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“The blind leading the blind is not so upsetting, more jarring is the blind leading the sighted”

The academic staff union of universities (ASUU) have been on strike for the past ninety days; according to the ASUU chairman- Dr. Issa Fagge, the strike action became imperative because the federal government had failed to honour the agreement it made with the union in 2009.

As it has always been whenever ASUU strikes, the university students are always at the receiving end of it as we are left with no other option than to sit idle at our homes recounting our losses especially the inevitable extension of our academic years in school.

Though no student in his or her right senses would want to extend his or her stay in school by even a day, the situation of things that prompted the strike embarked upon by ASUU ought to make us have a rethink and to ponder for a moment on whether we- as students would rather agree to support ASUU in this cause on their position that education has to be adequately funded or succumb to the extra year pressure in clamoring for an end to the strike.

Among the stakeholders that have been vocal on the current imbroglio is the National association of Nigerian Students (NANS) headed by the National president- Yinka Gbadebo.

Gbadebo while speaking in Lagos recently, said that NANS was no longer in support of the strike as it has no moral obligation to do so urging ASUU to drag the federal government to court.

The National association of Nigerian students is the umbrella body of students studying in all tertiary institutions in the country. Thus by implication, every student studying in a university, polytechnic or college becomes an automatic member of the body.

Before embarking on this journey, it would only be fair to give a concise definition of an association in order to ascertain whether NANS fits in.

The Oxford advanced learner’s dictionary (International student’s edition) defines an association as “an official group of people who have joined together for a particular purpose; a connection or relationship between people or organization”; Encarta dictionary defines it as “Coming together and social interaction between people”.

As it is expected of an organization, we believe that any statement from the leadership of NANS ought to be the position of the generality of Nigerian students across universities; polytechnics and colleges respectively but a closer look at the antecedents, actions and statements from the leadership of NANS should make every Nigerian student wary of this body.

A colleague confided in me that quite a handful number among the leadership of NANS are either drop outs or graduates; he further revealed that the smart ones amongst them enroll for a part time, diploma or graduate course in an institution before obtaining a form of contest in order to be recognised as a student.

Clearly, ASUU and NANS are independent bodies; as Gbadebo pointed out, NANS has no moral obligation whatsoever to partake in its fights and struggles but as logical as the statement may sound, the leadership of NANS fell into a deep fallacy by asking ASUU to accept the paltry sum of 130 billion to be shared by over 60 universities.

As i wrote earlier in a piece titled “On ASUU strike: unlike a nation’s pride”, the 2009 agreement consist of quite a number of things but there are few ones that ought not to be the fight of ASUU but that of NANS especially the funding of education. Not a single one among undergraduates will support ASUU if it had embarked on this strike because of the increase in the retirement age of professors or the handing over of landed properties to federal universities.

No Nigerian student whom NANS claim to represent and speak on its behalf would line up and sing songs of praise in support of ASUU if its reason for leaving the classroom was for an increment in pay and not the call for a better education for the Nigerian people.

If NANS had been an association that truly seeks to protect the welfare of the over 60 million Nigerian students, it would have occurred to its leadership that the clamour by ASUU on the funding of education ought not to be ASUU’s fight but theirs; or who stands to benefit from a world class classroom, a standard laboratory, a 24 hour electricity supply to the hostels, a reduced teacher – student ratio? The lecturers or the students?

How would NANS claim to represent 60 million Nigerian students when it neither owns a website or a blog? What authority do NANS and its card carrying executives have when they have not a single presence on the social media? I searched for ‘www.nans.edu.ng, www.nans.org, www.nans.com and several other combinations but all i got was “website not available”.

