₦airaland Forum

Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on
Saturday openly expressed their frustration over recent
unrests in federal universities by jeering President
Goodluck Jonathan, who was a guest at the institution
Friday.
Mr. Jonathan, and some state and federal officials,
including Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, were in the
university to attend the Yoruba Unity Summit, organised by
the Committee for Yoruba Unity, where he was endorsed
for re-election in 2015.
The meeting also had in attendance the Ooni of Ife,
Okunade Sijuade, among other traditional rulers.
But before the meeting ended, placard-wielding students
gathered at the Amphi theatre/Oduduwa Hall area of the
institution where the meeting was holding, chanting
solidarity songs.
The students said they were angry over the recent tuition
increase, rot in the education sector and attack by security
operatives on protesting students of the University of Jos.
The students also halted the president’s convoy for a few
minutes, by barricading the path of his motorcade before
the president boarded a chopper.
The students also booed Mr. Fayose, the Ekiti State
governor.
“Fayose got perhaps the biggest embarrassment of his life
today. He walked confidently to Ife students expecting to be
applauded. I can’t yet forget the look of shock on his face
as shouts of Ole! Ole! (Thief! Thief!) rented the air,” said
Hassan Taiwo, education right activist, who participated in
the protest.
Some of placards brandished by the students read “Don’t
sell education like you sold electricity”, “We condemn Jos
killing of students”, ”We demand reversal of 2014 fee
hike”.
A female student said she and her colleagues joined the
protest because “the president’s coming coincided with a
moment we are facing challenges in terms of learning
facilities in the laboratories and classes.
“In our Geography lab, we don’t have anything except
diagrams and furniture, if Ife is like this, what happens to
other schools?”
However, in a telephone interview, the president of OAU
Students’ Union, Ibikunle Isaac, told PREMIUM TIMES that
Mr. Jonathan was not rejected or embarrassed by his
colleagues but that they only peacefully registered their
grievances over fee raise.
“The leadership of the Union submitted protest letter over
the fee increment to the president and he committed
himself to seeing to the issue, while our students were
gyrating on campus,” he said.
But another student disagreed with the SUG president.
“Of course it was a peaceful display against President
Jonathan and his people, but we really embarrassed and
booed them because of their insensitivity to various
problems Nigeria is facing, as shown by this shameful
endorsement from the so-called Yoruba leaders,” the
student said.
“Don’t mind our Union president. It is understandable.
What he called gyration was actually choruses of insults
and how we booed Jonathan and his people,” he added.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/172073-oau-students-boo-jonathan-fayose.html

Romanciella:
nah dont hav to..…

Lolz. Lemme jez free u. Thanks to ur pix

Romanciella:
u know wat I meant

Clarify urself

Romanciella:
here we go




again

Meaning?

englishmart:
someone who is always dressed in black native gown, black hat, and black shoe. Who is he always mourning? Nigeria?

And u all want him to mourn dis country for anoda 4yrs?

RatedStar:
GEJ, time for words re over. More action is needed.

GEJ z incapable of leading Nigeria. We need capable hands

Slonge2:
oh GOd, are you not tired already from using this cliche, mundane and banal line. Its getting really irritating, try to be creative when sluring.

Oh! Before I forget, I know you desperately want to be perceived as an intelligent being but your stupidity is all too glaring. I don't blame you sha, if you didn't have an inverted pea sized brain with an I.Q of less than a thousandth of mine you wouldn't have been this much of a fiasco.

English made easy

Truckpusher:
Nne, leave wetin dem write for motor enter motor.

The peace of mind that suffer heads enjoy is a luxury for the rich and they can't afford it - If you doubt me, it then means you're a suffer head.
Just taste both world and see the differences and similarities they share in common

I'm proudly a Truckpusher

You dig?

Jez asking... Av u tasted wealth before?

Obiagelli:
For those making silly arguments yesterday

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Ishilove, Obinoscopy front page

U get tym to dey mention ppl

chinwike2:
Not a thousand atiku's buhari or tinubu can destroy the Nigerian spirit

Tho, M not anti PDP or anti APC, but not a thousand GEJ can amend for wat has been destroyed

fitzmayowa:
Yes agreed but, you are the C in C, you should do the needful and rid nigeria of this blood sucking, virgin hunter rag heads...killing innocent nigerians everyday

Enough of the speech(es) let the result speak for itself...Shikena

To GEJ, words speaks louder dan action

asodeboyede:
Typing....

Nairaland

He lacks leadership qualities...

