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Which one is kik again?

oluafolabi: We hope ASUU will collect this 40 billion and gree

They must accept it.

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Long live ASUU,long live FG, we r njoyin d show

You sound like one who is benefiting positively from the strike?

I had initially predicted that the strike will be called off next year, but current development tells me that the strike might be called off this week. We all need to keep praying hard ohhh.

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OTUOKE
INTERNAL INFORMATION RELEASE
OCTOBER 14, 2013
AN UPDATE ON ONGOING ASUU
NEGOTIATIONS FOLLOWING TWO
RECENT MEETINGS WITH VICE-
PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO
From the Office of the Vice-
Chancellor
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Following two meetings (on
Thursday 19th Sept 2013 and Friday
11th Oct 2013) of representatives of
the AVCNU (Association of Vice-
Chancellors of Nigerian Universities,
led by CVC Chairman, Prof. Hamisu
of ATBU) and ASUU Representatives
(led by its President, Dr. N. Fagge)
with the Vice-President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, Arc. N. Sambo,
Minister of Education Barr. N. Wike
and others, all Vice-Chancellors have
been urged to inform and enlighten
our academic and other staff on the
following developments so that we
can ensure a return to normalcy in
our universities within the shortest
possible time
1. Earned Allowances: The N30
billion already released will now be
increased to N40 billion, and should
be regarded only as first installment,
and not a once-and-for-all payment.
Government will top it up with
further releases once universities are
through with the disbursement of
this new figure of N40 million, so
Vice-Chancellors are urged to
expedite this disbursement within
the shortest possible time using
guiding templates that have been
sent by the CVC.
2. NEEDS Assessment Capital Money:
Government was cognizant and
mindful of the ability of Universities
to effectively/efficiently utilize the
N100 billion fund immediately,
hence that figure. However, in
addition to this N100 billion
dedicated and already made
available for 2013, N200 billion
(increased from N150 billion
previously agreed) will now be
earmarked in the 2014 Budget as
well as each of the following three-
four years until the Universities are
brought to world-class standard.
3. Project Prioritization: Universities
will now be allowed to determine
their priorities and not be “rail-
roaded” into implementing a pre-
determined set of projects with
respect to the NEEDS assessment.
Decisions are not to be centralized.
4. TETFund Intervention:
Government assured that the
operations of the TETFund will not
be impaired, and that the regular
TETFund intervention disbursement
to Universities will continue,
unaffected. So the NEEDS
assessment capital outlays are in
addition to regular TETFund
intervention.
5. Project Monitoring: A new
Implementation Monitoring
Committee (IMC) for the NEEDS
Assessment intervention for
universities has been set up to take
over from the Suswan Committee.
The new one is under the Federal
Ministry of Education and chaired by
the Honorable Minister of Education.
In addition, to build confidence and
ensure faithful implementation and
prevent any relapse as before, the
Vice President will meet quarterly
with the IMC to monitor progress.
6. Blueprint: ASUU was mandated to
submit a blue print for revitalizing
the Universities to the Vice President.
7. Official Agreement Document: A
signed document would be issued
very soon to itemize the full issues
on which this present consensus
outlined here, brokered by AVCNU,
has been reached.
8. An Appeal to Call Off Strike: The
Vice-President Sambo appealed to
ASUU to call off the strike and
apologized for the "take-it-or-leave-
it" comments credited to the Hon
Minister of Finance. All other parties
present at the meetings also
prevailed on the ASUU leadership to
consult objectively with its members
to get them to agree with what is
now on the table and to call off the
strike as soon as possible after the
Sallah break of Tuesday/Wednesday
October 15/16 2013.
9. ASUU President Responds: At both
meetings, the President of ASUU
thanked the VP for taking over
negotiations and promised to
consult with his ASUU Constituency.
We keep our fingers firmly crossed,
as we await both the official
consensus agreement document
and full ASUU reaction.
Statesmanship on all sides is called
for at this point in time.
Thank you.
Prof. Mobolaji E. Aluko
Vice-Chancellor
Federal University Otuoke

If this news is anything to go by, it is a clear sign that the federal government are really working to ensure that the protracted ASUU strike is quickly resolved. I have a feeling that the strike will be called off very soon.

