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Fedric: Thanks my big mentor i really like you. May God almighty continue to give u wisdom to tackle situation.my bros i will register for neco because i don't have any opportunity of studing abroad beside if paraventure i didn't make a paper in neco,but if i write waec i can still combine it. Please if it were u which exam will u write again?

You're welcome and thank you for the compliments.

Given the current circumstance that you already have almost all the papers required through NECO, you may rewrite the Chem via NECO.

As per furthering your studies abroad, current circumstances should not becloud future opportunities. Be open-minded about opportunities, I have seen people who won scholarships they did not lobby for. However, first thing first, please rewrite your Chemistry.

Fedric: Bros thanks for the information may God bless u. Should i now write Waec or Neco? Please give me ur 2go user name please. Mine is ugbechie8

It depends on what you want really. WAEC and NECO are both acceptable for admission but because WAEC is a West African examination and NECO is purely Nigerian, WAEC is better recognised if you want to study further abroad. Also, while employers would not reveal it clearly, nonetheless they do discriminate between the two in favour of WAEC. There is the silent notion that NECO is easier to pass.

I have been on employment interview boards and I know that if we need to choose between candidates with the same degree level and performance at the interview and one has NECO and another has WAEC, we would take the person with WAEC without stating the reason in writing (it is against the law to discriminate between the two).

I am sorry, I am not on 2go.

Fedric: Friends am so sorry for commenting on this thread.please i am totally confuse about my education and i don't want to waste my education for this year. Friends i am an aspirant of Uniben. Medicine and surgery, i registered Jamb. But the main problem is that my Chemistry in Neco was D7, Biology C5, Physics C5, Maths C4, English C4. My waec was not good at all so i intend to register Waec gce this year. But on sunday i met a student of Uniben who told me that if my olevel is not complete,that it is going to affect me during clearance also that Neco will be good if i could register it. But i already had my neco in which i failed chemistry. I am totally comfused and i don't what to waste this opportunity.please advice me on what to do. My hope and admission is in ur hand please friends

The Uniben student you met advised you well. If your papers are not complete you have 2 options:

1) If you still want to pursue a degree in Medicine and Surgery, then rewrite your exams and make all the necessary prerequisites (Phy, Chem, Bio, Math, Eng + JAMB + Post JAMB etc). If you do otherwise by taking a short cut you would eventually be expelled at the end. This would bring you both shame and waste of time and money.

2) If you do not want to waste your time rewriting the sch cert exams and want to be in the University this year, then you may seek other courses that do not require credit in Chem - provided you have five other relevant credits for the course you seek. This may include engineering/technology courses, single honours sciences like Mathematics, Physics or Computer Science. You may also apply for Geography or Urban and Regional Planning etc. Your choices would be more robust if you have a credit in one or two of the following: Technical Drawing, Geography and Further Mathematics.

The choice is yours to make. All the best.

THE NIGERIAN NATION AGAINST GENERAL BUHARI
By Wole SOYINKA


This intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded. It would appear that some, myself among them, had been overcomplacent about the magnitude of an ambition that seemed as preposterous as the late effort of General Ibrahim Babangida to aspire yet again to the honour of presiding over a society that truly seeks a democratic future. What one had dismissed was a rash of illusions, brought about by other political improbabilities that surround us, however, is being given an air of plausibility by individuals and groupings to which one had earlier attributed a sense of relevance of historic actualities. Recently, I published an article in the media, invoking the possible recourse to psychiatric explanation for some of the incongruities in conduct within national leadership. Now, to tell the truth, I have begun to seriously address the issue of which section of society requires the services of a psychiatrist. The contest for a seizure of rationality is now so polarized that I am quite reconciled to the fact it could be those of us on this side, not the opposing school of thought that ought to declare ourselves candidates for a lunatic asylum. So be it. While that decision hangs in the balance however, the forum is open. Let both sides continue to address our cases to the electorate, but also prepare to submit ourselves for psychiatric examination.



