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[quote author=chreld_b]Please don't kindly respond with the information I requested from you. Cheers.[/quote]^^^@ ifeness please excuse the typo above in bold in my previous post. I meant to type "kindly respond with..........." and not 'don't'. Thanks!

ifeness: Jesus did not exist! If he did,where is his burial tomb? Where is Abraham,Jacob,Moses or any bible character's tomb. You know the Egyptians kept theirs. Bible characters are nothing but fictions.....story for kids like you. Where is the tomb of David,Solomon? No archeological remain....what a shame

Hello Ifeness,

I have read all your posts on this thread. I want to be clear with you that I understand the points you are trying to bring up and I agree with most of them. But however, I do not agree with all. I was born and raised a christain but as I grew older I have come to realise that Christainity is been used as a tool to threaten, manipulate and brainwash people. That is why my stance on Christainity changed. Haven said that I want to reiterate the fact that I still remain a christain. But I do not need to affiliate myself with any religous group to proove anything to anyone. I have seen the Zeitgeist documentary that explains the relationship with Jesus and Egyptian Sun god. I have done some personal research on the history and origin of christainity and the bible. I am saying all this because I want you to know that I know where you are coming from and have probably read some of what you have read or watched. But where I disagree with you completely is the claim you made that Jesus Christ never existed because there are no historical or archeological evidence of his him. That assertion is not correct. There are places in bethlehem that serve as tourist attractions that are in line with stories of Jesus Christ as documented in the EMPEROR CONSTATINE constucted bible. I don't intend on going into details because I do not have the time and energy for that at the moment. And one last thing please kindly give me the source of this quote in one of you previous post in quote "The White race are the descendents of the White Annunaki/Nordic Aliens.The black race was the slave race created by the Annunaki/Nordic Aliens by genetically manipulating the DNA of the Cro Magnon and Ape." I have not come across that information before and I find it rather interesting although I am sure you will agree with me when I say it is utter B..ULLSHIT. Finally I thik the conflict you and babyosisi are having is unnecessary. Because you both have the same philosophy and are actually saying the same thing. Judging from your previous posts on this thread and others. Another evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ is the date stucture we have in the world today namely BC (before christ) and AD (after death). Please don't kindly respond with the information I requested from you. Cheers.

Symphony007: One day i was stuck in traffic so just decided to bring down my glasses to save fuel. What did i hear from the loudspeaker of a road side CD vendor......"and then jesus and i started flying to hell. When we reach there we saw pope john paul and micheal jackson. Inside fire. Their flesh was roasting and they were crying. Jesus was also crying. Telling them. I warned you".....at this point my disgust knew no bounds. Just raise back my glass and let the fuel go. Hunger can make folks do extraordinary things.

^^^. I know that feeling!! LMAO

gazilion: @BiafranQueen again? Heaven and Hell is not a state of mind - that is philosophy! Heaven and Hell are literal places with definite locations. Heaven above and Hell beneath. The people in either places have their complete senses of reasoning and judgement and they are both eternal places. Well, there's no need making arguments or trying to preach but one thing is certain for every man on the face of the earth - DEATH. After this, you'll not only know, you'll also tell the TRUTH either in eternal JOY or in eternal SORROW. You'll remember...

Continue spreading these doctrines of lies you bloody satanist!!! The hell fire which you advertise so much for people to tremble in fear and make them vulnerable to manipulation by your likes belongs to you and your likes. People like you are the problem with Christianity today. And when ever I come across your b.ullshit hypocritical doctrines I will call it!!!! I was almost a victimm of your deceptive ways.

Nelly Ghenghen: ANOTHER EXTREMIST. its people like you that make people run away from GOD.

-first of all, so man must cut gorimakpa before he can go to heaven? what happened to the saying "God looks at your heart and not your physical appearance"?

-second of all, Jesus went to a "party" where he turned "water to wine",it was probably an alcoholic wine.. the bible only condemned drinking to stupor, besides the blood needs alcohol.

- Thirdly, how are we supposed to know we are getting married to the right person for us if we don't date?

- How ridiculous can you be to say wearing jeweleries affect your chances of going to heaven abeg? if God didn't want us to wear jeweleries then why did he put them on earth? so in place of my wrist watch, i should be carrying a wall clock up and down?

