ASUU Strike begins on midnight Sunday!

  ASUU embarks on  strike following the government refusal to sign the union agreement of 2009.       According to the punch report government had promised to honour the agreement reached two years ago on the adequate funding of the universities and other sundry issues after a meeting with ASUU in September.
A Memorandum of Understanding by both parties was signed at the meeting with the Ministers of Education and Labour and Productivity in attendance.
But ASUU President, Prof.Ukachukwu Awuzie, said in Port Harcourt on Sunday, that the government had deliberately refused to honour the agreement.
Awuzie regretted that rather than executing the content of the accord, the government sacked the Implementation Monitoring Committee that served as the forum for a dialogue with ASUU on the dispute.
He wondered why the government did not make any move to implement the core components of the agreement, even when the union granted its (government) request for a two-month grace to begin the implementation process.

late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu Burial Funeral Announced!

  The report by south east governors yesterday shows that the late Ojukwu will be buried in his home tome Nnewi country home in Anambra State next February.
   The SUN reported that the date was announced after the meeting of Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum and Anambra State Governor Peter Obi,which lasted for over two hours at the Enugu State Government House, The source says that the remains would be brought to Enugu on February 2, 2012 where all ceremonies lined up to bid him farewell would take place after which the corpse would be moved to Nnewi and handed over to Ojukwu’s kinsmen for burial.