GOLDEN SCEPTRE

From left: Former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Nasir Isa; President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi; and the Vice President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, at a news conference on the state of the nation in Abuja on Monday (14/8/17). 04255/14/8/2017/Albert otu/JAU/NAN The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will on Friday hold a National Executive Council meeting to determine the direction of the ongoing national strike, PREMIUM TIMES can report. The meeting will be holding after national branches equally held meetings on Wednesday to decide on whether the strike should continue or not. All branch chairmen are expected to be in Abuja on Thursday while the meeting is tentatively expected to end on Saturday after which a decision will be communicated to Nigerians. When contacted on the planned meeting, the ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, said he would only speak after the meeting had been held. “We cannot rea...

 The power play between the Minister of State for Aviation, Mr. Hadi Sirika and the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Saleh Dunoma on one hand the redeployed Director of Human Resources of FAAN, Hajiya Salamatu Umar-Eluma continues as she has blatantly refused to report to her new posting at the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB). SaharaReporters gathered from a source at the Ministry of Transport that few days before the letter conveying her redeployment to AIB was issued by the Ministry of Transport, Aviation Division, Umar-Eluma had already requested for a year study leave without pay from the management. The letter, we learned was accepted and approved by Dunoma. Our correspondent learned that the former Director of Human Resources, FAAN got wind of the planned redeployment earlier in the week and immediately tendered her letter requesting for the study leave. It was gathered that Umar-Eluma had already made up her mind no...