ASUU to FG: You’re responsible for education backwardness in Nigeria

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday accused the Federal Government of being responsible for the fallen standard of education in the country which had affected its global rating.

 ASUU said the underfunding of the educational sector by the Federal Government has eluded the sector the needed expertise, thus students are not given the best learning like their counterparts in progressive nations.

 National President of ASUU, Comrade Biodun Ogunyemi, while briefing journalists in Abuja, lamented that instead of the budgetary allocation to education to improve, it was only reducing and called on the government to commence the process for the payment of N623 billion, being backlog of earned academic allowances and funding of universities.

He kicked against the proposed plan by the federal government to scrap the post-University Matriculation Tertiary Examination, saying the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board, JAMB, could not admit students for universities.

 He also frowned on the alleged continuous breach of various Memoranda of Understanding, MoU, signed between the government and ASUU between 2009 and 2015, adding that the Federal Government was in arrears of N495 billion as at the first quarter of 2016, in respect of the NEEDS assessment fund for the revitalization of public universities.

MAIDUGURI—NIGERIAN Army yesterday said 249 suspected Boko Haram terrorists and accomplices, arrested by troops in several mop-up operations, had been released on the orders of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai after being cleared by the Joint Military Interrogation team in Maiduguri. Rescued Boko Haram Captives File: Rescued Boko Haram Captives A statement by Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, said those cleared and released include 169 males, 46 women and 34 children. Further breakdown shows that 203 of them were from 18 Local Government Areas of Borno State, while 44 were from states of Adamawa, Jigawa, Lagos, Oyo and Yobe with two, two, one, one and 38 respectively. However, two of them were from the Republic of Cameroon. The statement said: “The released persons were handed over to Borno State government through the Commissioner for Local Government and Emirate Affairs, Alhaji Usman Zanna by the Acting General Officer Commanding 7 Division, Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu. The two foreigners were however handed over to the Borno State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service.” Speaking, the Com

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/army-frees-249-boko-haram-suspects-borno/

MAIDUGURI—NIGERIAN Army yesterday said 249 suspected Boko Haram terrorists and accomplices, arrested by troops in several mop-up operations, had been released on the orders of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai after being cleared by the Joint Military Interrogation team in Maiduguri. Rescued Boko Haram Captives File: Rescued Boko Haram Captives A statement by Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, said those cleared and released include 169 males, 46 women and 34 children. Further breakdown shows that 203 of them were from 18 Local Government Areas of Borno State, while 44 were from states of Adamawa, Jigawa, Lagos, Oyo and Yobe with two, two, one, one and 38 respectively. However, two of them were from the Republic of Cameroon. The statement said: “The released persons were handed over to Borno State government through the Commissioner for Local Government and Emirate Affairs, Alhaji Usman Zanna by the Acting General Officer Commanding 7 Division, Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu. The two foreigners were however handed over to the Borno State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service.” Speaking, the Com

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/army-frees-249-boko-haram-suspects-borno/

MAIDUGURI—NIGERIAN Army yesterday said 249 suspected Boko Haram terrorists and accomplices, arrested by troops in several mop-up operations, had been released on the orders of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai after being cleared by the Joint Military Interrogation team in Maiduguri. Rescued Boko Haram Captives File: Rescued Boko Haram Captives A statement by Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, said those cleared and released include 169 males, 46 women and 34 children. Further breakdown shows that 203 of them were from 18 Local Government Areas of Borno State, while 44 were from states of Adamawa, Jigawa, Lagos, Oyo and Yobe with two, two, one, one and 38 respectively. However, two of them were from the Republic of Cameroon. The statement said: “The released persons were handed over to Borno State government through the Commissioner for Local Government and Emirate Affairs, Alhaji Usman Zanna by the Acting General Officer Commanding 7 Division, Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu. The two foreigners were however handed over to the Borno State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service.” Speaking, the Com

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/army-frees-249-boko-haram-suspects-borno/