A Facebook search of NANS only shows a page with a total like of “4654” as at 14th of September 2013; a scroll to the bottom of the page had a poorly constructed statement that goes thus:

“I am comrade Adeoye Adelaja, former Ass sec Gen in Federal poly Bida 2004/2005 set, i searched on facebook and i did Ŋ¤τ̲̅ see NANS, i decided τ̲̅ȍ create the page!!! in solidarity and for the sake of passing information τ̲̅ȍ all concern across all students bodies, i donate this page τ̲̅ȍ NANS, all the current Excos who which τ̲̅ȍ Manage this Page should do ♍ƺ an Email dibigslim@yahoo.com for ♍ƺ τ̲̅ȍ admin dem”.

How on earth is NANS representing students in Nigeria if it cannot boast of a twitter account in the 21st century? How can Gbadebo and his colleagues be speaking on my behalf and on the behalf of all undergraduates if it does not have a single notice board in the University of Lagos, the University of Ibadan, the University of Calabar, Ahmadu Bello university- Zaria, Federal university of technology- Akure, Yaba college of technology, Adeniran Ogunsanya college of education, and all the other tertiary institutions across Nigeria?

The benefits of the social media as a powerful tool was most evident during the January 2012 subsidy protests where the Nigerian people were mobilised via the online media; NANS absence on the online media would not have bothered me if other associations such as the market women, national union of road transport workers, national union of local government employees, carpentry associations etcetera were not online.

Is it not a farce that few individuals have been parading themselves as the saviours of Nigerian students when they see nothing wrong in the standard of education in Nigeria? If Gbadebo was a Nigerian student, will he claim not to be aware that a four man room in an average Nigerian university now occupies at least twenty students?

How can NANS be a body that is concerned about the welfare of the Nigerian students when our laboratory taps are dried or is the ailing standard of education not part of its mandate?

What justification does NANS have to clandestinely take sides with the federal government (please convince us otherwise) when it is glaring that this country have the resources to fund education even beyond the 26% recommended by UNESCO; this is a country that feeds a president with 1 billion naira per annum and changes the spoons and forks in the first lady’s kitchen with 45million naira for the same period.

How does NANS claim to speak for Nigerian students when it has always taken sides with the government in power? Speaking at the 11th annual campus life workshop, the Lagos lawyer- Mr Femi Falana stated his displeasure over the lack of sincerity on the part of NANS as the association could not present itself as a witness in the court to fight the fee hike in the Lagos state university; yet, they claim to protect the interest of the Nigerian student.

How does NANS expect Nigerian students to buy the idea that the country’s economy will collapse if education gets adequate funding when there is profligacy everywhere? the politicians rides in exotic cars of the latest model whereas our professors drive about in a jeep of less than 800 000 that was manufactured probably in the 70’s; former president Olusegun Obasanjo owns a university, Atiku Abubakar owns, David mark earns over N600 million a year, Dimeji Bankole stole his own, Patricia Etteh stole, James Ibori laundered, Tafa Balogun stole, Bode George carted, Sanni Abacha’s loot is still hanging, General Theophilius Danjuma sold an oil block and after paying all obligations, he asked Nigerians to advise him on what to do with it because the proceeds was too much; is NANS still buying the lies of Labaran Maku and Dr. Okonjo Iweala that the economy will collapse; that there is no money in Nigeria to educate its masses?

The 20th century physicist- Albert Einstein wrote that “Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think”- so as an individual that have received little education, I’ve been engaging myself in some serious thoughts on whether it was possible for the federal government to declare bankruptcy if it decides to cough out a paltry 1.5trillion spread over three years on the education sector when each senator and member of the house of representatives earn at least $1.7m and $1.2m respectively amounting to over N3 trillion per annum in a country where 10 million children are out of school.

What calibre of student occupies the executive position of the association? Which school do they attend? What level are they? What’s their course of study? What are the criteria for becoming a member or an executive of NANS? What are the short and long term objectives of NANS? Who were the Nigerian students that agreed that the governor of Ondo state- Olusegun Mimiko was the best governor of the Nigerian students? What were the criteria involved? How was the conclusion reached? Was it through a vote? If yes, who voted? Where did the voting take place? Was it online or offline?

