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By JAAFAR JAAFAR On Apr 28, 2019 I have not known a Nigerian president who left his cabinet intact, for better or worse, throughout his tenure than President Muhammadu Buhari. He is so allergic to change that he maintained the portfolio of the ministers for nearly four years. The best sinecure in the world, editorial board of Guinness World Records will agree with me, is the Buhari cabinet job. No assessment, no sack, no queries and, of course, no worries. Barring incidences of resignation (Amina Mohammed, Kayode Fayemi, etc), the media-induced sack of Babachir Lawan and Kemi Adeosun and the death of James Ocholi, no cabinet reshuffle took place in more than three and a half years. It took the president over one year to replace James Ocholi who died in road accident on March 6, 2016. Suspected ritualists kill 80-year-old woman in Ondo •Sever breasts In his wisdom, President Buhari believes Nigeria’s capital city Abuja deserves a minister who failed to replace the burnt-out bulbs

The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, Taraba state university chapter has embark on indefinate strike to press home their demand.     The Asuu chairperson in the state Dr Shikaa announced this while briefing newsmen in Jalingo.         According to him, the strike became necessary due to the state goverment inability to honour agreement as regard to laws for the funding of the University. Dr Shikaa who decried a situation where staff of the Taraba state university don't have pension scheme, also called for the immediate measures to capture the workers on its -pension scheme, since they are all working for the state goverment. Reacting on the strike, the commissioner of education mr Johannes Jigem stressed that the state goverment has given ASUU offers as regard to their salaries and allowances and wonder why they should embark on strike.