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ifyalways:
I got an email late last night from the OP and the contents was that the VC asked him to go meet the Registrar this morning as its the registrar that will decide their fate.

I called the OP now to find out how the meeting went and he said his (and other 400 level students) appeal was not considered. Him and other 400 level students now have to defer their studies till next session ie 2014/2015.

Very sad. I feel really bad for the OP. I have not transferred the funds to the OP so if any of the donors want a refund,send me an email otherwise,the funds will be kept for the OP for resumption next year. I'm open for any other suggestions though.

I have been suspecting that things may not turn out has planned when I read the letter from the VC/Registrar posted earlier. It was not direct.

It is very disheartening to hear this. So the VC refused to just issue a directive to reopen the portal? Haba!
OP, I believe EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING.

Please consider for front page

https://www.nairaland.com/1539421/true-system-government-nigeria

THE TRUE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
IN NIGERIA ----KLEPTOCRACY
It is unsurprising that when Olusegun
Obasanjo changed the system of
government in Nigeria on May 29, 1999
from military to democracy, many gave
kudos and lauded the decision. This is
because People saw it has the
beginning of an era where there won't be
tyranny and the right of the
people won't be trampled upon. People saw
it as the era of leaders not
rulers (though we ended up having
administrators and rulers) who will work
toward the interest of the masses and serve
them well. Unfortunately, all
these were dashed. The democracy has
been "in view”. Democracy has been
defined as "government of the people, by
the people, and for the people"
our democracy is the absolute negation of
this universally acceptable
definition. Many saw what OBJ did in 1999
as a positive change that will be
to the betterment of the masses but cerebral
political analysts, pundits,
intelligentsia and some with critical mind
now realised that it is just a
"latent package" that has not been unravel
for its manifestation due to the
mental and psychological disorder inherent
in our administrators and rulers
(even in an era of democracy). Democracy in
Nigeria has been reduced to an
inertia state for more than a decade.
Democracy has never seen the light of
the day in Nigeria. It has only been taught in
school but we have never
witnessed the practicability. It is just on
paper and the gullible masses
also dance to the tune of those who are
claiming to be giving the masses
the dividend of democracy. Democracy did
not solve the problem of our dear
nation. There is nothing wrong with this
system of government, but what is
the value of a bottle of honey adulterated
with 30 cubes of sugar? Tyranny
and abuse of human right is not what can
be absolutely stopped by enacting
laws and changing the system of
government, this is because it in the
'person", it is internal , it is only enhance by
some systems of
government.
Though many Nigerians believe that the
system of government in Nigeria is
democracy, for those who are critical
minded it is blatant to them that our
system of government is not democracy but
"crazy-demo" Our own democracy
has been the demonstration of outright
craziness. This is a nation where
those entrusted with the well being of the
masses are the ones milking the
masses by using the public resources for
their selfish gain. Unfortunately
these kleptomaniac human beings go
without being punished despite the fact
that even the blind can see that such act is
culpable. It is only an
illusion to say we have fundamental human
right in our dear country, only
the crème de la crème are enjoying it
through their dubious and unpatriotic
means. This is a nation where everything
says 'yes' to money and affluence
even if it is against the majority and has no
respect form rule of law.
This is a country where a public official can
steal ₦100b and get ₦100,000
as bail when charged to court while a poor
man who stole ₦20,000 due to
lack of basic needs as a result of deprivation
by the 'administrators' will
be sentence to 2-5years imprisonment. This
is a country where there is
nothing like justice or fairness. The
electorate are now at the mercy of
the elected.
It is very pathetic and disheartening that
those entrusted with the
leadership in this nation are not leaders but
administrators. It is only
the leaders that can lead and make use of
democracy for the betterment of
the people; administrators are not leaders
and they can never lead. We
don't have leaders, we only have
administrative heads. How can you lead
people you don't know? How can you lead
people you don't know their fears,
hope and aspirations? How can you lead
people you don't love and admire?
How can you lead when your personal gain
is your priority? How can you lead
people you don't wish well and see them
living better? How can you lead
when service and sacrifice has no place in
your mentality? How can you lead
when you never thought of adding value?
Our administrators that people call
leaders are just like two pupils who score
2/10 and 0/10. The pupil who
scores 2/10 maybe claiming that he/she
performed better than the other. But
it an absolute ignorance and stupidity to
believe that, on the scale they
are birds of a feather. What is the different
between 0/100 and 20/100?
Definitely both are 'F9'.
Nigeria is a blessed nation endowed with
numerous resources; in fact our
dear country is one of the richest in natural
endowment in the world.
Unfortunately, these natural endowments
cannot spontaneously yield the
desired output without the 'human
resource' that will put our enormous
resources into reasonable and judicious use.
Who will save Nigeria from the
abject and excruciating poverty that has
permeated our society? Who will
harness our enormous resources for the
good of the populace? Who will be
the saviour of this Nation from it lamentable
state due to cruel
'administrators'? Can we continue to entrust
the people currently at the
helms of affairs with the leadership of this
nation? Can we hope for a
better tomorrow if we remain docile,
complacent and indifferent about our
precarious and melancholic situation?
The epidemic that has successfully
penetrated the leadership of this nation
is kleptomania. Our 'administrators' are
kleptomaniac and all they can give
us is to change democracy to kleptocracy.
Kleptocracy is a system of
government where officials are politically
corrupt and financially
self-interested. What can better describe the
extant system of government
in Nigeria? What a cruel leadership! The rich
are getting richer while the
poor are getting poorer, the common
interest is not being served, and
personal pockets are now the priority. Many
Nigerians are in melancholy due
to depression and dismal situations that has
befallen them as a result of
bad leadership-kleptocracy, some are
roaming the street due to
unemployment, about 7.2 million children
are on the Nigerian street with no
one to care for them. Unsurprisingly we are
number one when it comes to
social instability and disorder.
How I long to see the emergence of leaders
at the helms of affairs in this
nation, how I long to see rulers and
administrators relegated to eternal
and abysmal exile. How I long to see
Nigerians who are not only educated
but 'critically educated', those who cannot
only read but also reason to
demand change from the oppressors
camouflaging to be democrats. It is of no
use to continue to pretend as if all is well
when everything is in chaos.
Billions of naira both in cash and in form of
resource are being channelled
to personal pocket, despite the numerous
and huge allowances those
'administrators' are earning, they still display
their inherent kleptomania
by looting and embezzling public funds.
Corruption and personal interest is
the heartbeat of kleptocracy. Nigerians has
embraced this and we are
suffering and smiling. This has been the
cankerworm 'eating' us up.
Don't be deceived there is nothing like
democracy in Nigeria, we are in the
era of kleptocracy disguised as democracy.
It is left for us to take the
bull by the horn and shun sentiments,
tribalism, nepotism, and favouritism.
This is the time for us to fight for our well
being. Let us join hands to
re-write our history, nobody will help us to
do that. It is high time we
looked straight into the face of anyone
found culpable because of an
offence no matter our relationship with the
culprit. If we want the future
to be different from the past, we need to
study the past and effect change
in the present. We need change, but change
agents must not fold their
hands. Be among the change agents in your
own little way. Nigeria can be
great and better again.

