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A client just called me now, requesting that he needs a website for a company where each employee will have a profile.When an employee make payment to the company's account it reflects on the employees profile and on the home page.

How is that possible? Any clue Please?

I have come to understand over time that the only way to increase your vocabulary is to read good books and not to flip through pages of the dictionary. Nice thread anyway.

Bro I don't get to understand your point. BTW your English is awful. Work on your use of the language.

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What's 'Teachering', am occupation?

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They are all social networking sites but on their own individual niche. What's the basic for the comparison? A comparison between Google+ and Facebook would have been better.

Information reaching The-Infoscope FUTO is that the President of the country Dr. Goodluck Jonathan will be in FUTO today on a one-day visit and official commissioning of TETFUND projects.

The-Infoscope FUTO will be bringing you pictures from the visit later on today.

If you are given an opportunity to ask him one question, what would that be? #ASUUStike?

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youth must work: Ndo. Buh wia dobu stay in imo?

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Royal Roy: Some part of this story is missing!!

What did you do to warrant your being punished??

I didn't read anywhere in ur post where you told us what happened before they asked you who you are!!

Sorry for ur injuries, but the truth will put things in a better perspective!!

I didn't do anything. My crime according to them was that I wasn't supposed to be outside by that time.
This was around 'after seven' and I'm sure there was no curfew.

cogitoErgo: Sorry OP, but I beleive God gave you this experience so that when people narrate theirs to you later as a barrister, you will perfectly understand them. Sorry ehn, how is your body now?

Thanks Bro I am getting better, but I'm not a studying law...By student barrister I mean belonging to the judicial arm of the students union government.

WildChild00: Hello Op, I'm sorry for wat u went through, in the hands of the Nigerian Army, my question to u is that were der any curfew in ur area? The military men were they Opramesa, as in written on their pick-up? Or were they moving in three pick-up convey, once again sorry for wat happened.

For all know, there was no curfew and they came on foot.

Below is a blow by blow report of my encounter with men of the Nigerian army yesterday as published on my blog. Its a bit lengthy but take out time to go through it. God bless you.

In writing this blog post detailing my experience with the men of the Nigerian Army I first of all thank God for at least letting me come out of this whole encounter in one piece and without much injury, for I would have been dead now had things gone awry. But in the face of my thanksgiving and evident of the fact that I did nothing to merit the dehumanizing treatment I received from these people, I am forced to ask if the Nigerian constitution in any form, under any disguise did give the Nigerian army the temerity to maltreat ‘bloody civilians’ the way they like. The last time I checked “nemo est supra legis (nobody is above the law)”. This culture of impunity is not only unacceptable but one that must be seriously addressed before a major fiasco embarrasses them.

The evening started on a bright note. I got a clue as to finding my lost laptop. I called the number of the SIM inside the modem stolen alongside the laptop and someone picked it, carelessly releasing some vital information that might lead to the arrest of the thief, while I was basking in the euphoria of getting back my laptop all through the evening I had not even the slightest premonition that my evening will end on a bad note.

I was downloading some files on my system when my uncle came in and asked me to go deliver a message for him some poles away from our house and I obediently left with no idea that some dare-devils in military khakis were waiting somewhere with a dose of agony.

As I was delivering the message just in front of the person’s house two military men fully clad in the army regalia with guns approached us. It was a bit dark as this was some minutes past seven. “Who are you?” they asked me in a very hoarse voice that swept me off my feet. That’s one question I always find difficult answering.” Who am I?” as in my name, where I am coming from or what I do?

I told them my house is just some stone throw away and I was sent on an errand. They asked if I knew what the clock was saying, and I told them it was just some minutes after 7pm. All these while, I wasn’t naïve as I thought I was dealing with human beings and since I had nothing up my sleeves.

