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Supreme Court sacks Bayelsa, Adamawa, Sokoto, C/River, Kogi State Governors

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:34:50 +0100

The Supreme Court has in a judgement delivered, Friday morning, sacked Governors Liyel Imoke, Murtala Nyako, Ibrahim Idris, Wamako and Temipre Silva of Cross River, Adamawa, Kogi, Sokoto and Bayelsa states from office.

The court in Abuja held that the tenures of the governors started to count from the time they took their oath of office after emerging winners in their respective state governorship elections in 2007 and not from the period they took their second oaths of office after emerging winners of the re-run elections when there initial elections were nullified.

The apex court held that the trial court as well as the Court of Appeal erred in law when the considered the actions taken by the respective governors before their elections were nullified by the various Election Petition Tribunals as valid on one hand while discounting the time they spent doing those valid actions from their constitutionally prescribed tenure of office.

The court held that the provisions of that section of the Constitution will stand violated if the tenure of office of the Governors is calculated from their second taking of Oath of Office and the Oath of Allegiance and stated that their tenure started counting from their first Oath of office which they all took after they were declared winners of the April 2007 elections and that they are entitled to four year terms from that date.

The court also rapped the Peoples Democratic party for attempting to abort the hearing of the matter at the court through their preliminary objections filed against all the consolidated appeals. The party had argued that the subject matter of the appeals have become academic and should be dismissed.

2face expecting baby number 6

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:29:41 +0100

2face Idibia is expecting his sixth child from longtime girlfriend and mother of two of his five children, Pero Adeniyi.

His media manager informed the press;

“Innocent 2face Idibia is about to welcome another baby into the world with his longtime girlfriend and the mother of two of his five children, Pero Adeniyi.”

“The baby is due to arrive in March and 2face Idibia is excited with the new addition to his family. In his own words, “children are a gift from God and I’m glad to have this bundle of joy.”

Boko Haram denies killing civilians in Kano bombings.

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:09:06 +0100

The leader of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram had denied killing civilians in last week’s assault in Kano.

In a message posted on YouTube, The Boko haram leader, Abubakar Shekau blamed the deaths of “innocent civilians” on the security forces.

About 185 people died in the Kano bombings and gun attacks.

In his 40 minute audio message, Abubakar Shekau also threatened to carry out a bombing campaign against Nigeria’s secondary schools and universities – unless security forces stopped what he claimed was a series of recent attacks on Islamic schools or madrassas in the northern town of Maiduguri. The still picture posted on YouTube shows Mr Shekau dressed in a black turban and a white gown and bullet- proof vest – holding an AK 47 rifle.

He reiterated claims that the Nigerian government would not be able to stop Boko Haram and demanded the release from prison of all its members.

Boko Haram has acknowledged carrying out attacks on police and other government buildings.

UNIlag ADMISSION LIST

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:55:53 +0100

Lagos state university (LASU) has released its supplementary admission list.
Candidates for admission into Lagos State University (LASU) whose names did not appear in the LASU merit admission list can now check their admission status below.
To view the list of candidates offered provisional admission into various academic programmes for the 2011/2012 academic session (LASU 2011/2012 Supplementary List)

WAEC SETS NEW RECORD 2001 RESULTS

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:49:42 +0100

The West African Examinations Council WAEC has set a new record with the release of the WAEC GCE 2011/2012 results.
The GCE Nov/Dec results were one of the best in recent times with 60% of the students who participated in the examination passing with credits in English Language and Mathematics which are required for admission into most universities in Nigeria.
The Head of National Office (HNO) for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Dr Iyi Uwadiae, said this at a news conference to announce the results
He said that 226,658 candidates, representing 60.86 per cent, obtained credit and above in Mathematics while 226, 188, representing 59.82 per cent, obtained credit and above in English Language.

Uwadiae also said that 147,012 candidates, representing 37.92 per cent, obtained credit and above in six subjects; 199,214 candidates, representing 51.39 per cent, obtained credit and above in five subjects; 246,312, representing 63.54 per cent, obtained credit and above in four subjects.

According to the HNO, 287,918 candidates, representing 74.27 per cent, obtained credit and above in three subjects while a total of 324,393 candidates, representing 83.68 per cent, obtained credit and above in two subjects.

ASUU strick to be called off on january

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:43:18 +0100

The lingering ASUU strike may be called off soon, if we are to go by statements made by the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Chukwuemeka Wogu, he has raised hopes of universities across the country reopening in January.

Speaking with newsmen in Aba, Abia, on Thursday, Wogu said that negotiations between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the lingering industrial dispute would be resolved soon.

The minister said that the Federal Government had been meeting with ASUU since the strike commenced early in the month, while promising that by January, an agreement would be reached.

According to him, not getting the lecturers back to the classrooms is the main problem.

Wogu said the government was looking critically and taking holistic approach to the contentious issues with a view to resolving them.

“It is not that the government has been keeping quiet since the present strike began; we’ve been meeting with representatives of ASUU and hopefully, by January, an agreement will be reached.

“But getting the lecturers back to lecture rooms is the problem. We want to look critically at those things that led to the strike in the first place to deal with them so that they will not re-occur,” he said.