Please bro can you help me get appointment? I need it desperately. I am applying for a Polish schengen visa, not student visa. My number is 07039484831. Thanks

wiseking120:


Try visit the site on Wednesday and Thursday.. From 11am to 5pm... Keep refreshing the site till u find available dates...U will surely get dates.... I have done this for a lot of people.

Thanks bro

jamoyakz:
considering the 120 days rule. anytime from May will be apt to hit the embassy or consulate, as for earliest travel date it's stated on your I20. best wishes

Hello everyone. I recently got an i20 to study in the USA (Fall admission 2018). I paid my SEVIS today through guy on nairaland who helped me (without the Seme border hassle). However on my i20 it says "Early admission date" is July 15th and "Lessons begin on" August 23. When can I apply for the visa? And when am I supposed to travel if given a visa? I really need help on this subject. Gurus and those who are currently in the USA, I need your guide on this. I've got all my documents ready for the visa application.

PS: I created this topic because no one has really dealt with this issue on nairaland. Please help guys!!!

Hello LagosNIV,

I recently got my i20 to study in the United States for Fall 2018 (2nd Bachelor's degree). However it says on the i20 that "Lessons begin on the 23rd of August 2018" and "Earliest admission date is July 15". When can I apply for a visa? Should I start counting 3 months backwards from August 23rd or July 15? I also want to know if it's 100% required that I present my original Bachelor's degree during the visa interview because the ongoing NASU strike has been halting that process since December 2017. I've got my transcript which I used in obtaining the admission and all other documents ready. Please reply.

Thanks

Hello LagosNIV,

I recently got my i20 to study in the United States for Fall 2018 (2nd Bachelor's degree). However it says on the i20 that "Lessons begin on the 23rd of August 2018" and "Earliest admission date is July 15". When can I apply for a visa? Should I start counting 3 months backwards from August 23rd or July 15? I also want to know if it's 100% required that I present my original Bachelor's degree during the visa interview because the ongoing NASU strike has been halting that process since December 2017. I've got my transcript which I used in obtaining the admission and all other documents ready. Please reply.

Thanks

Hello everyone. I recently got an i20 to study in the USA (Fall admission 2018). I paid my SEVIS today through guy on nairaland who helped me (without the Seme border hassle). However on my i20 it says "Early admission date" is July 15th and "Lessons begin on" August 23. When can I apply for the visa? And when am I supposed to travel if given a visa? I really need help on this subject. Gurus and those who are currently in the USA, I need your guide on this. I've got all my documents ready for the visa application.

PS: I created this topic because no one has really dealt with this issue on nairaland. Please help guys!!!

You cannot move from Russia to Finland. The fan card you have isn't a visa and there's no visa stamp on your passport. So even if you enter Russia for the worldcup you cannot apply for Schengen visa from there because you've got no legal residency document in Russia that qualified you to apply for a visa to Europe from there. You just have to settle in Moscow and hustle. After all in Moscow illegal guys are hustling there. In November I saw some Nigerian guys who came for the confederations cup. They are still histling there. Maybe you can get a Russian woman after all. As for going to Finland without documents, na bad market bro

Thanks to Olumide for helping me out. I was quite skeptical when I saw this post. Moreso I was scared when I sent him the money. However he delivered in no time. I just paid for and printed my SEVIS receipt without leaving my room. Thanks bro. We go bring you plenty clients

