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Jokes EtcRe: Hehehehheeh To You Liars........godiswatchingu by contra(m): 10:02pm On Apr 21, 2012
You're A Fisherman In a Riverine Area, And You Tell Your Neighbours n friends You Work Offshore. #GodIsWatchingYou#
Jokes EtcRe: They Are Brought Directly From The United States by contra(m): 7:52pm On Apr 17, 2012
Oga Jo where the joke na? Is that all the story?
ProgrammingRe: Build A JAMB Result Checking Website To Win 150,000 Naira by contra(m): 9:29pm On Apr 11, 2012
weldone @Seun. Congrats guys.
RomanceRe: Describe Ur Ex Using Movie Titles by contra(m): 6:36pm On Mar 13, 2012
Blind love.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Data Entry Job Vacancy/ German Company /on A Regular Basis by contra(m): 7:32pm On Mar 10, 2012
i'm very interested. Here's my e-mail ephraim4ever@yahoo.com
EducationRe: How Frustrating Was The ASUU Strike To You? by contra(m): 9:22pm On Feb 14, 2012
the strike delayed my final results and now i've to wait till july for service. Not a bad experience as i utilised the time productively.
PhonesRe: Drop Your Mozat Pin Here: by contra(m): 12:51am On Jan 23, 2012
Holla ur boi M 1 N 8 X C.
PhonesRe: Nairaland 2go Users! Drop Your 2go Username. by contra(m): 7:01pm On Jan 22, 2012
mine is ephrame
Jokes EtcRe: Laff It Off by contra(op): 12:23pm On Dec 23, 2011
wetin you expect? As a big boi, paid cash!
Jokes EtcRe: Laff It Off by contra(op): 8:47am On Dec 23, 2011
No be small tin my brother!
Jokes EtcLaff It Off by contra(op): 7:39am On Dec 23, 2011
Make you laff (This one no be me do am Oh!)

E get this particular restaurant wey I dey chop for V.I, e get one white man wey dey always come chop there too. Any time dis white man chop finish he go shout "HEY", so I wonder wetin dey make am shout, I decide to chop wetin the white man dey always chop so maybe me self go shout too. When I reach the restaurant last week friday, I order wetin the man dey chop. Dem tell me say na chicken and red wine, so I chop am, but I no shout, I collect extra plate, but still I no still shout. Na then I just vex ask for my bill. The waiter tell me say one plate of chicken & red wine na N45,000 then the extra plate na another N45,000 so all together na N90,000. na then I shout heyyyyyyyyy! heyyyyyyyyyyy!! heyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!
Jokes EtcRe: Waffi Tinzs by contra(op): 10:54pm On Dec 15, 2011
^^^the tin no funny reach? Talk ur own make me laugh.
Jokes EtcWaffi Tinzs by contra(op): 9:39pm On Dec 15, 2011
Warri nor go Kill me oo. Mum:
Akpos dat meat & fish don boil?
Akpos: Yes oo malee.Mum: Abeg
implicate salt & maggi, attach oil,
pepper & sentence the crayfish.
Den, involve d leaves. After
10mins, discharge the pot from
fire. U dey hear me so?Akpos: Yes
malee. Shuo, this food go good to
download with Eba o.Mum: No
worry Akpos I don detain some
fufu for cooler. When tym reach
we go give dem amnesty.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Help Me With Free Electronic Gmat by contra(m):
Please i also need oh. Thank you, @ yahoo.com
Forum GamesRe: How many days have you lived? by contra(m): 8:11am On Oct 31, 2011
me na 9, 837 days, Ma chick na 9, 885days grin
EducationRe: Public School Boy Scores 310 In UTME & 75% In Post UTME by contra(m): 9:14pm On Sep 15, 2011
MUMU 2X, your ignorance
makes you think Accounting is all
about book-keeping! ODE
ARINDIN OLO'ORUN

seconded.
Some people are so ignorant of other discipline that they think theirs is the best. I Don't blame you but your ignorance.
EducationRe: University Of Benin Orders Immediate Closure Over Impending Boko Haram Bombing by contra(m): 10:15am On Sep 15, 2011
This post is misleading, one of my lecturer just finished his class wit the 200level in management science. Btw, today is our cultural day in our final year week (mgt science). No boko will stop us. Though i heard that story about catching one of them at ugbowo.
FamilyRe: Ladies Would You Encourage Your Husband To Take A Second Wife If: by contra(m): 1:36pm On Sep 14, 2011
I think the guy need serious prayers o. if it's the other way round, would he allow the wife to get another husband?
Christianity EtcRe: What Does 'holy' Mean? by contra(m): 4:29pm On Aug 30, 2011
Nothing!  grin. That's a joke. On a more serious note it means something pure, uncorrupted,  hope that help.
EducationUniben Releases 2009/10 Post Ume Result by contra(op): 7:05am On Dec 03, 2009
The post ume result for 2009/10 session has been released. The news came in in the early hours of thursday 3rd december 2009.
EducationRe: Latest On ASUU Strike by contra(op): 8:31am On Aug 31, 2009
Presidency Moves To End ASUU Strike
By Wisdom Patrick and Ekene Okoro, Lagos

