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Paperwhite:
The core north is the problem of Nigeria but if only the greater South can unite.

GavelSlam:
Let us even assume this is true can we agree it is a one in a million cases?

sarrki:
Sule stop ranting
Akanbi knows better
All I know is we are wiser now
Power must return down south 2023 period
We all know how to play that politics now

amnesty7:
Either your English teachers had an ulterior (not interior) motive for not teaching you punctuation and capitalisation of certain nouns or u were a ....student.

TonyeBarcanista:
It is either you have reading problem or that of comprehension, else, you wouldn't have wrote this.

In every state there is usually parks for commercial cab operators, these parks are not operated by indigenes alone but by Nigerians of different ethnic groups but they are overseen by the state government or FG (in the case of FCT) and a source of revenue. Why didn't you tell the motorists to go buy lands and operate their parks?

In many states, government build blocks of lock-up shops and lease to traders. This system not only make it well coordinated but also attract revenue to the state. Why not go tell each traders to go buy their own lands to build their shops?

Let us try to address issues holistically


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Warship:
Show us the dead herdsmen.


Take your cows back to sokoto

owoicho13:
https://www.benuepress.com/2018/01/gov-ortom-chief-press-secretary-reacts-to-claims-by-prof-muhammad-that-benue-state-belongs-to-fulani/

oduastates:
The herdsmen colony bill goes hand in hand with the indigen vs non indigen Bill.
Once they succeed in granting indigenous rights to non indigen, these 21st century murderers with 7th century mentality would have succeeded.

Grazing Reserves, Doomsday Foretold - Vanguard
INEQUALITY everywhere is man-made. Many things we do are like the chickens – they come home to roost. Today, Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai of Kaduna State is on the war-path with his teachers, a bulk of who are said to have flunked the test intended for their Primary IV pupils.

To El-Rufai, these deadwoods, so-called, must give way to other younger and brighter teachers – not imported from outer-space but from among the indigenes of the same Kaduna State. For some, the El-Rafai measure is intended for the good of the teachers, the pupils, the State and future generations. But the Union leaders who are paid to defend evil see things differently


True, the El-Rufais of this world may be coming face-to-face for the first time with what they sowed; some of us have lived with the situation all along. For instance, this writer has been in the vanguard, agitating most relentlessly that the abysmally notorious differential in the cut-off marks for admission into the Federal Unity Schools portend grave danger. Nobody listened and things began to get incrementally worse over time. In the name of national integration, the just-released cut-off points for 2018 admissions show that a pupil from Sokoto State with a score of 7 points in the National Common Entrance examination will have the right of first choice while his counterpart from Abia State who scores 64 points will be told that he is not qualified for admission! In the class, the good and the bad will be mixed up in an amalgam in which the worst will gradually pull down the best while the best will be unable to push up the worst.

This is where the rot begins to set in. In the end, they will produce a system of mediocres or outright imbeciles from which future El-Rufais will pick their teachers – teachers that will produce Legislators, Doctors and Engineers who will represent us at international arenas where Australia, America and Britain will be represented by their best. It may matter less if our system produces murderers in the name of Doctors; Legislators that cannot make good laws; or that even with the tallest engineering degrees our Engineers cannot produce a simple water pump; or, indeed, while these other countries may be experimenting into space, we shall be experimenting into sachet water. It is simply a process of development or lack of it. The choice is ours. Evidently, the El-Rufais are fighting a good fight, albeit on a wrong battle-field.
They must come down from their giddy heights and join us in fighting the fight from the grassroots where it belongs. Meanwhile in their desperate effort to remedy attempted manslaughters, they are committing unpardonable murders. In their limited vision, they are unable to understand that the world is changing. In fact, our world has grown in ignorance as it grows in wisdom.

The story is told of a recent case in Oshodi market where one of the best Nollywood actresses was almost lynched because of the perceived wicked roles she has been playing in home movies. People hardly understand the difference between acting and real life. Far into the 21st century those people with limited vision are digging up a Bill left behind by Othman Dan Fodio; dusting it up; presenting it to today’s National Assembly; and expecting it to be passed into a law dubiously dobbed Bill for an Act to Establish The National Grazing Reserve Council.

