Suspected al-Shabab fighters beheaded nine men, in a night attack on a village in the Kenyan coastal district of Lamu, police said.

This event took place days after the armed group killed three police officers in an attack on a village.

A witness, confirmed the death toll to Reuters news agency. It said in a tweet that the 12-hour curfew, from 6:30pm (1530 GMT), affects parts of Lamu, Garissa and Tana River and is to be in place for the next three months.

The President had recently appointed Education Minister Fred Matiangi as acting security minister, Kenyatta promised there would be "no vacuum in securing our country".

UCJ, UNILORIN.

At the G20 meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin, said he thinks President Donald Trump believed his denial of Russian meddling, in the U.S. presidential election.

He said Trump asked him questions about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election during a discussion on the issue.

Putin says he thinks his answers satisfied Trump, but added that Trump’s opinion would be better sought from the U.S. president himself.

UCJ, UNILORIN.

US President Donald Trump, has rebuked speculation that he won’t be visiting London.

Trump met with British Prime Minister Theresa May at the G20 summit in Germany. When asked about the invitation, Trump replied, he will be going to London.

May was the first world leader to visit Trump at the White House. She brought an invitation from the queen for Trump to come to London this year on a state visit.

But opposition to the idea mounted quickly, from Britons who called the invitation premature.

Later on, London’s mayor called for the invitation to be cancelled after Trump criticized the mayor’s response to a deadly terrorist attack in the city.

Manchester United star and the club's all-time top scorer, has rejoined the Toffees after 13 years away from Merseyside, where he first shone as a teenage player.

Rooney joined United from Everton for £27m, on the basis of stunning displays at Euro 2004 and went on to win five Premier League titles, four League Cups, 1 Champions League, 1 Europa League and the 2015-16 FA Cup on his way to a personal tally of 253 goals.

Rooney is Ronald Koeman's sixth signing of a busy close season at Everton, following Michael Keane, Jordan Pickford, Davy Klassen, Sandro Ramirez and Henry Onyekuru to Goodison Park.

Meanwhile, Everton striker Romelu Lukaku is set to move in the opposite direction for £75million after United saw off competition from Chelsea for the Belgium international.

UCJ, UNILORIN.

He was on a highspirits after his Poland trip. He gave a speech and Poland ensured that the people at the speech reacted positively.

🐦 ​After Poland had a great meeting with Chancellor Merkel and then with PM Shinzō Abe of Japan & President Moon of South Korea.​

Then this bizarre tweet. Why would he sit in Germany and dredge up the election again? He won already. He is the President.

🐦 ​Everyone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful!​

He did do a lot of meetings. Duta reported on all of them.

🐦 ​I look forward to all meetings today with world leaders, including my meeting with Vladimir Putin. Much to discuss.​

🐦 ​I will represent our country well and fight for its interests! Fake News Media will never cover me accurately but who cares! We will MAGA​

The Wall Street Journal thought his speech in Poland was great. Duta disagrees, but that's why he's talking about the WSJ not Duta.

🐦 *Thank you! “Trump’s Defining Speech” WSJ Editorial: http://45.wh.gov/gSYLnz *

🐦 ​Great first day with world leaders at the G20Summit here in Hamburg, Germany. Looking forward to day two!​

🐦 ​The ​G20Summit​ was a wonderful success and carried out beautifully by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Thank you!​

🐦 ​Law enforcement & military did a spectacular job in Hamburg. Everybody felt totally safe despite the anarchists.​

🐦 ​Leaving Hamburg for Washington, D.C. and the WH. Just left China’s President Xi where we had an excellent meeting on trade & North Korea.​

Source: Duta

UCJ, UNILORIN.

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), response to meningitis outbreak, continues to be fruitful as the outbreak declines in the most affected States.

Vaccination campaigns, led by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) were successfully conducted first in Zamfara State, and subsequently in Sokoto State.

Both State governments have fully engaged in conducting the campaigns in order to ensure that the vaccines get to people who are most at risk.