Aso Rock at the weekend signaled its dissatisfaction with the way the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been handled by Education Minister, Sam Egwu.

It was learnt that President Umaru Yar 'Adua, himself a former lecturer, will now personally preside over the negotiations, so as to end the industrial action which has paralysed activities in both federal and state universities since June 22.

Lower House lawmakers have also knocked Egwu for muddling up the negotiation with the ASUU, by saying Abuja would not concede more ground to the lecturers.

Ironically, Egwu too was a lecturer, likewise Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, who Yar 'Adua had equally delegated to resolve the gridlock - without positive results.

A source in the Villa said at the weekend that Yar 'Adua has decided to personally preside over the next round of negotiations, "to ensure that this crisis is brought to an end. We must secure the future of this country, our children must return to school.

"That is the reason he would personally preside over the next scheduled meeting this week. "

The source added that Yar 'Adua is in possession of an intelligence report which shows a clash of interests between Egwu and ASUU officials.

"You cannot allow your private disagreement, or because you do not like the face of the person you are expected to discuss with to negatively affect a national issue. If that happens, you allow the country to suffer. We cannot take that. "

It was learnt that talks between ASUU members and government officials led by Egwu usually ended in shouting matches, with each group trying to claim superiority.

Egwu would allegedly whip up sentiment that he had been a university lecturer before he went into politics. ASUU members would remind him he was no better academic, which made him to quit academics in a hurry.

"Both ASUU President, Ukachukwu Awuzie and (Egwu) are familiar with each other.

"That is the reason they cannot manage the crisis, so Yar 'Adua has been fully briefed on this, and that informs his plan to take over the negotiations.

"Even the university supervising body, the National Universities Commission (NUC), has not been able to mediate because of another level of a interest clash.

"The NUC is yet to stamp its authority on the university teachers because it is trying to protect the interest of the government, rather than playing the role of an umpire. "

Nonetheless, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has appealed to both Abuja and the ASUU to shift position in the interest of students, parents, and the country at large.

He made the plea on Sunday when he spoke at both the fifth Justice Muri Okunola Memorial Ramadan Lecture held in Ikeja and as a special guest at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria 2009 Tafsir.

He said meaningful solution would come only when both parties are sincere in the negotiations.

Fashola urged government officials to rise up to the demand of the lecturers, and also implored ASUU members not to remain adamant.

"Both should embrace the spirit of give and take to end the suffering of the students, " he added.

He expressed fear in leaving students to roam the streets, thereby making them preys for politicians seeking to recruit thugs.

He warned the audience: "Whenever a politician seeks your permission for your child to work for him or her, I think you should consider the nature of such work carefully before accepting the offer. "

He also urged law enforcement agencies not to violate the rights of citizens, something he said his administration would not tolerate.

He traced the brutality of overzealous security officers to the military era where soldiers used horsewhips to enforce law and intimidate people.

The views of Gombe State University Vice Chancellor, Abdullahi Mahadi, also echoed complaints about the military era when he commented on the ASUU strike on July 4 in Kaduna.

He noted that strike is the only way left for lecturers to make their point, since the government has proved impervious to their plight, and experience has shown that it negotiates only when workers down tools.

"Because of the long military rule that Nigerians were subjected to, force seems to be the way out for authorities to listen to people.

"Look at politicians when they talk; they do not talk like democrats, they talk like solders, " he pointed out.

Mahadi, who was once the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, insisted that whatever anyone thinks of members of the ASUU, they have made great contributions to education.

"The state of university in the country would have been worse " but for the ASUU, he added.

Strike cannot be ruled out, in his view, as long as the government refuses to give priority to education.

"In terms of qualifications, lecturers are more qualified compared to politicians. Yet, what politicians earn every month is very high, we do not even know their salary.

"I do not think that those who go on strike take any joy in doing it. I am referring to the university teachers in particular; they are being forced to do it, and it is the polity as construed by the government that is to blame. "

Awuzie, the ASUU President, has also recalled how it had taken two and a half years for the government team, led by industrialist Gamaliel Onosode, and the ASUU to reach a fresh agreement, which the ASUU has signed but is being ignored by Abuja.