-And the rest lieing and co, are things we can't control even God knows no man is without sin, nobody knows how God is going to judge ... who are you to even list out a judgement criteria for God?

"common sense without religion is lame, religion without common sense is blind.”

@ bolded. Point of correction, There is no such thing as non alcoholic wine! Wine by definition is an alcoholic drink produced as a result of fermentation. Check the dictionary, check any scientific literature and the answer you get is as I have said. So next time you want to drive that factual point you have rightfully and brilliantly stated, I implore you to state it authoritatively as a matter of fact!!! Back to topic, regarding this factual point you have raised @ bolded. The man giving the testimony says anyone who drinks alcohol will surely go to hell and is not truly born again. But Jesus Christ who is the foundation of the christain faith turned water to alcohol (wine). The man is a deceitful brain washer. I rest my case.

Why is it that people that claim to have had a tour of hell all give different accounts of the same place. Obviously this man is not familiar with Ben 10. Because if he was I am sure he would have seen a child surrounded by alien like ben ten demons wailing and suffering in hell like that girl in Venezuela described. If he was a fan of Micheal jackson I am sure he would have also seen the king of pop there as usual (MJ don suffer sha!!)if he was member of deeper bible church I am sure he would have seen women who went to hell because they wore jewelry. Also when he described how people wail in hell I am sure he did not see any Chinese man there shouting choi che kwa choi choi. Or a British person or American. All he saw was Nigerians shouting Chineke!! Olorun!!! Osanoboa na by boyfriend/girlfriend cause am oooo!!!! . Anyways all I got from this message is that worship God because you fear and dread him. You dont have to love God just fear him so that he does not send you to hell. Live your life in fear and bondage because of the possibility that you will go to hell if you don't. To me that is not a life reflecting the benevolence of loving nature of the almighty God. Rather that sounds like a life of bondage and mental slavery. Believe what you like but as for me, I don't buy this load of crap.

ogb5: Does a child need to do silly things before they recognize the need to provide basic needs of the child?

Education up to senior secondary school should be free, that way no child of secondary school age will need scholarship.

Very true and on point!

Since everyone one youtube is shouting FAKE!! I'll join the bandwagon FAKE FAKE FAKE!!!

Chinwem: He's just a small boy, why are they pulling him like that
If Nigeria was a country, social services would investigate the circumstances that made him run away from home and endanger his life in this manner And put him in foster care if needed. Like I said this would only happen in a 'country' not Nigeria .But sadly, what do we have here? A media frenzy around a frightened teenager who is probably going to get the beating of his life back at home . Free the poor boy jare.......he deserves an award and a hot meal for outsmarting so called security and surviving the grueling flight

Answer to the bolded. Because a lot of Nigerian adults are glorified wild animals. After all if a group of adults can beat up and burn to death a 12 year old child for allaegedly committing a crime without any concrete evidence apart from a 50 naira note . Then dragging and maltreating a child is merely "childs play". No pun intended.

J12: These lecturers talk like they are striking in the interest of the education system in general.
If the government gives them the 500 billion naira they are striking for, they won't do anything with it.
Dear Nigerian Lecturers and university academic staff.
What have you all done with the little funding you have been receiving from the government all the while? If we can't trust you with little, why should we trust with something big?

dubai prince: these lecturers ehn.... Even if they are given 1tr., Nothing will change in most of the universities. They jst sit and share this funds among themselves. So who is deceiving who. We dey siddon dey watch.

^^^This cliche keeps recurring out of ignorance. "What are ASUU going to do with money, what have ASUU done with money given to them" For your information, ASUU is not asking the federal government to hand them a check of 500 billion to spend as they please. Rather they demand that FG commits more money to the development of infrastructure in Universities and insist on implementation!!! In other words all monies spent would be spent by the government and not ASUU. ASUU is just a union and not a branch of government they have no jurisdiction over the implementation of infrastuctural development in Nigerian Universities. They do not award contracts, they do not build new laboratories or student hostels or faculties. That is the job of the government. All ASUU is asking is that government begins these processes. It is necessary to have a good understanding of the situation before jumping into conclusions. And ASUU as a union should not be mistaken as a branch of government!

dozai: D woman say d problem be who go foot d bill.

That should not be a problem if the claims are credible. Western countries take things like this quite seriously.

