Legal luminary and one of Nigeria’s foremost human rights activists, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has stated that the present ASUU strike is of great concern to him. According to him; “the Federal Government has over the years consistently neglected to adequately our universities. We are involved in the present ASUU strike because ASUU is trying to re-build the universities, force the people in power to fund our universities.”

ONITSHA—Federal Government has been called upon to stop posting corps members to the three troubled states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe which are currently under a state of emergency, as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency.

Erstwhile chairman of the Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Senator Sola Akinyede represented the Ekiti South Senatorial District between 2007 and 2011. Akinyede was a member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1989 Constitution, a delegate to the National Political Reform Conference and subsequently, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of the Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike. In this interview, he responds to issues affecting the polity and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Excerpts:

An Abuja High Court, yesterday, struck out the order barring former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisah Metuh, from re-contesting the office at the special national convention of the party slated for July 20.

OWERRI—The suit filed by the former Imo State deputy governor, Sir Jude Agbaso, challenging his impeachment suffered a setback yesterday, following a letter written by the defence counsel, Mr. Adeniyi Akintola, SAN, for adjournment.