However, when apparently incensed by my insistence of going back home to tell my people what is happening before they take me to the barracks one of them gave me a ‘dirty’ slap I knew I was dealing with beasts. The first thing that forced itself out of my mouth were the words ‘Sorry Sir’ whatever I was sorry for I didn’t know maybe for thinking that my being a student barrister gave me the right to question their stance. For the first time in my life I came to understand the popular saying that”if army man slap you, you go know sey police na your friend.” This guy’s palm was as stiff as a rock. I bet, two of those slaps will reset your memory and leave you suffering from Amnesia.
As I staggered to find my feet after the slap one of them kicked me with his iron boots and I was forced to frog jump. Gawd!, The last time I did ‘frog jump’ was when some seniors were punishing us back then in Secondary school, here was I seven years later with my hands on my ears squatting like a frog and jumping at the order of these wicked Khaki men. At first I thought I could do it, I obeyed them, I jumped and intermittently stopped to catch some breath, but then I was gradually reaching my elastic limit and then I did reach, I stopped. My limbs could no longer carry my body. One of them who looked like the ‘Oga’ kicked me at the back, but it wasn’t going to move me, then he cocked his gun… and for the first time in my life I saw a gun being pointed at me. Jeez… a lot of things began running through my mind. I remembered the so many cases of extra judicial killings in the north. I remembered the story of one Stephen Nwosu, a Corps member who was killed in Adamawa sometime in 2011 and was paraded before reporters by the Nigerian army as a member of the Boko-Haram sect. If these people should kill me now what you will see on the pages of the newspaper the following day will be ‘Most notorious arm robber in Owerri killed”…and that will be it. I remembered my parents, mum especially. I remembered my friends in school, Excel, Ekene, Ifeoma etc. I remembered my department, for the first time they were going to bury a serving executive member. I remembered all I have worked for, my news bulletin, my blog and you my wonderful blog readers….yeah, I remembered you guys. There was no way I could leave all these people and things at least not now. So out of nowhere I summoned strength to squat again and begin the frog jump, only God knows where that strength came from.

Amidst all this I was pleading, reminding them that I am a student and also a juvenile….do I look like one? They somehow bought my pleadings and told us to lie down. What a relieve! I would lie down a hundred times that do that frog jump but then I wasn’t lying down on a neatly cut carpet grass, I was doing so on a muddy and dirty sand and for once they looked at us with compassion, they were human beings after all. “You get luck say we no carry koboko” the one I presumed to be the Oga thundered. “Thank God you weren’t with one” I replied in my mind.

They told us to run back home at they left, but I couldn’t run, I was already writhing in pain. I staggered as I walked. My gait was that of one who has immersed himself in a good quantity of liquor. My clothes were full of dirt. Somehow someone informed my uncle of what was happening and he was on his way when they left us so he couldn’t meet them. He was very annoyed, he wasn’t going to let this brutalization go just like that. He put forward some calls and was told that the issue will be addressed on Monday (Tomorrow).

This encounter has taught me so a lot of things. This is an experience Keith Harrell in his book “Attitude is Everything” calls “an Attitude Hazard”. One that comes when you least expect it. One that will change your attitude and leave you destabilized. I learnt that unexpected situations occur constantly; our ability to maneuver through the traumatic changes makes all the difference. So I took the whole experiences in good faith. After all its one of those sacrifices I have to make for being a Nigerian. It wasn’t going to demoralize me, never. It also availed me the opportunity to experience firsthand victimization of civilians by the military. I now know what it means. I will be in a better position to fight against it tomorrow when I have the means.

To the two army guys, you had the gun which you can wield with reckless abandon, people tremble at your feet just at the sight of that. You victimized me without me committing any offence. Its okay, I’m gonna work hard, be successful and come back tomorrow to take you as my security details. Wait for me….

http://martinuwakwe..com/2013/08/my-ordeal-in-hands-of-nigerian-army.html

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ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU)
Protocols:
Preamble

Gentlemen of the Press,

On Monday, 20th August 2013, our Union met with a Federal Government Team led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Governor Gabriel Suswam over the on-going strike in the universities. This was about the tenth time we were meeting with Government since the action commenced on 2nd July, 2013. As you are aware, the strike in the universities is about getting Government to implement the 2009 Agreement as captured in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by Government on 24th January 2012 and Recommendations in the Report of Government’s Committee on Needs Assessment on Nigerian (Public) Universities (CNANU) of July, 2012.
At the Monday, 20th August meeting, the Government Team spoke with a tinge of finality. As already widely reported, Government had declared that it will not implement the agreed massive injection of fund to revitalise the public universities. Rather, it is only making a dubious statement of supporting some universities with the sum of N100 billion. Government had also declared that it will not pay university academics their Earned Allowances which accumulated from 2009 to 2013. Rather, it is talking about providing N30 billion to assist various Governing Councils of Federal Universities to defray the arrears of N92 billion owed to all categories of staff in the university system. It was a sinister ‘take it, or leave it’ threat of grab-the-crumbs or starve-to-death!