The time being so close to electoral decision, we can understand the haste of some to resort to shortcuts. In the process however, we should not commit the error of opening the political space to any alternative whose curative touch to national afflictions have proven more deadly than the disease. In order to reduce the clutter in our options towards the forthcoming elections, we urge a beginning from what we do know, what we have undergone, what millions can verify, what can be sustained by evidence accessible even to the school pupil, the street hawker or a just-come visitor from outer space. Leaving Buhari aside for now, I propose a commencing exercise that should guide us along the path of elimination as we examine the existing register of would-be president. That initial exercise can be summed up in the following speculation: “If it were possible for Olusegun Obasanjo, the actual incumbent, to stand again for election, would you vote for him?”

If the answer is “yes”, then of course all discussion is at an end. If the answer is ‘No’ however, then it follows that a choice of a successor made by Obasanjo should be assessed as hovering between extremely dangerous and an outright kiss of death. The degree of acceptability of such a candidate should also be inversely proportionate to the passion with which he or she is promoted by the would-be ‘godfather’. We do not lack for open evidence about Obasanjo’s passion in this respect. From Lagos to the USA, he has taken great pains to assure the nation and the world that the anointed NPN presidential flag bearer is guaranteed, in his judgment, to carry out his policies. Such an endorsement/anointment is more than sufficient, in my view, for public acceptance or rejection. Yar’Adua’s candidature amounts to a terminal kiss from a moribund regime. Nothing against the person of this – I am informed - personable governor, but let him understand that in addition to the direct source of his emergence, the PDP, on whose platform he stands, represents the most harrowing of this nation’s nightmares over and beyond even the horrors of the Abacha regime. If he wishes to be considered on his own merit, now is time for him, as well as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise the moral courage that goes with his repudiation of that party, a dissociation from its past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future. We shall find him an alternative platform on which to stand, and then have him present his credentials along those of other candidates engaged in forging a credible opposition alliance. Until then, let us bury this particular proposition and move on to a far graver, looming danger, personified in the history of General Buhari.



The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order.

Buhari – need one remind anyone - was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry.

Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths - Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community – religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear.

The execution of that youthful innocent – for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission - was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power” At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again.



Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media – those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down. They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed – military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition.





So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma!



Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his ‘corrective’ rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested – except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buhari’s coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagari’s government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility.



And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat from dustbins - escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas.



The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention. Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of ‘dis’pline’, it was nothing short of impudent.



Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the ‘judicial’ processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror.

The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration. Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied. The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism.



Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.?



One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary strictures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases – it would appear that they were even closer to fifty - found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders – air, sea and land – had been shut tight. Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets.



Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needle’s eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo – later to become an emir - to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment – as I later discovered - of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the incumbent Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.

SAHARA REPORTERS
The crimes of Buhari-Wole Soyinka
Posted: January 15, 2007 - 01:00

Na wa for Nairaland o. So once a person has a differing opinion, her post is hidden? What happens to free speech?

stepo707:
Abu Qaqa, Kabiru Sokoto open up
•Say Sultan is Boko Haram’s target

They had intended to attack the sultanate and hijack the religious appurtenances of the seat and use the religious powers of the Sultan and practise the religion as they wish.

They said the original plan was to make sure the Sultan is reduced to a mere traditional ruler without religious powers, and in fact, he was not the only target as they intended to hack into the powers of other powerful emirs with a major design to Islamize Nigeria, starting with the north.

This confirms the concern from some quarters that this is about the reversal of the Othman Dan Fodio Jihad in which Fulanis took Islam round the North and tried to invade Borno. The Kanuris told them there was no need, they were already muslims, they accepted the flag and the war was averted. However, the Kanuris were not happy as they watched the prominence of Kanem Empire reduce while that of the Dan Fodio grow in prominence. This may be a move to reverse the trend and make Borno (rather than Sokoto) the centre of Islam in Nigeria. Hence the attack on Kano and intended attack on Sokoto.

segunjowo:
The number of registered political parties in Nigeria is too much. I fear it is the reason we never have a viable opposition to the ruling party PDP. Does it mean that Nigerian cannot speak with one voice? If other political parties in the country doesn't believe in the ruling PDP as they claim, why can't they come together and form a single opposition party like they have in the USA and Britain? Two party State is best for Nigeria to avoid sectional political party.
I want to believe the ruling party PDP is behind creating more parties(fragment) in Nigeria so they can dominate for a long time to come. The earlier other political parties realize this and form a single opposition party, the better chance they have in ever ruling this country. The house divided against itself shall not stand- so the saying goes. As long as parties keep springing up, there can never be any chance to challenge the PDP.

