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davidylan,

I guess it is true when I read that our young folks are just not willing to work hard and earn anything. Sleeping with your prof to earn a grade is only going to harm you eventually in the workplace.

Ika6,

so your classmates that succumb get A's just like that ? pitiful


_{please pardon me, i didn't attend uni in naija, so its hard for me to fathom a lot of this}

ikamefa:
when HOD is doing the same thingy on the side what will he do? all na lip service now!

i said i failed it for 3 years common simple english!

twas when my mama wahala dey too much and i guess the lecturer was tired of me coming to beg him weeping , with all my friend in tow . he had to let me go!

3 years ?

Ikamefa, my sister, I am speechless !!  I really am.

But davidylan,

what about the legitimate ladies that are harassed ? Ikamefa just lamented her story and her HOD wouldn't listen until death threats were made (or almost made). When you respond like that, you inadvertedly undermine the severity of this problem.

ikamefa:
_{iyana gini?}

yes oh ! and it was not a good experience!
i really don't know oh! never bothered to find out oh!
once i had passed :
my motto became ! eni ori yo o di ile!

_{well, you used to say you were located in iyana london  (i laughed like hell !!!! when I saw it) but I guess you've moved now.}



You see, this is just pitiful. How can a lecturer fail a student because of not giving him sex ? Haba !!!

What happened when you reported it to the HOD ?  What was his response ?

Is it really common practice at all universities ? Sometimes that country deyy bring me shame big time I swear.

_{how are you doing ?  omo iyana london} 


Na waa ooh ikamefa !! So you also witnessed this first hand 


and I take it the slowpoke is still teaching at the same place today ?

maxell:
Yes, this harassment has been going on for ages in our universities. Lecturers ask for sex in exchange for passing grades. This is part of the reason why some of our university graduates are not at par with their colleagues in africa and world wide. It is really pitiful and I hope the government can do something about stopping this behavior soon.

I once read of a story of a LASU lecturer that was set up in a hotel. He had persuaded a girl of the school to meet him at the hotel room but didn't know the police and LASU authorities were on to him.

He was butt naked in the hotel room when the cops swooped on him, a whole professor/Ph.D holder. God bless Nigeria.

I came across this article and was shocked at the degree in which our young ladies are harassed for sexual favors in our universities. Our current

Education minister (Oby Ezekwesili) whom I was hoping could help arrest the situation, is leaving soon to work at the world bank.

Source: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20070408_Nigerian_women_speak_out_on_sex-for-grades_harassment.html



Have you ever been harassed or do you know of any lady that has been harassed by a professor in any university ?

Please share your story with us.

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Nigerian women speak out on sex-for-grades harassment

By Katharine Houreld
Associated Press


ILE IFE, Nigeria - When Nigeria's education minister faced an audience of 1,000 schoolchildren, she expected to hear complaints of crowded classrooms and lack of equipment.
Instead, girl after girl spoke up about being pressured for sex by teachers in exchange for better grades. One girl was just 11.

"I was shocked," said the minister, Obiageli Ezekwesili, who has several children herself. "I asked - was it that prevalent? And they all chorused, 'Yes.' "

For years, sexual harassment has been rampant in Nigeria's universities, but until recently very little was done about it. From Associated Press interviews with officials and 12 female college students, a pattern emerges of women being held back and denied passing grades for rebuffing teachers' advances, and of being advised by other teachers to give in quietly.

The problem has spread into schools, Ezekwesili says, and there are signs the government is finally ready to intervene.

Most victims are college students such as Chioma, a slim, quiet 22-year-old with a B average, who repeatedly failed political science after refusing her teacher's explicit demands for sex. She said he was a pastor and old enough to be her grandfather.

"Now it has been two years and everyone else has graduated," she said sadly, arms folded neatly in her lap. She is desperate to finish her studies and begin working to help support her family, yet "my life is stopped," she said.

Chioma and others who spoke to the Associated Press asked that their surnames be withheld. All said they and several close friends had been harassed.

Stigma prevents many more from speaking out, says Oluyemisi Obilade, a professor who teaches adult education at prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University at Ile Ife in central Nigeria.

Like many Nigerian universities, the seemingly peaceful campus with its flame trees and soaring art deco architecture has witnessed horrifying sexual assaults. After a student was gang-raped nine years ago, Obilade formed WARSHE - Women Against Rape, Sexual Harassment and Exploitation.

