₦airaland Forum

meforyou1:
don't really agree with you. Election into an office does not depend on what what studies. Accept that public administrators are those that manage machineries of public offices. Wish you all the best

meforyou1:
don't really agree with you. Election into an office does not depend on what what studies. Accept that public administrators are those that manage machineries of public offices. Wish you all the best

who are those in the best position to analyse the the before and aftermath of an election? And who best have the upper hand when election is about to be conducted?

meforyou1:
darrytoz, please what is the basic between political science and public administration? and in what roles do your people fit in Nigerian nation building? is it right to say that any Nigerian that has school certificate or bachelor's degree can be a public administrator?

political science/scientist are those people elected into various levels of government while public administration/administrators are those machinery that the political scientist use in other to carry out there duties. The two profession correlate one another because there is no political scientist without public administrators and vice versa.

Cool83:
@administrator, do u believe that deligation of duty is a good method of administration

Cool83:
@administrator, do u believe that deligation of duty is a good method of administration

yes

suco01:
@ mr procurement. U urself u knw without dis comp science u cant work efficiently. U need to make calls to d people u wan to procure goods nd service for, u can do dat in a mins instead of u travellin or movin frm one place to anoda. Also u need to see d goods nd services u wan procure for sm1, y dont u use ur leg to walk there instead of u using a vehicle. @ mr administration ur work has been politicised in 9ja. I bet it dat if tinubu tel u to do smtin against d ethic of ur wrk. U will. Administration wrk has been baseless in 9ja.

how come up with the conclusion that administrative work in Nigeria is baseless. As we all no, no government can function without administrators because we are the machinery upon which the functions of the government are being carried out.

Tgirl4real:
@ Darrytoz,
Don't you think this statement is ambiguous?

I used in context to the title of the topic. Which as to do with my own point of view. The way i feel they have not been able to contribute to the building of the nation.

Nunushokoto:
We have evidence of states like Nasarawa and Katsina states who are now major producers of rice in the country. This is as a result of adequate information being passed across to the rural farmers.

just imagine that two states out of 36 states. Are we progressing at all in the agricultural sector?

pseudonomer:
How are you sure it hasn't gotten to the rural communities?

Our agricultural productivity turnout has not been encouraging. Year in year out at one certain period or not Nigerians always lack of availability of agricultural product. You can bear me witness to this; if not pepper this year, it will be onions next year. The list is endless.

Nunushokoto:
Research has made it known to us that the government is working towards the production of hybrid resistant seedlings. In the recent G-7 meeting attended by President Buhari, one of their agenda is to see the regularisation and normalisation of world climate and this will in turn boost the production yield of agricultural produce.

For how long do you think this will take? Don't you think people will die of hunger if we are to wait for the government?

Nunushokoto:
The government has also achieve subsidization of farm input and implements and provision of cellular for easy information access and also providing agricultural extension workers to aid rural farmers. Also, the government has provided non interest agricultural banks that gives loans without collateral to farmers and organizations like the FADAMA 1-3 for better funding of rural farmers.

And how sure are you that this subsidization process has gotten to the rural communities in the country?

Nunushokoto:
Taking Nigeria as a case study, the poor state of the country is as a result of failed public administrators/administration. Hence public administration is not achieving its so contributions to the country. Unlike plant physiology and crop production that has subsequently been on the increase to satisfy the needs of the growing population of Nigeria despite the failure of the public administrators to see to a good policy to favour Nigerian farmers.

the administrators have been able to achieve a lot of goals with the little available resources given to them. Do make the mistake of comparing an administrator to be the head of a country. Politics is different from administration

Nunushokoto:
The government has provided organisations that educates farmers and give them practical demonstration on how to increase their level of production. Institutions of agriculture had also been eatables to impact the knowledge of agriculture into the young ones. Schools like Funaab, Michael Opara university of agriculture, Federal university of agriculture Makurdi to mention but a few .

what about the rural communities? What has the government done to improve their productivity? As we all no they are the one producing more agricultural product for consumption.

