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GoldChest:No, it shows how stupid those who turn up for his rallies are. |
abduljabbar4:By the time US warplanes carpet bomb your northern villages you people would have sense. Gaddafi didn't brag like Elrufai but British bombs were tearing his family into pieces. A country that can't defend itself against boko haram is threatening to send foreigners back in body bags but your mumu brain didn't tell you it was Nigeria that invited the observers first. I'm sure your mumu self wasn't thinking all that nonsense when Buhari brought foreigners to support him on the campaign trail. Lalasticlala |
Lalasticlala this should be on FP o |
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CodeTemplar:Of which he actually gave 80 million for a hall and 20 million to the dept. |
He can't return foreign herdsmen in body bags but resorted to paying them yet he wants to kill foreign observers. I laugh this craze fellow. |
Lol he should try harming foreigners, by the time US bombers carpets his village with severe bombing he would understand what body bags mean. Is it Nigerian soldiers that can not win boko haram you are using to chest beat. He would do well to learn from Gaddafi, Laurent gbagbo before talking nonsense. |
The US federal govt spends 4% of their budget on education, has no university (except military academies) yet gets more results than Nigeria spending 7% plus so many extra budgetary allocations(Tetfund, NEEDS assessment etc). Yet the Nigerian govt universities are as useless as it gets. If Nigeria was spending the Tetfund's N200 billion allocation to rather empower entrepreneurs like TEFoundation it would have been better than pouring the money into non productive universities. If I were the President I would implement 'no work no pay' during strikes and if they try to use students sitting at home to blackmail me I would sack everybody not working and recruit new staff. No time for nonsense. |
Forreellinc:You people surprise me sometimes. The money FG pays a single federal university in salaries ONLY in one year can buy a brand new private jet. Each year they share out of the 2% education tax(tetfund) which they refuse to give secondary and primary schools. That money amounts to about N200 billion annually and each uni gets about 1 billion naira. Yet nothing to show. Let's not talk about the 200 billion revitalization fund GEJ gave to universities Pastor Chris probably knows better than to pour water into a basket. He once gave his ekpoma alma mater 20 million and that money was looted. |
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Originality007:Ibadan south? |
princfred:Now you are just being plain rude. Goodbye |
princfred:Three important points to end this argument. 1) Harvard was founded to train Christian ministers 2) Harvard's Founder or First benefactor was a pastor named John Harvard. NB: A first benefactor is unarguably a founder. John Harvard conceived the vision for Harvard, was its first benefactor. If this doesn't qualify him as a/the founder then tell me what does. Pls note I never said the pastor owned Harvard university I only said he was a founder. Just the same way oyedepo is a founder of Covenant but not the owner. I hope you understand. So with those two points no one can/should deny the Christianity in Harvard's establishment. |
princfred:To clarify for you "With some 17,000 Puritans migrating to New England by 1636, Harvard was founded in anticipation of the need for training clergy for the new commonwealth, a "church in the wilderness". Harvard was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Harvard_University |
princfred:What is the point of the bolded part? Are you trying to say that Harvard couldn't have founded Harvard university because he graduated from Cambridge? lol. It would interest you to know that Yale was founded by Harvard graduates who felt Harvard university wasn't doing well enough to evangelize or stand for the gospel. Also, Non denominational doesn't mean non-christian. For example Apostle Paul had no denomination, but you can't say because he had no denomination he wasn't Christian. So I fail to see your point. |
princfred:You statement is same as saying Covenant university was established in 2002 by the Federal Executive Council under the prescription of the Nigerian Universities Commission and therefore has no affiliation with any church. Harvard might have changed over the years to a secular university. But the initial purpose of establishment was to train Christian ministers. So you might want to read that Wikipedia page again. |
CodeTemplar:I find it incredibly worrisome when people assume the activities of the early church must validate those of today's Christians. But no, it is the Holy spirit that validates the church not the early church. The early church had its own success, travails, mistakes and all. In the book of revelation Jesus passed different reviews on the early church. Some positive some negative. In the end your concern is not the early church but if you are doing what God asked you to do per time. |
