Year: 2013

ASUU strike: Don’t make promises you cannot fulfill – Lawan warns FG

Former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Education, Mr. Farouk Lawan, has added his voice to the ongoing war between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the federal government. Lawan had on Thursday advised the Federal Government against signing any agreement it would not honour with the striking lecturers. Lawan, while lamenting the…

Don’t retire from politics, Nigeria needs you – Sultan of Sokoto tells Obasanjo

Respected traditional ruler and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, Thursday called on the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo not to retire from politics, saying that the country still needs him. Abubaka who doubles as president-general, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, stated this when Obasanjo paid him a courtesy visit at…