He accused the government of pushing the union to the wall and into a strike, despite the 30 months of negotiation and another six months ' wait for it to sign and implement the deal.

Awuzie recounted that the government and the ASUU negotiating teams searched for a minimum point from which the university system could reverse the brain drain and ensure a large pool of scholars who would help to reposition the country.

He maintained that Nigerian universities need urgent intervention from the government to fulfill their potential, stressing that the agreement, if implemented, could transform them into some of the best in the world, and facilitate the country becoming a leading economy in the world.

Awuzie canvassed that education should continue to be funded by the treasury because of its importance to national development.

He said the negotiating teams agreed that if Nigeria is to get where it ought to be in world education ranking, a minimum 26 per cent of annual federal and state budgets should be allocated to education.
EducationLatest On ASUU Strike by contra(op): 8:11am On Aug 26, 2009
FG directs varsity councils to negotiate with ASUU
National News Aug 25, 2009
'That won’t happen, say teachers'

By Emmanuel Edukugho & Olubusuyi Adenipekun
The Federal Government has asked the university councils to resume negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The Chairman, Governing Council of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, Dr. Olu Alabi, said this in Abuja on Tuesday.

Members of ASUU are currently on a two-month-old strike to press demand for improved funding of universities, autonomy, better pay and an increase in the retirement age to 70.

Alabi said the negotiations appeared to have broken down but now the government had asked the councils to reopen talks with the union.

He said the development followed the realisation by the government that the councils were the real employers of the teachers.

Alabi added that some teachers were already appealing to ASUU to call off the strike before the government invoked the “no work, no pay,” policy.

He appealed to ASUU leadership to consider the welfare of the teachers on whose cause they are fighting.

Alabi further called on university alumni, holding top positions, to contribute their quota to the development of education.

However, ASUU National President, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, in a reaction, told Vanguard on phone that governing councils of universities cannot negotiate on behalf of the teachers.

He explained that the central negotiating framework which was employed in the negotiation was legally valid and in accordance with the principles of collective bargaining recognised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO),and Nigerian law and practice.

“So, therefore, the question of ASUU resuming negotiations directly with councils does not arise.”

He pointed out that the Federal Government had no right or power to unilaterally terminate a process of collective bargaining.

Awuzie stated that there were some forces in the government bent on frustrating the emergence of a centrally-signed agreement with ASUU. “These forces are aware that no agreement will be signed at individual council levels,” adding, “the councils do not have the financial means of implementing the funding requirements.”

According to the ASUU president, the Minister of Education, top officials at the Ministry of Education, the NUC Executive Secretary and ETF scribe have been striving hard to abrogate the negotiation, or, if that fails, “transfer them to where they will fail – to councils.”
ComputersThe Application Has Failed To Start Because Rtl100 Was Not Found. by contra(op): 4:25pm On Sep 09, 2008
Hello All, Please I need help with this error message on my computer;

The application has failed to start because rtl100 was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Thanks.
BusinessRe: NNPC Initiates Rationing Of Fuel In Abuja? by contra(m): 2:54pm On Apr 17, 2008
How about the bike riders, do they have to comply too?
Christianity EtcRe: What Is Holy Spirit And What Is The Holy Ghost? by contra(m): 8:09am On Apr 04, 2008
What Is Holy Spirit And What Is The Holy Ghost?

The question about the Holy Ghost is not to be discussed with those that are not born again, the first step to knowing who the Holy Ghost is is to be born again, then other things can follow.
No matter how one explains and describe the Holy Spirit to you, you cannot understand it, He is too complicated for those who are not born again.
Christianity EtcRe: What Is Holy Spirit And What Is The Holy Ghost? by contra(m): 8:08am On Apr 04, 2008
What Is Holy Spirit And What Is The Holy Ghost?

The question should have been; Who is The Holy Sprirt and Who is the Holy Ghost, because the Holy Spirit is a Person and He has a Personality. The Name Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost can be used interchangeably, They mean the same thing.
Christianity EtcRe: Holy Spirit by contra(m): 6:43pm On Apr 03, 2008
This is my own understanding of the person of the HOLY GHOST; He is the 3rd person of the GODHEAD, He is a Person and He's got a Personality. I can go on and tell you a thousand and one things about the HOLY GHOST, the fact still remains; IF YOU ARE NOT BORN AGAIN( Your mind renewed), YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND. It's given to the regenerated mind to understand.

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