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those scary signs of covenant university depicts the architectural expertise of the Bishop, although its quite scary and suspicious but i want to state categorically that its mere coincidence and papa is a true man of God

sometimes i close my eyes and assume i am a covenant university student, at other times i remember only Offa poly gave my admission

Correct urself, it must be a typo

folahann: Wait o. Are there muslim Universities self?

but u shud know dat there is freedom in church on certain things and an adult cannot discipline and impose laws on anoda adult because of our fundmntal human rights...but in a school they av d power

kaorama: If the news is true, wonder why they will ban those things in their school and leave their church. Are they more passionate about descency in school than in church?

God bless this man, i love him....I claim all the blessings in his life

DISCLAIMER: Am not even sure if this post should be in Education or Religion section, so please pardon me

Covenant University are in the news again, only that this time its not about expelling any student unjustly but they stopping their female students from looking very beautiful and attractive.

According to students of the school and the new Student Handbook(2013-2017 edition), the new management of the university has outlawed the use of "makeup" and "high heels" in the school. I wonder what is wrong with a university student looking
beautiful with makeup.

Anyways some of the students took to twitter to state thier dissatisfaction about outlawing make up and high heels in the school. below are some of thier tweets you can go on twitter and search for Covenant university or CU for more tweets, it was even trending yesterday on twitter

SOME OF THE TWEETS
Ketandu KK Ezeji ‏@OfficialKK_ 19h
Covenant University Stay Acting Like Dressing Equals Salvation. You Can't Come Into My Heaven If Your Shoes Are Red.
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PRO/Creativist ‏@TheRealVyne 19h
- Who goes to heaven for wearing black shoes or no makeup? Lol. Please explain to me. I'll wait. @JacobsIdowu4 @estiville
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PRO/Creativist ‏@TheRealVyne 19h
- Sleep & Wake up CU students, it's only a dream.... Or not )-:
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PRO/Creativist ‏@TheRealVyne 19h
- One day they'll riot..... One day..... Never actually )-: #CuPains
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Its Marvin; Biatch! ‏@duke_of_kellogs 18h
Lmao! *Dies* "@Tolu_Moula: :"( RT @KjSunmon: Lol. Covenant university 2014 Endurance set"

The Eccentric Imp. ‏@Cyntheeya 19h
Covenant University is not a University. More like a reform center for "bad children".

PRO/Creativist ‏@TheRealVyne 19h
- ......They should for ONCE conduct a DEPRESSION test.
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Ketandu KK Ezeji ‏@OfficialKK_ 19h
Covenant University Gets It Wrong A Lot of The Time I'm Not Sorry To Say. Plus Ouch Some Invisible Lightening Just Struck Me.
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PRO/Creativist ‏@TheRealVyne 19h
- Cu is losing focus. Christianity isn't an issue of appearance. God hasn't stopped looking at HEARTS.
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Moby V ‏@bookjunk1e 19h
Covenant University will break you. Take every single shred of endurance you have and deliberately shoot it to hell.

Tösïn Örìölá ‏@kid_sauce 19h
Link to the handbook y'all http://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Media/Banner-Assemblies/Homepage/Notifications/Student-Handbook-2013-2017 …

Ogunleye Olawale ‏@itz_waley 30 Aug
Watching T.V Doesn't Interest Me That Much Again.......Thank You Covenant University

PRO/Creativist ‏@TheRealVyne 19h
- How can you devote the existence of a university into making lives miserable under a stiff academic calendar? DON'T YOU WANT TO LIVE LONG?
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Arike ade ‏@MissLamide 30 Jul
A boyfriend nko? "@Temmii_xx: “I Never Had A GirlFriend” – Best Graduating Student In Covenant University http:///1ckaGQ5 "

_Princess_jasmine ‏@Saucejasmine 15h
I guess the "empty barrel makes the loudest noise"#amsowietothoseitmayconcern"@MsNarah: No sch tweets about thier sch the way CU students!

source:
http:///oDUTDlgv0M

link:
http://www.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Media/Banner-Assemblies/Homepage/Notifications/Student-Handbook-2013-2017

i am writing it o...i had geography 2day sef

obviously skelewu....but wizzy is a better lyricist sha

This is similar to funke akindele producing a part 4 for dat Jenifa movie

i want to force myself to believe you[quote author=Yoshi-Master]Wow! The nerve of this dude!

