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Happy new year Nigeria.God bless you all[b]Happy new year Nigeria.God bless you all[/b]Happy new year Nigeria.God bless you all

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Wish everybody a happy new year

The school have now been closed down by the management till further notice

The school have now been closed down by the management

The protest continues today

These lectures no de try

Happy new year to the world

Thank you Mr president. We hope to see good things

I 100%support revolution

Merry Christmas to all nairalanders

I haven't seen my shear

wish my school will do dsame

Walahi ASUU no try

just

Oya let me check my diary for my matric number

Space preserved for comment when the strike is called-off.

Thank GOD we have hope of going to school

Remaining unijos

These people are stubborn

Which Monday are they talking about?i hope it's 25 because i don de vex :'

I'm waiting for the Friday

Plenty problem dey oo

For over four months now, academic
activities have been non-existent in
universities all over the country. This is
borne out of the fact that the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has
embarked on a crusade to
comprehensively put the educational
system of the country back on a sound
footing. This is a commendable effort! It
has however come to a point where an
objective review is paramount. Noble as
the effort is, it has come to a situation
where an end is put to the casualties of
this strike action.
As we talk now, many students have lost
track of the essence of university
education. Coupled with the uncertainty
of work after graduation, students are
already getting disillusioned about the
continued absence from the learning
arena. Reports have it that female
students have become prostitutes and
escorts at social gatherings because, as
the cliché goes, ‘an idle mind is the
devil’s workshop’. Parents have equally
become casualties as they are fed up
with the continued idling of their wards
and putting on hold of their plans for
their children. Parents who had hopes
that they would not have to use their
pension money to train their children
now have to re-plan. There is also so
much anxiety in the land; will ASUU call
off the strike? Is ASUU being used by
politicians? Are ASUU members really
altruistic or plain selfish in their
demands? Where will all these lead to?
These and other questions are causing
increase in the blood pressure of
Nigerians. Here is the latest. A
renowned professor has also become a
casualty. For a man who was committed
to the cause of raising the bar in our
educational system, Professor Festus
Iyayi’s tragic death in a motor accident is
the latest in the casualties of this four-
month old strike. And, Professor Iyayi’s
death is known because he is a popular
name. Who knows how many others that
have fallen victims unsung. How did we
get here? When will this stop?
As a graduate of a Nigerian university in
the late 80s and presently with
graduates of early 2010 and beyond
working around me, I have an idea of
‘fallen standard of education’ and
‘unemployable graduates’ mean.
Probably the advent of democracy after a
long spell with the military in 1999 and
the new-found freedom shifted emphasis
from education to politics with the result
that more resources got diverted to
politics rather than education.
Presently between my wife and I, we
come up with a school fee of N1.6
million per year for my boy in a private
secondary school with plans to send him
to a university outside the country when
the time comes. I also have an
undergraduate staying with me. So, it
was with a mixed feeling of happiness
and apprehension when ASUU on July 2,
this year decided to take it upon itself to
make the government see reason and
put money into the revitalization of the
educational system in the country. I
believed that if ASUU could make the
government implement the 2009
agreement the two parties entered into,
then we could use the money saved for
other productive ventures.
And so, when talks started with Governor
Gabriel Suswam leading the Federal
Government’s side towards a resolution
of the crisis and with statements
credited to the governor pointing to the
fact that the universities would soon be
reopened, I was convinced that we were
finally getting to see and benefit from
what had been in the pipeline all along.
The optimism soon fizzled out when
news emerged that Governor Suswam’s
statements were mere wishes as talks
had broken down between the two
sides. It was at this point that I decided
to look for what was contained in the
2009 agreement that Governor Suswam
and the Finance Minister and the
Coordinating Minister of the Economy
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala could not give a
commitment to implement. This was also
against the background of the statement
from the Secretary to the Government of
the Federation (SGF), Mr. Ayim Pius
Ayim that most of the issues contained in
the 2009 agreement had been fully met
except for the earned allowances
estimated at N92.8 billion.
Some of the issues in the agreement
include: funding, university autonomy,
academic freedom, earned academic
allowance and registration of Universities
Pension Management Company. Others
are: amendment of pension retirement
age of academics at the professional
cadre, federal assistance to state
universities and transfer of Federal
Government landed property to
universities.
My investigations have revealed that
while most of the non-financial aspects
of the agreements have been
substantially met, it would be practically
impossible to meet the financial aspects
of the agreements wholly as demanded
by ASUU. I found out that while the
Federal Government was offering N30
billion for now as earned allowances,
ASUU was asking for N92.8 billion. Also,
while the Federal Government was
making available N100 billion to the
Suswam-led Needs Assessment
Committee for infrastructure
development in the universities, ASUU
was looking at a staggered sum running
into close to two trillion in the next five
years.
With the current hemorrhaging of the
economy and global economic downturn,
coupled with other infrastructure
developmental commitments of the
country not forgetting the security
challenges, it has come to a situation
where we have to call on ASUU to bend a
little and open the universities.
After the continued insistence of ASUU
on full implementation of the 2009
agreement and the 2012 MoU and the
determination to put an end to the crisis,
President Goodluck Jonathan met with
the striking ASUU members for over 13
hours and I must confess that after this
meeting, I told my cousin to prepare to
go back to school as I believed that after
the meeting with the Number One, and
with his word, the road will be clear. I
understand that in the meeting with Mr.
President, he offered to put in N220
billion every year for the next five years ,
with an additional N10 billion (making
N40 billion) on earned allowances against
ASUU’s insistence of N350 billion next
year and N400 billion in subsequent four
years.
ASUU was in the process of discussing
the latest offering when Professor Iyayi
died. I can imagine the anguish on the
President’s mind judging by his
condolence message on the Professor’s
death , expressing his dismay “by the
fact that Professor Iyayi has sadly lost his
life while going to contribute to efforts to
finally resolve the current ASUU strike
which has unfortunately disrupted
academics in most of the nation’s
universities for over four months.” As if
that was not tragic enough, newspaper
reports have it that ASUU has put
forward further discussions on
Government’s proposal until next year
because of the death!
Sincerely, I do not believe this will be a
good way to honour the dead former
ASUU President. After all the appeals
from leaders of the National Assembly,
former Presidents, Traditional Rulers and
other eminent personalities, I want to
appeal to the patriotic sentiments of
ASUU to rescind the decision to suspend
further discussions on resumption of
academic activities in the universities.
Everybody has suffered enough. Parents,
students, governance, even the lecturers
have suffered enough! ASUU should also
consider the sacrifice of Mr. President
and other well meaning Nigerians and
emerge as defenders and promoters of
education in the country.
Source: Guardian Newspaper

