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My egunje ppl,u r correct

What is the Nigerian slang word for bribe
Ikebe
Egunje
Kpako
Mugu

Romanticboy1: drop it already!!! Announcing it more than twice makes it boring!

u no go mk ur interest knwn,shuu,if i vex i no go do again

Una go dey form smartness,i won drop quiz nw,una dey dodge

Quatermaine: I bet you did not understand me

and so what. If u think u r smart enta my quiz competition

Romanticboy1: dahz nat tru! I welcome all irrespective of genders!! Yu claim yu r new here so hw did yu knw i welcome only females.LiNUS

ok sir.

Who is ready for my end of the year quiz

Quatermaine: am not surprised!

ok dats gud

Romanticboy1: a new member has bin added,betty1646,welcome.next week yu wud b able to post!

official welcomer,but na onli girls him dey welcome.

Romanticboy1: ;
;yu dun turn to titanium wey de deny his identity

dnt accuse me. I am new here

Quatermaine: [size=1000pt]Which of these is hard to
Understand


1. Men

2. Women

3. Mathematics

4. Money

5. English

6. Religion


answer with reasons[/size]

bring beta question

Quatermaine: so na odizi b ditrix

who b odizee

GorgeousReney: d stage am in doesn't av a name.....#i think#
but i cnt sight read...

hmmm nawa o.

Alueme

So na romantic b marylin

Texzy22: Yea Yea......But how can dat be done or u send let me reply.....or u check my stat and add me in any of those social network, lets get aquinted

dats luvly.
Dis is my xmas gift for you

Texzy22: Jeez ! My first Course Mate ...wow

das gud,send me a pm,lets gist

Oghos1: Nice.

I was give quantum science and nano technology in uniben with an aggrg8 of 97.

And I put in for mech engr o

das gud

Oghos1: Hey sweerie.
Wah course were u given?

banking n finance

Hello i'm new here i like dis place.
Note:if u knw me dont say anythn

Fynestboi: who ban him? Let me check on him.

anti spam o,pls do smtn for him o,save his soul

renaissance: how can u pass ur exam without attending lectures. unserious student!!!

u dey mk odizeey laff. U no knw of d word blocking. Abi u neva enta higher?

Tribute to odizeey on his ban.
He was a gud man. Banned for no just cause.
Say no to unjust bans

I feel betrayed

Wat stage r u in,in piano playing

GorgeousReney: Pls dnt read nd jst leave lyk dat....read nd COMMENT....

hahaha, u dey beg?

If NECO chairman name his son
Necodemius
And Jamb registrar name his
son
Jamiu
And Nasu Chairman name his
son
Nasiru
If ASUU chairman wants to name
his son,what will be d name

It pains me when people will say 'oh i miss old school music not all this nonsense they sing today'.
Can't they see the young boys performing today? They always look at the bad songs they sing n forget the good ones,n they will pick out the good ones the old school guys sang and forget the bad ones. I was not born during d tym of bongos ikwe edna ogholi,onyeka uwenu,bt i know dat dey still sang off point music too for sure.
I am a fan of good music(both beats n lyrics),our boys of today are trying.
Enough said let me roll out some music i think are sound n sweet sung by our new kids on the block:
Wizkid:oluwa loni,shout out
2face:african queen,unkind man,rainbow,only me
banky w:yes no,feeling it
brymo:ara,eko,good morning
2short:i am william,
m.i:Jehova,talk about it
vector:i love nigeria
psquare:beautiful oyinye,no one like yoo,me n my brother
Rooftopmc's:for my life lagi mo
tiwa savage:ife wa gbono
davido:bless me
sound sultan:motherland,mathematics,2010
and so on.
I did not mention all,so i can gv room for others to mention too.
But I think the reason some peeps hate new school is dat dey miss deir old days. Thank u

All my mcoites mk una show,n signify mk we mk up lost tyms n gain tyms,
I rep 2009 set commercial f class

Senate yesterday passed a resolution asking Senate President David Mark to engage President Goodluck Jonathan and officials of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end the four months strike that has shut Nigerian universities since July.

Senate also appealed to the striking university lecturers to suspend the industrial action to allow room for negotiations, in order to resolve the stalemate.

Senate resolution to empower Mark to lead the negotiation team with government and ASUU was based on a motion sponsored by a record 108 members, who fervently appealed to ASUU to call off the strike.

After an exhaustive debate of the motion, during which senators agreed that the agreement ASUU signed with government in 2009 was not implementable because of the cost implication, directed its committee on education to liaise with the Ministry of Education, National Universities Commission (NUC), ASUU and other stakeholders on how to proffer solutions and stem further strikes.