Somebody hold me ooo... but eh, wait, the guy talk true small sha!

Mr. man, I disagree with you with regards to the point you raised about Nigeria having no person free of corruption to lead the Country.

I have love for Country, and if I were to lead, I would want to leave a legacy behind, not pilfer funds.

I know a lot of people like myself, who dream of being able to transform this country, so we aint all bad, okay!

As for the rest of your murderous statements, I guess the verdict on that would have to be not-guilty, cause you called it as you saw it.[/quote]

na wen messi start to dey speak english sef...na lie jare...bad belle[quote author=De-Genius]Source: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/pitchside-europe/messi-accused-bullying-insulting-team-mates-point-tears-143707071.html[/quote]

DISCLAIMER: This post is entirely my candid opinion based on my observations, and is not in any way trying to ridicule anyone

If you are a celebrity and you are totally free of criticism then you are either living in denial or you are plain foolish, but some celebrities have gone to the extreme of having enormous amount of Nigerians critising them. Most celebrities have enormous fan base and are quite inteligent,but since no one is perfect on the course of the year they have done certain things that caused mass criticism. below are my top 7 most abused Nigerian celebrities on blogs, forums, Facebook and Twitter.


MY TOP 7 MOST ABUSED NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA

1.Tonto Dike
No Nigerian celebrity best dscribes Lady gaga than the self acclaimed "Poko Queen". The talented actress, singer, dancer, activist has been the subject of many controversies ranging from Envy, Bleaching, Pornography,delinquency, etc

2. Cossy Orjiafor Boobs
Reputed to be the largest natural boobs created ever! These shy looking boobs has been a cause of several controversies
on social media, with its carrier granting it freedom of expression and independence.It is always victimized for being to large and always showing itself to our faces

3. Beverly Osu
Facebook, Twitter, Forums are normally used to connect people with thier loved ones and interest but for this lady it has been used to connect her with her haters. Reputed to being the first Nigerian to have life sex on a reality show, This osu lady has given racist and tribalist every reason to make fun of her name by always sharing intimate details of her life to the public(they might probably be lies)

4. Femi Fani Kayode
Gone are the days when people only fight with guns and bombs, "FFK" as he is fondly called is the originator of Nigeria first ever "INTELLECTUAL CIVIL WAR". I am yet to find someone that can compete with him on controvertial historical facts, This man knows all these like the back of his palms and he is greatly disliked by many igbos for his claims.

5. Toke Makinwa
"Beauty" she has got it, "Dress sense" she is on point, "Talent" she is not bad either. but i still do not know why many Nigerians hate her so much, but the funny thing is she does know how to handle her criticism and you never find her fighting on social media with a fan. I heard she has been engaged to a guy for about 11 years now I pray the guy finally takes her down the aile

6. TB Joshua
The fastest way to stop my mum from travelling is to tell her that TB Joshua predicted an accident, that is to tell you the extent of the track record of this faith healer. Ironically this man is mostly critised by believers who argues that his deeds are often suspicious and mysterious. this has also lead to so many fake accounts on facebook and twitter using his name like for example an account on twitter(@TBJoshuaOnline) tweeted "ASUU strike would end when Arsenal starts winning trophies"

7. Afrocandy
Nigerian first pornographic actress, whom should not have been on this list if not for the conservative nature of the Nigerian populace. Known for starring in the Low budget Romantic Thriller "Destructive Instinct", this mother of two has no reason why she cant dress the way adam and eve dressed when God created them. She often claimed Nigerians are being hypocritical in their media orientation.

8. Eniola Badmus
This talented plus sized actress popularly known as "gbogbo bigz girls" in the box office breaking comedy
"Jenifa" has had a fair share of criticism for bein fat. She howeverstill remains active on Instagram and Twitter
which shows she might however not be moved by it.

9. Whizkid
An English writer once said "Talk is Cheap" but as a celebrity whatever you tweet is definitely expensive and can be the headline that could mar your career, that was the case of the most followed Nigeria celebrity on Twitter when his tweets suggested that "he is proud" and does not appreciate his fans. With his ever growing fan base I think its about time someone told him he needed a PR manager and should stay off Social media.