Good day to the esteemed judges, erudite coordinators, fellow debaters, and the informed spectators. I am Darrytoz, the second speaker of The Polytechnic, Ibadan. I am here to speak on "my discipline and nation building".


Public Administration is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for work in the public service. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope," its fundamental goal is to advance management and policies so that government can function effectively and efficiently.
Public Administration can also be viewed as the management of public programs, the translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day, and the study of government decision making. The analysis of the policies themselves, the various inputs that have produced them, and the inputs necessary to produce alternative policies.
Public Administration is centrally concerned with the organization of government policies and programmes as well as the behaviour of officials (usually non-elected) formally responsible for their conduct. Many unelected public servants can be considered to be public administrators including head of city, county, regional, state and federal departments such as municipal budget directors, human resources (H.R.) administrators, city managers, census managers, state mental health directors, and cabinet secretaries. Public administrators are public servants working in public departments and agencies, at all levels of government.

In the US, civil servants and academics such as Woodrow Wilson promoted American civil service reform in the 1880s, moving public administration into academia. However, until the mid-20th century and the dissemination of the German Sociologist Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy, there was not much interest in a theory of public administration. The field is multidisciplinary in character; one of the various proposals for public administration's sub-fields sets out six pillars, including:
Human resources which is the set of individuals who make up the workforce of an organisations, business sector, or economy.
Organisational theory is a loosely knit community of many approaches to organizational analysis. Its themes, questions, methods, and explanatory modes are extremely diverse.
Policy analysis is "determining which of various policies will most achieve a given set of goals in light of the relations between the policies and the goals".
Statistics is study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.
Budgeting is a quantitative expression of a plan for a defined period of time. It may include planned sales volumes and revenues, resources quantities, costs ane expenses, assets, liabilities and cash flows. It expresses strategic plans of business units, organisations, activities or events in measurable terms.

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. Ethics investigates the questions "what is the best way for people to live?" and "what actions are right or wrong in particular circumstances?" in practice, ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality, by defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.

Public administrators contribute to nation building in the following ways among others:
promotion of a rational development of economic proportions through macro-regulation; control of the privatization process of state owned enterprises and public services and securing free competition and transparency in its implementation;
securing an effective exercise of ownership rights of the state and other public entities;
support of the private sector, especially of small and medium-sized enterprises; development of effective cooperative relations between the public and private sectors;
drafting and implementing effective sectoral policies, especially securing internal and external security, regional policy, transport policy, information and communication policy, environmental policy, education policy, social policy, employment policy and health care policy.

Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concern with the functioning, or physiology of plants. Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tropisms, nastic movements, photopenodism, photomorphogenesis, circadian rhythms, environmental stress physiology, seed germination doronancy and stomata function and transpiration, both parts of plant water relations, are studied by plant physiologists.

In view, plant physiologists have not been contributing to nation building for the following reasons:

Climate change is one of the most serious environmental threats facing mankind worldwide. It affects agriculture in several ways, including its direct impact on food production. Climate change, which is attributable to the natural climate cycle and human activities, has adversely affected agricultural productivity in Africa (ziervogel et al 2006). Available evidence shows that climate change is global, likewise its impacts; but the adverse effects will be felt mainly by developing countries, especially those in Africa, due to their low level of coping capabilities (Nwafor 2007; Jagtap 2007). Nigeria is one of these developing countries (Odjugo,2010). It is projected that crop yield in Africa may fall by 10-20% by 2050 or even up to 50% due to climate change (Jones and Thornton, 2003), particularly because African agriculture is predominately rain-fed and hence fundamentally dependent on the volgaries of weather.
Agricultural funding for research technology development: the Department of Agricultural Sciences (DAS) of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for all aspects of agricultural research in Nigeria. DAS oversees the funding and management of 15 national agricultural research institutes located throughout the country. Those institutes are tasked with generating improved agricultural technologies for use by farmers and agro-allied industries. However, DAS funding of agricultural science research and technology has been generally sluggish as governments and even the private sector are yet to accord it the needed priority attention. Bientema and Ayoola (2004) assessed agricultural research capacity in Nigeria and found that it is highly dispersed such that the country currently does not have a well-defined national agricultural research strategy. In addition, the funding of agricultural research from the federal government budget, which is always the main and now virtually the sole source of funds, has been in regression since the collapse of oil prices in the early 1980s (Agbamu, 2000; FAO 1996 and Nigeria House Committee on Agriculture, 2005).
Lack of education, information and training is frequently a key limiting factor to agricultural development. The report of IFAD (2007) confirmed that the poor state of the country's education has also had its toll on the poor people, majority of who are farmers in rural areas. In addition, they are faced with limited social services and infrastructure. FAO (2008) reported that about 90% of Nigeria's food is produced by small-scale farmers who cultivate small plots of land and depend on rainfall rather than irrigation system as a result of their low knowledge base, access to facilities and poor financing. Thank you.


