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a-drops, i hail you.

be 100 times wealthier than babyosisi

pluto

who are you refering to, prince22

the statue of my grandfather's first goat is bleeding too. abeg make i hear better thing.

is the ramadan not also a time to abstain from wives, and from cigarettes too?

and me too, wifey

dolarpo:
become president of the united states of america

dolarpo, when did you last treat yourself for malaria?

pig's zygote

no, not new quran, but fresh ways of interpreting it

This is the same thing the Taliban was doing in Afghanistan and we joined to condemn them. What they are doing in Lagos State is unconstitutional, and an infringement on fundamental human rights. If one choses to walk naked, as long as he does not hurt the wellbeing of others, let him be. This is a major setback for development in Nigeria, a major step in the direction of the Paleolithic Era.

What Manner of Covenant?

The parents of intending graduates of Covenant University, must be wondering what manner of contract they entered into with the University’s management when they sent their wards to the University. It is only to be hoped that they read the small prints. The small prints will soon be the subject of litigation. We can see that the government headed by Mrs. Margeret Thatcher was absolutely right to have passed legislation ensuring that the smallest of prints on a contract was 10 points.

The issue at stake at Covenant University centres mainly around the decision to stop final year students of the institution who have either tested positive to HIV or are pregnant from graduating. At the heart of the tussle and the disputations entailed are the very concept of and the idea of the University. In their evolution over the centuries, the concept of the University has at its core, the notion of Universality. This has ensured a focus on the University of the nature of its Composition, of ideas and thought and of lifestyles. It is not for nothing that the Universities over the centuries have become a comfort zone for the persecuted, the initiators of new ideas far ahead of their time, the seemingly deviant and the Bohemian. The cross-fertilization of ideas, thoughts and processes have led to a positive regeneration of the human race.

The emergence of institutions such as Covenant can in part be attributed to the destruction of the University system by successive totalitarian dictatorships through under funding and benign neglect. The emergence of and sustenance of barbaric warrior like ‘cult’ groups mirrored the increasing dysfunction of the larger society and its social fabric.

Entrepreneuraly, it didn’t need the mercurial genius of a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs for an array of savvy business promoters to step into the void. A commercial opening emerged for several reasons. For quite sensible reasons many parents who could afford it were quite rightly apprehensive about sending their hitherto protected adolescents into a cult infested battleground, which quite frankly many of the older publicly owned Universities had degenerated to. In addition there was the bugbear of purported widespread sexual harassment of female students. Overriding it all was the increasing absence of a fixed University calendar. With frequent strikes, disruptions and closures most sensible parents who had the financial wherewithal wanted out. It’s difficult to blame them, no one in their right minds would want their wards to spend anything up to six or seven years to pick up an increasingly devalued degree, which need not take more than three or four years. Herein arose an opportunity.

With swashbuckling Zeal, the National Universities Commission has been dishing out the licences for the establishment of the private Universities. How much rigour goes into the assessment of staffing quality, aims and objectives, quality of infrastructure and so forth is a matter of conjecture. All this small print issues are gradually coming up. Supposedly regulatory agencies in Nigeria have never been particularly circumspect about dishing out licenses at times like confetti. Those who had their wallets burnt from the banking extravaganza of a decade and more ago still have painful scars to show for their misplaced faith in certain seemingly secure financial institutions.

The issue arising at Covenant brings up the issue what exactly has the NUC been licensing? Are we now departing from the centuries old idea of the University by licensing degree mills, where diplomas are rolled off a conveyor belt? For how does the demand for HIV and pregnancy tests possibly be in consonance with the accepted norm of the Universality of the University. Not surprisingly, a coalition of non-government organizations have given the management of the University a 14-day ultimatum to rescind its decision or face mass protest, some of which will take place at the University’s campus at Ota. They have also petitioned the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Michael Aondoka.