10. Goodluck and Patience Jonathan
He's known for his trademark hats...she's known for her eccentric language
He had no shoes...She now has 3 PHd's
He brought "goodluck" to Nigerian football...she's "mama peace"
This are just the few ways of describing the "Bonnie and Cylde" lovebirds of Nigerian politics
A wise man once said its impossible to please all Nigerians and indeed this Gentle and reserved Couple has had a fair share of insult from the Nigerian populace

Kemi Omololu Olonloye
If you are ever thinking about reasons why your children should not school abroad just visit MadamGovernor facebook and Twitter pages and i bet whenever you hear "Ahh" you would run before it becomes "Broad". Loved by her fans you would be surprised and how much she has ruined her dad political career with her left wing activism.

Others include: Karen Igho, Ahmed Musa, Gambo, Senator Yerima, Maheeda, Jim Iyke, Juliet Ibrahim, Stella Oduah

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Sorry...my bad....I meant 150 million dollars

akuji: So common 150 dollars, that s how Oyedepo entered Forbes. Abeg wey application form make I kukuma apply. I'm sure I can top that list with this 200 dollars equivalent wey dey my account so.

Disclaimer: All words on these post are entirely my opinion, I am in no way trying to judge for God
I cannot read minds so am judging based on what I read on the internet everyday.

MY TOP 5 MOST INFLUENTIAL MEN OF GOD IN NIGERIA

1. PASTOR EA ADEBOYE
There are very few(if not none) "pastorlike" qualities you would not see in this great man of God,be it humility, holiness, temperament,love, quietness etc all this are all embodied in this man that knows the heartbeat of God. When you hear him speak it reminds you of what the Bible meant when it said "The holy ghost had a gentle voice" Known notably for the famous way he says "Sombody shout Halleluyah".He was also listed among the 50 most influential men in the world by a famous world magazine. His annual congress is not only the largest gathering in Nigeria(both secular and spiritual) but it has also attracted many notable people like President Goodluck Jonathan, Olusegun Obasanjo, etc
His influence is not only centered among christian faithfuls, people like Gen Buhari has been seen going to the Redemption camp as it is fondly called for blessings.


2. BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO
If you are in search of an African pastor that abrogates the adage "As poor as a church rat" look no further because no one does it better than Bishop Oyedepo, With 4 private jets and an estimated worth of 150 million dollars(According to forbes). "Papa" as he is fondly called by his followers has luxirious assets that is the dream of everyone that wants to be wealthy. He is not only known for his physical acquisation but also for his "action oreinted" way of life. Those that know him testifies that indiscipline, stupidity and laxity disgusts him. he is often called the Elijah of our time because of the power of his words causing spiritual and physical changes.

3. PROPHET TB JOSHUA
If there is only one commandment in the Bible it would be "Love everyone as God has loved you" and actions are what depicts love, Based on my research no other Nigerian pastor on this list is as Charitable and controvertial as this man. he has assisted the poor, dwarfs, destitudes,etc the list is endless. although public opinion has influenced my perception of him i cant deny the fact that since he is still standing strong after more than 10 years of criticism,God might indeed be with him. he is a godfather to several political icons like Winnie Mandela, Julius Malena, etc. He is blessed with a kind of healing that looks more like the ones promised in the Bible(Instant and Total Healings)

4. PASTOR AYO ORITSTEJAFOR
"The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent taketh it by force" must be the scriptural backing that this great CAN president had when he said Christians in Northern Nigeria should carry guns and defend themselves against Islamic extremist. Still no one can deny the fact that he handled the Boko haram menace swiftly, allowing them know Christians could be gentle but certainly not foolish.

5. PASTOR WF KUMUYI
Since the 1970s a certain man has been preaching Holiness in a way he believes God wants it to be taught, ignoring all Scientific changes and Worldly advances, 40 years later this man continued to preach that same holiness in that same way. Reputed to be the Superintendent of the Most Conservative Christian denomination in recent times. This man has a zero tolerance to concession. His guiding philosophy is that "it is better to be very conservative and make heaven than to be liberal and go to hell", Hence the Expunge of certain seeminly worldly practices and his strictness to the Holy Bible alone.

