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Wisdomedache:
name: wisdom Edache school: oau course: dramatic arts wisdomsammie@gmail.com I'm interested in this.....

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Wisdomedache:
name: wisdom Edache
school: oau
course: dramatic arts
wisdomsammie@gmail.com
I'm interested in this.....

cc Fynestboi

luxanne:
Judge 2 results:
TEAM OAU
► OAUTemitayo:
PRESENTATION-4 LOGIC OF ARGUMENT-4 STRENGTH OF FACT, EXAMPLE, CASES-4 PERSUASIVENESS-4 DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE-4
TOTAL= 20
► EMMASCULATE99:
PRESENTATION-4 LOGIC OF ARGUMENT-4 STRENGTH OF FACT, EXAMPLE, CASES-4 PERSUASIVENESS-3 DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE-4
TOTAL= 19.5

TEAM UNIBEN
► MOSQUITOLAPS:
PRESENTATION-2 LOGIC OF ARGUMENT-3 STRENGTH OF FACT, EXAMPLE, CASES-3 PERSUASIVENESS-3 DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE-3
TOTAL=14

TEAM LAUTECH
►PENPLAYER:
PRESENTATION-3 LOGIC OF ARGUMENT-4 STRENGTH OF FACT, EXAMPLE, CASES-4 PERSUASIVENESS-3 DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE-4
TOTAL=18.

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TOTAL SCORES:
OAU - 39.5 UNIBEN - 14 LAUTECH - 18
Congratulations guys…

Emaculate ma

Freemanan:
MOSQUITOLAPS
Ensure you give full meaning to acronyms next time... "signing of MOU".... Dont assume your audience knows it all...


OAUTemitayo....
You did well Mate... Very well. You will definitely go far if you oil your logic more. Its kinda rusty a bit and intelligent opposition will feast on that...


EMMASCULATE99.
ENSURE PUNCTUALITY MATE... and please ensure you make more research on your future topics so as to have a fluent knowledge of it.


PENPLAYER.
Improve your diction sir. Arguments should be done with sophisticated and twisting languages... Your logic was superb...


BRAVO ALL... BRAVO

Emaculate99 sir

luxanne:
► Penplayer ► MosquitoLaps ► OAUTemitayo ► Emaculate99
Well done guys. You will get the tag once the scores are ready,

yes my lady

Strike again? SSANU was reported to have openly threatened the federal government with an indefinite strike which was to take effect on the 24th of December, 2015 as a result of the directives given to the Vice-Chancellors to remove names of their secondary school staff from the government payroll. It should be noted that these workers were forcefully included into the government payroll. Are you scared at the sight of indefinite strike? Are you thinking about when Nigeria will stop this incessant strike? This is the extent of the effects of strike. No doubt, strike has its benefits but its pro is far less than its cons. Strike has become the crux of Nigerian educational system; Nigerians now have to face its consequences.

It will be a blunder on my part if I overlook salutation. Good day amiable chairman, infallible judges, ever industrious coordinators and moderators,co-debaters and my well-grounded audience. I am Emaculate Ife, a representative of Obafemi Awolowo university, supporting the motion which states: strike: a wrong approach to Nigeria's educational problems.

In order to favourably do justice to this topic, it is important for me to give a clue on what strike is. Strike is the concerted refusal of employees to perform work that their employer has assigned to them in order to force the employer to grant certain demanded concessions, such as increased wages or improved employment conditions.

Just like a gun is to an armed robber, strike is a lowly tool to workers for ransom; it forces the government to agree to anything just to allow the students to enjoy their right. It is not different from the acts of hijackers or kidnappers who extract millions of naira from parents threatening to kill their child if such amount is not provided. The only difference is that workers choose to discard reasons and humanity to perfect the act of terrorist hostage taking- Unless you meet our demands, students will not be taught- which they legalise with their “right to strike”.

Furthermore, there is an African saying that goes thus: “when two elephants fight, the grasses get trampled.” This means that there is damage elsewhere when two powerful bodies fight. Here, whenever the workers and the government fight; the students get trampled upon by bearing the burdens of the battle. Come to think of it: who will suffer from the stress of the abridged calendar, the students, the lecturers or the government? The students of course! The burden of stress will be put on the students and this might lead to their failure or the reduced quality of education as a result of their inability to learn what they need to know due to the slim fitted calendar. In a nutshell, strike is a cause of the half-bake syndrome of Nigerian graduates.