"Some lecturers see young girls as fringe benefits," she said, wearing a black T-shirt that says "This is what a feminist looks like."

"We've had cases where the girls have complained and the heads of their department have called them and said, 'Give him what he wants.' "

Mayowa, a 20-year-old student, said six of her friends were having problems and none had sought help.

"It's tough to fight," she said. "Sometimes you just have to give in."

In a recent survey carried out by a graduate student and funded by WARSHE, 80 percent of more than 300 women questioned at four universities said sexual harassment was their No. 1 concern.

But with a strong African tradition of respecting one's elders, families or teachers, harassed students can rarely expect support, even when repeated complaints are made against one individual.

Bola, a 27-year-old political-science graduate with a C average, said she was repeatedly harassed by a teacher who had assaulted several other students.

"He was troubling me to go and see him at odd hours, very late, but I didn't go," she said. After she refused, she said, she had to retake the class twice, along with four other female students who spurned the professor's advances.

"Even my parents didn't want to help with the problem," she said. "I wish we could get someone with courage to face that man."

@ade.f

thanks for posting the pictures. please help post the rest you have. thanks again.

@9ja4eva

Alright, make you no vex   I didn't mean to offend you. The tinapa site has already been checked.

NDIC huh what a huge building, na waa for abuja oo. thanks dblock

9ja4eva:
They have a site.Search for Tinapa on google

Have you bothered reading this thread at all ? We have been saying all along that there are no pictures of the completed project on the internet.

Again, any pictures, anyone ?

Any luck finding pictures of the commissioned project ? Anyone ?

@MAMAJAMA

I think people were expecting OBJ to solve all of Nigeria's problems (100%) when he took over in 1999.

beavers007:
Kia, e go hard oh!!(going to be really hard)

LOL.

Have you received admission from a UK school ? You don get student visa ?  You get loan collateral ?

It is the picture of many of us in Nigeria, but as we all know, we also have our middle and upper class folks. The Western media tends to place lots of emphasis on the lowest class of our society and use that to depict the lot of most Nigerians.

That said, one way to curb poverty in our country is by empowering women. When that lady's husband passed on, she should have inherited his belongings, not her husband's family. Now she is left with almost nothing and has to fetch for herself and children without any support.

If I could reach the woman, I swear, I would wire her some money. Anyway, E go betta 

LMAO

@babasin

Why they don't have any pictures available ? I really don't know. But I don't believe the tinapa people are relying on the general public to take pictures of the project for them. I think we should try and be optimistic and support the gigantic initiative of Gov Duke.

Thanks oo my brother !!

You spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a business resort and rely on the general public to take its pictures for you  . What kind of sense does that make ? I don't buy that argument.

I think they are still working on getting the pictures on their website.

If the people that built the palms mall in Lagos can put the completed malls' pictures on their website, why can't the Tinapa folks ?

Congrats to Gov Duke, the people of Cross Rivers State and Nigeria on the Tinapa project, but all I see are people's pictures. There are no pictures of the completed project itself.

@edochie

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Many Nigerians that used to live in Cameroun have also complained of being taxed excessively. Infact, before Bakassi was handed over to Cameroun, I read from many Nigerians how they were harassed by the Camerounian police and tax personnel.

You see, it all stems from jealousy. There's no more to it than that. The Camerounian police extorting money from you know that you are in their country (most likely) to do business and they just can't live with that.

The Nigerian authorities really need to make the Camerounian authorities aware of this because it is totally unacceptable.

Atiku is in denial

Good Point @ 4play

debosky makes a lot of sense.

According to Kupolokun (NNPC's MD), Nigeria currently has 187 trillion cubit feet of gas reserves - the 10th largest in the world !
Why not use that to generate power rather than subject ourselves to foreign uranium and iaea monitoring ?

How can Tafa Balogun ever say he wants to be President ? It seems to me that you are just seeking attention.

Attached is an excel worksheet from the Federal Ministry of Works detailing roads ongoing construction/completed from 1999 to date.

Total ongoing construction [N186.767 Billion] + Total completed [N112.209 Biliion] = ~ N299 Billion

(see the tabs on the bottom for the ongoing & completed roads)


I don't know whether these roads were worked on or not because I am not physically in Nigeria. So please judge for yourself.