5. REV CHRIS OYACHILOME
When you talk of a teacher no one on this list breaks down the gospel to A,B,C like this man, With a physical presence that puts his audience in awe. Pastor Chris ensures that both the outward and the inward apearance of Christ remains flashy and evergreen at all costs. As a few controversies to his name but when you hear him preach the word of God you know certainly that this is definitely from God.

Please how do I know my center...On the internet they are stil writing "To be made avaluable later"...but some people old me they already know thier center o

I really appreciate all the comments, it has been really helpful, I also want to thank God for the grace he granted unto me to make frontpage...it was not by my power...also i appreciate the moderators for putting it on the front page...and my parents for the money they gave me to subscribe my internet.

I do not intent to make mockery of the word of God, I created this thread because i was having certain doubts about some things...so if this question is in anyway sinful may God forgive me and give me the grace to sin no more.

Lets just imagine there was no Old testament Bible, would that be enough for me to make heaven
Three things that I have discovered are
1. There are some things in the Old Testament that are not in the new testament
2. Old and New testament should complement each other
3. Jesus Christ is suffcient for me to make heaven

So if i read only New testament, can i still go to heaven by obeying only new testament rules?

Please you guyz need to follow this link and read this article, yes I know Nigeria is corrupt but this guy went too far...its even funny because he came to Nigeria to work for a Oil and Gas company and now that he has finished his work he wrote so many bad things about Nigeria. If I were to be GEJ I dont think i would want someone like this to have VISA oo...Or what do you guys think about this article, I might be wrong sha but I think this guy is rude and ungrateful

ORIGINAL POST BELOW

The End of an Assignment in Nigeria
Posted on August 22, 2013 by Tim Newman
Okay, so now I’ve got a post about Melbourne out of the way it’s time for me to say a little something about Nigeria. With the exception of a week in October when I need to clear out my apartment, I’ve pretty much left Nigeria. My assignment there officially finished on 31st July, although I will have to return for business trips over the course of the next 3 years because the project I am on in Melbourne is for Nigeria.

Somebody once said that there is much to write about Russia, but when one tries you can never find the words to write the first line. Nigeria is much the same, and indeed there are many similarities between the two countries. I have tried to describe Nigeria to people who have never been there, and failed on most occasions. A colleague of mine stopped telling people back home about the place because he was getting a reputation as somewhat of a bullshitter, even though he didn’t exaggerate anything. I was at a seminar in Paris some time ago and I was describing the working life in Nigeria to a group of Frenchmen. One of them quipped that I was exaggerating and that “it couldn’t be that bad”, which prompted another Frenchman, sitting beside me, to nudge me in the ribs and remark “wait until he does his Nigerian assignment”. He was based in Port Harcourt.

Nigeria has a reputation, and I knew about it before I arrived. Most of what I’d heard proved to be completely true. Almost all of it, in fact. To get a general picture of Nigeria, just read the news, and you’ll not be far wrong. It isn’t a place like Russia, the US, or France which surprise visitors when they see the contrast between what they’ve imagined (based on exposure to their tourists or foreign policy) and the individuals they encounter. But beyond the general picture, there are some subtleties worth mentioning.

It’s first important to understand that degree is as important as form. Russians, faced with criticism of corruption in their country, often retort that corruption is found everywhere, even in the UK. Which is true, but in many countries it does not infest every authority, office, and institute like it does in Russia. It is the degree, or extent, of corruption which makes Russia different from the UK, not the form. Understanding this concept is important in describing Nigeria.

There is no getting away from the fact that corruption in Nigeria has infested almost every aspect of life, work, and society. I can’t think of a single area where I didn’t encounter a scam of some sort. Some of them were pretty normal – policemen hassling motorists for bribes, for example – with others being less common elsewhere. Filling brand named alcohol bottles with local hooch was widespread practice. Not so bad in itself, but these were being sold through supposedly legitimate suppliers and turning up in established bars. Others were unique to Nigeria. I knew a guy in charge of oil shipments for a foreign oil company who received a call from somebody in the authorities saying he was not going to release the multi-million dollar cargo until somebody had bought his cousin $10 worth of phone credit. My acquaintance found himself going to the shop, buying a phone card, and handing it over to some scruffy bloke who showed up at his office in order to allow his crude oil out of the country.

