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December 5, 2013

Kayode Komolafe: ASUU strike – It’s obvious Wike and Okupe don’t know what they’re doing

by Kayode Komolafe It is sad to imagine the thought-process that would lead any one in government to make the sort of statements coming out of Abuja on the ASUU…

December 5, 2013

Opinion: ASUU strike – Oga Wike, abeg sack ALL the lecturers!

by Steve Nwosu Wike must sack o! Because I am already composing my application letter to take over from the irritant ASUU people. Don’t ask me if I have the…

December 4, 2013

Opinion: The ASUU strike is bad but Wike’s threat of mass sack is worse

by Wale Sokunbi These steps taken by Wike at the tail end of the efforts to end the strike, and at a time when the end of the industrial action…

December 2, 2013

ASUU strike update: Don’t send your children to school, we won’t teach them – Lecturers warn parents

by 'Jola Sotubo The battle between the Federal Government and the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has attained a new intensity following a 7-day ultimatum issued…

November 30, 2013

ASUU strike update: UNN and ESUT students to resume on Monday

by Oke Efagene The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), have announced the resumption of academic activities on Monday, December…

November 28, 2013

The showdown begins! Federal Government gives ASUU 7-day ultimatum to call off strike

by Oke Efagene The face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Union of University (ASUU) has reached its climax today with the latest development. According to a Punch report, the Federal…

November 28, 2013

ASUU strike update: Our demands are NOT outrageous – Lecturers fire back at minister

by 'Jola Sotubo Following the disclosure of a new set of conditions upon the fulfillment of which they would call off the strike, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)…

October 23, 2013

ASUU strike will be over in a few months – Education minister

by 'Jola Sotubo In a bid to quell rising tensions and give reassurance , the Federal Government has said that the ongoing 4-month old Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) …

September 13, 2013

#YouCare: “I am going back to teach” – Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, sacked education minister

by 'Jola Sotubo The former Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa'i, who was one of the affected nine relieved of their duties has said that she will be going back…

August 25, 2013

Rivers crisis: Wike appears before PDP committee, gives condition for peace with Amaechi

by Akan Ido The Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike who is seen to be at the forefront of political opposition to Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has given…

August 21, 2013

Opinion: As Nyesom Wike faces the jury

by Emmanuel Onwubiko The Government of Rivers State has become popular under the current dispensation for achieving so much in the educational sector especially with the building of infrastructure like…

August 21, 2013

Rivers crisis: Wike’s group faults Amaechi’s swearing-in of Acting CJ

by Isi Esene Governor Rotimi Amaechi's swearing-in of President, state customary Court of Appeal, Justice Peter Agumagu, as the acting chief judge, yesterday has drawn the ire of a group supporting…

August 14, 2013

Opinion: Tony Anenih, Goodluck Jonathan and his trouble-making elders

by Rotimi Fasan His veiled attack at nameless and unpatriotic elders making comments likely to cause disaffection and disunity among Nigerians was definitely one of his many incompetent attempts at…

August 10, 2013

Rivers crisis: PDP, Amaechi’s supporters trade accusations

Factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Rivers State Felix Obuah, has described as unfortunate, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s rejection of the party’s peace overtures. Obviously, Obuah was reacting…

August 3, 2013

Rivers crisis: Amaechi opens up on rift with Patience Jonathan, Wike

by Akan Ido Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has shed more light into the political friction between him and the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Amaechi who continued to profess…

July 25, 2013

Opinion: As Rotimi Amaechi self-destructs in style…

by Lewis Chukwuma From a synthesis of current political analysis related to the Rivers crisis, political oblivion beckons on Amaechi if he will or cannot drop his current strategy of…

July 15, 2013

Opinion: Rivers political crisis and the fine art of taking sides

by Saatah Nubari If one of your friends turned against you, and now his friend who happens to be your new friend, supports you and is against him, whose side…

July 6, 2013

Rivers power play: How I smuggled Amaechi into Abuja in the night and made him governor – Nyesom Wike opens up

by Akan Ido Nyesom Wike, the Minister of State for Education has been in a long-drawn political battle with the embattled Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi with both parties engaging in…

July 6, 2013

Amaechi is free to quit the PDP – Presidency

by Isi Esene The Presidency yesterday said the governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi is free to leave the Paeoples Democratic Party if he is not ready to respect President…

July 1, 2013

How Wike, Opara betrayed me – Amaechi opens up

by Akan Ido The governor of Rivers staate, Rotimi Amaechi has described his former Chief of Staff and the current Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike as "too small…

June 29, 2013

Photo of the Day: Gov. Amaechi forces a smile as he (finally) meets Jonathan in Rivers

by Akan Ido President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday met with the embattled governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi at the Port Harcourt International Airport in the presence of a faction of…

May 31, 2013

Opinion: Rotimi Amaechi’s victory is his only sin

by Wale Odunsi The treatment being mete out to Amaechi is prejudicial and I urge the 27 supporting members in the House of Assembly to remain unshaken in their resolute…

May 10, 2013

Aha: “You cannot eat alone… The day you speak, I will speak too” – Nyesom Wike replies Amaechi

by Rachel Ogbu Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike (Punch) As the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, said threatens to expose some Abuja-based politicians from the state owing…

May 27, 2012

Have you heard about the 4-year Education master plan? FG has big plans for schools

In four years time, the dead-in-the-water education sector in Nigeria should be positively transformed in line with the agenda of this administration. Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, says the ministry knows what…

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