President Goodluck Jonathan extends heartfelt condolences
to the people and Government of Kano State over the
heinous attack on the Central Mosque in Kano, earlier
today.
He commiserates with all the families who lost their loved
ones. The President calls on relief agencies and medical
personnel to deploy every possible effort to assist the
injured, and the general public to heed the call for the
donation of blood by the hospitals where the injured are
being treated.
The President has further directed the security agencies to
launch a full-scale investigation and to leave no stone
unturned until all agents of terror undermining the right
of every citizen to life and dignity, are tracked down and
brought to justice.
The President reaffirms that terrorism in all its forms and
manifestation is a despicable and unjustifiable threat to
our society. He reiterates the determination of the
government to continue to take every step to put an end to
the reprehensible acts of all groups and persons involved
in acts of terrorism.
President Jonathan calls on all Nigerians not to despair in
this moment of great trial in our nation’s history but to
remain united to confront the common enemy.
The President is confident that no terrorist act against
fellow citizens will destroy the Nigerian spirit to remain
positive, resolute and united in the quest for lasting peace
and security in the country.
He appeals to all Nigerians to remain vigilant and
cooperate actively with our security agencies to win the on-
going war against terror.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/172060-kano-mosque-attack-no-terrorist-act-can-destroy-nigerian-spirit-jonathan.html

BiHung:
wbu

Don't discuss my personal life in public

emusmith:
Lucky ke? I consciously made it the last...and why is massturbation so important like this?
I know it is rampant, but ... gush!

For sure, it's rampant. Ppl indulge in it at a high rate

BiHung:
okay thnx for your observation..but I was not joking

Ok. Itz cool tho

BiHung:
dude...how is it any of your business?

Actuali none buh jez observing

BiHung:
yes I am for real...why not

U must b joking

emusmith:
Having caught myself more than once in some of this, I decided to come up few things People & especially Singles Do When They're Bored or Alone.

1. Eat excessively.

2. Take a selfie with different clothes on.

3. Shave their privy parts (popularly known as punnany, as the case may be).

4. Clean their fans and other electronics for the first time in weeks...

5. They sing aloud. Most times, Off-key!

Dont ask me, Ask ladies! #,hands in mouth #

6. Visit friends and neighbours over nothing important.

7. Stare at the light bulb and keep staring hoping NEPA will understand. Iffa hear!

8. Login to Social Networks like Nairaland, and start view other people's profile. Some decides to start bashing you and damning your thread.
DON'T BLAME THEM. LONELINESS KNOWS THEM BY NAME...says West life.

9. Start playing with their pets at home. Some even go make their dogs up...come dey laff the dog as if the dog understand wetin dey happen... Nawa o!

10. Excessive Watching of TV...Homevideo and Telemundo fans. How is it going?

11. Listen to music...Guys and music sha...

12. Read a book...
Nerds/introverts be like:
Now you're talking...

13. Call a friend just to say HI.

If a girl calls you just to say HI. Don't be too quick to misinterprete her, abeg, to avoid heart attack.
She might just be bored and needs to talk...

14. Take a walk. I call this Sending Yourself On A Fool's Errand...
You just leave Your Self Contain con begin to walk like...mtchew!

15. Make up a short story or work on an article. Perhaps, a book. Some play their guitar or other musical instruments.

16. Do something nice for your girl. Like a Poem or a card. You could use MS PowerPoint or CorelDraw...
It works like magic...thank me later! Lol

17. Play Video games. How should I forget this?

18. Stare endlessly at the mirror. I guess, they are like, "why is my nose flat?" "Why my buttt no big small?", "If not for this my tribal marks enh...!"

Lol! You don't need that!

19. Play with parts of their body...trying to euphemize my words here...

As dem talk, A lonely man is the devil's workshop...

Most young people self service the most when they're bored and lonely. #FACT#


ADVICE: The cure to loneliness is don't be lonely. Get involved in something worthwhile. For all who just passed out from NYSC, you might be going through this, haha... start from somewhere!

A million dollar job will come but keep your hands busy!
After working for three years now, I can deduce the effect of work to a man...
IT ADDS VALUE TO HUMAN LIFE! The pay, notwithstanding.

Loneliness is the mother to all bad habits, don't be lonely.

You're free to add yours

U were just lucky to add self service n e come b last cos I was looking out for dat if nt, d thread for rubbish

Dis is so bad. Av never been on support of dis rubbish. I was poured sewage water wen I graduated. It's dis same IMSU dat an undergraduate died while running to pour a graduate water, he fell into a ditch n died. Read he was asthmatic on Nairaland. Even wen d authority threatened to deal wiv students dat indulge in d act, they still perform it. So Nigeria has lost another potential icon... Too bad. RIP to the dead

Whizkel:
Abeg make dollar reduce o..G.E.J DO SOMETHING .boys aint smiling with 177naira to a dollar.

