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President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, called on Nigerians to put all hands on deck in other to liberate the country from those he tagged, ‘evil people’.
The president also said his administration would not relent on its oars until the battle against the Boko Haram sect is won.
Jonathan stated this during the first Sunday church service of the year at the Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN) Abuja.

He said no person or group will be allowed to hold the nation to ransom, noting that it must be liberated from “evil persons” and be secured for the generations unborn.
His words, “Nobody or group can hold this country to ransom. We will collectively liberate this country from any evil person, so that we can leave behind a
Nigeria that our children and grandchildren will be proud of”, he said.
On the Boko Haram insurgency, President Jonathan said that “Boko Haram was temporary, and will surely disappear from the nation. A number of countries are facing similar challenges and some have been able to overcome it, and surely we will overcome Boko Haram. Life in the North must change; development must go to all parts of this country”.

“Let me reassure you again, that the political environment is always noisy all over the world, yet will overcome. There is nowhere you won’t hear so much noise. Even the United States of America. Not long ago, the country was almost shutdown. For so many months, people were worried that the country that has practised democracy for so many years could get to that situation. But that is politics for you.
“But let me reassure you that we will continue to work harder to improve the quality of lives of Nigerians. We are particularly committed to knowing where our challenges are, especially in some parts of the North. We are quite pleased with the measures from the outgoing President (of COCIN) and the measures of the incoming President concerning Boko Haram. We sympathize with those who have been affected by the executions,” he added.


SOURCE: http://chrisderablog..com/2014/01/we-must-liberate-nigeria-from-evil.html

Their traditional and white wedding held Saturday January 4th in Lagos. Couple flanked by former Oyo State governor, Rashidi Ladoja, who is the bride's father. Former Gov Alao Akala, RMD and wife Jumobi, Omawumi, Waje, Cobhams Asuquo, Olisa Adibuah attended the wedding


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Photo of the day: Please help us and tell us what this picture is ?

Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2014/01/photo-of-day-please-help-tell-us-what.html

If this isn’t the official video… they should make it the official video.
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WATCH THE VIDEO HERE http://chrisderablog..com/2014/01/video-dope-blasphemy-priests-perform.html

The popular comedian broadcast a joke highlighting the difference between a white girl and an African girl and included rape in his list (above) on his Facebook page which enraged a lot of people ...and they came after him.

SEE MORE HERE http://chrisderablog..com/2014/01/comedian-basketmouth-apologizes-after.html

Alvan Ikoku was an educator, statesman and politician who is the face of the N10 note. His youngest son, Dr Alvan Ikoku Jnr's wedding to his beautiful bride, Malvi Chioma, held at Novotel Gardens Port Harcourt on the 21st of December 2013. Congrats to them. See more photos after the cut...
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Rising from its meeting in Abuja, the South-South leaders, chiefs, elders and stakeholders told Obasanjo that Nigerians could not breath through his nose, adding that they supported him when he was the president.

“General Obasanjo is only shouting wolf when there is none at sight. The letter is full of premeditated ideas geared towards undermining the integrity of the South-South people and intended to keep them perpetually as minority in the political scheme of Nigeria as a nation,” it said.


SOURCE: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/south-south-leaders-to-obj-stop.html

Nawaoooooo
See the penis pix here

Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/photos-banker-slices-husbands-joystick.html

Found this bizarre story on PM News. A woman took a knife and sliced her husband's penis during a fight at their home in Surulere. Read the report below...

The popular saying that hell has no fury than a woman scorned came to pass on Monday at the Surulere residence of a banker, Bimbo Ajetumobi Daniju and her gospel singer husband Olalekan Idowu Daniju when the woman allegedly took a knife and sliced her husband’s penis during a fight.

Bimbo, staff of a new generation bank in Lagos was said to have accused her husband of not taking care of her and their only child, Opeoluwa. The husband disagreed and while fighting, Bimbo allegedly seized her husband’s penis and sliced it with a knife. Bimbo denied using a knife but her fingernails to teach her husband a lesson on how not to treat a woman. The ugly incident happened on Monday at their Falolu Street, Surulere home.
The matter was reported to the police at Surulere station and the woman was arrested. In her statement to the police, Bimbo denied using a knife on her husband’s penis but her fingernails.
She was later released on bail when her husband insisted that he was not interested in pressing charges against her.

Trouble started on 16 December when the banker who is a staff of the Agege Motor Road branch of the bank, accused her husband who has just returned from the church, of failing to provide for the needs of the family and leaving her to do everything. She also accused him of being selfish and uncaring.

