ASUU–ABSU SUSPENDS THREE-WEEK-OLD INDEFINITE STRIKE. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.
ASUU–ABSU SUSPENDS THREE-WEEK-OLD INDEFINITE STRIKE The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abia State University Branch, wishes to inform the University community, all stakeholders and the general public that, following the resolution of Congress held today, Friday, 28th August, 2026, the Branch has suspended its three-week-old comprehensive industrial action with immediate effect. The decision of Congress followed a careful assessment of developments since the commencement of the strike and, particularly, the concrete steps taken towards addressing some of the major issues that necessitated the industrial action. Foremost among these is the full implementation of the 2025 FGN–ASUU salary structure, including the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance (CATA), which has now been reflected in the August 2026 salaries of academic staff of Abia State University. Congress also acknowledged the payment of the outstanding arrears of check-off dues owed to the Union. ASUU–ABSU co...
The suspects who were brought in batches to the RRS's Headquarters in Alausa,Ikeja were all apprehended the same day in Oshodi while brazenly dispossessing commuters of their belongings.The suspects: Ganiyi Adebayo {15},Ti,ilehin Oluwaseun {14},Ogundare Moyinoluwa,Toheeb Tijani {19} and Adeleke Sodiq {17} were arrested on friday morning in Oshidi Oke.According to one of the suspects,Ganiyu Rahman he said ''We are over 50 boys.We are always in Oshodi-Oke,from morning till late night.Some of us genuinely help people to carry their loads while a lot of us are there to snatch handbags,phones and other valuables from people.At time,we pretend to be helping them but our focus are their valuables.Most times,we work in groups,While the others is helping out,another person is stealing the victim's valuables either from bag or pocket.There are some other guys who forcibly dispossess passers-by of morning and late at night when their victims are helpless.I have been sleeping in Oshodi Under Bridge since 2013.I work as conductor and whenever I am not,I am with my peer to rob and snatch valuables in Oshodi.We were three when we stole the Microsoft phone from a lady's bag.We pretended to be helping the lady to get a bus,meanwhile,our intent was her phones.I have been committed to 13 month rehabilitation by the Lagos State Taskforce but my home is in Oshodi Under Bridge''.His victim,Sarah Obende,an undergraduate of the Universty of Lagos {UNILAG} said ''I though I had lost the phone.I discovered it was missing immediately I boarded a bus in Oshodi.I received a call in the evening that I should come to Alausa to collect my phone''.Another suspect,Sadiq Adebayo who was allegedly in company of two other boys while stealing an iphone and a phantom Tecno phone from a car,disclosed,''Osas and Janbele stole the two phones in my presence.We have sold the two phones along with seven other phones to Tuwo in Idi Oro,Mushin.They gave me N7,000 from the proceeds.Four of the remaining suspects,namely Timelehin Oluwaseun,Ogundare Moyinoluwa,Toheeb Tijani and Adeleke Sodiq were all seperately apprehended while stealing phones and purse from commuters in similar circumstances.The suspects have been transferred to Lagos State Taskforce.
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