₦airaland Forum

geeez: And these are the reasons why Nissan is opening an assembly plant in Lagos and not Abuja?

And tell me which of these projects are complete or even started?

The only one that is complete was faulty even before commissioning

Lagos has done more for itself to ensure these investments keep coming in than the FG has

Every project listed do not in anyway critically impact investments

Lagos has rehabilitated several kilometers of federal roads and still counting

Lagos invests more in security than the FG does

These are the things that attract investment

Littlehooper: ANAMBRA CITIZENS, DON'T BE ANGRY. APC(YORUBA ) WON'T TAKE OVER YOUR LAND... NGIGE IS STILL YOUR SON,VOTE FOR HIM N LET HIM SHOW ANAMBRA PAST GOVERNORS HOW TO RUN A GOOD GOVERNMENT....
ALLOW APC (YORUBA ) TO SHOW ANAMBRA (IGBO) HOW TO RUN A GOOD GOVERNMENT ) N U SHALL SEE YOUR LAND SHALL BE FREE FROM KIDNAPPING, ROBBERY, VANDALISATION........

berem: I just watched TVC Channels news and its obvious PDP did everything possible to win this election. The chairman of Anaocha LG Mr Okoli was said to be giving gullible anambrans N1,000 and N2,000 to vote for PDP. He even collected the voter cards of some old women and tampered with them thereby making the cards invalid. What a shame by PDP! No wonder they have high votes in some units.

prof.femi:
Why should I deduce where you fall into? I believe you are not ashamed of what you are, whatever that is, so please be upfront. Don't assume I will think less of you just because you are a student (if you *are* a student). I however do need to understand the perspective you are likely to being to this debate, because I see so many misconceptions in your posts, and they are lowering the signal-to-noise ratio of your posts. If I understand your perspectives better, I will know which points to zero in on, okay? So please let me know what category of stakeholder you fall into.

prof.femi:
There are so many things wrong with your post that I will pass on a proper response - for now - and ask: are you currently a student, or have you already passed through the system? In case you weren't sure from my handle, I am an academic in a federal university. When I have your answer, I would know how best to respond to your future posts.

prof.femi:
If indeed read my posts, you will find that my anger is that students are kicking ASUU for demanding for the appropriate funding for the FG. I maintain that someone, FG or students, needs to fund education. If the FG funds to the levels ASUU is asking for, there would be no need for increase in fees. However, if ASUU does as the students are asking and calls off now, then fees will almost certainly be increased. How does all this concern what fees I paid as a student?

vivacious vivi: Thank you sir!
Stand your ground on this one. The FG is so selfish and this is evident not just in the deplorable state of our education system but in all aspects of governance. Enough is enough. Do not allow yourselves to be bullied. I am so surprised someone mentioned that what lecturers (I am understanding this to mean faculty staff including professors) remuneration are sufficient! So annoying........Thats why we can never have unity in this country. Doctors go on strike , people start abusing them that they took a Hippocrates oath and blah blah blah. When its a proven fact that a conducive work environment and the right motivational tools make up good hygiene factors that ensure loyalty and giving your all at the workplace.

prof.femi:
Don't misunderstand things. ASUU is primarily fighting for (a) its members (b) the Nigerian tertiary education system. We are not fighting for students in the sense of reducing their fees. We are fighting for students in the sense that the education you're getting is basically worthless, and (hopefully) with the right injection of funds, you are more *likely* to get a proper education. Gedit?

texazzpete: And how exactly is the VC supposed to 'protect the interest of the students' to your satisfaction? By offering to teach all the courses himself? By going on hunger strike? By engaging in fisticuffs with the ASUU members?
Pray, shed more light on this matter, good sir.

As far as I know, the earned allowances for lecturers the union is fighting for will not be paid to the VCs.... They don't lecture anymore, after all.
Can we agree that from your logic, students are then
ASUU members if they get any benefit from this strike (Eg infrastructural investment providing free wifi)?