Boay

tonyboay@gmail.com

Ok sir. Let us have them

I have a question for you.
How are you also making money from this? You seems to be saying that all the income will be given to the people who brought you to their church or mosques.

Thanks OP. This is wonderful! I will have to digest this.

Front page things

Nice.
I will add:
When you raise up your 2 hands, your navel is the perfect centre of your body.

When you stretch your 2 hands sideways, that is exactly your height.

You can measure it.

Please help answer this question: from the OP's post above what does it mean to copyright a song? I only know of books.

Please consider for front page
https://www.nairaland.com/1538810/foods-make-immunity-extraordinarily-strong

I want people to kindly suggest foods, including fruits that can make my immunity very strong. This is because I am in a rural area and I will stay there for a while mosquitoes and other dangerous insects are many here. Thanks

ifyalways: In less than 1 week's time,final exams starts and OP (and others who have not paid their fees) won't be allowed in. The VC,in his email said the OP will hear from the school's registrar but up till now,nothing.

I think I should transfer the funds to OP because,as things are,the portal may be opened at any time and we don't know how long it will stay open.I will hate myself if for any reason(logistics like delay with transfer,bad network,being busy or whatever), i fail to transfer the funds on time.
Please,what do y'all think ?

HUM!!!! Nice thought. I think nothing is wrong with your suggestion considering the points you gave. I only hope and pray that the OP will be faithful and not give in to the temptation to spend the money on something else. I STRONGLY support your suggestion

Dehley: My GF Gave Me Condition Before Sex

My girlfriend of two years has promised me sex for the first time only if I introduce her formally to my mum as my fiancee. Please house, what does that mean because I am at crossroad?

Must you have sex before marriage? Chai!

No more HND? Definitely ND should also be cancelled and they should be running their programmes like their university counter. Or how will they do it? I dont understand how polytechnic will be running their program now after cancelling HND. Please can anyone explain this?