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ASUU vs FG! Hmmm - JUST THINKING ALOUD JARE
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Senate resumes from their 2-month recess today to deliberate on issues such as the Petroleum Industry Bill & Screening of Ambassadorial Nominees. Nothing said about the ongoing ASUU strike. Chei, we don suffer! Even the New Minister of Education (Mr. Wike) never even settle down, talkless of say e wan open file reach reach where ASUU matter dey. Na wa o! That means there's a high probability say 2014 Valentine go catch 'some people' for house (Lwkmd). ASUU on the other hand just wear 'Dr. Dre Earpiece' put the music for highest volume. Dem nor wan listen to anybody at all. ASUU & Government dey behave like Tom & Jerry. Some 'Ogas at the top' say make we go sombre for the ASUU matter, meanwhile they are busy 'Big-stouting & Peppersouping' (according to Patrick Obahiagbon). All their Children dey overseas & Private Universities dey school. Some lecturers dey overseas now dey upgrade their qualifications & make money, while we dey here dey suffer. Let's be sincere. Even with A Million Naira per Month as salary, some lecturers will still teach with out-dated lecture notes, impose their textbooks & ask for sex or money before passing students. ASUU abeg oooo! We go manage the poor infrastructures like that, after all na we dey sitdown for ground for hot over-crowded classes dey receive lectures & na we dey stay for horrible hostels, while una dey flex AC offices & vehicles. We nor dey complain! Worst of all, nor be ASUU even pull out of the negotiations self, na Federal Government be the 'New ASUU' wey go on strike (just as we get 'New PDP'. Hehehehe). Everybody just lock-up. National Assembly dey go on recess anyhow. Which work dem dey do for there self? Government & ASUU dey drag "yes N100billion, no N30billion, no its N87billion, na N500billion" sotey we all come confuse for the real amount wey ASUU & Government dey drag put. Our National leaders & party leaders dey behave like small-small children for TV. Old men dey throw blow for National Convention. See Bros Chidi Lloyd hold maze take knack another Law-maker 'akpako' for inside House of Assembly (Hehehehe). At times we need to teach these people some sense. Oga Jonathan self nor even dey concerned about ASUU or anybody. Na how to salvage PDP & secure him 2015 return ticket nahim dey e mind. E don neglect all him electionary promises of BREATH OF FRESH AIR and TRANSFORMATION AGENDA so soon. Just two years into him 1st tenure, e don dey think of how to secure him 2nd tenure; & he's ready to fight anything wey stand for him way (Greedy Democratic Tyrant). Oga Jonathan nor fit talk say e dey ignorant of the 2009 agreement wey put all of us for house for over 80 days now. He was Vice-President under Late Yar'Adua & him na one of those 'Ogas at the top' wey sign that agreement with ASUU. Baba God nor dey sleep sha. Na God just dey by Himself dey 'arrange' PDP so. After all the suffer wey we don suffer for Jonathan hand since e enter Aso Rock, na God go still punish any Nigerian Student, 'Comrade', 'I'm-Loyal-Sir' or Group of Students wey go go collect 'brown envelope' or 'ghana-must-go' to vote for am or go mobilise others to vote for am for 2015. We, the PROSPECTIVE LEADERS must not join these MISTAKES OF THE PAST to destroy OUR NATION'S FUTURE just for a few Naira notes.
The Law of Karma nor dey sleep o!
I go soon go enter aeroplane tyre o!

