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Ladies and gentlemen, the educational aficionados, the cerebral analysts and pundits, respected Nairaland intelligentsia and commentariat, observers and watchers all well respected Nigerian students both in Nigeria and Abroad, it's our pleasure to welcome you to the Second phase and the Elimination round of the Third edition of the NAIRALAND INTERSCHOOL DEBATE between the gladiator of University of Lagos www.nairaland.com/attachments/1403622_unilag_png100d6d16185642e2bcf9081b8ebcf420
and that of UNIVERSITY OF Ilorin

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You are welcome once again to the elimination rounds in the ongoing Nairaland Interschool Debate, the first two debate for this stage was a hit back to back from Yabatech Vs Unijos to Abu Zaria Vs Lautech, leaving out Yabatech and Lautech from Nairaland Interschool debate third edition race, with UNIJOS and ABU ZARIA in for the next stage, which of these two schools will join UNIJOS and ABU ZARIA? Well I am not to decide that, join us on Saturday at 7pm.. . As we all know this stage is survival of the fittest, you lose you are out.




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DEBATE RULES

Kindly read.

1.) The recommended font size is the default size (size 8.) and the colour is the default colour (black).

2.) The essay should be in maximum of 1000 words.

3.) The use of SMS language and abbreviations are strictly forbidden.

4.) All materials used should be properly referenced at the end of the essay.

5.) All essays must be submitted on the stipulated date and time.

6.) Sole representatives are not allowed during the competition, both representatives must be present.

7.) All representatives are to engage in rebuttals and give answers to questions raised by the judges and the audience.

8.) Word counts should be strictly adhered to. http://www.wordcounttool.com/

9.) Mindless lifting is outrightly discouraged

10.) Defaulters will be penalized when caught

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PROCEDURES

6:55 -- Debaters(Damoskiy, Nicolars, Tourshaw, Neyoor) and judges(Xynerise, ) KingTom, Rocktation) register presence

7:00 – The Chief coordinator , Luxanne declares the debate open

7:00 - 7:30 -- Debaters post their arguments within 30 minutes, maximum word limit is 1000

7:30 – 8:30pm – Rebuttals - A debater takes on his opponent’s view, puncturing his or her points - This the debater does by quoting the said comment and then countering it with his or her own views.

8:20 – 8:40pm – Judges post questions to debaters either on what the debater has posited or revolving around the debate topic, albeit, this is not compulsory, it is acceptable for a judge not to have questions for the debaters... Judges with questions should please be specific as to which debater they are posting their questions to. E.g “Mr X, could you expatiate what you meant by subsidy? or ...., kindly give examples to your claim that the removal of fuel subsidy is justified.

8:40 – 9:00pm – Debaters respond to questions raised by judges

9:00 – 9:20pm – Two questions will be entertained from the audience i.e. viewers and this will be based on ‘fastest fingers’. After the 2 questions, other questions will be attended to after the debate or perhaps, if the debater is free during the debate to respond to them, he or she can do so, however, points will not be awarded after the 2 questions.

9:20 – 9:30pm – Debaters respond to audience questions and concludes their arguments. Debaters who were not asked any questions can still conclude his/her arguments during this time.

9:30 – 9:40pm – Judges compile their scores and mail to coordinators with a copy to Nairalandinterschooldebate@gmail.com

9:40 – 10:00pm - Coordinators announce results, after which the thread will be thrown open for regular Nairaland discussions.

DEBATE MODALITIES

5 points to be awarded to each criteria.

1. Presentation (opening, flow, paragraphs, grammar, punctuations, word count, closing,)

2. Logic of arguments

3. Strength of facts, examples, cases.

4. Persuasiveness

5. Demonstration of knowledge and understanding of the subject

6. Rebuttals and response to questions raised by the judges and the audience

I remain Scentmarlc and am the coordinator for Team 3, with me are the officiating judges,

Jarus LarrySun Isacolukay




Topic: Death Penalty a panacea for terrorism and corruption in Nigeria


Date: 7th February 2016

Time: 7pm

2. UNILAG


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The University of Lagos – Popularly known as Unilag. The University of Lagos was established on 22nd October 1962 on the authority of the University of Lagos Act of 1962. The University was established in order to achieve rapid industrialization and development after Independence as Nigeria needed to invest in the training of a professional workforce.

