₦airaland Forum

Lateralmaths:
I felt sad when I heard what the Hon Minister of Education said yesterday. I have experienced strike for more than 30 years since I joined the system as an Assistant Lecturer in February 1989, but I have never seen a situation like this before. Even during the military regimes, ASUU was treated with some level of respect and honour.

We had hope after the 1992 strike that things would be better for the Nigerian academics and the universities. That is why some of us, out of patriotism and the willingness to contribute our quota to the development of Nigeria at least at the level of Education stayed put in Nigeria.

We refused to join the brain drain wagon. But look at where we are now. Suffering because we insist that things should be done right.

I remember my former Msc Supervisor who left the country in annoyance in August 1989 for America following the devaluation of naira ocassioned by the structural adjustment program (SAP) of IBB. He has been living comfortably, smiling in the US ever since, having experienced a fulfilled academic life. We have since collaborated and published articles jointly, using facilities and funds from his research grant.
Similarly, many of such people that were brain drained to other suitable lands are happy, smiling where they are doing their academic works. I remember our former UI ASUU Chairmen Prof Agbon and Prof Jimi Adesina. Now abroad (USA and South Africa respectively). They have been excused of the incessant strikes that refuse to be a thing of the past. Uncountable number of them that should be helping us in Nigeria are out there in the foreign lands where conditions are right and attractive.

My worry now is how do we retain the young productive colleagues that are still around in this system and how do we recruit and retain the talented ones we have trained, in this country, in the next few years if the refusal of government to do the right things to support academics still stands. These young ones are expected to take over from us when those of us the elderly ones exit the system. This is the tradition we inherited from our former teachers and mentors, encouraged by the system at that time.

My worry stems from the fact that at least we need to convince the young ones that making sacrifices for this nation would pay eventually. But can we do that in the present circumstances that we have found ourselves ?

How on earth should the negative consequences of this strike be laid on us, ASUU members, for asking government to do her work effectively on time, and for asking government to provide enabling academic environment including competitive pay that are taken for granted elsewhere abroad and even in some African countries?

Asking Students to take ASUU to court for wasting their time looks to me unreasonable.

Who should be accused of wasting Students’ time?. ASUU or Govt that refuses to do the right thing at the right time. Govt that could not prevent the strike? I know it is not in the character of ASUU to wake up one morning to declare a strike arbitrarily without exhausting all the necessary avenues including lobbying. With strike experienced in the universities since 1980, why can’t the government utilize that experience to do the needful without the union going on a full blown strike any longer. If we have a problem that persists for that long, why does the government fail to listen to volumes of suggestions and writeups on the issue?. I know a lot of studies and research had been done on ways to prevent strikes in our universities. The reports are there in the libraries gathering dust. The research and development ment units of government ministries ( if any) and the Nigerian Presidency should wake up to their responsibilities. I know in the US seat of government, the White House, there is a Research and Development unit that helps the American Presidency with appropriate research based recommendations for the right policies and decisions on matters of national importance.

In this dispensation, why did the present PMB administration fail to continue the good work that her predecessor President Jonathan started on the Revitalization program otherwise called the NEEDS Assessment program while in office?. Why must the past labour on the NEEDs assessment thrown to the dustbins? What has happened to the principle of continuity in government? Its clear beyond any doubt that we have a government consisting of many people that think lowly of academics and their welfare.

A responsive government will listen to the persistent cries for the development of academic environment to the level where we can make huge national revenues through the instrumentality of the knowledge economy as in the contemporary progressive nations of the world.

For example, why is it difficult for us to have students from all over Africa, Europe, Asia, the Commonwealth trooping to Nigeria to receive education if our universities are right,? Instead of the other way round in the world of today. And this had happened in Nigeria before.

Why are our leaders competing among themselves to send their children and relations to top universities abroad?

For example, University of Ibadan was rated as one of the best ten universities in the commonwealth in the 1970s. And the university trained many people from America, Europe, Africa and the rest of the commonwealth at that time. And many top experts from foreign countries worked in the university at that time. Why can we not manage success in this country? What are the factors responsible for our present predicaments. These facts should occupy the inquisitive mind of any government eager to develop the country and leave a legacy that will be difficult to rubbush.

Again, why can’t we have well known foreign experts accross disciplines making Nigeria their destination for sabbaticals and tenure appointments at this time ?

Its obvious that this nation can never develop if the present attitude of government to the issue of top level educational insitutions and academic welfare persists.