How does NANS organize students for mobilization and protests if it neither have a website nor a Facebook account or does it go about it via phone calls or text messages to all 60 million Nigerian students? As a student body, who acts as NANS staff adviser(s)? Politicians or Lecturers? How does NANS get its funding? How are the funds utilized? Who does NANS report to? Has there been any case of financial misappropriation among its members? If yes, who? When? And what actions were taken against the person(s) involved? These are begging questions that needs sincere answers from the leadership of the association.


If the questions above have answers, where are they and why are they so elusive not to be within the reach of the Nigerian students?


If Nigerian students pressure ASUU to call off the strike, i would not want us to forget that since the establishment of ASUU in 1978, it had embarked on strikes in 1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013 over similar issues as the present one which makes it evident that if this problem is not solved once and for all knowing fully well that the country have got the resources to heed to its demand, our children will probably be in our present predicament in a matter of years.


This is a clarion call to fellow students in all tertiary institutions across the country to demand for a body that will serve to protect our interests, speak on our behalf and sincerely represent us in order to help build an education for all society.


Until then, our heads are soaked, please NANS, stop the urine.


Modiu Olaguro finds ‘X’ at The University of Lagos.

http://nigeriannewsportal.com/nans-stop-urinating-on-our-heads/

While others are grumbling and making noise over the ASUU strike, these young men were busy making a hit out of the it. Download and listen to ASUU hit (Personally cover) by Sydor ft Blinks.

Sydor whose real name is Udemba Michael is a student of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, while Godprince Okechukwu AKA blinks is a student of Abia State University Uturu.

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Kuzaku: E fine abi e no fine?

See the More[b] Graphic Photo[/b] Here: http://olakunleologunro..com/2013/10/linda-ikeji-shows-off-her-hot-laps-in.html

Graphic??

it seems it has been taken

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Google page rank is not something you can increase by doing some tricks, far from that. Its something that takes a lot of time and hard work. Lindaikeji has been blogging since 2006 and she still has a pagerank of 4/10.

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Okay, here is my review
Mavencrown

1. some of the images on the slideshow are blurred.
2. Your logo should stand out, it should be the first thing people see. Its obscure there.
3. If would have been better if you link the images on the slideshow to their respective pages where you wrote in-depth about the service(s) you are are rendering
4. Check the link leading to your Facebook and twitter page at the footer. It's not working. you should add 'http://' before the url proper in the <a> tag.
5. Generally, you should be more creative. You are a web-designer and your portfolio site should be able to sell you.

Kastrok.

Your logo should have a link to your homepage
Be more creative,

There are using everything in their arsenal to force ASUU back to school

It was really colourful, but was there no parade at the eagle square?

Why not post it here

Is the name of the movie 'mind blowing'

He aint decamping. These are mere speculations

Painted how? Isn't this a photo?

Nothing fantastic

Back to wining ways #UCL

musiwa1l: first of all Western Nigeria is older than Nigeria.


You can see the white people present the mace to western nigeria nation parliament. not igbo or hausa



Mace presented by the Queen of England




You will see that Ghana was called the Gold Coast region

Gold Coast region, western Nigeria region



Black star of ghana (in their nation team colour) VS the Western Nigeria national team


Awolowo and the captain of the Western Nigeria National team.





Present Ghana national team color

I dont understand the point you are trying to make.

[b]When the then Minister of Information Prof. Mrs. Dora Akunyili started the re-branding project in 2009, many saw it as one of those white elephant projects which will end up having no significance on the life of the average Nigerian. This is not surprising as most Nigerians are nothing but a bunch of naysayers, people who do not believe that anything good can come out from Nigeria. For this set of people, the future of the country looks bleak and is now at the mercy of divine intervention. This set of Nigerians will prefer to dwell on the negatives while pretending to be oblivious of the many things worth celebrating, about Nigeria.