Mark blamed government officials, who represented government to sign the agreement with ASUU. His words: “It showed the level of people the executive sends to go and negotiate with ASUU.

“The Federal Government should call those it sent to sign the agreement because it was obvious those sent did not know their right from their left and ASUU took advantage of that to sign the agreement. It is obvious that it would be difficult to implement the agreement.”

Mark also took a swipe at the acting Minister of Education, Nysom Wike, for saying that the strike would soon come to an end in a few months, adding: “The statement of the minister was totally uncalled for and insensitive to the situation on ground.”

He, however, pleaded with ASUU to shift grounds on its demands and noted: “There is no winner and no loser as long as the strike continues and nobody will win; all of us will lose.”

Earlier, Senate Education Committee Chairman, Uche Chukwumerije, in the motion informed his colleagues that the major demands of ASUU, as contained in the agreement, included payment of post-graduate allowance; teaching practice and industrial training allowances and honorarium.

Other allowances being demanded by the striking lecturers were post-graduate grants; external excess workload allowances; housing allowance; sabbatical allowance; sick leave allowance; injury allowance; provision of office accommodation; car allowance and funding of universities.

Senator Olusola Adeyeye, who is also a former lecturer, kicked against the demands of ASUU and explained that majority of the allowances being demanded were frivolous and not applicable anywhere in the world.

He said the economy of the country could not support the number of universities currently in operation and advocated for the introduction of education tax for all workers to fund education, adding: “But we must not allow the money to be consumed by bureaucracy.
http://myschool.com.ng/school/news/22864/ASUU-strike-at-last-senate-pass-resolution-to-end-ASUU-strike.html

Chai alliens

The Amnesty Office has dismissed the claim by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a militant group, that it was responsible for the inferno at the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old Warri Refinery, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, went up in flames on Tuesday morning leading to a shutdown of the 125,000-barrel per day plant.
Though the cause of the fire remains unknown with investigation already launched by the NNPC to ascertain the possible cause, MEND had claimed responsibility, citing ‘unsustainable and fraudulent amnesty programme’ as its grouse.
But the spokesperson for the Amnesty Office, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, dismissed MEND’s claim and said the militant group could not be taken seriously.
According to him, all the known militant ‘generals,’ including MEND leaders, had accepted the amnesty offered by the Federal Government.
He said some faceless and unscrupulous elements were using the name to cause disaffection in the Niger Delta.
“The NNPC had confirmed that there was a fire outbreak in the topping unit of the refinery and the fire was promptly brought under control. So, how can MEND claim responsibility for it,” he asked.
The Amnesty Office spokesman said, “Mend operates in the cyber space. It is no longer a physical group because all the MEND generals accepted the Federal Government’s amnesty offer. There was the intellectual arm of MEND, which comprises people that we all know and all of those people have identified with the amnesty programme.
“So, MEND today operates in the cyber space and the modus operandi is to send email statements to lay claim to any incident such as the Warri Refinery explosion in order to seek relevance. Some people are trying to use this to cause disaffection in the Niger Delta and such claims should be disregarded because they are unfounded and cannot be taken seriously.”
MEND, in an email signed by its spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, on Tuesday, said, “The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta takes responsibility for the sabotage this morning, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 inside the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s refinery in Warri, Delta State of Nigeria.
“Hurricane Exodus was intended to burn down the entire refining facility. As long as President Goodluck Jonathan continues to rely on an unsustainable and fraudulent Niger Delta Amnesty Programme, peace and security will continue to elude his government in the region. Hurricane Exodus is on course.”
MEND had also on Monday threatened to ramp up a violent campaign against oil production facilities in the country, saying offshore fields would be likely targets.
“Offshore operations are not a safe haven. MEND has visited Bonga before and we will do it again when the time is right,” a spokesman for MEND told Bloomberg in an email.
The group attacked the Shell-operated Bonga floating production, storage and offloading facility in 2008 and caused a temporary closure. The field could again be in the rebel group’s sight.
MEND has been attacking oil facilities in the country since April as part of its so-called “Hurricane Exodus” programme of disruption.
“Hurricane Exodus continues to gather strength as it sweeps through the swamps and creeks in the Niger Delta, leaving seriously damaged the Trans Niger and Feeder pipelines, harassed security operatives and scurried oil workers in its wake,” MEND told Bloomberg.
Experts, who expressed anger over the false claim, said MEND had grown very weak and it’s simply taking advantage of any negative incident to court relevance.
One of the readers on www.punchng.com, who identified himself as PolyGon2013, described the militants as ‘thieves.’
“May be they need to blow up the whole refinery. They are terrorists just like Boko Haram,” he added.
Experts, who described the militants as Oliver Twist, who will always ask for more, argued that the presidential amnesty programme had been robust and added that there was no need for MEND to be threatening attacks on oil installations in the country.