[quote author=Okija_juju]I wonder what African Christians would have said about this Chiken if it were in Nigeria...

Blame it on the #Juju

[/quote]They would have said the chicken belongs to you!!

All that needs to be done is a genomic and proteomic analysis of the carcass to see whether there is any match with any species whose genome has already been sequenced and proteins identified. If no match is found then it is safe to assume that a new specie of marine life has been discovered. This could give some credibility to the myths of lochness and other sea monsters. There is hardly ever smoke without fire. Recently there has been video evidence backed up with apparent scientific studies of real mermaids with human charateristics (marine humanoids). But that is another story.

cramjones: In as much as I am all for charity...I would say this is a stupid move! How can you donate money from part of the money given to you? Even if you do so why not take the camera off and do it without anyone knowing. My point is you can't be asking for money and then obviously go and donate part of it because you have gotten more than enough. OJB should focus on his health number 1 and then focus on how to use part of the free capital he has gotten to make money. This publicity charity stunt is totally uncalled for. The people I know that donate to others either work for their money or inherit the money. If you agree like this!

Word!! Now this is a justifiable reason to ask for likes!

jassie: You just showed how retar.ded you are because you didn't make any sense. I really couldn't expect much from a nigg.a . . .

Congrats on the 'likes' you got. . . shows you got empty brains like yourself on nairaland




Really? Next time, scan all your credentials and upload them online just to prove a point.

The only thing you have successfully analyzed is your preference for South Africa.

Something tells me you're an ASUU member who doesn't want the truth to come out.

Has ASUU ever really protested against the lack of infrastructure in the Universities? No!
All they're fighting for is their pocket. . . And I don't expect sycophants like you to agree with me.

You are extremely ignorant!! As a matter of fact that is what the strike is about. INFRASTRUCTURES in universities, laboratory facilities E.T.C. Just so you know I am not an ASUU member. But I am sure that you belong to the thieves in Nigerian government who deserve to be named and shamed.

jassie: Cheap attention seeker! I would have taken his comments seriously, but I noticed the word 'EX' before 'Minister' and realized he's only playing politricks.

ASUU members themselves are irresponsible. How do you explain a bunch of educationists going on strike all the time, abandoning the poor students?

I would have cried foul if I hadn't passed through the Nigerian university system. The bitter truth is that these ASUU guys are all politicians, Lecturers, HODs, Rectors, VCs. . . all of them are politicians belonging to a political party.

So the fact is that when ASUU strikes, its a case of POLITICIANS vs POLITICIANS, the students are the ones bearing the brunt, shikena!

My brother you say what you say because of lack of exposure. Like you I passed through the Nigerian tertiary educational system. After that I educated myself to the highest level of post graduate in a developed country. By virtue of that I will tell you that Tam David West is on point!! Not only is the Nigerian government a vagabond but the students that graduate from Nigerian universities are highly disadvantaged. The government needs to invest in education. This is not something that should result to a debate. It is an absolute necessity. If you have schooled in A developed nation like many of Nigerian graduates hustle to do you will observe that you do not see any South African. Why? Because South African government has invested well in education so there is no need to school abroad. This is all ASUU is asking for. It's just unfortunate that the students are suffering for it. As a result of that they sentimentally and unjustifiably insult ASUU calling them greedy h.orny thieves. But I can bet that anyone that has a good level of exposure would lay tent with ASUU. May God deliver Nigeria

untainted: I totally agree that strike actions have adverse effect on education but strike is the only weapon available to ASUU.
Government signs an agreement and refuses to implement it after 4 years.
ASUU calls press conference appealing to government and all Nigerians: Government remains unperturbed.
ASUU goes on strike and someone says there are better ways to agitate.
Please if you have a better weapon than strike say it and stop telling striking workers to find it.

Well said!!!

tsidra: Afta all d plenty Hannah Montana pant den dey sell u no fit carry 1 wear? Lol

Whether male or female, young or old, you just have to admit. Nigerians are funny people!!

Maybe it was all just a big misunderstanding due to miscommunication. Probably the way the woman expressed herself in English to Oprah could be regarded as racist but that might not have been her intention. After all English is not her first language. Just saying. BTW is she a sales girl or sales woman?

