It’s been two months since the Academic Staff Union of Universities embarked on a nationwide indefinite strike. This was as a result of the inability of the Federal Government to implement some of the issues contained in a 2009 agreement it had with ASUU. Recently Saturday Vanguard spoke with parents whose children are affected as they begged the government to reach a compromise with ASUU .

REGIONALLY and globally, the petroleum market is becoming increasingly unkind to Nigeria. At the national level, of course, we have problems too – bunkering, or theft, as well as a lack of transparency both create commercial difficulties for companies operating in the Niger Delta and off the country’s southern coast.

Prof Chidi Osuagwu of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, at this year’s Ezumezu Lecture, a colloquium organized by the Obowu Development Association (Federated), on the 16th of August, in Obowo, discuses identity crisis with its debilitating effects in Africa and Nigeria.

THE entire hall was overcast with gloom until our Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy doused the tension: She vigorously denied that she ever said that the Nigerian economy will shut down by September if the National Assembly failed to pass President Goodluck Jonathan’s amendment proposals to the 2013 budget.

Nigeria is in dire straits. This statement summarizes the response of a top security official familiar with the large scale theft of crude oil that is going on at the nation’s oil terminals and as well as other locations en-route.