The corruption, theft, and graft can take many forms: falsifying a CV (I don’t mean enhancing, I mean pretending you’re a Lead Piping Engineer of 12 years experience when actually, until yesterday, you were a fisherman); selling positions in a company; stealing diesel from the storage tanks you’re paid to protect; issuance of false material certificates; impersonating an immigration officer to access an office, from which you then tap up the people within to fund your latest venture; selling land which isn’t yours; deliberately running down the country’s refining capacity in order to partake in the lucrative import of fuels; falsifying delivery notes of said refined fuels in order to receive greater government subsidies; deliberately restricting the country’s power generation capacity in order to benefit from the importation of generators (which must be run on imported fuel); theft of half-eaten sandwiches and opened drink containers from the office fridge; tinkering with fuel gauges at petrol stations to sell customers short; conspiring with company drivers to issue false receipts indicating more fuel was supplied than actually was; supplying counterfeit safety equipment; falsifying certificates related to professional competence (e.g. rope access work); paying employees less than stipulated in their contract (or not at all); cloning satellite TV cards, meaning the legitimate user gets their service cut off when the other card is in use (the cards are cloned by the same people who issue the genuine cards); the list is literally endless. There is no beginning or end to corruption in Nigeria, it is a permanent fixture.

Nepotism is rife: family members are employed and promoted before anyone else. Outright theft is rife: from a pen lying on a desk, to billions from the state coffers. Dishonesty is rife: from the state governors to the street urchin, lying to enrich yourself is the norm. You name the scam, it is being done in Nigeria. Eventually, nothing surprises you.

As I said before, you’ll find such practices everywhere, but to nowhere near the extent found in Nigeria.

Apparently it wasn’t always like this. There was a time, probably from around the 1970s to 1990s, when Nigeria had a reasonably diverse economy. Besides the oil and gas, they had agriculture, manufacturing and assembly (Peugeot set up an assembly plant in Nigeria in the mid-1970s), brewing (there is a both a Guinness and a Heineken brewery), refining, construction, and pharmaceuticals. Some of these survive today. There were decent universities, and students wishing to graduate had to apply themselves. Security wasn’t much of a concern to the average citizen.

I don’t know the details, but at some point in the 1990s one of the military dictators decided to flood the place with oil money in order to buy support. This had the effect of drowning every other form of enterprise and ensuring that oil and gas was the only game in town. This is bad in itself, but by no means unique to Nigeria. What was worse is that this quickly instilled a mentality across Nigeria that there was a lot of money up for grabs, and getting your hands on it wasn’t in any way related to honest efforts or applying yourself to something constructive. Nigeria became a place where if you’re not getting your hands on some of the oil money, either directly or indirectly, then you’re going nowhere. With oil money washing over the whole country like a tidal wave, soon everyone was trying to secure their own piece of the action, using fair means or foul. Imagine throwing a huge box of sweets into a playgroup shouting “Grab what you can!”, and the chaos that ensues will be similar to what happened to Nigeria on a national scale.

At least, this is what I gather happened – I may be wrong – but for sure, the current situation reflects what I’ve described. The economy is funded almost exclusively from oil and gas revenues, and everything else is merely feeding off that. The new hotels in Lagos, the growth of capital city of Abuja, the importation of luxury goods, the Audi and Porsche dealerships, the sky-rocketting real estate prices, the money earmarked for infrastructure projects, the increase in flight passengers, all of it is directly or indirectly linked to the oil money. Okay, maybe there is some hyperbole in there. Agriculture still makes up the lion’s share of GDP, and the services sector is booming. Advertising is a big industry in Lagos, although the most common thing you see advertised is advertising space. But nobody is going to get anywhere herding cattle, picking pineapples, or working in a sawmill. Even the owners won’t be earning that much, not if that’s their only income. There is very little opportunity to get rich, or even advance, unless you are somehow connected to the supply of oil money.

