₦airaland Forum

Youngzedd: COALITION of Civil Society Organizations, Market women and students have staged a protest with placards of different inscriptions at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, over the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, alleging that the strike has increased prostitution in the country.

The group which noted that the strike was entering the fourth month appealed to the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC and appealed to the union to call off the strike in the interest of Nigerians.
Some of the placards read, “ASUU please save our young girls from prostitution, NLC, TUC and NUPENG mediate now, Stop playing politics with our future, This ASUU strike has lost its tactics, ASUU please save our future.”
Though, the group in some of the placards had accused the striking university teachers of being selfish and too rigid in their demands, in what looked like a contradiction, the groups also said that the demands were germane and for the good of the education system.

Delivering a letter to the NLC President at the Labour House, the leader of the protest and Executive Director of Conscience Nigeria, Comrade Tosin Adeyanju said that they decided to embark on the protest to appeal to the labour leaders to mediate on the lingering face-off between ASUU and the Federal Government that had led to the continuous closure of public universities in the country.

Comrade Adeyanjul said, “We embarked on this protest today to further appeal to all major stakeholders in the Nigeria project and we deem it fit to come to the labour house because of the strategic importance that labour represents in this country.

“For almost 100 days, our students, our dependants, our children have been locked out of our ivory towers and nothing has changed. We are here to appeal to the labour leaders in this country to come and mediate on the lingering and prolonged ASUU strikes.

“We are not unaware on the germane and relevant issues raised by ASUU, there is need for our institutions to be revitalized, there is need for improved research, there is need for improved allowance, there is need for infrastructural development in ivory towers, but all over the world no country has been able to meet the demands of labour unions 100 per cent.”
“With the information available to us, we are aware that the federal government proposed and has given ASUU a 100 billion initial fund requested for different issues in the various universities.

We are aware that ASUU appealed for more money to be given on the earned allowance and 30 billion was given for earned allowance as at today about 130 billion has been given to ASUU.”
Receiving the protesters, President of NLC, Abduwaheed Omar, represented by the Chief Economist of NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo’eson said that the labour leaders had initiated moves by writing to the Federal government about four times on how to mediate but government had not responded to their letters.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/ASUU-strike-increased-prostitution-group-alleges/

...pls here is a poem I wrote to help our cause .gerian students

THE CRY OF NIGERIA STUDENTS
The dreams of reality blow on my
imaginations the wind of
necessity ,
Where had the sleeping dog lay
the night heap of lips renovated
our campuses ,
Hoping for a saviour union to set
us free
We all gazed all night through
the broken promises for years
The shadows of carefree men
care for us ,
The song of our consolations
betrays our learning classes
A spoonful is used to feed our
many hungry soul
Like forgotten children we are left
by two elephants to weather or
survive the sad tidings
The aero toilet doesn't mean
much
Learning consist in this also
Reading is our profession even at
leisure
Our hope lies beyond the broken
walls of theories
Our noble Innovations are dagger
drawn with industries
The reflection of the past weeps
for the present
Faulty education is now the base
of lucrative mechandise
How gold are mine from
ignorance of many
Now we stand in between the
future and today
Singing our still old song
Listening careful to hear
everyone sing along
From the studio of our heart
cry
To the lofty corridors of power
The sound do not pierces the
heartless
Our desire spans from the
present decay
We believe and live in the future
our stay
Nay! We stand and understand
the past
It wounds have expose our
talented nature
We have gotten the password to
the future
though refining charred some of
us
Still we came out as gold to the
world
Deep down the reservoir of our
nature
The slap on our left cheek
brought smile on the right
We still stand the sad tidings with
courage
But to the unborn generation
what shall their story say
Shall it sing the song of freedom
Shall it say we are truly
students
or shall it be another harvest of
corruption
A reaping of what they've sown
Now we reminded of this in any
decision
Generation will harvest what we
have sown
If by any means we attain to
lofty height
We must all return in small and
great
To build walls of our education
Our cry must be heard from this
present poetry to the success
story of the generation to come

chindi: Happy Independence Day Nairalanders.
I want to use this medium to expose some of the tv commercials that doesn't work as advertised. Below is a list of the adverts:

DETERGENTS: Most adverts on detergents (if not all) doesn't truely work as advertised. Ariel, Omo, Klin, among others 'one wash' adverts are scams. I have used most of the detergents on tough stains but 'e no dey comot once'. I'll have to change water and rewash all over before the stains will be removed (after hard scrubbing until my flesh peel comot).

VICKS BLUE: '...Vicks blue go sama dat ur cough and catarrh one time...' I've tried this when I had cough and catarrh but it doesn't work. At times, I end up taking a dozen of vicks blue all to no avail. If you have tried taking just one and it worked for you just lemme know.

ONGA: ...mama's helping hand. The advert shows that when you use Onga seasoning on any meal, it turns out delicious, chei! What if say na potty I dey cook, so if I just add onga d food go sweet, abegi! Tell me something else. Well, all na advert sha.

PANADOL: From the advert, when you take panadol for pain relief, you will be relieved immediately, ONE TIME! I have taken panadol when I had headache but I wasn't relieved of the pain immediately, I had to rest for a while before I regained 'my head'.
More will be sent, not until you post yours.

Long live Nairalanders
Long live Nigerians
Happy Independence!

..what about the never dying U.B.A #bank advert.I think the man should be so grey by now

Yes indeed life on campus to so many people is the best! ..but to some it sour ,boring not what I wanted..so let's share together the good times n bad times ..n generally what life should be on campus

validplanet: it really makes no sense to go to the university considering the fact that those that didnt go to university get more job opportunities than the graduates. there is virtually no work in the society today that cant be done by illiterates who just acquired their skills outside the 4 walls of the university, so whats the point?

take for instance, opposite my house here, some1 just completed a 2 storey building. and i didnt find any single graduate among the workers. the guy just went to lagos and brought some builders who came and built his house from foundation to roofing. all were illiterates who learnt how to build houses outside d university. d question is; why should some1 spend 5 yrs studying civil engineering in nigeria?

go to the mechanic village; all the auto mechanics there are illiterates. and some1 will spend more than =N=500,000. studying mechanical engineering for 5 yrs.

d music industry? i dont know their profiles but i can bet they didnt study music in the university.

fashion design? all illiterates.

i can go on and on.

i pity our unemployed graduates who spent their fortune and time acquiring university education only to come out to find there are no jobs for them.

l...let's get it clear people university education is just a vehicle to a destination n not vice versa .been a graduates doesn't grantee an individual to direct fortune in life but with much work n digging down out talent you might be on your way,we must understand many graduate today feels their years of study should be compensated with big jobs n if it doesn't come they can humble to learn a skill .....think computers n robots are taking the jobs imagine ATMS, n see what times are ...#GOD BLESS U HUSTLE

Danhumprey: It's a known fact that a greater percentage of the members of this Forum are within the Tertiary institution age group,which I am part of. This thread is for us all.

Let's talk about what we are currently studying and what we hope to be in the near future.

Personally,I'm studying Accounting and I hope to be a Chartered Accountant in the near future,so help me God.

Let's hear yours.

P.S: I know that ASUU is on strike,but that would never stop us from graduating and be who we want to be in future! Did I hear somebody say "Amen"?

....am studying Bsc mathematics n computer science hoping to be a modeler and to be a genius in Artificial intelligence (robotics) by God grace

SimonAndal:
200lvl Computer Science, hoping to be a Googler in 5 years.

...same here...but master on A.I