ASUU was shocked at the level of deceit, dishonesty and lack of integrity displayed by Government. Here was a Government that had been propping on the Union at least since the release of the MoU in January 2012! Never in the history of ASUU-Government relations have we, as a Union, ever experienced the kind of volte-face exhibited by Government. At one stage in the interaction, the SGF ridiculed the Agreement, the MoU and the Needs Assessment Report, mocking the Minister of Education to “go and give them N400 billion.” At which members of the Government team scornfully laughed!

As a Union whose members constitute the intellectual cream of society and which operates on the basis of principles, we find the events of 20th August and other recent positions on the matter by Government bewildering, embarrassing and highly unacceptable. ASUU cannot believe that the Agreement, the MoU and the Needs Assessment Report undertaken and endorsed by the highest public officials in the land would be so blatantly ridiculed by the same people.

At this stage and in order to counter the persistent and pernicious Government propaganda about ASUU’s responsibility in closing the Universities and its desire to have the Universities reopened, it is important that we give a blow by blow account of the issues and events that have resulted in the current situation.

Between hope and haplessness
In effect, Government appears to have repudiated the 2009 Agreement, the MoU and its own Needs Assessment Report. What has emerged is that Government never intended to implement the provisions of any of these important documents; while publicly and privately encoring ASUU and the country to trust it and to believe that, for once, it was determined to address the decay and rot in the universities, its true intention all along was to take the country and ASUU for a costly ride.

Gentlemen of the Press, you would recall that early into the strike, a meeting was facilitated between ASUU and Government by the Education Committees of the National Assembly on how to resolve the crisis. Unfortunately, this did not yield meaningful results mainly due to Government’s acts of deception and insincerity. Subsequent meetings have also failed to address the outstanding issues about the Agreement and MoU in ways that would suggest that Government is seriously committed to arresting the further decline of the already appalling state of our public universities. Consequently, our universities have remained closed to academic activities, our children are losing precious time required for teaching and learning and our country continues to lose out in the many facets that connect to the provision of high quality education.

The Governor Gabriel Suswam-led Implementation Committee
Gentlemen of the Press, in the course of discussions leading to the 2012 MoU, Government assured ASUU that N100billion was available to immediately stimulate the revitalisation of public universities, once the priorities of the academic institutions were determined. This gave rise to the setting up of the Committee on Needs Assessment of Nigerian Universities (CNANU). The Committee, headed by the erstwhile Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, submitted its report to the Federal Government in July 2012.

Meanwhile, in the 2009 Agreement, the funding requirement provides that all Federal Universities would require a total sum of N1.5 trillion spread over three years (2009-2011) to address the rot and decay in the universities. The three-year period lapsed without any serious efforts to implement the provision. With the coming of the MoU in January 2012, Government promised “to stimulate the process of revitalizing the university system with an initial sum of N100 billion” for 2012 which will be built up to a yearly sum of N400 billion “in the next three (3) years” (2013-2015) as intervention. Government however insisted that it will need to conduct a needs assessment to determine what exactly would be done with the fund. This is what gave birth to the Needs Assessment Committee which conducted the Exercise. Coincidently, the Technical Committee on the Needs Assessment Report (set up by the National Economic Council) also came up with about N800 billion as the estimated amount needed to revitalize Nigerian public universities in the short run of two years; translating into an annual intervention of N400 billion.

It is important to stress that, by our own estimation, the MoU should have fetched Nigerian public universities a total sum of N500 billion by now if Government were to faithfully implement the understanding reached with ASUU in 2012. A continuation of that process would have yielded a Revitalisation Fund of N1.3 trillion by the year 2015 as earlier explained. In the alternative, Government could have set aside the estimated sum of N800 billion required to implement the short-term recommendations of the Needs Assessment Report for 2012 and 2013 put together. But, alas, all the Government is gloating over now is N100 billion which is nowhere near the scientifically-arrived congruent sums in the 2009 Agreement, the 2012 MoU and the 2013 Technical Report on the Needs Assessment of Nigerian Public Universities. What further evidence do we need to establish Government’s bad faith?

As discussions on the foregoing progressed, the Federal Government set up a new Implementation Committee of the Needs Assessment Report headed by Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State. The initial reaction of our Union was that bringing a new persons on board in place of the earlier membership, would amount to undue delays and a clog in the path of sustainable implementation of the Report. On a second thought, however, ASUU decided to overlook this and accepted to work with the Committee; if only to demonstrate the union’s genuine concern for speedy resolution of the matter.

