They argued that the much-touted plan by Nigeria joining the league of 20 most developed economies in 2020 would be a mirage without proper funding of the educational sector.

Gates to the General Post Office in Marina, Lagos and other post offices were under lock and key. The News Agency of Nigeria also had its services disrupted as a result of the strike.

The disclosure came even as Vanguard gathered that investigations into the alleged involvement of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in the sharing of millions of dollars of the bribe money, have failed to yield any fruit.

According to the Nigerian constitution, any time the federal government carries out a review of salary of civil and public servants under which category soldiers fall, such review is automatically supposed to be reflected in the monthly take home benefits of pensioners; military pensioners inclusive.

Senator Chris Adighije who was also cited among the bank debtors also yesterday defrayed the N1.9 million debt credited to him but alleged bad politics on the part of Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, the chairman of the Senate committee on Banking in listing him among the big-time debtors.

The NAFDAC boss also explained that one of the new strategies adopted by the Agency was to put the power of detecting and reporting incidence of counterfeit medicines in the hands of consumers, using short message service (SMS) based technology like GSM phones.

The sureties, according to the court, must be a resident of Lagos State with a traceable addresses.

Muka told Vanguard in Asaba yesterday afternoon that “all necessary arrangements have already been put in place to ensure hitch-free court session”, adding that “a unit of PMF (Police Mobile Force) personnel has been deployed to ensure the verdict is violence-free”.

However, sources hinted further that after the girl got home, her father discovered that his daughter was walking with some difficulty and demanded an explaination. She later narrated how she was lured into the school library by her headmaster and had canal knoeledge of her.

Yet the Honourable Minister of Education has deliberately tried to mislead the public to believe that ASUU’s agreement requires N78 billion, when, in fact, it requires less than 30% of that amount.”