₦airaland Forum

Satan66:

Isn't this man a minister?
What are you doing in another country, you better stay and die there
Looters and thief's.

Are you sure you are a Nigerian? Because I can't believe that a Nigerian could equate Ben Bruce for a serving minister.

He should stop insulting our collective sensibility.

We know we have no president, thanks to zombies who voted him in 2015 and 2019. Buhari has turned Aso Rock Presidential Villa to Aso Rock Retirement Home.

Nigeria is currently suffering from triple tragedy, one of which exacerbates the other two.
1. Boko Haram and other security challenges.
2. COVID-19
3. Buhari

No nation deserves the third tragedy but here we are stuck with him until 2023.

Catholic Bishops can only promise Catholic Hospitals. The last time I checked, churches like Baptist and Adventist also have some of the best church hospitals in Nigeria. Catholics can't promise those ones, they can only promise theirs.

Except there's an equal and opposite reaction in the form of reprisal attacks coming from Plateau and Benue youths, the worst forms of attack are still coming from Buhari's boys.

Only an attack on Fulani community (one that makes Buhari shed tears) can stop this nonsense. And when the Fulanis are attacked, Benue and Plateau governors must shield the attackers from arrest and prosecution like Buhari does with the Fulanis.

To be evacuated where?

How can anyone who has miraculously escaped hell wish to go back?

Another lie from the lying government.

We knew Gbadamosi was the main reason for the vested interest in Funke Akindele's party. Why have the Lagos Imams whose mosques were sealed off last week not been arrested and arraigned in court?

Gbadamosi is the new face of PDP in Lagos State and their likely candidate in the future elections, hence the need to start battering his image.

TheGiftedOne:
The day the rich and poor starts having a common problem is the day development will start in this country. These guys in government won't be pushed if they can't relate to your plight.

This is why some of us advocate that anyone with any of the following history should be barred from elective and appointed positions in Nigeria.
1. One whose child schooled abroad or is schooling abroad.
2. One whose family stays abroad.
3. One who gets medical care from abroad or has history of patronising foreign hospitals.

Here's one of the results of social media indiscipline.

They travel abroad, they post on social media. They born piking, they post the news on social media. They fart, it's on social media......

Hope nairalanders are learning?

Ogun Governor should have done what Osun Governor did in the first instance. He should have quarantined all the returnees in Ogun Isolation Centre or better still handed them over to the FG. They were found at an international border and so it is the responsibility of the FG, moreso that some of them are not even from Osun State.

Anyway sha, thank God Osun didn't play 'politics of state of origin' like his Ogun counterpart. Otherwise, the outcome would have been more disastrous. Imagine what could have happened on transit if everyone was allowed to return to their state for medical attention.

Burutai was being hypocritical with that statement.. He was rather 'praising' General Adeniyi for being smart enough to escape the snares set for him by the fowlers (Buhari and Buratai).

Deji Adeleke would have defeated APC with a wide margin in the last guber election in Osun were he the PDP's flagbearer.

Unfortunately, he may still not consider that in any foreseeable future because of his business and Christlike kind of life.

Realtizzy:
Big grammar cut short
The summary is that the IPPIS will not allow vc nd the university councel have access to the large funds they claim to use to run the university.
Federal government will have to regulate the university spending and to me is a welcome development
If there were transparency before now, FG wouldnt hv looked it into it
Woe betide you all
After all it is you top University officials that brought Buhari against us by rigging election to his favour

You don't throw the baby away with the bathwater.

There's sense in the message even if you disregard the messenger.

Opinion: The Current (ASUU) Strike And A Nation Of Illiterates, Cowards And Liars
opera.com Apr 2, 2020 9:18 PM

And so yet again, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been compelled by the unimaginable cruelty of the Federal Government of Nigeria to embark on yet another round of indefinite industrial action.

The current strike action which came on the heels of the expiration of ASUU's two week warning strike at the beginning of March, 2020, is the consequence, primarily, of the vicious and heartless decision of the Buhari Federal Government to stop the February salaries of lecturers in Federal universities over disagreements in the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information Systems (IPPIS) EVEN AS NEGOTIATIONS WERE STILL ONGOING TO RESOLVE THESE DISAGREEMENTS.


Thus, for two months now -- February and March -- academics in Federal universities have gone without their salaries despite the current uncertainties and anxieties occasioned by the monumental health crisis of Covid-19.

Where else but Nigeria would you find this kind animal kingdom blood thirst and murder instincts? Where else but in a nation riven by malice and hypocrisy?