Our Union has had a number of interactions with Governor Suswam Committee since then with the hope of aligning the patriotic zeal that gave rise to the Agreement with its implementation. We are at pains to report that the Government side has fully reverted to its “no-fund” refrain which epitomises a grand design to frustrate the 2009 Agreement and all other procedures related to it. This is highly unfortunate. How could the same Federal Government that, within the last three years, generously supported private concerns like the Airlines and Banks with trillions of Naira from the public vaults as “bail outs” suddenly turn round to say it has no fund to conscientiously revitalise its own public universities? The Government largesse which was extended to the Nollywood is also still fresh in our memory. Again, we ask, why should the funding of education, and university education for that matter, continue to be treated with levity?

Available information indicates that the Suswam Committee was to be used as smokescreen to deceive ASUU, Nigerian students and their parents as well as other unsuspecting members of the public on the purportedly released N100 billion for the implementation of the Needs Assessment Report. First, Government plans to divert the regular yearly allocations to universities by TETFund to make at least 70% of the N100 billion. This is unacceptable to ASUU; it is like robbing Peter to pay Paul, since the idea of ‘revitalisation’ took full cognisance of the intervention role of TETFund ab initio.

Again, contrary to subsisting operational procedures, about 75% of monies meant for revitalising universities would not be released directly to them as the Suswam Committee plans to hand over the construction of the hostel projects to the Federal Ministry of Education and/or the National Universities Commission (NUC) for implementation. This is illegal; neither the Ministry nor NUC is backed by Laws of Nigerian public universities to divert monies meant for the development of these institutions into centrally-executed projects.

In addition, we see a continuation of outrageous contract regimes in the plan to centrally coordinate the construction of student hostels as done in the case of the 12 newly established federal universities with the TETFUND resources. Our students, no doubt, deserve decent accommodation for them to live and learn better than what obtains now. Nevertheless, the NUC has been acting contrary to its statutory function as a regulatory agency, transmuting itself to a “Tenders’ Board” which awarded contracts for the construction of 560 bed spaces hostel for each university at a whopping sum of N1.2 billion. This contract sum translates into N2.143 million per bed space and N8.571 million per room. We foresee more of such scandalous contracts with the new students’ hostel project being planned by the Suswam Committee. To be specific, the Committee is proposing to commit as much as N1.6 million to a bed space; whereas our random check suggests that this could go for between N200,000.00 and N400,000.00 – depending on location. We call on the National Assembly to further investigate this matter as part of their oversight function.

The hype about Earned Academic Allowances
Government has devoted so much energy into its efforts to distort the main triggers of ASUU’s strike. When the strike started, Government mischievously announced to Nigerians that ASUU’s strike was chiefly for the sake of money in the form of Earned Academic Allowances. In fact, at one of the meetings, the Chief Government Representative told the Joint Senate-House of Representatives Committees on Education that the MoU signed by Government did not contain the expressed commitment of Government to provide N100 billion immediately, and N400 billion yearly for the next three years. It took the Chairman of Senate Committee on Education’s intervention to remind the government official that he began his presentation by acknowledging the authenticity of the MoU.

For the same reason, at every meeting with the Government Team, the same government functionary repeated that earned allowances were the major issue in dispute even when the Union had said, repeatedly, that for any solution to be acceptable to our members, it must include the implementation of the funding component of the Agreement.

ASUU Team was particularly amused that, government believed that what our members are looking for is just money to spend. Why else would government, through the Minister of Finance dangle N30 billion as if it was a dole-out when, in fact, that amount of money was unrelated to the Agreement and the work of the Implementation Committee? We have said it everywhere, and all the time, and we still say it here again that our members have earned their allowances by working for them. They are not begging for crumps from Government. The Nigerian Government owe them and they deserve to be paid. Passing the buck to University Governing Councils, is only a repeat performance of a one-act play. This tactic has been tried severally even by military dictators in the past, and it ended in vain. The only honourable and patriotic option left for Government is to get off the merry-go-round and implement the 2009 Agreement judiciously. Nothing short of that would make our Union to review its earlier position.