In addition to the vaccination, the National Meningitis Emergency Operations Centre (NMEOC), with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has deployed teams to the most affected States to support coordination, case management and surveillance activities.

UCJ, UNILORIN.

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, feels US President's position on climate change, is "regrettable".

Angela Merkel said this in her closing remarks, at the G20 summit where world leaders appeared to have struck a deal on international trade policies.

In Hamburg, Merkel said the two-day summit achieved "good results in some areas", citing the agreement on trade as an example.

The trade deal struck by the US administration and international partners endorsed open markets, but acknowledged that, countries have a right to put up barriers to block unfair practices.

Uriel Idowu,
UCJ, UNILORIN.

Mass Communication Department, University of Ilorin, held her annual Doyin Mahmoud lecture, on 8th July, 2017.

The annual program is organise yearly in remembrance of pioneer Head of the Department, (Late). Doyin Mahmoud, with this year marking the 6th edition.

The guest speaker, Mr. Mudashir Adebayo Atoyebi in his lecture titled, "Essence of Digitisation", said, the transmission of radio programs, will go digital before the end of next decade, through Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB).

He further enthused that, the media landscape must change with technological development and must do so ethically.

He said, "the compression of video, audio and text and 0 and 1 corresponding with "on and off" electrical impulses, broadcasting will be made easy".

He accounted, that variant of digital broadcast, with the prominent being Standard Definition Television (SDTV), has helped in improving broadcast media landscape.

The veteran Journalist, enthused that, change in digital value, improvement in reception quality and value added content are benefits of digitization.

In his closing remark, he called for censorship and regulation, as the maintenance for this innovation, that must be properly taken care of, if we must enjoy the benefits of digitization.

Representing Mallam Olaolu Ali, Mallam Aliyu Badmus, urged media to report progress from other sectors of the economy, while urging budding Journalist to surpass their predecessor.

President of the Association, Comrade Soliu Abdulfatai, charged growing journalists to follow the footsteps of the late veteran Journalist, Late. Doyin Mahmoud.

The event ended with the launching of The Lens annual Magazine, and the presentation of awards to the awardee, as well as medals to participants for the Association's week programs.

Tomori Uriel,

UCJ, UNILORIN.

Upon  confirmation from the clerk of the house that they are no incoming mails. The business of the day was announced to grace the floor of the House.

ISEC Budget
The committee members were invited to present the ISEC budget to the House. 

The presence of the chairman of the committee, the General Secratary, Mr. Adeyemi Ibrahim, and the PRO, graced the floor to address senators and congressmen alike.

Their presentation to the house goes thus:

Press Night Budget @PS and COHS:
Security
Sound system, amplifier speaker
Microphones
Electricity
Stationery
Typing & Printing
Transportation
Flash drive
Publicity
ICT unit(OTP)
Manifesto day (both at PS & COHS)
Screening day (refreshment for ISEC members, and delegates of 
Student Affairs)

Security 

Election day 

Salaries.

After hours of deliberation and scrutiny, some parts of the budget were approved as proposed, some scrapped, while others were slashed.

The new ratification that sets in upon the decision of the senators include:

Press Night
#500 was ratified to be used as the sum to provide refreshment for pressmen.

Security for the press night was pegged at #2,000.

Items such as sound system, microphone, speakers, Generator, amplifier speaker were all scrapped on the basis that the office of the Welfare Secretary can make provision for it, being part of the items the Union have in store. That they won't be need to search too far to fetch it except for little touches of repair that it will need.

It was on this basis that the fund meant to finance the equipment was scrapped.

Next of the agenda is the stationery and it was approved to be 30 units as proposed.

Sale of Form
300 units of form was proposed by the electoral committee as they made it clear on the floor of the House that the money for all forms sold goes directly to the SU account. Thus, the proposed budget was slashed to 250 copies at the rate of #30,000.

Posters were said to be needed to be used in creating awareness  to both aspirants and electorates for the election time-table.

50 copies @the rate of #250 with 2 rims was approved as proposed by the committee.

The use of marker for writing on card board to be pasted at various faculties was approved but ratified to 4 pieces (permanent marker) as against the one pack proposed by the committee.

