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Report reaching us has it that the academic staff union of universities has resolved to embark on an indefinite strike action. This followed an extensive deliberation that lasted for three days. All members of the union have been directed against going to teach or involving themselves in any academic activity. A document titled “Strike Bulletin No.1”, which was signed and issued by Ogunyemi, ASUU said the strike action was to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct and supervision of any examination at any level, supervision of project or thesis at any level should take place at any of the nation’s universities. According to the document, all means of negotiation had been exploited before the decision on an indefinite strike action was reached. The lecturers have complained of poor funding of universities, part-payment of salaries of lecturers, non payment of earned a...

Deadly Cult Group Badoo Attacks Woman After Night Vigil In Ikorodu     Member s of the Badoo cult disguise d as Cherubim and seraphim members, attacked a woman at the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Okin Parish, Igbo Agbowa, Ibeshe, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. According to Punch, a woman, who had attended a vigil in the church, was injured after her head was smashed with a stone. 3 Badoo members were said to have joined the vigil, which ended at 3am on saturday, After the vigil, the cultist struck,  smashing the stone on the head of the woman whose name had yet to be ascertained. The victim raised alarm, which woke other worshipers and residents of the area. A resident identified as Joseph said, they chased the cultist and caught one of them. He said, “After his arrest, he told us that they were three that attended the vigil. They pretended to be members of the church. People were exhausted after the service and slept off insi...