She reportedly shouted at Olalekan who was eating and when he didn’t answer, poured his plate of food on his head. She took a bucket found in the room and smashed it on his head. This resulted in fighting.

Their neighbours separated them and Olalekan went to his sister’s shop to seek refuge but not done yet Bimbo allegedly followed him there and threatened to stab him with a broken bottle.
Relatives and neighbours, it was gathered, intervened and pleaded with the couple to give peace a chance but the couple continued to live like a cat and mouse.

Madam Kehinde Daniju, sister of Olalekan told P.M.NEWS that when her brother ran to her for help, she had to call their mother and other relatives to settle the matter for them in the family house they lived.

She explained that Bimbo’s mother who also lived around the area came and told her daughter not to accept reconciliation until Olalekan got a job. She blamed the couple’s constant disagreement on Olalekan’s refusal to get a job.

When she was leaving she took along the couple’s only son, Opeoluwa Daniju.

This did not go down well with Olalekan who ordered his wife to go to her mother’s house and bring his son before 8 p.m. or there would be trouble.

It was said that Bimbo left the house before 8 p.m and returned 30 minutes later without Opeoluwa.
This resulted in another round of fighting during which neighbours and relatives intervened again to separate them.

Narrating his story, Olalekan said he woke her up on Sunday to ask what she would be wearing to the church so that he could iron it but she didn’t reply.
“ I picked up my son’s cloth, ironed it, bathed him, had my bath and left both of them at home and went to church. In between the service, I came home to check on them and I met her cooking, I even joked that thank God there’s something for them to eat.

"I went back to church and after the service I was I hungry I bought bread and beans to eat and as I got inside, my boy told me he also wanted to eat bread and I gave it to him.

When she learnt that I gave the boy bread, she said I didn’t bother to ask her where she got money to prepare the rice that she ate and she started calling me several unprintable names.
“I responded again and this time it was a huge mistake. She just came near me, carried the plate of beans and pour the food on my head. She held my tie shouting and cursing me at the same time. I managed to extricate myself from her grip and ran out. She nearly suffocated me with the tie. She pursued me and broke a plastic bucket on my head but I continued to run. She picked up a bottle, broke it and threatened to stab me with it. This is a woman that is about five month pregnant.
“I ran to my sister’s shop and tried to involve her but she stayed out of the matter because they all know that she is rude, stubborn and violent. There was a day she and her brothers came here with thugs from Ojuelegba they wanted to beat up everybody here. She has chased me on the street with all sort of dangerous things. I don’t really know what she wants to achieve with all this but that day, her mum came, my mum’s sister came also and they tried to resolve the whole thing.

“I saw my mum’s sister off and before I came back, my mother-in-law had taken my son away and I was like we are trying to solve one issue and you are trying to cause another problem. I told her that if by 8p.m. that evening my child is not back home, she would not find it funny.

“I said that to make her know that I was serious but she said that there’s nothing I can do. She left the house before 8p.m. and came back 30 minutes later without my son. She took her bath and went to sleep I went to my sister and told her I am going to my mother-in-law’s house to get my child but my family ask me not to go there. At that time, I was tired, confused and hungry. I picked up my laptop but while I was trying to watch a movie I fell asleep in the sitting room.
“She woke me up at about 2a.m.. I was in a pair of boxer shorts. She told me that it is either I kill her or she kills me and within seconds she had torn my shorts. This was not surprising anyway as she had torn many of my clothes in the past. She said ‘I am going to kill you this morning. You think I am joking’. The whole thing happened so fast I just felt her hand in holding my penis, and the next thing was blood flowing. I started shouting and crying for her to take me to the hospital.

“She said ‘hospital ke, that’s where you are going to die today’ and that was the last time I saw her. I don’t know how she left the house at that time of the night. She changed her clothes, took a big bag and left, only for us to see her two days later at the police station.
There and then, I decided I cannot continue living with her, she could just decide to put poison in my food and kill me one day.

“It’s only a person that’s alive that can explain anything. She could just poison me and cook up a story just like she did at the police station where she told the police officers that I woke her up at 2a.m. and started hitting her, almost beating her to death and the officers clapped for her for a lovely story. The officers asked how come I did all that and she had the strength to run away and she didn’t run to the hospital, that is, someone that was almost being beaten to death should go to the hospital and there was no doctor’s report. The person you injured brought his own medical report, we could see that the injury was bandaged.

“The officers told her that there’s no mark on her to signify being beaten, she replied that she didn’t go to any hospital because there was no mark on her she also claimed that she didn’t use any knife but that she used her fingernails to scratch my penis,” he said.