The Vice Chancellor of the University is - Professor Rahmon Ade Bello.

And Unilag Motto - In deed and in truth.

Join me, as I welcome the Akokites representing the University of Lagos.

► FrancisTony
► Damoskiy
► Nicolars
► LARRYDKING

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3. UNILORIN




The University of Ilorin, also known as Unilorin, is a university in Ilorin, Nigeria.

It was established by a decree of the Federal Military Government in 1975 and is a federal government owned tertiary institution of education located in Ilorin, Kwara State, western Nigeria. University of Ilorin was one of the seven institutions of higher learning established by a decree of the Federal Military Government in August, 1975.

Vice-chancellor: Professor Abdul Ganiyu Ambali

Motto: Probitas Doctrinas meaning Character and learning.


Join me, as I welcome the Unilorites representing the University of Ilorin .

►Mustybura
►graciousolo
►Tourshaw
►Neyoor

Fynestboi:

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GIVEAWAYS



► A hard copy of the book "The Road to Victoria Island" authored by Mr. Jarus to the debaters of the winning school.

► A soft copy (ebook version) to be given to each debater of the second placed team.

► Best debater to be invited to JarusHub Networking Event - an avenue to meet and dine with some Lagos professionals in a top restaurant in Lagos (This meet holds on every last Saturday of every month, and the debater is free to choose the month he prefers from June to December 2016).


Courtesy: JarusHub Career Consulting

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Please while the submission of the essay is going on, only the contestants, coordinators, Chairman and Supermods (if need be) can post.




Pls let's comply, as defaulters might attract 3 hours ban (duration of the essay submission).




You can however comment simultaneously at the planning thread.


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Thank you.







Come and witness the mother of all e-Essay Competition on the biggest Section of the biggest online forum in Africa..

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Present

Its yet another weekend, a weekend of intellectual debates and I say a warm welcome to you all.

Tonight, as the thread reads, this is going to be between UNILAG and UNILORIN and one of these schools, after tonight, will join UNIJOS and ABUZARIA for the quarter finals.

Which of these schools will?

Well, let us find out at the end of tonight.

Just stay glued on, cheering on


I am Luxanne, declaring the debate now open.

Stuck in traffic but nevertheless, present

Thank you all. Let the show begin...



7:00 - 7:30 -- Debaters post their arguments within 30 minutes, maximum word limit is 1000

Mustybura
Tourshaw

UNILAG SEEMS TO BE unprepared for this debate, hence it will be UNILORIN, the JUDGES and the audience show down....


So judges be prepare for a storming questioning for UNILORIN participants.

Distinguished Chairman, distinguished panel of judges, relentless moderators and coordinators of this e-essay competition, potential co-debaters and my rational readers. All protocols are duly observed. I remain Tourshaw, a student in the department of Anatomy, University of Ilorin in my sophomore year representing Unilorin in this debate but before I proceed, let us take an envisage look at some terms in the topic. Social media could be defined as the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration e.g google.com, Facebook.com, twitter.com, goal.com, nairaland.com, YouTube.com etc. While real media are also information contained media characterized by print and sounds e.g radio stations, television stations and newspapers which are usually regulated.

Social media is an avenue that provides its users information without any restrictions. Information which can jeopardize national security can be disseminated through social media. Nigeria has been experiencing torment of insurgency in the northern part and extra judicial killings all over the country. Perpetrators of these menace extract their information from our uncensored social media in order to execute their inhumane plans. If not for anything, social media should also, for the sake of you and I be regulated and censored because sensitive and confidential military information could be vulnerable to these terrorists through social media which will subject our security into deadly and fatal threats.
Plagiarism is another unfortunate consequence of social media. Who said social media is bad? Who said it's not been helpful? In fact, beyond doubt, it has been the major and significant development characterized by the twenty-first century which distinctivel distinguised it from the previous eras. Through this means, useful and meaning information that make learning much seamless is disseminated. However, it's regrettably sad that to witness exorbitant misuse of this century rare endowment by unscrupulous users through plagiarism and piracy. Plagiarism has been and still remain the principal problem associated with uncensored social media. Millions if not billions of naira are lost by victim of this this piracy and plagiarism.