As usual, out of a combination of ignorance, sour grapes and ingrained lack of empathy, the rest of the country, including even the students we teach, does not care whether the lecturers die or live.


Indeed, a good many of them, including our students of course, have predictably begun to publish silly, insolent, indolent and godless criticisms of ASUU's action in complete and total disregard for the truth, decency and humanity.

But what are the facts in dispute in this latest round of ASUU/Federal Government crisis? What are the disagreements over the IPPIS scheme which have resulted in the cruel stoppage of lecturers' salaries?

For whatever it is worth, here are the simplified facts for those who are genuinely interested.

Although, there have outstanding, long overdue issues of breach of agreements such as the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA), revitalisation funding and renegotiation of the 2009 agreement signed between ASUU and the Federal Government, THE CENTRAL DISAGREEMENT THIS TIME REVOLVES AROUND THE FLAWED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IPPIS SCHEME.

With the Treasury Single Account (TSA) which mandates all Federal establishments to pay ALL revenue into a single federation account, and now the IPPIS, which stipulates that all salaries, wages, emoluments and sundry ad hoc payments emanate directly from Abuja to the individuals concerned, it is clear that out of monumental ignorance and semiliteracy, the Federal Government wishes to destroy not just university autonomy, but the entire university system.


The major peculiarities of the university payment system as practised ALL OVER THE WORLD, and which mandate university autonomy, include:

i) external examination in which a lecturer from one university, presumably a professor, is appointed and invited by another university to come and examine final year undergraduate long essays, Master's dissertations or PhD theses of her students, and then paid an honorarium;

ii) external assessment for promotion in which the packaged publications of an academic in one university are sent to three lecturers in other universities to determine whether such an academic is qualified for promotion, and then those external assessors are paid appropriate honoraria;

iii) sabbatical leave during which an academic of the rank of Senior Lecturer and above from one university can, after every seven years, go to another university and work for one full session and receive salaries from both institutions;

iv) adjunct or part time lecturing in which one university saves cost by inviting academics from a nearby university to come and teach courses for which full time lecturers are not available, and such lecturers are paid ad hoc, usually per semester; and,

v) visiting and exchange scholars programme during which scholars from other universities especially foreign universities can bring their teaching and research experience to bear on a particular university for a specified period of time, and of course they are paid.

Now all these peculiar features of universities are time bound, meaning that each university requires readily available funds to finance them appropriately.

An external examiner, for instance, needs his honorarium within 48 hours after his job is done. An external assessor for promotion indeed requires his honorarium BEFORE he assesses candidates' publications for promotion sent to him.

Indeed, Vice Chancellors require a lot of funds to package and send out lecturers' publications to these assessors.

The Vice Chancellors also need readily available funds to determine areas of need in terms of sabbatical, adjunct or part time lectureship for their academic programmes.

The IPPIS scheme as currently operated by the Buhari Federal Government -- which is ostensibly intended to eliminate corruption, but which has turned out, as in everything associated with Buhari, to be a process completely fraught with unbelievable corruption and errors -- involves a needlessly clumsy and cumbersome process of data capture documentation for every single person to be paid.

Pray, how in God's name does the Federal Government expect an external examiner who visits another university for a 48 hour postgraduate viva to first of all go through such a cumbersome process of data capture documentation and then wait indefinitely for his payment from Abuja?

Added to this is that by the nature of the IPPIS software, no personal details can be captured more than once, and this means that no lecturer will be able to go to another university for sabbatical, adjunct, part time or even the external viva.

These are the concerns which ASUU leaders have raised with the federal government since last year, and for which, as a sign of good faith, they (ASUU) have proceeded to design an anti-corruption software of their own which incorporates these peculiarities, namely, the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), and asked the Government to integrate it into IPPIS.

The Government pretended to be receptive to ASUU's genuine concerns, and while negotiations were still going on to resolve the grey areas of this dispute, the Federal Government unilaterally stopped lecturers' February salaries.

Only a country of hypocrites, illiterates and cowards will persistently ignore the genuine struggles of the oppressed intelligentsia in favour of the position of their illiterate, semiliterate and brutish oppressors as many Nigerians including our students are wont to do.

At a time of general uncertainty about the Covid-19 epidemic, when all civilised nations are rolling out financial palliatives to help their citizens remain at home, the Buhari regime in Nigeria is vicious enough to deny a critical sector of the country EVEN THE ONES IT HAS WORKED FOR, and the whole country is quiet!

