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goldfish27:
Tinubu done carry Lagos flood go Abuja ooooooooo.

CabinBiskeet:
What solution would that provide? With everything happening in Nigeria today, What will knowing about Nigeria do for a UK born child facing racism in the UK? Leave UK to Nigeria for being called black monkey, only to be treated worse than trash by a fellow black person?



Nothing.

But let us not forget that Africans invaded neigbouring lands, killed, captured and sold fellow africans like cattle to the europeans during the transatlantic slave trade.

The Europeans captured and sold each other. Japan colonised china and sold some of them as slaves.

The problem is not the race, rather it is the nature of man's heart. The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth

That is why, when you bring a child to this world, it is your duty & responsibility to teach that child the importance of treating anyone he/she meet, regardless of race, culture, or tribe, with dignity and respect.

Obviously, the number of parents doing this are very few so you all have to cope wherever you are with racism and tribalism.

Kobojunkie:
I don't understand! You mean the fact that schools he claims to have been an honorary professor at say they had nothing to do with him is a right-wing rag?😒😒

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26433564.glasgow-university-denies-jason-arday-visiting-prof-claim/

Philosopher1979:
See what one of his former students said.

Jason Arday taught me. Here’s what I learnt
By Fiona Brown
Jason Arday resigned from his position at the University of Cambridge last week following accusations of plagiarism. Credit: University of Cambridge
Jason Arday resigned from his position at the University of Cambridge last week following accusations of plagiarism. Credit: University of Cambridge
10 August 2026 - 7:00am
The song lyrics were the first red flag. The way he’d ramble about Tinie Tempah or Eminem, or how black artists like Beyoncé were sexualised by white men, without offering any evidence to substantiate his claims. Or else there were the film clips, from Fish Tank and Kidulthood, which he’d tell us to discuss without offering guidance on how to do so. And this was if he was even in the classroom at all. He often arrived late and left early, once teaching for a single hour when four were scheduled.

So when I saw Jason Arday’s name in the news, my first thought was: “finally!” As a student on the Education module Arday taught at the University of Roehampton, back in autumn 2018, a module replete with music but shockingly light on education, I can’t help but have thoughts on the story that’s unfolded over the last couple of weeks. For me, though, the real surprise is that it didn’t all come out sooner.

Before Arday arrived at Roehampton, university leaders enthusiastically told us of his amazing backstory: how he only learnt to speak at 11 and write at 18, and how excited they were to have him teaching us. Naturally, we were all very interested to see the man himself, even if the module he’d be teaching had been written by a previous lecturer.

I can honestly describe Arday’s teaching as terrible. He rarely used the PowerPoint slides. Instead, he usually sat casually on a desk, giving his generalised views on racism without ever referring to any academic theories — let alone those relevant to the “Youth Participation and Identities” module he was supposed to be teaching.

But even more than his lectures, what really disappointed me was how Arday failed his students. Roehampton is a very diverse university, both in terms of racial background and neurodiversity, and takes inclusion seriously. More than two-thirds of the class were either black or from other non-white backgrounds. Most were women, and most had come straight from sixth form as the first member of their families to attend university.

At first, my classmates were charmed by Arday’s cheerful attitude and inspirational stories. To start with, too, they were interested in his claims that white people were guilty of every kind of prejudice. Yet as the module progressed, and he failed to turn up for yet another class, things began to change. It gradually dawned on us that we were learning nothing of substance, and that much of his talk was nonsense.

When it came to our assessment, Arday recommended we answer one of the two essay questions — there were four options — that mentioned ethnicity. This, after all, was the only thing he’d talked to us about. I remember one young, black, female student coming to me in the library as we began to draft our essays and saying: “I don’t know what to do, I’ve read my notes and there is nothing there I can use!” She wasn’t the only one, and I offered advice as best I could, writing my own essay using the online resources Arday’s predecessor had left.

In the end, Arday gave me 70% for my essay. That sounds good — except that my average for the year was 75%, meaning my overall result was dragged down. Particularly as Arday had given my work no feedback, I asked for a meeting. At Roehampton, marking is blind, so he wouldn’t have known who’d written which essay. In our meeting, I explained that 70% was a low mark for me and asked him to provide feedback. Suddenly, his friendly, confident demeanour changed. I now saw a side of him I’d never seen before: angry, but also scared. Arday implied that I was racist, and said that the only reason I wasn’t happy with 70% was due to my “white privilege”. He was clearly upset at being questioned, and I ended the meeting as quickly as possible.

Arday left Roehampton shortly afterwards, and I never saw him again. Given that he could neither teach nor support his students, it’s little wonder that he appeared psychologically incapable of coping with criticism. The University of Roehampton was seemingly aware of his failings yet did nothing, avoiding controversy by allowing him to move on to another set of students.

Indeed, if any one of the universities Arday had taught at before being appointed to Cambridge had been prepared to point out that the emperor had no clothes, he might never have faced the humiliations of the past two weeks. Some serious soul-searching must surely follow from all the academics who enabled him to climb the academic ladder. Did they really help this young man, or were they only thinking of their own reputations? They might also spare a thought for all his students.

I’m reminded here of the tale of the Post Turtle, where a farmer finds a turtle stuck on a fencepost. “That Post Turtle didn’t get up there by himself,” the farmer says. “He doesn’t belong there, and you wonder who put him there. He has no idea what to do while he’s up there, and having been elevated beyond his ability to function, he’s never going to get anything done while he is there.” He adds: “You just want to help the poor bugger get down, and you can’t help but wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place.” It’s a question Arday’s many backers may now wish to ask.

