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I_am_Sylva: wow... This debate is realy competitive.. All the debaters are superb especially davo93.. I hope he wins

Thanks big time!

Caracta: Davo93
I love your introduction with Luther’s quote, very powerful and captures your message. It’s a perfect fit. However, you have to use appropriate paragraphs to separate your points. Lumping your points up is not good or encouraging.

You also need to watch out for little errors or typos. For instance “calender” instead of “calendar”, “truely” instead of “truly”. It is very important to proof-read. We are prone to make little errors but we also need to keep developing our writing skills. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

The “age limit” point blew my mind away. Quite impressive. That’s a strong point. However, there was no convincing point to support your proposition of other ways to improve the quality of education, without strike actions except the increase in budgetary allocation to Education.
Then, your referencing and citation of quotes weren’t organized. There are different styles of referencing. You can read up on that.

Overall, you did well. I’m impressed. You have a great potential in you and you have shown that you can think deep. You can do better than this. I need to feel your fire. When other opportunities come to write, grab them. When you want to write, picture and analyze the situation, take the situation personal, let it charge you up, then start writing. Write as the words pour out, let the fire envelop you, then proof-read.
All the best.

I couldn't have gotten the appraisal and constructive criticisms better! Thanks so much ma and i promise to put those corrections into proper use in my future write-ups. Thanks once again for taking your time on my work.

dahmie2013: Contestant 6, dat was an intelligent delivery, my 2 cents 4 dat. Urs is d best I've read so far on dis topic. I think ASUU shud read dis ur eassy, but one thing I believe is strike is usually d last resort wen oda methods such as dialogue have been exploited. Well done bro!

I appreciate your compliment sir. Also, i salute you for painstakingly going through our posts one after the other. We are honoured!

Chomzy19: I giv it up 2 elliotwiz for genuises re born not made(supporting) he did his research n dt example of d 4 yr old cant b beaten by anybody hu claims genuises re made

OAM4U has it on genuises re born not made(against) tho ur begining was kinda off, but u came back on track wit convincing n extensive examples
@samtolly b mightful of d examples u use, dt messi example wil easily backfire cos messi was a football wiz @ d age of 5, he hd talent over n above those of his peers, nice work though

to those against strike as a wrong approach i noticed u guys jst say there are other effective methods without actually naming these other methods wch is bad; i must commend illuminatus for giving us some alternative ways.
In this category tho Davo93 carries it, d beginnin n end of ur essay were well packaged; tho lyk most pple u left out d other ways but u gave d benefits of d strike Only if it wrks nd ur reasons against d strike action ws extensive

for (opposing) strike as a wrong approach... For me its a tie btw infoscope n mazi omenuko they both gave convincing exmples why strike works; tho they glossed over its adverse effect like it ws unreal n minor, nd d intros were just gr8, never knew dia ws stryk action in d bible lol...

Finally all those who contributed to d makin of dis competition u guys are just gr8

Thanks so much for the remark and i also appreciate you for carefully taking your time to read through our posts. **grabs mic and bow** Thanks one again!

Fynestboi: working on that now...

Fynestboi: Contestant 6&11 done i just combine the essay into one for the both....

Thanks Boss!

I can notice my two seperate posts have been brought together to one place. Thanks so much for that. But please, kindly help me delete the initial 'Contestant 6' and 'Continuation' i put there. Its after the 3rd paragraph and please help me maintain the paragraph there. After this, you can hide it. I'm grateful!

I am done please.

Fynestboi: same thread just open a new space and indicate thus..


Contestant 2
continuation..

Sorry, i suppose we were told to send it as PM to the chief judge?

Great Afternoon Organisers,

You guys are doing wonderfully well. Please, kindly post the link to which we are expected to drop the remaining part of our essay for those that the space reserved is not enough for. Infact not putting the whole essay up in a single post will help us protect our essay from being reproduced without permission.

Regards,
Davo93

2s£xy:
Hello, Sir.

With reference to the post you quoted, I understand your sentiment not implement such feature as you once stated in one of your reply to another thread where it was demanded.

If, as you stated in that post, implementing it will restrain people from "liking" post, why not make it only visible to those whose post(s) are "liked" and beautifully positioned within profile or cp?

I know you enabled such feature some months ago, but disabled it few hours after implementation for reasons best known to you.

Complains are good for reshaping ideas into better forms!

That would be fantastic!