But the country and our generally reactionary students will not be quiet for ever.

ASUU must remain resolute. The chickens must eventually come home to roost.

After the Covid-19 lockdown will come the time of reckoning for the oppressors and their illiterate and cowardly defenders.

Yes, indeed, for Buhari, all those insolent defenders and 'students':


From Opera News Hub

9icest:
I’m beginning to see even my own pastor, and most of the pastors in Nigeria as common rogues, criminals and scammers who won’t even put financial gains at hold even when it could lead to the death of their followers. Jesus was a selfless man who had nothing yet gave the world his life. I seriously think it’s time I reconsider my faith. Something is wrong with most of pastors and we so called Christians. I seriously think we are just dummies following some Satans parading themselves as MOgs. And I think the Corona virus is Gods way of exposing these fraudsters. I’m done with church and will never kneel before any more pastor in my entire life. May God forgive me Incase I’m wrong

I beseech you by the mercies of God not to allow the pseudochristian lifestyle of some pastors make you lose the faith of our fathers. It came at a price-the blood of Jesus.

This was not how Christianity started and I'm pretty sure that Jesus still weeps over His church particularly the shepherds who are meant to protect the sheep but are doing otherwise through their lifestyle.

At the birth of the church in the book of Acts, collections were made so that none would lack in the community of believers but the reverse is the case now as collections are made to enrich pastors and churches while many church members are languishing in poverty.

I told someone that the reason why some of us are still Christians is because one was deeply rooted in the faith before the advent of these commercial pastors. Otherwise, we would have kissed the church bye bye forever. But like the saying goes, no one throws away the baby with the bathwater. We wouldn't allow these commercial pastors make us stay away from Christ and His church and forfeit eternal life. Thankfully, there are still a few churches and pastors around who do not preach for financial gain. May our spiritual eyes be open to see those ones that still preach CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.

For heaven's sake, there's more to Christianity than tithe and offering nau. Abi, what have we reduced Christianity to in Nigeria?

Alaafin Overstepped His Boundary By Warning Fayemi – Peter Fatomilola

Peter Fatomilola, an actor and playwright, has said Lamidi Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo, has overstepped his boundary by meddling in the affairs of Ekiti State.


Alaafin had written to Fayemi after it emerged that the former had queried some monarchs in the state for refusing to attend a meeting of the Council of Traditional Rulers.

Fatomilola said the monarch does not have the power to tell Governor Kayode Fayemi what to do in his own state. Lamenting that the democratic style of government had ruined culture and tradition, Fatomilola said the Alaafin’s letter may cause another war between both kingdoms.


He said Oyo and Ekiti kingdoms had fought wars for a combined 16 years.

“It is not happening in Oyo. It is like the governor of Ekiti having contributions in the political sphere in Oyo State. He’ll get insulted, a dog can’t watch two houses at the same time.

“If it was the Ooni of Ife that did this, he is the king of kings, he is the only that wields such power.

“We still remember for how long the Oyos fought a war with Ekitis, it lasted 16 years. We fought ‘Ekiti parapo’ for six years while ‘kiriji’ lasted 10 years.

“Alaafin’s actions may start another war among kings in Ekiti,” he said.

He said the ‘Pelu Pelu’ kings had the right to resist the appointment a subordinate king as chairman of the Chairman of the Council of Obas and Chiefs in the state.

“If ‘pelu pelu’ in Ekiti think Fayemi is trying to impose the wrong person on them, they have a right to resist. The ‘pelu pelu’ know themselves, they attend meetings. They are the Alara, Ajero, Elekole, Ewilado and so on.

“Not every king is a ‘pelu pelu’. They know one another and they have a story. The democracy system of government has ruined our culture and tradition. Alaafin contributing to affairs of Ekiti is wrong.

“If the governor has done something wrong, there are kings in Ekiti who can call him to order. Ekiti has royal fathers too, they don’t need outsiders,” he said.

Lagosians deserve the kind of governor they now have. Shebi they warned you guys that Same Olu is an ex-patient.

I'm surprised no one on the first page commented on the fact that Alaafin wrote his name before Oonirisa.

Ile Oodua should react appropriately to this and the unbridled arrogance of Alaafin towards Arole Oodua. This was why Ooni Sijuwade used everything at his disposal to silence Adeyemi while he was alive and he succeeded at that.

Someone close to Ooni Ogunwusi needs to tell him to be careful with this 'peace' thing he's doing with Alaafin. Alaafin will capitalize on his peaceful nature to continue parading himself as first in Yoruba land.