Already, progressive nations around the world continue to shop for people in all areas of endeavours from all over the world, that can contribute meaningfully to their quest for developing knowledge economy. It is known in the academic circles that the existence of top rated academics in any discipline is not location bound. We shop also shop for such people by making our environment conducive and making academic salaries comparable to the world or African standard. This should attract and retain such world class experts in our universities.

It us doubtful that our government knows that there are developed countries of the world where there are no appreciable deposits of physical minerals like petroleum products and other solid minerals like ours but they only develop knowledge infrastructure that launches them to first class nation and earns them appreciable incomes.
Wisdom suggests that we should aspire to do similarly. Relyingon petroleum and other minerals to drive our economy is archaic. We should move the way if progressive nations of the world.

For example, National incomes of nations like Japan and China depend largely on education, through knowledge based economy. Could they have developed to that level by treating their scholars with disdain and contempt like we usually experience here in Nigeria ?.

Does our present government know that knowledge economy will largely determine the developed nations of the world in the 21st century?

We already know that the third world of the 21st century would be those countries that will be left behind in the development of the knowledge based economy.

Again, is it reasonable for any government Minister to ask students to take their lecturers to court for wasting their time? Where in the whole world had that happened? Does ASUU have direct contract with students?

I know that Universities admit students based on the fact that facilities, manpower and other resources are available to teach what the universities are accredited to advertise and teach.

When a university fails to make such conditions available, who is then to be blamed?. Lecturers or the proprietors of the institutions. Lecturers and Professors are just important components of manpower needed to achieve the aims and objectives of universities. They are living components capable of reasoning and advise proprietors on the best way to go through negotiation and dialogues.

Apart from default in teaching, who would the students take to court when electricity, water, reasonable and respectable accommodation, Library facilities, standard laboratory, sufficient lecturers in quality and quantity, that are inadvertently promised to students are not available.?

Should they take their lecturers to court for defaults on those matters?

Talking about payment of outstanding salaries. Lecturers’ letters of appointment include the three tiers of responsibilities especially at the professorial level. Teaching, research and community services.

In the last six months, only the teaching component had been affected by strike. We still carry on our research. Some new top level research outcome have been published by many ASUU members especially in disciplines where you don’t need laboratory facilities and assistants. And our colleagues in laboratory based disciplines engage in collaborative works with colleagues especially in foreign universities that are not on strike. I know many people have published top rated articles in the last six months. May be ASUU should list our research papers published in the last six months for govt and the public to see. In my own part, I have published some recent papers, some have been accepted for publication while a number of my articles are undergoing peer review prior to publication. This is the story for many of us.

Also I know that in spite of the strike, many of us have been mentoring our post graduate students, and have been reading and correcting their draft thesis albeit unofficially.

Also, we have been writing letters of recommendation for our former students who are looking for jobs and academic placements both in Nigeria and abroad. I know of some of our undergraduate students who have relocated abroad in the last six months to continue their studies. Such students had received recommendation from us that facilitated their admission. ASUU members stand in loco parentis for all levels of students, strike or no strike. Its part of our community service.

Many of us have been attending vitual and physical conferences abroad on our expenses. All these are geared towards the continuous marketing of our academic institutions, we continue to register our presence and that of our universities in the global academic community. This also enhances the quality of certificates issued to our students. Our refusal to be isolated from participation in the world class professional meetings ensure our university and our nation’s continued relevance in the world academic market since we know that the strike will one day ends. These are some of our research and community services. We cannot afford to be left out in the development of our various disciplines just because we are on strike.

I have attended many virtual meetings in my discipline discussing recent developments at the frontiers of knowledge. I know that’s what many of us have been doing apart from teaching.

In spite of the strike we still have our letters that hired us to do those assignments. And students need not to be on ground for the two out of the three components to be done.

I believe reason will prevail and our negotiating team should not be tired of emphasis on these points. They should argue and present these justifications for the release of our seized salaries in addition to the need for government to respect the principle of collective bargaining. We have moved far beyond a unilateral award of salaries that can be withdrawn by fiat. One wonders why it took another round of strike with its pain and inconveniences for such salary award to come.

It is important for the present government to know that uncensored discussions, dialogues, negotiations and lobbying, consistent with the rules of law should be undeniable benefits of democracy. All of us fought for and suffered for this democratic dispensation. The dispensation came with pain and blood. We did not earn it freely. Many patroits passed away in the struggle for democracy. And we should all be allowed to reap the fruits thereof. We should not resist the benefits to a few politicians who are currently smiling to the banks at the expense of the majority.

