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Saturday 15 March 2014
ASUP Strike Update: YABATECH Students Protest
The students of Yaba College of Technology took to the streets of Lagos on Friday to protest the eight-month strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics.While disrupting traffic at Yaba, Fadeyi, Jibowu, and Onipanu areas of Lagos, the students said they were out to express their grievances over the neglect of their plight by the Federal Government.
Many of them also bore placards with inscriptions such as “FG, please call off ASUP strike,” “HND=BSc,” “Nyesom Wike, Stop Discriminating and Intervene,” “We want to return to our classes,” etc.While speaking with reporters, the President of the Students’ Union Government of the institution, Ganiyu Salvador said, “We are not protesting as YABATECH students, but as concerned students, and what we want to achieve is to have our voices heard.“This strike has taken too long and nobody is saying anything about it. Unlike when ASUU was on strike, we don’t get much attention from anybody.
We have spent so much time at home. Is it because we are not university students?“They are toiling with our future. Since nobody is speaking for us, we have decided to speak for ourselves. We want to know why the Federal Government and even the National Association of Nigerian Students have neglected us.
“We should not be spending more time than we are supposed to spend in school. We want our voices to be heard and something done urgently concerning our plight.”While emphasising his claim of neglect by the Federal Government, Salvador said the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, had at the Tertiary Institutions Trust Fund event held at Ibadan, on Thursday, allegedly told them it was not a forum to discuss their plight when a question was posed to him regarding the strike and that they (polytechnic students) should stop intimidating him.The students chanted various protest songs and chorused, “We are tired of going to the clubs, watching movies, and sleeping at home.”
KaySwitch And His Babymama Welcomes Baby Girl [PHOTO]
They welcomed a bundle of joy this morning.
The artiste made the announcement on his Instagram page with the caption: “My GIFT from GOD. Too excited, more pictures comin soon.”
We can’t wait to see more pictures of this adorable beauty. We say congratulations to the latest father in town, KaySwitch.See baby after cut...
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PROUD FATHER: Peter Okoye Playing With His Sweet Kids In The Pool
Talented, successful and handsome P-Square duo member has recently shared some photos of himself playing with Aliona and Cameron in the pool... and the 3 seem just as amazing as they can be! More pics after the cut:
Seven Dead, Many Wounded During Immigrations Recruitment In Abuja (SEE PHOTOS)
Thousands of youths gathered to apply for jobs with the immigration department before the tragic incident occurred. One witness said the stampede broke out as applicants surged towards a central stage. See more pictures after the cut.
Man Allegedly Blinds A Married Woman Because She Refused To Have Sex With Him
Amaka was seriously injured in her right eye when she was allegedly beaten up by Kingsley at a beauty salon. She said after undergoing several operations, the doctors at Apapa General Hospital confirmed that she cannot see with the eye again.
Following the assault, the police at Area ‘B’ Apapa arrested Kingsley and charged him with assault before Apapa Magistrate’s Court after which he was remanded in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.
Both Amaka and Kingsley, who is still single, admitted that they were friends but Amaka said they were just friends not lovers.She said she stopped relating with Kingsley when she discovered that he was desperate to have sex with her despite the fact that he knew that she was married and had two kids.
She said after several attempts by him to sleep with her failed, he became aggressive and when she noticed that, she started avoiding him.
Amaka said Kingsley eventually traced her to a salon at Pen Crescent, Apapa, Lagos where she went to have her hair done and attacked her in front of the beauty shop.
“He waited for me outside the salon. When he saw me, he started abusing me after I refused his advances. I replied him and he hit my eye and threw me on the floor. He started hitting his head on my eyes until I started bleeding,” she told the court.
Amaka said it was their neighbours who came to her rescue and took her to the hospital, while Kingsley immediately started his motorcycle and rode off after attacking her.
She alleged that after the attack, Kingsley boasted that nothing would happen to him because he has money to bail himself out of any difficult situation.
Amaka reported the case to the police but alleged that she was asked to collect N30,000 for her eye operation in order to settle the matter out of court.
Amaka said she had spent over N200,000 on the surgeries but they were not successful.
She called on the state government to come to her aid and ensure justice was done in the matter. Meanwhile, when Kingsley was contacted, he admitted attacking Amaka but said he wanted to settle the matter out of court but she refused.
When he was arraigned, he pleaded not guilty.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs O.A Adegbite, granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.
He was, however, remanded in prison custody pending when he will fulfill his bail conditions
The matter was adjourned till 24 March.
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Ex-president General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Amb. Ralph Uwechue Dies At 79
Elected in November 2008 to head Ohaneze, Chief Uwechue was a envoy leader during the Obasanjo administration where he supervised conflict resolutions in Africa and was also appointed to lead the ECOWAS Peace mission in Cote d’Ivoire.
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