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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said any verdict of the Industrial Court that forces lecturers back to school will have a negative impact.

The President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osadeko, while meeting with the leadership of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, said if lecturers are forced to school, what kind of education are they expecting students to get?

It would be recalled that the federal government dragged ASUU to the National Industrial Court over the seven months ASUU strike.

Justice Polycarp Hamman had on Monday adjourned the case after listening to the arguments of the counsel on behalf of the parties. The court is expected to reconvene on Wednesday.

Speaking before the closed-door session, Mr. Osadeko said forcing lecturers back to school is like forcing doctors to treat patients.

“If the court forces the lecturers to go to work tomorrow, which type of teaching will they do? If the court forces the Nigerian academics — say go and teach against your will — just like the court forcing a doctor to go and treat a patient against your will, how many of us will go and meet that doctor.”

Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila had stated that the meeting must produce a resolution that will end the strike.

Welcome The New Queen Olori Mariam Of The Palace Of Ile Odua Enuwa Square Ile Ife Osun State Nigeria.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Ogunwusi Enitan Ojaja II has married Queen Mariam months after divorcing, Queen Naomi.

People have been trooping into the Palace o express ongratulatory mesdages to Kabiyesi Arole Oduduwa His Imperial Majesty Oba Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi Ojaja II Ooni of Ife.

Details later.

An Appeal Court has dismissed the N20 billion damages claim by self-styled Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho against the Department of State Security (DSS).

Recall a judgement was made after the attack on the home of Yoruba nation agitator Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, where N20bn damages claim was awarded. However, the judgement was was overturned on Tuesday by the Ibadan Division of the Court of Appeal.

In his ruling, Justice Muslim Hassan stated that the Oyo State High Court lacked jurisdiction over the case and that the judge shouldn’t have determined the appropriate amount of damages based on his own preference.

A 23-year-old mother said to be a call girl, Mary Olatayo, had sold her three-week-old baby for N600,000, the Ogun State Police Command has said.

Olatayo was arrested by the police on August 18, following a complaint from the father of the baby, at Mowe Divisional Police Headquarters, Ogun State.

The father of the baby had told the police that he had a relationship with her, which led to pregnancy and the baby in question.

The man disclosed that when Mary got pregnant, he rented an apartment for her where she lived till she gave birth to a baby boy.

According to him, Olatayo suddenly disappeared with the baby from the rented apartment three weeks after delivery.

She was said to have relocated to a hotel, where she had gone for a ‘hook up’ with another man.

“All efforts to know where the baby is proved futile,” Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, quoted the man as saying.

Oyeyemi informed that the DPO of Mowe Division, SP Folake Afeniforo, acting on the report, detailed detectives to the scene, and the suspect was arrested.

While being interrogated, Oyeyemi said Olatayo “confessed to the police that she has sold the baby to someone in Anambra State at the rate of six hundred thousand Naira. She confessed that it was her friend, Chioma Esther Ogbonna, who led her to the buyer in the state and that they both shared the money equally.”

Her confession, ODUDUWA NEWS learnt, led to the arrest of Chioma, who Oyeyemi said also corroborated Mary’s claims.

Police investigation, Oyeyemi hinted, had revealed that Olatayo a native of Omu-Aran in Kwara State “is a call girl who sees the baby as a disturbance to her business, hence she decided to do away with the baby.”

He added that Olatayo had an accomplice in Imo-born Chioma, “who quickly contacted the buyer in Anambra State.”

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspects to the anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the State CIID for further investigation.

CP Bankole also directed that everything legal must be done to recover the sold baby.

A yet-to-be identified man has been found dead by the roadside in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

It was learnt that the lifeless body of the man was discovered Thursday morning beside AP filling station at Ijaiye, Abeokuta South Local Government of the State.

Nobody knows the cause of the man’s death, but many suspected that he must have been killed by a hit-and-run vehicle or ritualists.

It was, however, observed that no body part of the deceased man is missing.

As of Saturday afternoon, the already decomposing body is yet to be evacuated by the concerned authorities.

Locals said the stench oozing out of the corpse has become unbearable, begging those concerned to do the needful.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he was not aware of the situation.

However, he said, “We will contact the appropriate health workers and the necessary papers will be given to them to pack the remains.”

Also, the Commissioner for Environment, Ola Oresanya, said he would get across to the local government authorities in charge of the area.

ODUDUWA NEWS has just gathered that a young man suspected to be a cable thief has been electrocuted while trying to vandalize electric transformer in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.

It was gathered that the suspect was electrocuted on Monday afternoon, August 15, while allegedly trying to steal cables from a transformer at Kolade Estate in Ogo Oluwa Area of Osogbo.

The lifeless body of the electrocuted man was seen hanging on the fence mounted around the electric transformer.

As at the time of filing this report, the identity of the suspected thief is yet to be known.

Details later.

There was anxiety at Ajegunle, Osogbo on Saturday evening as some soldiers beat a Police officer.

The soldiers and the police officer, it was gathered, were not in uniform.

According to the report, the soldiers and the police officer in different vehicles refused to allow each other to pass through the Ajekunle spare part market.

“Both of them did not want to reverse for the other to pass. The police officer identified himself while one of the three soldiers in the car still directed the policeman to reverse. His refusal led to the fight.

“The police officer called Dugbe Police station while another three personnel joined the soldiers.

“The matter degenerated and there was an exchange of gunshots for some minutes. We closed our shops and fled the scene to escape being shot,” an eyewitness, who craved anonymity, said.

The spokesperson for Osun Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, confirmed the clash but said the matter had been resolved.