One of the results of this national free-for-all is the formation of groups, societies, associations, and unions whose raison d’être is to obtain as much money and benefits for their members as possible. This isn’t much different from Europe in respect of trade unions, but groups and subgroups form at micro-levels with sometimes comical precision. The Lagos Association of Road Maintenance Engineers, Roundabout and Lay-by Division, 4th Department. The Nigerian Association of Water Truck Drivers, Lagos Chapter. Membership of one or more of these associations is both essential and compulsory: essential because an individual would get trampled very quickly in the general melee of Nigeria, and compulsory in the sense that you have almost no chance of being allowed to quietly ply your trade without paying dues to some group or other. It’s not clear what the legal standing of a lot of these groups is, but it’s often hard to tell how they differ from a standard extortion racket. One of the most powerful unions in Lagos, the transport union, used to shake down any okada (motorcycle taxi) driver passing through their checkpoints, claiming the money was used “to protect them from the police”. I doubt the money was used in such a manner, but people do need protection from the police in Lagos. Not that the okada drivers had any say in the matter: membership was automatic, and the union muscle would beat any non-compliant driver or confiscate his vehicle. The power of the oil and gas workers unions is legendary, ensuring their members enjoy pay and benefits which are the highest of any local staff in the world, and often outstrip those of the expatriates.

This in itself might not be so damaging, but ubiquitous to all competing factions is a rapacity the likes of which I doubt can be found anywhere else on such a scale. There is a culture so prevalent that it is a defining characteristic of Nigeria whereby no amount is ever enough, and no sum too small to be pilfered. There comes a point in the career of most people who have gotten rich, either legitimately or otherwise, where they stop chasing the small stuff and are only interested in adding to their pile if the increase will be substantial. The police chief of a sizeable Thai resort town has his fingers in many pies, but he’s not interested in shaking down street vendors. His minions might in order to supplement their salaries, but generally once the boss has his cut of most of the action, he’s not interested in sweeping up every last baht. As a result, commerce can continue relatively unmolested. The same is roughly true amongst the Sheikhs of the Middle East. Bung the Crown Prince a few million for the contract, and he’ll allow the project activities to go ahead pretty freely. He’s not interested in making an extra $10k by insisting you hire his brother’s lorry fleet to transport the gravel. Such restraint may also be practical: the dodgy official in the UK isn’t going to be interested in taking pennies if he risks getting fired or going to jail, he’ll have a minimum price he’ll work for.

But Nigeria has the same problem I saw in Russia: an almost pathological insistence of securing for yourself 100% of everything that is available, and not a kopek or kobo less. I have observed before that Russians would rather have 100% of nothing than 50% of something, and the same is true – but on a far greater scale – in Nigeria. The inequality in Nigeria is horrific. The middle-classes are tiny, those who are neither stinking rich nor mired in poverty. As it happens, most of the Nigerians I worked with fell into this category: lucky enough to have well-paying jobs, but not ordering Porsche Cayennes for each family member. Statistically, almost all Nigerians are dirt poor. A very few are stinking rich. Again, a manageable problem in itself, but the rich haven’t finished yet. Indeed, they’re only just getting started. I spoke to a couple of Angolans in a seminar once, and they said that although their ruling classes had enriched themselves immeasurably, they were at least spending some money on the country, and improvements were noticeable. The reason the Russians accept with a shrug the siloviki helping themselves to millions is because they (rightly) feel this is inevitable and – more importantly – life is actually improving in Russia and has been doing so since they came to power. Sure, it’s a slow improvement and life is still hard, but they are at least moving in the right direction (for how long is a discussion for another post). There have been improvements in infrastructure in Russia, the new Sheremetovo airport to name one example.

By contrast – and I challenge any Nigerian reading this to disagree – there have been no discernible improvements in Nigeria in the past decade (outside of Abuja, where all the politicians happen to live). The infrastructure is crumbling, electricity shortages abound, Lagos airport is a national disgrace, project after project gets sanctioned but rarely started, never mind completed, before the funds disappear, and unemployment is rocketing. I heard somewhere that 2m people are added to the workforce every year in Nigeria. To do what, exactly? There are no jobs. One source of employment for young men was to drive okadas, until they abruptly got banned in Lagos last year. The roads are now much better, but you now have tens of thousands of young men with no source of income and no hope of a job. Since the ban came into effect, crime – robberies, car-jackings, burglaries – have increased by an order of magnitude, even in the rich neighbourhoods of Lagos previously thought to be safe. It’s not difficult to see why.

