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Let me begin with the obvious observation that modern societies face a growing dilemma usually posed by the fact that key institutions and their elite are increasingly dependent upon intellectuals, particularly those in universities, research institutions and the cultural apparatus generally. But why? The reason is simple: intellectual work is quintessentially the labour of the mind and the soul. And it is only in this regard that intellectuals differ from other categories of workers like civil servants or road transport workers. In other words, intellectual workers are those who are proficient in and are actively engaged in the creation, distribution and application of knowledge and culture.

Their principal focus is on innovation, the elaboration of knowledge and scholarship as well as art and other symbolic formulations generally. Included in this category are scholars, scientists, academics, philosophers, artists, teachers, writers, journalists, lawyers etc. In a few words, development is largely dependent on research which is the domain of the intellectual. It is in recognition of the value and worth of the intellectual that Ngugi WaThiong’ O, Africa’s literary General, once intoned: “Artistic and intellectual ideological struggles are part of the overall struggle for development.” In Africa (and Nigeria precisely), are the conditions favourable and conducive for the intellectual to conduct meaningful research? Are Nigerian universities burnished up to international standards? Or in what environment and under what conditions is the Nigerian intellectual operating? A series of questions could be asked. But let me quickly pluck the fruit of my story namely: ASUU and IPPIS.

For the past few months, the Federal Government has, once again, demonstrated its blatant disregard for and total vilification and debasement of intellectual labour by insisting that all Nigerian universities should be part of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. The whole idea of IPPIS smacks of ignorance and mischief but it is essentially an admission, by the ruling class, that Nigeria is a nation that has no respect for education and intellectual work. Again, it is an unfortunate reflection of the levity and contempt with which our leaders treat serious national issues.

The first, and by far, the most worrisome aspect of the IPPIS is the fact that it is a blatant violation of the concept of university autonomy. University autonomy is a global practice associated with universities all over the world and it has four main dimensions namely: academic, organisational, financial and staff autonomy. Perhaps, some little words about university autonomy would suffice. Academic autonomy simply means the university’s capacity to manage its internal academic affairs independently. Such academic issues include students’ admissions, academic content, quality assurance and the introduction of new degree programmes. Organisational autonomy has to do with the university’s ability to decide freely on issues like decision-making bodies, executive leadership, legal entities and internal academic structures. Financial autonomy (which is the theme of my story) is all about the university’s ability to decide freely on internal financial matters like managing its funds independently and setting its strategic aims.

o all these must be added the fact that university autonomy gives absolute powers to a body called the university governing council. This body is officially recognised by the laws establishing universities in Nigeria. It is this body that is saddled with the responsibility for the control and management of university funds, employment and promotion of staff. All edicts and statues establishing universities and the nation’s constitution give full powers to the governing councils as the supreme body concerned with the day-to-day operation of the university. In the profoundest sense, university autonomy means that all powers academic, managerial and financial are vested in the governing council. All the agreements signed between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities since 1992 have shown abundantly that Nigerian universities should be allowed to operate in compliance with their enabling laws, statues, rules and regulations. The Federal Government is expected to honour these agreements. If the Federal Government insists on imposing IPPIS on ASUU, the obvious implication would be that the government is insincere, irresponsible and unreasonable. It would have also succeeded in robbing the University Governing Council of all its powers. This situation has the potential to breed discontent and dissatisfaction among scholars.

Closely related to the issue of university autonomy is the peculiar nature and structure of Nigerian universities. As a place where knowledge is created and distributed, it is common practice that universities, quite often, collaborate or depend on professors, resource persons and facilitators from other institutions and universities. Again, we must concede that such partnership or collaboration is meant to buttress the fact that the academia is a place for flexibility, robust intellectual debates, exchange of ideas and arguments. But the one good thing about such an arrangement is that it aids the spread of knowledge and ideas. The whole idea of relying on academics, colleagues and professors from other universities becomes the more significant in our tragic situation in Nigeria where universities are established not for pragmatic purposes but just to score some cheap political points. In other words, Nigerian universities lack the desired academic manpower needed to cater for thousands of students admitted on university campuses every year. But again, it is common practice all over the world that the reliance on academics from other universities is aimed at entrenching the culture of merit and impartiality in the award of degrees. All these factors explain why academics are offered sabbatical terms to other universities; they are also invited to serve as external examiners/assessors, moderators and visiting lecturers to other universities. Should the IPPIS be imposed on Nigerian universities, all this collaboration and dependence will be eroded. Come to think of it, with the IPPIS housed in Abuja, it would be practically impossible for a visiting professor or external examiner from, say, the University of Lagos to be adequately captured and remunerated by the University of Port Harcourt, for academic or other professional services rendered in the latter university.