Where was Alaafin while Sijuwade reigned?

LordAzubuike:
When will this kid realize he's British and has no business with Nigeria.

Didn't you hear when he said he's proudly Nigerian and PROUDLY BRITISH?

You would have been happy if he said he was proudly Biafran? Abi?

Sorry Bro, AJ is primarily Yoruba and a Yoruba he remains for life. Get over this fact!

The boy is not different from the unclad mad man on the street. He should be taken to Aro as soon as possible.

Is ASUU now not justified?

I don't understand why this government rushes to implement ideas conceived by previous governments without putting the necessary things in place.

Marine54:
Thank GOD there is no Islam in the EAST ! They constitute 85% of problems of this world..

What about Ebonyi State where there are indigenous Muslims in a good number?

sarrki:
A lot of people that hates the president did that on religion, tribal and regional bases

I kicked against his policies when it’s not working

So that’s the difference

If it took you this long to realise that Buhari had no value to add to Nigeria, then I question your sense of reasoning.

I keep telling everyone who cares to know that Buhari was the least qualified among those jostling for the APC ticket in 2014/2015. He's mentally incapacitated yo govern any 21st century nation. I would've given my vote to Kwakwanso, Atiku or Okorocha in 2014 if I was a delegate at the APC National Convention. The worst of those three candidates would've been far better than Nigeria's worst ever mistake (Buhari).

If someone like me prefered Kwakwanso or Atiku to Buhari, would you still say I hate the president because I'm Yoruba or Christian while he's Fulani or Muslim?

You probably supported Buhari for that long because he's a Muslim and because his regime is out to promote Islam to the disadvantage of other religions.

Here comes the controversial man again.

Oro were nikan lo ma nyato.

Charmingrascal:
It is so sad that a certain denomination has been breeding & producing different types of terrorist organization all over the World.
Those who are 'Christ like' should wake up. We hav had enough of these 'Muhammadins', their aggressive campaign that is backed by their tome called Quran in the name of jihad should be met wit the same aggression.

With all these killings by the 'Muhammadins' can anybody give me a sermon abt hw peaceful Islam is and would want me to believe? Fact is 80 % of these 'Muhammadins' are covertly supporting the killings as long as it is a non 'Muhammadin' that is killed.

Why do you think they hate Trump?

He metes out madness for their madness and violence for their violence. That's the only language understood by Ishmaelites.

God said Ishmael would be wild at his brothers and they will also be wild at him.

Racoon:
The man thinks the world is not watching.However, must the global community watched on until Christains are totally annihilated in Nigeria?

Cant the EU place a ban on his perinnal medical tourism in London? I know God too is not sleeping.Expecting the senseless MURIC response to this ugly development

MURIC will again accuse the EU of being a Christian organization. What else do you want hear from the terrorist parading himself as a scholar and professor?

All natural calculated move now. APC would rather sacrifice Sokoto in order to retain Kano.

In short, civil servants can also be called public servants whereas public servants are not civil servants.

APC losing Kano will be sweeter to me than PDP losing Imo.

Which Buhari? The lifeless and brainless one?

Can Buhari ever make a wise decision on his own? Worse still, his advisers are as dumb as him. Hence, his 'decisions' reflect the quality of his team.

LabDNA:
Give us the name of the so called movies. Are theatre plays what you call movies?
Living in bondage is officially the first nollywood home movie. Lo gba research!

Let me give you another reason to 'gba research'

1. The first TV station in Nigeria is in Yoruba land.

2. The first University in Nigeria is in Yoruba land.

3. The first University teaching hospital in Nigeria is in Yoruba land.

4. Three of the five 'first generation' universities in Nigeria are in Yoruba land (UI, OAU and UNILAG), while there's only one in the east (UNN) and one in the north (ABU).

5. The first stadium in Nigeria is in Yoruba land.

The undeniable fact is that Yorubas are the pace setters. That's why Oyo State is fondly called the Pacesetter state.

A305:
His opinion does not matter, Trump took the decision without informing them and not even the US senate. He only did (inform senate) 2 days after the attack. So Boris shouldn't be feeling too relevant like he's about to buy that CHEAP 09 corrolla on my page.

Did you know that Obama didn't also inform PM David Cameron before killing Osama Bin Laden? That's why the US is world power. When it comes to certain critical decision bordering on national and world security, they could decide not to carry their allies along especially if it requires utmost secrecy.