I take it you'd scrap free primary education, federal government schools, free health care initiatives etc because they do not generate profit?
Smh

texazzpete: And how exactly is the VC supposed to 'protect the interest of the students' to your satisfaction? By offering to teach all the courses himself? By going on hunger strike? By engaging in fisticuffs with the ASUU members?
Pray, shed more light on this matter, good sir.

As far as I know, the earned allowances for lecturers the union is fighting for will not be paid to the VCs.... They don't lecture anymore, after all.
Can we agree that from your logic, students are then
ASUU members if they get any benefit from this strike (Eg infrastructural investment providing free wifi)?






I take it you'd scrap free primary education, federal government schools, free health care initiatives etc because they do not generate profit?
Smh

kaka22: Guy, stop wallowing in ignorance(no offence)... VC is not part of ASUU. Once a lecturer becomes the VC, the lecturer ceases to be part of ASUU as long as he holds the office of VC...Any action that ASUU takes as a body will be as a result of an agreement in ASUU's meeting independently of the VC...

RuuDie: Oh really...!?

How come off all the hundreds of thousands of graduates we produce annually, we never see the "passionate" ones lining up at the gates of UNIMAID, FEDPONEK, OSISATECH, OAU, LASU or UNILAG to drop their CVs or apply for positions?

otokx: @ig.chuka

The VC is now a management staff, he is also now regarded as a political appointee with salary on a different scale.

ASUU strikes are chapter driven, lecturers vote and the majority carries the day, it does not need the support of the VC.

texazzpete: https://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Now-Comes-The-Part-Where-We-Throw-Our-Heads-Back-In-Laughter-In-George-Of-The-Jungle.gif

I really could have used this gif for nearly everything else in your post, but this part about the VCs stood out

texazzpete: he is the 'most sincere Lecturer' and his words are the 'simple truth' because he says something you agree with?

'Earned allowance' is money that was agreed up and promised them that has not yet been paid. As Prof.femi says, there are no salary increment components in their present demands. Why would a self-proclaimed 'ASUU member' not know this and say they are 'greedy'?
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Anyway, all this is immaterial. The big stumbling block in the current Strike negotiation still remains the massive cash Infusion into the Universities that ASUU demands (as agreed in the 2009 agreement). That cash surge isn't going to ASUU (last i checked, the VCs and the Bursars handle the finances) so I see no reason for 'greed' to be put forward as a reason for this impasse.

Just my 2 cents.

prof.femi:
Thank you very much.
I am very interested in dissecting your post because no one has discussed this issue of recruiting outstanding graduates with me. Can I ask you (and please do be honest): those your friends, were they the best students at graduation (first degree)? If not, where are the best students in their sets?

Having said that, ASUU jobs will not become like SPDC after the strike because there is no salary increment component in it. Apart from the infrastructural issues, its only allowances.

I also have advice for you and your friends. If you want to take lecturing jobs because there is less stress, then you may end up like one of the "bad" lecturers we have been panning. For serious, up-and-doing lecturers, this job is stressful like nothing you can imagine. Personally, what I love about it is the relative freedom to decide what I want to do research-wise, and the chance to mould lives.

Also, the Chinese say "be careful what you wish for...you may get it!" I believe that if ASUU gets the sort of government intervention it seeks, job security will no longer be a given. I am okay with that. In the US, keeping lecturing jobs no be easy thing, unless you work in Podunk Community College...

wallex1983: Kudos Prof.

All I knw is dat I am an ASUU member by virtue of my profession as a university don.

But I'm not proud of being one.

Education is not adequately funded I believe, but we are too greedy.

My question is: Is d health sector adequately funded? Are even d Prisons adequately funded? Don't even go to infrastructures: roads, water, etc... And even creation of jobs. Look sir, its a general problem. We can't shut down d country because of ASSU's greed.

Top in our demand now is 'earned allowance'. That's what Fagge emphasises each time.

I submit, we are greedy, despite d fact that I agree that politicians also squander our resources. If we want more money, we can still join politics.

saintneo: EKE NEKWA ONYE UKA ~ PYTHON, CHRISTIAN HERE

I was born and raised in Anambra, I have always known of this tradition in Anambra. These snakes visit home stay with children without harming them. I have never heard of a case where there was injury or death as a result of this snake. In my place in Enugu, there is snake we don't kill as well ~ Awgo Ocha(White Snake) usually small in size.

