₦airaland Forum

The correct information on this matter is that Nigeria is broke as earlier said by the minister of finance. The governors have been complaining of non payment of government subventions for the past 2 months. Mst of them used their savings. The universities that paid salaries used IGR with the hope government will pay before the subsequent month. Now, its all full stop as they can no longer pay another September salary.

Why is the government reducing what is to be shared from the federal allocation, which is creating ripple effect in states and some federal paralstatals? I hope it is not the aggressive looting for 2015 that's going on? Where is Maku, Okupe or Abati ? Is there no explanation for this nonsense or are they all in Newyork? We all await another lie on independence day. It is well Nigerians.

Really, in a country struggling to pay salaries? May be it is fair to say so because people are really struggling this days.

Please send this to the front page moderator. Or are you a pro GEJ person.

Gabbysky: Why should State Unis join in the strike when their business is solely with their respective State Govt.
They should rather stage their own protest stating their demands to their various Govt Secs

Out of the 100billion for infrastructure, BSU got 950million. Ask Suswan the last Project he did in that university? Then imagine the face of that school in the next 5years if they receive that same amount yearly on equipment and infrastructure. They have decided to run down our university system but God will salvage it from them through dedicated steps like this. So our degrees and schools can be well recognized all over the world and we can attract other Africans to study in Nigeria. Just imagine Nigerians in Benin Republic, Namibia, Ghana etc. The conclusion is that the giant is about to die or is dead, but someone must resurrect or resuscitate it.

If ASUU call of the strike today. You will be very greedy to have wished to just graduate and allow your younger ones or children to suffer deprivation.

taharqa: Many of u Dedicated DONKEYS hv allowed yr HATRED to mk u guys reason like toddlers. This is NORMAL diplomatic talk; that is what was expected of Nigeria and her President- send yr condolences and offer sm assistence, whether you mean it or not. That is exactly what other countries, including those ones currently struggling with terroism themselves did; that is what other countries do when ever such an event happen in Nigeria... Only small minds who hv allowed HATRED to consume their souls wud read other meanings to dis statement

Nice talk. Probably the president is tired of given call condolence messages to those killed by BH. Because whenever they say they are on top of the situation, boko boys hit in a wicked and callous way. E.g the killing of 30 students in yobe and the recent killing of 40 soldiers'. May God comfort the family of the departed both in Nigeria and Kenya. Nairaland moderators should read Matthew 24 very well and the they will know that its end time things.

Yomexy007: [quote
...... The ASUU president is jst too adamant, stubborn, uncaring n unfeeling... My words 2 him are ''There have bn Union presidents b4 him n there will still be after him.... Why hold onto one belief blindly n tenaciously? Life shd be taken wt simplicity n flexibility. If FG couldnt do it ryt at d due time, he (ASUU PRESIDENT) shd compromise on his decision n work wt the #100bn @ hand. Fyn, we agree wt d call 2 upgrade the university system infrastructure 2 international standard, yet we shdnt forget ''ROME WASNT BUILT IN A DAY''. Everything abt Nigeria is Nigerian-Specific..... let Nigeria move @ her own pace! And the Clamour 4 earned allowance..... why nt take the #30bn and avoid the issue of huge disparity btw Legislators n Academia salary package? It's why we r still alive that we attach value 2 who we r.... Sooner or Later, the World forgets us... So, why nt hold life liberally?

Go and say Rome was not built a day in covenant university. Can't you see that our leaders just keep stealing. When did covenant, landmark, redeemers university, Bowen and Babcock begin? Can't you see the difference? The system of negligence must stop. What has happened in the 9 political universities formed about 3 years ago. Those schools have to be properly funded, else we are just going to remain under the gimmicks of people deceiving peoples party