Ezekiel O. Ayoola, PhD.
Professor of Mathematics &
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration)
University of Ibadan
Nigeria.

https://newsbreakng.com/my-worry-on-the-ongoing-ASUU-strike-by-prof-ayoola-dep-vc-ui/

Your post remind me of one of my lecturers in 2013 at UNIPORT. After his sabbatical in Namibia, he refused to return to Nigeria. He left Nigeria as a senior lecturer, today he's now a professor over there in Namibia.

Your post equally reminds me of my friend that left for his post doctorate fellowship to Panama with a plan never to return to Nigeria. There are so many like that just waiting for the opportunity to leave this country.

You see so many Nigerians don't know what lecturers going through. We understand the fact there're some bad eggs among them. However, my emphasis is on the good ones. In Nigeria the only way you can be assured of promotion as academics is through publications.Unfortunately, the cost of publication in today's world has gone up.

First, you need to pay 5000 naira for your paper to appraised and accepted. Once your paper is accepted, you are still required to pay an additional 25,000 naira for publication. This is just for local journals. Foreign journals are usually far expensive than this. As an academics, you need to publish a minimum of three papers in year.

Let's not forget the fact that some of these lecturers are also students elsewhere ( as PG students). In the midst of all these, some have families to cater for.

How I wish many of them would understand. Quite a pity.

This was the same man that said there was nothing like fuel subsidy.

JJuanMiguel:
Lol
It's still the same routine for ASUU,
Supervising
Marking
Setting questions etc
You are just suggesting that ASUU should repeat some or all of what they have already done.
The students will lose time, which they are already used to and ASUU will lose 6 months salaries which I'm sure it's the card they didn't anticipate from the government.
Previously, they always get paid their backlogs whenever they resume, that's why ASUU president was boasting then that they don't mind waiting for 2 years to reach an agreement with the government.

My point is this: when FG emphasizes on non payment of backlog of salaries, they should also remember that there is a backlog of work waiting for ASUU members except they are suggesting that they should proceed with the new session. If they should, you will still need somebody to take care of those uncovered session. For instance, most schools are still in 2021/2022 session (first semester), once the strike is called off the lecturers will resume from where they stopped. Now, assuming ASUU decides to forfeit the six month salaries and refuse to continue with the 2021/2022 instead insist on proceeding with 2022/2023? What happens to the students? In all these, students together with the parents remain the victims. The FG really need to find a way to resolve this impasse before it results in total collapse of the education. Don't forget that some schools are still battling to cover their curricula owing to the 2020 strike which lingered for nine months. Also factor in that we have on standby two sets of jambites waiting to gain admission. Very soon there will be call for another sale of JAMB form.
This is not the time to play politics with the future of our younger ones. Both parties should find a way to resolve this issue. Right now, some of my friends who lecturers, in the guise of postdoctoral fellowship, have left this country. We don't need such brain drain right now.

Image123:
How valid is this, shey that mallam dey online for 2013? Anyways.

Google is your friend. That should tell you the kind of leaders we elect.

Throwback:
If you want to please ASUU, be ready to collapse the economy.

I don wash my hands off ASUU and Medical Doctors matter tey tey.

Below is my final submission.

Do you know that ASUP members earn more than ASUU members. I blame ASUU for all these. While ASUP was busy fighting for a better welfare package for her members, ASUU on the other hand was fighting for revitalisation of the university. Funny enough, when this money was made available both the interest of Universities, polytechnics and colleges of education were considered.

If the FG decide to stick with the "no work no pay", this could amount to two things. It is either ASUU demand that the backlog of their salaries be paid or forget about their six months salaries together with the backlog of work waiting for them if they resume ( since the FG is insisting that they don't deserved to be paid). What this implies is that ASUU will forget about the old session and resume with the new session.

The Internet never forgets.

Szilard:
Alternative me and some of my guys use;

Find a pay. pal vendor you trust.

Pay him to fund your Namec.heap (or your preferred registrar's account) with his Paypal wallet.

Pay him in naira

Smooth and efficient

This is a more viable option. Do you have any pay pal vendor one can trust?

The US Air Force on Tuesday tested an unarmed nuclear-capable long-range missile, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command.

The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with a test reentry vehicle, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and traveled 4,200 miles to a test range near the Marshall Islands.

The missile, launched at 12:49 a.m. PT, was "to demonstrate the readiness of U.S. nuclear forces and provide confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of the nation's nuclear deterrent," a statement from the Air Force said.

"This test launch is part of routine and periodic activities intended to demonstrate that the United States' nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable and effective to deter twenty-first century threats and reassure our allies. Such tests have occurred more than 300 times before, and this test is not the result of current world events," the statement continued.