REFERENCES
www.en.m.wikipedia.org/public_administration
www.managementstudyguide.com
www.en.m.wikipedia.org/plant_physiology
www.allafrica.com
www.fao.org
Adejuwon J.O (2006) "food crop production in Nigeria II: potential effects of climate change"

Fynestboi:
My discipline and nation building (under this, each speaker would speak on how his course is integral to nation building than the others).
Debaters are to drop their course of study....
Pseudonomer Nunushokoto
Sammyscholar Darrytoz

public Administration

Danjuma827:
If you have beeeln following the first set of topics you will agree with me that fynestboi co moderator Richiez has warned all the members about these fraudulent act. Or have you been seeing posts on those topics? I think you answer will be a big No

was the warning by the moderators enough to stop the act? Tell if someone is banned today wount he go and open another account. The social media does not give room for interpersonal relationship rather it is intrapersonal relationship because you dont no from were the person you are trying to relate with evolve from.

Danjuma827:
@ ibadan poly reps.......Do you know how many youths have found something go doing through the help of social media? for your information most social media we have today is as a result of the creative minds of the youths. Many youths today are being employed in lucrative Jobs just because of their access of social media. so I will want you to know that.

You and I will agree that what the youth have been able to achieve through the social media is FRAUD! You no what am talking about. What does the youth engaged themselves with nowadays with the social media? Yahoo-Yahoo. Quote me if I am wrong.

Danjuma827:
well so you mean that you will agree to them. How come do you know about the fraud wasn't it through the social media? Thank God you are aware that there are fraud. Will you still fall to them when you know that they are fraud? I think its not possible. or are you telling me that a wise person won't dictate a fraud topic or not?

tell me! For a first timer that stumble on the forum through google. Will such a person no that he/she is about to be fraud. A lot of fraudulent act has been registered on this section (education) when some candidate who are in rush for admission falls into the hand of gangs who parade themselves as agent of the school.

Danjuma827:
if only you know how many members on nairaland are being educated on this forum then you will not bring about the matter above.
or you want to tell me that this debate as not imparted to you a lot? I

Are you telling us now that we dont have fraud on nairaland?

darrytoz:
As far as they are being educated. So also they are scaming people day in day out. Do you want to time you have never been a victim of social media?

Do you want to tell me you have never been a victim of social media?

Danjuma827:
Do your research very well. More people are being educated day in day out and they are surpassing the issues of fraud. Do you believe with me that knowlegde is power? If you do with the rate at which people are being educated through social media there will be tremendous decrease in crime rate.

As far as they are being educated. So also they are scaming people day in day out. Do you want to time you have never been a victim of social media?

Danjuma827:
@darrytoz. do you know that most students all over the world are being educated through online social media platforms and there population is increasing day in day out?

come to think the total number of students being educated through the social media is not much to the total number of students that uses it to fraud their fellows.

The social media- a tool of social engineering or a weapon of social destruction.

