₦airaland Forum

Those who knew what freedom is never traded it for N5000 nor one free meal daily for their siblings.

SmartMugu:
It will be funny to see u and Dasuki bag the same length of jail term when you only got N14.

I am covered with the blood of Jesus.

dammytosh:
Lailai, u are not going any wia.

We will track u. A whole 14.00 from our arms money.

Bros pls let me go and close those accounts because I can't explain why the accounts were credited, I don't want to be in EFCC wahala since I did not vote for change.

This one EFCC is tracing arm's money to various bank accounts, I have to go and close my bank accounts tomorrow before EFCC will trace the total of N14.00 that was credited to my bank accounts.

DikeOha882:
My point is that since we are in the era of change,fuel shouldn't be scare n price shouldn't go beyond #87

Plants' seeds die first to grow again.

DikeOha882:
The lack for patience is why fuel is sold at #150?

and your point is?

The pix is a clear representation of what PMB is experiencing. At first he thought governance is Mouth Action but now he knows better. The weight of nigeria's problems are far more than what he imagined.

Most Nigerians like Victor Ikpeba lack patience, one of the contributing factors of our under-development. Industrialisation and development is not rocket science neither is it a destination, but it is a process. A process that rely heavily on building solid and reliable economic, political and societal values. Let us give PMB the time and grace we never gave GEJ.

Let us work together patiently to develop Nigeria.

Seuncoded:
Should we now run away

Firstly, speak for yourself alone. secondly, dear no one is asking you to run away.
Please no straight face if your school is not among the top 30 in Africa. We just have to ginger our politicians so that the change will be felt by our schools and students and surely we will have more than one in the top 30 in Africa.

AS the Times Higher Education (THE) Africa universities summit kicked off July 30 at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, the main buzz of the event was the landmark unveiling of a new African university ranking.

And it’s here, just released Friday, though only ranking the top 30 of Africa’s approximately 2,600 higher education institutions.

These results are essentially based on the amount of citations there are for the university’s work. They are derived from the methodology for the current world university ranking, using the 13 factors (below), combining THE’s own enormous database of statistics along with the Elsevier’s Scopus database – a system that highlights some of the continent’s top performers in terms of how often research papers are referred to and cited by other academics globally. This methodology is designed for the research-led globally facing university. Times Higher Education emphasised that not everyone in Africa will find the metrics appropriate to their mission or their strategic priorities making this ranking a starting point of a longer, inclusive conversation involving African institutions.

Surprises

One of the big surprises was the omission of several African universities that have consistently featured high up on global ranking lists. Namely; Cairo University, University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria and Al-Azhar University in Egypt.

The other surprise was the appearance of unexpected or lesser-known institutions, such as the Universite Cadi Ayyad (10), Port Harcourt (6), the Universite de Sfax in Tunisia (28), Universite Hassan II (15) and several other institutions from Egypt namely; Suez Canal University (14), South Valley University and Minia University (30) .

In an interview with M&G Africa, Phil Batty – Editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings – explained that even though they have spent the last 4-5 years modifying and refining a methodology that would be better suited to an African, as opposed to a global, ranking – “there’s still a long way to go”. He said that what THE has “created is a snapshot of research strength”.

Batty was also candid about the lack of extensive data in creating this first THE Africa university ranking. That this is “the very start of the story. [Because] world rankings are driven by research, innovation and tech development, we need to work with African universities on [indicators such as] their teaching and graduate success…the rankings we’re publishing are actually very much the starting point. We want to use this conference to convince universities to start collecting and sharing data more consistently.”

The build up

The ranking comes at a time when Africa’s universities are looking to experience a period of revitalisation, with a booming middle class and concentrated pan-African efforts – such as the Higher Education Summit in Senegal earlier this year – aimed at addressing their challenges. Yet, African universities have become lost in global rankings – measured against institutions in the rich, developed world which continue to dominate the leagues and without focused efforts that look to finding metrics which are appropriate to the African context.

One of the key actors in the creation of this Africa ranking is the University of Johannesburg.

In an interview with M&G Africa, Professor Ihron Rensburg – the Vice-Chancellor and principal of the University of Johannesburg – explained that, as part of the University’s 10th anniversary, they engaged THE to say “we have an apparently shared ambition, first you have a series of conferences where you create the opportunity for universities to reflect, [engage in] dialogue and debate on the state of universities in order to ramp up excellence in teaching and learning and research – we as the University of Johannesburg – share that driving ambition and that is important for us that Africa’s universities pursue global excellence and stature in internationalisation, collaboration, teaching and research.”

He emphasised that the University of Johannesburg “effectively founded and conceptualised the idea and asked [THE] to do it jointly – [bringing] together our driving ambition and creating a forum for African Universities to debate and dialogue.”



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Bubu nobody is pressurising you to stop your perceived and biased campaign against corruption and recovery of looted funds, what sensible Nigerians are saying is work within the legal framework - this is not 1983 but 2015. Stop blackmailing the previous government if you had issues with them the courts are there for a purpose, seek redress there.

I don't know why this is too difficult for PMB to understand.

Almost 90 days in government and they are still burdened with the mentality of an opposition party. GEJ my hero has moved on, I expect APC to follow suit. Confront the challenges of governance for which you were freely given your mandate and stop blackmailing your predecessor.

GEJ in all ramifications has set standards, very high ones, reference points indeed, if APC and PMB think they can not surpass these very standards, they should do the honourable and expected - apologise for their propaganda and Bleep themselves from the presidency.

Everyday is a golden opportunity for APC and PMB to fulfil their campaign promises. The sooner they realise this the better for our collective optimism for a better Nigeria.

The zombies at work again. Seeking every opportunity to tarnish the good image of GEJ just like the president of West Germany, but they must know "who God don bless, no man can curse"

GEJ my Hero
GEJ their Hero
GEJ the definition of Nigerian democracy.
May you live long President GEJ.