Mr. President, please do not mistake this piece for an attack on your person because it is not. Neither would I want you to see me as one of those attention-seeking people because I am not.
Of course, Sir, I am also not the son of any governor, senator, local government chairman or any political office holder, otherwise, I would have no business writing such an open letter to you because it is against my family’s ethics to ‘talk while eating’. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness of educational misery, saying, “Prepare the way for either a future of political stability and economic boom or prepare for worse than what religious extremists are meting out to our country now”.
As I write on this sultry day, I am completely at a loss to know what to make of my future from here. If this were just the case, it would, probably, be an insignificant reason to go on the rampage with the sword of the pen. But, I write on behalf of the millions of dreams that are getting squashed by the day as the total shut-down of our universities persists. I write on behalf of the future of the several hundreds of thousands who have been privileged, amidst the stiff competition for admission, to grasp tertiary education but may end up worse than their disadvantaged counterparts, since they may never finish, much less finish on schedule their educational pursuits.
The handwriting on the wall, clearly now, more than ever before foretells a dangerous twist to the continuing imbroglio between your administration and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). I do not know if the public keeps the date as much as we do but it is well over 65 days already and I cannot help but wonder if anyone really cares what becomes of our street-wandering undergraduates. If I had a next life, I hope to never be a Nigerian or be born with a silver spoon because the poor are really just ‘on their own’ as long as our government is concerned. Mr President, in three simple words, “We are tired”.
We, the students in the federal universities, are always at the receiving end of every impasse between ASUU and the government and all I can ask for now is that you and your think tank reconsider your stand on the matter. We can only bear this much!
I am not ASUU’s spokesman but it is only logical that I expect your administration to honour the 2009 agreement with the Union so normalcy can return to our campuses and of course, our disenchanted academic lives.
Personally, I have spent more years than is required to have my first and second degrees and yet I am grappling to take a Bachelor’s degree out of an institution that only recently had an internal strike because you would have our name ‘rebranded’. Mr President, every day this strike continues, more dreams die and more future riff -raff are born. It is my firm belief that children still do bear the sins of their fathers and even when you are no more, posterity will remember your progenitors for good or ill based on how you handle this national educational crisis we suffer now.
It goes without saying that for 14 years that your party has held sway over the affairs of this nation, we cannot boast of a Nigerian university (not a single one) amongst the first 2000 in the world. This is more than enough reason to release the requisite fund for the upgrade of our educational infrastructure as well as the welfare of the future’s moulders.
It will only be emphatic to say that we can get out of our educational system as much as we invest in it and though investment in educational is long term, it is also long-rewarding. Your administration will only be breeding poor intellectuals, who will, in turn, produce another generation of mediocre graduates and in 10 years, what do we have, sir? A national carnage! Our unborn children are in jeopardy of being societal scum even before their conception. But you can change all of this!
The greatest weapon of mass destruction is to put a teacher who knows nothing before the students. This will be the case if your administration does not honour the 2009 agreement with ASUU such that lecturers’ welfare gets taken care of.
Mr President, the one second of your time which I asked for is almost up but I am optimistic that if you give utmost diligence to putting an end to the incessant strikes that have been plaguing our tertiary educational system as much as you do to security matters or party issues and conventions, we would not be where we are today: struggling to maintain peace in our land.
I reiterate my advice, sir. Honour the 2009 agreement with ASUU so we may return to our lecture rooms and pick up the pieces of our scattered semesters. So I can round off my first degree programme and go on to patriotically serve my fatherland. So, I can focus on growing my baby company to maturity and provide jobs for the teeming unemployed youths. So, I can get married, give my mother her first grandchild and keep my late father’s name as his only son. So, I can fulfill my dreams of helping young people reach the zenith of their potential through my writing, public speaking and role-modelling.
Mr President, help me and my fellow undergraduates live decent lives even if our parents are not among the top one per cent who squander our national earnings in the name of political office holders. Would you do this for me, for us, for Nigeria’s future? I hope you do. Thank you, sir, for giving me a second of your time.

exPLIcit7: wait 4 KOFAAAAAAAA...KOLAAAAAAAA...you are making us angry oh...CHAI...I'm shouting again 0...maybe I wil wake anoda person...KOFAAAAAAABAAA*Jumps out of window*

Prison break...no...Psycho break!

Anybody else watchin dese student union leaders on ait??

Chai.

Our educational system don die sha.
Ï jz dae shame!!

Romanticboy1:
U cud av studied a science course then

I'm a lawyer in d making bro. Goyna take d form 4 law school at Victoria Island vewi xoon

Profemmy001:
Nd d quite famous Prof Ruqayyatu rufai

Yois

Even me sef no ft read am finish

Of course...they are married...but does that mean they do not have tyme 4 their family...well...WOMEN'S EDUCATION DON'T END UP IN THE kitchen...I argued dz wit a guy...he did not agree wit me...dose questions I ask u wer d ones he ask me...NEXT...SCIENCE AND ART WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT TO THE WORLD...oya reply me while I continue my shout...KOFAAAAAAAAA

odizeey: Even me sef no ft read am finish

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ℓ☺ℓ.
Ï nr pass 4th line

Monsieursuave: Anybody else watchin dese student union leaders on ait??