Another heavy problem shouldered by unregulated social media is indiscriminate exposure to adult content. Even though those obscene websites used to boldly write it as 18+ contents, young children of this generation, through the mobile phones are the ones that access the websites the most contrarily. Some bloggers even use this as a strategy to increase traffics on their websites. As if you don't know, there's a wealth of pornographic and seductive contents that are accessed with ease through social media. This has led to the affected children being dissensitised and made them to be curious to have experience of what they should not even have its idea. Surprisingly, young adults are also infiltrerated with the social media by masturbation which is destructive and sinful to health and Faiths respectively. This issue is addressed in countries that regulate social media for instance Turkey who use the strategy of expensive cost of social media to dissuade people from using it which makes average Turkmen see internet as a luxury and twitter is ban in the country. Tunisia also imbibe censorship and regulation of social media; filtering pornographic contents on websites not to infinitesimal but to zero level. These measures employ by these nations have to a reasonable extent sensitize their communities and its related relatives.

Freedom of expression alibi, whenever social media regulation issue surfaces, one of the biggest arguments surrounding it, is freedom of expression. I presume one of my opponents might be nursing the ambition of standing firmly on this freedom of speech. Even if the Nigeria constitution gives room for freedom of expression, does it allow abusive and offensive ones? Does it allow hate campaign? Of course not! Some people use social media to vilify, castigate and stigmatize one another and even the government with hate campaigns, false allegations and others thereby committing felony comparable-offense through their utterances. Syria is a country that censored its social media in that any blogger who expresses any kind of anti government feeling which may jeopardize national unity is arrested. Over 400 000 websites which promote national unrest by topics on social, political and religious issues that do not conform with the doctrines of Islam were blocked by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All websites are under government agency in North Korea. So if these big countries can, why can't we?

Lastly, accusing finger of viral misinformations could be pointed to as repercussion unregulated social media. I cannot but burst into an uncontrollable and endless laughter whenever I remember the viral misinformations about Ebola virus outbreak in Nigeria which surfaced almost 2 years ago, when a fabricated therapy for cure of the diseases which was drinking and taking bath with hot salt water. And I don't think I need to tell you that once an information gets to social media, it goes viral easily and conveniently just like gas released into the air. Before we knew it, it has circulated the nooks and crannies of the country and people with fear of contacting the virus started drinking and taking bath with hot salt water ignorantly which reportedly led to the deaths of a handful of average Nigerians who were virally misinformed.

In conclusion, if the senate can pass the bill by subjecting social media into strict censorship and regulations then Nigeria will be devoid of online hate campaigns, publicity stunt, exposure to pornography will become a history, war against plagiarism and piracy will be graciously won and Nigeria will be free of insurgency. We should bear in mind that leaving social media uncensored is like a child who is left sheerly untaught, please of what benefit do we expect from such a child?
Thank you.

REFERENCES
1. The Benefits of Social Networki Services, research work by Associate Professor Philippan Collin , University of Western. PDF format
2. http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-media
3. http://www.therichten.com/world/top-10-countries-that-censor-the-internet/
4. http://futureofworking.com/11-biggest-pros-and-cons-of-censorship/
5. http://greengarageblog.org/9-primary-pros-and-cons-of-censorship
6. http://listverse.com/2010/10/02/top-10-countries-that-censor-the-internet/
7. http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/weekly/index.php/features/17359-ebola-more-deaths-from-salt-therapy-than-virus

My name is Mustapha bura,a 200level medical student, representing team UNILORIN.I am here to convince you all that it is imperative that the senate regulate the social media for the betterment of both the leaders and the led.

Before I go on to unstrip the myriad octopodal monsters that have waylaid our social media world, I would like all of us to have a lucid meaning of the social media and the different perspectives it encompasses. According to Wikipedia, the social Media are computer -mediated tools that allow people to create,share or exchange information,career interest, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.Social media depend on mobile and web based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities, share, co -create, discuss, and modify user generated content.social media technologies take on many different forms including blogs,business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs,photosharing, products /services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social net works, videosharing and virtual worlds.


Having unmasked the power of the social media, I would like to draw a contrast to the traditional media so as to better grasp the salient significance why the law before the senate should see the daylight than not. Social media differ from traditional or industrial media in many ways, including equality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy and permanence. Social media operate on a dialogic transmission system (many sources to many receivers). This is in contrast to traditional media that operate under under a monologic transmission model(one source to many receivers).