Good day to the esteemed judges, erudite coordinators, fellow debaters, and the informed spectators. I am Darrytoz, the second speaker of The Polytechnic, Ibadan. I stand for: The social media- a weapon of social destruction?

SOCIAL MEDIA: is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration.
WEAPON: an instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
DESTRUCTION: the act or process of destroying or being destroyed.

Social media is the 'new media' that speed up conversations in a more interactive way that makes communication more effective and worthwhile. It is an online media that takes communication beyond the limitations of the traditional media. Which most often delivers content but doesn't permit readers, or as the case may be, viewers or listeners, to participate in the formation or development of the content.
But a web content analyst, Ron Jones' definition of social media seems quite apt. He said it is, "a category of online media where people are talking, participating, sharing, networking, and bookmarking online". Currently, there is an array of social media networks in the world, ranging from social sharing sites such as YouTube, Twitter to Linkedin and facebook among others.

However, Facebook is said to be the most popular social network in the world. It is also one of the two most frequently visited websites in the entire internet. It routinely trades places with Google as the most visited web service, and by the company's estimates, it now has over 800million active users. That is more regular visitors than the entire internet had in 2004. As of June 2012, facebook has over 955 million active users, more than half of them visiting it on mobile devices.
The social media commonly used in Nigeria include Facebook, 2go, yahoo messenger, BBM, whatapps, twitter, linkedin amongst others. They all offer their users unrestricted access to chat with friends, relations and other acquaintances. Started from Facebook followed by Twitter, social networking websites have become the vogue across the world, especially among the youth. Just a few clicks and you can chat with your friends and family, sitting at a different corner of the globe.

Before the deregulation of the Nigeria telecommunication sector in 1999, fewer Nigerians had access to computers while the lack of sufficient technological infrastructure such as the internet and mobile phones constrained communication within the society. However, with the deregulation of the telecommunication sector, social network spread like wide fire in Nigeria. Today, all classes of Nigerians now have unlimited access to the social media.

The youth, however, remains the most prominent users of the social media. This of course is not surprising as the digital age is widely believed to belong to the youth. No doubt, the phenomenon of the social media has, in no small measure, impacted positively on the development of the Nigerian youths and, indeed Nigerians at large. However, despite these benefits, social media have been subjected to abuse and some negative stories. Is it the crimes that are perpetuated through it that we want to talk about, or the nude pictures that flood social media?

Nevertheless, like it is in every sphere of life, the social media equally has negative influence on the youth, especially the unsuspecting ones. The obvious lack of security of the social media makes it dangerous to innocent youths. People have to sign up with some sites putting in their personal and sometimes professional information.
As long as these details are safe, there is no threat in social networking with friends as well as strangers, you want to be friend with. But once your personal details like address, contact number, etc. get hacked by the unwanted strangers, you will be a soft target of these immoral act.
There is a great danger in getting close with strange people on social media sites. Many people unconsciously get started with strangers with the intention of having a casual relationship but gradually they find out that they become so close to these people.
As time goes on they become so intimate forgetting that the heart of men is desperately wicked (apology to the Holy scriptures). With time they so much trust them that they reveal their deepest secrets to them while the so called 'friends' turn back to pay them with evil. Through this way, many have been defrauded while others have lost their lives.

These negative effects of social media, seems to take more toll on the Nigerian youth. Study have revealed that there seems to be a positive correlation between the usage of social media with cyber bullying. Social media have led to a sharp increase in crime rate among Nigerian youth. People are constantly duped, kidnapped or even killed by social media-accentuated means. Of courses, a case in point was a student Cynthia Osokogu, who was killed by friends she met through a social media-facebook. Again, students are sometimes raped on their way to seeing their "social networking" friends.

In conclusion, the social media offers unlimited possibilities for the Nigerian youth. However, in view of its obvious shortcomings, some of which have been discussed above. It is important for governments, NGOs, youth based organisations and other relevant stakeholders to regularly enlighten the youth on the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the social media.
This is essential if the youth are to properly harness the positive aspects of the social media for personal development. Perhaps, more importantly, the youth should take responsibility on how to use the social media in a positive light. They should shun every negative tendency that the platform could provide in order not to become tools for societal disintegration. Thank you.



