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DharmyYinks:
The bolded is hilarious.

There is no "We" U left ur fellow colleague hanging. Team Unilorin waited for "4 hours" And here u are talking as if u ve been cheated on.

This act even proves that their is no cordial relationship/interaction btw u nd ur pal. Atleast u could ve communicated with each other about the schedule of events nd the 4hours wasted waiting for Your Highness couldn't even awake a need for ur colleague to get u here ASAP.

And No! Am not a student of Unilorin bfor u start churning out flimsy accusations.

PS: If ABU Zaria doesn't make it, YOU re d cause and "IF" u guys made it, Catalyst4real "alone" deserves the accolades.

The issue is beyond your comprehension bro. No offense, it is the fact. You actually don't know what has been happening prior to today but you are aware of what happened today. Do you know how painful it is to be disconnected from the online world by things beyond your control? Do you know the kind of sacrifice I made before actually logging in when I did? Do you think it is my joy not to be abreast of schedule? I appreciate your concern but the fact is, team ABU remains "we" not "I".

beautyfunke:
one thing I discovered so far from this debate is that there will be favoritism and nepotism clueless and magrevic

...just watch out

I understand the context of your comment and glad to inform you that we will accept the outcome of this debate without any complain. One thing I have discovered through psychology is that; people who possess some personalty disorder tend to think everyone is like them.

graciousolo:
Such insolence. You should be well behaved even if you are on an online platform. I'm done with you. I never really had your time.

I am glad you know what moral deficient is. I am done with the allegation and recrimination. Neyoor and I has been friends and will continue to be.

Apology to team Unilorin.

luxanne:
Abuklaw, I need you to take time and read through the chitchat on this thread to see where your opponent pleaded your presence as being paramount for today's debate.

Your response tonight is not so befitting of you.

I really appreciate the concern of everyone but it seems you don't the subject of my complaint. Henceforth, I won't talk about it again.

Thanks everyone.

Neyoor:
During the course of the debate. One of the judges Mr herexG directed a question to my opponent and it was answered by Abuklaw, who is not part of today's contest. I don't know if that is allowed because even though my team mates were around throughout. They didn't interrupt the exercise.

Cc:

Luxanne

Fynestboi

lol This is pure self-defense in response to the allegation I raised. I am a major player in today's debate not a spectator, the question I answered won't earn me any mark neither will it add to that of my colleague. But be honest, is it kind of you to impersonate neyoor? you don't know the weight of impersonation in Nigeria legal world. It is a serious offense my brother and punishable by 3 years imprisonment.

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Tourshaw:
This one is just repeating lines like a cracked CD plate. Please try and respect the modalities of this intellectual brawls and stop pointing accusing finger at us for your negligence. NISD TEAM is greater than anyone even you!!

I don't have issue with your shallow comment. But I don't want cheating to undermine the efforts of our organizers. You are typing in self-defense and I expect that from you anyway. You don't know the weight of the comment you made and ignorantly trying to drag it on. Because this is a faceless debate doesn't mean people should impersonate.

Gracias.

Thanks luxanne but please look into my complaint.

Catalyst4real:
Abuklaw, it's too late

It is not if the organisers consider. But I think Unilorin already has something going on behind the scene which can't make neyoor and graciousolo to be online at the same time because neyoor is graciousolo and graciousolo is neyoor for now.

Tourshaw:
Even Neyoor is out of battery too since, graciousolo is just continuing the essay.

luxanne:
It's alright then.

Abuklaw, you have your answer.

But that is not neyoor replying you.

Tourshaw:
Even Neyoor is out of battery too since, graciousolo is just continuing the essay.

Please consider it as a matter of urgency. I am not saying this to scuttle or undermine the process so far, but it is a sincere observation.

Neyoor:
Please, the ABU 2nd participants should stay clear off this thread. His assertions can be registered on the other thread.

You have actually confirmed my fear now; it seems you guys want to play politics.

Tourshaw:
Even Neyoor is out of battery too since, graciousolo is just continuing the essay.

Organizers, please take note of the quoted statement. Is it allowed?

cc:luxanne, fynestboi and others

Neyoor:
No, I don't think there's need for that any more.

There is need for it. Your colleague won't want an effort in futility like I am also feeling now.

Just grant the opportunity to contribute not showcase.

Kudos to my dogged colleague, catalyst4real. I am really sorry for letting you down.

luxanne:
I thought it was Graciouslolo for this round?

Thanks for this observation.

HerexG:
Most of us knows our educational system is presently not in the state we all can be proud of, so as an intellectual kindly make suggestion to our government and our educational heads that would take our educational system to that expected heights we all can be proud of as Nigerians

The major problem of Nigeria Education is underfunding. Why should a country aiming to be among the developed countries allocated less fund for education while transportation got more. Isn't it the educational system that will find lasting solution to the problem of transporting through researches and technological innovation? Our schools will start functioning when they receive adequate funding and recognition from the Government.

luxanne:
Quite unfortunate.

Team Unilorin wanted you present for this battle and had to wait more than a while since 12pm for you to come online, you can see for yourself when we started.