Improperly conducted examinations in some Universities
We are disturbed that, in the desperation of some Vice-Chancellors to undermine the ongoing efforts to attract substantial funding support for our public universities, some examinations are being conducted under situations that undermine their credibility. The conduct of final year degree examinations outside the Campuses at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Lagos State University (LASU), with improper invigilation and under policemen cover, casts serious doubts on the authenticity of such examinations. The same goes for Post UTME so far held in some universities. We appeal to our Vice-Chancellor to cease from further eroding the credibility of the academic profession which the iconic status of their offices represents. They should remember that they are destroying themselves and their professional calling by desecrating the sacred ethos of university degree and selection examinations.

Resolving the crisis
Gentlemen of the Press, our enthusiasm, which we falsely believed was also shared by the Government Team through the MoU in 2012, was fired by the conviction that, with sincerity and good faith, the implementation of the 2009 Agreement would give the much-needed impetus for transforming our universities within a short time and making our country visible on the global radar of development. Unfortunately, this hope was dashed by Government’s insensitivity and demonstration of bad faith.

Consequently, our members are left with no other choice than to prosecute this strike to its logical conclusion. ASUU members nationwide are saying this strike will not be suspended until and unless the Government respects the 2009 Agreement and makes concrete efforts to implement it in the best interest of the country.

We therefore use this medium to, once again, thank our students and their parents for supporting this struggle to save public universities and the Nigerian nation. We equally thank other patriotic Nigerians in the media, labour and civil society organisations for identifying with ASUU to secure our collective future. While appreciating your understanding and support so far, we urge you to remain steadfast for us to regain the lost glory of Nigeria’s public universities once and for all.

Gentlemen of the Press, you will probably agree with ASUU that the key to the development of any nation is its education. University education is the master key because the greatness of every country is determined by the quality of its education, especially its universities. It is only by repositioning our universities to compete globally that we can make Nigeria great again. The alternative is to continue in the path charted for us by the duo of IMF and World Bank, which dictates that we surrender our country and the future of our children to continued slavery. We deserve to be free. To achieve freedom, we must struggle to free our education. And, with a revitalised university system, Nigeria shall be free!

The struggle continues!

Thank you.

Nassir F. ISA
President
22nd August, 2013
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I don't know if this is the appropriate place to put this, Please the mod can move it to anyplace that seems more suitable.

Good day friends, its close to two weeks since I last posted here. How are you guys doing?

Okay, while growing up, I had this soft spot for beggars, not just beggars alone, but anyone who appear at any point to be needy. I felt that being privileged to have a little more than I needed I was obliged to leave behind whatever I could afford at that moment

Unfortunately along the line I began to see myself lose that touch for beggars. A lot was responsible for this paradigm shift. prominent among these was the seeming stories I heard about beggars using your money for 'juju' even though I didn't believe the stories I heard, I wasn't going to joke with my future/destiny either.


Moreover; it became more annoying when the same set of people kept coming again and again. Give them today they resurface tomorrow. At a point I felt it was of no use giving them anything since it wont solve their problem.

What then will you say about those Amajiris who will literally lick your feet just to get money from you; Arrrrggh! these children are so annoying. They don't take 'no' for an answer.I don't blame these kids anyway, I blame the parents. They are just victims of circumstances.

I must confess that i still have that passion for helping out. I have devised other means of helping out without in anyway compromising my destiny; at least that was what I was meant to believe. I now do that under the auspices of St. Vincent De Paul, a sodality in the Catholic church.

Just this morning as I was heading to the bank, a young guy met me, someone about my age. He was unassuming and neatly dressed, When he approached me he wanted to start with some preambles that I wasn't ready for. I told him to hit the nail on the head, already I knew where he was heading to. He told me he was stranded and needed money to go home. I told him to wait for me while I used the ATM. I came back and saw him still waiting patiently. He was choiceless afterall.

I gave him the money and asked him where he hails from and he told me Imo State. "Where in Imo state?" I asked again. 'Isiala Mbano' he replied. I am from Isiala Mbano too so I asked further and he told me his village, and lo he is my brother on the maternal side from the same kindred. I asked him if he knew my mum's family and he answered in affirmative. I gave him some extra cash and collected his number. I was so happy and left the bank more fulfilled. That feeling you get when you know your help has relieved someone of some burden....awesome.

How often do you give financial aids to people in need?

http://martinuwakwe..com/2013/08/how-often-do-you-give-money-to-people.html

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I am still a student receiving money from my parents but I will definitely drop something. My email ad is matris4u@gmail.com

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