Commonwealth Leaders Urged To Stop Teen Marriage

 Leaders of the 54 Commonwealth nations are being urged to end early and forced marriage.
One month ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth Australia, the Royal Commonwealth Society and charity Plan International have issued a joint call for action in a new policy paper published today.
Entitled Empowering Girls: what the Commonwealth can do to end early and forced marriage, the paper reveals the shocking prevalence and damaging effects of early and forced marriage on girls across Commonwealth.

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Agreement: ASUU Commences Strike On Monday

THE Southwest Zonal Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Friday, said that there was no going back on the one-week warning strike slated for Monday 26, September over non-implemetation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement.
The ASUU Zonal Coordinator, Professor Akin Ajisegiri, while addressing newsmen in Ibadan, foreclosed any plans to negotiate with the Federal Government on the implementation of the agreement.