More irksome is the fact that the Federal Government has recently portrayed ASUU as an intransigent and unpatriotic union that is derailing the fight against corruption. This is the grossest falsehood and the general public is invited to note this mischief. The agreement signed between ASUU and the Federal Government apart from conferring immense powers on the governing councils also contains another mechanism for checking the excesses or otherwise of the governing councils. According to this arrangement, the Visitor of the university is expected to conduct a visitation of the university at least once in every five years. The purpose of such a visit is to check all the activities of the university and punish any culprit. On almost all Nigerian university campuses, there are written documents to show that ASUU has been in the forefront of drawing attention to acts of financial mismanagement and other corrupt practices. Lamentably, the Federal Government has never taken the presentations from ASUU seriously. It is amazing though not surprising because in Nigeria, committee reports usually find their home in the dust bin. Government can do more by funding the universities adequately and by putting university governing councils in perpetual check. ASUU has nothing to hide and is not afraid of IPPIS. What ASUU has found very unpleasant and disturbing is the fact that the introduction of IPPIS will make it impossible for universities, as a place of research, to perform maximally. And in order to show that ASUU is not averse to IPPIS, the union has offered to coordinate the project of starting a distinct platform for the universities in place of the IPPIS if granted approval by the Federal Government.

What is clear for now is that the problem of university education in Nigeria is closely related to the problem of funding and the superintendence of the university governing councils. This is as much as to say that the problem of university education is aggravated by the blatant refusal of the government to live up to its primary responsibility of providing education for all citizens. The way things are now, the clouds are gathering and another torrential rain is in the offing, should the government impose IPPIS on ASUU. The government should act wisely and quickly in order to avert the unpleasant consequences of such a downpour.

https://punchng.com/ASUU-ippis-the-truth-of-the-matter/

fergusen:
Read me well...
He said he wanted to reg city+employ


City+employ doesn't make sense.

OK .thanks

fergusen:
Not good.

Something like Miamiemploy/king
How about trying city+jobs/king

There is no formula to this. I sold city+employment late last month for $788

I need a suggestion please. An end user is asking for check before buying my domain. I sent him the Link to the domain and also sent a lead but he's still asking for check. Any solution

1Dray:
This is serious.. Are you domaining strictly 'cos of or for Dan?

Is a question

I want to know if Dan has an account with hostpapa in case of domain push. Has anyone pushed a domain to Dan at hostpapa?

[quote author=Julius209 post=84488880][/quote]You're missing something. Check your registrar or Name server. Maybe u misspelt the name on dan

Another sales alert apart from $778 yesterday
Louisvillebanners.king
Bought from godaddy for €.99
Held for 2 weeks
Sold for $120

RESHARPENED:
DAN is slow with everything nowadays. They'll even make you feel like an idiot for asking them to do their job.

If you must contact them, forget about the transaction thread that was opened for that particular transaction. They don't respond to that. Reach out to them through support@dan.com, they respond faster there.

After the transfer is finalized, you must also remind them to pay you. To me, DAN is gradually losing touch with its customer base. Imagine a buyer telling me that DAN refused to send him any message after he made the payment, yet Laszlo kept insisting the efforts they'd put into reaching out to the buyer does not tally with their cut of the transaction price. Imagine.


SALES REPORT

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Sold: Nov 6 for $150
Bought: February for $1
Inbound offer from someone I earlier outbounded to.

I received payment yesterday. Took DAN almost a month to finalize the transaction.


Cdor, kindly let me know how to list my domain names on Epik. It's bye-bye to DAN for now.

Also, I think LUNO makes a lot of sense as a payout option. They sent me #52k+ for $136.5.

Payment sent by dan. Sold the domain for $778 within 6 hours of registration through Dan and outbound. Thank you

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fergusen:
Chat

Thanks but they are not Even reading nor responding to chats

fergusen:
Use this format.
Hi, I'm wondering why there is a delay in initiating a push. On namepros I see comments about sales at Dan being processed within 24hrs hours. Why is this case different?

Dem go answer sharply

Through chat, bot or email please?

Liftkid:
Guys what's you say about my portfolio ?


Alphabulletin

peakcruise

Glasgowlaundry

dubairoofer

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all in /King

I like Glasgowlaundry and dubairoofer. Will they buy?