My bro, you are not far from the truth; however, i feel your tune and word is too harsh and stereotyping. We all know that aside the infrastructural problems our tertiary institution face, a greater part of the problem lies in the waywardness and corrupt nature of some of our lecturers. But still, it hasn't gotten to the stage where you address them with above words. Take it easy bro, i understand the musical beat that seethes you with anger.

This topic is misleading: He regretted that the state could not however proceed to the next level in the exploration process because the presidency and the ministry were yet to respond to the application for approval as required by the law.He said the delay may have something to do with the non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), stressing the need for the National Assembly to expedite action on the passage of the bill. since he knows the reason why they are yet to receive a reply from the federal government, why is he also accusing them of trying to halt their plan? This topic is misleading, instead of the above, it should be titled, "Non Passage of PIB hindering Oil Exploration in Niger State." On Babangida Aliyu case, he has started again...he reads politics into everything; yet, all he has to show in his state are bill boards littered around Niger state, with the caption 'Chief servant'...Otondo, una go dig hell fire comot for Bida say una dey find oyel.

This man is really sick and needs urgent help asap...I just hope the people around him would realize this reality and take him to a mental asylum before he dents the high reputation of his family with poo.

Humanity and Against,

By Wole Soyinka

I am certain there are others
who, like me, received
invitations to the recent edition
of the Storymoja/Hay Literature
Festival in Nairobi, but could not
attend. My absence was
particularly regrettable, because
I had planned to make up for
my failure to turn up for the
immediate prior edition.
Participant or absentee however,
this is one edition we shall not
soon forget.
It was at least two days after the
listing of Kofi Awoonor among
the victims that I even
recollected the fact that the
Festival was ongoing at that very
time. With that realization came
another: that Kofi and I could
have been splitting a bottle at
that same watering hole in
between events and at the end
of each day. My feelings, I wish
to state clearly, did not undergo
any changes.
The emotions of rage, hate and
contempt remained on the same
qualitative and quantitative
levels. Those are the feelings I
have retained since the Boko
Haram onslaught overtook the
northern part of our nation. I
expect them to remain at the
same level until I draw my last
breath, hopefully in peaceful
circumstances like Chinua
Achebe, or else violently like
Kofi. As becomes daily clarified
in contemporary existence, none
of us has much control over
these matters.
Two earlier commitments were
responsible for my inability to
attend the Festival. One was a
public conversation with a very
brave individual, Karima
Bennoune, an Algerian national,
whose trenchant publication –
YOUR FATWA DOES NOT APPLY
HERE – is of harrowing
pertinence to the events of
Nairobi, a pertinence that
continues to ravage our, and
other nations.
The other preventive factor was
the annual conference of
International Investigators in
Tunis, doing battle with the
monster of Corruption. The link
of the former event is obvious
enough, but if you think the
latter has no relevance to what
has happened in Nairobi, or is
taking place in the northern part
of this nation, permit me to
correct you.
Yes, we all know of material
corruption, we confront it all the
time. Tragically neglected
however is what we should learn
to designate as spiritual
corruption. Those who
organized and carried out the
outrage on innocent lives in
Nairobi are carriers of the most
lethal virus of corruption
imaginable – corruption of the
soul, corruption of the spirit,
corruption of that animating
humanistic essence that
separates us from predatory
beasts.
I am no theologian of any
religion, but I aver that these
assailants delude themselves
with vistas of paradise after life,
that their delusion is born of the
perverted reading of salvation
and redemption. Those who
attempt to divide the world into
two irreconciliable parts –
believers against the rest – are
human aberrations. As for their
claims to faith, they invoke
divine authority solely as a
hypocritical cover for innate
psychopathic tendencies. Their
deeds and utterances profane
the very name of God or Allah.
Let us however abandon
theology and simply designate
them enemies of humanity,
leaving a very real question that
the rest of us must resolve –
whether this breed even belongs
to the human race, or should be
seen as a mutant sub-species