But did you get the sms from Fynestboi concerning this debate?

I think unilorin's other representative is also online. Can't we go ahead with our own duo or rather post our own argument?

I lost the phone that house my MTN sim to theft, so couldn't get any text.

OAUTemitayo:
I did not call you a coward.
I know you as a dogged fighter.
My saying I will drag you out was a joke.
My issue with you is you should have informed the moderators you won't be available today and they would fixed another time instead of keeping them waiting.

I know you were joking but people will still think I deliberately went awol to avoid the debate. I always use my phone to monitor events and my laptop to type, post and counter. , But since the theft incidence, I couldn't monitor events nor find someone to lend me system for the typing.

I am so sorry for the inconveniences this might have caused nairalanders and extremely disappointed that it pans out this way. I also don't want to think, research and type in futility.

luxanne:
To my knowledge, the time for this debate has always been 12pm Abuklaw, from whence did you get 6pm?

I would have come online since morning but I am not aware of the 12pm schedule. I know it is flimsy excuse but it is actually the reality. My submission has been typed just waiting till 4pm before coming online since I will be using a public internet connection.

OAUTemitayo:
Guy. Try and peruse what you post.
He said his phone was stolen and was asked if he would be available for this Debate to which he answered AFFIRMATIVELY.
Haba, yet he refused to show up after giving his words.
Nobody is happy that his phone was stolen but he gave his word and should be blamed for failing to show up.
The judges have their own commitment and should be accorded respect. You can't just be wasting their precious time.

Thanks for your opinion, but I am not a coward as you claimed. What should I be afraid of; is it to write or to counter. You are simply the one that failed to see the intricacies that goes on in the real world. I can even post my submission here for you to see.

Should I go and steal, If couldn't find a means of logging in on time?

The Quintessential graduate: a product of the University.

It will indeed, amount to insolence, if I failed to pay homage to whom it is due.
The C.E.O of nairaland, Mr. Seun Osewa.
Organisers of this monumental intellectual debate; fynestboi, luxanne and others.
Incorruptible, competent and sagacious panel of Judges.
Perspicacious and erudite co-debaters; neyoor and tourshaw.
Members of nairaland intelligentsia.

I am abuklaw by moniker, representative of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. I, alongside my competent colleague, catalyst4real will be defending the stance that “tertiary institutions play the most important role in the making of a quintessential graduate.

Who is a quintessential graduate? A quintessential graduate is an epitome of who is needed by employers in the labour market. His inner composition is the embodiment of what is expected of people we believe, would make the world a better place after graduating from tertiary institution.

What do you understand by the concept “tertiary education?” To me, it means an optional post-secondary education offer by tertiary institutions like Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education across the country and the world at large.

It is at this junction, that it becomes an onus on me to prove to the world, how tertiary institutions play the major role in the making of a quintessential graduate.

The most important factor of making of an ideal graduate is availability of facilities to support, nurture and help a graduate achieve his dream. The universities, in ensuring this, built a framework to influence their students directly (in the classroom) and indirectly (outside the classroom) while preparing them for the world beyond the institution. The curriculum, designed to interact with the students directly is indeed a foundation that is invaluable. The scheme of work to help an aspiring medical doctor achieve his dream is carefully structured to make him quintessential. The cadaver laboratory, teaching hospital, updated library of contemporary materials on medicine, and free access to the internet which the institution provide a medical student is solely responsible for his being quintessential after graduation.

We shouldn’t in our bid to rubbish the effort of these institutions be myopic. If not for these institutions, the growing labour market requirements of a graduate in the 21st century would have made all graduates unemployable.

To buttress the above point, a study was conducted by National University Commission (NUC) in 2014, requesting employers of labour to indicate the type of skills they expected of an average graduate of a Nigerian University to bring to workplace and also identify skill deficiencies in these graduates. The result of the study showed nine outstanding skill deficiencies in virtually all graduates in Nigeria. These deficiencies are; Critical thinking and analysis, oral and written communication, problem-solving skills, quantitative reasoning, information literacy, information and communication technology competency, impersonal skills (ability to work in team), entrepreneurial skills, and lastly, appreciation of ethical consequences of personal action.

The aftermath of the study was a recommendation from National University Commission (NUC) to all Universities in Nigeria, to entrench and integrate courses that will tackle and defeat the above mentioned deficiencies in our graduates. I can’t write much about other universities’ level of implementing the recommendation made by National University Commission (NUC) but I can authoritatively assert that Ahmadu Bello University has introduced courses and other medium to tackle the problem graduates face in the labour market.

I am quite aware that my opponents, in their bid to confuse us, would emphasise on self-development as the basis of a graduate being quintessential. What they failed to realise is that; the journals, textbooks, studying materials etc consulted by students in their pursuit of development are products of strenuous research made mostly by intellectuals in the Academia. I can’t fathom why we celebrate a building without recognising the invaluable effort of its foundation.