Josmila:
You have to be super patient with DAN now. They're slow with everything and it's annoying

thanks boss

Why is Dan so slow with domain push nowadays. Domain sold yesterday and till now the chat is not responding to allow the push after messaging me. In Online chat they are not responding including email contact. Has anyone experienced this

Innoxxacs:
we de wait ooo

I dey wait for Dan bot

Innoxxacs:
AAA593 Congratulations

Thanks. Let me finish. Will put the details here. Hold time was 6 hours

schullten:
Wait.
The bot will give you the push code/name.
Congratulations

Thanks

Sold a name for over $700 an hour ago. Dan asked for the registrar and whether I want transfer or push it. I typed push and no response till now from the chatbot. Should I just go to porkbun and push it to Dan or wait till the not responds. Thank you
The is the first time I'm experiencing this

Dremskeji:
I equally have one top UK roofing company exact domain phrase in King.

The domain was first registered in 1997 by a US roofing company but I figured they changed business name to another name and decided to go for a new domain name.

I outbounded to the initial owners as well too but no response yet, I don go park am for Dan at $10,000 only.

No shaking!

10k kpali

sinkhole:
It's better to understand an issue before taking a stand.
I tried to make findings from the staffs of those MDAs that are enrolled already on IPPIS. My findings are not heartwarming at all.
First, they receive less as their Taxes are scandalously high.
Second, their salaries are not static, they fluctuate.
Third, when an error occurs, it can take you almost a year to rectify it as Abuja shall become your second home where some people will extort money from you.
Fourth, no mistake is minute. For instance, as far as they're concerned, Ajayi O. Badmus is a different person from Ajayi Owolabi Badmus. If the above is the case, your salary will be returned and to get it back, you have to go to Abuja with all the necessary documents for God knows how many times.
My conclusion is that the platform is over 90% pro government. Don't forget that the template may not accept you if you're above 50 years.
I was wondering why ASUU was kicking against it. I sympathize with the non teaching staff who rush to enroll on the platform.
You can contact any staff of the NIMC to understand their precarious situation. I have a nephew who I have to support monthly since their enrollment.

Please note that this actually is not mine!

God bless you. Most people here don't understand ASUU's point. They are all shouting corruption without knowing how terrible ippis is.

ofiko123:
The elections in southern ijaw better not be cancelled or else bayelsa State will be thrown into chaos and there will be bloodshed and violence everywhere... Lives will be lost..

Hmmmm

contigiency:
UPDATES From 4 LGA in Bayelsa State:

Ogbia LGA Result
APC - 58,016
PDP - 13,763

Yenagoa LGA

APC = 24,607
PDP = 19, 185

Brass LGA Result

Pdp: 7,629
Apc: 22,938

Nembe LGA Result

APC 87,000
PDP 9,700

#BayelsaDecides
#BayelsaDecides2019
#BayelsasAPC https:///ysz9odm2ZA

Yenagoa result is the voting pattern. Other local government na rigginnigerialtd

This bayelsa election is not an election. I pray court will disqualify PDP and APC so that accord or another party will come on board. Can u imagine till not a single official resulr has been declared in bayelsa Even at the ward level. Happening now at ogbia

Out of 8 LGA, election took place in only one. free and fair which is Yenagoa. Any party that will win should not celebrate because APC and PDP rigged bayelsa election. Especially APC.

The authentic results from bayelsa election today were the ones coming from yenagoa. nembe was writing centre. I pity democracy. They couldn't Even allow my accord party supporters to vote.

babytoun:
Mind you I support pdp ..But I don't like ehat Dickson has done

If the price to correct Dicksons useless style is to have a semi illiterate as governor let it be so for now

As I type right now women are carry placards that they want to vote for your party PDP at opolo. Materials has been hijacked. Go to bayelsa focus group on Facebook you will see the videos there. Don't generalized election things kos you cannot trust electorates. Amassoma is Lyon's local government

babytoun:
Bookmark my post and let's talk after results are released

I'm not bookmarking anything

babytoun:
Amasoma one of pdps strongholds in southern ijaw ...even pdp agents are asking people to vote Apc...I got this from a very credible source.

The entire state has rejected Dickson

Is Dickson contesting?
The polling where I'm at Gwegwe are voting PDP and few APC. Them no gree votes my accord party. Stop generalising

babytoun:
Amasoma one of pdps strongholds in southern ijaw ...even pdp agents are asking people to vote Apc...I got this from a very credible source.

The entire state has rejected Dickson

This info is false

otokx:
I heard Dickson owe workers salary more than Yahaya Bello, don't know how true it is.

I don't like the Governor in particular but this information is from the pit of hell

TissuePaper:
Pdp is winning ooo

For where