FreeStuffsNG:
I do not believe it is racism. He is actually 100% Ghanian yet none of the western media had called him Ghanaian. They have all , including Al Jazeera, been reporting him as British.


Absolutely!

Kobojunkie:
Stop with this nonsense already! If you don't know about autism, at least do some research instead of posting nonsense! 😒😒

Kobojunkie:
Marathon and interhouse sports are the same thing? WOW... this needs to present yourselves as everlasting victims ehn... e tire person! 🙄🙄

Kobojunkie:
1. The system is just as corrupt as any other system, yet black folks want desperately to be included in it and go as far as to cry victim when it spits them out? 😒😒

2. So, it cannot work in Africa because Africans don't have any respect for merit at all. Yet, here you are campaigning that an African without merit should have been allowed to continue in a merit-based system, which you also think is corrupt? Why? So that he can bend to steal money next? I don't understand why you lot reason the way you do. 😒

3. That you don't pay attention to news about them does not mean they do not exist. Just the other day, I listened to a report about a lawyer who plagiarized court documents and was almost debarred for it. People are caught regularly; this man chose to double down with more lies, escalating his issue to the point that it got. 😒😒

Kobojunkie:
WOW... this one chose to stoop as low as to claim autism is somehow linked to his being a pathological liar? 😒😒

nairalanda1:
You do. At least an original spin on an idea, or an original idea. The idea is that a phd is supposed to show that you can research from scratch, so that you can eventually lead innovative research in the future. Plagarism shows that issues dey.

But what got Arday was not the plagarism...it's the fact that he told lies (like running thirty marathons in thrity five days, the last week with a broken femur) or not being able to talk until he was eleven( one of his childhood accquaintances came out to say that he was able to talk ) that did him in

Then he sent cease and desist letters back in the day when this was not news. An academic read his papers, found some issues with them, and emailed him asking about the issues...and got a threatening reply back. And then afterwards there was a hurried correction to said papers. (Note that this academic did not go on to expose him ). With issues like that...

Also, he is not the only black guy in cambridge nor is he the first black guy to teach at cambridge. (One of my parents had a lecturer back when they was students, who had done phd in cambridge self, and probably taught there during that time. Na black NIgerian him be, lol. All the students were in awe of him). There are other black guys in cambridge...why only him.?

Kobojunkie:
Cleared him of what? How? That Cambridge chose to hire him despite all the many lies means Cambridge's old reputation is a thing of the past. 😒
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dettolgel:
Oga which meritocracy, oyibo system corrupt as much as any other system, just that they dont shout about it and run their thing low key.

The problem we have with black in Africa is that even if you put someone that merit the position, the person will be bent on stealing money or exploiting the position to siphon money. I have been out here for a long time to see oyibo for what they are.

How many oyibo wey dey don accuse of plagiarism get the same news coverage as this dude?

PulaPower:
I knew this guy would have a problem cuz of his race..

He should never have applied to work at Cambridge in the first place..

motymop:
so many silly people in the comment section.

This guy was targeted because of his Race and the originator was Nathan Cofnas a very controversial white professor that was sacked by Cambridge and who have been writing articles to smear black people, he alerted a Cambridge faculty member and ran Arday's 2015 PhD thesis through a plagiarism-detection software. He publicly posted side-by-side text comparisons showing over 100 passages matching an earlier 2009 doctoral thesis.

Cofnas framed the discovery as a direct attack on diversity hiring, arguing that elite universities lower academic standards for minority candidates and then the main stream media pick up the story and started their own agenda

see...the Liverpool John Moores University, the school that awarded the black guy PhD had previously investigated and cleared him of wrongdoing regarding his thesis. However, following mounting media pressure and calls from some Cambridge academics for an independent inquiry into his hiring, Cambridge announced a review of its processes, leading to Arday's resignation

you know what, as a black guy, never be the poster boy for any agenda of white people cultural war ( immigration or any stuff) it is always a setup, white institutions wont protect you when things goes south

If a white professional makes a mistake or falls short, it's treated as an individual failure. If a Black professional placed on a pedestal makes a mistake, the culture war turns it into a verdict on all Black people

Lithiumite:
My spouses father is a retired soldier and retired as a corporal......his monthly pension just got increased to 93k from 70k and he has been getting it regularly since last October.

So how can a level 10 civil servant say he is earning 74k,he should come out and tell us how much his gratuity was......i know someone who retired @grade level 12 as far back as 2010 and he got 12m in gratuity.

givedemwotowoto:
After the removal of subsidies, with many more taxes and subsidy removals to come in 2027 if Tinubu wins re-election.

People ask, What Would You Do Differently?

There are thousands of things that could be done differently. Thousands, not just one.

For example, GEJ created YouWIn which injected about N50 billion into the economy to empower about 5,000 businesses who could employ up to 20,000 people.

Guess what? With subsidy removal, FG could afford to inject up to N2 trillion into the economy for 4 years, to empower up to 800,000 businesses and create up to 10 million jobs.

N2 trillion is just $1.4 billion USD which they have been borrowing and squandering carelessly. They even paid over N7 trillion in petrol subsidy after removal so they can afford it.