porka:

Did I read institutional autonomy? Are these institutions self funding?

gudnex22: Is soyinka a footballer or a musician? That name sound strange to me.

hitmanogo: Where was Soyinka when fashola sacked 788 doctors inlagos? Something more pathetic. Abeg let Soyinka keep quiet.... It is evident he is biased against Jonathan...he should remove the speck in his eyes before he can see the log in Jonathan's eye.....

coogar:

why not? my house, my property....
i decide solely whatever goes on there. if any
tenant disagrees, he can pack out n leave space for
sensible tenants.

unilag is a property of the federal government.
the students, academic staff, etc are just tenants/labourers.
they are no stake-holders...they can be hired n fired by who??....the same federal government.

Katsumoto:
5. The University of Chicago Business School (a top 20 Global Business School) was renamed the Booth school of Business after Booth who donated $300 Million to the school. Ignoring the money factor, if students who paid in excess of $80,000 to get an MBA did not run riot all over Chicago, why are students who are paying less than $2000 rioting? More worrisome is that these same students are yet to protest over issues that will affect them directly.

odumorun 1: Sorry, this does not work.

When George Washington owned Slaves, it was LEGAL to own slaves in America

Oh, really, in the same vein when Adolf Hitler gassed 6 million jews in his cincentration camps - it was legal to kill jews in Germany. So he did no wrong then.

to such warped conclusions does your logic lead. Please don't ever go to America and tell the African americans what you just said on this board, you might not like their reaction

Slavery in the United States was a form of slave labor which existed as a legal institution from the early colonial period. After the American Revolution (1775-1783), the northern states all abolished slavery, and Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory. However slavery gained new life with the cotton industry after 1800, and expanded into the Southwest. A system of slave and free states developed. However, the international import or export of slaves became illegal under U.S. law in 1807. By the 1850s the South was vigorously defending slavery and its expansion into the territories. In the North a small number of abolitionists denounced it as sinful, and a large number of anti-slavery forces rejected it as detrimental to the rights of free men. Compromises were attempted and failed, and in 1861 eleven slave states broke away to form the Confederate States of America. To defeat the Confederacy, the Union in 1862 made abolition of all slavery a war goal, which was achieved in 1865. All the slaves were freed and the owners received no compensation.

The African slave trade refers to the historic slave trade within Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were common in many parts of the continent, as they were in much of the ancient world. In some African societies, the enslaved people were also indentured servants and fully integrated; in others, they were treated much worse. When the Arab slave trade and Atlantic slave trade began, many local slave systems changed and began supplying captives for slave markets outside of Africa.

nsiadi: Many people will be taunting that the sage is against this move
Which sage? Ibru was attacked for chaopioning Abiolas cause. What significant thing did Soyinka do?
Ranting isnt enough. Taking sides isnt enough. Let him dare & Boko will deal with him
Any way, like Unife that was renamed in spite of his protest Unilag will be renamed.
We are tired of being misled. Soyinka should dust his party & prepare for 2015.
Ditto for all those foul mouthed giants with clay feet. Voters are waiting

ayobase:

He shouldnt have used that as an illustration in the first place.
He should have used a company, where workers are being paid.
I wonder what would have come over the workers protesting against the change of name of the company.

UNILAG students are only protesting to retain the SWAGZ associated with the name UNILAG.
MAULAG has no SWAGZ attached for now, but it will with time.
Were the Staff complaining and protesting...their salaries remain intact.
This ''jump and down'' is an ephemeral event.

dirk: [/color][color=][/color][color=#006600][color=#000099][/color]

You speak like an object of power sadism...Well let me educate you. There is a limit to what you can do on your property without the imprimatur of ur tenants.

emiye: Wanting to Preserve the UNILAG name cant be explained to many Non-Akokites....Its like explaining flying first class to someone flying Economy

um . . . aren't you confusing issues here. Soyinka is not a politician and have never told you he is one or intends to run for office. He is simply a Nigeria with a right to speak out in favour or in opposition of issues as he sees fit.

nsiadi: @ Kobojunkie]
Soyinka formed DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR PEOPLE FEDERATION
He didnt garner supporters to win even any councellorship seat
If you are still in doubt please Google is there to re-assure that

Kobojunkie:

um . . . aren't you confusing issues here. Soyinka is not a politician and have never told you he is one or intends to run for office. He is simply a Nigeria with a right to speak out in favour or in opposition of issues as he sees fit.

odumorun 1: Again, When George Washington owned slaves, it was LEGAL to own slaves in America. If you are having a hard time wrapping your mind around that, please consult the law of the time. I know to such ignorant minds such as yourself facts like these essentially fly over you. Gassing and incinerating of humans was never legal in Germany, so please stay away from the bubble-brained comparisons.