Efforts to speak with Bimbo at her mother’s home proved abortive as our reporter was prevented from talking to her.



Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/photos-banker-slices-husbands-penis.html

Cute
http://chrisderablog..com/2013/11/photos-stunning-bride-tiwa-savage.html

Please what can we call these ?

Watch more pictures HERE>>>>>>>
Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/11/pis-having-head-turning-donk-like-nicki.html

In a bid to address educational backwardness of the state, Kano state Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared free and compulsory education at level in the state.
Kwankwaso who made the declaration during the presentation of 2014 appropriation bill to the House of Assembly revealed that the gesture would commenced from 2014 academic year.
Kwankwaso stated that “in our collective resolve to drive a knowledge base economy, government has already concluded arrangement to adopt a free education for all indigene at all levels: primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the state.”
The Governor added that “this is in addition to sponsoring of Kano indigenes to pursue their various degree programmes locally and internationally”, pointing out that the commencement of the free education for all Kano state indigenes from
primary, secondary and tertiary institutions starting from the new academic session in 2014.”

In order to ensure effective implementation of the new programme, the Education sector got the largest share of the sectoral allocation with over N20billion with Ministry of Education N15.22billion; while its ministry for Higher Education counterpart got N5.61billion.
Other policy programmes in 2014 fiscal year under education include, N6.5 billion for the continuation work at Schools for Islamic Studies in each of the 44 LGAs
Kwankwaso revealed that N2 billion has been set aside for the continuation of 44 Technical Schools one in each LGAs; adding that N241 million has equally been earmarked for the procurement of 15 mobile computing solar powered container box.
He said that N250 million was also earmarked for the establishment of another boarding primary school in the state, adding that N1.3 billion has been allocated for the Construction and furnishing of 268 additional classrooms in the state.
The Governor further stated that Northwest University got N3billion for the continuation of construction of Faculty building, senate building and other infrastructure, adding under the 2014 approriation bill N586 million was earmarked for the continuation work at former Magwan Water Restaurant to First Lady College.

SOURCE: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/unbelievable-kwankwaso-declares-free.html#more

tHIS is the pix of the doctor, if u doubt it then ask google

A Nigerian doctor allegedly attacked a female patient in his surgery when she disagreed with his diagnosis, UK Daily Mail reports.


Dr Abiodun Bale, 42, (pictured above) grabbed Sheena Cunningham as she tried to leave his consultation room in tears after they argued over treatment for a facial condition.

The doctor from Nigeria denied assault when he appeared in court but was found guilty after a two-day trial. He was given a six-month conditional discharge but will face a disciplinary hearing at work and could lose his job.

Bale, who qualified as a doctor at the University of Lagos in 1995, worked as a gynaecologist in his home country before coming to Britain and registering with the General Medical Council in 2006.

He was given a licence to practice here in November 2009 and was on a placement, for specialty GP training, at Hyndburn Medical Practice in Accrington, Lancashire, when the assault happened on March 26.


Eddie Harrison, prosecuting, said Bale had asked Mrs Cunningham to come in to the practice after a telephone consultation about a problem with her face, during which she had become distressed.
When she arrived, the doctor told Mrs Cunningham she might need to call for an ambulance if her condition deteriorated later when the surgery was closed.
Mr Harrison told Burnley Magistrates’ Court: ‘She didn’t want to do this and at this point he raised his voice.’

Mrs Cunningham was frightened, got up to leave and said she wanted a second opinion, the court was told. ‘[Bale] became agitated and, as she stepped out, he grabbed her hand to prevent her closing the door,’ Mr Harrison said.
‘He then grabbed her by the forearm with both hands and tried to drag her back into the room. She screamed and shouted at him to get off her arm. This attracted the attention of another doctor and two cleaners. The other doctor told Bale to go back into his office and then escorted Mrs Cunningham out of the surgery.’
The court was told that a week earlier the GP, who lives in Manchester, ‘flipped’ at another patient, shouting at her: ‘For God’s sake, I have other people to see besides you.’ ‘She got up to leave and he tried to grab her hand. She felt frightened and vulnerable,’ said Mr Harrison.
Bale claimed the incident with Mrs Cunningham was a misunderstanding, saying: ‘I’m a doctor, not a thug.’

But Mr Harrison said: ‘There was no mistake or misunderstanding. She was crying so loudly that two ladies outside heard her crying.’
After the allegations, the GMC placed conditions on how Bale worked, including allowing him to carry out consultations only if another qualified medical practitioner was present.
The Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust, which employs Bale, said he would face disciplinary proceedings.