Little wonder she (Prof. Dora Akunyili) said in a colloquium in Lagos that“poor perception of Nigeria and its people by both Nigerians and foreigners is one of the greatest challenges facing the country at the moment.” Nigeria is a great country, take it or leave it.We are the giant of Africa and the envy of many countries. So as our dear country celebrates her 53rd independence anniversary there is need to take a breakand forget the worldwide negative attitude toward anything called Nigeria; that our businessmen are seen as crooks internationally; that we are permanently stereotyped as drug mules or that our leaders are corrupt. There are lots to celebrate about this country so before you sentence me for taking this stance, please read my argument as published on http://martinuwakwe..com/2013/09/nigerian-at-53-is-it-worth-celebrating.html[/b]

No comment yet and on front page?
However, overcoming addiction is not as easy as many think.... I think the surest way of overcoming any form of addiction is by divine intervention.

Is this the right place for this??

Get the full details at http://nigeriannewsportal.com/nollywood-actor-jim-iyke-delivered-by-tb-joshua-in-scoan-today/

Which type of TV do you use?

annexes: OMG! So u quoted all dat to tell us what does nt add value to ur life, u nid deliverance.

and it was difficult for you to ignore.

Many students are feared dead after Boko Haram gunmen struck a college in Yobe

The students were shot dead as they slept in their dormitory at the College of Agriculture in Yobe state.

North-eastern Nigeria is under a state of emergency amid an Islamic insurgency by the Boko Haram group.

The number of casualties in the latest attack is unclear but there are fears the death toll could be high.

One hospital source in Yobe’s state capital, Damaturu, told Reuters news agency that 26 bodies had been brought there.

College provost Molima Idi Mato told Associated Press the death toll could be as high as 50, adding that security forces were still recovering the bodies and that about 1,000 students had fled the campus.

A military spokesman in Yobe state, Lazarus Eli, told Agence France-Presse the gunmen had also set fire to classrooms.

The college is in the rural Gujba district.

In May, President Goodluck Jonathan ordered an operation against Boko Haram, and a state of emergency was declared for the north-east on 14 May.

Nigerian news portal will bring you details shortly

http://nigeriannewsportal.com/boko-haram-gun-men-attack-college-of-agriculture-yobe/

Techwriter: Although, many have criticised their decisions to embrace Christ, blaming such decisions principally on the turn of events in their lives, it is not out of place today to come across celebrities who have become preachers of the Word.

From Eucheria Anunobi to Zack Orji, Ndidi Obi, Pat Attah, Ernest Azuzu and many others, it has been a steady influx of fire-brand celebrity Pastors into the Vineyard of God. But the question on the lips of everyone is whether these celebrities have found true happiness after all, and if they do, how much has the pulpit paid off, in place of dumping their flourishing careers in acting for the work of God. Like the Biblical saying, “When we come to the Word of God and we pray over His Word, when His Word shines on us, we are exposed and emptied of any other thing.”


Zack Orji

Ex-President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria,AGN, Zack Orji can be described as “a gentleman without blemish.” This, no doubt informed his decision to become a worker in the Vineyard of God. Zack Orji ordained a full-time evangelist by Bishop Emma Isong of Christian Central Chapel International (CCCI).

He is said to have dedicated his time to preaching the gospel of good tidings across the nations of the world. The veteran actor has been spotted in such cities as Abuja, Nasarawa and Makurdi where he is engaged in various evangelical activities. But this, however, has not stopped him from storming the celebrity hangout, in Surulere to fraternize with his friends and colleagues in the movie industry.

Eucharia Anunobi

In fact, Eucheria Anunobi’s conversion was the most talked about conversion to Christ in recent times. The actress who ruled the screen in the early 90s with her role in the film “Glamour Girls” has been trailed with many controversies and scandals, most of which bothered on her relationships and crashed marriage. But after many years of being in the news for the wrong reasons, Eucheria shocked her fans when she announced she had given her life to Christ. Few months after the announcement, UK was ordained at the Fresh Oil Ministry, Egbeda, Lagos, as an evangelist.