This Council will be charged with the responsibility for compulsorily acquiring all lands from the Sahara to the Atlantic for the cowmen to graze their cows. See how the Council and the obnoxious Act will work: they will come to your land anywhere, even in the remote village, and take it over. They will throw at you, what they call compensation. Essentially, this is an offer you cannot reject. If you have any reservation about the acquisition or the so-called compensation, you would have to apply to the Attorney General of the Federation for permission to approach the courts. Head or tail, you are a loser – where the Attorney General turns down your application, that’s the end of the road. Your land is gone! If the application is approved, you would now proceed to their court, where the verdict is already pre-determined! Why are we now wasting this precious space, discussing a Bill that is dead on arrival? Need we be told that, as happened to the Nollywood actress in Oshodi market, whoever will make the initial presentation of this obnoxious Bill at today’s National Assembly stands the big risk of being lynched before the Bill will be tossed out of the window at first reading? This first Executive Bill – apart from the annual appropriation rituals – that President Muhammadu Buhari is presenting to the National Assembly is a total fiasco.

It is doubtful if the Executive has examined the implications of the measure in all its ramifications. Have they looked at it side by side with the Nation’s Constitution? Have they examined its compatibility with the Land Use Act, which is not yet abrogated? Are they aware that the world is watching us? There are numerous associations that are similar to the cattlemen’s body and they are saying that unlike George Orwell’s Animal Farm, “All animals are equal and some cannot be more equal than others”.

We hear that for a long time the Piggery Farmers’ Association’s applications for land across the country have been with the Federal Authorities. Now is the time to listen to all of them! When people no longer know what to do, they begin to try everything. At that point, the loss of one genuine purpose invariably leads to the pursuit of a dozen pseudo purposes. We are approaching that breaking point.

Otherwise, why should we be looking at measures that are, ab initio, unenforceable? Let’s assume for a moment, that this Bill gets passed by default. How are they going to implement it, when they have been unable to police the pogrom ravaging the entire country today? What a dilemma!

Reviewing The Varsity System - Guardian Editorial

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[color=#bbb]Peter Okebukola[/color]

The Federal Government through the National Universities Commission (NUC) has set up a panel to ‘review the university system in Nigeria.’
To be chaired by one-time NUC Executive Secretary, Professor Peter Okebukola, the panel is made up of former Vice-Chancellors, Chairmen of Governing Councils, and ‘very credible senior academics.’

The NUC seems to be worried about the quality of postgraduate training in the universities and think that the academic curricular should be revised. On the face of it this is a welcome development.

However, there are fears that this is just another attempt at time wasting and duplication of efforts.

What has the National Universities Commission been doing in the last 30 years that on its watch, things have deteriorated so badly? What about the Senates of the different universities? Why was it that these same ex-Vice Chancellors could not invigorate the universities they managed in their time? Is this not just another attempt at empanelling a body whose recommendations would end up in the garbage rooms of government?

Indeed, how can anyone be sure that this panel’s report would be any different form those submitted by so many in the past? These are genuine worries. The regulatory functions of the NUC are not in doubt and its responsibility for standards is appreciated. But it should take itself more seriously.

For example, there was a recommendation about a decade ago that some universities should be designated postgraduate universities to provide manpower for the younger universities. What has become of the recommendation in terms of implementation? Is there a synchronisation of the activities as well as recommendations of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and those of the NUC?

There have been too many panels and bodies set up in the past to make recommendations on education. The Federal Ministry of Education has received countless memoranda on the state of the universities. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), like many other bodies, has made similar recommendations in the past. What has become of all of the previous suggestions and recommendations? What about the annual reports from the accreditation teams which visited the different universities?

The appropriate approach is to allow the different institutions to function on their own as independent knowledge and research centres. In other words, all the watch-dog bodies which have the mandate to make and enforce rules as well as assess compliance in the education system should function efficiently. If they do, such ad-hoc bodies as the one newly created by the NUC would not be necessary.

There is no doubt that the Nigeria’s universities do need overhauling. Their academic programmes need to keep step with current developments across the world. Their products should be able to compete favourably with their counterparts elsewhere in the world. They need more laboratories and equipment.