ASUU may call off strike next Thursday
on July 26, 2013 at 11:02 pm in News
BY OKEY NDIRIBE
There are indications that the on-going strike
embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of
Nigerian Universities might be called off next Thursday.
Governor of Benue State, Mr Gabriel Suswam who
dropped this hint Friday said ASUU and the Federal
Government had reached agreements on all the
contentious issues that led to the industrial action
except two.
Suswam who was appointed as Chairman of the Needs
Assessment Implementation Committee of the Federal
Government said after next Thursday’s deliberations
between his Committee and the various agencies of
government funding tertiary education, all the
contentious issues would likely be resolved.
Speaking to news men in Abuja after attending a
meeting between the Federal Government’s delegation
and ASUU, Suswam said that agreements had been
reached by both parties on all issues except two.
Said he: “We reached agreements on all issues except
two. These two issues are those of earned allowances
of lecturers and intervention for the federal
universities. These are the only issues that are still
outstanding.”
The Benue Governor further said he believed that by
next week after his Committee would have arrived at
an agreement on all the issues, ASUU would call off the
strike.
He continued: ”The SGF would meet with the
leadership of ASUU on the issue of earned allowances
by next Monday.
Then my committee which is dealing with the issue of
the needs assessment of the universities would meet
again next Thursday and take another look at all the
infrastructural deficits which the federal universities
are facing.
If you go to our universities, you would agree that they
are facing infrastructural deficits and that is why my
committee would meet with all the funding agencies
next Thursday for the purpose of prioritizing all the
projects that need to be executed. We are going to
invite all the agencies that are involved in the funding
of the universities including the Central Bank of
Nigeria.”
Suswam further stated that the issues on agreements
have been reached include: those of retirement age
for university lecturers- which has now been increased
from 65 to 70 years; the constitution of the governing
councils of the universities which has already been
done by the Government; the setting up of a pension
administrator and the issue of persuading companies
operating in the country to set up research centers in
the universities.
Said he: “As far as I am concerned, if the issues
concerning intervention and earned allowances are
resolved next week, then the strike could be called off”
Among those who attended the meeting were
Secretary to the Government of the Federation Senator
Anyim Pius Anyim, Minister of Labour, Hon. Emeka
Wogu, Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayatu Rufai and
President of Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU), Dr Nasir Fagge.

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The case of Ibrahim Momodu, a Uniben student who was killed close to his house and buried unjustly by the Police on May 27, 2013 at Ogida, Benin City Edo State, has been brought up again as Family members, friends & civil society organisations have never relented in making sure Justice was served on the matter. The Edo State Goverment led by Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomhole, AIG Zone 5 actually got intimated of the development promised to look into the issue. At a time, the University of Benin authority denied the deceased & claimed the wasn't a student of the institution. But thank God, Now Corporal Amadin, the Police officer who shot and Killed Ibrahim Momodu on the Orders of DPO Carol Afegbua has been dismissed from the Nigerian Police force and he is now being charged for Murder

Although i wrote this post, i keep asking myself. WHERE IS NANS?

The strike to end all strikes

Quote:- "They went to laboratories where they found people using kerosene stoves instead of  Bunsen burners to conduct experiments; they found specimens being kept in pure water bottles instead of the appropriate places where such specimens should be kept"

PROF. FESTUS IYAYI is a former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In this interview, he explains why university teachers nationwide are on  strike; saying the action is to compel the Federal Government to implement the agreement it reached with ASUU on funding of universities. Iyayi, currently Head of Dept, Business Administration, University of Benin, insists that  the union members are prepared to stay at home for the next three to five years until the right thing is done. Excerpts: BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE, BENIN

ASUU HAS GONE BACK TO THE TRENCHES WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. WHY ARE YOU ON STRIKE?
REPLY: The short answer is this. Government believes that Nigeria should continue to be not just a second rate country but a third rate country because the quality of  development, the kind of society you have depend on the kind of education that the people have and the quality of education that exists in the country. In 2009, ASUU reached an agreement with government on how to rehabilitate and revitalize the universities. That agreement was a product of three years of negotiation, from 2006 to 2009, and government agreed that it will provide funding for universities to bring them to a level that we can begin to produce graduates that will be recognized worldwide, and our universities can also be classified and rated among the best in the world. People keep talking about universities rating, but no Nigerian university features among the first 1,000 in the world because of the issue of lack of facilities. So, from 2009 to 2012, ASUU waited for the Federal Government to implement that agreement and what government did was to believe and present the argument that what ASUU was looking for was money, and so, they implemented part of the salary component; they did not implement the agreement on funding. As academics, if you pay us N10million a month and we do not have the tools to work with, that money is worthless because we want to be able to conduct research, teach students the latest that is available in the world of knowledge. Those tools were not available and are still not available. So, in 2011, precisely in December, ASUU went on strike to force government to implement the funding part of that agreement. What did the government do? They apprehended the strike in January 2012 and the Secretary to the Federal Government invited the leadership of ASUU for a meeting in his office. We went there, discussed with them on the basis of which on 24 January, 2012, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government under the title, “MEETING OF THE SECRETARY OF THE GOVERNEMNT OF THE FEDERATION WITH THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES “and signed by Prof. Nicholas A. Damachi, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education on behalf of the Federal Government. The most important of the items signed was 3.0, that is, “FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR UNIVERSITIES”. And this is what the Federal Government said it would do: “Government reaffirms its commitment to the revitalization of Nigerian universities through budgetary and non- budgetary sources of funds; government will immediately stimulate the process with the sum of N100billion and will beef it up to a yearly sum of N400billion in the next three years”. As we speak now, not a Kobo, not an iota of intervention has taken place in the universities. Yet, government itself, in the various studies it has done, said  it recognizes the pathetic state of the universities. In order to implement this agreement, government first gave a reason saying, ‘oh, for us to apply the funds, let us first of all identify the areas of priorities to which the funds will be applied’. Government also said, ‘we are not going to give the money to the universities, what we are going to do is to identify the projects, we will them call on government agencies such as the CBN, PTDF, ETF to deliver the projects to the universities that would then be estimated’. So the money is not coming to the universities, government will do the costing and get people to come and do all those things such as the rehabilitation of the laboratories, classrooms and a variety of other things.