that require both moral and
scientific definitions. We cannot
continue to pretend that those
who have set their sight against
that enabling spark that we call
creativity, those who arrogate to
themselves the right to dispose
of innocent lives at will, belong
within the same moral universe
to which you and I belong.
Without a moral universe,
humanity exists in limbo.
Not since Apartheid has our
humanity been so intensely and
persistently challenged and
stressed on this continent.
History repeats, or more
accurately re-asserts itself, as a
murdering minority pronounce
themselves a superior class of
beings to all others, assume
powers to decide the mode of
existence of others, of
association, decide who shall
live and who shall die, who shall
shake hands with whom even as
daily colleagues, who shall
dictate and who shall submit.
The cloak of Religion is a
tattered alibi, the real issue – as
always – being Power and
Submission, with the
instrumentality of Terror. Let us
objectively assess the true
nature of the dominion that they
seek to establish in place of the
present ‘dens of sin and
damnation, of impurity and
decadence’ in which the rest of
us supposedly live. We do not
need to seek far, the models are
close by – they will be found in
contested Somalia. In now
liberated Mali.
Fitfully in Mauritania. In those
turbid years of enchained
Algeria, and her yet
unconsolidated business of
secularism. Theirs is the
dominion of exclusion. Of
irrationality and restraints on
daily existence. A loathing of
creativity and plurality. It is the
dominion of Apartheid by
gender.
Of the demonization of
difference. It is the dominion of
Fear. Let us determine that, on
this continent, we shall not
accept that, after victory over
race as card of citizen validation,
Religion is entered and
established as substitute on the
passport, not only for citizen
recognition, but even to
entitlement to residence on
earth.
After the deadly calling card of
these primitives, the rest of the
Nairobi Festival was cancelled.
Understandably, but sadly.
I have however written to the
organizers not to even bother to
renew my invitation for next
year’s edition – life permitting, I
shall be there. We must all be
there. And we must learn to
smother loss in advance, not just
for that Festival but for all
Festivals of Life and Creativity
wherever in the world. Resolve
that, no matter the tragic
intervention, such events must
run their course. Let us accept,
quite simply, that a force of
violent degeneracy has declared
war on humanity. Thus, we are
fated to be ever present on the
battlefield until that war is over.
I submit that we were all present
at that concourse of humanity in
Nairobi. We were present by the
side of every maimed and fallen
victim, among who was a
distinguished one of us, one of
the very best that have defined
us to the world. We were
present in Mali even before this
nation, to her credit, joined in
stemming the tide of religious
atavism and human
retrogression.
We were beside the students of
Kaduna, Plateau, Borno, the
school children of Yobe, the
mangled okada riders and petty
traders of Kano, beside all those
who have been routinely
slaughtered for so many years
past in this very nation. In
Nairobi’s hub of commerce we
were present, confronted yet
again with that same diabolical
test that was applied to school
pupils in Kano many years ago,
where those who failed to recite
the indicated verse of the Koran
were classified as infidels, and
led away to have their throats
serially slit.
We have been present at the
travails of Algeria, recorded for
posterity by that lady Karima
Bennoune in YOUR FATWA DOES
NOT APPLY HERE. We were
beside Tahar Djaout, author of
THE LAST SEASON OF
UNREASON, cut down also by
religious fanatics. We are the
mere survivors who continually
ask, when will this stop? Where
will this end?
The ones who echo Karima and
that miraculous survivor Malala
in declaiming – No indeed, your
fatwa can never apply here. We
have been beside the children of
Cherchyna in the Soviet Union,
innocents who, taken hostage,
were reduced to drinking their
own urine, then deliberately
gunned down as they made
their way out of a school
gymnasium that had turned into
an inferno.
We continue to remain beside all
who have fallen to the blight of
bigotry, religious solipsism and
spiritual toxicity. We shall
continue to stand beside them,
denouncing, condemning, but
most critically, urging on all who
can to anticipate, stem, and
ultimately eliminate the tide of
religious tyranny. We have taken
the side of Humanity against
those who are against.
At this very time of the latest
outrage, the world body, known
as the United Nations
Organization was actually
convened in General Assembly.
We must instigate that body to
evolve, through just, principled,
but severe and uncompromising