utumunta: How much is the budgetary allocation to the tertiary institutions in Uganda and Ghana that has made Makarere University and that of Legon to be better than most Nigerian universities?
The bitter truth is that the lecturers, in the spirit of Nigerian 'mentality' killed the university system with maladministration, nepotism, dichotomy, sexual gratification, infiltration of their rank by 'commercial intellectuals' and half-wits. Lecturers are too big to engage their students intellectually, these days. Merit has been sacrificed on the altar of gratification(sexual or monetary).
President Jonathan was their member and he knows what happens in the university system. We were students and we know what happens. There are students ,today, that know what happens.
ASUU became a joke when they started awarding honorary degrees to money bags and political buffoons. ASUU shot itself on the foot when they became as cheap as to award marks to female students for some minutes of pleasure. ASUU became a huge joke when serious- minded intellectuals left the shores of this country to seek better accademic environment in universities abroad. MOST of the lecturers left in the country now are pretended-intellectuals who gravitate towards their percunary and intimate interests while cowering before a bunch of numbskulls and clowns that pass off as political leaders. What we have as members of ASUU ,now, are emergency intellectuals that infest our young minds with amputated intellect and GIGO.
This is why they churn out students that are no better. This is why the little funds at their disposal are frittered in the pursuit of frivolities. This is the reason for the moral decadence pervading the institutions. An Ijaw proverb says that "a fish gets rotten from the head".
Why is the university system in Nigeria shut down and the government is not loosing sleep? ASUU is now on the same pedestal with the NURTW. The government accord NUPENG, NMA, NBA etc recognition while they ignore the ASUU that churned these people out and holds the potential for more.
My point is; ASUU is their own problem. The day ASUU wakes up as lecturers, conduct themselves as teachers and engage people like the role models that they ought to be. Until that day, ASUU shall continue to be a mirror of our society- a society of rot and decay-
God bless Nigeria!

You must be s machinery or a fool. Nigerians pay 1 million naira plus in Ghana every session. How much do you pay? Go and find out how much is paid in Kenya and South Africa and stop making noise hear.You spend at least 4million in a UK university for a masters degree.

What you should be saying is, can the government continue to subsidize education? If yes, then invest. If now, then allow the schools to charge their fees. E.g a returning student from Unilag pays 16,000 naira i.e less than 100dollars for a year. The least private school takes in Lagos per term is an average of 40k per term which amounts to about 120k per session. Don't you see the difference in secondary school student who attend state govt schools and those who attend federal and private schools were they were pay for education. The universities are gradually turning to that, as those who study at private schools are beginning to become more employable than those in public universities. Therefore stop talking nonsense.

Please find a way to send the bill to the Governor, he has a good heart and I know he will foot the bill.

CrazyGooner: forgot jan vertonghen & nacer chadli of spur, and courtois is their no 1 goalie.

how about Alex Witsel. Former Benfica star now in Russia.

FG sponsored

Why did the guy not present his UK O level result? Is the result not acceptable?
Bringing a 2 Credit and 4 passes back home to serve is a shame.
He/she is probably one of those "aje butters". Any way, I wish him luck to win 5million naira damages.

Bantino: N10,000 to 3,000 is N30m and not N13b, whatz going on here Mr.

small small bro. 110,000 beneficiaries x 10k = 1.1bn montly. For one year is equal to 13.2 billion.

My own be say who knows anyone collecting this money and what was the criteria they used in selecting them?

Airhix: Thanks Guys ! You have said it all ! I have a bsc in human physiology ! After the program and nysc ! The struggle wasn't easy ! Had to take a dive into Chemistry ! Am happy now ! I have some books and publications to my credit ! Any course outside Medicine,pharmacy,nursing and medical lab sci , I for one wudnt advise any person 2 accept the admission , you can on your own peril ! The physiological and anatomy national associations, who are heading them ; they all have got MBBS , so little ones and those undergraduates studying anatomy, physiology ,medical biochemistry , be very ready ! The journey is very long ! Start a patent medicine store or teaching jobs (biology ) awaits you in private secondary schs ! NUC have a role 2 play ! Re-structure these courses ! Let it be a 5 or 6 yrs course with a straight Msc or scrap it completely ! No medical research institute in Nigeria as of this age ! The ones will see are those with Fed teaching hospitals ! How many researchers are there ! I know of one ! The lassa fever institute with ISTH irrua edo-state ! Basic medicine in nigeria is messed up ! No future , most of our graduates are used as medical sales rep is only a brand name 4 drivers ! They drive all the length and breadth of nigeria delivery drugs 2 pharmaceutical store !

Nigerian Institute of Medical Research is in Lagos. Nigerian Trado medical research center in Lagos. I know there will be others but it still buoys down to what ASUU is talking about. No funding, which makes everything redundant.

The largest grant awarding bodies in the world; NIH and welcome Trust sponsor researches in basic medical science mainly. The grants are available for all to apply, but what happens when you are out of the world of what they are saying. When you can't even store samples appropriately due to power supply or have the digital equipment to carry out the current trend of research. The polygraph used in 1973 to teach our present professors is what is still available and even unserviceable,

the grants from NIH are used to pay Post doc and doctoral students, so you can imagine how massive that fund will be to pay one or two postdoc students about 30,000 us dollars p.a each. That Is Just the maximum amout You can get in Nigeria from TETFUND for research after several fasting and prayers.