‘The trust will now consider the consequences for his ongoing employment and training,’ a spokesman said.


Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/nigerian-doctor-attacked-female-patient.html#more

It is very difficult for a scale to remove throm the body after injury. Today is exactly a year after Madalla Catholic Church was bomb and many f its worshipers was sent to untimely eternity. I am on tears posting this, but there is nothing I can do but to share it here for you to share in my sorrow.
MAY THERE SOULS REST IN PEACE...

http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/remembering-victims-of-madalla.html

In a bid to address educational backwardness of the state, Kano state Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared free and compulsory education at level in the state.
Kwankwaso who made the declaration during the presentation of 2014 appropriation bill to the House of Assembly revealed that the gesture would commenced from 2014 academic year.
Kwankwaso stated that “in our collective resolve to drive a knowledge base economy, government has already concluded arrangement to adopt a free education for all indigene at all levels: primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the state.”
The Governor added that “this is in addition to sponsoring of Kano indigenes to pursue their various degree programmes locally and internationally”, pointing out that the commencement of the free education for all Kano state indigenes from
primary, secondary and tertiary institutions starting from the new academic session in 2014.”

In order to ensure effective implementation of the new programme, the Education sector got the largest share of the sectoral allocation with over N20billion with Ministry of Education N15.22billion; while its ministry for Higher Education counterpart got N5.61billion.
Other policy programmes in 2014 fiscal year under education include, N6.5 billion for the continuation work at Schools for Islamic Studies in each of the 44 LGAs
Kwankwaso revealed that N2 billion has been set aside for the continuation of 44 Technical Schools one in each LGAs; adding that N241 million has equally been earmarked for the procurement of 15 mobile computing solar powered container box.
He said that N250 million was also earmarked for the establishment of another boarding primary school in the state, adding that N1.3 billion has been allocated for the Construction and furnishing of 268 additional classrooms in the state.
The Governor further stated that Northwest University got N3billion for the continuation of construction of Faculty building, senate building and other infrastructure, adding under the 2014 approriation bill N586 million was earmarked for the continuation work at former Magwan Water Restaurant to First Lady College.


Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/unbelievable-kwankwaso-declares-free.html#more

In a bid to address educational backwardness of the state, Kano state Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared free and compulsory education at level in the state.
Kwankwaso who made the declaration during the presentation of 2014 appropriation bill to the House of Assembly revealed that the gesture would commenced from 2014 academic year.
Kwankwaso stated that “in our collective resolve to drive a knowledge base economy, government has already concluded arrangement to adopt a free education for all indigene at all levels: primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the state.”
The Governor added that “this is in addition to sponsoring of Kano indigenes to pursue their various degree programmes locally and internationally”, pointing out that the commencement of the free education for all Kano state indigenes from
primary, secondary and tertiary institutions starting from the new academic session in 2014.”

In order to ensure effective implementation of the new programme, the Education sector got the largest share of the sectoral allocation with over N20billion with Ministry of Education N15.22billion; while its ministry for Higher Education counterpart got N5.61billion.
Other policy programmes in 2014 fiscal year under education include, N6.5 billion for the continuation work at Schools for Islamic Studies in each of the 44 LGAs
Kwankwaso revealed that N2 billion has been set aside for the continuation of 44 Technical Schools one in each LGAs; adding that N241 million has equally been earmarked for the procurement of 15 mobile computing solar powered container box.
He said that N250 million was also earmarked for the establishment of another boarding primary school in the state, adding that N1.3 billion has been allocated for the Construction and furnishing of 268 additional classrooms in the state.
The Governor further stated that Northwest University got N3billion for the continuation of construction of Faculty building, senate building and other infrastructure, adding under the 2014 approriation bill N586 million was earmarked for the continuation work at former Magwan Water Restaurant to First Lady College.



Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/unbelievable-kwankwaso-declares-free.html#more

In a bid to address educational backwardness of the state, Kano state Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared free and compulsory education at level in the state.
Kwankwaso who made the declaration during the presentation of 2014 appropriation bill to the House of Assembly revealed that the gesture would commenced from 2014 academic year.
Kwankwaso stated that “in our collective resolve to drive a knowledge base economy, government has already concluded arrangement to adopt a free education for all indigene at all levels: primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the state.”
The Governor added that “this is in addition to sponsoring of Kano indigenes to pursue their various degree programmes locally and internationally”, pointing out that the commencement of the free education for all Kano state indigenes from
primary, secondary and tertiary institutions starting from the new academic session in 2014.”