What is it with these sick crimes trending nowadays in Nigeria. Apparently someone is setting another person ablaze on a daily basis. If it's not a jealous lover, it is a psychotic nurse or some lowlife bloodthirsty hoodlums called mobs. What is going on?

Aifey: Thts y hw I hate religion. Some brain washed people. Will tell me thtS hw God wanted it. Watch fUlly grown boys die. Do we realy kn wht it takes 2raise a kid?

Religion does not have anything to do with this. Your comment has no bearing!

[quote author=sweet-tease]From Aluu 4 to Badagry 2, when will these low-life, poverty stricken, jobless, good for nothing, blood thirsty hoodlums seeking jungle justice based on absurd evidence learn? So heart-breaking

May their souls RIP[/quote]Apparently they have already learned. They have learned that if you murder a person in broad day light in the midst of fellow "poverty stricken, jobless, good for nothing, blood thirsty hoodlums seeking jungle justice based on absurd evidence" in Nigeria nothing would come out of it. The police would even lend a helping hand if they are around the crime scene. ALUU 4 happened and up till now nothing has been heard about the matter. This would be the second time that the police would be directly aiding and abetting the same murderous crime. So I ask you what lesson is there to be learnt? Some Nigerians like the ones in this video are not human beings. They are lower than animals.

Just a sickly looking old woman surrounded by a bunch of re.tarded individuals. All the woman needed was some medical attention but instead those uncivilized subhumans branded her a witch instead of helping her. Thank God there was no violence involved.

Flirtyfemi: I couldn't agree less with their submission though, lol!
So there is this weekly entertainment program that airs Mondays to Fridays on Galaxy Television, 10am - 11am and it's usually anchored by two ladies, Alero and Pat.
The guest for today's show was Mike okri - the popular singer, whose hit songs, ‘Omoge’ and ‘Rhumba Dance’ dominated the Nigerian music scene in the 1980 1990's - and it was quite fun.
Mike revealed that he is working on the remix of omoge - which would feature omawumi- and he also stated that he will be working with some of the new artistes in the indutry today.
So here's the gist:
Following Mike Okri's statement on "remixing his omoge hit song" one of the presenters stated that "wow, atleast you have something to remix...unlike the songs we have today, that Davido or is it Wizkid's Gobe for instance, all you hear is girl your behind is a killer, see Gobe, Gobe...Gobe, What is behind?! like what the hell."
"In years to come, who would think of remixing such songs. What will my children benefit from such songs, the artistes of tomorrow would not be able to remix such songs...I mean how? Check out Olaiyas remis of baby jowo ft 2face, it's so beautiful...I wonder if we can have such remix for davido's er-rr Gobe tomorrow, lol..."http://www.kemifilani.com/2013/07/galaxy-tv-presenters-diss-davidos-gobe.html

FIXED!

Acidosis: Attack my post (not me)...


If you cannot highlight my errors, then keep quiet

My experience on NL has taught me to be picky on the kind of posters i engaged in an argument/discussion with. Because there are a lot of air heads on this site. The best way to know is the content of their posts. However I am not saying you are one infact the reason I replied you is because I felt that the person behind this moniker should know better from your other posts. So I was rather dissapointed. As for the errors in your posts you ask me to highlight read the replies from Onyekah 205, Mcluhan's and enlady. I can confirm to you the information that they have given are very much accurate and onpoint. You can verify that anywhere!! I meant no offence but I think that in circumstances like these we should restrain from crusifying people who may be fighting for the greater good. Except we can authoritatively debunk such notion. Cheers

[quote author=tha_originator]Nna mechonu! The poster you quoted with your trash eish made a whole lota sense. Why do people hate to hear the truth na? I guess you're one of those greedy/selfish lecturers or one of dem na ya papa![/quote]^^^^^ Now this is exactly what I'm talking about!

Acidosis: Wow, thats a very f00lish decision

The ASUU I know will never join anyone (not even the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities) in any solidarity rubbish.

The problem with our lecturers is: They think PhD equates Large, Fat money.. Too many demands.. high expectation.

Some of these profs, earn between N700,000 - N1,000,000 basic salary monthly.
Plus sabaticals, free lecture hours (for business), other income from affiliate programs (Pre-degree, Post-Graduate, Professional degrees etc), allowances, visiting lecturers to other schools (not free), consultancy (not free), books and publications (for sale) etc..