REFERENCES
www.peoplesdailyng.com
www.slideshare.net
www.ru.org/society/
www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/
www.whatis.comThe social media- a tool of social engineering or a weapon of social destruction.

Good day to the esteemed judges, erudite coordinators, fellow debaters, and the informed spectators. I am Darrytoz, the second speaker of The Polytechnic, Ibadan. I stand for: The social media- a weapon of social destruction?

SOCIAL MEDIA: is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration.
WEAPON: an instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
DESTRUCTION: the act or process of destroying or being destroyed.

Social media is the 'new media' that speed up conversations in a more interactive way that makes communication more effective and worthwhile. It is an online media that takes communication beyond the limitations of the traditional media. Which most often delivers content but doesn't permit readers, or as the case may be, viewers or listeners, to participate in the formation or development of the content.
But a web content analyst, Ron Jones' definition of social media seems quite apt. He said it is, "a category of online media where people are talking, participating, sharing, networking, and bookmarking online". Currently, there is an array of social media networks in the world, ranging from social sharing sites such as YouTube, Twitter to Linkedin and facebook among others.

However, Facebook is said to be the most popular social network in the world. It is also one of the two most frequently visited websites in the entire internet. It routinely trades places with Google as the most visited web service, and by the company's estimates, it now has over 800million active users. That is more regular visitors than the entire internet had in 2004. As of June 2012, facebook has over 955 million active users, more than half of them visiting it on mobile devices.
The social media commonly used in Nigeria include Facebook, 2go, yahoo messenger, BBM, whatapps, twitter, linkedin amongst others. They all offer their users unrestricted access to chat with friends, relations and other acquaintances. Started from Facebook followed by Twitter, social networking websites have become the vogue across the world, especially among the youth. Just a few clicks and you can chat with your friends and family, sitting at a different corner of the globe.

Before the deregulation of the Nigeria telecommunication sector in 1999, fewer Nigerians had access to computers while the lack of sufficient technological infrastructure such as the internet and mobile phones constrained communication within the society. However, with the deregulation of the telecommunication sector, social network spread like wide fire in Nigeria. Today, all classes of Nigerians now have unlimited access to the social media.

The youth, however, remains the most prominent users of the social media. This of course is not surprising as the digital age is widely believed to belong to the youth. No doubt, the phenomenon of the social media has, in no small measure, impacted positively on the development of the Nigerian youths and, indeed Nigerians at large. However, despite these benefits, social media have been subjected to abuse and some negative stories. Is it the crimes that are perpetuated through it that we want to talk about, or the nude pictures that flood social media?

Nevertheless, like it is in every sphere of life, the social media equally has negative influence on the youth, especially the unsuspecting ones. The obvious lack of security of the social media makes it dangerous to innocent youths. People have to sign up with some sites putting in their personal and sometimes professional information.
As long as these details are safe, there is no threat in social networking with friends as well as strangers, you want to be friend with. But once your personal details like address, contact number, etc. get hacked by the unwanted strangers, you will be a soft target of these immoral act.
There is a great danger in getting close with strange people on social media sites. Many people unconsciously get started with strangers with the intention of having a casual relationship but gradually they find out that they become so close to these people.
As time goes on they become so intimate forgetting that the heart of men is desperately wicked (apology to the Holy scriptures). With time they so much trust them that they reveal their deepest secrets to them while the so called 'friends' turn back to pay them with evil. Through this way, many have been defrauded while others have lost their lives.

These negative effects of social media, seems to take more toll on the Nigerian youth. Study have revealed that there seems to be a positive correlation between the usage of social media with cyber bullying. Social media have led to a sharp increase in crime rate among Nigerian youth. People are constantly duped, kidnapped or even killed by social media-accentuated means. Of courses, a case in point was a student Cynthia Osokogu, who was killed by friends she met through a social media-facebook. Again, students are sometimes raped on their way to seeing their "social networking" friends.