In order to ensure effective implementation of the new programme, the Education sector got the largest share of the sectoral allocation with over N20billion with Ministry of Education N15.22billion; while its ministry for Higher Education counterpart got N5.61billion.
Other policy programmes in 2014 fiscal year under education include, N6.5 billion for the continuation work at Schools for Islamic Studies in each of the 44 LGAs
Kwankwaso revealed that N2 billion has been set aside for the continuation of 44 Technical Schools one in each LGAs; adding that N241 million has equally been earmarked for the procurement of 15 mobile computing solar powered container box.
He said that N250 million was also earmarked for the establishment of another boarding primary school in the state, adding that N1.3 billion has been allocated for the Construction and furnishing of 268 additional classrooms in the state.
The Governor further stated that Northwest University got N3billion for the continuation of construction of Faculty building, senate building and other infrastructure, adding under the 2014 approriation bill N586 million was earmarked for the continuation work at former Magwan Water Restaurant to First Lady College.

SOURCE: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/unbelievable-kwankwaso-declares-free.html#more

The solution to the problem of decay and neglect of the education sector is not to be found in an interminable strike by members of the nation’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU); but neither is it to be found in their engaging in unending dialogue with an insincere government that is to all intents and purposes deaf—and dumb.
Let’s get a few things straight. If ASUU decides today not to embark on any strike again ever, this will not solve any of the problems of the education sector; rather, it will compound them. But ASUU cannot keep on keeping on going on strike for at least two reasons. First, because many of the issues involved are not very clear to the public, it will lose the public relations war and all the blame will ultimately become an albatross on its neck. Second, if there is any least common denominator at which it should meet government, when the government decides to
act in good faith, is at the altar of the sanctity of the academic calendar.
While meeting a negotiating partner in whom it has totally lost confidence is going to prove difficult for ASUU, it is nonetheless something that must be done. Along the way, ASUU has to accept that universities must reopen, and it must become realistic enough to accept that a government whose minister can unilaterally buy unauthorised materiel and bullet-proof cars for her use with an amount that is the equivalent of more the annual basic salary of one hundred professors is not the government that can be forced by logic or by university shutdown to see reason.
Right now, it is difficult for ASSU to resist the temptation and urge to ride the high horse thinking that it is involved in a great war on behalf of the civilisation that is us—and it is. Even with ASUU, things have not become any better or at least not as good and as well as they should; but without ASUU there wouldn’t have remained even the inkling of the semblance of an education system by now. The problem with the union’s struggle is that it can be as altruistic as it is egocentrically personal, depending on how a viewer looks at it; but the import of its 2009 agreement with the government is largely for the salvation of the tertiary education system.
Here is how it saw its brief then. The single term of reference of the committee was to re-negotiate the agreement reached between ASUU and the Federal Government in 2001, and enter into a workable agreement. In the course of discussion, the committee agreed that the essence of the re-negotiation was: to reverse the decay in the university system, in order to reposition it for greater responsibilities in national development; to reverse the brain drain, not only by enhancing the remuneration of academic staff, but also by disengaging them from the encumbrances of a unified civil service wage structure; to restore Nigerian Universities, through immediate, massive and sustained financial intervention; and, to ensure genuine university autonomy and academic freedom.
On December 14, 2006, the Federal Government inaugurated the FGN/ASUU Re-negotiation Committee, and on January 23, 2007, the re-negotiations began at the National Universities Commission, Abuja. Since the end of the negotiations and the signing of a memorandum between it and the government in January 2009, the government has refused to deliver its part of the bargain. But ASUU has.
ASUU has always enjoyed the support of the Nigerian public. To be sure, much of its early support was ideological; and even if it was fighting a just—and a particularly just—cause, it was also an extension of the Left, or so it was seen by, well, almost everybody. Its support solidified as successive governments, under the order or glare of the Breton Woods institutions began withdrawing support and funding; and as people began to see that the struggle by ASUU was the only way to ensure the long-term survival of education.