The launch was originally scheduled for August 4, according to Steven Wilson, a spokesman for AF Global Strike Command, but it was delayed over concerns about China's response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan, CNN confirmed. A US official told CNN at the time that it was a "prudent step."

The US regularly tests its intercontinental weapon system to verify its accuracy and reliability.

"Make no mistake - our nuclear triad is the cornerstone of the national security of our country and of our allies around the globe," Col. Chris Cruise, 576th Flight Test Squadron Commander, said in a statement. "This scheduled test launch is demonstrative of how our nation's ICBM fleet illustrates our readiness and reliability of the weapon system. It is also a great platform to show the skill sets and expertise of our strategic weapons maintenance personnel and of our missile crews who maintain an unwavering vigilance to defend the homeland."

The Minuteman III is traditionally known as the only land-based leg to the US nuclear triad. The other two parts of the triad are the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile and nuclear weapons carried by long-range strategic bombers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/16/politics/us-air-force-nuclear-capable-missile/index.html

Zigla:
gomoney card is working fine. Try it!

Does it work with dynadot and godaddy?

Jimneighbour:
I wanted to buy same domain, but my own problem was network.

I May have to register with geegpay and subscribe to their virtual card.

Zigla:
I can give you Memphisluxuryapartments//king for a token

No thanks.

Babalakin:
I'm curious, why not go for a city,seeing as waterstone is in a county in Virginia which is a city .

There were alot of endusers with waterstone attached to their names. Again, some of them probably because of unavailability the word ' apartments' chose to use the abbreviation 'apt' while some names were hyphenated. Who knows those ones would have love to upgrade to well spelt out name without hyphen.

I saw a domain waterstoneapartments (.) com on expireddomains(.) net few minutes ago, just to register it my card transaction was declined. Two seconds later I checked the name again only todiscover that some other person has registered the name. May be I've exhausted my monthly limits. Something really need to be done about the dollar issues. Painful but we move.

A bag of feed is almost close to 10k and this fish to my best of knowledge is usually measured in kg. With the current inflation rate, I wouldn't blame any farmer for hiking his or her price. After all the farmer is expected to make profit at the of the day.

virginprincess:
Which one is marry for second time again,where they not married before?anyway congratulations to them.

They just renewed their vows. It is allowed most especially when couples are celebrating their anniversary. They use the opportunity to renew the promises they made to each other.

"Education is not for everybody" ____ Engr David Umahi.

Umahi is not totally wrong with that statement, but the context and time are what present it as inimical. In fact, he didn't arrange it well, coupled with the fact that the Nigerian press always takes delight in giving issues headlines that'll make readers read the stories.

Umahi himself isn't so much educated. He graduated with 3rd class lower. A well educated person listens to himself while speaking before the audience do. An educated person wouldn't have said he became a billionaire at 25 when he had no business of his own doing at the time, and was at 25 doing his NYSC in Benin. A poorly educated person doesn't take into consideration how and what public may say of, or understand his lies. Only highly smart and intelligent person does propaganda. Umahi is poorly educated.

Umahi came in as governor and crippled education in Ebonyi State completely. Ebonyi State University that used to be one of the best state-owned universities in Nigeria became a glorified private daycare secondary school. He crippled the Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo such that only 70 or below 70 freshers participated in the matriculation of 2021. Altogether, the college doesn't have up to 700 students.

He created a university he named himself: King David University of Medical Sciences (K-DUMS) , Uburu. To be able to build the university, he had to kill Ebonyi State University. When the new school was constructed and delivered, he pegged the tuition at N2million and upwards per year. He built the university with the Ebonyi State Government's resources. It was meant to be a state-owned university, but how many citizens of Ebonyi State can afford to pay N2million and above every year to acquire the same knowledge that University of Nigeria, Nsukka can afford with about N200,000 per annum? Few months ago, admission into the university was called for. Only 53 students all over Nigeria applied. Out of the 53, Umahi awarded scholarship to 30 of them so the number could increase to 50. This is to mean that only 23 students genuinely sought admission into the university most of whom come from Delta, Edo, Akwaibom and Ogun States. These 30 he awarded scholarship are in trouble because, the incoming Government of Ebonyi State might not be able to sustain the scholarship as the selection process would have been done criminally in the first place.