They keep complaining about the time spent writing journals (journals meant for their OWN quick promotion, money, not STUDENTS).


Yet they keep comparing themselves with people who earn average sums working almost 20hours a day without any opportunity to do other works.

Now it would be very foolish for NLC to tell someone who earn N20K a month to sit at home in solidarity for a group of people who do not care about their existence.

My friend it is not by force to post a comment. If you are ignorant on a certain issue it is better to keep mute than to display your ignorance all in the name of making a point. Your comments on this matter are like that of an illiterate market woman commenting on the economy. That to me is how u sound. Keep quiet if you have nothing to say. oR GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT BEFORE YOU SPEAK/TYPE.

This is a good opportunity to ask how this would affect the price of garri in the market?

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^^^This was an interesting and thought provoking read.

PROF. FESTUS IYAYI is a former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In this interview, he explains why university teachers nationwide are on strike; saying the action is to compel the Federal Government to implement the agreement it reached with ASUU on funding of universities. Iyayi, currently Head of Dept, Business Administration, University of Benin, insists that the union members are prepared to stay at home for the next three to five years until the right thing is done. Excerpts:
BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE, BENIN
ASUU has gone back to the trenches with the Federal Government. Why are you on strike?
The short answer is this: Government believes that Nigeria should continue to be not just a second rate country but a third rate country because the quality of development, the kind of society you have depend on the kind of education that the people have and the quality of education that exists in the country. In 2009, ASUU reached an agreement with government on how to rehabilitate and revitalize the universities. That agreement was a product of three years of negotiation, from 2006 to 2009, and government agreed that it will provide funding for universities to bring them to a level that we can begin to produce graduates that will be recognized worldwide, and our universities can also be classified and rated among the best in the world. People keep talking about universities rating, but no Nigerian university features among the first 1,000 in the world because of the issue of lack of facilities. So, from 2009 to 2012, ASUU waited for the Federal Government to implement that agreement and what government did was to believe and present the argument that what ASUU was looking for was money, and so, they implemented part of the salary component; they did not implement the agreement on funding. As academics, if you pay us N10million a month and we do not have the tools to work with, that money is worthless because we want to be able to conduct research, teach students the latest that is available in the world of knowledge. Those tools were not available and are still not available. So, in 2011, precisely in December, ASUU went on strike to force government to implement the funding part of that agreement. What did the government do? They apprehended the strike in January 2012 and the Secretary to the Federal Government invited the leadership of ASUU for a meeting in his office. We went there, discussed with them on the basis of which on 24 January, 2012, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government under the title, “MEETING OF THE SECRETARY OF THE GOVERNEMNT OF THE FEDERATION WITH THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES “and signed by Prof. Nicholas A. Damachi, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education on behalf of the Federal Government. The most important of the items signed was 3.0, that is, “FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR UNIVERSITIES”. And this is what the Federal Government said it would do: “Government reaffirms its commitment to the revitalization of Nigerian universities through budgetary and non- budgetary sources of funds; government will immediately stimulate the process with the sum of N100billion and will beef it up to a yearly sum of N400billion in the next three years”. As we speak now, not a Kobo, not an iota of intervention has taken place in the universities. Yet, government itself, in the various studies it has done, said it recognizes the pathetic state of the universities. In order to implement this agreement, government first gave a reason saying, ‘oh, for us to apply the funds, let us first of all identify the areas of priorities to which the funds will be applied’. Government also said, ‘we are not going to give the money to the universities, what we are going to do is to identify the projects, we will them call on government agencies such as the CBN, PTDF, ETF to deliver the projects to the universities that would then be estimated’. So the money is not coming to the universities, government will do the costing and get people to come and do all those things such as the rehabilitation of the laboratories, classrooms and a variety of other things.

