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By Hameed Muritala, 24 October 2013 Unilorin — Even though they unaffected by the protracted strike embarked by public university lecturers, students of the University of Ilorin have appealed to both the Federal Government and the striking lecturers to consider the plights of students, and reach a truce that will end the three months strike. The students, who have just resumed for the new academic session lamented that they are not happy seeing their colleagues from other schools staying at home while they are in school receiving lectures. Speaking with Quadlife, the students bemoaned the uncaring attitude of government towards education in the country, and urged them to return to negotiation table with the striking lecturers to discuss ways of ending the strike as soon as possible. "I am not happy with the way the Federal Government is handling this matter; they seem careless about the plights of Nigerian students because their own...

24 October, 2013 Foreign A 21-year old South Africa woman, Evidence Nkuna, was on Wednesday arraigned in a Meadowlands Magistrates’ Court for cutting off her boyfriend’s penis. South African Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson, Sibusiso Chauke told newsmen that the woman caught her boyfriend with another woman on Sunday and ordered them to strip naked. “It is alleged that the woman took out a knife and cut off her boyfriend’s penis”, Chauke said. He said the woman was arrested the same day.   According to report, Nkuna stood quietly in the dock throughout the proceeding on Wednesday. The case has been transferred to the Protea Magistrates’ Court. The police said that Nkuna will now be charged with attempted murder. Her previous charge was assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. She was, however, granted bail in the sum of R2 500 (about N45,000) and will appear in the Protea Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

24 October, 2013 Local Senate President David Mark barely stopped short of calling those who negotiated the 2009 Federal Government agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities foolish. Mark said the government negotiators couldn’t differentiate between their right and left hands and that the ASUU leadership took advantage of their ignorance. He said, “Listening to the agreement that was signed by the Federal Government as Comrade Uche Chukwumerije read out, I was really wondering whether this was signed or it was just a proposal. “But when he concluded, he said it was signed. It only shows the level of people the executive sent to go and negotiate on their behalf because ab initio, people must be told the truth, what can be accomplished and what cannot be accomplished. “If a leader says I am going to accomplish this, he is morally duty bound to honour it. But even if you decided immediately after that you cannot accomplish it, I think ...

24 October, 2013 Local Three months after members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) downed their tools nationwide, over failure of Federal Government to accede to core areas of their 2009 agreement, some of the affected students who are currently on their compulsory Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) have bemoaned the protracted shut-down. On the other hand, some others students who spoke to Quadlife could not care less and seem to be quite content at their SIWES placements. Uche Ede, a 400-level Petroleum Engineering student of Federal University of Technology, Owerri said he was fully in support of ASUU’s refusal to off the strike despite the pressure from different quarters. Calling on his affected colleagues across the country to see their stay at home as a sacrifice given towards a better education system for posterity, he said: “Although students have been at home for a long time, I still think we should endure ...

24 October, 2013 Local The Vice-Chancellors of private universities are going to intervene in the lingering crisis between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Chairman, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Registrars of Private Universities (CVRPU), Adebayo Adeyemi, announced this during the press conference, which took place on Wednesday. Private universities used to be accused of taking advantage of the ongoing strike, but Mr. Mr. Adeyemi dismissed these insinuations stating the following: “The development is a national embarrassment which nobody is proud of.” According to his words, the decision is not connected with the recent threat by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to shut down private universities because of the crisis. Mr. Adeyemi claimed that his group was already taking some covert measures. He also expressed optimism that the crisis will be soon overcome. The chairman pointed ou...

24 October, 2013 Foreign Vietnamese media report that police have arrested the owner of an unlicensed plastic surgery centre after he allegedly threw the body of the patient who died during a botched operation into a river. A 39-year-old woman is believed by police to have died on the operating table while breast-enlarging surgery. "After six hours of surgery she began to convulse," journalists said, adding that nobody has yet been found. Police, citing information from centre owner Nguyen Manh Tuong and his employees, said the woman died despite efforts by the Hanoi centre's staff to revive her. According to the reports, Tuong then carried victim's body to Thanh Tri bridge and threw it into the river. After doing so he also tried to conceal evidence of the operation. The victim's husband didn't even know that his wife had been planning to have this surgery, but later on he found a receipt for the appointment, state media reported....

24 October, 2013 Local The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress has threatened to call a nationwide industrial action if the Federal Government fails to stop the ongoing strike by university lecturers under the banner of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The NLC, in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting in Kaduna on Wednesday, said it was unfortunate that the government had not taken the expected steps to stop the ongoing strike that has crippled academic activities in public universities across the country. The President of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar, and the Acting General Secretary of the Congress, Mr. Chris Uyot, accused the Federal Government of sponsoring protests against ASUU instead of resolving the lingering crisis. The union warned that the NLC would not hesitate to call out Nigerian workers to protest across the country if the present situation was not resolved by the Federal Government. ...