Typing, printing was also scrapped, with the notification that it can be done at the Financial Secretary's office.

Budget allocated to the transportation in all of the electoral activities were also scrapped with compensation that they will be conveyed by the Student Union bus.

The idea to use flash drive for documentation was also approved.
Bulk SMS was approved for units to be purchased.
One time password (OTP) for  the electorate was also approved by the House.

Manifesto Day
Provision for four security men for the manifesto day both at the PS & the COHS, was also approved as proposed by the committee.

Screening Day
Refreshment for ISEC members was approved as proposed but ratified to #300.

#500 was ratified as refreshment for the two delegates from students Affairs as against #1000.

Security
Its budget was approved as proposed @the rate of #1,000.

Election Day
Papers to be laminated were approved at the rate of #750 in total.

ISEC Members Salaries
a. Chairman: ratified #10,000 as adopted in the last session as against the proposed #15,000

b. General Secretary: ratified to #8,000 as against the proposed #13,000

c. P. R. O: ratified to #7,000 as against the proposed #12,000.

d. Commissioners fee were ratified to #6,000 each for the 27 commissioners as against the proposed #10,000.

It took over 30 minutes of deliberation whether to allow the legal teams in place of Attorney General but the Constitution they say it supreme law as it allows the ISEC to make the decisions on what they want to adopt.
Legal team, legal practitioners, Attorney General? It remains the decision of the ISEC.

To wrap it up,  The House concluded that #5,000 should be allocated to them.

COMMITTEE REPORT
The report commenced at exactly 5:11pm with a report presented to the House by the Law Reform Committee on the correction of some sections of the SU Constitution. 

The following were some of the corrections made:
Eligibility, nomination and appointment instead of qualification (Part 2); correction of expenditure of the commission to function of the commission @section 43(4)(5).

Changing of the numbering of the Constitution such numbers as: 6-10, 20-30 etc.

Also, corrections were made in "Part 6(22).

STANDING ORDER
Corrections and changes were also made in this aspect. Senator Nucleus of Life Sciences Constituency, moved for the standing order of the House.

Corrections were made in the following: "All the Senate Council sittings  shall hold on Saturdays except the inaugural sitting"

"Standing out to Standing order"

Also, changing of the first letter of the Senate President from small letter to capital letter.

Other areas include: Rule 16A, Rule 19 etc.

AOB
A bill sponsored by Senator Oladejo Sherifudeen was read to the House by the clerk. The bill was for the establishment of the Student Union Bar Association. 

Thus,  the Senate President asked the sponsor to come and make the  aims and objectives of the bill known to House. 

According to the sponsor,  the bill was to guide students legal practitioners in the school and among others.

In reaction to this,  many senators asked questions concerning the foundation of the bill.  Senator Providence of Art constituency sought to know if the Student Union Bar Association would be part of the Judicial Council of the Student Union.  To this, the sponsor said, "No".

The bill which was debated exhaustively, scaled through the first reading. To this effect, the Senate President told the senators to consider the advantages of the bill to House and enjoined the sponsor to revisit the bill along with the Law Reform Committee for the subsequent stages.

In the same development, another bill was read to the House by the Clerk was on the alteration of the SU Constitution was deliberated upon by senators.

The bill scaled through the second stage and thus, Senator Musa of the International students constituency, moved for the bill to passed into law.

The Senate President asserted that the bill would be sent to the SU President for his assent.

In furtherance to this,  transition bill was also read to the House by the Clerk. According to him, the bill is aimed at proper transferring of documents, assets and other official materials by the SU officials.

To this end, the bill was tagged "Transition Act." It also scaled through the second reading and thus, the Senate whip moved that  the bill be passed into law.

Immediately after this, Senator D representing education constituency, moved for adjournment of the Sitting.

The sitting came to an end at exactly 9:52pm.

Ibrahim Rasheed
&
Rufai Monsurah
UCJ, UNILORIN.

Commercial drivers and students in the University of Ilorin, have expressed their displeasure to the situation at the school park.