Consequently, the plight of the students become worsened as they failed to meet employment criteria due to age and the quality of education they have, thereby increasing the unemployment rate. Looking at the background, it will be discovered that strike is not a saint in regards to this matter as it causes delay in graduation year and the half-bake graduates.

In addition to that, I think a suitable title to the present situation of Nigerian educational system is “the mighty has fallen!" Gone are the days when students all over the world took Nigeria to be a haven in terms of educational standard but that is a history now. Nigerians are now seeking educational asylum in other countries because of strike. The influx of students to other west African countries coupled with the large number of UniIlorin applicants is a clear picture of the parents’ reaction to strike.

Moreover, an anonymous once said "your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins." We cannot exercise our rights in a way that will hurt others. Over the years, the employees have been exercising their right to strike in a way that violates other people's right. For example, if I should take to the street halting vehicular movement in a bid to exercise my right to protest. This action of mine then led to the death of a man, punishment of some students and the loss of employment. I have successfully violated the rights to life, education, movement, employment, liberty and dignity of others with the exercise of my right and this is not supposed to be. The employees with their strikes will successfully deprive the students their right to education and those who makes a living in the academia their right to work. Those deprived of their rights to work will have little or no money to pay for their children’s education, provide for the household or to oversee their children wellbeing. This is tantamount to the deprivation of the right of the venerable (dependent children), right to education and right to food. Deprivation of these can lead to cases like nutritional deficiency, child abuse, prostitution, armed robbery (petty theft), and death, among others. These might not happen without strike. Based on the unfavourable effect strike has on the venerable, it is obviously an atrocious approach.

Also, it is an open secret that the main protagonist in the school, the government workers, are mono strategic in their approach. Over the years, their strategy has not only proven to be ancient but impotent in the African continent. If strike is as effective as it is claimed to be, then Nigerian Universities should have been better than this despite the number of months wasted on strike by the government workers (there would be nothing like OAU protest on welfare). The decay in the system is an obvious fact that strike is a wrong approach.

Hence, the strike has led to the death of youngsters. The students become psychologically disturbed thinking of their elongated years due to strike and thinking of what to do when they get home. Most of the time, the students get involved in ghastly accidents by not being conscious of what is going on around them when forced home due to the psychology disorder caused by strike.
To top it up, there is a legal maxim, "salus populi est suprema lex" (welfare of the society is the supreme law), if the welfare of the society is the supreme law then strike must work towards the supreme law but it has evidently ridiculed supreme law, other alternatives need to be employed.

Beside, there exist many alternatives to strike that can be used in approaching Nigerian educational problems, these include: dialogue, negotiation, implementation of the standard budgetary allocation, nibbling any selfish demands and a host of others. In order to improve our educational system, we need to explore other alternatives to strike.
In conclusion, alternatives to strike are aequum et bonum (what is right and just) to the people, government and the workers. Res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself), strike is nothing but a monster that is meant to benefit its master and neither the masses nor educational system.

REFERENCE:
www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10385099/Teachers-strike-bad-for-pupils-and-parents-says-David-Laws.html
www.workersalternative.com/component/content/article/21-labour-movement/40-ASUU-strike-and-the-glooming-future-of-education-in-nigeria
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/ssanu-shuts-down-30-varsities-december-24/
www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10385099/Teachers-strike-bad-for-pupils-and-parents-says-David-Laws.html
www.nairaland.com/1489254/strike-wrong-approach-nigerias-educational
www.quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/15/liberty-fist-nose/
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080124173046AAm8Qip#
http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-it-ok-for-teachers-to-go-on-strike-or-should-they-employ-other-means
http://labourlist.org/2011/06/what-is-the-right-to-strike/
www.industriall-union.org/workers-have-the-right-to-strike
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-weighing-the-pros-and-cons-of-going-on-strike-1435530
m.independent.ie/opinion/there-is-no-reason-good-or-bad-for-teachers-to-strike-30784954.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/strike.aspx

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