NEEDS ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Now what should be those things: Government set up a committee called the NEEDS ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE and it went round the universities and what it found was shocking. First, it found that the students – teachers ratio was 1-400 on the average instead of being 1-40. It found out that the classrooms were grossly inadequate and could accommodate only about 30 percent of the number of students that needed to enter those classrooms; they went round and found students standing in their lecture theatres with other students writing on their backs; they found lectures going on under trees in some of the universities; they went to laboratories where they found people using kerosene stoves instead of Bunsen burners to conduct experiments; they found specimens being kept in pure water bottles instead of the appropriate places where such specimens should be kept. They found chemistry labs without water; they found people doing examinations called theory of practicals and not the practicals and you will imagine what the practical ought to be. And when the report was eventually presented to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Federal Executive Council, we understand that Jonathan said that he was embarrassed and did not know that things were all that bad.

No intervention
It was on that basis that they said that this money should be spent. As we speak, the money has not been provided, no intervention has taken place and the academics are tired. We negotiated for three years, 2006-2009, we went on strike in December, 2011 and government apprehended that strike; we signed an MoU in January 2012, between then and now, nothing happened. That is why we are on strike. We are saying, ‘look, rehabilitate the universities’. As a reporter, you can go round our classrooms and you will see what our classrooms are like. In this era, it is the quality of knowledge that you acquire that will determine the position you occupy in any part of the world. We did this and government did not do anything. A professor came from Bayelsa State recently to the University of Benin, looking for journals. We went to the library because we have an e-library and he could not do anything there because there was no light for two days in the library. If you go round here now, lecturers  have generators in their offices to be able to work, every department has two or three generators to be able to do their work. Is that what a university should be like? If you go to the students’ hostels, they in a sorry state, they live 12 in a room; they are like piggery; they now have what they called short puts, they excrete in polythene bags and throw them through the windows into the fields because there are no toilets. If you come into this building (faculty building), there are no toilets and, if walk round, you will find faeces sometimes in the classrooms because students have no place to use. And it is like that in all other universities.