The senator Bala Ibn Na'Allah proposition that information posted online should be verified before doing so is line with the regulation of the social media. As a reminder, he proposed the bill to prohibit frivolous petitions and other matters connected therewith. It seeks that any petition without swearing an affidavit that the content is true in a court of law should be considered illegal. The proposal include up to two years in prison, or a fine of $10,000 or both for anyone posting an abusive statement via text message, twitter,WhatsApp or any other form of social media. This will help to foster integrity and discipline into the Nigerian citizens and also help to prevent unwanted maligning of our sincere sacrificial leaders and any other respected citizen. Recently, there is a post that went viral ; that five Judges of the Edo court of appeal were dismissed based on corruption charges, which fortunately or unfortunately turned out to be false. Thus, such (senator Na'Allah's bill)strict regulatory measures will make anyone trying to post an information to think twice and also to verify the authenticity of its sources before they flood it on the social media.

Regulation of the media in many ways will help cleanse ,standardize and face-lift the ethos of interaction among people. One aspect of the social media that needs sanitization is the total control of contents by the user. This freedom has been abused by many users and it led to the Creation of friction and override over other people's right of dignity and honour. Unpassing remarks and open abuse are often made via the social media which had sparked feeling of hatred and low self-esteem. Indeed if you have been active on the social media,you must have observed that freedom of speech and expression has become burdensome as exemplified by how Nigerians use and misuse the platform with carelessness and which has crescendoed to digital anarchy. Consequently, there is a need for regulation, so as to restrict and prevent hate speech and abuse of human dignity.
Secondly, the social media have been hijacked by virtual criminals and defrauders who hide under the mask of the social media to defraud gullible individuals. A typical scenario is that used by individuals who create "false" website to initiate businesses running into millions of naira,only for them to disappear into thin air before the transaction comes to fruition.
In addition, uploading and downloading of videos, audios ,and other files should be regulated so as to prevent the pollution and corruption of gullible and innocent citizens of our dear country. Today,there are thousands of sites dedicated to pornography that remains uncensored. Youths surfing the net often fall prey to such sites that would lure them to watching immoral and sexually pervading videos that will end up building a false sexual orientation, viz, homosexuality, lesbianism and bestiality. More so ,such sites are often not age restricted.
Another misuse of the social media that needs to be checkmated is that of the u-tube. Such avenues have been harnessed by dangerous religious organizations to delude individuals to believing in their ideologies. We have heard of stories where many members of the dreaded ISIS(Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) where brainwashed into their ideas and their subsequent recruitment via the same social media. Thus,u-tubes and other video/audio online access should be monitored and censored within our sovereignty.
If we take a look through another window of the evils of the social media, we will see teenagers being entrapped in the complex triangle of love and it associated problems. We have heard of innocent girls that have gone into online relationships, only to be sexually abused and dumped subsequently. The online chat media have also been used to demonize our youths by creating a means of exchanging ones body (homosexuality) for monetary rewards. With this ,I believe the opponents to the passage of the social media bill would pause to have a reversal of their initial opinion .I bet the chairman and his untiring team of coordinators are already on my side from the outset.

Mr chairman, the coordinating members and fellow observers, I think you will all agree with me that it is high time that everyone should sheath their swords of "no consent" to the social media bill before the senate and instead focus on putting all hands on desk to rid our social media world of all evils and atrocities. viewed from that perspective, it is not difficult to determine why ancient thinkers like Plato had contempt for democracy and described it as a mob rule. Today Plato's sentiment towards democracy perhaps holds true in our context because of the constant confusion and outright abuse which have become characteristic of our democracy, more so with the advent of social media which is taking the world throughout a process of re-democratization with the creation of online public sphere and digital democracy.
Thank you


REFERENCES:
NAIJA.COM,
WIKIPEDIA

Nice one.....

Judges can go through the argument....


Even coordinators are free to ask questions today....

Who social media don epp



Any how .......

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Thank you Lalasticlala.

AUDIENCE
Now let have questions from you....

hakeem4:

why you dey open dis your goro teeth?no be your mate dey do research dey debate so? hakeem olodo rabata,na only obo you sabi

unilag people are partying

Wahala....I just came to browse ooo

Who dey win?

Tourshaw
You have set religious faiths as one standard for which social media should be regulated, not minding that morality goes beyond religion. How d'you suggest a balance be created, to placate the non-religious that are morally up to par?

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Tourshaw you have a question....

despite all odd am present... oya let go