In conclusion, the social media offers unlimited possibilities for the Nigerian youth. However, in view of its obvious shortcomings, some of which have been discussed above. It is important for governments, NGOs, youth based organisations and other relevant stakeholders to regularly enlighten the youth on the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the social media.
This is essential if the youth are to properly harness the positive aspects of the social media for personal development. Perhaps, more importantly, the youth should take responsibility on how to use the social media in a positive light. They should shun every negative tendency that the platform could provide in order not to become tools for societal disintegration. Thank you.



REFERENCES
www.peoplesdailyng.com
www.slideshare.net
www.ru.org/society/
www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/
www.whatis.comThe social media- a tool of social engineering or a weapon of social destruction.

Good day to the esteemed judges, erudite coordinators, fellow debaters, and the informed spectators. I am Darrytoz, the second speaker of The Polytechnic, Ibadan. I stand for: The social media- a weapon of social destruction?

SOCIAL MEDIA: is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration.
WEAPON: an instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
DESTRUCTION: the act or process of destroying or being destroyed.

Social media is the 'new media' that speed up conversations in a more interactive way that makes communication more effective and worthwhile. It is an online media that takes communication beyond the limitations of the traditional media. Which most often delivers content but doesn't permit readers, or as the case may be, viewers or listeners, to participate in the formation or development of the content.
But a web content analyst, Ron Jones' definition of social media seems quite apt. He said it is, "a category of online media where people are talking, participating, sharing, networking, and bookmarking online". Currently, there is an array of social media networks in the world, ranging from social sharing sites such as YouTube, Twitter to Linkedin and facebook among others.

However, Facebook is said to be the most popular social network in the world. It is also one of the two most frequently visited websites in the entire internet. It routinely trades places with Google as the most visited web service, and by the company's estimates, it now has over 800million active users. That is more regular visitors than the entire internet had in 2004. As of June 2012, facebook has over 955 million active users, more than half of them visiting it on mobile devices.
The social media commonly used in Nigeria include Facebook, 2go, yahoo messenger, BBM, whatapps, twitter, linkedin amongst others. They all offer their users unrestricted access to chat with friends, relations and other acquaintances. Started from Facebook followed by Twitter, social networking websites have become the vogue across the world, especially among the youth. Just a few clicks and you can chat with your friends and family, sitting at a different corner of the globe.

Before the deregulation of the Nigeria telecommunication sector in 1999, fewer Nigerians had access to computers while the lack of sufficient technological infrastructure such as the internet and mobile phones constrained communication within the society. However, with the deregulation of the telecommunication sector, social network spread like wide fire in Nigeria. Today, all classes of Nigerians now have unlimited access to the social media.

The youth, however, remains the most prominent users of the social media. This of course is not surprising as the digital age is widely believed to belong to the youth. No doubt, the phenomenon of the social media has, in no small measure, impacted positively on the development of the Nigerian youths and, indeed Nigerians at large. However, despite these benefits, social media have been subjected to abuse and some negative stories. Is it the crimes that are perpetuated through it that we want to talk about, or the nude pictures that flood social media?

Nevertheless, like it is in every sphere of life, the social media equally has negative influence on the youth, especially the unsuspecting ones. The obvious lack of security of the social media makes it dangerous to innocent youths. People have to sign up with some sites putting in their personal and sometimes professional information.
As long as these details are safe, there is no threat in social networking with friends as well as strangers, you want to be friend with. But once your personal details like address, contact number, etc. get hacked by the unwanted strangers, you will be a soft target of these immoral act.
There is a great danger in getting close with strange people on social media sites. Many people unconsciously get started with strangers with the intention of having a casual relationship but gradually they find out that they become so close to these people.
As time goes on they become so intimate forgetting that the heart of men is desperately wicked (apology to the Holy scriptures). With time they so much trust them that they reveal their deepest secrets to them while the so called 'friends' turn back to pay them with evil. Through this way, many have been defrauded while others have lost their lives.