Enough is enough
Academic staff has said enough is enough, we cannot continue to work under these conditions, especially when government gave commitment in 2012 that this matter would be addressed but up till now nothing had happened. We had several meetings between 2012 and now and they will say ‘next week this one will happen; in two weeks time that one will happen, give us one month, this one will happen’, nothing has  happened. And when students leave here, they apply for progammes in the United Kingdom, United States and other countries for their master degrees, PhD or other postgraduate programmes and they are told that they cannot be admitted because their degrees are suspect. Shell here in Nigeria spent millions of dollars re-training graduates, people who made First Class and, when they test them, they found out that they have problems. How can you take an engineer who has not conducted an experiment, all he did is the theory of practical? He does not know how the equipment works? If you want a properly educated student population, you have to provide the facilities. That is why ASUU is on strike. What government has done in the past is to say that we are on strike because of money, now they don’t have that excuse. It is true that part of the agreement we have with the government also talked about academic allowances, but academics are saying that we are not interested in that; we are saying that government should rehabilitate facilities and once they are rehabilitated and they are up to standard, we will come back to work. If you go to our classrooms, we use chalk boards, the situation of  the 1960s but people are using multi-media facilities, mark boards where you can download information. That is not available here and government is not interested in that. No country developed without a sound educational system and the foundation is not the primary school incidentally, it is at the university level because it is the university that trains other levels. For instance, if you want to teach in primary school, you need people who attended the Colleges of Education; if you want to be teacher at the Colleges of Education, you must have a degree from the university; so, the university provides the manpower for other levels of education and that is why you must concentrate efforts on the university education. If you don’t do that, other levels of education will suffer and that is what has been happening in Nigeria.

AGAINST THIS BACKDROP, OF YOUR COMPLAINTS MORE PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES ARE BEING APPROVED BY GOVERNMENT. WILL THIS HELP TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
REPLY: Even the National Universities Commission (NUC), which is licensing private universities, has now drawn attention to the crisis of quality in many of these private universities. You know what government does: We have refineries in Port-Harcourt and Warri; I was just talking with some people recently and they said, oh, Port-Harcourt refinery is in a state where it can refine whatever amount of crude oil sent to it; its plants are all now working,’ but, as at today, government has not send crude oil to it and they cannot process anything because they want to import. Nigeria is the only OPEC member country that sells crude oil to its refineries at the international price? Does that work? It doesn’t work, but they use international price to sell crude oil to refineries, to make it impossible for the refineries to process crude and then they go to Spain and other countries to import refined products.
So, what is happening is that government wants to kill the public universities just as it has killed its own enterprises so that it can invite people to come and buy over the public universities? Unfortunately, it will not work because universities are not like enterprises. In the UK, most of the universities there are public owned; in the US, most of the universities are state owned; the one you hear about, HARVARD, is a private one, but most of the universities in the world are owned by government because education is a social service; the revenue and tax collected by government comes from the people, the commonwealth, that is the fund that is used in funding education. And what the government is doing is to under-fund public universities, give them a bad name and provide an excuse to license private universities many of which borrow lecturers from public sector universities, many of which do not have the equipment which public universities ought to have. And many of the private universities focus on the social sciences, law and arts; they do not go into engineering, medicine or sciences because you need a lot of capital outlay, you need to spend a lot of money building laboratories. I went to Oxford University last year and they showed me a laboratory that was built last year, a huge building where people from different parts of the world went there to conduct experiments. It cost billions of pounds and no private sector person will like to invest such money because the returns on  investment cannot be recouped. So, private sector universities are gimmicks by government to say that they are better than the public sector universities, but then, how many people are there how much fees do they pay and how many people in Nigeria can pay the sum of N350,000 and above paid in private universities? Those universities are not meant for the children of ordinary  Nigerians and development has to be about the ordinary people, it cannot be about the rich. So, there is no way, not in this century, not the next or in a life time that private universities will become more important than public universities.

