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ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities [ASUU] has said that it is not been used and cannot be used by any political party to achieve its goal. The union also said that it does not work on the basis of tribe or religion in pursuing its aims and objectives. ASUU Calabar zone made this clarification in a statement issued in Umuahia, yesterday. by its coordinator, Dr. Charlie Ononuju in reaction to a certain publication which accused the union of being used by the APC. Ononuju described the publication as “entirely false and misleading [as] the union is not and cannot be influenced by any political party. The union embarked this national strike to secure the furniture education of the Nigerian child”. According to him, “It has nothing to do with politics, religion or where one comes from as being canvassed. The union is democratic and all issues and decisions are democratically resolved and taken. “The zone urges the group [that made the publication] to jettison the propaganda and call o...

Alao Akala He doesn't bleach? That hand could have fooled me. In an interview with Saturday Punch, former governor of Oyo State Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, denied bleaching his skin and said anyone who says he's bleaching is very stupid. During the interview, a Punch reporter asked him, 'Is it part of your own fashion to bleach?' OMG! Can't believe he asked that question straight up...lol. Big ups to the reporter.  Alao-Akala replied... Bleach? That is stupidity; you are asking a very stupid question, how can I bleach? You are very stupid to ask that question. What do you mean by that? What gave you that impression? (He pulled up his clothe and singlet to show his fair complexion.) Is this bleaching? Have you seen the cream that I use that makes me bleach or did you know me when I was black? So if you want to write that, put it there that I said you are very stupid to ask me that kind of question. Don’t ask that kind of question again. What you don’t know; you a...

Mandela From the confines of apartheid prison and during the ill health that stalked his last years, Nelson Mandela yearned for the rolling hills and open spaces of his boyhood village of Qunu. It was here, in South Africa’s rural hinterland, that the man who went on to shape the destiny of the country took up his first responsibility as a five-year-old herd boy. The young Mandela’s days were filled with stick-fighting, sipping warm milk from cows’ udders, fishing and sliding down a rocky slope with friends. Bed was a mat on the floor of one of the three thatched, mud-walled round huts in his mother’s homestead. Meals were cooked on open fires with food harvested from the family garden. “From these days I date my love of the veld (grassland), of open spaces, the simple beauties of nature, the clean lines of the horizon,” Mandela wrote in his memoir “Long Walk to Freedom”. Qunu, he said in an unpublished draft of the memoir, was “the sweet home where I had spent the happiest days ...

A 23-year old armed robbery suspect Rafiu Ayinde whose gang and some members of the public mistake as the most dangerous  armed robbery kingpin, Abiodun Ogunjobi aka Abey Godogodo has said that he should not be associated with the king of the underworld because he cannot fit into his shoes. He however claimed that ever since Godogodo became a public figure, anyone he attempts to rob will never resist because they felt that he (Godogodo)has escaped from prison again. In an interview with  Saturday Sun , Ayinde who is the son of a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain in Lagos said he may look like Godogodo but he is yet to  reach the kingpin’s level of notoriety. According to him “Please, don’t relate me with the armed robbery kingpin Godogodo. I have not reached that level. People are calling and addressing me as Godogodo’s junior brother to my greatest surprise because I  have one eye, I am not his brother not to talk of of being a member of his gang. The...