CONTESTANT 6



STRIKE: A WRONG APPROACH TO NIGERIA'S EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS


Martin Luther King, Jr. once said and i quote; "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that". Strike is defined by Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary as the refusal to work as a protest. The online free encyclopedia, Wikipedia put it in a refined way by saying, strike action is work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. It goes further to say, a strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. The strike discussed in this piece is not different from the afore-mentioned. Its just that it is restrained to the educational sector of Nigeria. Some Nigerians however described strike as an annual festival whereby students are not allowed to go to school. To a very large extent, the defination is right as it has become a 'norm' for the occurence of work halt at least once in a section in the education sector in the country within the twelve months in a calender year. Strike action definately has its pros and cons which i am going to critically analyse in course of this piece. However, this write-up is intended to show reasons and logically conclude that strike is a wrong approach to the educational problems in our dear nation Nigeria as it is widely belived by many.


When a strike is initiated by the work force, it is always known to be a fierce battle between the employer and the employees; the government and the association under which the workers are registered. The 'suffering grass' whenever these two elephants clash are the students who are directly at the receiving end of the imbroglio. Thus, leaving several damages on the students whenever such occurs. Among several effects of strike include time wastage and unnecessary delays. The most saddening aspect of the strike action atimes is that the reason why it is being initiated is not really worth it. Thereby, leading to a battered academic calender. A disrupted academic calender definately gives birth to the shrinking of activities when the school resumes in order to meet the set target for that session. This affects the students adversely in terms of their performances in tests and exams since they never expected such changes. Not only this, unemployment is a 'time-bomb' for graduates that were repeatedly affected by strike during their student days. This is caused by their inability to meet up with the set requirements. Most jobs these days are tied to age limit, so graduates that have overstayed mostly owing to no fault of theirs, become too old for jobs of their dream. This is quite pathetic!
Students engagement in non-fruitful and criminal activities have been the case during strikes. Like the popular adage says "an idle hand is the devil's workshop" some students are drawn into nefarious acts during this period which are capable of destroying them and unleashing terror on the peace of the nation. Aside this, some students become social network veterans, some turn into statues of idleness, bunch of parrots, backbitters, gossipers and busy bodies while some turn themselves into sleeping bags as if been bitten by tse-tse fly. They eat as if life is all about eating. This set of students you see in schools after the strike with voluminous body mass blessed with unnecessary fats(perhaps with no shape), all these against their wish. The Loss of credibility is a grave danger applicable to our schools as a result of incessant strikes. Its quite unfortunate these days that only few foreigners will prefer to send their wards to study here in Nigeria as a result of the back drops from strikes while we move our children en-mass to schools abroad thereby exporting the fund that is supposed to be expended locally to economically add values to our system. What about the psychological effects of strike on students? A psychologist and lecturer, Department of Educational Foundation, University of Lagos, Dr Sola Aletan explained that the unplanned breaks definately affect students negatively. He compared this scenario to when an athlete running a race is abruptly stopped when he started the race, he said such situation affects the athlete greatly and will take time for him/her to regain his/her speed and confidence as it was levelled before. Same thing applies to students that are sent away from schools due to strike. [Adapted from Sunday Punch, 11th Dec., 2011]. These and many other more damping effects of strike are what students are exposed to.


Funny enough, the bad effects of strikes are not 'enjoyed' only by students that have been deprived of their right to education, the striking workers too share part of the experience. Workers feel the nostalgia with a tinge of guilt, arising from shrinked responsibilities. Though thesame work force called for the strike, but i can tell you that not all its members are always in full support of the action. Also, academic workers who are still in their 'evolving process' too get affected during strikes. Example of this are the postgraduate students that lecture in universities. ASUU strike also grounds their study. Unfortunately, no one is talking about the poor masses that worked in the closed environment. I mean the motocyclists, drivers, traders, tailors, capenters and others that make ends meet by their activities in the academia. Most of these people are below-average Nigerians that have family members who look up to them to survive owing to the penny they get from their toil in the now closed academic community. Now subjected to unemployment and poverty that will not even be make-up for when the strike is over unlike in the case of the academic workers that get paid even when they refuse to work. Too bad! Unknowingly, even the erring government that failed to accede to the demands of these workers is not safe too from the impasse. Prof. Umukoro of Department of Theartre Arts, University of Ibadan wrote in one of his articles that was featured in The Guardian Newspaper dated Wed. Oct. 21, 2009 that "no nation anywhere in the world can rise above the quality of its tertiary education. Show me your universities, and I shall tell you what type of nation you are", this clearly emphasizes the importance of an academic calender devoid of unnecessary breaks. All sectors of our national life are largely dependent on education. The future of the nation are the young sharps currently in schools and as such, the kind of education policies put in place now dictate the quality of life experienced and their performances later on when they spread to all sectors of the economy thereby re-affirming the centrality of education to national development. The effects of strike will obviously jeopardize the dream of having a great posterity who will be better leaders. This long-term effect on the nation is unfortunately not critically assessed.



