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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has advised the Federal Government to either fund universities or shut them down as the industrial action embarked on by the university lecturers continues.

The National President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, who stated this in an interview with newsmen on Sunday, insisted that government must implement the agreement it signed with the union in 2009.

Osodeke said these in response to the Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, who during an interview las week, stated that the Federal Government did not have the funds to meet its obligations in …

NATO allies on Friday rejected Ukraine’s demand for no-fly zones reiterating that they were increasing support but that stepping in directly would lead to a broader, even more brutal European war which would not be safe for anyone.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Ukraine, a former Soviet republic that wants to join the European Union and Western military alliance NATO, is not a currently a member of either.

‘We are not part of this conflict, and we have a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine,’ NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference …

Students, under the umbrella of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), B Zone have threatened to block all federal roads in the zone.

The students noted that the need to block the roads became necessary due to the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

NANS had recently threatened to block all the federal roads in all the six states in the South-West geopolitical zone if the federal government and ASUU failed to resolve the differences between the two of them.

The union said that it will block all the roads if the difference is …

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have fled their country since last week Thursday’s  invasion by Russian forces, Africa Daily News, New York reports.

The United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, has said it making frantic efforts to deal with up to four million if the situation worsens.

The European Union’s crisis management commissioner however believes the figure could reach seven million if hostilities continue.

Poland

Some 196,000 Ukrainians have already fled over the Polish border, its frontier guards said Sunday. On Friday alone, 50,000 Ukrainians arrived.

While 90 percent of the refugees are being put up by friends or relations, nine …