₦airaland Forum

hmmmm, this is serious

calyx:
u don try babalawo

please ignore suggestion like this
God gave every person power of choice, choose well

Pray for her and anytime she wants to perform that same act.
tap her very well or slap her and tell her to sleep well, cos she will think she is still on the bed.

I pray God take this out of her in Jesus name. Amen!

this kidnapping of a thing is becoming rampage, the government should act fast before it become a full time profession (Kidnapping  Nig. Ltd).

Lets all Pray for Nigeria (our country)

GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT NATION!

Am not sure if they can completely eradicate this street begging stuff.

bilymuse:
[size=20pt]Almajiri[/size]


Almajiri - ( Hausa word) street urchins who beg for alms on the street. They are mostly children taking away from their parents in a different town under the guardianship of a cleric to study Quran in another town. Due to acute poverty, no provision is made for their welfare and they are exposed to elements and crime.This children spend most of their time begging on the street than learning the Quran. The money they make during begging is taking back to the cleric malam. Technically, they are slaves to the cleric. Due to lack of welfare and medical care, most of the children are abused, ended up with a lifelong ailment or death.

After learning the Quran - Islamic jurisprudence, history and culture, they graduated without learning any practical skill, therefore they ended up doing all sort of manual unskilled jobs like, shoe shiner, Guards, truck pusher petty traders. You hardly see them in skill jobs like carpenter, welder, mechanics.

This almajiri form the bulk of talakawa (poor people) in the far north making up more than 70% of the population. This phenomenon explain some of the acute poverty in the north. Attempt by the government to change the situation were met with stiff and brutal resistance from Muslim clerics. They form breeding ground and over supply for groups like boko haram.

Whenever there is riot in the north, the almajiris form the bulk of the urban guerrillas who unleashed senseless violence on innocent victims. They are poor, angry and have nothing to lose.

you've said it all.

hummmmm,

----->>>>anyone

i think what the present CBN Governor did was ok. cos if we have a strong Leader that can help us comb all the fake and incapable leaders; NIGERIA will be a better place.

hibernation does not cause any harm to system

i use xtra-connect and it's still working fine. i can add and i can remove at any time

mobuch:
MAY BE THIS COUNTRY IS CURSED

i disagree with u, maybe u're mistaken this country for something else.

THIS COUNTRY IS BLESS.

dont complain that the govt. is dis or this person is doing that. let this CHANGE we want from this GREAT COUNTRY start from me, u first and C if we will not enjoy this LAND.

novaman:
when you talk about Nigeria league that way you have to give advice rather than condenm; it is easy to say something is not good enough but when asked how it can be done, you have nothing to say. There is a reason each and everyone of us was created as a Nigerian, Let us join hands to lift the country up as nobody, i repeat nobody will do it for us.

The NFL gets the good money for the league, I believe they should invest in what I call Nigeria League TV, where they can build an OB-Van (mini) capable of transmissing quality pictures from the home state.

They can partner with the state FAs have the mini HD OB-Van that can be used to transmist signals to the main hub maybe in Abuja or Lagos, creating a channel where authorised local and international station will login and transmit to their viewers. Transmitting clear pictures will grow the league.

The issue of pitches is one we must take into serious consideration, I suggested the use of the new FIFA Turf, and using the correct FIFA standard in developing other stadia.

This can be done even without financial support from the government.

i like this quote.

its time we nigerians think among ourselves, wat have i done to help uplift this our "Great Niger"

adaku123:
Its Not Easy TO Agree to be Shackled To Some Man For The Rest Of My Life!!! U need to remember this day everytime U want to Kill Him[/b]

[i think i agree with this.

but for me, i will prefer a simple wedding.
all the best, when time come

i pray they call off the strike soon, b'cos hunger they strike some people

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday called the Federal Government's bluff over a plan to implement a "no-work no-pay" rule as university teachers have refused to return to classrooms.

At a briefing in Lagos yesterday, the ASUU President, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, insisted that the union would not allow the issue of salaries to dampen the desire of its members to seek fundamental changes in the country's educational system.

Awuzie, who accused the Federal Government of playing politics with the sector, also regretted what he described as the propaganda to give ASUU a bad name, insisting that nothing would change the union's resolve to continue with the strike until the government returns to the negotiating table.

Citing an instance where institutions in Ghana were shut down for more than two years because of the failure of the then Ghanaian government to address issues concerning the educational system, he maintained that the union would be prepared to return to the negotiating table as soon as possible for the sake of the students, their parents and the university system.

Giving his own version of what transpired during the negotiation, Awuzie debunked a statement credited to the Minister of Information and Communications, bordering on funding, autonomy, government's offer of 40 per cent increase in academic staff salaries, alleged ASUU demand of 109 per cent salary increase, the meeting of 75 per cent of ASUU's demands and government scoring an A in meeting the demands by the union.

His words: "The problem with the Federal Government is not about ASUU demands, but to destroy the educational system, because they know that it is a vehicle for social mobility. After all, they are sending their children to study abroad. The present salary of a professor in Nigerian universities is N3,859,078.60 per annum while a local government chairman earns N13.9 million, a permanent secretary, an executive secretary, chief executives of parastatals and vice chancellors earn about N22 million per year. A Federal High Court Judge earns N26, 875,840, a Federal House member earns N35,932,346,30 and a Senator earns N36,677,840.00 per annum. We want Nigerians to judge for themselves why the Federal Government cannot meet our demand."

On autonomy, he explained that no Nigerian university generates the bulk of its funding, to individually determine the remuneration of staff, emphasising that the Cookey Commission, which was also reinforced by the Anya Commission, stipulates that the collective bargaining mechanism in the universities should be between the representation of the Association of the Governing Councils as employers and representatives of the workers union.

Citing the Labour Act, Section 31, on collective bargaining, he said: "The central negotiating framework, which was employed in the negotiation, was legally valid and in accordance with the principles of collective bargaining, recognised by the ILO and the Nigerian law and practice."

Awuzie further stressed that at no time in the agreement reached in the past with ASUU had any state government been compelled to implement the agreement. Rather, he maintained, the agreement was meant to establish and recommend minimum benchmarks for the Nigerian University System.

According to him, establishing minimum levels in the agreement is justified because Nigeria operates a single university system, accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC), a single standard of entry administered by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) and a flow of academic staff throughout the system.

Besides, Awuzie advised the government's team to obtain a clear mandate from its principals to abide by the principle of collective bargaining, by completing the process started in 2006 and agree to complete the negotiation by formally signing the agreement, bringing to the negotiation table a list of all contentious issues that have to be negotiated as directed by the Vice President at a meeting on July 29, 2009.

Former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, Prof Lai Olurode, in his remarks, said: "We currently have less than 25,000 lecturers in the entire university system across the country. ASUU should be prepared for a long strike. The aim of government is to keep the students from campus until 2011 because of their plans to rig elections. ASUU has negotiated long enough, it is time for government to do something."

Some of the students, in solidarity with their striking lecturers, used the opportunity to display placards stating: "Fund Education, Stop Jeopardising our Future," "Save Public Education From Total Collapse," "Egwu Must resign," "No Seven-Point Agenda, One-Point Agendum- Education."