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5 DELSU Lecturers To Be Dismissed For Sexual Assault, Abuse Of Office.

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Five lecturers of Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, have been recommended for sack by a disciplinary committee of the institution set up to investigate various offences, including sexual harassment of female students and financial extortion for marks.

 

The recommendation of the committee is coming 13 months after the institution dismissed three lecturers for alleged professional misconduct, including a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts, who was caught pants down with examination scripts in the room of a 400 level female student in the same department.

 

It was gathered that one of the lecturers (name withheld) of the Department of Primary/ Nursery Education was caught pants down in a hotel room within Abraka and detained for two days at the Abraka police station while trying to have his way with a female student, who had pretended to have succumbed to his sexual advances but to find out she had reported to the police.

A former Head of Basic Medical Sciences Department and traditional chief (name withheld) was also recommended for dismissal over alleged sexual harassment and collection of various sums of money from his students in a bid to pass them in their exams.

 

Though management of the institution is yet to issue a statement on the matter, the university’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Edward Agbure, when contacted said that the fate of the lecturers would be determined by the DELSU Governing Council.

More Dismissed Soldiers Beg Buhari For Reinstatement

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Following the decision of Federal Government to reinstate 3,032 officers and soldiers, who were dismissed from the Nigerian Army last year by the General Court-Martial set up by military authorities, three groups of officers and soldiers, yesterday, appealed to President Buhari to extend the gesture to them.

The groups, according to their counsel, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), in a petition addressed to the Chief of Army Staff, are the 70 soldiers convicted and sentenced to death in September and December 2014 by two General Courts-Martial, whose findings have not been confirmed; scores of officers and soldiers convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment by General Courts-Martial, and senior officers and soldiers currently being prosecuted in Special and General Courts-Martial in Lagos and Abuja.

The petition said: “The convicts and suspects under-going trial are alleged to have committed mutiny, cowardly behaviour, loss of equipment, failure to perform military duties and sundry offences…”

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Wike Wants Peterside’s Petition Dismissed Over N100 Fee Default

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Nyesom Wike and the Independent National Electoral Commission, on Friday asked the state Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the All Progressive Party and its candidate in the poll, Dr. Dakuku Peterside.

Wike and INEC predicated their prayer for the dismissal of the petition on the petitioners’ failure to pay a fee of N100 for the filing for the issuance of pre-hearing notice, Form TF007.

But counsel for Peterside and the APC, who are through their petition, challenging the declaration of Wike as the winner of the April 11 poll, Chief Akin Olujinmi (SAN), asked the Justice Muazu Pindiga-led tribunal to dismiss the respondents’ application for lacking in merit.

Olujinmi insisted that since the application for the pre-hearing notice was by a letter to the Secretary to the tribunal, his clients were not liable to pay for filing fee as such was not specifically provided for in any law.

He maintained that Paragraph 2 of the TF007 only made provision for the submission of the form and not filing which would have warranted payment of filing fee.

He added that even if his clients were required to pay the fee, failure to do so could only amount to a mere irregularity which the tribunal could direct them to pay at any time.

He also maintained that his clients, like other pa?rties to the petition, had made a deopsit of N500,000 security fund to the tribunal, so the tribunal could easily deduct N100 from the said money if it was a must that the N100 fee be paid.

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Dismissed Ex-UN Peacekeepers Beg Buhari For Reinstatement

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Some ex-Nigerian soldiers, who served in the United Nations Mission in Liberia, have called on the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to review their compulsory retirement and reinstate them.

Some of the ex-soldiers were those retired for allegedly participating in mutiny after staging a protest in Akure over non-payment of their entitlements by the authorities of the Nigerian Army, spoke to our correspondent in Osogbo on the telephone on Sunday.

The former UN peacekeepers staged a protest in Akure in 2008 when their entitlements including their savings were not paid on their return from the peacekeeping operation in Liberia.

One of the soldiers, Yomi Ibukun, who was a lance corporal before they were sacked, said that it was not appropriate to render young male and female soldiers, who had been trained to handle guns, jobless.

Ibukun said three of the ex-UN soldiers given compulsory retirement; Paul Maikudi (corporal); Pascal Stephen (lance corporal) and Kabiru Mohammed (private) had died.

Another ex-soldier, Abass Salisu, who was a corporal, said that all of them were young and their skills were still needed by the military.

He lamented the alleged injustice done to them, saying the victims of the injustice would be grateful if they could be reinstated.

Ibukun said, “We thank God that Gen. Buhari eventually won the presidential election. The President-elect is a former military officer and he would appreciate our case if it is brought before him.

“We are appealing to him to correct the injustice done to 27 of us. Some senior officers refused to pay us our entitlements during our operations in Liberia and they sentenced us to life imprisonment after the protest.

“The sentence was commuted to seven years imprisonment before we were freed but later compulsorily retired.

“It is sad because while those of us whose entitlements were stolen were punished and retired, the officers who stole our money suffered loss of ranks temporarily but they had since been restored to their old ranks.”

Musa Salisu, who was a corporal before he was compulsory retired, said the authorities paid part of the entitlements which led to the protest and had refused to pay the balance despite the punishment meted out to them.

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