Classrooms and lecture halls are inadequate. They need more facilities to beef up research. Information Communication Technology facilities are nearly absent in some of them.

Journals and publishing outlets are still problematic. Funding is still a major problem. Students do not pay tuition fees in the Federal universities. The result is that there is a shortfall in terms of actual releases to the universities. Yet these are issues that the different universities should be able to handle.

The greatest indication of a structural problem in the universities is the incessant strikes by the different unions. At the moment, most of the federal and state-owned universities are partially paralysed by a strike called out by the non-academic staff unions of the universities. This has become a recurring decimal in the political and educational equation of the country.

It is, indeed, strange that the nation’s universities are still being chaperoned by the NUC through defining how programmes should be run. Uniformity is not synonymous with quality. The various Senates of the universities should develop and approve relevant programmes, courses and degrees that would drive development. By responding to the challenges of their environment through academic programmes and recruitment of qualified staff, the universities would be put on a faster lane.

The NUC should therefore strengthen its coordinating functions especially by working with the Senate and management of the different universities. The padding and ad-hoc arrangements which take place during accreditation visits should be stopped.

The exercise must be deepened by ensuring that the factual situations as they relate to each university are reported. The different Senates should also rise to the occasion and ensure that the quality of teaching and research comes up to the level of excellence this country needs.

sarrki:
I think I totally agreed with presidency on this

Most of our so called religious leaders have turned the pulpit to a campaign and ethnic ground

They are more with the corrupt politician than the masses

By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The Federal Government has disbursed the total sum of N10, 995, 391, 260 to the beneficiaries of the third edition of the YouWiN programme from 2015 to date.

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The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, disclosed this while releasing the last payment of N125, 640, 000 for disbursement to the final 61 beneficiaries of the third edition of the programme, yesterday. She said that out of the total amount released, N8, 396, 905,038 was disbursed by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

“By January 2018, the total amount disbursed to beneficiaries of the third edition of the YouWiN programme will be N11, 121, 031, 260 billion, of which the current administration has disbursed N8, 522, 545,038 billion,” she said.

The amount was disbursed to 1, 500 beneficiaries who have started or expanded their business across a variety of sectors, including Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Manufacturing, Services and Agricultural Production and Processing.

Other areas covered under the third edition were Fashion and Entertainment, while various technical support were extended to over 18, 000 beneficiaries in the areas of access to markets and finance as well as capacity building in business management, accounting and operations.

Upom assumption of office, Mrs. Adeosun reviewed and restructured the YouWiN Programme which it inherited from the previous administration and renamed it YouWiN Connect and gave it a new focus for sustainability. YouWiN Connect is currently providing online capacity building to more than 61, 000 beneficiaries across the country. The next stage of the YouWiN Connect Programme will involve sector specific in-class training to successful beneficiaries and the development of franchise infrastructure.

Stick only to your religious calling, Presidency tells CAN scribe, Musa Asake

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA –
THE Presidency Tuesday night told the General Secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Dr. Musa Asake to face his religious calling and not to meddle into politics.

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The Presidency also debunked the allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari has violated some provisions of the nation’s constitution.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu in a statement in Abuja while reacting to the statement credited to the CAN scribe where he was said to have accused the President of violating the provisions of the constitution said that there was no aspect of the constitution that had been breached by the President.

Shehu in the statement said, “Our attention has been drawn to reports of a press conference by General Secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Dr. Musa Asake in which he passed a judgement on the constitutionality of certain actions of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. “Unfortunately, he could (not) cite any valid cases of constitutional violations.

President Muhammadu government poses no threat to the country’s democracy and Constitution. “There are no cases of any violation of our sacred constitution and there will be none under this President. The respected religious leader should stick to his religious duties and leave politics for politicians.”

BetaThings:
Do you believe the so-called communique is genuine?
Which mainstream media organisation reported it?
Any photographs of the people who released the "communique"?

maximunimpact:
Oyedepo the chairmsn of religious wing of PDP

Statsocial:
Nice. Would also be a nice tourist center....