Petitioning the nation’s Minister of Justice is quite apt. For what kind of Justice of any conceivable type is entailed in collecting fees from parents for four years and then proposing a caveat at the last minute. What we are seeing is a breach of trust, sexual discrimination as well as a flagrant violation of human rights. The students whose rights and privacy are being violated are of the age of consent. They can vote in national elections and in many countries can even be voted for. Any testing should be strictly voluntary and in this case there is no rational reason for a test at all. Throughout the world there are hardly any countries left where you can be deprived of employment for being HIV positive or pregnant and the employer will be able to get away with it. In most sane societies punitive damages are the usual response from the courts and industrial tribunals to such ridiculous actions.

We are being told here that Nigeria should be led back to the dark ages. The presumption here is that the absence of rationality which led to inquisitions and persecution should be revived. It is exactly this sort of irrationality that Universities have fought against with great honour throughout the ages. Since the University is dealing with Nigerian citizens whose fundamental rights are protected by the Nigerian Constitution, the state and its agencies must step into protect the rights of Nigerian citizens. For what is happening represents a clear disgrace to a country that has been producing University graduates in the Western sense since the 1860s.

How long it will take the Universities Commission to wade into the matter is another issue. Being the sectoral regulator the flagrant assault on human rights and privacy should never have occurred in the first place. It would be for example, clearly absurd if the Broadcasting Commission allowed a radio or Television station to make inciting religious or tribal broadcasts without cracking the whip. No one expects the Central Bank of Nigeria to fold its arms akimbo while the financial institutions rip-off their customers or make ridiculous demands on them. If the NUC cannot get its act together to perform its regulatory function, the government of the Federation has many options open to it, one of which is to establish a more effective and pro-active regulatory. The situation unfolding at Covenant University beggars’ belief, it goes against the grain of everything a University is supposed to stand for and touches on the violation of the rights of the citizens of our country. The sooner the riot act is read by the appropriate authorities and an end put to the arrant nonsense the better. What is painful is that it ever got to this stage in the first place.

1. Modern Islam (Sunni) makes no room for polygamy, so I was told by a Sunni in Algiers.

2. Suppose she's unable to bear you children and is finding a way out?

what do we have in common

ok

pls someone enlighten, when someone just arises and begins to rain invectives on ppl for no reason, what does that make the culprit?

so what do you make of that person info

what stuff are they pushing you into a-drops

i certainly am not the last to post here

On this thread anything goes. So just loosen up and diss the person above you as much as you can, no holds barred. I volunteer to be the first to be dissed. So go on.

finish up with a first class and go directly for Ph.D.

Au[b]s[/b]piciou[b]s[/b]

A three year old boy announces to his parents, "I brushed the dog's teeth." Mommy says, "Oh, Junior, that was not a good idea." So they trash his toothbrush and get him a new one. Two days later, while Daddy is bathing him in the morning so he'd go to school, he asks, "Daddy, why did you buy me a new toothbrush?" Daddy replies, "Because you used the old one to brush the dog's teeth." Junior replies, "No Daddy. I used Mommy's own to do it."

1 They told me to told you to told the Chaplain that the couples is coming.

2 Tell the two both of them to come in.

3 Q: What are you doing?
A: A none none doing.

4 Why don't you keep care of yourself?

she started by pouring invectives on me, unwarranted. is that what you expect from someone who comes from a home?

don't tell me you do not know that undisclosed genders assume the masculine form until cleared. el stupido.

what is the standing anglo rule for undisclosed genders, informer? lets see how brilliant you are.

Just see how dumb you are. You have not indicated in your username what gender you represent. Dunce.

informer claims to know how to speak english, yet he can't construct the simplest correct sentence in the language. i wonder what sort of genius he is.

amen

informer, vous etes le chien. salaupards!

fine. you got my point. it takes even as long as till the next generation before you can begin to see the effects in our days, while elijah's it's directly on you. sort of like the comparison between a snake and a lizard.