Two party state is best for Nigeria, as in the second republic!
discuss if you have other opinion or support the fragmented political party system as we have now?

Nigeria's best democratic experience was in the early '90s simply because we had two parties then (SDP and NRC). When the Forth Republic commenced in 1999, we had three parties (PDP, APP and AD). If these three were allowed to stay, they would have become just two parties at the end (as APP and AD were already colaborating), but the opposition led by Chief Gani Fawehinmi went to court and forced INEC to expand the political landscape. They said that Nigeria was becoming a one party state (meaning PDP was taking the lion share). In obedience to court order, INEC opened up the political stage for all comers and made it even more possible that we have a one party state (in 1999 PDP had 21 states, APP 9 and AD 6; in 2007 PDP 28, ANPP 4, AC 1, APGA 1, PPA 2).

This means that the opposition played themselves into the hands of the ruling party. The solution now lies in the implementation of political reforms that would see parties without portfolio being scrapped and the surviving ones merging (like the merger of ACN, ANPP, CPC, PPA and APGA and PDP, LP and ACCORD).

Why are people so surprised? This is an old list that was released shortly after the commencement of the Fourth Republic. It has obviously not been updated as new people would have joined the list, the money of some on the list might have increased and some would have had theirs decrease.

faragai24:
We are waiting patiently with our ears open to hear about the Interrogation of the (7) seven christian caught in the process of Bombing church in Bauchi and Jos and their probable link to previous Bombing of churches and Mosque in Nigeria in disguise of Boko Haram.
History will not forgive Media organisations if they failed to follow up the case and subsequent report the full interrogation of this people.
The most needed question people do ask are:
1. Who are there sponsors of this people
2. What role do they play in the Previous
Bombing of churches in Nigeria.
3. Why are they disguising in the Name of Boko
Haram.
4. They should tell us their Maiduguri Branch.
It is now pertinent that Christian are the real Boko Haramist in Nigeria satanistically emulsifying under the name of Boko haram Sec. C,A,N should try and change the Name from Boko Haram to something else, it is a shame that since they were caught in action nobody is willing to comment on the issue; only few of them are saying "there were not christian" some say "They change name" all in the process of denial, there was a proverb that say " the Evil Men do live with them" i am sure Nemesis will hunt all of you down.
Each and everyone Knows that whenever there is a mistake from the part of Muslim faithful, christian brothers will bombered the Media calling Muslims with different Names, Insult, etc and some even call for division of this country, and now as the truth is coming out everyone has closed his utterences, pretending to be Mute, Deaf, and dumf, what a selfish Christian.
http://saharareporters.com/news-page/christians-caught-attempting-bomb-own-church-bauchi-premium-times

Dude are you for real? Or the train just dropped you from Sudan/Afghanistan?

OP,

I do understand very well how you feel. Please accept my little advice.

I observed that you like this colleague of yours very much and you have unconsciously built a hero/knight figure into him with a bid to help you run away from reality into the cloud of thoughts you have built for yourself. In the process of doing this, you try to repress the reality of this act by living in denial and introducing him to your family and you get known to his too.

I will advise that you resolutely back off from the 'innocent' relationship as it is bound to end up into something deeper, more personal, more intimate and more unacceptable. Being known to each other's family is not preventive, in fact it is a decoy that would allow the untoward take place at the fullness of time without suspicion. This will sustain the act of deception if eventually the deed is done. So, the earlier you back off the better.

Taking refuge in your relationship with him is not helping your marriage as you think. You are only advancing your love to the guy by switching his face with that of your husband. (Some men and women physically make love to their spouses but mentally, the love making is with other people outside their homes. If this persists, it will eventually turn a reality. That is the power of imagination!).