Damitism: Hey, dude. I wasn't referring to the so-called rudeness as mistake. It was my maths typo and the use of conduction I was referring to. I defined conduct and not conduction as opposed to what one of the Judges said. Well, the only correction I had made to my essay so far was changing 40 to 400. I had gone through the whole pages of the debate again and I was surprised Epaul used some rude words in replying one of the Judges but it was overlooked. But why was I the 'exception'? With what you said now, I now understand better why I was attacked. My past deeds! When you posted the rules/regulations, it sounded so ambiguous that I was infuriated. Don't expect I will keep quiet when I see such things! Now, scroll up again, check the words I underlined in the 'quote'. Take your dictionary and check for the meaning of the first two words. Oh dear! I sounded rude again! Gbaaaaaam! I just win a ban!
You must be thinking I was angry because we lose. It may sound unbelievable but it ain't because of that! It was because I was made to answer the same questions over and over again and with my accuser still saying she didn't understand what I was saying. Well, you weren't in my shoe! No apology this time It seems I have been labeled the villain in this debate. To avoid this kind of things again on here, I'm asking the organisers to kindly remove my name, damitism from the debate. I was planning to have some fun after a very busy and stressful year. Alas!! It had turn to be the exact opposite.

To my fellow uites, I wish you all the best! We'll talk better when we meet

I didnt commit any grammatical blunder. You underlined 'insolent' and 'out grow'. Insolent is an adjective which means 'disrespectful'. The second word 'out grow' was used in the ordinary and loose sense. That was the purpose of the scare quote (quotation mark). You also underlined 'This is not the first time'. Grammarians disagree over the usage of 'is' and 'was' in this context.

Moreover, I am still a student of English language.

From what you wrote above it is very obvious you didnt understand my sermon.

Nevertheless, I wish you the best of God.

Epaul: OMG! Was 'Macantunji' a Judge? Mogbe! I swear I didn't know he was. I thought he was a spectator like snoppy who was assuming the office of a titular Judge. Besides damitism, contrary to your accusation, Even though I didn't know he was a Judge I was still not rude to him. All I did, In ignorance of his office, was trying to point out flaws in his observation. If i had a prior knowledge of who he was, I would, surely, have reserved my comments. Afterall, a Judge is immuned against cynical comments from participants. Perhaps, you should copy and paste my comment here to prove I was rude to him. @fynestboi, Please how can i contact 'macantunji' and apology for my ignorance of his Identity. Am so sorry. I never meant to descend on him - on my Judge. I have never been rude to my superiors in Nairaland and i will not do such

This is what is called good manners. Keep it up, don't lose it. It is impressive.

It is past one already

Damitism: It was a nice match today though I'm still angry with myself for that mistake! Also, I wasn't planning to be rude! My fellow UItes, it's now over to you!

king94: Its nice to knw damitism has apologised 4 his earlier behavior. Go nd rest. 2mao promises to be hectic.

It is not about apologizing, what you need to do is to 'out-grow' such insolent behaviour.

This is not the first time you will do such. You started displaying such attitude when I posted the rules and guidelines, then you apologised. You repeated the same thing yesterday you also apologised. Is that how it will continue? Just like what Adam Oshiomole did recently.

Some mistakes are like wounds, they may heal but the scars will remain forever. Avoid them.

Thanks for this. I am learning from it. But I dont understand some terms like 'debt instrument'. Please can you help put it in simple terms so that people like me who are not used to them and are not in that field will comprehend it. Thanks ma'am

Completed
UI=73
DELSU=78

keep following with the spirit of sportmanship

All debaters are advised in their own interest to check for comments and criticisms about their arguments to improve in their subsequent debates.

Agrovick and Boay.

On behalf of the initiators, organisers and coordinators, I hereby declare this debate CLOSED

To the debaters, keep following on the planning thread. Remember the schools with the least points will be eliminated

To our judges, we doff our caps for you. God bless you.

To our audience, you are wonderful.

This is just a phase out of the whole competition. Keep following

Normal comment and criticism may continues

Thanks

Agrovick and Boay

Judges please drop your comments for the debaters

Elliotwiz1: boay, he's trying to say his account has been banned. That means he can't post any comment, if you can't help unban his account then i'll say you allow him debate with this account. He even tried creating another account with the same username 'incomemachine' but he can't post in education section with a new account except he's more than a week old.

Noted! The coordinators will consider it.

snoopy: we are not allowed to know the identity of the judges with their respective grades?

My fellow considered it unnecessary to avoid futher insinuations. Besides, it is not our practice. Thanks

Judges please post your comments and criticism

Our audience we will love to hear from you

olalerey: Am not susprised at dis result at al! since omolola has been asking DAMITISM several qusetions without asking frm d other side(delsu) ,i will be glad to knw d breakdown of d result.......I REMAIN TEAMUITES

The question by the judges is only for clarification, it is different from those by other debaters. If the judges dont need any clarification about your essay they wont ask you any question. If your main essay is convincing enough to the judges, you may escape questions from them.

@ Damitism
The question by the judges is only for clarification, it is different from those by other debaters. If the judges dont need any clarification about your essay they wont ask you any question. If your main essay is convincing enough to the judges, you may escape questions from them.

Remember you are in the gathering of intellectuals.

Congratulations to DELSU with 78/100
UI=73/100

wait for the break down.....

Ladies and gentlemen, debaters, judges and organisers thanks for being a part of this. God bless you.