SO WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD?
REPKY: The way forward is that the ruling elite in Nigeria must be sure of what they want. We have an example; many years ago, Ghanaians were here; they flooded our universities; when the Ghanaians rulers saw what was happening, they took a step back and said, lets us change direction’. They closed down the universities for three years or so, rehabilitated all the facilities in the universities and brought the students and the lecturers back. Now, the CBN Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi disclosed that Nigerians spent about N62billion paying school fees for 75,000 Nigerian students in Ghanaian universities. Our people are in South Africa paying fees there, but who are those going there; they are the children of the rich. Ghanaians are in Ghana universities but they are not paying what Nigerians are paying there. So, the way forward is that government makes up its mind that Nigerians must have a place under the sun and that place under the sun can only be guaranteed with a sound university system. It must make up its mind; is it to close down the university system for three years or so, do what should be done and then invite students and lecturers back? For instance, in the University of Benin, you don’t have a foreign student and if you go to other universities in Nigeria, I don’t think there are foreign students. When I came to the University of Benin, I was interviewed by Prof. Smith, a Briton who was the Dean at the time and many people from different parts of the world were here as teachers and students. But, right now, they are not in Nigeria; instead, Nigerians are everywhere. That shows that the system has collapsed. When we went to the National Assembly, Sen. Uche Chukwumerije and his colleagues told us that they were on their knees begging us to recall the students because they are on the streets posing dangers and problems, and we said, it is better for them to be on the streets than on the campus of universities learning ignorance. You cannot teach ignorance to people or half knowledge to the people because they will be more dangerous to the society.

‘Not asking for money for ourselves’
If you have a doctor that is not well trained, and you say ‘go and remove an appendix’, and he goes to remove your heart because he doesn’t know where the appendix is; it is better not to have doctors than the one who will go and remove your heart than the appendix. That is what the Nigerian government wants us to do and the academics in universities are saying no, for once, let us do the right thing; we are prepared to stay at home for between three and five years until these problems are resolved. We are not asking for money, facilities must be provided to make the universities truly what they ought to be.
In terms of how to solve the problems in the universities, when the financial crisis broke out in 2007 and banks declared that they were in trouble,  government brought out N3trillion to bail out the banks. First, they gave the banks N239billion, another N620billion and N1.725trillion making a total of N3trillion.
Then the aviation sector said that it was in distress, they gave the sector, N500billion and they gave even NOLLYWOOD billions of Naira. These sectors are important, but they are not as important as the fundamental which is the  education sector. If you can give the banks N3trillion and all the universities are asking for is about N1.5trillion, the same way in which they sourced the money which they gave to the banks which they are now saying that they should not pay back, they should be able to do more for education. So, nobody should come to us and say that government has no money.
If they can bail the banks with N3trillion, banks owned by the private sector, they cannot tell us they cannot fund the education sector because the World Bank told them that Africans do not need higher education, that  what Africans need is middle-level technical  education; that is what the Okonjo-Iwealas and Goodluck Jonathan are for. So, let them do what they did in the case of the banks to education and if they do that, the problems will be solved.

Daz wat i gathered from ASUU zonal meeting in my region

Addressing journalists at the University of Benin main campus, Coordinator of the zone and member of the National Executive Council of ASUU, Dr. Sunny Ighalo, said the strike could be indefinite if government remained insensitive to lecturers' plight and refused to honour the agreement it had with the union. Giving an update on the three-week strike, Ighalo said this time around, the action would be total and comprehensive in all Nigerian universities. Ighalo said members would not shift ground except government honoured the agreement it entered into with ASUU, adding that members would not yield to government's threat of no-work-no-pay rule. He said, "It is clear that the Jonathan government has not learnt anything from the mistakes of previous governments in Nigeria that are notoriously known for fragrant disregard for agreements, due process and rule of law. "Government must be compelled to find a solution to the brain drain issue and infrastructure decay in the system. This is what this ongoing strike action is all about.

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Nigerian Universities have threatened to resume its nationwide strike if the 2009 agreements reached between it and the Federal Government were not addressed.
The committee on Friday at a news conference in Abuja said it would resume the strike anytime from now over the breach in the implementation of the agreements.
The JAC comprises the Non-Academic Staff of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU).
Mrs Ladi Illiya, National President of NASU, who spoke on behalf of the unions, said that the JAC met on Thursday and resolved to inform the public of developments in the unions.
Illiya said the unions were demanding for the Federal Government to pay the Earned Allowance owed its members, address the NEEDS Assessment Report on the university education and funding of the universities.
She said the unions had delayed the strike following the intervention of the House of Representatives which advised the Federal Government to raise a supplementary budget to cover the payment of the allowances.
Illiya stressed that unfortunately, the Chairman of the House Committee on Education, who was handling the issue, was removed and the union started the process all over again.
``The three non teaching staff unions are not unmindful of the negative opinion of the Nigerian public on the past frequent strike actions in the public universities.
``However, it appears as if government is taking our understanding for granted thereby putting us under unbearable pressure from our members whose patience is fast running out.
``We would like you to know that strike is not what we want to glorify but when we go on this strike, there will be complete close down of all activities in the universities.
``The suspended strike needs no notice of resumption so it can be this night, tomorrow or next, but be sure that we shall not give any notice again,’’ Illiya said.
The unions appealed to well-meaning Nigerians, as a matter of urgency, to prevail on government to address all the burning issues within the shortest time.