Pulling out might seem difficult but resolve to do so in your heart and do it committedly. Now, he will come after you wanting to know what went wrong and if he had offended you, just smile at him and tell him that all is well. Pray and fast about it if you are the religious type (and when you feel like going to meet him again, rather than do that, read the holy book of your religion).

I think it is the Professor that needs to go back to school. He probably has lost his senses to old age, or mental recession.

The bill is not about g@y s3x but g@y marriage. Where in the world is marriage a PRIVATE issue. Marriages are conducted as PUBLIC notification that two (or more) people have decided to form a family together. S3x can be performed without witnesses because it is PRIVATE but marriage is not complete without witnesses. Legislators can make laws on whatever is public.

Why do officials in US say " by the powers conferred on me by xxxxx State, I hereby pronounce you man and wife"? It is simply because the State legislates on marriage. This is what makes us different from doves, pigeons and baboons. All the animals mentioned too do have spouses but they don't conduct marriages! Let us not degenerate below Homo Sapien Sapien level by following the senseless advice of the professor of literature (what an irony!).

Sagamite:
As long as the act is kept behind closed doors and it is not in the mainstream (e.g. on the streets, prints, TV or in our kids' curriculum), I am fine with the enforcement.

My priority is not to see all4naija and Eko Ile dressed in tight clothes like a sick, sick, sick freaks and dancing on floats going down Ikorodu Road saying it is "G.a.y Pride Day".

I don't need anyone stopping it beyond that. You can't legislate on what goes on in people's heads.

I agree with you and I believe that is the essence of the law. We have something to protect and cannot afford to do 'follow-follow' on this.

@ Madam Ileke Idi,

I knew about the Giginya Hotel by accident. Someone who went to the city lodged there and called his friend to let him know that he lodged in the hotel. That friend of his told him to run away from the hotel as soon as possible. He said that was the place where the rich and famous g@ys converge. He told him that if he didnt leave he could be invited/cajoled by some of them and that whoever saw him there would not believe he is not one of them.

See, Madam. I have interacted with many people that are h0m0sexu@ls, especially the le5bians and female bis. They are externally normal. It is not written on their faces. There are educated ones as well as barely educated and non-educated.

Some were lured into from schools through these school mother things. Some out of curiousity. Some out of frustration (in the harem system). Some out of insecurity in meeting up with the opposite sex. Some others for ritual purpose.

But many people in high and mighty places are involved. There was a woman (who had even been a president of NCWS) who was a noted bi. There is a professor who chairs the club of Le5bians in Zaria. There are both students and lecturers in the club. Many of the students have graduated into the society and are now in journalism, finance, public service, business, politics and even the police. So, the law is good but may be difficult to pass and if passed may be difficult to enforce.

The only enforceable part may be the marriage aspect but the act itself will be difficult to curtail because it is a thing of the heart and usually conducted - like most sexual acts - in the private.

Looking at the pictures of these people kissing one another is highly repulsive!!!

The issue of Anti-Gay law is one way in which to assert ourselves as an independent nation that can make law and stand by it.

However there are problems. Forget all the noise here on Nairaland, many people in Nigeria are in the closet - these include people in high places. There are not less than five ex and serving state governors that are gay. There was an ex premier of a region that was reportedly bi. There is an ex head of state that is reportedly bi. Why do you think the British High Commissioner held a private meeting with a serving governor from one of the Northwestern states? He (the governor) is rumoured to be notoriously gay. There is a hotel in state in the Northwest (that recently produced a president) which is notorious for harbouring gays. The name is Gigi*ya Hotel - decent people avoid the hotel. These are the highly connected gay people that may frustrate the bill in the House of Representative. So, beyond condemnation on Nairaland, Nigerians should pressure the House of Representatives to also pass the law.

Do you know that many Nigerians, including politicians enjoy viewing le5bian sex? Check what DVDs people keep in their homes and you would be amazed. So, it is beyond the self-righteous statements of hate, it should be a righteous indignation that comes from the heart. Do you condemn these gay-men and secretly fantacise doing a party with le5bians? Do you condemn them in the open while getting wet or having a rising phallus upon seeing them do their act? We should talk to ourselves. The act is unnatural, ungodly, unAfrican and would soon be unlawful.