Needs assessment committee
[b]Now what should be those things: Government set up a committee called the NEEDS ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE and it went round the universities and what it found was shocking. First, it found that the students – teachers ratio was 1-400 on the average instead of being 1-40. It found out that the classrooms were grossly inadequate and could accommodate only about 30 percent of the number of students that needed to enter those classrooms; they went round and found students standing in their lecture theatres with other students writing on their backs; they found lectures going on under trees in some of the universities; they went to laboratories where they found people using kerosene stoves instead of bushing burners to conduct experiments; they found specimens being kept in pure water bottles instead of the appropriate places where such specimens should be kept. They found chemistry labs without water; they found people doing examinations called theory of practicals and not the practicals and you will imagine what the practical ought to be. And when the report was eventually presented to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Federal Executive Council, we understand that Jonathan said that he was embarrassed and did not know that things were all that bad.[/b]
No intervention
It was on that basis that they said that this money should be spent. As we speak, the money has not been provided, no intervention has taken place and the academics are tired. We negotiated for three years, 2006-2009, we went on strike in December, 2011 and government apprehended that strike; we signed an MoU in January 2012, between then and now, nothing happened. That is why we are on strike. We are saying, ‘look, rehabilitate the universities’. As a reporter, you can go round our classrooms and you will see what our classrooms are like. In this era, it is the quality of knowledge that you acquire that will determine the position you occupy in any part of the world. We did this and government did not do anything. A professor came from Bayelsa State recently to the University of Benin, looking for journals. We went to the library because we have an e-library and he could not do anything there because there was no light for two days in the library. If you go round here now, lecturers have generators in their offices to be able to work, every department has two or three generators to be able to do their work. Is that what a university should be like? If you go to the students’ hostels, they in a sorry state, they live 12 in a room; they are like piggery; they now have what they called short puts, they excrete in polythene bags and throw them through the windows into the fields because there are no toilets. If you come into this building (faculty building), there are no toilets and, if walk round, you will find faeces sometimes in the classrooms because students have no place to use. And it is like that in all other universities.
Enough is enough
[b]Academic staff has said enough is enough, we cannot continue to work under these conditions, especially when government gave commitment in 2012 that this matter would be addressed but up till now nothing had happened. We had several meetings between 2012 and now and they will say ‘next week this one will happen; in two weeks time that one will happen, give us one month, this one will happen’, nothing has happened. And when students leave here, they apply for progammes in the United Kingdom, United States and other countries for their master degrees, PhD or other postgraduate programmes and they are told that they cannot be admitted because their degrees are suspect. Shell here in Nigeria spent millions of dollars re-training graduates, people who made First Class and, when they test them, they found out that they have problems. How can you take an engineer who has not conducted an experiment, all he did is the theory of practical? He does not know how the equipment works? If you want a properly educated student population, you have to provide the facilities. That is what ASUU is on strike. What government has done in the past is to say that we are on strike because of money, now they don’t have that excuse. It is true that part of the agreement we have with the government also talked about academic allowances, but academics are saying that we are not interested in that; we are saying that government should rehabilitate facilities and once they are rehabilitated and they are up to standard, we will come back to work. If you go to our classrooms, we use chalk boards, the situation of the 1960s but people are using multi-media facilities, mark boards where you can download information. That is not available here and government is not interested in that. No country developed without a sound educational system and the foundation is not the primary school incidentally, it is at the university level because it is the university that trains other levels. For instance, if you want to teach in primary school, you need people who attended the Colleges of Education; if you want to be teacher at the Colleges of Education, you must have a degree from the university; so, the university provides the manpower for other levels of education and that is why you must concentrate efforts on the university education. If you don’t do that, other levels of education will suffer and that is what has been happening in Nigeria.[/b]
Against this backdrop, of your complaints more private universities are being approved by government. Will this help to solve the problem?
Even the National Universities Commission (NUC), which is licensing private universities, has now drawn attention to the crisis of quality in many of these private universities. You know what government does: We have refineries in Port-Harcourt and Warri; I was just talking with some people recently and they said, oh, Port-Harcourt refinery is in a state where it can refine whatever amount of crude oil sent to it; its plants are all now working,’ but, as at today, government has not send crude oil to it and they cannot process anything because they want to import. Nigeria is the only OPEC member country that sells crude oil to its refineries at the international price? Does that work? It doesn’t work, but they use international price to sell crude oil to refineries, to make it impossible for the refineries to process crude and then they go to Spain and other countries to import refined products.
So, what is happening is that government wants to kill the public universities just as it has killed its own enterprises so that it can invite people to come and buy over the public universities? Unfortunately, it will not work because universities are not like enterprises. In the UK, most of the universities there are public owned; in the US, most of the universities are state owned; the one you hear about, HARVARD, is a private one, but most of the universities in the world are owned by government because education is a social service; the revenue and tax collected by government comes from the people, the commonwealth, that is the fund that is used in funding education. And what the government is doing is to under-fund public universities, give them a bad name and provide an excuse to license private universities many of which borrow lecturers from public sector universities, many of which do not have the equipment which public universities ought to have. And many of the private universities focus on the social sciences, law and arts; they do not go into engineering, medicine or sciences because you need a lot of capital outlay, you need to spend a lot of money building laboratories. I went to Oxford University last year and they showed me a laboratory that was built last year, a huge building where people from different parts of the world went there to conduct experiments. It cost billions of pounds and no private sector person will like to invest such money because the returns on investment cannot be recouped. So, private sector universities are gimmicks by government to say that they are better than the public sector universities, but then, how many people are there how much fees do they pay and how many people in Nigeria can pay the sum of N350,000 and above paid in private universities? Those universities are not meant for the children of ordinary Nigerians and development has to be about the ordinary people, it cannot be about the rich. So, there is no way, not in this century, not the next or in a life time that private universities will become more important than public universities.

