Edeson Online News: 09/11/12

Tuesday 11 September 2012

Chicago's School Teachers Strike Reaches to DAY 3

Chicago teachers take over the streets outside the headquarters of Chicago Public Schools in Chicago September 10, 2012. REUTERS-Jeff Haynes

A strike of Chicago teachers that has closed the nation's third-largest school district will drag into Wednesday after unionized teachers and negotiators for Mayor Rahm Emanuel failed to reach an agreement in the biggest labor dispute in the United States in a year.

Negotiations adjourned late on Tuesday with both sides saying they had made progress but had not secured a deal to get 29,000 teachers and support staff back in inner-city schools.

9, 000 Muslims are expected to go for holy pilgrimage in Mecca and Median come the next month in fulfillment of the fifth pillar of Islam.

The announcement was made by Al-hajji Juma Shiwuyo, the secretary for Hajj (pilgrimage to holy places). He said the pilgrimage will last for a month, “We shall leave for Mecca and Medina on October 10 and return on November 10,” he said.

To qualify for the trip, each Muslim is expected to pay sh10m. The money is supposed to cater for accommodation, travel and other expenses. Shiwuyo advised Muslims to attend Hajj lessons if they are to have a fruitful journey. “It is useless to pay your money, yet you are not going to follow the rules of

Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma Muktar, will today, administer oath on 25 legal practitioners recently conferred with the rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC.

Among those to be sworn in today are: Mr. Femi Falana, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, Prof. Yemi Akinseye-George and Prof. Clement Dakas.

Deputy Director, Press and Information at the Supreme Court, Mr. Festus Akande, in a statement, said the event will hold at the ceremonial hall of the apex court.

Chinese Vice President, Xi Jinping who has been widely rumored to succeed the president has mysteriously disappeared days before the president is supposed to step down.

Jinping was last seen in public 8 days ago on 1st September and has cancelled at least four meetings since then including those with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.. Speculations about his whereabouts have started flying around.

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