Stakeholders in the education sector, yesterday, took the supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike to task over his declaration that the on-going strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be called off in a few months.
The Senate on its part appealed to ASUU to call off the strike, blaming government negotiators for being ignorant by signing an agreement that could not be implemented.
Similarly, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Registrars of private universities in Nigeria said it had commenced moves to wade into the face-off with a view to ending the strike.
Mr. Wike said Tuesday that the face-off between the Federal Government and ASUU would be resolved in few months.
Reacting, however, ASUU leaders argued that the strike could end in next few days and not months if only the Federal Government had the political will to implement the 2009 agreement it made with the union.
The Chairman of ASUU Chapter of the Niger Delta University, Dr. Beke Sese said “We were surprised when we heard the comment, because we believe that the strike can end in 24 or 48 hours if the government has the political will to do it.
“It is not that we want the strike to go on much longer, but the issues on ground are more pertinent than days or weeks.”
Dr. Adesola Nassir, the chairman ASUU, Ibadan zone said the only way the minister’s assertion could hold water was if the Federal Government was ready to honour the agreement it had with the union in 2009.
Nassir said: “My only guess is that the supervising Minister of Education and the Federal Government must be ready to do what is right and implement the 2009 agreement, because that is the only solution to bring an end to the strike.
“All we have seen from the government in our different meetings is begging; government begging us to keep patching up the education sector so we can continue to churn out half-baked graduates as a result of lack of infrastructure.
The Education Rights Campaign, ERC, however, lamented that the Minister’s statement showed that the Federal Government was unserious about ending the strike.
The ERC National Coordinator, Mr. Hassan Soweto said: “The Government does not seem to mind leaving the education system shut down for a few more months. We believe that if the government is sincere, this strike can end in the next few days.”
Insinuations
On his part, Prof. Lai Oso, Dean, Adebola Adegunwa School of Communication of Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, dismissed insinuations that government had shown enough commitment for ASUU to call off the strike, arguing that it was only deceiving the world.
He said: “What kind of commitment has government shown for ASUU to call back its members to work.
Government has not done anything different. Has it injected more funds to universities or has it honestly met the agreement it willingly signed with ASUU since 2009? So, it’s the same old story, and government must stop deceiving the world that it has shown enough commitment.”
Meanwhile, Senate President, David Mark, yesterday, blamed those who represented the Federal Government in negotiating with ASUU, in the contentious 2009 agreement signed by both parties, saying that the university lecturers took advantage of the ignorance of government representatives on the matter.
The Senate in a resolution after the motion on appeal to ASUU to call off the strike and return to work moved by the Senate Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, and supported by 106 senators also mandated the Senate President and Chairman, National Assembly, David Mark to engage President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of ASUU for amicable resolution of the crisis.
It further mandated the Committee on Education to liaise with the Federal Ministry of Education, the National University Commission, NUC, ASUU and all other relevant stakeholders to proffer lasting solution to stem further strikes in the education sector.
The Senate President who described the motion as very important, said: “I will like to say that as long as we can continue the dialogue we will find a lasting solution.”
“The essence of this motion is to find a solution and a way forward. There are immediate problems that we need to tackle, all the parties involved need to sort things out. My personal appeal on behalf of the Senate to all the parties involved will be that they should try to show understanding.
“Let us shift ground in our understanding of the problem and finding a solution because if all the parties involved just dig in and they say they won’t shift ground then there will be no solution to it and Nigeria will be worse off for it, whether it is the executive, the legislature or the judiciary or ASUU
“Not shifting ground is not going to help us to find a lasting solution to the problem.”
Similarly, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Registrars of private universities in Nigeria said it had begun moves to wade into the on-going face-off between the Federal Government and ASUU with a view to ending the strike.
Chairman of the association who is also Vice Chancellor of Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, Professor Adebayo Adeyemi stated this, yesterday, during the announcement of the institution’s fifth convocation.
Embarrassment
Prof. Adeyemi who described the four-month-old strike as a national problem, denied that the private universities were benefitting from the on-going impasse. He said: “The development is a national embarrassment which nobody is proud of.”
He, however, said, the decision to wade into the crisis was not connected with the recent threat by the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, to shut down private universities over the crisis.
“It is quite beyond us, but, whatever we are doing, we are doing it silently; we are trying to reach to some individuals to resolve the crisis.
“It is true that the students have made the statement, but, I think it was made out of annoyance .
“Our intention is, however, not connected with their threat. It is just that the situation is an ill wind that blows nobody good.”