The Pakistan Schoolgirl Receives A Letter From A Senior Taliban Leader...

We, on Friday, 12th of July, 2013,  posted a speech presented before the United Nation's Youth Assembly, by the Pakistan Schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, on her 16th birthday which was declared 'Malala Day' where she said that Malala Day wasn't her day, that it was the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who had raised their voice for their rights. Now, a senior Pakistan Taliban figure writes her. His letter reads...

Niger State, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu; Jigawa State, Sule Lamido; Kano State, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako In Solidarity Visit...

Some youths who were said to be members of the Grassroots Democratic Initiative (GDI), invaded the airport and hindered governor Chibuike Amaechi and four of his colleagues from the north from departing, this happened at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State on Tuesday, but thank goodness for the timely deployment of an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), who were able to pervert this mayhem. 

We are meant to understand, they were protesting against the solidarity visit of the four northern governors to the state governor, Chibuike Amaechi.

PDP EKITI STALWART BEATEN UP!.

Mr. Kola Adefemi

Mr. Kola Adefemi, PDP Ekiti State' Legal Adviser, according to Nigerian Tribune, was beaten up by thugs at the party's secretariat where they had gathered for a press conference which was said to have been organised by some members of the state executive of the party. But before the meeting could start, some thugs came and started beating them up thereby, getting everyone present on the run. It was learnt that they have been having problems over the method for the selection of the party's candidate for the governorship election in the state that is due to take place soon. 

Mr. Kola in his statement said, "I have gone to lodge a complaint of attempt on my life because, I believe they wanted to kill me."

ASUP STRIKE OVER: POLY LECTURES BACK TO THE CLASSROOM AGAIN...

We recall that for quite sometime now, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) had been on strike. Glad to let you know that the strike has been called off yesterday following a concrete achievement the parties involved had made in their negotiation with government, coupled with the intercession of the Joint Senate and House of representatives' Committees on Education.

The National Publicity Secretary of ASUP, Clement Chirman, said they decided to call off the strike following yesterday's emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja, while the Polytechnic lecturers, in a statement issued yesterday also, said they suspended the strike to allow more time for the relevant stakeholders to exhaust all the issues raised in the union's demand. They nonetheless, requested all parties involved in the negotiation to adhere strictly to the agreement reached so far, in order to avert further breakdown of academic activities in the polytechnics.