Varsities have started pulling out of ASUU strike which started in July 1, 2013.. FG/SCE gave a go ahead today for uninterested Varsities to opt-out of strike since ASUU is adamant in the negotiations. FG begged ASUU National to slash their 2009 demands to 3 out of the list, ASUU says no that all must be fulfilled. Looking at it, it may take a long time for the 2009 demands to be actually fulfilled, meaning we may have to stay at home for a long time. Adamawa university has pulled-out. Adamawa ASUU even confronted ASUU national body for going on strike without due process. Akanu ibiam varsity just announced theirs on NTA.

We're awaiting more varsities. Let's keep our fingers crossed & pray

Lazy nigerians. Una nor wan go school, yet una wan make successful life. I pray make d next long strike catch una in d middle of una final year project, then una go know how e dey pain... Mtcheeew

Great Nigerian Students, if you ask me, i think we need a revolution. The Nation's progress has been so crippled by incessant strikes. Our Govt on the other hand has grown so insensitive. ASUU is one of the best "strikers" of the present day. Since the meeting between FG & ASUU yesterday (July 15, 2013) ended in a deadlock, i will enjoin us the Nigerian students to raise our voices. All you need to do is to send as many emails concerning ASUU strike to the following email addresses below. Forward this link to as many students as possible. No matter the barrier, they will definitely get the emails. Let's make our voices heard. After all, this is the least we can do!

*House of Reps: repscontact@nass.gov.ng

*Senate: repinfo@nassnig.org

*Federal Govt: info@nigeria.gov.ng

*Goodluck Jonathan FB: facebook.com/jonathangoodluck

*Reuben abati (Presidential Spokesman): letters@reubenabati.com.ng, twitter.com/abati1990

*ASUU: twitter.com/asuunigeria

If you got any other useful contact we can send our complaints to, add it up here

For those in Benin Tune in to Bronze FM 101.5, Sunday by 2pm and hear Ibrahim mum's story.

There will be a mass protest on Monday 9am in benin by d family, student bodies and human rights organisations in respect of this dastardly act by the police.

This is all i can pass out for the now

When will police brutality end in Nigeria?
This 22 years old young man was gunned down in Benin city by the DPO of Ogida Barack Police Station.

Ibrahim, who celebrated his 22nd birthday on March 30th, was a part-time student of SLT in University of Benin (Uniben) and was doing his IT in a Pharmaceutical company in Benin City.

Ibrahim was the only son of his parents who live at No.1 Egbeobauwaye street off Siluko road, behind Edo Omo park in Benin City, Edo State.

The DPO, who is a woman, first said that the deceased was an armed robber and that she saw him with a gun which she couldn't produce as evidence and when she saw that the family wants proof, she said it was a result of a mistaken identity.

After shooting the innocent young man, the DPO buried the dead body of the young man without informing his family.
Residents in the area complain about the DPO's brutality and attitude, stating that she is always on the side of the highest bidder.


The family got to know about their son's death when his mother went to report her missing son at the Textile Mill road police station.
The matter has been taken to court and the state commissioner of police, Mr Foluso Adebanjo, was informed about the incident. He promised to look into the matter and plead for calm while he unravel the mischief behind the unprofessional attitude of the DPO.

May his soul rest in peace!