billyG:

Get small sense ,small boy na Buhari shoot those pple?

No...no be Buhari shoot them. Tell me who Adolf Hitler shoot? Who did Osama Bin Laden behead?

Compound idiot.

Sahara reporters eyes don start to dey open after the Social media bill brouhaha

[size=14pt]President Buhari And The Resurrection Of Corruption In The Award Of Honorary Degrees In Nigerian Universities[/size]

On Saturday, December 12, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari shocked the Nigeria’s academic community when he went to Kaduna State University, KASU and received an honorary doctorate degree (Honoris Causa) barely seven months after his inauguration.



On the surface of it, one would be tempted to ask: is the president being honoured for his records of yesteryears or is he being honoured for his performance in the last seven month? If it is for his past records, the natural question is why now and why by KASU? That university existed for over a decade, why didn’t they honour Muhammadu Buhari last year or five years ago? If the honour is as a result of his present assignment, what has he done this far to earn him a honoris causa? Isn’t it a case of moral corruption for a serving president, who has a lot of favours to dish out, accept to receive an undeserved honorary doctorate degree from a state university whose vice chancellor was, in the last six months, queried by the Visitor to the University about three times?

Is it the case that, after the KASU formula, that the president will not attend the convocation ceremony of any university unless that university include the president as one its recipients of honorary doctorate degree. How not, since over a dozen universities have held their convocation ceremonies since the coming of PMB to office and he attended none, it is therefore safe to assume that his failure to attend was because they have not honoured him with a degree. These include the University of Ibadan, University of Benin, Obafemi Awolowo University, Federal University Owerri, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, etc. And none of them received the respect of the presence of the president. Now that KASU has shown the way, any university that wants the president to attend its convocation should simply include the president in the list of the recipients of its honoris causa. They are sure to have the president coming in person to be decorated.

The question is where is the shock? The president action is shocking for three reasons. First, his receiving an honorary doctorate degree, from any Nigerian University, while holding and elected public office is immoral, illegal and a crass violation of the existing regulation guiding the award of honoris causa in Nigeria’s University System. Section 2.0 subsection (a) of the famous Keffi Declaration which was enacted on the 24th September, 2012 by the Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU) stated that:

“AVCNU member-universities hereby make it a policy not to honour with honorary degree anybody holding political office (elected or appointed) while such officers are still in service.”
President Buhari violated this rule and the president is an honourable man, apology to Shakespeare in his histo-drama book, Julius Caeser.
In 2012, worried by the spate of irregularities and the erosion of academic culture and university tradition especially in the indiscriminate award of honorary degrees in the university system, the vice chancellors of Nigeria’s federal, state and private universities met at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi and resolved, collectively, that the age-long best practices of university culture be restored and maintained. It was the case that politicians, public office holders and all manner of money-bags and favour-flaunters will be conniving with governing councils, vice chancellors or visitors to state universities all in the bid to cajole or hoodwink the university into awarding an undeserving honorary degree. It was so rampant that the credibility of any honoris causa by any Nigerian university was suspect. The Nigeria’s academic community was relieved when the Keffi Declaration on “Sustaining Academic Tradition in Nigerian Universities, Including Guidelines for the Award of Honorary Degrees” was made. It was even more refreshing seeing that all the federal universities, all the state universities and all the private universities at that time have signed the declaration.

But the action of President Buhari of accepting honoris causa, in complete violation of the Keffi Declaration, has done one of the greatest damages to the university system since the enactment of the declaration in 2012. The president has just killed the Keffi Declaration and therefore open the floodgate of irregularities and moral corruption in the award of honorary degrees. Will the president refuse to accept another honoris causas from other universities? No. All the remaining 140 universities will now line up with their ceremonial academic robes ready to decorate the president with honorary degrees. It will be a moral dilemma for the president to refuse to accept after receiving one from a sister-university. And not only that, the president cannot stop his cabinet members, other public officer holders, and including civil servants from haggling-and-bargaining to ‘buy’ honorary degrees and even stand on the same podium with the president to be decorated. The era of immoral impunity in the award of honoris causa has effectively returned. And it was declared open by the action of Mr President.

Second, and even more disturbing is the fact that Kaduna State University is not competent to award honorary doctorate degree to anybody. Information available on the National Universities Commission website indicates that there are only 22 out of 40 state universities with approval to run masters and PhD programs. KASU is not one them. How can you have an honorary doctorate graduands when you don’t have the regular program with regular students pursuing doctorate studies? More so, the Keffi Declaration, section 2.0 subsection (e) stated explicitly that:

“A university shall not award honorary degrees if it has not graduated any PhD or has no postgraduate school or program”
Because the president is an honourable man, I dare say that his idea of change is about changing the rule, it will be safe to say that he received a 419 degree that is not recognised by the NUC, a government institution under his watch.

