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THE peaceful protest by the striking Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) turned awry on Tuesday, as police freely tear-gassed and threw canisters at the protesters and journalists covering the protest.  The development led to stampede and pandemonium at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, at about 10:13 a.m, shortly after the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Chukwuemeka Wogu, came down from his office to address the protesters.  Wogu was lucky to have escaped the stampede but some of the federal workers who came out to watch the protest as well as journalists who were covering the protest were dazed by the impact of the dangerous chemicals inhaled. The lecturers were seen using water and kerosene to rub their faces in order to cushion the effect of the tear gas. The entire federal secretariat was like a war zone on Tuesday with heavy detachment of police that were stationed strategically a...

COEASU Strike: Colleges of Education Resumes COEASU Strike:Colleges of Education Resumes In line with the intervention of Senator Bukola Saraki and Global Peace Movement on COEASU strike, workers at the three Kwara State owned Colleges of Education on Tuesday suspended their six-week industrial action called by Committee of Unions of Tertiary Institutions (CUTI). CUTI Chairman, Malam Shehu Sanni, announced the suspension of the strike in Ilorin at the end of the congress of the union held at the College of Education, Ilorin. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports, he said the strike was suspended for three weeks to allow for negotiations between the union and the state government. The chairman, therefore, directed all members of the three unions under CUTI to return to work immediately. According to Sanni, the decision to call off the strike was a collective effort of members of the College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and...

Insurgency: The Truth Should Be Told No Matter What SANUSI MUHAMMAD — May 21, 2014 Since the eruption of violence in the North-east sub-region and other States of the federation in 2009, a lot was said and heard including various federal and states committee reports on the dreaded Boko Haram sect but the menace seems to thrive, defying solutions leading to the abduction of over 250 innocent girls in GGSS Chibok on April 14, 2014 which exposed the incapacitation of the federal might to defeat the guerillas. The truth remains that the burning issue at stake is not handled rightly. In my opinion, the only viable solution to the insurgency not exploited is dialogue and negotiations. Several tactics were employed and each has been matched with devastating consequences and calamities. What this means is that the most viable, option to end the problem has not been applied. Another troubling aspect is that our leaders and people including security agencies tend to view the grave ...

WHO WILL BELL THE CART? Many issues have arisen and there has been a lot of talk, but the germane thing is always in the cooler, "who will go for us?". Insurgency and insecurity is now the order of the day, killings here and there, yet we have a God who sees all of these. A time is coming when the voice of the masses will become one when the song on the lips of people will sound as one, and the whole will see and say "Yes they have suffered for long, and now they are risen to fight for justice". I must tell you, people will rise one day, we cannot continue in sin and yet expect that grace will abound for us, God forbid. We are Nigerians and we need to rise up to the challenge been thrown @ us. No more insurgency or barbaric killings again. 

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NIGERIAN LIBRARIES AND NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION BY AGBATO, E.F. LIBRARIAN 1 FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (SPECIAL), OYO folasadeagbato@yahoo.com And AKINDEHIN, O.F. LIBRARIAN II FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (SPECIAL), Oyo folajimiakindehin@gmail.com Abstract When the president of this country was to assume office, he rolled out his transformation agenda. In transforming a nation, the library and librarians also have a germane role to play. There are different kinds of libraries and organizations that run their own library system. Every libraries stands out to represent her own uniqueness. Among such are special libraries, public libraries national libraries and academic libraries. This paper discussed national transformation and its impact to national development. The paper also examines the roles of Nigerian libraries in national transformation such as information for political participation, cultural development, impact of internet, ...

DRIVEN OR BEING DRIVEN There are many occasions in life when one receives a push, a jolt to pursue a dream or go after a vision. In this quest the major question is; what pushes you? Or as some would say, what drives you? Learn from this illustration. A certain middle-aged man,looking haggard, tattered, roughened and unkempt, with a gangrenous sore on his left leg, sat by the roadside begging for alms as his custom was.Time after time, passersby took pity on him and gave him money but none ever looked at him and asked him what he really wanted. Then one day a young man approached him and asked “Sir, what do you really want?” “Do want to be a beggar all your life?” he continued. “I have observed that even though you are given money, you remain sad and gloomy”. And for the first time in his twenty years of roadside alms begging, the man smiled and responded. “You are the first person to ever ask me what I wanted”. The younger man was surprised,with shock written all over his fa...

PHOTONEWS: Life In Chibok As Captured By A Photo Journalist Posted: May, 21 2014, 5:05AM A photo journalist, Tife Owolabi, visiting the rusty village where Islamist militant grou, Boko Haram, kidnapped 276 girls on April 14 2014 captures the lives of people their as they await their kidnapped daughters.

Vehicular Traffic Paralyzed for Hours As OAU Students Protest 'Outrageous' Rise in Tuition Fees By Saharareporters, New York Vehicular activities were paralyzed for hours on Tuesday afternoon on the ever busy Ilesha-Akure highway. Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, in Osun State, took to the streets to protest against what they called the ‘outrageous incremental rise’ in their tuition fees. Students numbering in the thousands chanted solidarity songs, as they blocked the highways, and local streets, to prevent a free flow of traffic, and easy passage of commuters on the road. Several travelers plying the road were stranded for several hours, pleading with the students, and their leaders, to open the road for a free flow of traffic. Sources told SaharaReporters that the students were led by the newly elected Students Union Government (SUG) president, Mr. Comrade Ibikunle Isaac. Many of the students were armed with leaflets, and placards, beari...

God’s Anointed Criminals By Ogaga Ifowodo Ogaga Ifowodo Columnist:    Ogaga Ifowodo As the world watched Abubakar Shekau’s video declaration of Allah’s instruction to him to sell the nearly 300 (276 has emerged as the official figure, but no one really knows) girls he kidnapped at midnight from their boarding school beds in Chibok, Borno State, something happened at last that had been long awaited: action, rather than platitudinous words of outrage. As is often the case nowadays, this turn was galvanized by social media, chiefly Twitter and Facebook, with the hashtag “Bring Back Our Girls” as the battle-cry. Perhaps this awakening had something to do with the shocking levity, the manic joviality, with which Shekau turned the clock backwards several centuries to evoke memories of the trans-Saharan slave trade which predated and later co-existed with the trans-Atlantic version. “I abducted your girls,” he announced gleefully, shaking the right pocket of...