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ASUU, students union leader bemoan proliferation of universities in Nigeria
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Some stakeholders in University education in Nigeria, on Thursday, warned against the proliferation of universities in the country, following Wednesday’s approval of 20 new private universities by the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
In separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Benin, the stakeholders said there was nothing to justify the approval, when the existing universities were neither adequately funded nor properly monitored to ensure compliance, with appropriate guidelines.
Prof. Monday Omoregie, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Benin chapter, said that he had begun to see approval of more universities as political patronage, despite warnings, to the relevant authorities, on the inherent danger.
Nigeria ignores local research into COVID-19 possible cures, awaits vaccines from Europe, US
Published 1 January 2021
Amidst the approval of COVID-19 vaccines by some countries, stakeholders in the health sector seem not to be impressed by Nigeria’s efforts in finding local cure for the virus,
DAYO OJERINDE
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During the peak of the first wave of the pandemic, a lot of herbal medicine practitioners laid claim to curing COVID-19 symptoms.
The Federal Government called those, who claimed to be able to cure the symptoms of the virus, to submit their proposals in a bid to find a potent local cure for the virus.
The alarming level of insecurity in Edo state on Tuesday saw the kidnapping of about 15 passengers onboard a bus belonging to a popular transport company in the state (name withheld).
Although details of the kidnapping are still sketchy, Igbere TV, however, gathered it occurred along the Benin Ekpoma Auchi Expressway which has, in recent time, become a ‘safe haven’ for armed bandits.
This is coming exactly a month after kidnappers hijacked a bus belonging to the same transport company on same road. The 18 passengers were later released after the alleged payment of N9m ransom.
The latest Tuesday victims were said to have been kidnapped from an Abuja-bound 18-seater Toyota Hiace bus. Other road users were said to have scampered for safety, abandoning their vehicles.
‘Enugu ex-finance commissioner brought SARS who shot my son’
Raphael Ede, Enugu
A woman, Mrs Angela Ozioko, on Tuesday told the Enugu State Police Brutality and Extra-judicial Killings Panel how ex-state commissioner of finance, Goddy Nnadi, brought men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and shot her son, Emeka Ozioko, during a church ceremony and took away his body since December 4, 2011.
Ozioko told the panel that she had been crying for the past nine years over the disappearance of her son.
She said she visited many police stations and SARS office to look for her son, adding that none of the police formations had any record of her son’s arrest.
#EndSARS: Ex-Edo commissioner seeks N1bn compensation over son’s death
The 18-year-old was allegedly killed by a trigger-happy police officer as he was going to watch the reality show, Big Brother Africa, at a cyber cafe close to his house in Benin City.
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Johnson Erimafa, a former commissioner of Agriculture in Edo State, on Tuesday requested the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses to grant a N1 billion compensation to him over the death of his son who was killed by a police sergeant in 2003.
Mr Erimafa said his 18-year-old son, Paul, was killed by a trigger-happy police officer, identified as Kalejaye as he was going to watch the reality show, Big Brother Africa at a cyber cafe close to his house in Benin City.