princfred:Harvard was founded by puritan pastor, John Harvard. Yale was founded by about 10 christian ministers of methodist orientation. And of course 99% of times Christian activities are supported by ministry partners(people). So it is safe to say that Harvard, Yale where founded by people's tithes and offerings. Yet as a methodist you can't simply walk into Yale and demand free education. If (scholarships) are available under the US federal govt pell grant or other individually endowed scholarship you would be given based on merit. But you don't expect the university to take money from her own budget to educate you for free. If the pastors who founded Yale had decided to allow Yale be free in exchange for church funding, do you sincerely think Yale would be this accomplished today? The Yale of today with all due respect might have a budget larger than that of the methodist church in USA and that was because everybody chose to sacrifice. Many donated books, money, buildings to Yale in the 1700s without really any form of pay back from the university. They were only satisfied that they were contributing to an organization that was making local impact... Last year Jim Ovia paid $270,000 to sponsor 10 people in Covenant university. Ask your self would he pay same to sponsor them in Lautech. First let the university be relevant then scholarships will definitely come from different places... |
asuustrike1:I didn't write it though. But I agree that the writer is really good. As per PG form, yes they are available. They run pg admissions twice a year so it's almost always on sale. |
Dr S. O. Ohize, Minna The year 1999 didn’t just mark the beginning of Nigeria’s democracy (another attempt), it is also the year of Nigeria’s first private university. Entities other than the government would for the first time participate in providing university education to its citizen. Twenty years on and a private university (Covenant University) now sits as Nigeria’s number one institution (Times Higher Education).But let’s quickly get back to the title of this article “Two good men”- Lebron James and John Harvard. Although they lived in different times and led different lives, these two men burned with the same passion, to educate generations after them. A quick summary of their educational creations: Lebron James’ ‘I PROMISE’ School: Free tuition-free uniforms, free transportation within two miles,free breakfast, lunch, and snacks. Guaranteed college tuition for every student who graduates food pantry for families GED’s and job placement services for parents, free bicycle and helmet. John Harvard and Friend’s HARVARD UNIVERSITY “After God had carried us safe to New England. One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning andperpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.”Yes, two good men. So you may ask, what’s the link? Well, let me save you more tales, the purpose of this article is tovent my frustration at the dominant perception by people of colour that ‘free’ is the only real charity/non-profit. The story of these two men (Harvard and Lebron) is as old as time and as new as now. It is the story of the developed world vs. the underdeveloped; the capitalist vs. the socialist. Nigerians seem to love Lebron James’ ‘free’, while despising the private universities’ model of charging for value which happens to be John Harvard’s model. Nigerian Private Universities have faced heavy criticism over the cost of education particularly those built from religious donations. Even if accumulated evidence and the Nigerian experience overwhelmingly suggests that “only economically sustainable models are sustainable.” Charity does not always mean free. John Harvard and friends are still widely considered great men despite the fee of Harvard University. It is high time we also appreciated the free giving of our religious houses and private investors towards the creation of financially sustainable universities that do not depend on government funding. While there is the legitimate argument that cost excludes some from these institutions (at what cost will everyone be at these institutions), however, we must ask if attending is the primary goal. What about the other contributions, research, jobs created (Lecturers and admin staff) and businesses; drugs and healthcare advances and ultimately the robust economy that the graduates from this institution contribute to. Yes, we have given from our little to build several religious affiliated universities and private investors have put down their resources. The giving is for posterity or as the founders of Harvard University put it “dreading to leave [an] illiterate [country] when our present ministers shall lie in the dust”.The lack of recognition of two successful decades (1999 to 2019) of private universities in Nigeria, is an indication of a lack of appreciation of the ‘John Harvard wisdom’ in our society. I can only hope that someday a generation of Nigerians will celebrate this success story. However, this does not in any way seek to undermine the good work of Mr Lebron James or disparage the goodnessof free things such as scholarships (e.g. Harvard scholarships, Orphanages). It is just a wake-up call to go ‘sustainable’ with this all important sector of our society. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/02/02/two-good-men-and-the-nigerian-university/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C2451540825 Codetemplar Asuustrike1 thevictorious lalasticlala |
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Fair enough... Ansarudeen seems to be the winners or catholic version of Christianity. If I'm not wrong they founded both fountain and al hikmah universities. Fountain from what I've seen in pictures is a bit impressive... vaxx:However Mr Vaxx pls don't slander CU again. According to the BRITISH University Rank organization, Times Higher, Both Covenant and London Metropolitan university are equally ranked.
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Wow thank you Jesus. She should leave that nation as fast as her legs can carry her...falopey pls post the source link |
Nodogragra4me:Oh thank you very much I really appreciate this. |
Nodogragra4me:Yes that is My email is ifelolaolaleye@gmail.com Would be delighted if you could send it my way... |
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