A very long way to go.

Osahon7: anoda BSC?? Why not get MBBS or BDS?

it seems you don't know that Medicine is now war, except you get a govt job or a very good private company. Even the govt jobs are noting to talk of welfare wise leading to a massive migration and the so called brain drain in the country. In the UK, next to the Indians are Nigerians in the hospitals as doctors. Same in US and Canada. Even though we still don't have the facilities to grant them a good training here at home.

you and I can imagine if we invest in health and education. We will begin to have foreigners seeking healthcare as is the case of Nigerians running to India now. Foreigners in our schools etc.

That proverb of 7M-15M car after 6month work is similar to awarding contract to an ex militant who buys a 2.2billion naira jet after 2 years.

Don't mind them with propaganda. Unilag had used this card about 3-4 sessions ago.

[quote author=tsleazy]hmm...state universities are joining the strike....this is pure example of END TIME THINGS...we still waiting 4 private universities[/quote

So your eyes cannot see that the Governor himself said his state university got 950 million. Ask him the year he invested that amount into infrastructure since becoming a governor. Congratulations to ASUU. We need more for our schools

When arsenal wins a trophy

Why are you people commenting on a post with s useless reference. Just another poster seeking attention.

deletrue: Mid way into your thread, it became clear that you are more confused. While i agree that the write up is lengthy, you can go through it into more than half way to understand it to some extent. Have you done that? Can't you praise the student leader and the government? My finding revealed that ASUU is annoyed because federal government established new universities. ASUU wanted that money spent on the old schools for sharing. They forgot that available schools are too few for the numbers of students seeking admission.

So how much has the FG invested in those new universities? Can it be compared to the state of covenant university at inception not to talk of after 2-3 years now that those universities have been announced.

As many students supporting the FG, my prayer is when you graduate, you will do free service for government for at least 10 years. Then FG will promise and agree with you to start paying you, and then disappoint you for 4 years, telling you there is no fund but buying golden iPhones and allowing those with school cert to buy private jets. In your face may they budget 12 times your budget for an overinflated and politicized census.

May the councilors in your ward that work for 2 years make a law that makes him eligible for a life pension as the national assembly are preparing for one now. Even though, just aout 500 of them have benefited over 1 trillion in 8 years and now denying over 10,000 lecturers 87 billion of 4 years arrears.

Government recklessness and insincerity to be blamed. Let the OP declare that he has no financial conflict of interest from either NANS or FG. It is until we begin to invite channels to our universities to see and broadcast students standing and sitting on the floor before they will respond.

Railway workers fought for salaries without fighting for the system where are they today? Same for NITEL, if the universities don't fight to improve the system, a generation will arise one day to curse this generation.

Boss13: I don't believe this story. A colonel haba now. Those affected soldiers may be dismissed

You don't know about military traditions yet you don't believe. If its true, the officer will most likely be retired or made to lose seniority and posted out. Its a case of physical assault in which the subordinate can respond back appropriately. As long as it is not a training institution like Depot, NMS and NDA.

They have started. I knew it will happen in a very short time
business men and women

Same reason Prof Obaleye could not become the VC of Unilorin. Vet. Medicine dept was created in other to bring Prof Ambali from FUT YOLA to become a VC in Ilorin.

even though that is a federal institution. Its even worse that you don't just have to be a Muslim, you must belong to the emirate family to head certain positions.

Not until we do away with tribalism, religion, regionalization and other things that separates us, this nation will keep crawling rather than progressing fast.

GlobalVillager: How many unilorin alumni remember the lecture titled "marriageology of chemical nature" by this Prof in 2005. Now he is proving he really knows what he is doing.

2004 please

Well-done to the Ilesha born Professor. He is very funny and full of demonstration when teaching. I remember his inaugural lecture titled: marraigeology of chemical ligands back then in 2004 on his 50th Birthday.

More to come if government can fund research appropriately. You can imagine that same university trying to buy an electron microscope since 2003, I don't know if they have one now. That's how backward we have been due to poor funding of universities.

Well done to Edo state. Why are the number if young women so few? Are you sure they did not bribe the Tunisian police or immigration with their women power?

I must enter Europe things. FG should order 45 more gold Iphones to add to the 53; then give one each to these heroes and heroin from Tunisia.

