  The commission in a letter with reference number INEC /LEG/PDP/19/111.25 dated October 2, 2013 and signed by the Acting Secretary of the Commission, U.F Usman insisted on the leadership of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the authentic leadership of the National Working Committee of the party.  The INEC letter was a reply to Mr.  Baraje faction's letter to the commission, in which it notified the commission on the  "change of leadership" within the party.  A former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola wrote the letter just as the commission's letter was also addressed to him.  The letter reads, " Commission acknowledges the receipt of your letter dated September 1 and 23 2013 respectively wherein you requested the commission's recognition ...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 An Upper Area Court in Mararaba, NasarawaState, yesterday, sentenced a 27-year-old butcher, Mu’azu Lawali, to four years imprisonment for raping a minor. The presiding officer, Mr. Vincent Gwehemba, did not give the convict an option of fine. The convict, who lives in Angwan Ganda Masaka, was arraigned for having unlawful carnal knowledge of an 11-year-old girl. The prosecutor, Inspector Joseph Ahua, told the court that the matter was reported by the victim’s parents at Masaka Police Station on October 4. Ahua said the convict confessed to committing the offence, which contravened Section 283 of the Penal Code. “Whoever has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 14 years and shall also be liable to fine,” the Penal Code reads. The accused, however, pleaded guilty to the charge.

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was released on Thursday several hours after being seized from a Tripoli hotel by former rebel militiamen, the foreign minister said. “He has been freed but we have no details so far on the circumstances of his release,” Mohammed Abdelaziz told AFP. Government spokesman Mohamed Kaabar told the state LANA news agency that the premier had been “freed, not released”, without saying how. He said Zeidan was “in good health” but did not elaborate on what he meant by his not being released. Moments before news broke of Zeidan’s release, Deputy Prime Minister Al-Seddik Abdelkarim had vowed that the government would not give into the demands of the perpetrators of a “criminal act”. “The government will not give in to blackmail by anyone,” he said. The pre-dawn seizure of Zeidan came five days after US commandos embarrassed and angered Libya’s government by capturing senior Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Anas al-Libi off t...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 11th 2013 Desmond-Tutu African leaders behind the move to extract the continent from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court are effectively seeking a licence to kill, maim and oppress their people without consequences. They are saying that African leaders should not allow the interests of the people to get in the way of their personal ambitions. Being held to account interferes with their ability to act with impunity to achieve their objectives. Those who get in their way – their victims – should remain faceless and voiceless. They are arguing that the golden rule of reciprocity – do unto others as you would have them do to you – should not apply to them. And nor should any legal system. But they know that they cannot say these things in public, so they say that the ICC is racist. At first glance, when one tallies the number of African leaders versus European and North American leaders prosecuted by the court, their argument appe...