These were revealed in a recent opinion poll conducted by UCJ UNILORIN. Though the school park may have been renovated to a reasonable level, most commercial drivers and students believe the reconstruction and renovation process is rather disadvantageous to them for the following reasons:

Many students, believe there is no difference between the old park and the new park, on the basis that, reasons for renovation of the park was due to expansion.

On the other hand, drivers also believe the renovation exercise is not successful on the basis of expansion; it is their opinion that the park is not large enough for drivers and other park users, which makes it difficult for drivers to manoeuvre their way orderly, in picking up passengers.

Another shortcoming identified by drivers is the absence of shades for momentary relaxation. According to a driver identified as 'Oloye', he said, "the large trees that create shelter from the harsh sun and rain have been cut, this has left drivers with no choice but to adapt to the in conducive situation."

Therefore, the drivers are using this medium to call on the management of the University to provide alternatives, if it was mandatory to cut down the trees during construction work.

Students, however, were silent in this regard. Rather, many of them, think the quality of the park has not measured up to their expectation.

For instance, nonavailability of rest rooms for use at the park, is also a major concern for drivers. Although, there are toilets in the park, they are not accessible to park users who ought to have access to them.

A driver, whose name was not disclosed, said, "the school built the restrooms which are currently bushy and locked with no access, but workers on the park have decided to raise fund through taxing its transport workers at intervals."

"Basically, these drivers cannot afford to keep up with the tax system, so, some of them look for natural environments to powder their nose."

Mr Oloye, also claims that "on several occasions, drivers have been forced to defecate in their buses."

Story of a woman who couldn't hold herself against nature, was narrated to our correspondent.

Drivers also opined that the nature of their work is energy sapping, for this reason, adequate food supply, should be available at the park. A driver said, "This is an unfortunate situation that needs to be acted upon as fast as possible, as all mini-food stores, have been sent away."

These drivers, claimed to have had meetings with the school management recently concerning some of these issues, but has yielded no result. 

It is certain that, drivers are not pleased with the current state of things pertaining to the school park.

Efforts are in top to get the reaction of the school management on the subject matter.

​Bamigbaye Jesulonii​
​UCJ​, UNILORIN.

OUniversity of Ilorin is on the verge of breaking a Guinness World Record, on 5th, June 2017.

University of Ilorin Student Union, in conjunction with Making History Naija (MHN), powered by Pepsi, is set to have broken the world record of the largest number of people to open a can drink at once, anywhere in the world.

The current record, for opening can drinks simultaneously, is held by Career Consulting Co. Ltd. and was achieved by 1,149 people at Urayasu, Japan on the 24th of January 2016.

The event which took place at the University Stadium, saw all logistics put in place for 3000 students. The event is said to be credible and properly conducted, and as such has met up with Guinness World Record programme.

The event was from 12pm and it lasted 4 hours. It was fun filling and entertaining, everyone was perceived to have enjoyed themselves.

Tomori Uriel Idowu
UCJ, UNILORIN.

The Nigerian Sociological and Anthropological Students' Association, University of Ilorin, will today, 6th July, hold its annual public lecture themed, 'The Role of Traditional Institution in Tackling Falling Moral Standard in the Nigerian Society.'

The fascinating thing about this year's annual public lecture is the fact that the guest speaker, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Dr.) Micheal Odunayo Ajayi, the Elerinmo of Erinmo-Ijesha kingdom, State of Osun, graduated from the department of Sociology (Unilorin) in 1989.

The event will commence by 10:00am at the Multipurpose Hall, University of Ilorin. However, invited guests are required to be seated by 9:30am before takeoff time.

Among the eminent personalities to grace the auspicious occasion include: Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, OON, Vice Chancellor, University of ILORIN; Prof. B. Salawu
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ilorin; Prof. N. Yusuf,
Head, Department of Sociology, University of Ilorin; Chairperson (LOC), Dr. (Mrs) D.S. Adekeye,
Department of Sociology, University of Ilorin among others.

Osuji Chima Francis
UCJ, UNILORIN.