Interestingly, with her ordination which was performed by Pastor Psalm Okpe, Eucharia willed the power to preach as a pastor and she’s doing so, without looking back. Those in the know said, she already counsels youths in the church and travels at random to spread the gospel of salvation.

This, however, has not taken away some of the traits that made her fans term her “a bad girl” before her transformation. She is still flashy and daring. Just weeks after the ordination, Eucheria bought a brand new BMW X5. Severally, she has refuted reports that she has abandoned her acting career for the work of God. Instead, she pointed out that she would be choosier in accepting roles in movies.

Pat Attah

Pat Attah? That play boy actor who broke the hearts of many ‘Nollywood babes’ during his time, and left as soon as the ovation was loud. The once-upon-a-dreadlock-turned clean cut actor, is currently based in Hamburg, Germany where he’s winning souls for Christ. Those in the know said, he does not preach in churches, rather he is now very much a born-again.


Many knew him before he left the shores of the country as one who was close to the ladies and in love with the bottle. Today, reading his posts online, one would acknowledge the fact that Pat is a new creature in Christ. He often uses social network sites including Facebook to deliver his sermon and messages to those who care to read them. But what we don’t know is how he has been faring over there.

Liz Benson

Elizabeth Benson, popularly known as Liz Benson used to be the toast of many lovers of Nigerian films and TV series. Her journey into stardom began when she appeared on the set of the popular television soap opera, Fortunes, in 1993. Liz Benson played the part of Mrs. Agnes Johnson in the soap, which ran for about two years on the NTA. After that, she acted in various TV series and many movies.

In 1994, her role in Glamour Girls, a very successful home video that focused on prostitution, literally changed her fortunes. The movie shot her into prominence and soon, she became a subject of many scandals and controversies, forcing her to disappear from teh scene, in order to rebrand herself. But as luck would have it, she got married to her Bishop Great Emeya husband in 2009, at the Rainbow Christian Assembly in Warri, Delta State. She has since been ordained an evangelist in the church. Presently, she runs the church with her husband.

Charles Okafor

Charles Okafor who staged a comeback to Nollywood recently in Uche Jombo’s film, “Misplaced” after disappearing from the radar is also one of the actors that are winning souls for Christ. He used to act alongside Saint Obi, Zack Orji and Richard Mofe Damijo and has made a name for himself before disappearing from the scene.

The UNIPORT trained actor who starred in such films as Forest of Promises, Ocean Deep, Across the River, Between Love, Boiling Point, and Executive Connection, worked briefly with the Security and Exchange Commission, before resigning to go into full time acting. Recently, he was spotted at a filling station around Isolo area of Lagos, and from the way, he looked, the handsome actor has surely given up the things of this world.

Okey Ogunjiofor

Okechukwu Ogunjiofor is known to be the founder of Nollywood. He produced the film, Living in Bondage which gave birth to Nollywood. With the explosion of this movie in 1992, Nollywood prides itself today as second to the largest movie industry in the world after 20 years of its existence. But this man who started this innovation engage himself more in other aspects of movie production. He hardly features in movies but appears on special arrangement. He has since reconciled himself with his maker. Today, he is not only a preacher of teh Word, he is also House of God. He is also a motivational speaker and unknown to many, Paullo as he’s fondly called by his fans is an author of many Christian literature .

- Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/nollywood-stars-turned-pastors-1/#sthash.5umjcAwt.nBdnJyWT.dpuf

That's my room mates dad. He doesn't act movies, he is a producer.

Congrats wale

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The shortlist is now out online.... We had to go the extra mile of scanning them and making them available for you guys. However because of Nairaland's policy of uploading images we cannot upload them here. Visit www.facebook.com/nigeriannewsportal to view the shortlist. It has all been uploaded there.

Someone is about to loose his job