Hello literati, undergraduates and learned Nairalanders

It is my utmost delight to welcome you to this online debate on behalf of the coordiators, organisers, and initiators.

You are welcome once again to one of the elimination rounds in the ongoing Nairaland Interschool Debate.

The competition on this thread will be between two intellectuals; OAU and FUNAAB
[size=28pt]OAU(supporting.) VS FUNAAB(opposing.)[/size]



[size=18pt]Topic: Posting of national youth service corps(NYSC) members should be limited to their geo-political zone[/size].

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Date: 7th December 2013.
Time: 1pm-4pm prompt

CHIEF COORDINATOR
Olawalebabs
Fynestboi
Richiez

COORDINATORS
(mr and miss)
BOAY
ALICIA KEYS
HONEYDEAR
ABU MIKEY
KESSY
MISCALLENOUS
ONWONDI
AGROVICK
WILL007

Cordinators Incharge:
miscellaneous and boay

Judges:
Deschyko
Omolola1

Time:
1pm-4pm No African time

Venue: Nairaland Education Section

For more fixtures, click here

Thread locked to be declared open 1:00pm on debate day.
For extensive reading on history, planning, etc, and further discussion, pls click here:

Nairaland interschool debate planing thread

PROCEDURES

12:55 -- Debaters and judges take seats,
register presence

1:00 -- Coordinators boay and agrovick
declare the debate open

1:00 - 1:20 -- Debaters post their
arguements within 15 minutes, its
advisable debaters use less than 750
words to make it easier for the judges to
read, there is no harm in having more
than 850 words but the arguements must
not exceed 1000 words

1:20 – 2:20pm - A debater takes on his
opponent, attempts to puncture his
opponent’s points. This a debater does by
quoting, highlighting the area to puncture
and countering it i.e regular way to reply
on Nairaland. While this is going on the
judges can take their time to go through
the write ups by the debaters. And also
Debaters respond to punctured areas in
his earlier arguments. He may buttress
further. At this time frame.

2:20 – 2:40pm – Judges post questions to
debaters either based on what the
debater has posted or just reasonable
question within the theme. Judges should
be specific as to who they are posting the
questions to. E.g “Mr ...., could you
expatiate what you meant by so so so?
or ...., pls give examples of your claim that
xxxx”. This is not compulsory. A judge
that doesn’t have question to post to the
debaters need not do so.

2:40 – 3:00pm – Debaters respond to
questions raised by judges

3:00 – 03:20pm – 2 Questions will be
entertained from the audience i.e viewers.
This will be based on ‘fastest hand’. The
coordinators will announce ‘audience, you
may now ask your questions’. After the 2
questions have been posted, any other
viewer-post will be hidden.

NOTE: -The judges and audience can
throw their questions without quotations
but the contestants should answer
with quotations and separated for each
questions.

3:20 – 3:30 – Debaters respond to
audience questions and concludes their
arguments. Debaters who were not asked
any questions can still conclude his/her
arguments.

3:30 – 3:40 – Judges compile the scores
and mail to coordinators:
vdhammey@gmail.com

3:40 – 4: 00pm Coordinators announce
results. Thread thrown open for regular
Nairaland discussion.

JUDGING CRITERIA (5 marks each)
1. Presentation (opening, flow, closing,
response to judges questions,
audience questions and contestants
rebuttals)

2. Logic of arguments

3. Strength of facts, examples, cases.

4. Persuasiveness

5. Demonstration of knowledge and
understanding of the subject

RULES

1.) Two contestants representing their school in this Interschool Debate Elimination stage will have to confirm their availability for the debate a day before the debate proper. Failure to do so will result in the defaulter been disqualify and the opposing or supporting side that duely declare availabily will automatically be declare as the winner.

2.) The recommended font size is the default size (size 8.) and the colour is GREEN for the supporting side and BLUE for the opposing side. Please note that you are to use the designated colour all through the debate period.

3.) The essay should be min. 750 max. 1000 words .

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

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

6.) All essays, responses and conclusion must be submitted within the stipulated time frame stated in the time schedule as posted by the coordinator

Please while the debate is going, only the debaters, judges, coordinators, Supermods(if need be) can post. It is only at the audience question window that a viewer can post on this thread. Pls let's comply, default attracts 3 hours ban(duration of the debate).

You can however comment simultaneously at thePlanning thread



Thank you.



Debate starts by 1:00pm on SATURDAY.

Come and witness the mother of all e-debates on the biggest section of the biggest online forum in Africa.

APPRAISAL......
Great Ife!
The Dynamites!!
Like an Iroko tree, we stand tall among others.
An apogee of wisdom,
Intelligentsias per excellence.

When OAU sneezes, others catch cold.
A tree that can make a forest,
A meeting point for champions,
A conglomeration of movers and shakers,
Void of Flotsams and Jetsams.
The school of the future creme de la creme of the society.
Standing tall undauntedly among others.
For dishing out knowledge, we never disappoint,
Taking the lead baton in learning and culture.
OAU!!!
Consciousness is the watchword,
Progressive is the maxim,
Articulate is the spirit,
Militant is the attitude!!!

