ASUU TO HOLD EDUCATION CONFERENCE IN JULY

ASUU TO HOLD EDUCATION CONFERENCE IN JULY

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will organise national education conference in July to address the problems facing the nation’s education system, its National President, Nasir Fagge, has said.

Mr. Fagge made this known in Ibadan on Thursday at a symposium with the theme: “ASUU 2013 Strike and the Lessons’’, organised by the Education Right Campaign, ERC.

He said that presentations at the conference would be forwarded to the National Assembly to form part of national policy on education.

Mr Fagge said that the first challenge confronting Nigeria’s education system was the 1999 Constitution, which he said, was not people- oriented and needed to be changed.

“Our constitution is not people-oriented. We must jettison it. A law that protects a leader who steals public fund is definitely not people- oriented,’’ he said.

He said that the fundamental right in the constitution did not make education the right of Nigerians.

“We must have a right to quality education,” he said.

Recounting the lessons learnt from the strike, which paralysed academic activities in Nigerian Universities for six months, Fagge said the call to proceed on the strike was a difficult decision for the union.

He said that the strike was an `eye opener’ for the union, adding that it helped to expose the deplorable state of higher education in the country.

“The strike was beyond payment of salaries of universities lecturers, it was meant to pressurize the government to address the rot in the nation’s education system.

“If we did not withdraw our services, we would continue to turnout half-baked students who at best are quarter to best.

“I, however, believe that if I do what is just, posterity will judge me,” he said.

The ASUU president assured that the union had put in place appropriate machinery to ensure that the N200 billion released to public universities by the government was utilised for the intended purposes.

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NEW SUG PRO TAKES OVER SUG BLOG, USN

INTERESTING: New UNIZIK SUG PRO Listens, Takes over SUG Blog and USN

Barely a week after the editor of The Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Students' Facebook Fan page  Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu wrote an open advice to the new Public Relations Officer, PRO, of The Students' Union Government, SUG, of the institution, the new PRO, Comrade Clinton Nwobu listened and finally agreed to take over from where the Comrade of the year Ezenwa Prince Obiora stopped.

The former PRO made this known on the SUG Blog.

Below are other information released by the former PRO via the blog

*The SUG High court under the auspices of His lordship Moneme Andy  Ifesi, has established a law biding UNIZIK SUG News, USN, any elected PRO of the union
will be guided by these laws;

* The new PRO now takes over SUG blog management.

This is a good development and the Students' Facebook fan page will always put in the best to support the efforts of the new PRO so that he will achieve better than his predecessor.

May God help us all.

UNIZIK SUG Election Petition: Cico Appeals Ruling on Preliminary Objection

Humphrey Onyemesili's Petition: UNIZIK SUG President Cico Appeals Ruling on Preliminary Objection

The respondent to Humphrey Onyemesili's petition against the 2013/2014 Students' Union Government, SUG, Presidential election of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, UNIZIK, who is equally the university's SUG President Comrade Ibe Cico, last week, appealed the SUG High Court Ruling on the preliminary objection challenging the original jurisdiction of the high court to entertain the case.

The SUG high court earlier ruled that the court has the original jurisdiction over the petition.

Due to the appeal filed at the appellate court by the respondents, the hearing on the subtansive suite could not commence Monday as earlier scheduled.

Judges of the appeal court include the Dean of the law faculty who is equally the chairman of the appellate court, The Head Department of Political Science, Dean of Students Affairs and The institution's Guidance and Counsellor.

As at the time of filing this report, no date have been fixed for hearing on the appeal.

Samung Galaxy S5 Set To Be Launched

Great Smartphone Manufacturer Samsung is set to launch the new Samsung Galaxy S5.

Below are the full specifications of the smartphone which is equally weather and dust proof. A key feature that protects the device from all weather conditions even when dropped inside water.

GENERAL
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100

4G Network: LTE 800 / 850 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600

SIM: Nano-SIM

Announced: Announced February 2014

Status: Expected to be released 2014, March

BODY
Dimensions - N/A
Weight - N/A

- Fingerprint sensor

DISPLAY
Type: Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size: 1440 x 2560 pixels, 5.25 inches (~559 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch: Yes

Protection: Corning Gorilla Glass 3 - TouchWiz UI

SOUND
Alert types: Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker: Yes

3.5mm jack: Yes

MEMORY
Card slot: microSD, up to 64GB

Internal 32/64 GB storage,

3 GB RAM

DATA
GPRS: Yes

EDGE: Yes

Speed: HSDPA, 42.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE, Cat4, 50 Mbps UL, 150 Mbps DL

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth: Yes, v4.0 with A2DP, EDR, LE

NFC: Yes

Infrared port: Yes

USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0 (MHL 2), USB On-the-go, USB Host

CAMERA
Primary: 16 MP, 4640 x 3480 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization, HDR

Video: Yes, 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, dual-video rec.

Secondary: Yes, 3.2 MP,1080p@30fps, dual video call

FEATURES
OS: Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat)

Chipset: Qualcomm
Snapdragon 805

CPU: Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400

Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, temperature, humidity, gesture
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS

Browser : HTML5

Radio: No

GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS

Java: Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

Colors: Black, White

- Wireless charging (market dependent)

- ANT+ support

- S-Voice natural language commands and dictation

- Smart stay, Smart pause, Smart scroll

- Air gestures

- Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage)

- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

- TV-out (via MHL 2 A/V link)

- SNS integration

- MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player

- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player

- Organizer

- Image/video editor

- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)

- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Play Store, Google Talk, Picasa, BBM.