They should call-off the strike before another person die again

See you guys in Brazil

Nice story. Atleast I've learnt something

Nice write up keep it up

wasak: #continues#

I never believed what was happening to me at that moment, i couldn't even think of the chronology of events which led me to that place. The best i could remember was that Funke came to my room and informed me that she had a surprise for me , i was surprised she could be so bold despite that our relationship wasn't up to that level. When i inquired what the surprise was , she asked me to close my eyes, i suddenly started feeling cool breeze all over me, i moved a step further and discovered i was in a different planet entirely, a heavenly fragrance invaded my sense of smell, i couldn't resist the urge to open my eyes. When i did my guess was confirmed. I found myself lying next to My Queen - Funke. We were lying on flowers, the whole place was covered with flowers of different colours and fragrance. I tried to rise to my feet when Funke came over me, she placed her lips on mine and brought her tongue out,i did same to receive her sweetness , i could feel the whole of her weight on me, as we locked ourselves up in passion i felt her bosoms brushing against my chest , 'this must be heaven ' i kept repeating to my mind.

I exchanged positions with her and came on top, we kept repeating the process amidst ecstatic moaning and pleasure. I found myself in a web of feeling i never experienced since i was born, one i started wishing would last forever.

'Idio.t u no go stand up? I heard a voice from nowhere, i opened my eyes to discover it was Mt, i quickly looked around and found myself in the hostel, it was at that point in time i discovered that all the moaning and kissing was a dream, i quickly closed my eyes to continue from where we stopped, i saw nothing, i closed it tighter,yet i couldn't find Funke nor the garden.

#to be continued soon #

It was only just a dream

Rooting this product will be more complicated than tecno

How long does it take
the identity card to be ready?

Who was the man of the match?