The question is how many people graduated with PhDs at the 12th December convocation when President Buhari was decorated by KASU? Have KASU ever graduate a PhD since its establishment? When did they get the approval from the NUC to commence the PhD program? How could KASU award what it does not have? Why should NUC keep mute at this illegality and gross abuse of regulation? If the information they published in their website is correct, why should they allow KASU to award illegal honorary degree even to the resident of the Federation? It is amazing how politicians are always at the forefront of rubbishing our academic traditions and values.

It is very clear that the Visitor to KASU who is the Governor of Kaduna State is at the forefront of this manipulative scheme to rubbish the university system and smear the good name of the president of the country. Or why did he dissolved the governing council of the university simply because they allegedly drew his attention to the illegality and immorality of awarding honoris causa to a serving elected public officer? And the VC who was appointed by Governor Yakowa was rattled to his nerves with an array of queries to get him to accept political interference in the running of the university. How else, given the fact that section 2.0 subsection (c) of the Keffi Declaration states, in parts, that:

“…the award of honorary degree shall not be tied to wealth consideration or political alignment…”
Who will doubt that after sacking the governing council and sufficiently intimidating the vice chancellor of the university, the APC governor as the visitor to the university, is not bullying his way into forcing the university to award illegal degrees to an APC President and a business mogul exclusively for political and material reasons?

My third reason is even more scary. Is the Minister of Education so incompetent as not to draw the attention of the President to all these violations? Why wouldn’t the minister of education draw the attention of the president to the Keffi Declaration? And to the NUC guidelines on approved universities with graduate courses? Or better still shouldn’t the honourable minister make the moral common sense argument of not accepting a gift from an institution under ones superintendence? Or is it the case that the president, who ruled the country for over three months without ministers, is still living with that hang-over and is taking decisions without consulting the relevant ministers? If the minister of education is kept in the dark on the KASU honoris causa brouhaha, then our country is in trouble. It means the president will be relying on informal and unofficial (most of the time, misleading) suggestions to run the country. If the minister is in the picture and his opinion sought by the president and he misled the president into going to accept and illegal honorary degree, then some punitive action must be meted on the minister. If on the other hand, the minister was consulted and he advised the president against accepting the illegal degree and his advice was jettisoned by the president, then something is fundamental wrong – it means there is a crisis of confidence between the president and his ministers. And the earlier that crisis is resolved the better for our country.
It is important to note that PDP, in spite of its numerous ills had adhered to the Keffi Declaration. Former president Goodluck Jonathan, to his credit – (oh God, remembering PDP and Jonathan again) withstood all the pressures and declined many of such offers.

For me, President Muhammadu Buhari can still save the Keffi Declaration, save himself from further embarrassment and save the university system in this regard by doing two things: one, cause his handlers to issue a public statement returning the illegal and undeserved honorary degree back to the awarding university and stating his commitment to respect and protect the Keffi declaration; two, investigate and punish any persons that have hands in misleading him into this embarrassing misstep. Fighting corruption is not just about stolen wealth. It is about respect for regulations. It is about staying on the moral high-grounds. Over to you “Sai Mai Gaskiya.”


Dr. Mohammed Jibo Imran
Santa Clara County
City of San Jose, CA

http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/13/president-buhari-and-resurrection-corruption-award-honorary-degrees-nigerian-universities

Note that, Jonathan is also responsible for the Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates to form Nigeria in 1914.

The federal government has said the depreciation of the naira is the “direct consequence of the incomprehensible mismanagement of the economy and the mindless looting of the national treasury” under former President Goodluck Jonathan.

On Friday, the naira exchanged at its worst in history — N260 to $1 — in the parallel market. The parallel rate is considered as the real market value of the national currency.

“If there was still any honour left among thieves, there is no way the leaders of a party under whose watch the nation’s economy suffered a monumental mismanagement and the central bank was turned to the ATM or piggy bank of a few people will have the temerity to insult a government that is working hard to turn things around or the citizens who are bearing the brunt of such mismanagement,” Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, said in a statement yesterday.

According to The Cable, “It is now clear to all Nigerians that if the PDP had won the last general elections, Nigeria’s economy would not have survived one more month, considering the battering it received under the immediate past administration. It is therefore unconscionable that those who should show contrition and hunker down to avoid public opprobrium are the same ones pointing an accusing finger at the Buhari administration.”