As at yesterday, it was 186naira to a dollar

davodyguy:
with the election coming and Jonathan who spends money anyhow on campaign, Nigeria is in big trouble

Trouble too small... Na gbege we dey!!!

The Nigerian economy’s dependence on oil export earnings
is the country’s most poorly kept secret. Since the
discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities in Oloibiri
in 1956, the economy’s growth pattern has mirrored the
global market for oil prices.
Between October 1973 and march 1974, when OPEC
announced an oil embargo against a number of western
countries for their support for Israel during the Six-Day
War, oil prices reached US$12 per barrel (pb) from US
$3pb. With oil accounting for a growing share of export
earnings and government revenue, the country’s problem
at this point was not “money but how to spend it”.
By 1979, crude oil prices nudged US$39.50pb as panic over
the consequence of the new theocracy in Iran for the oil
market drove prices beyond legitimate concerns over the
supply implications of the Iranian Revolution.
By 1980, however, the new Nigerian narrative was of
“austerity”, as oil prices fell for two decades thereafter.
This was also the period when the economy was reported
by a then president as being beyond the pale of economic
logic.
The 1990 oil price shock was much shorter-lived. It lasted
for as long as its main trigger: the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait. By 2003, however, oil prices first rose above US
$30pb (from an average of around US$25pb in the
preceding two decades); went through a succession of
increases, only to peak at US$147.30pb in July of 2008.
Until 2003, the Nigerian economy’s boom and burst cycles
was predictable using the oil price outlook. But for the first
time, a Nigerian government took steps to break this cycle
of dependence. Through a slew of new legislations and rule
changes, including the fiscal stability act and the oil price-
based fiscal rule, the government then sort to save any
excess in the oil price above a given budget benchmark in
a rainy day fund – the Excess Crude Account (ECA).
Thus, not only did the current government inherit an ECA
with a healthy balance (US$60bn), it also benefitted from
its own energy crisis. Barring the dip in the market
between July 2008 and December of the same year, oil
prices have remained elevated since 2003. Indeed, as at
July this year, it was selling for US$115pb.
The new “austerity measures” described by the
Coordinating Minister for the Economy responds to the
bottom falling out of the oil market. Over the four months
since July, oil price has fallen by about 30 per cent.
The immediate economic consequences of this development
are obvious. Given the economy’s dependence on oil
earnings, falling prices would hurt the current account
balance (largely the difference between our earnings on
exports and spending on imports), reduce accretions to the
external reserve (from which the central bank spends in
support of the naira), and by pushing up import costs (we
are an import-dependent economy) drive up inflation.
Arguably, the biggest impact of lower oil earnings is on
government’s ability to meet its financial obligations. At
this point, some may point out that if the rhetoric of the
Jonathan administration’s “transformation agenda” had
any element of truth in it, we ought not to be as
vulnerable to external shocks as have been other Nigerian
administrations.
But this would be to cavil pointlessly. For the strongest
point of the administration has been two-fold: the ease
with which it has seen its way through the savings from
the 2003 reforms to the public expenditure management
framework; and its failure to save from the high oil prices
that were a feature of much of the last five years.
Given this scenario, the current crisis was one foretold. The
bigger worry is how well this government may manage it.
We have highlighted, in a lengthy article, some of the bad
habits governments (federal and states) need to purge
themselves of to lessen the effect of the current hardship.
Read it here.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/172023-editorial-nigerian-economy-falling-oil-prices.html

Bagani:
U re obviously from Liberia

I went to visit ur aunt in Liberia last yr

Bagani:
Na wa oooo. Thank God shaa.
But is she dis dumb? So she believes if Dangote wanted to mek her his Brand Ambassador it wil be tru FB.
.
******No be d FTC be dis? Kini big deal***"**
Finally! if u see d speed i use enter this thread eeeh, u go know say we no d carry last 4 Spain wey i from.

U earlier told me ur dad z from Congo n ur mom z from Guinea n u were born in Madagascar, Wch makes u a citizen of 3 countries? How come Spain enter d equation nw? No dey lie for Nairalanders jare

idupaul:
From the way her and goons squandered our oil wealth and sent the economy into austerity all I can say is that OPEC is finished

OPEC z doomed

mojeer678:
Point of correction, Lagos State is more than 25 million in population. Where did the writer get his laughable figure from?

Alimosho and Ojo population combined are more than 10Million!

As for Oba Akiolu, hmmmmm........ he should be ready for some shocks!

What's d source of dis stupid statistics from? Lagos! 25million? u must b high on weed