So what is The Way Forward?
[b]The way forward is that the ruling elite in Nigeria must be sure of what that want. We have an example; many years ago, Ghanaians were here; they flooded our universities; when the Ghanaians rulers saw what was happening, they took a step back and said, lets us change direction’. They closed down the universities for three years or so, rehabilitated all the facilities in the universities and brought the students and the lecturers back. Now, the CBN Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi disclosed that Nigerians spent about N62billion paying school fees for 75,000 Nigerian students in Ghanaian universities. Our people are in South Africa paying fees there, but who those going there; they are the children of the rich. Ghanaians are in Ghana universities but they are not paying what Nigerians are paying there. So, the way forward is that government makes up its mind that Nigerians must have a place under the sun and that place under the sun can only be guaranteed with a sound university system. It must make up its mind; is it to close down the university system for three years or so, do what should be done and then invite students and lecturers back? For instance, in the University of Benin, you don’t have a foreign student and if you go to other universities in Nigeria, I don’t think there are foreign students. When I came to the University of Benin, I was interviewed by Prof. Smith, a Briton who was the Dean at the time and many people from different parts of the world were here as teachers and students. But, right now, they are not in Nigeria; instead, Nigerians are everywhere. That shows that the system has collapsed. When we went to the National Assembly, Sen. Uche Chukwumerije and his colleagues told us that they were on the knees begging us to recall the students because they are on the streets posing dangers and problems, and we said, it is better for them to be on the streets than on the campus of universities learning ignorance. You cannot teach ignorance to people or half knowledge to the people because they will be more dangerous to the society.[/b]
‘Not asking for money for ourselves’
If you have a doctor that is not well trained, and you say ‘go and remove an appendix’, and he goes to remove your heart because he doesn’t know where the appendix is; it is better not to have doctors than the one who will go and remove your heart than the appendix. That is what the Nigerian government wants us to do and the academics in universities are saying no, for once, let us do the right thing; we are prepared to stay at home for between three and five years until these problems are resolved. We are not asking for money, facilities must be provided to make the universities truly what they ought to be. In terms of how to solve the problems in the universities, [b]when the financial crisis broke out in 2007 and banks declared that they were in trouble, government brought out N3trillion to bail out the banks. First, they gave the banks N239billion, another N620billion and N1.725trillion making a total of N3trillion.
Then the aviation sector said that it was in distress, they gave the sector, N500billion and they gave even NOLLYWOOD billions of Naira. These sectors are important, but they are not as important as the fundamental which is the education sector. If you can give the banks N3trillion and all the universities are asking for is about N1.5trillion, the same way in which they sourced the money which they gave to the banks which they are now saying that they should not pay back, they should be able to do more for education. So, nobody should come to us and say that government has no money.
If they can bail the banks with N3trillion, banks owned by the private sector, they cannot tell us they cannot fund the education sector because the World Bank told them that Africans do not need higher education, that what Africans need is middle-level technical education; that is what the Okonjo-Iwealas and Goodluck Jonathan are for. So, let them do what they did in the case of the banks to education and if they do that, the problems will be solved.[/b]


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This na serious mata!