A level 13 secondary school teacher in Ebonyi State is paid N37,000 monthly. Anybody can ask our teachers for confirmation. None of the teachers in Ebonyi State has been promoted to next level since 2015 Umahi became Governor. Gov. Elechi paid higher. Umahi came in and slashed it by 60 percent. It's a public knowledge. Umahi came in and put a fullstop to the scholarship programme the administrations of Egwu and Elechi established. Continuing postgraduate students in the UK became stranded with some terminating their programmes due to the inability of the Umahi administration to continue with it. Umahi came in and started collecting money from Ebonyi State University instead of giving them due subvention to run the university. Each semester, students of Ebonyi origin drop from school. This is the same man constructing an ecumenical centre for political events with N5.9billion. The same man building overhead bridges costing N1.1 billion each. This is a man constructing church avenue running in billions of Naira. The same man constructing private indomie factories in his Uburu village. The same man who constructed 17 different duplexes in one compound in Uburu and called it his home. He started building them in 2016. This is the same man who built a mini stadium and helipad in his Uburu compound immediately he became Governor. The same man building a 7star hotel for himself at Abacha Road in Portharcourt with bulletproof doors and world class facilities. He started building it in 2017. The list continues.

When David Umahi tells you that education is not for everybody, know it that himself never deserved education, reason he graduated with a third class lower. That's the calamity God allowed to befall Ebonyi State. God, where's the justice?

Nwoba Chika Nwoba
PDP
Publicity Secretary

Alert, MWA, MOUAU

This same person that told a widow to go and die.

Queensee:
Why should they get paid when they are not working?

The only reason why they have not tried to bend and end the strike is because they know they will still pay at the very end.

At the end of the day, it's the students that will lose. Most people will exceed the age limit of 30, and may not qualify to go and serve because of ASUU strike.

In case you don't know, National Root Crop Research institutes have been on strike since last year and yet they are still being paid.

Rankett:
Which registrar is this?

Verisign is a global provider of domain name services. From the write up, it seems they are trying to increase wholesale prices for . com related names.

Zuba is currently trending on twitter.

How did we get to this stage?

therealMcCain:
my personal opinion, same applies to P2P transactions

BDC moves lots of cash, you never can tell which of them is on a watchlist. transacting with anyone on a watchlist also means you might become a person of interest too. it may happen or may never happen.

Some persons have had issues with law enforcement due to P2P transactions. Stolen funds being used to purchase USDT or naira. you know its time & finance consuming to get yourself out of police issues in Nigeria even when you are a victim or completely innocent.

Thanks to Meffy, you cant do without P2P

Thank you for the clarification.

therealMcCain:
1. SH Marketplace
Its a backend marketplace available on Squadhelp only to domain sellers who are registered on the platform. you can list your domains there at wholesale price. For SH domain owned names you cant list the name more than $50 while for your own names, there is no limit.

while the names are listed on the wholesale market place, they remain listed on the premuim marketplace. if your own names sells on the wholesale market, there is a transfer center where you get to converse with the buyer for either push or transfer option. when the buyer receives the domain, he will notify SH who will then release payment to you.

2. I use GT dorm account. there is no minimum balance required. I am not recommending this neither do i know any other type of dorm account.

I dont like using dorm because of the hassle of going to the bank, then there is the issue of the bank not having FX at that point(or not wanting to release) then going over to BDC to change it.

I have been denied withdrawal on the grounds that they didnt have FX, pleaded with them to enquire which branch had so i could go there

I have also been restricted from withdrawal because it was an inflow, i was told one could only withdraw what was deposited across the counter

there is also another option, I dont like it for security reasons, transferring to BDC agent, who will then credit your Naira acc at parallel market rate

Please can you explain further on the bolded words?

donsharwama:
To those who never sell, don't give up.

Domain is real.. it's legit.

The sales here are legit.

I just received my money using grey us Account....

I've withdrawn into my access account.. waiting for d alert sha

They sold $1 for #650
#90,000 about to enter account

Time to invest more..

Buy good names, don't be like me that was doing geo handreg for almost my first 7 names and didn't make a sale(I'm not saying u can't do handreg, but as a newbie, no risk am if u Neva sell b4)

Thank you all...



Make una no vex oo.. body just dey sweet me

Was the name sold on Dan? I'm asking because someone complained on this forum about receiving payment through grey, having sold a name on Dan.

That video must have instigated the victim's relatives to rally round for money. The pain of seeing love ones, especially the one circulated by the bandits, can be heartbreaking.

Almost five years and it's as if we just got married yesterday.

Your country is at war and you are concerned about what is going on in another country. Oyibo people sha.

I'm not in any business but should I decide to do so then my parents are my greatest motivators.

Why should we compare the two? Because of the insurgency in the north east region, millions of dollars was channelled to that state especially under Shettima.