If I could study “Principles of Marketing” authored by A.M Armstrong and P. Kotler, digested the whole of “Principles of Management” written by Peter Drucker or practice the comprehensive “The Fundamentals of Financial Accounting” by Prof. A.A Udoh and became a quintessential graduate of marketing management. Isn’t it an act of injustice, to recognise self development as the basis of my being an ideal graduate while relegating the efforts, conscious research of those Academicians to obscurity? It is quite a mockery of common sense, to believe that my zeal to know, to learn more, to explore and demystify is enough for me to become ideal in the absence of those invaluable materials researched and published by University Dons.

Why is it that, when a graduate fails, we blame tertiary institutions but when a graduate excels or become quintessential, we praise the graduate? Will the school spoon-feed lazy students, coerce students with lack of purpose, vision and mission in life to harness the plethora of opportunities created for them to become quintessential? But it is lugubrious, when one realises that the state of the art libraries are always empty in most institutions but common rooms and social centres filled to brim. The internet facility provided to enhance studies is being used for watching porn, facebooking, youtubing, betting on nairabet etc. Yet, we blame the institutions for students’ failure.

In conclusion, the making of a quintessential graduate is as a result of the role played by the University even though the students have a role to play in their development.

References
Egwu, Sam (2009) Roadmap for Education: Nigerian Compass. April 1st. Page 23.
National University Commission (2004). Labour Market Expectation of Nigeria Graduates, Abuja: NUC Publication.

Catalyst4real:
Abuklaw please I want you to indicate your availability before the debate starts.
we've come too far to be disqualified for non participation.

I will try to be available on the slated date if you will. The only impediment is my inability to guarantee internet availability since I will use public internet.

We are good to go dear colleague.

Neyoor:
I learnt the topic was not thoroughly debated the last time it was done. Hence, the need for us to debate it again at this time.


I will implore the Moderators to look into your agitation, as regards your availability for the debate.


This is semi-final, both parties must be fully present to make it debatable.

We will appreciate if the moderators would look into our complaint. I have not been able to communicate to my colleague as result of the theft, and I don't know if that will be possible before Monday.

catalyst4real, leave a message for me when you see this. I will see it when next I come online.

ABU team has complained about the topic prior to this moment; that this topic has been debated in one of the previous stages. But, If you insist, we will accept it like that and go ahead with our preparation.

The latest development now is that, our availability on the slated date isn't certain. I lost my mobile phones and laptop to theft last week and making this comment from a public library. I could have proceeded with the someone's laptop but examination preparation is a major constraint.

consider this latest development and let know your feedback.

fynestboi, luxanne, catalyst4real,tourshaw, neyoor.

Fynestboi, I just noticed the issue raised by my colleague and will consider it inappropriate for debate too. We would appreciate if the topic is changed to a more new and not recycled one.

Thanks to the management as we anticipate feedback and possibly, adjustment of the topic.

Fynestboi:
28th is a public holiday and the time won't last beyond 4pm, so you can have time to revise the exam you will be having on the 29th, as I believe you won't start preparing for the exam you have on the 29th that day (28th).

You are right concerning the exam preparation though. We will see to this and feed you back sir.

Fynestboi:
[size=15pt] Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (A Product Of The Institution) Vs University of Ilorin (A Product Of Self Development



Topic: Quintessential Nigerian Graduate - A Product Of Self Development Or The Institution". [/size]



Judge:
Ujsizzle
Caracta
Ishilove




Catalyst4real
Abuklaw


Tourshaw
Neyoor




Date: 28th March 2016

12pm


Any questions?

Our only fear is that, we are commencing exams on the 29th of March. The first course to tackle will determine if it will be easy to dedicate the whole evening prior to the paper for debate. 27th will be okay if you can see from our lens.

leisuretym:
Yoruba should support Saraki, the only reason our brothers in the north dont want him there is because they believe his not a full blooded northerner, they are seeing him as a mole! if the Senate president was a core northerner, the Duara man would have finalized his mission long time ago! but this doesnt mean his a good man ooo, the Idoma people had to support David Mark because his the only man they have in government!

Your idea is too warped to conceive. What do you take Yorubas for? Bootlickers right! We are the sophisticated tribe in Nigeria. We vehemently reject our own that is anti masses and anti development, we don't follow blindly like the hausas and igbos do.

Next time nigga, don't drag Yorubas into this mess.

Modified.
Thought it is the fixture.

Just showing confidence niggas. I wish us the best of luck. NISD has been immensely beneficial to my quest for knowledge.

Final awaits not the best team but the luckiest one.

korel9:
Zombie spotted.

D politics dat was played by super powers in dat regards is too much for a zombie to comprehend.

By their inability to reply logically, you shall know them. IPOB youth that always blame others for their failures.

Now to your reply, he was the GCON not the superpowers you mentioned. If anything goes wrong, he is to be blamed not them. No wonder the economist tag him "ineffectual buffoon"

korel9:
And where is GEJ? The man who started the rushing and who purchased the arms n ammunitions presently used t execute the war?

@ OP

Purchase with his money right and the right time for him was few weeks to election. You guys can be daft sha.