Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

Tope Adesipo There are strong indications that the over 4 months old strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be called off next week. That ordinarily should be an all round good news but it’s good news with so many bad and worrisome contents in it. What informed this conclusion? While I agree that the strike has dragged on for too long, it is important to also note that until recently when the president of the country personally engaged the union in talks, talks between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had broken and of course talks broke down over the non-implementation of an agreement its willingly entered into with   ASUU in 2009, after 3 years of negotiations. However, the Nigerian government failed to implement the agreement, instead of doing the needful, top government officials employed threats, blackmail and street-gutter propaganda. Perhaps nothing better demonstrates the contempt that government has...

Obiano The All progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately commence the process of prosecuting APGA’s governorship candidate for Anambra, Mr. Willie Obiano, following the revelation that he engaged in multiple voter registration. In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Obiano’s multiple registration provides the best test case yet for INEC to convince Nigerians that it is indeed willing and able to discourage multiple voter registration by making those who engage in this electoral fraud to face the full wrath of the law. ”Prosecuting Obiano will also show that INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega was not just bluffing when he recently called for the establishment of an electoral offences tribunal before the 2015 general elections to help restore sanity to the country’s electoral process and deter people from committing electoral offences,” i...

The sleepy riverside settlement of Ogbogoro in the outskirts of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital was Thursday night thrown into mourning following the burning to death of a five year old girl in an inferno. The deceased child, simply identified as Princess, eyewitnesses told Saturday Vanguard, was a daughter of a policeman attached to the Osiama Division of the State Police Command in Southern Ijaw local government area of the state. It was gathered that the inferno which occurred at about 7.30pm was caused by a burning candle. Saturday Vanguard learnt that at the time of the incident, the mother of the deceased was in the market selling crayfish while the father was away at his duty post in the creek of the state. It was learnt that the sister to the deceased, who is a Junior Secondary School (JSS) student, had made use of the candle light in  solving her school homework. She was said to have left the candle burning and went out to get some foodstuff for  her siblings. ...