Having talked about the expensive effects of strike on our educational system, i won't shy away from also discussing the benefits these incessant strikes may accrue ONLY if successfully geared towards its intention that masses were made to believe. Amongst the benefits are better infrastructures in our schools, improved welfare packages for the workers in the academia thereby making teaching pleasureable to the teaching staffs and also indirectly help in impacting the desired and required knowledge on the students but what most people don't understand is that there are other better ways to address the educational problems in Nigeria other than strike. The major protagonists of strikes in our schools, the government workers in the schools are not just multi-directional in its approach.


They are always mono-strategic in their mechanism to articulate their demands, a strategy that is not only impotently archaic but also has been found not effective in our black continent to a very large extent. Not even only that, the touted genuineness of their agitations and action is quite questionable. If truely strikes could rescue the Nigerian educational system, then our institutions should by now be one of the best in the world. If the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) has been on strike for about thirty(30) months in the past ten years and we are still where we are today, then it obviously means it is a wrong approach to Nigeria's educational problems. Permit me to digress a little please, i keep asking myself that if our fore-fathers could achieve independence for our dear Nigeria without bloodshed as it was the case in many countries, then, why is it so difficult for our current generation to try another better mehod to approach our educational problems other than the incessant strikes which is the popular and non-effective usual way? Srike is just been counter-productive and unhealthy for our education!


At this point, i am more than sure without mincing words that it is now very conspicuous that the dangers incessant strike actions pose to our education and even on the economic life of our nation both in the short-run and long-run outweigh its benefits. I hereby plead with the stakeholders of this sector; the workers, governments, students and others to let us come to this realization that strike is not the right approach to our problems.


I want us to engage more practicable and effective ways to tackle the problems in our education that will ensure the much anticipated better face for it rather than the accumulating damages the sector suffer. I implore the governments at all level to also try as much as possible to help realize this feat; quality education. A very good policy has been 'prescribed' by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation(UNESCO) to help address the problems we are facing in our education sector most especially in Africa. This allows at least 26% of the nations annual budgetary allocation go to the education sector as against the 9% currently committed to it in Nigeria.

[Source: FinIntell http://www.myfinancialintelligence.com/banking-and-finance/2013-budget-analysis]

Adoption of this will go a very long way in salvaging the current disposition and also help to achieve the greatness we crave for. This is very possible in Nigeria if our leaders are truely dedicated to the transformation project. Not also leaving out the work forces in the sector, the likes of ASUU, ASUP, COEASU, NASU, SSANU and so many others, i want to charge them to be more dedicated to their duties, proving critics wrong and being sincere in their constructive and preventive demands.

The students have over the years shown resilience and even solidarity to struggles that was aimed at solely benefitting the workers, same gesture should be reciprocated in hard times when the students are faced with oppression and problems beyond their limit. I therefore reinstate that strike is a wrong approach to Nigeria's educational problems.

Fynestboi: the judges had been so considerate bringing down to 1000... You can stick to that...

That's fair...thanks for the consideration.

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Anuoluwap: Abeg reduce am to 500 words. Person no even get free time much.

Seconded seriously... at least considering the time frame.

NAME- Davo93

TOPIC- Strike: A wrong approach to Nigeria's educational problems(supporting)

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Seun: We will do it when the time is right.

ese gan-an ni... looking forward to it boss.

IYA NGBALI: So we no fit make suit for our players and officials?dey look to casual for my liking,mtcheeew

God fit use you na

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davidadetula@gmail.com

They should keep their apology to themselves... those Guineans were so silly and just because of their hightened beef for Nigerians, they acted that way. Like a Nairalander said, their president should come down to Nigeria and beg on his knees. #Mstchew

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I don't seems to understand this OP... perhaps i can't comprehend the simple grammar. Kindly throw more insight