- Voice memo/dial/commands

- Predictive text input (Swype)

BATTERY
Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery

On The Suspension of Sanusi by Femi Falana

Very recently, President Goodluck Jonathan was reported to have asked Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to resign as the Governor of the Central Bank . Convinced that he could only be removed by the President with the approval of the Senate Mr Sanusi turned down the request and dared the President to remove him.

Having regard to his irreconcilable differences with the Jonathan Administration on the operation and management of the Federation Account Mr Sanusi ought to have voluntarily resigned his appointment.

But he decided to remain in office while taking the Administration to the cleaners at the tail end of his 5-year tenure.

To that extent, Mr Sanusi has himself to blame for his suspension from office on account of alleged financial recklessness.

Since Mr Sanusi has been placed on suspension the law presumes that he is still the substantive Governor of the CBN. Therefore, pending the end of his tenure or removal from office through the Senate there is no basis for the appointment of a new CBN governor.

President Jonathan is advised to suspend the process for the replacement of the CBN governor by withdrawing the new nomination forwarded to the Senate as the nation cannot have a suspended governor and a substantive governor of the CBN at the same time.

In the alternative, the Senate should put off any debate on the fresh nomination pending the end of the tenure of the suspended governor.

However, the diversion of huge public funds from the Federation Account alleged by Mr Sanusi should not be swept under the carpet. At the same time, the allegations of financial recklessness leveled against Mr Sanusi ought to be investigated without any delay.

Once again, I call on the Federal Government to allow the Auditor-General of the Federation to audit the accounts of the CBN and the NNPC by virtue of section 85 of the Constitution.

The reports of such audit should then be submitted to the National Assembly for necessary action in line with the provisions of section 85(4) of the Constitution.

Femi Falana SAN.

Source: Sahara Reporters

Senate Confirms NAPSS Blog Press Crew and Magazine Editorial Norminees

The Senate of The National Association of Political Science Students, NAPSS, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, chapter today confirmed the department blog press crew and magazine editorial board nominees sent by the executive.

Those that addressed the house during the screening include The Editor-in-Chief of The blog Honourable Chukwuemerie C Uduchukwu and Editor-in-Chief of the Magazine Honourable Ifeanyi C Udeze.

The following have been confirmed as members of NAPSS Blog Press Crew:

1. Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu (Editor-in-Chief) Dept: Political Science

2. Ejisioha Johnpaul (member) Dept: Political Science

3.Frank Onwubiko (member) Dept: Mass Communication

4. Ferguson Philip (member) Dept: Mass Communication

5. Emenike Chigbo (member) Dept: Political Science

6. Joy Alama (member) Dept: Political Science

In a related development, the following who are all political science undergraduates have been confirmed as members of NAPSS magazine editorial board:

1. Udeze Ifeanyi (Editor-in-Chief)
2. Ede Joel (member)
3. Nobel Eyisi (member)
4. Onyekaba Samuel (member)
5. Patrick Ozurumba (member)
6. Arinze Daniel (member)
7. Delight Chimdiuto Ebujie (member)

The above are directed to commence their various functions immediately.

Also the senate today passed a motion calling on the authorities of the department to consider  conducting examinations of the Continuous Education Programme, CEP, students that have outstanding results with that of the regular students. The motion was sponsored by Senator Kingsley O. Oriere of the CEP III constituency.

Boko Haram Leader Abubakar Shekau Give Out More Threats

ALERT: Below is the full text of the 28 minute video by Boko Haram Leader Abubakar Shekau, Delivered in Hausa, Translated to English by PREMIUM TIMES and published today:

“My brethren…you should hold on to your weapons and continue fighting. Let them understand that our work is not confined to Yobe, Borno and Adamawa (states).

Make them understand that we are not restricted by emergency rule. They should
understand we are under the canopy of Allah. “This is the beginning. Yes, this is the beginning.

“We Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad are
fighting Christians wherever we meet them and those who believe in democracy, those who pursue Western education wherever we meet them.

By Allah, we will kill whoever practices Democracy.

“And you the infidels of Rivers state, Niger (Delta), the town of Jonathan, Shekau is talking to you (sounds of gunshots). Shekau is talking to you, that small boy that has become the nightmare of
infidels is talking to you.

“Oh you the leader of the Niger Delta, you will soon see your refinery destroyed. You will in the incoming days see your refinery you are boasting about bombed.

Our refinery is Allah. “Niger-Delta you are in trouble.
Jonathan you are in trouble… Banki Moon you are in trouble, Bejamin Natanyahu you are in trouble, Queen Elizabeth you are in trouble, Babangida, Kwankwaso, Shekarau, Kashim, Buhari, you are in trouble.

“Yahaya Jingir…the cleric of Jos, the advocate of ‘Boko Halal’, right? We are Boko
Haram, you are Boko Halal. You will see, bastard.

“We killed Albani of Zaria. We killed Albani of Zaria. Shekau killed Albani of Zaria. Tomorrow he will kill Jingir, the day after tomorrow he will kill Dapchia, the next day he will kill Wapchama, next he will kill Shehu of Borno, Ado Bayero.

We rebel against you, between us and you is enmity and rancour until you believe only in Allah.

“The reason why I will kill you is because you are infidels, you follow Democracy… Whoever follows Democracy is an infidel.

This is Shekau, this is why I’m in enmity with you. “Buhari is an infidel, Babangida is an infidel, Atiku is an infidel, late Yar’adua was an infidel, Shehu of Borno is an infidel.

You are all infidels. What makes you infidels is Democracy and constitution and western education…

I therefore call on brethren in Kano to rise up and replicate the Baga attack. “All these infidels we are the ones killing them. We enjoy shedding their blood.

“The Koran must be supreme, we must establish Islam in this country; Not only in Borno, we will henceforth destroy any schools wherever we see them”.
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SOURCE: PREMIUM TIMES