Meanwhile, Nigerian senators – of whom there are 109 – enjoy an official package worth $1.5m per year, which they recently requested to be increased to $2.2m per year. By contrast, the US President gets an annual salary of $400k. Given the unofficial incomes of a Nigerian senator through graft and backhanders is probably 3-5 times that, we can probably estimate most of these guys are taking home something in the order of $4-5m each year. Yet they put in for a 46% increase, in a country where 45% of the population lives beneath the poverty line. This is hardly surprising for a group of politicians, and far from unique to Nigeria. The problem is, this behaviour is repeated through every strata of society from the very top of the government to the lowest street urchin: whatever is there, I want all of it; and I want more. I saw wealthy middle-class Nigerians move to ensure drivers did not enjoy a fringe benefit worth about $10 per week. If you threatened to report a low-level official for corruption, he would usually tremble with fear of his boss finding out: not because his boss shuns corruption, but because he will want to know why the proceeds of this particular scam haven’t been coming to him. We already had the example of a multi-million dollar oil cargo being held up until somebody’s relative received a kick-back worth $10. If any amount of new money arrives in the economy – due to a new oil project, for example – those who are already wealthy, via their societies, organisations, unions, and political connections will ensure 100% of that new money will go to them. Insofar as sharing and dividing the spoils goes, it is between groups who are already of the same wealth. If any trickles down to the next layer, it is almost by accident, and to be corrected at the first opportunity.

I came to the conclusion about 2 years into my assignment that Nigeria is probably the only genuinely classless society I have seen. Class is very different from wealth. Upper class people can be dirt poor (bankrupt dukes) and lower class people can be fabulously rich (Russian oligarchs). Class is about behaviour and attitudes, not wealth (a point made very well in Kate Fox’s excellent book Watching the English). And insofar as behaviour goes, I didn’t see a shred of difference between the top politicians, down through the officials in the national authorities, through the middle class professionals, through the service providers, right down to the area boys. The behaviour was identical across all strata: I want more money, and I will do absolutely anything to get it. If you were to replace the politicians – let’s say our 109 senators from before – with 109 random people from the Nigerian citizenry, you would get no change in behaviour. You could repeat the experiment a thousand times, and you would get no change. There is no ruling class in Nigeria, there is just a set of rulers. Where any change is expected to come from I don’t know.



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So u were banned in 2012...check ur dates very well bro

I had oustanding before...then after some months they gave me F9...but I pray urz wud not be F sha

Are you for real?

kateb123: TO GET WAEC GCE QUESTION AND ANSWER BEFORE THE EXAM CONTACT 08167482960.

Someone registered for me and I cant reach the person anymore to ask any question

Amanyanabo: Did you register by your self or you registered through a tutorial centre(lesson)

I registered for this year WAEC GCE and I dont know my center yet....please when would WAEC tell me my center....because I must pass this year IJN

SO TRUE...To make it clear there are so many notable awards today in Nigeria that involves both private and public uni and studentz of private uni comes out tops

Acidosis: Firslty, I did not attend a private uni.

I'm only trying to be objective and face this issue without considering the fact that I attended a public school.

Have you wondered why admission in some schools abroad is so easy?

Do you know most people who failed your JAMB gained admission easily in developed countries and then come back home to get the jobs the "HARDworking", "HARD-STRESSED all night reading students" here in the country are struggling to get?

Its not about Private uni.. its about the over-rating aluta struggling ish going on in our 19th century institutions.

If its about "STRUGGLE", then our public schools ought to be leading in the world of academics.

I know you'll also condemn the 1st class students in schools like Novena university, Ogume, Delta state. But do you know a girl from that school, Oghale Askia went ahead for Masters in Middlesex university, UK and she came out as the best graduating student (+ 5 awards) ?
Mind you, this girl left Novena with a 2.1 result (not even a 1st class)..
www.nairaland.com/757410/askia-oghale-tessy-best-graduating


And again, its not about competition. A visit to some of the private schools will convince you.

..and I'm not forgetting the fact that, some schools are bad. Its normal.. Even in the U.K, there are bad schools.

..and you don't expect all unis to have the same standards. 2.2 in OAU may not be 2.2 in UNIBEN even though they are both Federal Unis.

Do you also know, that UNILAG graduates more first class students than most schools? So can we also condemn UNILAG?