The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused management of the University of Ibadan of planning to pay academic staff only one year promotion arrears even when promotion announcement of academic staff was delayed by the management and announced almost five or four years after the person was due for the promotion.

THE Momoh Abubakar Solidarity Movement said Edo North Senatorial District which it claimed to have been the stronghold of Governor Oshiomole had become the stronghold of Pastor Ize-Iyamu because of what it claimed as the governor’s alleged policy of making Owan and Akoko Edo subservient to Etsako.

Three former chieftains of the PDP James Ojemeva, Col. David Imuse (rtd.) and Mr. Fidelis Ulinfun who led over 3,000 members of the PDP into the APC, penultimate week, have declared that Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s developmental strides in Edo Central will give victory to APC in the area.

As some Nigerians, especially from the South and Christian leaders pick holes in the recent United States of America Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry’s visit to Nigeria, which they describe as discriminatory, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, 88, First Republic politician and an Awoist, wants them to have a re-think because Mr. Kerry came with a specific message for Northern leaders. Kerry, during the two-day trip, had after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, visited the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, and also met with 10 northern governors.

“We advise the Federal Government to consider devolution of powers to create a healthy economic competition in the federating units.

MAKURDI—Less than 72 hours after an eight months old baby, her sibling, mother and 10 others were killed in a bloody robbery attack in Sengev near Gbishe, Katsina/Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, operatives of the state’s Joint Security Task Force have killed two members of the robbery gang, including its leader, Atondo Bya.

Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, weekend celebrated his 84th birthday in Benin City, appealing to voters to vote Godwin Obaseki as the next governor of the state to ensure that what he described as the development strides of the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole led administration is sustained.

Firstnation Airline, on Sunday, resumed flight operations after weeks of suspending its flight operations due to inability to meet the minimum fleet size, as prescribed by the regulatory authority, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA.

PORT HARCOURT—Flood, weekend, destroyed about 12 homes and property worth over N10 million at Igbogo area of Choba, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

PORT HARCOURT—Police in Rivers State, yesterday, announced the rescue of the last batch of 14 Nestoil workers kidnapped 17 days ago around Omoku, headquarters of Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area of the state.

AS the National Assembly resumes on Monday, a civil society group, Nigeria Civil Society Desk, NCSD, has accused Bauchi State governor, Mohammed Abubakar, of sponsoring a protest against the leadership of the House of Representatives.

ABEOKUTA—A former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has said that the exit of the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was reponsible for the ongoing crisis besieging the party.

If it were the time President Olusegun Obasanjo was still in the party, we would have gone to him and one way or the other, he would have resolved the crisis.

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, and managers of the nation’s economy, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, Minister of Budget and Planning; and Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance, yesterday, said the nation’s economic crisis will soon come to an end, insisting that “the worst is over.”

LAGOS—The soldier, whose stray bullet hit a 40-year-old man in Ijegun area of Lagos last Thursday, has been arrested.