According to Segun Adeyemi, special adviser to the minister, Mohammed described “the comments credited to Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, that businesses might collapse in the next six months because the Buhari administration had mismanaged the economy, as the clearest indication yet that the PDP and its leaders were still in denial about the massive body blows they inflicted on the Nigerian economy.”

“Ekweremadu complained about the depreciation of the naira without telling Nigerians who ‘dollarised’ the Nigerian economy by bribing many individuals and groups with dollars during the last elections, thus inflicting a knock-out punch on the local currency. He also failed to tell Nigerians which government presided over the frenzied mop-up of dollars, either for ‘armsgate’ or for slush fund purposes, from the CBN to a point where it almost ran out of the hard currency.” Mohammed said “even though the Buhari administration met an economy that was in coma, it had refused to use that as an excuse for inaction, hence had been working hard on measures that would turn the economy around and greatly offer relief to Nigerians by lifting millions, not thousands, of people out of poverty through a massive social intervention policy.

“The outcome of the months of hard work will manifest soon in the 2016 national budget that will give succour to millions of Nigerians who are reeling from fallout of the solecism of the immediate past Administration that turned the country into a cash bazaar.”

The minister advised the leaders of the PDP and members of the immediate past administration who were involved in the emerging cases of looting binge “to urgently return, to government coffers, the funds they have squirreled out of the commonwealth”. “They are lucky that Nigerians are not as incautious as they are, otherwise they would not be able to walk around freely, not to talk of having the effrontery to fire darts at the government that inherited their rot or the people who are suffering the consequences,” Mohammed said. “They looted the billions of naira that were allocated for the fight against insurgency, causing many innocent and patriotic soldiers to die needlessly, yet they are not remorseful.

They looted the treasury to influence the last elections, doling out money as if it was going out of fashion, yet they continue to grandstand. “In the latest revelation, a minister under the immediate past dispensation admitted to sharing 600 million naira to six chairmen of the contact and mobilisation committee of the PDP for the last general elections, 300 million naira to an account given by a former PDP chairman, 200 million naira to a PDP governorship candidate and 100 million naira to a former PDP governor. This is just one case out of many, yet these revelations are but a tip of the iceberg of what Nigerians will hear in the days ahead.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/jonathan-caused-naira-depreciation-says-fg/227937/

Jonathan is responsible for this... PDP has destroyed the country.

Everything bad that has ever happened to Nigeria is the fault of the Ibos and the Niger deltans. They caused it.

Not to worry, Saint Buhari is here to solve all our problems. Even if he kills your entire family for no good reason, it is for the good of the nation.

Lol...Only a Vanguard newspaper can report this kind of news. All other pro APC will keep mute.

Nothing will happen to Sanusi. The government will find a way to still rope it around NOI, Dasuki, Emefiele and GEJ.

Change has come to stay...our only choice is to get used to it.

Seems our people no get work

Eventually Kogi elections will be cancelled and a new one organised. Yahaya Bello only has 6,000 votes, Faleke did not contest primaries and cannot be made governor while Wada did not garner the highest number of votes.

omenka:
If I'm a hypocrite, then you are a very big fool. Is the bill sponsored by Buhari or did it originate from the executive Is Buhari a legislator Don't we have PDP members in the National assembly and don't they have the numbers to ensure the bill doesn't succeed Why don't you berate them for their support for the bill instead of directing your frustration at Buhari who shares no part in this

What a useless scum.

Talking like a zombie baboon that you really are...So you expect GMB to do it himself? He sent an idiot from Kebbi to do it for him since he cannot do it himself under the new democratic dispensation. Why didn't they sponsor it during the last dispensation?

You truly are dull.

omenka:
I still find it hard to understand why anyone would sit on their own and without compulsion visit sites such as-

1. Thetrentonline.

2. Breakingtimes

3. Savingravereporters

4. Guardiannewsusa.

I just don't understand!!

Somewhere inside of me, I wish the bill would even see the light of day and become a law so idiots like those who publish stories on the site above could be taught some hard lessons.

If the bill had passed during Jonathan's tenure, perhaps you would be typing from Jail right now. Is the story true or false?

Hypocrite.

DECREE NO 4 OF 1984

Section 1

“any person who publishes in any form, whether written or otherwise, any message, rumour, report or statement which is false in any material particular or which brings or is calculated to bring the Federal Military Govt or the govt of a state or public officer to ridicule or disrespect shall be guilty of an offence under this decree…….and those found guilty would be eligible for a fine of not less than 10,000 naira and a jail sentence of up to TWO YEARS”

See the bill an APC Senator proposed on the floor of the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday, December 2, 2015.