Billyonaire: IF you think GEJ ordered the phone, you are f000lish

If you think GEJ must sign for every purchase made by all Ministries, you are f000lish.

If you blame GEJ for every ministries' action, you are f000lish.

If you think GEJ knows every arrangement made for 53rd anniversary celebration, you are f000lish.

If you dare respond to this post with insults, you have proven to be f000lish.

If GEJ appointed the ministers and inaugurated the planning committee for the 53rd independence, then you are the most foolish person.

dabigwalls: These idiots pulled out my wife's money via their useless online banking portal. She needed a password reset which was never effected and while she waited for the password reset, her money was stolen by UBA insider crooks. And of course, nothing was done.

I questioned why my beautiful wife would ever have an account with a bank that has no control on crooks planted on their online business channel but she informed me her employers did. Well we are out of that trashy Internet fraud ridden channel they call U-Direct.

One bank I will and cannot recommend ever - UBA.

Meanwhile @ poster, why such a long post to say that UBA sucks? Even their big HQ stinks - cobwebs, no maintenance, no class no panache, nothing.

And to think I liked that bank as a kid especially their sweet and melodious TV ad...ashay na scam in waiting.

I left there 2009 when suddenly my account was emptied using another ATM card at Lekki. Till now they are still investigating the issue eve though I visited their headquarters twice. You can imagine savings for your wedding been stolen.

What has been done in Jigawa?

I agree Akwa Ibom is trying but can you compare its population with that of Lagos. Remember that state gets its derivation percentage from oil production. It should be better. Kudos to him anyway because others who are deriving are not doing anything.

Rochas is another governor with a good ambition as well as Aregbesola.

Election strategies by GEJ appears to be working. The earlier the country gets out of if GEJ will go for 2015 the better. The way it appears he is fighting with OBJ and IBB is not a good indication as what happened in Egypt might just come up in Nigeria if this nonsense continues.

As for Tompolo I think he has the freedom to buy whatever he wants. The country security agencies just have to be up and doing because the more private jets the more money laundering and the more arms importation/transportation. That's just my fear. Everyone who cares will remember that such contract has been given to OPC will know that selling our security to millitia groups for election sake is not the best. Soon one of them will flaunt a jet too. The the Bakassi boys, BH, and the Nassarawa militia and other small ones will take crime as a means of obtaining something from government.

its a pity that, this is the result of cumulative injustices' in the country. Where those who steal with the pen are glorified. The country is under a siege of thieves who can not be prosecuted. Remember Iboris words on there agreement from the governors forum. Which produced in YarAdua and which led to the removal of EFCC boss and the release and pardon of Alamesigha. Who can prosecute Bankole, It means PDP is ready to show how they have destroyed the nation, so the case must lie low. Lets watch and see if Farouk will not be only fined or discharged by our court. It is even made worse that the 3 arms of government are now in the same ship of corruption.

Which way forward Nigerians? Is this how it will remain fellow youths? Where are our civil society groups? How can we make our voice heard for the transformation of this country? Where is the Impact of the SURE-P program? My first visit to the UK made me weep. Does it mean we can never be organized as a nation? Enough of polarization on grounds of ethnicity, religion, and zones. Lets have a common ground that makes us one, so we can move Nigeria forward. This generation of the old will die, but what stories shall we tell our children.

God bless Nigeria.

newton eni: YOU are politically Naive, GEJ won't decamp to a regional party like APC You remember what Americans predicted about 2015 in Nigeria if GEJ is pushed too hard then he will have no option than to hit the nail on the head .Then to your tent ooh Israel. This country will disintergrat into more than ten sovereign country because even the so called North will not be one. if any thing happen to this country the North will suffer the most so IBB, ATIKU and CO be warned pls allow GEJ to finish his tenure cos he has not even come out to say HE wants to contest in 2015

Nonsense, what happen in Egypt will happen here peacefully, without shedding of blood should GEJ insist in splitting the country.

Abagworo: Did you just write the bolded? You seem to have forgotten quickly how we queued up in lines to make calls. Have you forgotten the looks and modus operandi of Nigerian banks prior to Obasanjo? Obasanjo revolutionized Communication and banking while laying foundation for Power. All these power projects including Nnaji's Geometric were products of Obasanjo administration.

Don't mind him, from his quote he implies that next to Mandela is Obasanjo in Africa. Then ask him where is GEJ. Even Oyinbo man fear OBJ, they don't harass him as they do to others.