However, as strike after strike began to be long and drawn-out, and graduation date began to recede into the distant future, ASUU started to lose the support of some parents and other otherwise well-meaning sympathisers. At one time, students—and today, student leaders—began turning against their lecturers.
But all this ire is really misplaced because right now all the cards are in the hands of the government, and if it chooses to play the right ones, straightaway, lecturers will be back in class, students, ever so eager to graduate, will be back in school, and the public will applaud. But a stay in the university is not just about eagerness to graduate or receive a certificate; it is more about the content of what one goes through and the receipt of quality, functional education, which is what ASUU wishes to ensure. But some people have opposed the ASUU position on the premise that there is corruption in its rank. Yes, so there is; but so is there in government—incomparably so!
No doubt, there is corruption in ASUU members: there are incidents of plagiarism on campus among its members; there are professors without peer-reviewed scholarly articles to their credit; there is harassment of female students, in order to get that thing for marks ; there is greater devotion to unregulated part-time lecturing than faithfulness to tenured positions; there is glaring failure to carry out crucial assignments, like the marking examinations scripts, in which case, they do what they call ‘mark allocation;’ there is abuse of the famous democratisation process, with members electing not the best person for the job but someone who will do only what they like, often leading to incompetence, inefficiency or even a breakdown of law and order; there is ASUU’s inability to discipline its members owing to the voluntary nature of its membership; and there is too much unjustified and indefensible globe-trotting as members junket from one unnecessary conference to another using funds that are supposedly and otherwise inadequate even for teaching and research; but the quality of today’s graduate is inescapably as much a failure of the system as it is of neglect by the university lecturer.
But all this will not absolve the government of its own faults: its notorious, continuing,, insupportable pigheaded failure to adequately fund education even as it misapplies the resources that will have done what is required in the sector; its highhandedness in always taking ASUU for granted; its cynical adoption of deception and serial insincerity to define the modus operandi of its approaches to, and interactions with, members of the staff union; and its adamant refusal to ever honour any of its agreement with ASUU until it is forced into doing so by a determined strike action. What is there in ASUU’s demand that will take the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Senate President, the Vice President and the President himself to fail to solve? If it is the question of funding that the government is running away from, the report has presented its solution to that.
In addition to the other sources recom-mended in the ASUU Report—the Higher Education Fund [TETFUND], PTDF and many others—the following may be explored. In order for universities to be able to generate sufficient internal revenue, they should charge internationally competitive fees, provided state governments will ensure that all needy or, in fact, their entire students get full and automatic scholarship to cover tuition, board and lodging. Many states have sent hundreds of students overseas and their fees are being paid in dollars—thousands of dollars, why should it be difficult for them to support internal effort to regain lost academic glory?
And if government could direct the setting up of rural branches by commercial banks in areas where patronage might not be sufficient, it shouldn’t be difficult for it to direct them to set up specifically ‘education bank’ branches; or charge all commercial banks to pool resources and set up one giant Education Bank to cater for everyone such that every eligible university student gets a loan sufficient to see him through university.
No doubt, the 2009 agreement with ASUU and the memorandum resulting from it provide a very good starting point if the government is really interested in helping education. But perhaps that much is clear that no one in Abuja is really interested in anything that can move the nation forward, especially anything as nebulous as education, and more especially what needs to be spent on it.
It tell a lot about the government that, with the exception of the civil servants who, strictly speaking are not part of it, there is no one in its upper echelon who knows what government really is or what its processes are. And it tells a lot about the lack of seriousness in public life that the Senate president will call a group headed by Chief Gamaliel Onosode as people who don’t know what they are doing. If this is the expression of gratitude by the government for his three years of painstaking negotiations on its behalf, it leaves much to be desired; but if it is merely an expression of the appreciation of the situation by the Senate president, it desires much to be left.


Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/why-ASUU-is-always-on-strike.html

Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/11/photos-stunning-bride-tiwa-savage.html

The solution to the problem of decay and neglect of the education sector is not to be found in an interminable strike by members of the nation’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU); but neither is it to be found in their engaging in unending dialogue with an insincere government that is to all intents and purposes deaf—and dumb.
Let’s get a few things straight. If ASUU decides today not to embark on any strike again ever, this will not solve any of the problems of the education sector; rather, it will compound them. But ASUU cannot keep on keeping on going on strike for at least two reasons. First, because many of the issues involved are not very clear to the public, it will lose the public relations war and all the blame will ultimately become an albatross on its neck. Second, if there is any least common denominator at which it should meet government, when the government decides to
act in good faith, is at the altar of the sanctity of the academic calendar.
While meeting a negotiating partner in whom it has totally lost confidence is going to prove difficult for ASUU, it is nonetheless something that must be done. Along the way, ASUU has to accept that universities must reopen, and it must become realistic enough to accept that a government whose minister can unilaterally buy unauthorised materiel and bullet-proof cars for her use with an amount that is the equivalent of more the annual basic salary of one hundred professors is not the government that can be forced by logic or by university shutdown to see reason.
Right now, it is difficult for ASSU to resist the temptation and urge to ride the high horse thinking that it is involved in a great war on behalf of the civilisation that is us—and it is. Even with ASUU, things have not become any better or at least not as good and as well as they should; but without ASUU there wouldn’t have remained even the inkling of the semblance of an education system by now. The problem with the union’s struggle is that it can be as altruistic as it is egocentrically personal, depending on how a viewer looks at it; but the import of its 2009 agreement with the government is largely for the salvation of the tertiary education system.
Here is how it saw its brief then. The single term of reference of the committee was to re-negotiate the agreement reached between ASUU and the Federal Government in 2001, and enter into a workable agreement. In the course of discussion, the committee agreed that the essence of the re-negotiation was: to reverse the decay in the university system, in order to reposition it for greater responsibilities in national development; to reverse the brain drain, not only by enhancing the remuneration of academic staff, but also by disengaging them from the encumbrances of a unified civil service wage structure; to restore Nigerian Universities, through immediate, massive and sustained financial intervention; and, to ensure genuine university autonomy and academic freedom.
On December 14, 2006, the Federal Government inaugurated the FGN/ASUU Re-negotiation Committee, and on January 23, 2007, the re-negotiations began at the National Universities Commission, Abuja. Since the end of the negotiations and the signing of a memorandum between it and the government in January 2009, the government has refused to deliver its part of the bargain. But ASUU has.
ASUU has always enjoyed the support of the Nigerian public. To be sure, much of its early support was ideological; and even if it was fighting a just—and a particularly just—cause, it was also an extension of the Left, or so it was seen by, well, almost everybody. Its support solidified as successive governments, under the order or glare of the Breton Woods institutions began withdrawing support and funding; and as people began to see that the struggle by ASUU was the only way to ensure the long-term survival of education.
However, as strike after strike began to be long and drawn-out, and graduation date began to recede into the distant future, ASUU started to lose the support of some parents and other otherwise well-meaning sympathisers. At one time, students—and today, student leaders—began turning against their lecturers.
But all this ire is really misplaced because right now all the cards are in the hands of the government, and if it chooses to play the right ones, straightaway, lecturers will be back in class, students, ever so eager to graduate, will be back in school, and the public will applaud. But a stay in the university is not just about eagerness to graduate or receive a certificate; it is more about the content of what one goes through and the receipt of quality, functional education, which is what ASUU wishes to ensure. But some people have opposed the ASUU position on the premise that there is corruption in its rank. Yes, so there is; but so is there in government—incomparably so!
No doubt, there is corruption in ASUU members: there are incidents of plagiarism on campus among its members; there are professors without peer-reviewed scholarly articles to their credit; there is harassment of female students, in order to get that thing for marks ; there is greater devotion to unregulated part-time lecturing than faithfulness to tenured positions; there is glaring failure to carry out crucial assignments, like the marking examinations scripts, in which case, they do what they call ‘mark allocation;’ there is abuse of the famous democratisation process, with members electing not the best person for the job but someone who will do only what they like, often leading to incompetence, inefficiency or even a breakdown of law and order; there is ASUU’s inability to discipline its members owing to the voluntary nature of its membership; and there is too much unjustified and indefensible globe-trotting as members junket from one unnecessary conference to another using funds that are supposedly and otherwise inadequate even for teaching and research; but the quality of today’s graduate is inescapably as much a failure of the system as it is of neglect by the university lecturer.
But all this will not absolve the government of its own faults: its notorious, continuing,, insupportable pigheaded failure to adequately fund education even as it misapplies the resources that will have done what is required in the sector; its highhandedness in always taking ASUU for granted; its cynical adoption of deception and serial insincerity to define the modus operandi of its approaches to, and interactions with, members of the staff union; and its adamant refusal to ever honour any of its agreement with ASUU until it is forced into doing so by a determined strike action. What is there in ASUU’s demand that will take the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Senate President, the Vice President and the President himself to fail to solve? If it is the question of funding that the government is running away from, the report has presented its solution to that.
In addition to the other sources recom-mended in the ASUU Report—the Higher Education Fund [TETFUND], PTDF and many others—the following may be explored. In order for universities to be able to generate sufficient internal revenue, they should charge internationally competitive fees, provided state governments will ensure that all needy or, in fact, their entire students get full and automatic scholarship to cover tuition, board and lodging. Many states have sent hundreds of students overseas and their fees are being paid in dollars—thousands of dollars, why should it be difficult for them to support internal effort to regain lost academic glory?
And if government could direct the setting up of rural branches by commercial banks in areas where patronage might not be sufficient, it shouldn’t be difficult for it to direct them to set up specifically ‘education bank’ branches; or charge all commercial banks to pool resources and set up one giant Education Bank to cater for everyone such that every eligible university student gets a loan sufficient to see him through university.
No doubt, the 2009 agreement with ASUU and the memorandum resulting from it provide a very good starting point if the government is really interested in helping education. But perhaps that much is clear that no one in Abuja is really interested in anything that can move the nation forward, especially anything as nebulous as education, and more especially what needs to be spent on it.
It tell a lot about the government that, with the exception of the civil servants who, strictly speaking are not part of it, there is no one in its upper echelon who knows what government really is or what its processes are. And it tells a lot about the lack of seriousness in public life that the Senate president will call a group headed by Chief Gamaliel Onosode as people who don’t know what they are doing. If this is the expression of gratitude by the government for his three years of painstaking negotiations on its behalf, it leaves much to be desired; but if it is merely an expression of the appreciation of the situation by the Senate president, it desires much to be left.


