Photos: Pres. Buhari attends Guards of Brigade Regimental dinner in Abuja
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Photos: Pres. Buhari attends Guards of Brigade Regimental dinner in Abuja
Photos: Garissa Universiy reopens amidst tight security 9 months after the terrorist attack that left 147 dead
Photos: Garissa Universiy reopens amidst tight security 9 months after the terrorist attack that left 147 dead
In
a move that has been hailed by many as resilient and triumphant in the
fight against terrorism, Garissa University College reopened Monday, January 4, nine months after it
was closed down following a terrorist attack by Al-Shabaab that resulted in the
deaths of 148 people, most of them students.
A
memo to staff and students stated that an academic board meeting would
take place following the reopening. Both academic and non academic staff
were asked to report back on Wednesday.
109 students who survived the attack will have their fees paid for a
year by the French government. They will also be given a living
allowance, according to a statement by the French Embassy back in
November 17.
The university was reopened amidst heightened security, as the varsity’s staff assembled for the first staff meeting. During the low-key ceremony at the institution, the college principal, Prof Ahmed Osman Warfa, said most of the staff had reported back to work.
The campus, a constituent college of the
Eldoret-based Moi University, was the scene of a 10-hour siege when
Al-Shabaab gunmen stormed it in the early hours of April 2, 2015.
People dying of hunger and lack of medical care at a Maiduguri IDP camp? (photos)
People dying of hunger and lack of medical care at a Maiduguri IDP camp? (photos)
Photos: 7yr old boy got a real bycycle after a photo of the one he made went viral on twitter
Photos: 7yr old boy got a real bycycle after a photo of the one he made went viral on twitter
Shahida Sanusi's beautiful no-makeup bridal portrait...
Shahida Sanusi's beautiful no-makeup bridal portrait...
Photos: See the giant card DAAR Communications presented to Buhari
Photos: See the giant card DAAR Communications presented to Buhari
Don’t kill Metuh’ – PDP cries out...Says arrest last straw that may break Nigeria’s democracy
Don’t kill Metuh’ – PDP cries out...Says arrest last straw that may break Nigeria’s democracy
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demands an immediate release of the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, who was Tuesday morning invited and detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
This development, which did not come to us as a surprise given series of threats to our party’s spokesman by the APC and the Federal Government, who are obviously not comfortable with our stance on the confused state of the nation under their watch, is a continuation of APC’s grand design to silence and decimate the PDP.The arrest of Chief Metuh today underscores the growing political intolerance in our country and the foisting of a police state which was last Wednesday underscored by the President and Commander-in-Chief himself, who defended why a government in a democracy should flout constitutional provision and brazenly disobey court orders.
This onslaught against our spokesman, according to intelligence available to us is part of a larger script by the government to ensure that PDP wings are finally clipped in their mission to install a dictatorial one-party state in the country.
The excesses of security agencies under this government, especially the Directorate of Security Services (DSS) and the EFCC, in abridging the human rights of PDP members have become worrisome and a threat to our democratic evolution.
Nigerians and the international community will recall that on a number of occasions, the PDP, through its spokesman has been outspoken on some undemocratic proclivities being exhibited by the APC-led Federal Government in the last seven months.
The PDP insists that for whatever reason Chief Metuh was arrested, his rights as a citizen under the law must not be trampled upon. We therefore demand for his immediate release and that due process of investigation and prosecution concerning him should be strictly adhered to.
We state this because we have been made aware of top directives to break Chief Metuh and if possible poison him during his detention by the EFCC. Chief Metuh, has since his arrest at about 10 am, has been kept incommunicado, with his lawyers denied access to him.
The PDP declares the arrest of our spokesman as the last straw that may break our democracy. We therefore forewarn the Federal Government and its agencies to save our democracy and forthwith release our National Publicity Secretary.
We are also calling on the international community and well-meaning Nigerians to stand up for this democracy, which our party nurtured for 16 years and deepened to a level where the opposition, for the first time in our political history, had the opportunity to win in a general election.
Signed:
Prof. Adewale Oladipo
National Secretary
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