Chai.

Our educational system don die sha.
Ï jz dae shame!!

The one on glasses




Speaking like someone who just swallowed a hot ball of puff puff

Kolade9:
The one on glasses




Speaking like someone who just swallowed a hot ball of puff puff

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Hahaha.
Final year students ooo.

Kolade9: To speak english na herculean task to these SUG leaders

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Herculean task na understatement. Fear nr lemmi talk abt dia english, mk sum pipu nr attack me here

To speak english na herculean task to these SUG leaders

Monsieursuave: .

Hahaha.
Final year students ooo.


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Well anybody can be the SUG president in Nigerian Unis today.
U just have to be good in school politics.....nobody is looking at your performance in class

Akhigbode01: The highly regarded university of Benin, Benin City.
I boldly establish herein that Victor Anichebe is well-behaved and of good conduct.
I therefore stand as his father/uncle/brother/mother/guardian and Guarantor, and also recommend that you give him all necessary support throughout his stay in the aforementioned university.
I shall remain faithful to my promise without Hesitation.
Best Regards,
SIGN.
Mr./mrs/prof./Barr. Wole Soyinka James.

are we to write d letter ourselves?

Monsieursuave: .

ℓ☺ℓ.
Ï nr pass 4th line

d longevity comot all d sense for d write up

Kolade9:
Well anybody can be the SUG president in Nigerian Unis today.
U just have to be good in school politics.....nobody is looking at your performance in class

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Ï sure say assu go dae happy sha.

D students jz come butress d point wey Ƌƹм dae make.
ℓ☺ℓ.

Profemmy001: Good morning every1...Happy New week. Do we have 2 wait till eternity b4 doze pple upload d admission notice in d kofa page. Jesusss

More dan 20 times,fwendz here hv told u 2 calm down.
4 at least d 21st time,I saw...calm down....Anxiety hs neva been d answer.

demistry: Bin away 4 a while...nobody even asked of me..can u imagine...well una gudu mornin o...

Good morning and welcome bak*

Monsieursuave: .

It cannot be life science, datz way off.
It cannot be physical science, cuz Öѵ econs.
Dat means itz social science. Also cuz Öѵ d econs.

So av no fear!

Agric econs is social science too?

Adex097:

Agric econs is social science too?

Me nr kum noe again o. Bros. Metaphycist don confuse me

Latnok95:

He quoted the constitution and u still looking for example? Lol! You really need to go School sha..
Politics is a game tagged Survival of the fittest , and bro,even tho u r a school cert holder, once you Can Read and write, UNDERSTAND AND CAN DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, Got the love of ur people and the connections/money, you are better than a PhD holder who doesn't have d support of d people..
Note: In ur case, you need to go to sch to understand n defend d constitution oh

@seun, we need the "thumbs up" emoticon.

Metaphycist: More dan 20 times,fwendz here hv told u 2 calm down.
4 at least d 21st time,I saw...calm down....Anxiety hs neva been d answer.

Calm down And Wait 4 KOFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

Monsieursuave: .

Ï sure say assu go dae happy sha.

D students jz come butress d point wey Ƌƹм dae make.
ℓ☺ℓ.

Lol,true


This 1 wey dem tok say the strike fit last one session now

Romanticboy1: The Academic Staff Unin Of Universities has said it is continuing its nationwide strike on d advice of the university students





In a telephone interview wif Sunday punch,the president of the union,Dr Isa Fagge,Said students were tired of the incessant industrial actions by the university lecturers due to the federal Government's failure to implement the agreement it had with ASUU since 2009.




Fagge said the union had decided to heed the advice of the students 2 strike till d govt fully implement d agreement. . .







Still wonderin if dis is tru

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Yea. It is. Datz d point d student leaders were makin on tv nt too long ago

Monsieursuave:
Chai.

Our educational system don die sha.
Ï jz dae shame!!

truly..so mny tins hv gone wrong in nigeria eh.dnt ‎​Ξν℮ŋ knw where to start complaining from

Monsieursuave:

Me nr kum noe again o. Bros. Metaphycist don confuse me

Department of Mathematics and economics dey for faculty of sciences.
Same with statistics...buh Economics and statistics dey for social sciences.

Kolade9:
Lol,true


This 1 wey dem tok say the strike fit last one session now

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Na 2 join adex for university Öѵ cuba na

Romanticboy1:



A-academic
S-staff
S-
U-universities

Fixed

Mickey7: truly..so mny tins hv gone wrong in nigeria eh.dnt ‎​Ξν℮ŋ knw where to start complaining from

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Nt even 'so many'.

Itz supposed 2 b "every"