VP Osinbajo Says Buhari now fully okay, will resume work on Monday

Nigerian Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said President Muhammadu Buhari is well and will return to Nigeria on Sunday to resume work on Monday.

Prof. Osinbajo who has been the Acting President since President Buhari left the country for London to treat his ear infection said this in Abuja on Thursday while speaking with State House correspondents shortly before presiding over the National Executive Council meeting adding that it is best for the President to take the weekend off.

According to him, the President is in perfect health condition and will be ready to resume office on Monday morning.

He said: “The President will be back on Sunday. I spoke with him yesterday evening and I think it is just the best that he takes the weekend off. He will certainly be back on Sunday.

ASUP Strike: NEC meeting ongoing, may suspend strike

The Academic Staff union of Polytechnics, ASUP, is currently holding its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting. The meeting, being held in Abuja, is mainly to review the ongoing 10-month strike by the polytechnic lecturers.

The ASUP NEC meeting is holding two days after the leadership of the union held a ‘fruitful’ meeting with the new Education Minister, Ibrahim Shekarau, who was sworn-in by President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday.

The ASUP NEC consists of all chapter (polytechnic) chairmen of the union and the national executives.

A member of the NEC, who is attending the meeting, said on Saturday morning that the strike might be suspended after the meeting. “The strike is likely to be suspended at the end of the NEC meeting today following the outcome of the last meeting we had with the new Minster of Education,” the source said.