action, into a United Humanity
Organisation, that is, thinking
not simply ‘nation’, but acting
‘humanity’. It means going
beyond pietisms such as – this
or that is a religion of peace, but
obliging its members to act
aggressively in neutralizing those
whose acts pronounce the
contrary, so that Humanity is
placed as the first and last
principle of nation existence and
global cohabitation. The true
divide is not between believers
and unbelievers, but between
those who violate the right of
others to believe, or not believe.
Memories that span fifty or more
years are difficult to distill into a
few words. Suffice it to stress
for now that Kofi Awoonor was
a passionate African, that is, he
gave primacy of place to values
derived from his Ewe heritage.
That, in turn, means that he was
thoroughly imbued with the
spirit of ecumenism towards
other systems of belief and
cultural usages – this being the
scriptural ethos that permeates
belief practices of most of this
continent.
We mourn our colleague and
brother, but first we denounce
his killers, the virulent sub-
species of humanity who bathe
their hands in innocent blood.
Only cowards turn deadly
weapons against the unarmed,
only the depraved glorify in, or
justify the act.
True warriors do not wage wars
against the innocent. Profanity is
the name given to the defilement
of the sanctity of human life. We
call on those who claim to
exercise the authority of a fatwa
to pronounce that very doom,
with all its moral weight, upon
those who engage in this serial
violation of the right to life, life
as a god-given possession that
only the blasphemous dare
contradict, and the godless
wantonly curtail. This scalp that
they have added to their
collection was roof to a unique
brain that a million of their kind
can never replace.
A few months ago, in New York,
on a joint platform of the United
Nations and UNESCO, I entered
an urgent plea into the
proceedings of that International
Conference on the Culture of
Peace: Take Back Mali!, I urged.
At home, I impressed that
urgent necessity on our own
government. I know that Kofi
Awoonor, poet, diplomat and
democrat, would approve my
commendation – in this specific
respect at least – of the action
of our and other ECOWAS
governments – albeit after
France had taken the critical lead
– in taking back Mali. I especially
applaud the outgoing Foreign
Affairs Ambassador Gbenga
Ashiru, who hearkened to that
imperative of speedy
intervention and urged it with
vigour and urgency on the
African Union.
We salute the courage and
sacrifices of the soldiers who
reversed the agenda of the
interlopers – al Queda and
company – with their arrogant
designs on those freedoms that
define who we are in this region,
and on the continent itself.
Safeguarding freedoms, alas,
goes beyond even the most
intense passion and will of the
poetic Muse, and we must never
shy away from acknowledging
this cruel reality.
Those who believe that a tepid,
accomodative approach to
fundamentalist rampage can
generate peace and human
dignity should study – as I have
often urged – the experience of
Algeria, captured with such
chilling diligence in Karima
Bennoune’s work. The cost of
‘taking back Algeria’ is one that
will be reckoned in human
deficit – and unbelievable
courage – for generations to
come. Today, I urge all forces of
progress to – Take Back Africa!
Rescue her from the forces of
darkness that seek to inaugurate
a new regimen of religious
despotism, ruthless beyond what
our people have known even
under the imperial will of
Europe.
These butchers continue to
evoke the mandate of Islam,
thus, we exhort our moslem
brother and sister colleagues:
Take back Islam. Take back that
Islam which, even where it
poses contradictions, declares
itself one with the Culture of
Learning, one that honours its
followers as People of the Book,
historic proponents of the
virtues of intellect and its
products. There is no religion
without contradictions – it is the
primacy of human dignity and
solidarity that serves as arbiter.
We call upon the fastidious
warrior class of the intellect,
steeped in a creative contempt
and defiance of enemies of the
humanistic pursuit.
We speak here of that Islam that
inspires solidarity with the
Naguib Mafouzes of our trade,
with the Tahar Djaouts, with the
Karimas and the Mariama Bas,
not the diabolism of al Shabbab,
Boko Haram and their
degenerate ilk. Let us join hands
with the former, and enshrine
their mission as the history
prescribed destination of our
creative urge.
What Nairobi teaches – and not
just this recently – is that there
is no place called Elsewhere.
Elsewhere has always been right
here with us, and in the present.
I urge upon you this mandate:
seize back your Islam and thus,
take back our continent and, in
that restorative undertaking –
take back our humanity.

Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel
laureate and
compulsive defender of freedom
and justice, delivered this tribute
at a recent gathering of Nigerian
writers at the Freedom Park,
Broad Street, Lagos.

A very funny video i must say...i really felt sorry for Arsenal fans after watching the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IaiQuT5Je3U#t=6

This sounds Amechilized*...i just don't seem to decipher the point they are trying to make.

I represent Bonny island, Rivers state Nigeria.

Useless thread...poos on the thread***My candid advice: don't waste your precious time on this thread.

Una no go kill person...God pass una. This post simply got me cracking. I am guessing that is actually what the op hoped to achieve when she opened this thread. This will make for a great comedy sitcom. A very sarcastic post i am must say.

gboso1ne: Team #AsuuStrikeMustContinue *HIT LIKE*

Team whimpers go rot in h*ll.

These are the questions we need to ask before we join the bandwagon of ASUU whimpers. I will continue to hold my opinon on this ensuing stalement: the federal government will be doing this nation a great disservice if they eventually oblige the agitation of ASUU. Until the Federal government is able to curtail the massive corruption and lackadaisical attitude portrayed by a great number of our lecturers towards the affairs of our universities, no amount of money pumped into our universities would hold waters.

ASUU do not have the interest of the Nigerian students; they are just bunch of greedy men seeking to enrich themselves by all mean. The earlier we realize this the better for us.

timpaker:
SMH
transfer your aggression to the FG, ASUU has nothing to do with the fund, they just want a better working infrastructure that the FG promised them. abi dem jazz them when them sign the agreement?

I cannot be deceived. We all know that the reason why they are yet to call off the strike is because the federal government is yet to give them their full allowances. I am also not exonerating the federal government from the whole strike saga, what i am saying is that, no matter the amount of money pumped into our universities if the lecturers do not change from their lackadaisical attitude towards their fundamental responsibility, our tertiary institutions will still keep dancing in feces.

Seriously for me, spending even 100tn cannot and will not be able to change the state of things in our universities if our lecturers do not change their attitude. We keep lamenting that the infrastructures in our tertiary institution are in a state of quagmire because of the inability of our government to perform their fundamental duties, forgetting that a large chunk of the problems we face in our universities are self made by some irresponsible lecturers. Nigerian students, we sure need to wake up from our slumber; this group called ASUU do not have our interest in mind.

Seriously for me, spending even 100tn cannot and will not be able to change the state of things in our universities if our lecturers do not change their attitude. We keep lamenting that the infrastructures in our tertiary institution are in a state of quagmire because of the inability of our government to perform their fundamental duties, forgetting that a large chunk of the problems we face in our universities are self made by some irresponsible lecturers. Nigerian students, we sure need to wake up from our slumber; this group called ASUU do not have our interest in mind.

I feel reading this trash you posted would be a real waste of time. But i have some questions for you: if eventually the federal government implements in full the agreement it had with ASUU, will this stop the lecturers from harassing female students, will this in anyway curtail the massive corruption and injustice lingering in the Nigerian universities? ASUU have been embarking on strike action for a decade now; but yet, that has not in any way changed the deteriorating state of our tertiary institutions. If ASUU really have the interesting of the students in mind, they should let go their arrogant attitude and find ways to bring this strike to an end.

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Please help! i just downloaded modern combat 3 apk+file, but when i run the game it shows me gameloft logo only to force close when am about to lunch the original game. I am using a tecno n3 phone.

lacosteIII: wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik-cache from cwm 3 times each then reboot!

Tank you sir. It worked for me...more grace to your elbow

I am yet to see how all the strikes ASUU embarked in the past has in anyway benefited the Nigerian student. The earlier we come to realize that the groups sole responsibility is to further the individual course of their body the better for us.

My schools case is the most annoying. we are yet to write our first semester exam, whereas other schools are through for the section. while schools like UNN will be starting the next academic section we will be busy trying to rush our prolonged academic calender. Gosh! my school is just soo useless. Even with the criticality of our situation they are still bent on continuing with the strike. God we really need your intervention.

EMMA BC: Mr president's use of English is awful. 'Everybody's eyes is on petroleum'....., said GEJ. Asked if he was satisfied with petroleum ministry, he again made no single sense in his response

why were you not elected the president of Nigeria, 'mr. all knowing dictionary'? Instead of concentrating on the issues being discussed you were busy analyzing his use of English.

Please help! i just changed my tecno n3 rom to jelly bean 3.0...after installing, my phone has been unable to start properly; when i switch on my phone it keeps showing me the tecno logo. Please i really need your help to solve this issue.

Please, this thread should be moved to the front page to avoid other people from falling pray to this scam. I strongly believe that their are a lot of persons that would help if this thread is given its due attention. But till then, pele* sir.

Please help! Modern combat 3 keeps force closing on my tecno n3. How can i stop it from force closing?