God bless Nigeria.

Iyykanu:
The private schools have poached the best teachers in these schools because of better pay and left chaff for the public schools. Even Covenant, poached massively, my classmate that ventured into lecturing, very brilliant, was poached.

My humble submission.

Your post made some sense but the bolded part is not really true. May be the private schools were able to attract starters in lecturing but they cannot attract authorities in their fields of study - except for those that have retired from service.

How would private schools (mostly mission schools) tolerate academic, open-minded, liberal discourse without an attempt to gag the radical lecturers? Can private universities tolerate the likes of Dr Bala Usman, Prof Attahiru Jega, Dr Dipo Fashina, Prof Bade Onimode, Prof Chike Obi, Prof Hezekiah Oluwasanmi and co?

A private university in Ogun State sacked its VC because he (as a professor of Economics) criticised the Ogun State government, and the promoters of the univerisity were stooges of the governor. They fired him.

I have interviewed products of these private univeristies to high paying jobs and I realised many of them were empty shells - unemployable. A banking and finance graduate of Babcock could not even define banking. Imagine!? Meanwhile, even those who went to Polytechnics could do that well.

I have given up on most of them and I resolved not to send my children to those schools. I heard one of them advertising on national TV asking students to come and do post-UTME with them IRRESPECTIVE of their UTME scores. Can that be heard from any of our Ivy League universities? Surely not!

In all modesty, I think the Federal Univerisities are way ahead of the private firms, sorry, schools.

Mr Mimiko, you don't fight Mr Tinubu by thuggery you will not win him that way (he is familiar with that terrain).

The only way to fight your way through is to work in a distinguished manner that speaks out loud and clear for you. That was what Mr Fashola used to rescue himself from what would have been roforofo fight in Lagos over second term.

Babasessy:
Mimiko threatens to shut down radio station
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HAKEEM GBADAMOSI 10/08/2011 01:26:00
image Gov. Mimiko, Ondo State Governor

The Ondo State Government has reportedly threatened to clamp down on a radio station – Adaba FM Radio, over what the state tagged “uncomplimentary attacks.”

The radio station which is believed to be owned by the former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu serves as the mouthpiece for the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state. Reports had it that the State Security Service (SSS), at the instance of the state government, invited the General Manager of the station over what was described as “uncomplimentary attacks on the government of the day”.

The GM, Mr. Martin Ayoola, was said to have met with the state governor, Olusegun Mimiko, but the details of the meeting were not revealed by our source, but the GM was said to have summoned a meeting with presenters, who are sympathetic with the cause of the ACN in the state. But it was gathered that Mimiko during his meeting with the Adaba FM boss, handed warning to the GM threatening to deal with the management, if the station continued with the uncomplimentary attack” on his administration especially with granting of interviews to ACN stalwarts on various programmes aired on the station.


http://nationalmirroronline.net/news/18229.html

I pity this Mimiko man, he is probably banking on the support he/labour party gave to GEJ during the presidential election. He had better sit up and let his good works fight for him. Otherwise, PDP will use him and dump him. Ask Lam Adesina (Obasanjo's Second Term Campaigner turned victim).

We have just been informed that a memo is on Mr. President's table recommending to scrap UNITY SCHOOLS Concept and hand over existing ones to State Governments. We must not allow this to happen . Please send us your comments. Let us use every available means to air our views. Pass the message to other members.

- USOSA (Unity Schools Old Students' Association).

DAY11.:
@Beaf,

Bro, you always somersaults fire on NL. your point are always baseless and senseless

You just like another baba suwe on NL.

Gbawe:
Correct . The ignoramus does not even know what dry season farming means (a very important consideration for Africa given our challenges with drought and poor irrigation) yet he jumps into this thread ignorantly to try and ridicule Aregbesola. In the end , Beaf only succeed in highlighting his own ignorance and mischief . Let us remember the saying of Sir Walter Scott ; "oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive ".

I used to think that as a journalist and someone so close to the corridors of power, this Beaf would have bridled tongue and logical reasoning devoid of biases and crass political jingoism, alas!, I was wrong. He appears to be a BEEF (malu) after all. No wonder he was replaced by a more decent gentleman.