Slavery was outlawed in the 1800s. A simply try to google would help educate you.


Your logic is warped if 'legality' the enshrined will of power (unnacountable or not, democratic or not) is the sole determinant of what is right or what is wrong, then we will havwe to re-write human history in its entirety.

It would mean that it was RIGHT to jail Nelson Mandela for 27 years, since at the time - IT WAS LEGAL TO JAIL 'TERRORISTS'.

It would mean that there was nothing wrong with Apartheid since at the time it segregation was LEGAL in South Africa

It would mean that the June 12 Annulment was right because at the time based on the right to make law by the internationally recognised government in Nigeria _ that of Ibrahim Babangida

It would mean that Rosa Parks was wrong not to give up her seat for a white man since at the time it WAS LEGAL for black people to give up their seats to white ones in the American south.

coogar:

you're a tool!
there's no limit to what i can do to my property?
the federal government owns unilag. they can decide to
name it ansar-udeen university. how much of your father's
naira was used to build unilag or run it's maintenance
cost?

coogar:

nah - some people need to be made scapegoats.
they closed down the whole city today....blocked the whole 3rd
mainland bridge.....because their uni was renamed...i mean
who cares? people would still refer to it as unilag until
our generation f@cks off the planet.



where in the tenancy agreement does it say i cannot make changes in
the structure of the building? the owner is the owner. he has the
right to do whatever on his property as long as he does not bring
any harm to his tenants. renaming brings no harm. he named it
mko abiola(who must have donated billions of naira to the same institution).



they can close it down and turn it into a zoological garden.
thank feck, the lagoon is behind the school. it would be a perfect tourist attraction.
there's still unibadan, uni of ife, uniben, uniport, ado bayero and the federal govt owns them all.
they wouldn't lose any sleep over unilag which is a glorifiekd whorehouse anyways.

I am su the school u attended is not better than unilag, if it is tell us the name of ur school



and he named it after their hero. how many lagosians laid their lives down for abiola
in 93/94? even when he died in 98? they must be hundreds of thousands! so jonathan
decided to honour the man that fought for democracy in nigeria a university and the students
are protesting like ingrates. he didn't name it babangida uni, abacha uni, chukwumerije uni or
nzeribe uni? i dunno where this aggression is coming from - probably grudges nursed against
jonathan since the subsidy removal.



which yeye due process?

all4naija: And,why do the federal government collect taxes?! Please!

coogar:

[size=18pt]your tax is a token paid for the services the government provides for you.[/size]
good roads, street lights, police, health services, fire services, etc.
that you pay rent does not make you a landlord - you're still a tenant.



overall, my school has produced 25 nobel-prize laureates....
take a wild guess, you plank!!

coogar:

your tax is a token paid for the services the government provides for you.
good roads, street lights, police, health services, fire services, etc.
that you pay rent does not make you a landlord - you're still a tenant.

Ileke-IdI:


And what are those services?

coogar:

your tax is a token paid for the services the government provides for you.
[size=18pt]good roads, street lights, police, health services, fire services, etc.[/size]
that you pay rent does not make you a landlord - you're still a tenant.

Ileke-IdI:
Are you serious?

coogar:

your tax is a token paid for the services the government provides for you.
good roads, street lights, police, health services, fire services, etc.
that you pay rent does not make you a landlord - you're still a tenant.

all4naija: Your analogy is faulted, on looking at the landlord examples.Tax money is never a token anywhere. There is no nation that survives solely on foreign generated income. You speak as if the government is not the people. The resources belong to you and I, we are the government while the president is just a figure head to lead/represent - which is used to fund many thing rather stolen. Now,on a side note - how much of the stolen money have be retrieved from foreign accounts?

However, the services the people have paid for through their 'token'(as you made it to look)haven't be seen taken care of yet the 'landlord' is adding more troubles to disrepair property(the nation). Indeed, looking at it from another angle,the property is a family property(for every Nigerian).

Even at the expense of the tenant rights there is what is called contract based on agreement between the landlord and the tenants. That's the university has some rules which must be followed as due process agreed upon by both parties so that it can function effectively. A dictator wouldn't do much worse than this. He has done something that needs to be but done wrongly. It strip away the importance of the university integrity to speak for itself in regarding things which they rules of the school say they possess.