Source: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/why-ASUU-is-always-on-strike.html

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Following the last Friday attack on the 202 tank Mohammed Kur Barrack Bama, located at Bama Local Government Area of Borno State, where many soldiers were killed and armories carted away, Borno residents have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to relocate to Maiduguri until the insurgents are crushed.
A public commentator Mallam Abduraham said that President Goodluck Jonathan was busy thinking about 2015, instead of taking the fight against Boko Haram with all seriousness.
According to him, “the President takes the war as Borno, Yobe and Adamawa affairs while the insurgency poised a great danger on the existence of the country”.
He said if the insurgents could sack a whole Barack and cart away armories, “there is great danger ahead of us as a nation, the way things are going, the
insurgents would capture Borno, Yobe and Adamawa and will advance to other states.
“President Jonathan has to fight the insurgents with all seriousness, if not, the way things are moving, the insurgents will take over the whole country”.
He added that instead of the military taking the battle to the Boko Haram terrorists camps, they allow themselves to be on the defensive side.
“The military should change their strategy, otherwise, the insurgents will take over the country, Abdulrrahaman said.
He said there was need for President Jonathan and the service chiefs to relocate to Maiduguri until they see to the end of the insurgency.
A Bama resident who does not want his name in print told DailyPost that considering the attack on the barracks, he was considering the option of running to Cameroon.
He said the insurgents had already weakened the military and by the time they get more weapons, they would take over the state and advance to others states of the Federation.
Another Bama resident Mr. Peter Nwonsu said President Goodluck and the army chiefs have sit up and fight insurgents by considering the option of relocating to Maidguri and stop thinking about 2015, if not the country is at risks of being taking over by the insurgents going by their growing strength.
For Mr. Daniel Audu, the state of emergency declared on the three states was of no effect, stressing that “if the insurgents could take over a barracks, hoist their flag and later leave the premises unchallenged, there is great danger ahead of us as a nation”.
He urged President Jonathan to forget about 2015 and face the war against insurgency.
It could be recalled that the insurgents attacked the 33 Artillery regiment Barrack and Air Force base in Maiduguri three weeks ago.
Also, on Friday, they attacked a barracks in Bama, carted away armories, and abducted military officers’ wives and children.


sOURCE: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/incredible-borno-residents-ask-jonathan.html

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Objs' objective is to bring unrest to GEJ in his remaining years in office as president of this country... shameless man...


Letterr of Obj to GEJ: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/obasanjo-writes-18-page-letter-to.html


Letter of GEJ to Obj: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/letter-president-goodluck-jonathan.html

Objs' objective is to bring unrest to GEJ in his remaining years in office as president of this country... shameless man...


Letterr of Obj to GEJ: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/obasanjo-writes-18-page-letter-to.html


Letter of GEJ to Obj: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/letter-president-goodluck-jonathan.html

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Letterr of Obj to GEJ: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/obasanjo-writes-18-page-letter-to.html


Letter of GEJ to Obj: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/letter-president-goodluck-jonathan.html

Objs' objective is to bring unrest to GEJ in his remaining years in office as president of this country... shameless man...


Letterr of Obj to GEJ: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/obasanjo-writes-18-page-letter-to.html


Letter of GEJ to Obj: http://chrisderablog..com/2013/12/letter-president-goodluck-jonathan.html

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from Iyabo to Obj and
from GEJ to Obj
and
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The Rector in charge of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Mkpogu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Venerable Chimela Samuel, was yesterday, denied access to the church to perform his clerical duties, as angry youths locked up the church gate.

When Daily Sun visited the church premises at about 8:30am, thousands of the church members were seen outside holding their Bibles. Some were singing praises and some clustered in groups. The priest was also there in his cassock.



http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/anglican-church-members-lock-priest-port-harcourt/