Madam Ileke-Idi, until now I never knew you are a grand-mother generation. Interesting. Nice pictures Ma'am.

Kudus also to Mazi Eze-Uche.

I also like the new generation touch of Rossikk (I particularly like the style of not wallowing in self-pity).

Thank you all. Mwua.  

True, I was condering regretting it but could not do so because the alternatives would have been worse off. He might not have been the best Nigerian fit for the Presidency but he was certainly better than the front-runners with whom he ran for the presidency: till now he is still better.

Buhari would have probably handed us all to his brothers, the Boko Haram; Shekarau was said to have led the 'Akaluka Riot' of 2002 in Kano; Ribadu would have been an alternative but even he (Ribadu) realised late that Tinubu was only playing politics with his (Ribadu's) candidature. ACN was not ready to vie for the presidency, the party was simply just looking for more states and more legislative seats and then be poised for a 'snatch' in 2015. Ribadu ought to have been smart enough to know that, but ambition blinds reasons.

@ Topic: I feel sorry but no regret.

@ Poster, the person you are talking about is none other than yourself. Luckily, you have had access to counsels from all sides. Let God guide you to take the right ones.

For me, I will advise you to live your life comfortably but with humility of the mind. Like water finds its level naturally, you will find your man with time.

Every woman - however wowo she may be - has a man suitable for her, yourself inclusive. So, enjoy what little things you term as "riches" and do so with humility.

Murtala Mohammed/Obasanjo.

twinstaiye:
Armed Forces to take over? I guess you were born in the year 2003, or you have someone close to you to benefit from the military rule. Most of us that witnessed military rule doesnt want it again. It is no more in vogue and it is outdated. No any civilised country will go for military rule, their place is in the barracks, and it is expected they stay there. We will get there one day, those who had success story about democracy have lots of story to tell, and they did not get there overnight.  If you ask for military rule, what hope does our children have to have a say in the governance in this country, once they taste power again, it will be another long years of backwardness in developments and introduction of decrees that will slow us back to stone age.
Mr. Man, stop agitating for Military rule, at least you heard of all this embezzlements in democratic settings, you wont hear it in Military rule and it would happen too as they are not saint, and if you do hear about it, you cant do anything about it nor even talk about it. Forget it men, military rule is poo.

I thought I was the only one concerned about the post o. The poster (Jordan Yel) possibly is a teenager who heard about military rule and just wanted to have a taste of it.

He would have gone to Niger Republic or some other banana republic led by the military to get a first hand taste of the military.

A second look at the ID (Jordan Yel) suggests that he could also be longing for middle east kind of standstill. May God thwart his wicked desire!

Wonderful! The South thought they have something by winning the presidency. But look at this: VP - North; Senate Presidency - North; Speaker - North; Chief Justice - North; President of Court of Appeal - North; Chief Judge of Fed High Court - North.

The end product: the North retains power from the back and controls Jonathan and could get him impeached at the narrowest of chances.

I do hope Nigeria remains at the end of the whole drama.

tarano:
I expected cpc to win, what happened buhari

Out of 21 Reps seats two weeks ago, PDP had 11, ANPP had 8 and CPC had only 2, yet you expected CPC to win the governorship election; based on what calculation now?

The presidential election result was for Buhari and not for CPC as a party. Only two parties are on ground in Kano - PDP and ANPP.

Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the PDP was declared winner of the state gubernatorial elections, ahead of Salisu Sagir Takai of ANPP and Lawal Jaafar Isa of the CPC.

Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has been declared the winner of the gubernatorial election in Kano State. He beat Salisu Sagir Takai of the ANPP and Lawal Jaafar Isa of the CPC.

Beaf!:
Seun how can topics like this finds its way to the frontpage a minute it is created?
mR HIROSHI or whatever you are called stop speading lies. I know there is tension in Kano ( i am in Kano right now), there is no such thing as jubilation because of coup.

I do not have time to respond to this kind of post. People are being killed here and you are there speaking nonsense!

I saw wild jubiliation MYSELF! As I write, there is a lucky survivor in front of me with blood all over him.

Please be aware, there is WAR in Kano.