OAU Anthem

Great Ife! Great Ife!
Africa's most beautiful Campus,
Conscious, Vigilant, Progressive
Aluta against all Oppressions.
Forward ever, backward never
For Learning and Culture,
Sports nd Struggle
Great Ife, I love you
There's only one great Ife in the universe,
Another Great Ife is a counterfeit!
GReat, Greaaaaat

FUNAAB APPRAISAL.

REPS OF O.A.U (supporting)
NAME: OLUWATOLA5
SPEAKER: CHIEF SPEAKER

NAME: CIMETIDINE
SPEAKER: SUPPORTING SPEAKER

REPS OF FUNAAB (opposing)
NAME: PSEUDONOMER
SPEAKER: CHIEF SPEAKER

NAME: DAMEX333
SPEAKER: SUPPORTING SPEAKER

Till 1pm.

I hereby declare the debate open

2nd speaker of O.A.U post your argument

1st speaker of funaab post your argument

2nd speaker of funaab post your argument

where art thou ?

Debaters you can now puncture opponents' argument

Is that all for damex argument

Pseudonomer: I want to say every scheme and programmes have its challenges and to build a great nation, to have one Nigeria, we all have sacrifices to make, and this is one of the sacrifices we are to make if we really want a One Nigeria. A lot of great men and women (Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jnr, and so on) lost their lives; some were jailed in a fight against race, tribe and gender discrimination.

Are you insinuating that sacrifices of lives would be required for a better Nigeria? Lets be realists and not idealists, what offence could be greater than wasting of lives? The fact that something is good doesnt make it good at every point in time. Things especially those involving a large number of people should be done in accordance with how best they suit the people it encompasses. In a situation whereby some zones have been noted for continious disdain against people from other zones, i think simple logics to prevent further havoc from being done should be an immediate one. NYSC posting scheme should be readjusted to their geo-political zones before other issues and ''benefits'' are even mentioned. Nigeria should look first into the issue of poor security that is seriously threatening the very fabric of our country. Methinks it is facetious and inappropriate in a time like this for us to say that the scheme shouldnt be readjusted simply because of its ''benefits''. Before we even mention any ''benefit'' whatsoever, we should look at the risk of lives that is at hand and face it first, not puttting the cart before the wheel. Nigeria's government and the NYSC management should first ensure that all parameters have been put in place to check the excesses of some geo-political zones BUT pending the time, no more life should be wasted, the posting should be limited to their political zones.

Please, observe the rules and guidlines of the debate @ Debaters and Audience. Do not disrupt the flow of the debate. The co-ordinators will tell you what to do, when to do it. Thanks.

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Pseudonomer: This action is aimed to bring about unity in the country and to help youths appreciate other ethnic groups. But if they are posted to their geo-political zone, then they main objective of the NYSC scheme will be lost.

You are aware of how unsafe some geo-political zones are now, from which many corps members seek redepeloyment from. It isnt because they arent aware of the sole purpose of the scheme, it is simply because they couldnt imagine their years of studying and gathering knowledge all pumped down the drain by some insensitive community members whom they would be doing good, but wouldnt realise it, and rather mete out their hatred for their geo-political zones. Lets be candid here, no one is ready to lose his/her life unworthly, you mention somewhere in your essay that some people paid huge sacrifices for their country to become better or something, what sacrifice can we say the NYSC members should pay here? For Nigeria to progress? How can Nigera progress when its intellectual assets are being wasted without anything done? Killing with impunity will make Nigeria progress? I need you to shed more lights on this please.

@damex333, your last point about corp members sleeping on fields is not clear, can you please shed light on it? @pseudonomer, your brother you gave as an instance is not the real and correct instance you should have given because the difference between Ekiti and Kwara is not so spelt, admit the fact that your brother could have cried had it been he was posted to Borno state, is it the danger in the travelling? The acclimitation? Ekitis do drink kunu and I don't think his marriage to a Kwara indigene is so special as such chance could have been available if he schooled at OAU, afterall, OAU do admit oda indigenes. Brother, I even have the feelings that your brother redeployed. However, the advantages you even mentioned when weighed on a balance lacks weight in comparison to the mass killing of our young and fragile corps members in the North.

Pseudonomer: Those poor souls(the "Boko-Harams"needs education, and the corp members posted there are doing a great job to increase the level of literacy there. What I'll is adequate security.

I am sorry to say, but it sounds like you have more pity on the ''Poor souls''(Boko Haram) as you called them than even the dear lives of those corps members because i dont see how inhuman people can need the corps members and not crude force from the law. No amount of education can change those Boko Haram people, rather, the law measures. It is only when the security sector of Nigeria gathers momentum that the Youth Corps members can have peace in other geo-political zones.