2015- BILL TO DISCOURAGE BASELESS ALLEGATIONS

“Where any person through text messages, tenets, whatsApp or through any social media post any abusive statement knowing same to be false with intent to set the public against any person and group of persons and institutions of govt or such other bodies established by law shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction shall be liable to an imprisonment for TWO YEARS or a fine of N2,000,000,000 or both fine and imprisonment”

Condemning this should be the focus of everybody. This is not the time to be quiet at all.

General Mohammadu Buhari, the supreme maximum ruler is back and he is trying to use the backdoor to bring back his dictatorial decrees which he used to oppress Nigerians and clamp down on human rights and press freedom.

This move must be condemned by all Nigerian, irrespective of their political affiliations. This Bill is an assault on our democracy and our humanity.

http://www.thetrentonline.com/buhari-is-trying-to-use-nigerian-senate-to-resurrect-his-infamous-decree-4-must-read/

Nollywood ....who acted as Audu?

Nollywood

So sad that a man with heavy allegations over his head is given the gubernatorial ticket and goes ahead to win. Shows Nigeria is indeed not ready for true democracy with accountability.

However, Kogi people have voted...and so it shall be.

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Thanks

So why should we trust your cab guy with all our millions. What if he decides to run away with the money or what if you are robbed?

I think its better you improve your payment system. The one you are running is too risky.

noeloge82:


Did u read what u just quoted
I guess u will need support to make ur English in Waec that's why small boys putting mouth in Adult discussion is Bad
Google paradox and improve on ur understanding

Or better still...Irony

Why does North West have 7 while South East have 5?

That is not Equity as all zones should have 6 Ministers each...so the South East should have more states.

Best GMB follows the National Conference report.

W

Finally,,,,somebody is thinking like me. APC Politics stinks....

Former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Ameachi drove El Rufai and was rewarded as Minister of Transport.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1966914_rufaiamachi_jpegc195f7c06435ed2d33940c3738641f01


The day of Ameachi's inauguration, Bola Tinubu upped the antics by driving El Rufai in a Taxi....See who is now loyal to the Unofficial vice president. He even skipped a whole Ministerial inauguration in Abuja to do driver work for the Boss Rufai in Kaduna. SLAVE MENTALITY

Stup1d ab0ki court ...is the court a sharia court? How come adultry is now a crime punishable by prison sentence?
How about the greedy woman who sold her punny to the driver...what is her punishment..was she raped? No!

Former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Ameachi drove El Rufai and was rewarded as Minister of Transport.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1966914_rufaiamachi_jpegc195f7c06435ed2d33940c3738641f01


The day of Ameachi's inauguration, Bola Tinubu upped the antics by driving El Rufai in a Taxi....Guess who the next Minister of Transport will be?



El Rufai...the unofficial vice president...

reuben79:
mention one pls

Sorry...I prefer to remain anonymous.

reuben79:
do u hv leaders and elderstate man in ur village?even in ur region do u hv?

We have leaders...not criminals. And we always tell them the truth whenever they fall short...not worship them blindly like some.

But it was ok...when they insulted GEJ.

In this era of body language (or body odour) Ambode's body is certainly intoxicating criminals in lagos and encouraging them to do as they like.

He earned it.

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politricks:
The relevancy of His shadow alone is more than that of your entire village talk less of he himself.

Yes o.....I'm even afraid of his shadow. Cos his shadow is also more corrupt than everybody in my village combined.

Old man trying to remain relevant.

Nobody send am like that again...which kind party leader wey no fit determine anything for the party.

Modified
To the poster above...We do not celebrate criminals in my village as such, his shadow or even a picture of his shadow will not be allowed into my village because it may loot my entire village.

So who senior between GMB and IBB

Bubu....I'm not surprised.

This our president is just making a mockery of our federal system of government.

I'm totally in support of lowering cost of governance and rooting out corruption from our system...but I'm not in support of the method GMB is applying.

I agree with the Nurses...Ndume the Boko Haram Suspect now APC stalwart needs to show more respect to that profession.

So who reported otherwise?

Ahhh...its The Nation... http://thenationonlineng.net/virgin-atlantic-pulls-out-of-nigeria-sacks-crew/

Lie lie Newspaper. I'm not surprised anymore.

I'm sure APC fans will cry out...."wailing wailers" soon. That's the default post when they have absolutely nothing to refute an allegation.