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•The fugitive leader of a protest movement that has shaken Morocco’s northern Rif region for months was arrested on Monday.

•Nasser Zefzafi,39,who had been on the run since Friday,had been taken into custody along with other individuals & transferred to Casablanca.

•The prosecutor’s statement says those detained would be investigated for “undermining the security of the state” and other criminal acts.

*•UI VC, Professor Idowu Olayinka, stated that the school closure followed protest by students and forestall breakdown of peace on campus.*

•The VC however said postgraduate students can continue with their lectures.Students blocked major highway on Mokola-UI-Ojoo causing gridlock

•UI Student Union, after a congress resolution on Saturday had demanded a Students Welfare Board and fact finding committee to look into the issue of Hot-plates in halls of residences.

•SU also resolved that there will not be any examinations if management fails to issue it ID cards paid for last session and this session.

•They equally vowed to disrupt Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s press conference which was earlier scheduled to hold inside the institution.

*•Cultural leader, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka's as noted most of Nigeria’s problems were caused by spirits of unremembered Biafra’s fallen heroes.*

•Private & mission schools in Anambra State'd remain closed today in obedience to sit-at-home directive by the Indigenous People of Biafra.

•Churches in Anambra announced to their congregation that all schools managed by them be closed in honour of Biafra war victims.

•Also out of fear, many banks announced that they would not open to public, although they would work in their offices.

•Many people made panic purchases of household requirements,as various markets prepare to lock up in obedience to the IPOB sit-at-home order.

•In Ebonyi, the state Police command has vowed to arrest IPOB and MASSOB members should they go ahead to force people to sit-at-home today.

*•14 states are insolvent as their Internally Generated Revenues IGR in 2016 were below 10 per cent of their Federation Account Allocations.*

•Index which was released on Monday showed without the monthly disbursement from the FAAC many states are unviable, and cannot survive.

•The  Annual States Viability Index (ASVI), indicates that  IGR of Lagos  of N302billion is higher than that of some 30 states put together.

•Excluding Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Edo, Kwara and Delta States whose IGRs are very impressive at more than 30 per cent each.

•States with poorest IGR,- 10%: Imo, Bayelsa, Ekiti, Ebonyi Niger, Nasarawa, Sokoto, Katsina, Gombe, Yobe, Jigawa, Kebbi & Borno States.

•NBA has condemned continued detention of Col. Sambo Dasuki and Ibraheem El-Zakyzaky despite court orders which admitted them to bail.

•2 people were feared dead while 14 were rescued alive by emergency respondents from a collapsed building that happened on Lagos Island.

•The United States Embassy in Nigeria has concluded a one-month training exercise for 60 Nigerian anti-bomb policemen in Lagos.

•The training was facilitated by the American Embassy in Nigeria through the Office of Anti-Terrorism Assistant in conjunction with the NPF.

•Report from the International Renewable Energy Agency has revealed that the renewable energy sector employed about 9.8 million in 2016.

•Councillorship candidates of the APC for local council poll in Lagos emerged on Monday, but disagreements led to postponement in some areas.

•Tiger killed a zookeeper in an enclosure at Hamerton Zoo Park in the hamlet of Steeple Gidding, near Cambridge, United Kingdom.

•At least two persons died on Monday during a violence that broke out at the ward primary election of APC in Shogunle area of Lagos State.

•Football Celebrity Birthdays:
Steven Gerrard.
Kevin Etuhu.

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Attencao says:

If it has been demonstrated that the student body, beyond internal movements,  can in fact singularly influence governmental decisions and policies,via tool of intellectual capacity, why not believe and pursue it now? The usual bottlenecks however are sincerity on the part of union leaders and fear of unstable academic calendar.

Clearly, in a sane democratic space, there is absolute right to freedom to engage in peaceful protests. It is however unclear to us how the Nigerian Federal Constitution addresses secessionist protests.

While the States' internally generated decline in revenue may blamed on Bokoharam insurgency and Fulani Herders in a few cases, we can largely deduce that most of our governors only do two things; feed on federal funds and go to bed.

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