Somehow, there seems to be an equilibrium between these snakes and their communities. It is the same equilibrium we have with other animals like dogs. Also, these snakes could be endangered species.

I'm against the killing of this snake. Firstly, this snake was sleeping in the children's room. For the snake to be sleeping, it means the snake had being there for longer period without harming anyone. Why didn't the pastor secure his children first before seeking its destruction? Why didn't the pastor show any mercy?

Gboliwe: The Rev. acted on impulse. He is actually a strong man to have been able to kill a snake by himself. I mean, compared to me, I would have screamed to high heavens.
Any way, the villagers should let their god fight for itself.:
@Ifyalways:

Lilimax: I come from Anambra state and in Anambra state, they don't kill PYTHON to be precise.
They kill everyother snake except python.
The snake does not bite people. I grew up to meet this tradition but when asked they said it is a
sacrilege to kill python.
Provided it does not bite me, I move on.
Let them perish with their tradition and belief .

callydon: If u had any single sense,u wud av known dat Ifeanyi Ubah is into oil importation which has to do wit d water ways. infact there's no other place dat company can be sited in Nigeria apart 4rm dat Lagos. and to show he stil has Anambra pple at heart he still gave out free fuel to okada n bus drivers. and is currently selling kero at d cheapest rate in whole country.
show me anyone who can beat dat record n I'll show u who can defeat Ifeanyi Ubah come 2014.

Kirinwa: In life we choose to believe what we want to believe.
I did put up 2 posts yet you chose to leave the substance of being found worthy in character and learning post and pursued shadow of being counted among men post.

Money is not everything.Let's stop deceiving ourselves.There's always a difference in character between a learned person and a drop out most times.Take it or leave it the fact yet stands that education is important.

SPARTACUS

eko ilee: The hard facts = Your grammar suckss and your village is 100 years behind Lagos state.

eko ilee: Your post showed lack of historical knowledge regarding both places and you need to first educate yourself in that area before getting into any kind of conversation about both places.


Do they still teach history and social studies i Nigerian schools?

Afam4eva: Do you know how many years that that road has been under-construction? I won't be surprised if it remains like that till 2020.

Nobody is saying that Fashola is doing badly. At least most people can agree with the fact that he's probably the best governor that Lagos has had. But that does not take away the fact that his government is over-hyped.

abysirius: 1stly, d road u just mentioned is under construction. It's not just to construct roads that matter but to construct a lasting one like Isheri/Igando/Iyana Iba road. Road constructions are done depending on the type of vehicles known to be ploughing d road. D road that link Adeniyi Jones to Acme needs special attention. Heavy duty vehicles(60-80 tons) ploughing a road with no drainage yet with a swampy surface; such roads require special attention otherwise it won't be long before it's back to it's dilapidated state if done carelessly. Going forward, it is not far-fetched if we have a class of pple that believe Fashola is outstanding. Of course he is! I've been around for about 3 decades plus now yet I can't see one gov that has done better than BRF. Perhaps u've seen one, pls let me know. If there's a name that will make it difficult to tag BRF as d best gov Lag has ever had; may be Alhaji Lateef and u will agree with me it's been over 30yrs now. I understand everybdy cannot agree with this. Or those whose shops are closed because they're not law abiding hw do I expect them to feel about him? Okada men, Agbero, hawkers at computer village displayin their wares on d road, shop owners @ Ladipo, vagabonds, lawless pple etc. They all feel he's d worst we've got.

nochio: You people always pretend everything is alright in lagos,when some of us have not gone to other parts of the country,for the basis of comparism,lagos state roads are bad,simple,the few motorable ones are major roads and mostly dual federal roads,the ones that are constructed is taking too long to be fixed,so why do you always hide from the truth when it comes to lagos issues.I am not moved by media propangada,try and see for yourselves,move around and be objective in with your assesments.

Afam4evaIsASlut: Please, keep you comparisons within your community. Some people hate to be associated with filth.