These negative effects of social media, seems to take more toll on the Nigerian youth. Study have revealed that there seems to be a positive correlation between the usage of social media with cyber bullying. Social media have led to a sharp increase in crime rate among Nigerian youth. People are constantly duped, kidnapped or even killed by social media-accentuated means. Of courses, a case in point was a student Cynthia Osokogu, who was killed by friends she met through a social media-facebook. Again, students are sometimes raped on their way to seeing their "social networking" friends.

In conclusion, the social media offers unlimited possibilities for the Nigerian youth. However, in view of its obvious shortcomings, some of which have been discussed above. It is important for governments, NGOs, youth based organisations and other relevant stakeholders to regularly enlighten the youth on the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the social media.
This is essential if the youth are to properly harness the positive aspects of the social media for personal development. Perhaps, more importantly, the youth should take responsibility on how to use the social media in a positive light. They should shun every negative tendency that the platform could provide in order not to become tools for societal disintegration. Thank you.



REFERENCES
www.peoplesdailyng.com
www.slideshare.net
www.ru.org/society/
www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/
www.whatis.com

Fynestboi:
OAU ( can) VS FUNAAB (cannot)
"The Nigerian Youth Can Make a Great President"
ABU ZARIA ( tool of social engineering) VS IBADANPOLY ( a weapon of social destruction?)
The social media- a tool of social engineering or a weapon of social destruction?
This will be coming up either on the 20th or 21st of this month. So participants are to pick...

21st..... IBADAN POLY

Fynestboi:
Final group stage match.... PARTICIPANTS OAU miracy microflux bolaji73 Oluwatola93 IBADAN POLY samyscholar Darrytoz PARTICIPANTS ABU ZARIA barackodam teamsimple neemcie danjuma827 FUNAAB pseudonomer Nunushokoto Ibsgal

21st....... Ibadan poly

Tgirl4real:
I still don't see any conclusive ending. I partcularly loved your presentation, the flow and all but the ending was neither heree nor there. I would have loved to see a stronger conclusion in your linee of argument.

Alright. Noted

Tgirl4real:
@ Darrytoz, Is your debate complete? I didn't see any conclusive ending.

Yes. Read through my last paragraph.

darrytoz:
What about religion and ethnic differences. Don't they also play part in the 2015 general electiin?

*****election

Miracy:
Will politicians vote themselves into power?
All their politics was aimed at convincing the voters to vote their party.
But at the end, it's the people that voted based on their choice.
They voted out pdp simply because pdp didn't live up to their promises and people's expection.
They weren't coerced to vote who they voted. They did that on their own free will

What about religion and ethnic differences. Don't they also play part in the 2015 general electiin?

2015 General election: a reflection of the people's will or an outcome of political vendetta?

Good day to the esteemed judges, erudite coordinators, fellow debaters, and the informed spectators. I am Darrytoz, the second speaker of The Polytechnic, Ibadan. I stand for: 2015 general election: an outcome of political vendetta.

VENDETTA: a bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families/parties, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged.
FEUD: a long-lasting quarrel or war between families, tribes, parties etc.

Many believe the March 28, 2015 presidential election was the most keenly contested and most divisive presidential race in Nigeria history. Never before were Nigerians so divided along ethnic and religious lines. In the June 1993 poll, the presidential candidates of the two parties in the race - Social Democratic Party's M.K.O Abiola and National Republican Convention's Bashir Tofa were Muslims. Abiola, a Yoruba Muslim, polled more votes in Kano, Tofa's home state - an indication that religion and ethnic considerations played very little role in the election.
In 1999, the two main presidential candidates- People's Democratic party's Olusegun Obasanjo and Alliance for Democracy's Olu Falae not only were both christians, but Yoruba.
In 2007, the scenario was similiar as the two leading presidential candidates - PDP's Umaru Yar'Adua and Muhammadu Buhari of All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) not only were both fulani Muslims, but from the same Katsina state.
The 2011 presidential race presented three main candidates. PDP had Goodluck Jonathan, an Ijaw christian, who became acting president after the death of his boss, Yar'Adua.
This time, abandoned by the ANPP governors, Buhari decided to run on a new platform - Congress for Progressives' Change (CPC). Another fulani Muslim Nuhu Ribadu ran on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), a party with a strong following in the political boisterous South-West.

However, the 2015 presidential election proved to be a different kettle of fish. For the second time, Jonathan, an Ijaw christian, found himself squaring up against Buhari, a fulani Muslim. Two peace accords by both presidential candidates notwithstanding, the APC and PDP campaign organisations hurled hate messages at each other. PDP campaigners tagged Buhari an Islamic fundamentalist. At some point, he was even accused of supporting the Boko Haram insurgency. This perhaps explained why all the five South-east states combined gave Buhari a mere 198,199 votes.
The situation wasn't much different in the six south-south states where Buhari polled a total of 369,360 votes.
The 11 states in the south-east and south-south gave Buhari 567,819 votes, about 100,000 votes short of the 660,762 votes his PDP rival Jonathan polled in Anambra state alone.


It couldn't possibly be otherwise because what Nigerians witnessed is a reprise action, literally a return bout between Buhari and Jonathan, who slugged it out in the 2011 election. In that previous encounter, Goodluck Jonathan carried the day, and remained in office after using up Umar Yar'Adua's unfinished term.

Since Nigeria's independence in 1960, political power has alternated between the predominantly Muslim north and predominantly christian south, an informal strategy to forestall the country's polarization. Jonathan assumed the presidency when president Umaru Yar'Adua, a northern Muslim, died in 2010. He gave private assurances that he would finish Yar'Adua's term and wait until 2015 to run for president because it was still "the north's turn". But Jonathan ran for reelection in 2011, thereby violating the system of power alternation. Following the announcement of Jonathan's victory, the north made accusations of election rigging. Rioting broke out across the north, resulting in the greates bloodshed since.

Each time I try to convince myself that you sometimes win by giving up, I am faced with the question- in what world do you leave the ring and declare victory? Well, maybe in the world where your giving up is a sacrifice, a martyrdom of your ambition. Where your giving up is to prevent a nation from going up in flames and burning beyond recognition.
There seems to be a new trend of political opponents who lost out in elections to make phone calls. This act was fashioned along the now popular phone call of March 31st 2015, made by the outgoing president in conceding defeat. It is no mistake to say that the singular act of the president save Nigeria a lot of destruction, bloodshed, death and eventual fragmentation.
The actual loser of the election has been commended for his famous and unexpected act of sportsmanship. He has been called the technical winner for saving the nation a great deal of doom that was predicted as possible aftermath of the general election. Thank you.

REFERENCES
www.news24.com.ng
www.thisdaylive.com
wsw.vangardngr.com
pointblanknews.com
www.punchng.com/opinion

On a final note, post UTME should be discontinued in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The exam has course more unorganized educational system in the process of selecting the best perspectives to our various institutions. Thank you.

pseudonomer:
There is a always private apartments(hotels) to spend the night.

Tell me is it all the tertiary institutions in NIgeria that make provisions for this?

Nunushokoto:
I have a friend who came all the way from Plateau state to Abeokuta just because he wanted to study agriculture and FUNAAB has a good reputation in agriculture and in Nigeria there are only 3 universities of agriculture. Hence ,choosing a suitable location is necessary not just because of the distance but also because of what u stand to gain.

He has passed the only exam that has qualified him to be admitted. But he was subjected to another exam. Can't his dream of studying in that school be dashed by writing post UTME.

pseudonomer:
One is usually notified like at least weeks before the exam. What about a case where one is offered admission and one is required to come the school the following week for clearance?

What about the living conditions of this candidates? Does the school make provisions for were they could pass the night. Tell me if you are asked to come and write another exam will you be leaving on the day of the exam?